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The city of Shepherdsville will have a mayor Wednesday as Curtis Hockenbury won a secret ballot Tuesday evening.
With a standing room only audience, the Shepherdsville City Council selected Hockenbury, who was the first candidate to file this spring when a vacancy occurred in the final two years of Scott Ellis' ter.
However, after a legal battle dismissed the resignation and reinstated Ellis, the latest resignation from office and duties came too late to place a new election on the November ballot.
SHEPHERDSVILLE -- Councilman Larry Hatfield has been a part of city government in Shepherdsville for a long time.
Serving one term as mayor and numerous others as a councilman, Hatfield has seen a city that has had money and a city that has not.
As his final term is coming to a close, Hatfield said he will be asking for a forensic audit of the city's finances.
SHEPHERDSVILLE -- Some of the residents in the area along Chapeze Lane have a right to protest and have a legal say in how property is annexed by the city of Shepherdsville.
That is the ruling of Bullitt Circuit Judge Rodney Burress.
In his ruling on Sept. 16, a number of residents protesting the annexation of property owned by George Miller along Chapeze Lane do have a right to be heard.
More importantly, they have "standing" in the case as it now moves forward to discuss other merits.
SHEPHERDSVILLE -- Three individuals have been indicted for their roles in a pipe bomb incident at a local motel.
Mark A. Cundiff, 25, and Pashence Hoffman, 20, both of Shepherdsville, along with Charles Keith, 18, of Lebanon Junction, were recently indicted by the Bullitt County Grand Jury.
Each have been charged with complicity to wanton endangerment (three counts) and complicity to possession of a destructive/booby trap device.
The weather was beautiful, although a bit warm, for a fall festival.
The Wall Street Park Lebanon Junction Festival drew big crowds on Friday and Saturday.
The highlight of the annual event is the Saturday morning parade. Many lined the streets of downtown Lebanon Junction.
The center of the festival was the Wall Street Park. Many activities were held on both days, including music from local entertainers.
WASHINGTON - Vibra Healthcare LLC (Vibra), a national hospital chain headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has agreed to $32.7 million, plus interest, to resolve claims that Vibra violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary services, the Department of Justice announced today.
SHEPHERDSVILLE—While many have American flags flying at their homes and businesses, they might not know where to take them once their time to fly is up.
Boy Scout Troop 868's Nicholas Moore decided to change that.
Located at the American Legion Post 157 in Shepherdsville, the flag retirement box is meant to retire flags with the respect they deserve, Moore said.
MOUNT WASHINGTON—A rezoning request could result in a new neighborhood grocery store, gas station and restaurant on the outskirts of town.
Currently zoned R-1 Residential, owner David Hall is looking to have the 2.02 acres of land located at the southwest corner of Armstrong Lane and Highway 44 East zoned B-1 Highway Business.
If the zoning request is approved, the site will be the future home of an IGA Crossroads.
HILLVIEW - At eight years old, Braedyn Luttrell has already driven a top speed of 58 MPG in his junior dragster.
Braedyn faced a different kind of drag earlier this year, when he spent more than a week at Kosair Children's Hospital, being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
After a few months of education and effort, Braedyn is doing well. He will soon use his love of drag racing to help raise funds for Kosair and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.
FORT KNOX – Bullitt East senior Margherita Battistotti, a foreign exchange student from Italy, fired an 86 in wet conditions on Monday to finish fifth in the Girls' Region Three Tournament at Lindsey Golf Course located at Fort Knox.
That finish earned Battistotti a spot in next week's Kentucky State Tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Bowling Green Country Club. Battistotti is the first Bullitt East female golfer to reach the state tournament since Olivia Pruitt in 2013.
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Piano/Vocal/Chords. This edition: Piano/Vocal/Guitar. P/V/C Mixed Folio; Piano/Vocal/Chords. Billboard Magazine. Pop/Rock. Book. 272 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.32746).
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This 50th anniversary songbook features 50 familiar hits from Billboard's all-time Hot 100 chart---a summation of 50 years of pop culture for music makers from every generation to enjoy. This is a valuable collectible filled with fun and informative facts about each song and more than 250 pages of piano/vocal/guitar sheet music. Titles: Apologize (Timbaland featuring OneRepublic) * Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The 5th Dimension) * Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes) * Big Girls Don't Cry (Fergie) * Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) * Centerfold (The J. Geils Band) * Dilemma (Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland) * End of the Road (Boyz II Men) * Endless Love (Diana Ross and Lionel Richie) * Every Breath You Take (Police) * (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) * Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) * Family Affair (Mary J. Blige) * Flashdance . . . What a Feeling (Irene Cara) * Gangsta's Paradise (Coolio featuring L.V.) * Gold Digger (Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx) * Hot Stuff (Donna Summer) * How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees) * How Do I Live (LeAnn Rimes) * How You Remind Me (Nickelback) * I Just Want to Be Your Everything (Andy Gibb) * I Swear (All-4-One) * I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles) * I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) * It's All in the Game (Tommy Edwards) * Killing Me Softly With His Song (Roberta Flack) * Le Freak (Chic) * Like a Virgin (Madonna) * Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) (Los Del Rio) * Mack the Knife (Bobby Darin) * Maria Maria (Santana featuring The Product G & B) * My Sharona (The Knack) * Night Fever (Bee Gees) * Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry) * Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head (B. J. Thomas) * Say Say Say (Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson) * Say You, Say Me (Lionel Richie) * Shadow Dancing (Andy Gibb) * Smooth (Santana featuring Rob Thomas) * Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) * That's What Friends Are For (Dionne Warwick and Friends) * Theme from A Summer Place (Percy Faith and His Orchestra) * Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak.
- How You Remind Me Composed by Nickelback;Lyrics by Chad Kroeger
- Family Affair Composed by Andre Young (a/k/a Dr. Dre); Michael Elizondo; Mary J. Blige; Melvin Bradford; Camara Kambon; Luchana Lodge; Asiah Louis; Bruce Miller
- Maria Maria Composed by Carlos Santana; Wyclef Jean; Jerry Duplessis; Raul Rekow; Karl Perazzo
- Smooth Composed by Rob Thomas; Itaal Shur
- I Want To Hold Your Hand Composed by John Lennon; Paul McCartney
- Night Fever Composed by Barry Gibb; Robin Gibb; Maurice Gibb
- How Deep Is Your Love Composed by Barry Gibb; Robin Gibb; Maurice Gibb
- Shadow Dancing Composed by Barry Gibb; Robin Gibb; Maurice Gibb; Andy Gibb
- Stayin' Alive Composed by Barry Gibb; Robin Gibb; Maurice Gibb
- Hot Stuff Composed by Keith Forsey; Pete Bellotte; Harold Faltermeier
- Endless Love Composed by Lionel Richie
- Flashdance...What a Feeling (from "Flashdance") Composed by Giorgio Moroder;Lyrics by Keith Forsey; Irene Cara
- Centerfold Composed by Seth Justman
- How Do I Live Composed by Diane Warren
- Upside Down ('Round-n-'Round) Composed by Nile Rodgers; Bernard Edwards
- You Light Up My Life Composed by Joe Brooks
- I Will Always Love You Composed by Dolly Parton
- Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree Composed by Irwin Levine; L. Russell Brown
- Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In Composed by Galt Macdermot;Lyrics by James Rado; Gerome Ragni
- Macarena Composed by Antonio Romero; Rafael Ruiz
- Play That Funky Music Composed by Robert Parissi
- Say You, Say Me Additional credits Lionel Richie
- The Twist Additional credits Hank Ballard
- I Swear Composed by Frank Myers; Gary Baker
- End Of The Road Additional credits Antonio Reid; Daryl Simmons
- Everything I Do (I Do It for You) Composed by Michael Kamen; Robert "Mutt" Lange; Bryan Adams
- Gangsta's Paradise Composed by Stevie Wonder; Artis Ivey; Lawrence Sanders;Additional credits Doug Rasheed
- Unbreak My Heart (Regresa a Mi) Composed by Diane Warren;Lyrics by Marco Flores
- Dilemma Composed by Kenneth Gamble; Bunny Sigler; Cornell Hayes; Antoine Macon
- Gold Digger Composed by Ray Charles; Kanye West; Renald J. Richard
- We Belong Together Composed by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds; Manuel Seal; Jermaine Dupri; Bobby Womack; Mariah Carey; Johnta' Austin; Darnell Bristol; Sidney Johnson; Sandra Sully; Patrick Moten
- Truly Madly Deeply Composed by Darren Hayes; Daniel Jones
- Every Breath You Take Additional credits Gordon Sumner†(contributor)
- Le Freak Composed by Nile Rodgers; Bernard Edwards
- I Just Wanna Be Your Everything Composed by Barry Gibb
- Killing Me Softly Composed by Norman Gimbel; Charles Fox
- My Sharona Additional credits Doug Fieger; Berton Averre
- Tossin' And Turnin' Composed by Ritchie Adams; Malou Rene
- Billie Jean Composed by Michael Jackson
- Say Say Say Composed by Michael Jackson; Paul McCartney
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid") Composed by Burt Bacharach;Lyrics by Hal David
- Like A Virgin Composed by Tom Kelly; Billy Steinberg
- That's What Friends Are For (from "Night Shift") Composed by Burt Bacharach;Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
- Bette Davis Eyes Additional credits Donna Weiss; J. Deshannon
- Eye of the Tiger (from "Rocky III") Composed by Jim Peterik; Frankie Sullivan III
- Mack the Knife Composed by Kurt Weill;Lyrics by Marc Blitzstein; Berthold Brecht
- It's All In The Game Composed by Gen. Charles G. Dawes;Lyrics by Carl Sigman
- Theme from "A Summer Place" (Vocal) Composed by Max Steiner;Lyrics by Mack Discant
- Big Girls Don't Cry Composed by Stacy Ferguson
- Apologize Composed by Ryan Tedder
- Theme from "A Summer Place" (Instrumental) Composed by Max Steiner
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Two Men Arrested For South Side Slopes Home InvasionPolice have arrested two men in connection to a reported South Side Slopes home invasion that took place early Monday morning.
