
The Fukushima accident gives the impression to the world that it has been brought under control. It is far from it. The following point of view of Dr. Norio Iriguchi, Professor Emeritus of Kumamoto University, impresses us with the potential horrors of the damaged nuclear plant. I wish to convey to you my impressions it has given me.
1. The point of view of Professor Iriguchi
The containment vessels of units 1, 2 and 3 are broken. The containment vessels were the last strongholds to shut radioactive materials in, but now they are now in contact with the external environment. The volume of each vessel is about 15,000 cubic meters. The temperature inside the vessels varies day and night, winter and summer, and we can presume they are breathing, so to speak, accordingly. Within the vessels, there are molten nuclear fuel rods. If the temperature rises for some reasons, radioactive materials are released into the atmosphere.
Cesium 137 contained in the containment vessels of units 1, 2 and 3 is the equivalent of 14 thousand Hiroshima atomic bombs, 7000 of which are spent nuclear fuel rods whose radioactivity will be reduced by one to one thousand in 300 years. During this period, radioactive materials will continue to be scattered bit by bit as stated above, unless a major natural disaster takes place. However, if molten nuclear fuel rods are exposed through cracks to the atmosphere due to a mega earthquake or the liquidization of the site that causes the collapse or the inclination of a nuclear reactor, Japan’s landmass would become uninhabitable to a large extent.
Cesium 137 contained in unspent nuclear fuel rods amounts to about 7000 Hiroshima atomic bombs, and the possibility of it causing a nuclear fission chain reaction persists for one million years.
In addition to the above-mentioned dangers, there exists a cooling pool for spent nuclear fuel rods on the third floor of each building of the three units. The total of the radioactive materials in the three pools amounts to the equivalent of 16,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. They are submersed in water in order to confine radioactivity. For 300 years at least, they make us dread mega-earthquakes and the associated collapse of the buildings that could take place at any moment.
2. My impressions
The DNA of Japan as a nation has been damaged by the nuclear accident. I have been asserting that nuclear reactors are no less dangerous than nuclear weapons, but it is more correct to say that nuclear reactors are more dangerous than nuclear weapons.
The nuclear accident has obliged many residents of Fukushima to abandon their native places. It has contaminated Japan’s invaluable soil with radioactivity and has brought about a situation that obliges the relevant residents to abandon forever their living and farming land.
The ongoing radioactive contamination of the sea with no prospect for a solution is dishonoring Japan, being criticized as harming the global environment. In spite of all this, attempts are shamefully being made to hide Fukushima.
The Tokyo Olympic Games, the Senkaku Islands problem, the Takeshima issue, all these are just out of the question.
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Natural Solutions Comments:
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We salute Amb. Murata for being a Truth Speaker. With the North American Pacific Fisheries being “closed” by government authority*; with the horrific die-offs of Pacific fish and aquatic mammals, such as the Dolphins, we are seeing the Horrors of Fukushima spreading across the world. It is not just the DNA of the people of Japan that is at risk, as Murata-san notes, it is the genetic integrity of all peoples and species at risk.
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Dr. Rima has termed this condition “Genomic Disruption Syndrome” and the toxic impact of nuclear disasters is just one of its causes.
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* – http://www.infowars.com/food-chain-catastrophe-emergency-shut-down-of-west-coast-fisheries-populations-have-crashed-91-percent/
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For Links to Ambassador Murata’s previous blog entries see:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-in-sendai/
Nuclear Disaster and Global Ethics
Speech Made on March 16, 2015 at the
UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai
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Updates:
http://drrimatruthreports.com/report-from-fukushima-situation-worsening-murata-san/
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http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-the-horrors-of-fukushima/
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Preface
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It goes without saying that genuine denuclearization, both military and civilian, makes the greatest contribution to disaster risk reduction.
