Fukushima: crowdsourcing Geiger readings

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; SAFECAST.org; Democracy Now

Protests Grow in Japan: "Bring our message to the world to stop nuclear power plants"

Volunteers crowdsource radiation monitoring, map risk on every Japanese street

Reporting live from Japan

Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org)

Hiroshima like Nagasaki (kootation.com)

TOKYO, Japan - “I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the world,” wrote the journalist Wilfred Burchett from Hiroshima [site of the atomic bombing by the US].

Get your own Geiger counter

His story under the headline “The Atomic Plague” appeared in the London Daily Express on Sept. 5, 1945.

Burchett violated the U.S. military blockade of Hiroshima. He was the first Western journalist to visit the devastated city after the bombing. He wrote, “Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.”

Small, portable Geiger counters (safecast.org)

Jump ahead 66 years to March 11, 2011. Six hundred miles north is the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, where the Great East Japan Earthquake [possibly set in motion by the HAARP weapon as the US had previously threatened Japan] caused a tsunami, which led to the nuclear disaster at the nuclear power site. Listen

• "We want to fight for this cause": Nuclear refugees from Fukushima join anti-nuke protests
• Mayor of town that hosted Fukushima Nuclear Plant says he was told: “No accident could ever happen”
• Fukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World
• Mushrooms can de-contaminate waste (fungi.com)