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Market Highlights 1
Market Analytic 2
Recession and After 2
Travel & Leisure Sector: Dampeners and Deterrents 2
Travel & Leisure Sector: Drivers and Stimulants 3
Customized Travel Packages Boost the Global Travel & Tourism
Sector 3
Slashed Airfares Drive Up Frequency of Outbound Short Trips 3
Table 1: Leading Global Airlines (2010): Ancillary Revenues
in Euros for United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air
Lines, Qantas Airways, Ryanair, EasyJet, US Airways, Air
Canada, Alaska Airlines and Tam Airlines 4
Top 10 Global Budget Airlines (2010): Ranked on the Basis
of Lowest Average Fares 4
Table 2: Leading Outbound Travel Markets (2010): Number of
Trips in Million by Country of Origin 5
Women Travellers Drive Up Development of Allied Facilities 5
Baby Boomers Prefer to Chill Out on Polar Cruises 5
Leading Hotels that Lodge the Global Traveller 5
Hotels & Leisure Industry 6
Independent Hotels: A Clear Preference 6
Passenger Ships and Cruise Lines in the Global Market 6
Travel Market Anticipates Growth in Travel Bookings 7
Increased Usage of Tour Operators and Travel Agents' Services 7
Consolidations Portray Positive Results in the Online Travel
Industry 7
Asia to Experience the Maximum Traffic 8
Future Travellers Prefer to Go Out of the Way 8
Online Facilities Boost the Travel Sector 8
Social Networking Sites to Drive Growth 8
Travel Packages Make for "Light" Travelling 9
Lodging, Leisure & Travel Services Gain Momentum 9
Corporate Travel on Emerging Trend 9
Pricing Power 10
The Current Trends in Major Global Markets 10
World's Leading Tourist Spots 10
Global Incentive Travel Industry 11
Adventure Tourism on the Rise and To Continue 11
Trekking and Walking—New Trends in Vacationing 12
Future Trends in Sustainable Travel 12
Statistical Review 13
Table 3: International Tourist Arrivals by Mode of Transport
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Air, Land (Road and Rail),
Water and Other Modes 13
Table 4: Global Travel and Leisure Market (2011): Percentage
Breakdown for Key Determiners in Selecting a Cruise Vacation
- Destination, Cost, Overall Experience, Ship and On board
Facilities 13
Table 5: Global Travel and Leisure Market (2011): Percentage
Breakdown for Leading Countries in Terms of Number of
International Arrivals - France, US, China, Spain, Italy, UK,
Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico and Others 14
Table 6: Global Travel and Leisure Market (2011): Percentage
Breakdown of Leading Countries by Expenditure - Germany, US,
China, UK, France and Others 14
Table 7: International Tourist Arrivals by Purpose of Visit
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Leisure, Recreation &
Holidays, Business & Professional, Visiting Friends &
Relatives, Health, Religion and Other and Other Purposes 15
Table 8: Outbound Tourism by International Tourism
Expenditure by Region in Africa (2011): Percentage Breakdown
for Southern Africa, West Africa, East Africa, North Africa
and Central Africa 15
Table 9: Outbound Tourism by International Tourism
Expenditure by Region the Americas (2011): Percentage
Breakdown for North America, South America, Carribean and
Central America 15
Table 10: Outbound Tourism by International Tourism
Expenditure by Region Asia-Pacific (2011): Percentage
Breakdown Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and
Oceania 16
Table 11: Outbound Tourism by International Tourism
Expenditure by Region Europe (2011): Percentage Breakdown for
Western Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe,
Central/Eastern Europe and East Mediterranean Europe 16
Table 12: Leading Emerging Tourism Destinations by
International Tourist Arrivals in Africa (2011): Percentage
Breakdown for South Africa, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria,
Nigeria, Mauritius, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Swaziland and
Other Destinations 16
Table 13: Leading Emerging Tourism Destinations by
International Tourist Arrivals in Middle East & Africa
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE,
Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon and Other Destinations 17
Table 14: International Tourism Receipts by Region in Africa
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Southern Africa, North
Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa 17
Table 15: International Tourism Receipts by Region in the
Americas (2011): Percentage Breakdown for North America,
Caribbean, South America and Central America 17
Table 16: International Tourism Receipts by Region in
Asia-Pacific (2011): Percentage Breakdown for Northeast Asia,
Southeast Asia, Oceania and South Asia 18
Table 17: International Tourism Receipts by Region in Europe
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Southern/Mediterranean
Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe and Central/Eastern
Europe 18
Market Analytics 19
Table 18: World Recent Past, Current, and Future Analysis for
Travel and Leisure by Geographic Region - US, Canada, Europe,
Asia-Pacific (including Japan), Latin America and Rest of
World Markets Independently Analyzed with Annual Sales
Figures in US$ Billion for Years 2010 through 2015 19
Table 19: World 5-Year Perspective for Travel and Leisure by
Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Dollar Sales for
US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific (including Japan), Latin
America and Rest of World Markets for Years 2011 & 2015 20
1a. UNITED STATES 50
Overview 50
Impact of Recession 50
US Lodging Demand to Recover Slowly 50
Weak Dollar Influences American Travel Habits 51
US Outbound Travel Market Hit by Terrorist Attack Paranoia 51
US Witnesses Influx of Belgian Tourists 51
Outlook 52
Travel Market Trends 53
Offline Vs Online 53
Business Travel Fuels Offline US Travel Market 54
Role of Travel Agents 55
Table 20: Travel Bookings by Segment in the US (2011):
Percentage Market Share for Airline Tickets, Hotel Rooms,
Rental Cars and Cruises 56
Demographics and Growth Potential 56
Business Travel 56
Leisure Travel 57
Adventure Travel 57
Inbound Travel 57
Outbound Travel 58
Business and Pleasure Trips in the US 59
Obtaining Temporary Visa 59
Purpose of the Trip 59
Showing Business Activity 59
General Requirements 59
Application Submission 60
Features of Worldweb.Com 60
Intercity Transportation 60
Outlook 60
Vacation Packages 61
Cruise Sector 61
Travel Destinations in the US 61
New York City 61
California 61
International Visitors 62
Table 21: Travel and Leisure Market in the US (2011): Region
wise Percentage Breakdown for Leading Contributors to the US
Inbound Market - Europe, Asia, Americas, Asia-Pacific,
Middle-East and Africa 62
Travel and Leisure Market in the US (2010): Percentage
Breakdown for Leading Countries in the US Inbound Market -
UK, Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, Italy, South Korea and
Australia 62
1b. CANADA 63
Overview 63
Leisure Travel Trends 63
Canadian Outbound Travel Market Grows by Leaps and Bounds 63
Tourists and Tourist Spots 64
Tourism-Market Segments 64
Accommodation 64
Food and Beverage 64
Transportation 64
Attraction Sectors 65
Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Tourism 65
Events and Conferences 65
Travel Trade 65
Tourism Services 65
Industry Growth 65
Technology 65
Education 65
Increased Disposable Income 66
More Stressful Lifestyle 66
Travel Cost 66
Marketing 66
Common Currency 66
Political Stability 66
Table 22: Travel and Leisure Market in Canada (2011):
Percentage Share Breakdown by Main Reasons for Traveling-
Leisure, Family and Friends, Business and Others 66
Table 23: Canadian Travel and Leisure Market (2011):
Percentage Share Breakdown for Leading Travel Firms -
Transat, TCNA, Sunwing, ACV, WJV, TUI and Others 67
1c. MEXICO 68
Influence of the Mexican Travel and Tourism Industry on the US 68
General Trends 68
Domestic Tourism Sector and Increasing Competition 68
International Competitors 68
Overview 70
Outlook 70
Japanese Online Travel Market 70
Overview 71
Market Analytics 71
Table 24: European Travel and Leisure Market by Geographic
Region - Annual Sales for the Years 2010 through 2015 in US$
billion for France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain and Rest of
Europe 72