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The increased menace of nuclear terrorism has awakened the world to the urgent task of abolishing all nuclear reactors in the world. It is no longer an ideal, but an imperative necessity to realize the vision of President Obama for a “World without Nuclear Weapons” just as soon as possible…
Read the balance of Murata-san’s speech here:
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Here are M. Murata’s posting on the Dr. Rima Truth Reports Blog:
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03.19.15 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-in-sendai/
01.22.15 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-fukushima-is-now-undeniably-a-global-security-issue/
01.17.15 – http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-abolish-nuclear-power-to-stop-ultimate-terror-attack/
2014 – Dr. Rima Truth Reports Podcast: http://drrimatruthreports.com/fukushima-against-the-will-of-heaven-and-earth/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-new-international-system-needed/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-nuclear-disaster-and-global-ethics/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-urgent-warning-american-west-coast-threatened/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/amb-murata-is-tokyo-too-hot-for-humans/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/ambassador-murata-the-whole-world-at-risk-from-many-fukushimas/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/tokyo-2020-too-hot-for-humans/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-reports-fukushima-and-the-2020-olympics/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/ambassador-murata-responses-and-responsibility-at-fukushima/
http://drrimatruthreports.com/ambassador-murata-continues-to-speak-truth-to-power/
Preview of Presentation to
UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
Action Item: http://tinyurl.com/FukushimaHope
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Link to Preview of Presentation: http://drrimatruthreports.com/wp-content/uploads/Murata.Sendai.Speech.Summary.pdf
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Recent Correspondence with Ambassador M. Murata
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February 28, 2015
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Dear Murata-san,
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It is good to hear that others in Japan are joining you in speaking Truth.
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Truly a “sea change…”
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Ralph Fucetola JD
Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee
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—— Original Message ——
Received: 10:25 AM EST, 02/28/2015
From: “mitsuhei murata”
To: “Ralph Fucetola JD”
Subject: Re: Speech in Sendai
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Dear Fucetola-san,
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Please do so.
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The telecasters no longer hesitate to point out that Fukushima is not under control.
The weekly magazine “Josei Jishin” (March 10) has published an article
written by a famous playwright Sou Kuramoto that criticizes Prime Minister Abe
for belittling Fukushima in favor of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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It is epoch-making.
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Best regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
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—— Original Message ——
From: Ralph Fucetola JD
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 11:55 PM
To: mitsuhei murata
Cc: Ralph Fucetola ; Rima Laibow
Subject: Re: Speech in Sendai
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Dear Murata-san,
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Thank you for this important information.
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We are all very concerned about the latest revelation of leaks.
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May we have your permission to publish the Summary
of your speech at this time, and then publish the transcript
of the speech next month, after you have given it?
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Regards,
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Ralph
—— Original Message ——
Received: 08:57 AM EST, 02/28/2015
From: “mitsuhei murata”
To: “Ralph Fucetola JD”
Subject: Speech in Sendai
Dear Fucetola-san,
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Please allow me to send my speech (full text and summary) to be made next month
at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
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I am making some proposals that may draw attention.
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I have attached the letter from UNSG Ban Ki-moon (copy below)
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Joint Statement concerning the reform of the IAEA.
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The recent revelations of high-level contaminated water leaking into the sea
at Fukushima proves decisively that Fukushima is not under cotrol.
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Tepco is being severely criticized both at home and abroad.
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The IOC cannot ignore much longer the legitimate request to send to Japan
a team of neutral experts to reassure the safety of Tokyo.
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The world will thus be awakened to the existing real and serious dangers
being concealed.
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With warmest regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
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You cannot count on your government to tell you the truth most of the time. On this issue, you can NEVER count on your government to tell you the truth.
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The EPA has been raising “acceptable” radiation levels by orders of magnitude until even they were embarrassed by their distortion of the science.
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The Fraud and Death Administration stopped tracking radiation in fish from the Pacific (smart move, FDA, smart move) when Hilary Clinton, our then-Secretary of State, signed an accord with her opposite number in Japan to enhance trade by killing people.
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Nice work, Hilary!
