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Should the public discover the true health costs of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperate passively with their own death.

“Bring us the living dead. People no one will miss.” - Fukushima official’s request to Yakuza “TEPCO's involvement with anti-social forces and their inability to filter them out of the work-place is a national security issue ... Nuclear energy shouldn't be in the hands of the yakuza. They're gamblers and an intelligent person doesn't want them to have atomic dice to play with.” - Japanese Senator

"You know, The Big Question is how do you decommission something like that?" --Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, re damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi, in conversation with Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatric oncologist, on her radio show, If You Love This Planet, 7/29/12

"The Tokyo metropolitan government will soon seek permission from the national government to send a party to the disputed Senkaku Islands, parts of which the local authority plans to buy from the Japanese owner, a senior Tokyo official said Wednesday." -- I wonder how China will feel about this? -- JB

More Japanese nuclear reactors are now discovered to be sitting on shaky ground...how long till another one of them goes Fuku?

Alarms sounded Sunday evening and early Monday at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, raising doubts about efforts launched Wednesday to restart the second reactor since the Fukushima nuclear crisis erupted in March 2011.

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Monday that 693 people in 45 prefectures were hospitalized for heatstroke on Monday as temperatures soared across the nation. One of them, an 84-year-old man, died in a Niigata hospital on Monday night, the agency said.

Article reflecting on the toll exacted by the 311 disaster and nuclear crisis on those living in Japan when the crisis began. ...excerpt, "I can attempt to paint a picture of the toll the Fukushima nuclear crisis has taken on the minds, hearts and communities of those living in Japan, but I will not live with this toll as they do. I will not raise my children wondering if harmful airborne radioisotopes from Fukushima were absorbed by their growing young bodies, but many Japanese parents are concerned about this each and every day."

A nuclear reactor in western Japan began generating electricity at capacity Monday, becoming the first of the country's 50 commercial reactors to return to full service after all were taken offline in May.