Table 25: European Travel and Leisure Market by Geographic
Region: Percentage Share Breakdown for 2011 and 2015 for
France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain and Rest of Europe 73
The European Travel Scene: Mixed Trends 73
Inbound Travel: International Sports Events Draw the Crowds
to Europe 73
Bleak Prospects in Europe? Not Really 73
European Travel Markets Have Come of Age 74
Drivers and Deterrents in the European Travel Market 74
Rising Number of Tourists to Europe Augurs Growth in Hotel
Spending 74
European Business Travel 75
Online Travel Market 75
3a. AUSTRIA 75
Overview 75
3b. BELGIUM 76
Overview 76
3c. DENMARK 77
Overview 77
Recession and its Impact on the Danish Travel Market 77
3d. FINLAND 79
Overview 79
US- A Major Travel Destination 79
3e. FRANCE 80
Overview 80
3f. GERMANY 81
Overview 81
Trends in Travel and Tourism Industry in Germany 81
Major Tourist Destinations 82
Demand in the Travel Market in Germany Increases 82
Booking Portals Other Than Conventional Agents Also Gaining
Popularity 82
Table 26: Travel and Leisure Market in Germany (2011):
Percentage Share Breakdown by Purpose of Traveling - Holiday
Trips, Private Trips and Business Trips. 83
Table 27: German Travel and Leisure Market (2011): Percentage
Share Breakdown for Outbound Market - Austria, Spain, Italy,
Turkey, France, Netherlands, Greece, Croatia and Others 83
3g. HUNGARY 84
An Overview 84
Travelling Trends to the US 84
Table 28: Travel and Leisure Market in Hungary (2011):
Percentage Breakdown by Expenditure - Leisure, Work,
Business, Shopping, Study and Others 85
3h. IRELAND 86
Overview 86
Resurgence of Tourism Industry 86
Table 29: Online Products/Services Purchases in Ireland
(2011): Percentage Breakdown for Travel Services and Others 87
3i. ITALY 88
Overview 88
Growing Market for Italian Travel and Tourism Industry to US 88
Outlook 89
3j. NORWAY 89
Overview 89
3k. POLAND 90
Overview 90
General Trends 90
Key Players 90
Future Course of Travel Industry in Poland 91
3l. PORTUGAL 91
Overview 91
3m. RUSSIA 92
Overview 92
Outbound Travel Market 92
3n. SLOVAKIA 93
Overview of the Slovakian Tourism Industry 93
3o. SPAIN 94
Market Dynamics 94
Overview 94
Outbound Market 94
Inbound Travel 94
Online Travel Market 94
3p. SWEDEN 95
Overview 95
Tourism Industry 95
Table 30: Travel and Leisure Market in Sweden (2011):
Percentage Breakdown for Leading Travel Agencies - Thomas
Cook, TUI, Kuoni, Primera and Others 96
3q. SWITZERLAND 97
Overview 97
3r. THE NETHERLANDS 98
Overview 98
3s. UNITED KINGDOM 99
Hotel Industry - Growth Factors 99
Overview 99
Travel Market 99
Growth of UK Domestic Travel Industry 100
The Asian Travel Diary 101
Online Travel Sites a Boom to the Asian Travel Industry 101
Mobile Travel- Trends 101
Apps to Change Travel Habits 102
Travel and Tourism Sector Bounces Back from Natural Disasters 102
Asia-Pacific Remains a Dynamic Market in Travel and Tourism 102
Asian Tourism Industry Surges 103
Asia: Fascinating Destination for Business and Leisure Travelers 103
Chinese Panorama 104
Views from Thai 104
4a. AUSTRALIA 105
Overview 105
Australian Tourism Scenario to Worsen 105
Table 31: Travel and Leisure Market in Australia (2011):
Percentage Breakdown by Purpose of Arriving - Holiday,
Visiting Friends or Relatives, Business, Education,
Employment, Conference and Other 106
4b. NEW ZEALAND 106
Overview 106
Market Analytics 107
Table 32: Asia-Pacific Travel and Leisure Market by
Geographic Region - Annual Sales for the Years 2010 through
2015 in US$ Billion for China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Rest
of Asia-Pacific 107
Table 33: Asia-Pacific Travel and Leisure Market by
Geographic Region: Percentage Share Breakdown for 2011 and
2015 for China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Rest of Asia-Pacific 108
5a. CHINA 109
Tourism Sector to Grow Remarkably 109
Boom in Business Travel Sector 109
Overview 109
Guangdong: the Most Productive Tourist Destination in China 109
Spurt in Outbound Tourism 110
Boutique Hotels: the Emerging Trend in Hotel Industry 110
5b. HONG KONG 111
Overview 111
5c. INDIA 112
Overview 112
Outbound Travel Market in India 112
Trends 113
Tourism and Hospitality 113
Investments in Smaller Cities 113
Attractive Serviced Apartments 113
Growing Niche Segments 113
Strategic Co-operations 114
Competitive Landscape of Market 114
Indian Regulatory Model 114
Driving Factors for Tourism Industry Growth 114
Online Booking of Air Tickets Garners Attention 115
Medical Tourism 115
Investments Needed to Address Anticipated Boom in Indian
Medical Tourism 115
Growth to Remain Sluggish Despite Economic Recovery 116
5d. KOREA 117
Overview 117
Outlook of Korean Outbound Travel Market 117
5e. MALAYSIA 118
Medical Tourism Industry Witnesses Impressive Growth 118
5f. PHILIPPINES 119
Philippines' Travel Industry Booming 119
5g. SINGAPORE 120
Overview 120
Travelling Trends 120
US: Popular Tourist Destination among Singaporeans 120
6a. ARGENTINA 121
Overview 121
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Join the Friends of Soundview Park and the Bronx River Alliance as they work to improve the health of the Long Island Sound and remove waterfront debris. All tools provided. Free and for all ages!
8:00 a.m. Early bird special! Low tide shore line clean-up
9:00 a.m. On-land & on-water clean-up (includes paddling)
11:45 a.m. Bike raffle by REI and lunch by Whole Foods
1:00 p.m. Paddling coastal clean-up trip from Soundview Park to Concrete Plant Park. Registration for this activity is required
2:00 p.m. Ecological restoration nature walk by the Natural Resources Group
2:00 p.m. Performances by Health People Kids at Waterwash ABC Wetland Park (OFF-SITE)
This event is organized by the Friends of Soundview Park and the Bronx River Alliance with support from Partnerships for Parks, NYC Parks, Natural Resources Group, The GYM Project, Whole Foods and REI. This event celebrates It's My Park Day, International Coastal Cleanup, Fifth World Parks Day and National Estuaries Day.
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Sulaiman: HVY Division Beginning To Blossom Again
By Jake Donovan
There once existed the belief that so goes the heavyweight division, so goes boxing itself. For as long as the sport has existed, it has been led by a dominant heavyweight champion.
Times have changed dramatically, as the once glamour division has threatened to become an afterthought. World lineal heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko is among the most dominant champions in history, though many point to the weak field over which he presides in dismissing his accomplishments.
Below Klitschko, there hasn't existed much hope for an unseating of the king. But it doesn't mean the division is short on drama and entertainment. The majority of it is taking place under the auspices of the World Boxing Council (WBC), the one title not currently in possession of the multi-belted champ.
Ironically, the series of bouts taking place to produce the leading challenge to Klitschko comes as a result of his older brother, Vitali Klitschko vacating the title last year upon announcing his retirement. Since then, the vacant title has been filled, along with a slew of challengers lined up.
"The heavyweight division is beginning to blossom, which makes me happy," insists Mauricio Sulaiman, who took over the reins at the WBC following the passing of his father and longtime president, Don Jose Sulaiman. "(Bermane Stiverne) knocked out Chris Arreola to win the vacant title in May. Deontay Wilder continues to knock people out and is the mandatory challenger.
"(Alexander) Povetkin had a tremendous knockout over (Manuel) Charr shortly after that. There's Carlos Takam who just won in Europe over Tony Thompson. Next month, Bryant Jennings faces Michael Perez in an elimination bout. The heavyweight division is starting to pick up."
How far the WBC can progress will depend on Stiverne and his ability to play nice with promoter Don King long enough to remain active. His repeat win over Arreola made him the first ever Haiti-born fighter to capture a portion of the heavyweight crown, an accomplishment he hoped to parlay into a lucrative showdown with Klitschko, after spending nearly a year chasing his older brother Vitali while serving as his mandatory challenger.
