{"id":36606,"date":"2011-04-05T16:40:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36606"},"modified":"2011-04-05T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:40:47","slug":"flying-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/flying-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

This press release was issued by TEPCO yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Discharge of low level radioactive accumulated water in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station to the sea<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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There is currently great amount of radioactive waste water in the turbine buildings of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and especially the turbine building of Unit 2 has extremely high level radioactive waste water.<\/em><\/p>\n

We think it is necessary to transfer the radioactive waste water to the Central Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in order to store it in a stable condition. However, ten thousand of low level radioactive waste water has been already stored and we have to discharge the existing low level radioactive waste water to receive new liquids. <\/em><\/p>\n

In addition, as low radioactive subsurface water is piling up in sub-drain pits of Unit 5 and 6 and a part of subsurface water is running into buildings, we are concerned that important equipment to secure the safety of reactors will be submerged. <\/em><\/p>\n

Based on the Section 1 of the Article 64 of the Nuclear Reactor Regulation Law, we have decided to discharge to the sea approximately ten thousand tons of the accumulated low level radioactive water and a total of 1,500 tons of the low level radioactive subsurface water stored in the sub drain pits of Unit 5 and 6 as soon as we get ready.<\/em><\/p>\n

We evaluate approximately 0.6 mSv of effective radioactive doses per year for adults as the impact on the discharge of the low radioactive waste water to the sea if they eat adjacent fish and seaweeds every day. The amount (0.6 mSv of effective radioactive doses per year) is one-fourth of annual radioactive dose to which the general public is exposed in nature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami the Japanese government and TEPCO, (the Tokyo Electric Power Company)\u00a0have been at\u00a0an information impasse. With no direct admission of risk by TEPCO there was\u00a0no risk to communicate by the government. The primary victims of\u00a0the tug of war\u00a0for truthful information\u00a0continue to be\u00a0the residents in areas surrounding the Fukushima-Daiichi Plant, and the populations in its outlying vicinities.\u00a0Now add to the mix the glorious Pacific Ocean, on the day Neptune entered Pisces for the first time since it left that sign in 1862.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to local reports, San Francisco Bay Area rainwater tests conducted last month found levels of radiation that exceeded federal standards for drinking water by 46 times. These effects were downplayed by the\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to\u00a0potential health effects because the radiation was weakening rapidly, with short-term exposure bringing minimal risks. The EPA’s results issued Saturday showed rainwater tested March 22 in Richmond, CA contained 138 picocuries of iodine-131, a radioisotope that can influence thyroid activity and cause cancerous cells, per liter. According to the EPA, drinking water is only permitted to contain 3 picocuries per liter. But because iodine-131 has a ‘half-life’ of just eight days, it dissipates to half its initial radioactivity within that time frame. Similar data was\u00a0made available from UC Berkeley\u2019s Department of Engineering, which recently found instances in which milk, creek water, potable water, spinach and mushrooms carried traces of the radioactive isotope.<\/p>\n

Seeking truth is an exercise in relativity, such as\u00a0trying to gauge the danger of what is deemed ‘acceptable’ levels of released radiation. What is the likelihood of getting cancer — one in a million? One in four? The bar keeps getting raised, lowered\u00a0or dismissed, depending on who you’re talking to. In\u00a0its reports,\u00a0<\/a>MSNBC\u00a0altered\u00a0TEPCO’s admitted\u00a0release of plant water to\u00a015,000 tons, or 15,000 cubic meters\u00a0of effluent\u00a0from the crippled Fukushima-Daiichi Power into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

What is so frustrating about the failure of the Fukushima-Daiichi plant is the opacity of the situation, the duration of which transcends bizarre into an epic environmental failure on\u00a0the level of science fiction. Even though we may vehemently disagree with the approach, it’s easy to understand TEPCO’s reluctance to admit the whole truth. It means it\u00a0will have to reveal four decades of quick fixes and cost cutting at the expense of human safety finally leading up to this event.\u00a0It means the people who continue to use this level of antiquated nuclear power have some safety issues they need to address, to say the least. The implications are obvious to the people who need to know, and the people who should be giving us the full story aren’t.<\/p>\n

I have always been impressed and amazed by the way airline pilots deftly navigate our airplanes through clouds, fog and blinding mists, getting us safely home. This method of flying, relying not on what you see — because you can’t — but on\u00a0the instruments in the cockpit is called ‘flying blind’.\u00a0With nuclear energy, we have in effect been\u00a0flying this way. We have ways to measure and gauge our way through this and an inkling but not a full picture of what is possible under current best and worst case\u00a0scenarios. What is the likelihood of airborne radiation over the western half of the United States? To what degree is that traveling radiation — by air or water — safe or dangerous to humans? What is\u00a0even more aggravating is the time it is taking to admit the truth — any amount of it — since plutonium\u00a0measures its life in the tens of thousands of years, and we measure ours only in the tens.\u00a0I thought we’d never ask these question, but now we have to.<\/p>\n

Our instrumentation — our internal bullshit-detection satellite — has to get fine tuned. That includes our bodies as well. The planets in our canopy today — Uranus, Mercury, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Eris\u00a0in Aries; Saturn in Libra and Pluto in Capricorn — may hold the key to what we can do, or at least want to do. You already see the results of these planets in revolutions around the world and at home. Now they are accompanied by Chiron and Neptune in Pisces.<\/p>\n

Regardless what we’re led to believe about nebulousness and deception by the planet Neptune and the dissolution and self-undoing of its home sign Pisces, Chiron is also there. With Uranus in Aries shaking down to the Pacific seabed, Chiron in Pisces awakened us\u00a0to the fact that we continue to be lied to and may be lied to again if we don’t do anything about our current situation in Japan and elsewhere. There is a price to be paid by the purveyors of lies and those lied to. One of the costs is rage stored by the victims of lies, as harmful and as toxic as radiation, that has no outlet. This rare\u00a0combination of Neptune and Chiron may actually serve as an opportunity to wend our way through this difficult situation.\u00a0That is, if we are aware enough to discern what is happening, to discern what to ask when the time comes, and not to be afraid to be called crazy when we do.<\/p>\n

Neptune, the ruler of Pisces, in league with Chiron, the planet of awareness, could be a kind of fluid force<\/em>, raising awareness of the capacity and fragility of our oceans — the lifeblood of the planet. The same goes for the effects of the nuclear power industry everywhere on Earth. Lets venture\u00a0to begin\u00a0by calling this a new\u00a0era: an era of the end of lies — at least where energy is concerned.\u00a0Remember, Pisces also rules oil; last April we witnessed the BP oil spill in the Gulf when Chiron briefly visited this sign.<\/p>\n

Call me crazy, but I think Neptune and Chiron in tandem could provide the movement for truth to rock through the world like the ocean herself. We’re in a technological corner that we’ve got to climb out of, or drown. We cannot fly this planet so blindly in her orbit anymore.\u00a0 We need human awareness on an elevated global level to fight for her every day. Chiron\u00a0raises our awareness to it like a halogen lamp on a wound. Maybe I’m an unscientific hick sitting on her porch in the Berkeley sun sucking down my kelp, chlorella, iodine and bee pollen breakfast smoothie. But I can’t take my eyes off of what’s happening in Fukushima for a minute. We are flying this airship Earth, and flying her in the dark. We need all eyes and ears open, all senses awake to discern where we’re headed.\u00a0Can we wake up in time to help guide her home? Do we have what it takes?<\/p>\n

Yours and truly,<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan<\/strong>
\nSan Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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