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And then there was the ruling by the EPA that slag metal from Fukushima and other places of lethal contamination can be reused for consumer items like belt buckles and “silverware” (cooking utensils? probably) without notification or limitation. Splendid work, EPA, protecting us nicely!
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What levels of radiation does your food contain if it is produced in the Western part of Mexico, the US and Canada?
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Excellent question! If the government knows, it isn’t telling.
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What level of radiation does your food contain if it is produced in the Midwestern US and Canada?
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Good question, once again!
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And how about the food that grows in the Eastern part of Canada and the Eastern and Southeastern parts of the US? Excellent questions to which, absent your own Geiger counters, there are no answers.
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None.
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So what can you do?
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Well, first of all, I urge you to visit www.TinyURL.com/Radprotect and take a look at the videos and the information there.
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Studies show that nutrients like Resveratrol can actually help your body repair the DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation and return the body to normal structure and function.
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While iodine loading helps the thyroid and other iodine sensitive tissues, it is a very partial measure which cannot be carried out safely for long using potassium iodide without serious risk.
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On the other hand, North Atlantic seaweed from Maine, Iceland, Labrador, etc., is should be a safe source of biologically useful iodine without the dangers of pharmaceutical interventions like potassium iodide.
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Next, you can stop eating anything that swims in the Northern Pacific. Anything. That means tuna, Pacific salmon and all other Northern Pacific fish. I do mean all. I love sushi as much as you do but I love not having cancer more.
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You can also help to solve the problem at its root by rooting out the most dangerous form of energy production every devised: nuclear power.
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All of the arguments for it are absurd. All of the arguments against it boil down to one word: radiation. There is no way to dispose of nuclear radiation safely. There are no safe nuclear power plants. None.
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Anything else is either a delusion or a lie.
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Tokyo is a death trap waiting for Olympic attendees and participants. Worse, it is a death trap for the people who live and work there.
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As I wrote in my eBook, Radiation in America, which you can download here, http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=22670, large segments of the US have been above the nuclear radiation evacuation level for years on end without any mention of it by officials or solutions to the problem.
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That is because the ONLY solution is to decommission ALL nuclear reactors.
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Take action here, http://tinyurl.com/FukishimaHope, and share it with everyone who believes that they and their children have a right to a clean, inhabitable planet.
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Share this information widely. Here is the permalink to this blog entry: http://drrimatruthreports.com/?p=22670.
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You and I are fighting for our lives, my friends. Since the very people who run the nuclear reactors would rather see us dead anyway, we are in a very serious contest. It remains to be seen whether their greed or our collective wisdom wins out.
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The future hangs in the balance.
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Yours in health and freedom,
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Dr. Rima
The Present Situation of Fukushima
All Nuclear Facilities Pose Terrorist Threat Opportunities
Fukushima-Released Radioactivity Continues to Grow
Academics Join Call for “Honorable Retreat” from 2020 Olympics
Mitsuhei Murata
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The Japanese government is now vigorously promoting the restart of nuclear reactors shut down after the Fukushima disaster. It controls the media effectively. The recent nuclear accidents in Ukraine (Zaporizhia) and Belgium (Tihange) were completely ignored in the Japanese media, as was the menace of an attack against the Chernobyl nuclear plant in war-plagued Ukraine.
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In Belgium, there was an incident attributed to sabotage last August. On August 8th of last year, a number of rockets were fired at a nuclear plant in Israel (Reuter). These facts are sufficient to support the assertion that the mere existence of more than 440 nuclear reactors in the world constitutes a serious global security problem. Nuclear reactors are no less dangerous than nuclear weapons.
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According to the Asahi Newspaper of December 25, the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority envisages the release of “treated” contaminated water (241,000 tons out of 590,000 tons) into the sea. The treatment of the contaminated water through Multi-nuclide Removal Equipment (ALPS) cannot remove tritium. The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) is advising the release into the sea if the tritium is removed to a level less than the concentration limit set in the public notice.