Such a pairing could prove difficult for the time being, as both are saddled with pending mandatory challenges. While Stiverne is forced to look ahead to Wilder and – with a win – a follow-up defense versus the winner of the July 26 showdown between Jennings and Perez, Klitschko has been ordered to next defend versus unbeaten contender Kubrat Pulev.
There is hardly an undesirable matchup among the lot, which can only mean good news for the division and for the sport itself.
"I'm very excited because the heavyweight champion is supposed to be the champion of all champions," Sulaiman believes.
Jake Donovan is the Managing Editor of BoxingScene.com, as well as a member of Transnational Boxing Ratings Board and the Boxing Writers Association of America. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
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They should just create the WCH Heavyweight Championship Belt (Wlad.Cant.Have) then everybody will be happy. I don't think anyone really wants to fight for any of his belts and get their faces smooshed & cuddled. Everyone just wants the little…Comment by GoldenGloveLove on 06-11-2014
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Dispensary Worker Goes To Jail For Complying With State Law
Category: News | Posted on Fri, March, 14th 2014 by THCFinder
The marijuana industry is still very new. With so many laws still conflicting with each other, one that works in the industry can never really be sure if their freedom is at risk. It's extremely hard for those working with cannabis to feel safe, seeing as how even when the Feds say that they'll back off, they still seem to be raiding dispensaries. There were over a dozen marijuana shops that got raided in Colorado recently and the plant is now legal there. Unfortunately for Robert Duncan, a Bay Area dispensary worker, this situation happened to him first hand.
Duncan, who had previously worked in the television industry, received a job offer from some family friends. Since the job was getting down and dirty in the marijuana business, Duncan was reluctant to accept but finally gave in, after consulting with a lawyer about the risks of working for such a new and somewhat still illegal business. Even the lawyer's advice was that as long as Duncan complied with the state laws, he would be safe from arrest. With that information, Duncan moved to Los Angeles to work in one of the huge marijuana grow houses, spending up to 80 hours a week tending the gardens and preparing medicine for patient consumption.
Since his experience with marijuana was limited, Duncan had his doubts about the benefits of working in the cannabis business. As most people, he assumed that he would encounter a good amount of people who didn't really need to smoke but said that they did. But when he met with patients dealing with cancer and other serious illnesses, his attitude began to change. But while Duncan's attitude improved, a storm was brewing. On October 2011, the grow house was raided even though the operation was following every state law presented by California officials. The Feds didn't even give Duncan a reason as to why Matthew Davies (Owner of the grow house), the co-owner, and Duncan were all indicted.
Duncan recently surrendered to authorities and will serve a two year sentence for his helping hand in making sick people feel and get better. There are plenty of others that this has happened to as well. People are being wrongly imprisoned for just trying to help their fellow human beings. Hopefully, as the laws get more and more relaxed, the Feds will lay off of marijuana users, both recreational and medicinal. After all, it is just a plant.
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Category: Nugs | Posted on Thu, March, 13th 2014 by THCFinder
Skywalker is a hybrid product of the blueberry and mazar strains. This Indica dominant strain is known to provide above average pain relief, headache management, appetite stimulation and heavy sedation. The skywalker strain is sticky and mildly fragrant with fruity undertones and a flowery scent similar to other indicas. The effects are immediate and last up to two hours.
What strain are you puffing on today?
Category: Tokers | Posted on Thu, March, 13th 2014 by THCFinder
Georgia Sentate panel OKs bill to ease access to medical marijuana
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Thu, March, 13th 2014 by THCFinder
ATLANTA – A Georgia Senate panel this week unanimously approved a newly-revised bill that would legalize marijuana derivatives in Georgia for treatment of patients with cancer, glaucoma and seizure disorders.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee amended House Bill 885, the original House version of the medical marijuana bill, to make it easier for Georgians to gain access to cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a non-psychoactive derivative of marijuana.
The major change would grant immunity from prosecution in Georgia for possession of CBD oil obtained legally in a state that permits the use of medical marijuana.
Twenty states have legalized medical use of marijuana, and two states, Colorado and Washington, recently legalized recreational use.
The original HB 885 was sponsored by Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, who championed the legislation to help children who suffer from serious seizure disorders. CBD has proved effective in reducing the number and duration of seizures, according to parents and physicians.
Under the Senate committee version of the bill, children with seizures or patients with cancer or glaucoma could use CBD or other marijuana derivatives as soon as they were able to secure them from outside Georgia. And patients could take them directly without supervision by a Georgia physician or an academic medical center.
But there's still a legal catch if the bill is passed. Transporting any marijuana, medical or otherwise, across state lines is a federal crime. That means Georgia parents or adult patients would risk arrest by federal authorities if caught bringing CBD from another state, such as Colorado, where the oil is manufactured. Some Georgia families already have moved to Colorado to get legal access to the oil for their ailing children.
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Poll: Americans View Marijuana As Less Harmful Than Sugar
Category: Culture | Posted on Thu, March, 13th 2014 by THCFinder
Americans believe that consuming cannabis poses less harm to health than does the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, or sugar, according to the findings of a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today.
Respondents were asked which of the four substances they believed to be "most harmful to a person's overall health." Most respondents said tobacco (49 percent), followed by alcohol (24 percent) and sugar (15 percent).
Only eight percent of those surveyed said that they believed that marijuana was most harmful to health.
The poll possesses a margin of error of +/- 3.10 percent.
Commenting on the poll results, NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said: "These results once again reaffirm that an overwhelming majority of the American public understands that any potential risks associated with the use or abuse of cannabis are relatively minor to those associated with many other legal and regulated substances. Criminalizing cannabis and those who consume it responsibly is a disproportionate public policy response to what is, at worst, a public health issue but not a criminal justice concern."
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Black Berry Kush - Indica
Category: Nugs | Posted on Thu, March, 13th 2014 by THCFinder
Blackberry Kush is a mostly Indica Kush with a strong blackberry smell and pink and red hairs. It truly lives up to its name, with a remarkably strong blackberry / piney / hashy smell. As a potent Indica, Blackberry Kush is couchlock weed, and so it is not recommended for high-activity moments.
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As the masses panic, riot, fight and line up for meager handouts, many of the elite will still be living the high life – albeit underground.
And there must be a reason why they are getting so prepared...
Given... an under-lying sense of havoc fed by divisive election politics, it's no surprise that home security is going over the top and hitting luxurious new heights.
"People are going for luxury [to] live underground because they see the future is going to be rough. Everyone I've talked to thinks we are doomed, no matter who is elected."
Given... an under-lying sense of havoc fed by divisive election politics, it's no surprise that home security is going over the top and hitting luxurious new heights.
"People are going for luxury [to] live underground because they see the future is going to be rough. Everyone I've talked to thinks we are doomed, no matter who is elected."
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A huge sinkhole opened up underneath a phosphogypsum stack at the Mosaic Fertilizer Plant in Mulberry, Florida. You may have also heard that the stack was holding 215 million gallons of radioactive water that was also contaminated with other lovely things such as phosphoric acid. All of this mess drained into the Floridan Aquifer. To have a better understanding of the danger this event poses, how this happens, and a bit of history behind the phosphate mining industry here in Florida you must take the time to watch this video, and to watch the full interview I did with author Gary Pittman about this very subject. Gary worked for Occidental Chemical Corporation for 21 years working his way up to the position of Mining Supervisor. Using his expertise and years of experience Gary gives the listener a detailed yet easy to understand lesson in the phosphate mining industry. Take the time to watch, listen, and learn.
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Japan has an amazing food culture thanks in part to the rich volcanic soil and ample rainfall, despite the lack of spacious farms. As it stands, Japan can feed approximately one third of its population from domestic production.
By Richard Wilcox, PhD
The long-term consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster continue to linger years after the event. Anyone who studies Chernobyl will know that even after three decades radioactive contamination persists. Although a different type of accident occurred there, in the case of Fukushima it was three reactors that had meltdowns instead of one, and even possibly "melt throughs" referring to corium penetrating the reactor buildings in lateral and vertical outward paths...
By Amando Flavio
In February 2014, radioactive materials leaked from a damaged storage drum in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in the state of New Mexico, United States.
According to United States federal government officials, the WIPP is the world's third deepest geological repository, licensed to permanently dispose of transuranic radioactive waste for 10,000 years, receiving radioactive waste from the country's nuclear weapons program and commercial power generating plants.
The facility is under the direct management of the Department of Energy (DOE). When the accident occurred, the DOE claimed all 139 workers at the facility were underground, and were not exposed to the dangerous materials...
A typo and a bag of organic kitty litter may end up costing United States taxpayers more than $2 billion in nuclear waste cleanup, according to a new report by Ralph Vartabedian at the Los Angeles Times.
Back in February 2014, a drum of nuclear waste burst open inside the cavernous Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), which is drilled out of a salt deposit nearly half a mile below the deserts of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
The US Department of Energy (DOE), which funds the company that runs the nuclear waste dump, quickly suspended operations and launched an investigation to figure out the cause.
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In their 277-page report, investigators determined the blast vaporized nearly 7.5 lbs of the material inside a single barrel, labeled "Drum 68660." That material included some radioactive isotopes of americium, plutonium, and uranium — byproducts of Cold War-era nuclear weapons production.
Unfortunately, it was only a matter of time. Earthquake watchers have been observing the build up of pressure and worrying... and more events with larger magnitudes (7.1? 8.3? 9.0?) may be coming to an area near you!
The worst hit was the small town of Armatrice, with some 2,700 residents:
Caterpillar Radio2 reported "many collapses" in the town of Amatrice in the Rieti province.
"I'm trying to contact the services. The town doesn't exist anymore," he added.
Caterpillar Radio2 reported "many collapses" in the town of Amatrice in the Rieti province.
"I'm trying to contact the services. The town doesn't exist anymore," he added.
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[J]ust before the 5th anniversary of the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, a group of young girls in the city of Minami-Soma rode their bikes to school past a shocked and saddened pedestrian. That upset observer was Arnie Gundersen, nuclear reactor expert… "What surprised me at this visit to Japan… is that the decontaminated area is contaminated again," Mr. Gundersen said while explaining why it was such as sad shock to witness the girls on their bicycles. "This was not what I had expected. I had thought that we would not find such high doses of radiation in the decontaminated area. But, sadly, our results prove otherwise."… Gundersen collected samples of dust [though] the official data cannot be released before the publication of formal scientific papers, it is evident that high doses of radiation, usually found in nuclear waste, was detected from these samples. "This means that highly radioactive dust is flying around the city.
When a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations.
The early federal statements gave no hint that the blast had caused massive long-term damage to the dump, a facility crucial to the nuclear weapons cleanup program that spans the nation, or that it would jeopardize the Energy Department's credibility in dealing with the tricky problem of radioactive waste.
But the explosion ranks among the costliest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, according to a Times analysis. The long-term cost of the mishap could top $2 billion, an amount roughly in the range of the cleanup after the 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
An "almost" watertight ice wall built around the Fukushima nuclear plant in a bid to prevent groundwater from entering the site has, quite predictably, proven to be not good enough, with Japan's nuclear watchdog now urging TEPCO to find a better solution.
What do you think of vertical farming? Can it supplement feeding the world? What about farming with LED lights? When you hear this – you might rethink farming forever. A large, global lighting company, Philips Lighting, has just announced results from trials of crops that were grown completely…
Are you prepared to have your HAARP burgers and hotdogs cooked to perfection?
Somebody decided to gather together a bunch of black robes and stage a mock human sacrifice in front of CERN's occultic Shiva statue – and catch it all on film for a hoax video they may hoped would fool online critics.
For up to 15 years after World War II, the crew of Albernaz's ship, the USS Calhoun County, dumped thousands of tons of radioactive waste into the Atlantic Ocean, often without heeding the simplest health precautions, according to Navy documents and Tampa Bay Times interviews with more than 50 former crewmen.
Albernaz began a battle for his life in 1988 when part of his brain began to die, mystifying doctors who eventually concluded the rare ailment might be linked to radiation. He filed a VA claim for benefits in 2001 that was repeatedly rejected, often with tortured government reasoning.
The Spanish newspaper, El Pais Semanal, reported back in May that Toru Anzai, 63, a former resident of Litate, Japan, a village in the Fukushima Prefecture, suffered a major heart attack and stroke several years after the reactor meltdowns. During Anzai's stay in the hospital, doctors realized that the frontal lobe of his brain had developed a hole, which they told him may have been caused by absorbing the radioactive isotope cesium, which was prevalent at Fukushima.
The hole in Anzai's brain caused the entire left side of his body to become paralyzed – this, despite the fact that following the reactor meltdowns Anzai was told that there was no risk of radiation. As it turns out, a dosimeter reading taken on April 18, just days after the Fukushima disaster, revealed that the room where Anzai and his brothers had been sleeping saw radiation levels up to 20 times higher than the threshold level established by the Japanese government for relocating residents.
"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them." – Mark Twain
As the world forever hurtles toward Armageddon, the Fukushima nuclear disaster has largely faded from the front pages. But the issue is far from resolved. Radiation from nuclear accidents is not easily dispelled with estimates of clean-up time at Fukushima ranging from 40 to 500 years, and nearly six years have already passed. Even safely stored nuclear material is dangerous for 100,000 years.
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The major question regarding the situation at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi (no.1 nuclear power plant) regards the location of the melted fuel at reactor units 1, 2 and 3...
French nuclear moguls Areva SA are now designing two nuclear reactors in the southern Chinese city of Taishan. Now, thousands of people took to the streets this week in Lianyungang in the northeast of China, to protest against the other Areva nuclear project there.
A Louisiana trucking company believed to have illegally dumped radioactive waste in an Eastern Montana landfill for nearly two years has been ordered to stop by state officials.
Dual Trucking and Transport, of Houma, La., has been ordered by the Department of Environmental Quality to cease all operations near the Bakken community of Bainville.
A backfire was set and burned over the top of Rattlesnake Mountain on Sunday night, the only way fire officials could see to keep the fire from spreading to the Hanford nuclear reservation and Benton City.
A worker at the Hanford Fire Station has tested positive for internal radioactive contamination at a very low level.
The exposure occurred after breathing equipment used at the nuclear reservation's Plutonium Finishing Plant was sent to the station for storage, according to the Department of Energy.
Of 150 workers at the Hanford Fire Department, 104 have requested tests of their bodily fluid to determine if they also may have been exposed.
A probe using an X-ray-like detector has found that a large amount of melted nuclear fuel apparently remains at the bottom of one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company released images of the No. 2 reactor on Thursday. They were taken with a device that uses elementary particles called muons.
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co is upset that Pokemon Go players on the hunt for monsters are being lured into the Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone.
The fictional creatures were apparently spotted close to the destroyed Daiichi nuclear reactors by Tepco officials. The presence of the collectible cyber-animals could tempt addicts into no-go areas, it is feared.
As a result, power company bosses have demanded that the land around the crippled power plants, where radiation levels remain relatively high, be removed from the hit mobile game.
The amount of radioactive substances in seabed off Fukushima is hundreds of times higher than before the disaster, a report issued by Greenpeace reveals. The figures mean that there is absolutely "no return to normal after nuclear catastrophe" in the area.
On Thursday, the environmental group released a report addressing the results of the study during which scientists analyzed radioactivity levels along Fukushima's rivers and in the Pacific seabed off the coast.
The much-hyped ice wall at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has failed to stop groundwater from flowing in and mixing with highly radioactive water inside the wrecked reactor buildings, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. has admitted.
Long time readers will recall I predicted this would be an epic fail.
NHK reports that the decommissioning authority in charge of dealing with the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster is now considering a sarcophagus to entomb the failed reactors rather than attempting to remove the melted fuel, debris and buildings.
The problem is that the sarcophagus only covers the top. The bottom is still open to the soil, just feet above the water table.
The 21st Century is run off of electricity, and in the United States, that electric grid is woefully out of date – and that has left the country quite vulnerable.
The U.S. electric system is in danger of widespread blackouts lasting days, weeks or longer through the destruction of sensitive, hard-to-replace equipment.
"Virtually any region would suffer major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed."
The U.S. electric system is in danger of widespread blackouts lasting days, weeks or longer through the destruction of sensitive, hard-to-replace equipment.
"Virtually any region would suffer major, extended blackouts if more than three key substations were destroyed."
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Experts in business and policy have conducted a survey of the potential damage that could be expected after what scientists now say is an inevitable mega-earthquake along the San Andreas fault. It exposed many deep flaws in the system, and forecast a disaster of epic proportions for of Southern California.
It could easily become every prepper's worst nightmare – an event big enough to test the shaky resolve of the entire population as they face being cut off from food, water and electricity....
By Everett Numbers
Workers at a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear site in South Carolina have reported that unmanned aerial vehicles flew over the facility eight times in recent weeks. Officials say no drone has been recovered...
We really have reached a point of such insanity across human civilization that governments have become the terrorists who actively seek to harm and kill off the people. The latest example demonstrating this very point is the fact that the EPA just announced its plan to allow gigantic increases in the allowable radioactivity in drinking water... increasing it by over 3,000 times in the case of radioactive Iodine-131... while calling it "safe" to drink even though it's almost certain to give you cancer.
NHK has learned it is highly likely that a large amount of melted nuclear fuel remains at the bottom of one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Experts from Tokyo Electric Power Company and other institutions confirmed a large black shadow at the bottom of the No.2 reactor, using a device that uses elementary particles called muons.
US Coast Guard officials have cordoned off a portion of Lake Ontario this week, after aerial spotters found a visible "sheen" that is coming from a nuclear power plant in upstate New York.
The Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew first noticed the sheen on Sunday. Shortly after, a boat crew from the Oswego station tested the sheen and a "temporary safety zone" was put in place.
The Free Thought Project spoke to the Coast Guard Sector Buffalo Command Center on Tuesday and confirmed that the zone was still closed off, and there is no information as to when it will reopen.
There's an old saying "disasters bring out the best in people," but Fukushima 3/11 of March 11, 2011 has put an exclamation point on cynicism rather than heartfelt concern.
Similar to America's experience of outright lies by its government about the Iraqi Massacre, the blowback of cynicism and contempt bring forth a strain of populism, rejecting establishment, attracting lowly dishonorable politics, as America gooses-up an abomination!
Ever since a massive earthquake shook up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan that led to the power station's multiple meltdowns, huge amounts of contaminated and radioactive materials made their way into the ocean and eventually, into North America's west coast.
By Claire Bernish
According to a new report, the Japanese government worked in concert with TEPCO to purposely cover up the meltdown at Fukushima in 2011.
"I would say it was a coverup," Tokyo Electric Power Company President Naomi Hirose announced during a press conference. "It's extremely regrettable."
Masataka Shimizu, president of TEPCO at the time of the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear disaster, told employees not to go public with the term "meltdown" — allegedly in capitulation to pressure from the Prime Minister's Office...
The head of Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologized Tuesday over his predecessor's order to not use the term "core meltdown" to describe the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant in the early days of the March 2011 crisis.
"It is extremely regrettable. People are justified in thinking it as a coverup," Tepco President Naomi Hirose said at a news conference in Tokyo.
When this explosion happened...
Tepco claimed it was a hydrogen gas explosion. But when hydrogen burns, it produces water vapor, which is white. The plume was brown and as we pointed out...
... matches the color of the quadrivalent form of Plutonium Dioxide!
Rice harvested in Japan's Fukushima region, heavily affected by a nuclear meltdown in 2011, is returning to the EU, starting with Britain next month, the Japan Times reports.
It cooks itself! :)
Although decades have passed since atomic tests were conducted by the US on the northern Marshall Islands, radiation levels within the territory are still dangerously high, a recent study revealed.
The Prairie Island Indian Community was disappointed yet again in their quest to rid the island of spent nuclear fuel as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Friday upheld a 2014 ruling allowing the continual onsite storage of the radioactive material.
Prairie Island Indian Community joined several states and environmental agencies to appeal the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Continued Storage Rule, which was rejected, and it was concluded nuclear waste can be stored onsite indefinitely.
Modernization of systems of access to nuclear missiles is one of the most vital security issues, Vladimir Lukin, Russia's former human rights ombudsman and a member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum, told journalists on Wednesday. "In addition to that, there is also a cybernetic problem when someone can intentionally distort the information about issued orders. A multi-tier system of access is functioning; dangerous situations may emerge at any tier. This problem is very serious. Experts constantly study possibilities for improving this system". Lukin said that nuclear disarmament remained the most urgent international problem. "Negotiations should be conducted both bilaterally - between Russia and the United States - as well as at a multilateral level among nuclear powers". "Reykjavik: 30 Years After - Lessons of the Past and Tasks for the Immediate Future" conference is taking place in Amsterdam on June 7-8.
French journalist Mathieu Gaulène describes the business practices of Dentsu and its competitor Hakuhodo, the biggest and the second biggest advertising companies of Japan respectively. Specifically, it examines how their close relations to the media and the nuclear industry play out in the wake of the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Focusing Dentsu, Gaulène discusses how the marketing and public relations (PR) giant has dominated major media which large advertising contracts from the nuclear industry. The article is particularly timely as Dentsu unveils its deep ties to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid and the Panama Papers. Regrettably, however, with rare exceptions, there is little media coverage of the influence of Dentsu in mainstream Japanese newspapers and magazines.
The Russian corporation has developed unique water treating technology.
Tokyo is interested in partnering with the Rosatom state corporation to decommission nuclear power plant installations in Japan, Rosatom Chief Executive Sergei Kirienko told Rossiya 24 on June 1.
"Our partners are showing ever greater interest in the final stage of the life cycle: decommissioning. We are currently discussing this with the Japanese partners," Kirienko said. Rosatom enterprises have fulfilled the order to develop unique technology for treating water at Fukushima for the Japanese partners, he added.
After the crisis, there could be nothing left of human populations.
There is no doubt that a disaster big enough to wipe out humanity exists – the threat of an EMP, a plague-level outbreak event, etc.
How long would it take for nature to reclaim the vestiges and ruins of civilization that would be left on the planet after a mass extinction event in which humans no longer existed on earth?
Barack Obama doesn't open his mouth unless it is to spin propaganda for an agenda. If disaster comes, will it be a false flag terror event, mega-natural disaster or total episode of civil unrest combined with martial law coming to America soon?
If Obama is the one telling you to get prepared for disaster, then it might already be too late. Obama stated:
One of the things that we have learned over the course of the last seven and a half years is that government plays a vital role, but it is every citizen's responsibility to be prepared for a disaster. And that means taking proactive steps, like having an evacuation plan, having a fully stocked disaster supply kit. If your local authorities ask you to evacuate, you have to do it. Don't wait.
When President Obama went to Hiroshima, the American media focused on what he would – or wouldn't – say about Harry Truman's horrendous war crime against the Japanese people. Would he apologize?
The langostilla kill-off cannot be called an act of nature since my dosimeter detected radiation levels of between 0.12 microSieverts per hour and 0.18 micSv in their bodies. The official safety level for human health set by the pro-nuclear government of Japan is 0.11. Considering the difference in body weight and the water content in their flesh, these marine creatures were terminated by radioactive exposure.
The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was horrific to watch unfold. It will take decades — and billions of dollars — to clean up, as more problems seem to emerge by the minute.
Most recently, Tepco announced that it's still missing a large amount of spent fuel — in part because radiation remains so high that robots and other devices cannot function inside the plant to give workers a better picture of what's going on.
This power station has been described as the most expensive single "thing" on earth, although other power projects such as energy ports come even more expensive. Originally budgeted to cost around £14 billion three years ago, then £18 billion last year and revised up to nearly £22 billion this year. The EU Commission has estimated its final cost to be £24 billion.
Electricité de France or EDF the French state owned energy company is the biggest stakeholder. The project to build this power station is more expensive than the entire market capitalisation value of EDF and is effectively one huge gamble, and a gamble in more ways than one.
The federal government stepped up efforts to deal with the nation's growing, heavily guarded stockpiles of nuclear waste Tuesday, convening westerners in Denver to search for a path to a locally accepted site somewhere for deep burial.
They were the nuclear guinea pigs of the Cold War.
And this is the shocking film to show how U.S. Marines were used in hundreds of experiments by the US military to test the limits of nuclear bombs between 1951 and 1957.
During many of those tests, soldiers who thought of themselves as 'ground grunts' and were sworn to secrecy witnessed the atomic explosions first-hand, and from close range, before the devastating health risks of those bombs were fully understood.
The US Government did in fact know the health risks due to accidents that happened during the development of the bomb.
Conflicting with a prior industry study, a new analysis claims 96 nuclear facilities in the US are less safe than reported, citing risks such as terrorism and sabotage. The study says there remain lessons to be learned from the Fukushima disaster.
A former engineer at one of Germany's nuclear reactors has made an astonishing claim: that the plant intentionally pumped radioactive waste into the atmosphere in 1986.
Hanford nuclear reservation is a barren 586 square mile site nesting against southwest reaches of the mighty Columbia River. It was founded in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project, the project to build the world's first nuclear bomb. The site was ideal because of its isolation, unlimited water supply, and dry desert-like climate allowing for quick, easy construction developments. Today it represents a legacy of science gone mad, and a site dogged by waste and fraud.
Thousands of homeowners who lived downwind of the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant and the operators of the controversial facility have settled a lawsuit to the tune of $375 million, more than a quarter century after the legal action was first filed.
The settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge, brings to an end a 26-year legal saga that began when homeowners living east of Rocky Flats accused the plant's operators, Rockwell International Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., of devaluing their properties due to plutonium releases from the plant.
The lawsuit, which included as many as 15,000 homeowners in an area largely encompassing neighborhoods surrounding Standley Lake, was first filed in 1990.
In court papers filed Wednesday, the lawsuit was described as "quite possibly the largest docket of any District of Colorado case to date."
The U.S. government secretly allowed radiation from a damaged reactor to be released into air over the San Fernando and Simi valleys in the wake of a major nuclear meltdown in Southern California more than 50 years ago — fallout that nearby residents contend continues to cause serious health consequences and, in some cases, death.
An enormous "spike" in radiation which the EPA confirms leaked on May 5 from the Hanford Nuclear Waste Facility in Washington state has reached Chicago.
On May 5, the US Environmental Protection Agency confirmed an enormous "spike" in radiation was emitted from the Hanford Nuclear Waste Facility outside of Richland, WA. At least one underground tank holding lethal Plutonium waste has been found to be leaking and as crews undertake efforts to pump out the leaked material, open hatches release intense radiation into the air. The EPA released this chart from their national "RadNET" radiation monitoring system:
This is the most bizarre and horrible thing I've ever seen in Newport, and I've been going there since I was a kid. Corporate news reports acknowledge that such crabs are virtually unheard of for Newport in the first place, not having been seen there for decades. Some reports blame the bizarre 'biblical proportion' event on the warm water of El Nino, but the Orange County Register admits that experts aren't really sure of the cause. There is a sea of dead red crabs blanketing the beach for MILES, as far as the eye can see! I think it probably has to do with the Fukushima disaster, as certain data indicates.
The US Environmental Protection Agency chalked elevated gamma radiation levels around America's largest nuclear waste storage facility, the Hanford site, up to natural causes, but RT's Alexey Yaroshevsky has found a few inconsistences in its claims.
Movie reveals why you NEED to prepare for an EMP attack: Fear Not & Plug the Blow-Holes
There is yet more confirmation that near-certain doom is headed for planet earth, and could kill or disrupt the lives of everyone on the planet.
In the next five years asteroids, super volcanic eruptions and unknown risks are ranked as the biggest threat to humanity.[…]
It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi films, but experts said these apocalyptic threats are more likely than many realise…
In the next five years asteroids, super volcanic eruptions and unknown risks are ranked as the biggest threat to humanity.[…]
It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi films, but experts said these apocalyptic threats are more likely than many realise…
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State utility regulators on Monday reopened the agreement they approved in 2014 that assigned ratepayers the lion's share of the multibillion-dollar cost for premature shutdown of the failed San Onofre nuclear power plant.
The action represents a significant turnaround for the California Public Utilities Commission, which stood behind the settlement agreement for 18 months amid growing criticism — even from parties to the $4.7 billion deal — that the process and the outcome were stacked against the public and for utility companies.
snip: One would also be hard-pressed to suggest that the American government had our best interests at heart when it conducted secret experiments on an unsuspecting populace—citizens and noncitizens alike—making healthy people sick by spraying them with chemicals, injecting them with infectious diseases and exposing them to airborne toxins. The government reasoned that it was legitimate to experiment on people who did not have full rights in society such as prisoners, mental patients, and poor blacks.
A group of former fishermen Monday filed an unprecedented lawsuit seeking compensation from the government for failing to disclose, for decades, records of their exposure to radiation from U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.
Planned air transports of high-enriched uranium from Dounreay in Scotland to the US state of Tennessee would risk of accident or a terrorist seizure of weapon-usable nuclear material, writes Ernie Galsworthy. The motive for the transport appears to be purely commercial - and would thus put the public at needless risk for the sake of a cut-price nuclear waste / fuel deal between US and UK authorities.
France's ailing nuclear giant, Areva, faced a major scandal on Tuesday after the country's nuclear watchdog confirmed there have been "irregularities" in 400 parts produced in its reactors since 1965, and that "around 50 are currently in service in France's nuclear power plant fleet".
The meltdowns and release of radiation from the Fukushima Daaichi nuclear power plant has been an ongoing crisis for five years. Nuclear engineer Koide Hiroaki has been one of the most trenchant critics of how the Japanese government and power company TEPCO (mis)handled the disaster. In a wide-ranging interview at Counterpunch, he offered a way for officials, who have gone unpunished, to atone.
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Radiation levels at the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste site have spiked to "elevated risk" after thousands of gallons of toxic waste leaked in April. The site occasionally "burps" radiation, which now reached levels requiring evacuation, RT has learned.
Is there any nuclear site in the United States that is not currently collapsing, leaking or otherwise posing a major health or environmental risk? Certainly there are, but that number is becoming smaller and smaller. In addition to three other nuclear disasters unfolding across the country, a fourth has now arisen. This…
Six more workers at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state were taken to a medical clinic for exposure to radioactive fumes, bringing the total number of affected workers to 26. Fumes have reportedly been leaking from waste tanks since last week.
A nuclear power plant in Germany has been found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet, the station's operator said on Tuesday.
As the Iranians found out, the air-gapped computers running the systems can still be infected with flash drives. Back during Desert Storm, Iraq's military computers all crashed, even though they were not connected to the internet. The intrusion was reported to have been done via a Hewlett Packard printer that had been "modified" prior to delivery.
So the next time someone tells you that you're crazy for preparing yourself for a global disaster, you can confidently assure them that it makes just as much sense as keeping a fire extinguishers in the kitchen, or wearing a seat-belt.
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The American people have been distracted to keep them from hearing about the 3 nuclear disasters occurring on the East Coast.
Cancer-struck workers at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in California have been denied state compensation in order to keep the danger posed by the nuclear site to nearby residential areas out of the public eye, a former employee told RT.
Tellurium-132's is a major short-lived FISSION PRODUCT, with a half-life of only 3.2 days, making it a tell-tale sign of a leaking ACTIVE reactor.
The threat of an EMP – via natural event or deliberate attack – remains a grave one. Its potential as a WMD looms larger than any other weapons known to man.
"And if the electrical grid system is knocked out, it affects everything that depends upon that electrical grid. It could include our telecommunications, our banking and finance systems, our petroleum and natural gas transportation systems, our food and water delivery systems, our emergency services. It also affects all of the automated control devices that we take for granted every day, like the automatic control of lights, our surge system."
He added, "It would be a nightmare you'll never wake up from."
"And if the electrical grid system is knocked out, it affects everything that depends upon that electrical grid. It could include our telecommunications, our banking and finance systems, our petroleum and natural gas transportation systems, our food and water delivery systems, our emergency services. It also affects all of the automated control devices that we take for granted every day, like the automatic control of lights, our surge system."
He added, "It would be a nightmare you'll never wake up from."
Twenty workers at the The Hanford Site nuclear facility in Washington state were sent for medical evaluations after inhaling chemical vapors in the vicinity of a leaking nuclear waste tank which was being transferred, according to US Energy Department officials.
Hanford tank workers were performing routine tasks at the vast nuclear waste site when they all started complaining of headaches on Thursday before being sent for medical evaluations, according to local news station KING.
Fear over safety of reactors across the border in Belgium prompts government to order 15m pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the body
The Dutch government has ordered 15m iodine pills to protect people living near nuclear plants in case of an accident, as concerns rise over ageing reactors across the border in Belgium.
The iodine pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid, would be given first to children under 18 and pregnant women living within a 100-kilometre (62-mile) radius of a plant, health ministry spokeswoman Edith Schippers said.
Until now, the tablets have been available within 20km of a plant, to everyone aged 40 and under.
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There is a dangerous radiological threat to the West Coast of the United States that puts the health of millions of Americans at risk. It includes dangers to public health, dangers to the food supply, and dangers to future generations from long-lived radionuclides, including some of the most toxic material in the world. It is not Fukushima, it is Hanford. While radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns is reaching the West Coast, carried across the ocean from Japan, the radiation from Hanford is already there, has been there for 70 years, and is in serious risk of catastrophe that could dwarf the effects of Fukushima even on Japan.
Remembering the only two highest-level radioactive incidents in human history.
Officials for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are trying to determine if a second giant underground tank containing radioactive waste from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons is leaking, the U.S. Department of Energy revealed on Tuesday. Air monitors attached to an aging tank known as AY-101 recently found radiation at higher than normal background levels, the agency said. A video inspection of the underground tank found no evidence that radioactive waste had leaked from the primary tank into the space between the two walls, Hanford officials said. A Hanford watchdog group on Tuesday contended the higher radiation found by the air monitors was evidence of a leak in a second tank.
You need to know this: We have shattered another climate record. Just like the month before it, last month was the hottest March on record, and that's not good news for our species. According to a recent warning from the Japan Meteorological Agency, last month's record temperatures should be "a reminder of how perilously close we now are to permanently crossing into dangerous territory."
Remember when "someone" used the Stuxnet virus, or rather worm, in an Iranian nuclear plant several years ago to freeze Iranian nuclear production, leading to a major diplomatic scandal involving the spy agencies of both the US and Israel, as the world learned that in the present day industrial sabotage only needed a flash drive and a computer virus to render even the most sophisticated piece of industrial machinery obsolete? Well, moments ago, Bloomberg reported that a computer virus was discovered in a German nuclear power plant.
On the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear catastrophe yet, a new report shows radioactive contamination from the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl in Ukraine still lingers in startlingly large amounts across the border in neighboring Belarus.
In an exclusive report by the Associated Press, fresh milk from a Belarusian dairy farm contained a radioactive isotope, traceable to the Chernobyl disaster, at "levels 10 times higher than the nation's food safety limits" — thirty years after the accident occurred.
Though the AP turned to a laboratory to test the milk, dairy farmer Nikolai Chubenok called the results "impossible."...
Near Chernobyl, the contaminated zone stretches far beyond the no-go area, but even that hasn't stopped people from living there.
Near Chernobyl, the contaminated zone stretches far beyond the no-go area, but even that hasn't stopped people from living there.
Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, residents and scientists remain concerned about the possible genetic effects of the fallout.
It will be 30 years on Tuesday since the world's worst nuclear power plant disaster took place in Chernobyl, now part of Ukraine. People who remained in the region continued eating local produce and milk with radiation levels two to five times higher than what are considered safe levels. NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports on how local families say children are getting sick.
Tritium is a mildly radioactive isotope of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, but...
Of course, the question of choosing a supplier for power plants, even nuclear, can be attributed to normal commercial relations and competition between companies. However, not everything is so unambiguous. Experts immediately warned that the fuel produced at Westinghouse is not suitable for the reactors in Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which were designed with a focus on the use of rods produced in Russia.
China is pushing ahead with its construction of a first-ever floating nuclear power platform, which is expected to add to Beijing's ever-increasing clout in the South China Sea, according to the Chinese newspaper Global Times.
And what could POSSIBLY go wrong with that (especially when the torpedoes start dashing hither and yon)?
Thousands of gallons of radioactive waste are estimated to have leaked at a Manhattan Project-era nuclear storage tank in Washington State over the weekend, triggering an alarm and causing one former worker to label it as "catastrophic."
For years, the public has been told that nuclear power is a safe and clean alternative to other fuels, but the people of Indian Point and surrounding areas know those claims are untrue, and it appears they are now paying the price of all the failed promises of nuclear energy.
Japan was plunged into fresh panic today as a 6.1 magnitude tremor hit the northern coast - the third major earthquake within a week.
The tremors struck near the northern island on Honshu around 60 miles southeast on Sendai.
To the dismay of rattled survivors, the latest quake happened close to the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster - which saw 15,000 killed in March 2011.
By Brianna Blaschke
A nuclear leak in Washington has allowed for 3,500 gallons of radioactive waste to be released – and the federal government is trying to claim no harm will come.
A massive radioactive leak was discovered this past Sunday at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. Officials have stated that the original container holding the radioactive material has slowly been trickling out roughly 70 gallons since 2011, though they have not determined what accelerated the problem. They are set to begin pumping an estimated 3,000-3,500 gallons of waste back into storage containers...
Buchanan, New York is a town in the United States where tens of thousands of people have been diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer, and it sits just 35 miles from New York City. Also nearby is the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, which is situated on the Hudson River and serves the electricity needs of approximately 2 million people, with two working reactors which have operated since the mid 1970s.
Thyroid Cancer rates, in and around this area, have seen a huge spike in the last 15 years. Some say as many as 20,000 thyroid cancer cases.
Germany has asked Belgium to take two of its nuclear reactors offline, citing safety concerns. The environment minister said doing so would show that Brussels "takes the concerns of its German neighbors seriously."
Barbara Hendricks urged Belgium on Wednesday to take its Tihange 2 and Doel 3 reactors offline "until open safety questions are cleared up." German officials have expressed concerns over the safety of the reactor pressure vessels.
The ongoing radioactive leak problems at the Hanford Site, a nuclear storage tank in Washington State, are nothing new.
We first wrote about the ongoing radioative leakage at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, created as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, in 2013.
Georgia has arrested six people on charges of trying to sell $200 million worth of radioactive substance uranium-238, the country's security service says.
"Officers of Georgia's State Security Service detained three citizens of Armenia and three citizens of Georgia… for planning to sell the nuclear material," said security service investigator Savle Motiashvili in a news briefing on Monday.
The prefabricated transportation containers full of uranium were found in one of the detainee's apartment, he further said without disclosing the precise amount of the radioactive material.
Uranium 238 is the most common isotope of uranium, and not fissile, i.e. it is not the uranium used to make nuclear weapons. It can be used to make reactor fuel rods. Current spot price is $20 per pound, so they would need 10 million pounds of it to reach a value of $200 million ... which makes the entire story suspect.
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear accident, local residents are reporting a marked increase in serious birth defects, but due to an ongoing coverup by Japanese authorities, and a severe lack of scientific studies being performed, very little information on the subject is reaching the public.
A February, 2016 broadcast on LaborNet TV featured interviews with evacuees from the affected areas near the Daiichi nuclear plant, who provided firsthand accounts of babies being born with extra limbs caused by a structural birth defect called polymelia.
A leak in a massive nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site has expanded significantly, KING 5 learned this weekend.
After leak detector alarms sounded early Sunday morning, crews at Hanford lowered a camera into the two-foot-wide space between the tank's inner and outer walls. They discovered 8.4 inches of radioactive and chemically toxic waste has seeped into the annulus.
The U.S. Department of Energy released a statement Monday calling the leak an "anticipated" outcome of an ongoing effort to empty the tank in question. The Washington state Department of Ecology said, "There is no indication of waste leaking into the environment or risk to the public at this time."
But one former tank farm worker said the leak should be considered a major problem.
The Japanese government says there won't be any catastrophic damage, this time, at its nuclear facilities following Thursday night's devastating earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.
Nine people are confirmed dead and more than 1,000 others injured after a 6.5-magnitude quake hit east of the city of Kumamoto.
The disaster revived terrifying memories of the Fukushima disaster, when a 15-meter post-quake tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown that polluted a sizeable portion of the country for decades.
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga confirmed that there were no abnormalities at any nuclear facilities in the area, the Japan Times reported.
Of course, the Japanese government wasn't exactly forthcoming with the true scale of the damage at Fukushima at the time it happened!
And whether it seems like a joke or not, the Pentagon has a document preparing its forces for the remote possibility – or perhaps imminent cult film future pre-programmed through the media – of an all-out Zombie apocalypse.
"Given the likelihood of an all out threat to 'human survival', it is likely that this plan will be executed with a declaration of martial law with CONUS and U.S. territories.
"The only assumed way to effectively cause casualties to the zombie ranks by tactical force is the concentration of all firepower to the head, specifically the brain."
"Given the likelihood of an all out threat to 'human survival', it is likely that this plan will be executed with a declaration of martial law with CONUS and U.S. territories.
"The only assumed way to effectively cause casualties to the zombie ranks by tactical force is the concentration of all firepower to the head, specifically the brain."
An incident at the Fessenheim nuclear facility in France in 2014 was more serious than previously known. German media reports claim the authorities withheld information detailing the gravity of the situation.
Don't they always?
To dump or not to dump a little-discussed substance is the question brewing in Japan as it grapples with the aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima five years ago. The substance is tritium.
The radioactive material is nearly impossible to remove from the huge quantities of water used to cool melted-down reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, which was wrecked by the massive tsunami in northeastern Japan in March 2011.
The water is still accumulating since 300 tons are needed every day to keep the reactors chilled. Some is leaking into the ocean.
Build a giant electrolysis plant. Tritium in its gaseous state is one of the most valuable materials in the world, used in gunsights, watch dials, emergency lights, etc. Yes, it is radioactive, but a beta emitter. It's a lot safer strapped to your wrist than in the water and food you ingest!
A radioactive release and emergency shutdown of unit 6 occurred at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. Management of the State Emergency Service requested people not to panic, but to calmly take preventive measures:
"For preventive measures State Emergency Service experts recommend to refrain from a prolonged stay in an open area within three days, to use a medical mask, use a weak solution of iodine in cold water and red wine".
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Apr 8, 2016: BROWNS FERRY [Alabama]… Event Date: 04/06/2016… Emergency Class: UNUSUAL EVENT… EMERGENCY DECLARED… OFFSITE NOTIFICATION… UNUSUAL EVENT DECLARED DUE TO MAIN STEAMLINE HIGH HIGH RADIATION CONDITION…
Crew members in their mid-20?s from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are coming down with all sorts of radiation-related illnesses after being deployed less than 3 years ago to assist with earthquake rescue operations off the coast of Japan in 2011. It looks as though the onboard desalinization systems that take salt out of seawater to make it drinkable, were taking-in radioactive water from the ocean for the crew to drink, cook with and bath-in, before anyone realized there was a massive radiation spill into the ocean.
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