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Civil society is naturally opposed to this move in view of the extremely dangerous consequences tritium could bring about. In the joint petition against ITER — International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor — issued by Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel Prize Laureate, and Prof. Akira Hasegawa, Maxwell Prize Laureate, we notice that ITER containing two kilograms of tritium could kill up to two million people. What matters is not the level of concentration, but the total volume. The consequences of the radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the West Coast of the United States is drawing increased attention. The sheer volume of radioactive materials flowing daily into the sea makes one feel the crisis of our global environment.
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Civil society is naturally opposed to this move in view of the extremely dangerous consequences tritium could bring about. In the joint petition against ITER — International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor — issued by Dr. Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel Prize Laureate, and Prof. Akira Hasegawa, Maxwell Prize Laureate, we notice that ITER containing two kilograms of tritium could kill up to two million people. What matters is not the level of concentration, but the total volume. The consequences of the radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the West Coast of the United States is drawing increased attention. The sheer volume of radioactive materials flowing daily into the sea makes one feel the crisis of our global environment.
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The removal of fuel rods including damaged ones from Unit 4 at Fukushima has been completed. Progress has been made. We are now reminded, however, that we are confronted with much more serious problems. Units 1, 2 and 3 remain inaccessible because of lethal levels of radiation surrounding the buildings. Their containment vessels need a constant flow of nitrogen to maintain low levels of oxygen in order to prevent hydrogen explosions.
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The whereabouts of the melted fuel rods remain unknown. We face a situation humanity has never before experienced. Human knowledge, skill, expertise, and wisdom must be mobilized on the widest possible scale.
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Probing the ground beneath the site is urgently needed. Although an expert working at the site recommends the use of technology used in the development of shale oil for this purpose, as of yet it has not been utilized. The urgent need for international cooperation in this crisis is undeniable.
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As Executive Director of the Japan Society for a Global System of Ethics, I was present on December 20, 2014 when Associate Lecturer Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University made an outstanding lecture. He is one of the most respected nuclear experts in the world, particularly after having stuck to his anti-nuclear position following the Fukushima disaster, sacrificing a promotion in the process. After the lecture, I spoke to him about his view on the Tokyo?Olympic?Games.
He pointed out?that?there?exists in Japan an atmosphere that?considers it?unpatriotic?to?pose?this question, but he readily accepts this risk. He then answered, considering the huge problem of procuring workers for the Fukushima site and the ordeal that such workers are going through under terribly difficult conditions.
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He expressed the opinion that holding of Olympic Games in Tokyo should be considered definitely out of question. The audience was deeply impressed by Mr. Koide’s lecture. I am widely disseminating it, including to top decision makers.
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The problem of workers on the site is very serious. Last November, the average number of daily workers was 6,600. This requires numerically more than 2.4 million workers a year. Decommissioning of the reactors on the site will take decades. It makes one shudder. The lack of the sense of crisis over Fukushima is in stark contrast to the gravity of the crisis.
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I have the feeling that in Japan there now exists a taboo against questioning the security of the Tokyo Olympic Games. The Tokyo Olympic Games seems to be being utilized to divert attention from Fukushima and to give out the impression to the world that Fukushima no longer poses a threat.
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Shrewd observers point out that there is ‘the front and the back’ relationship between Tokyo Olympic Games and nuclear reactors. The two are interrelated. The setback of the one will mean that of the other. This is why I am pinning hopes on the move of the IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) to approach the IOC.
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Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods are increasing in number.
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Under such circumstances, it is absolutely reckless to promote nuclear reactors. However, the state specific secrets protection law that took effect on December 10 of last year inclines the media toward self-imposed censorship regarding nuclear issues.
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Fukushima is now undeniably a global security issue. It is a crisis for Japan as a nation. It is a crisis of the global environment for the international community. It is surprisingly being treated merely as a crisis for the management of our electric utilities. Much is expected of the role the international community could play in this regard.
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I have received a communique from the UN confirming my participation in the coming Sendai Conference of next March. I am to make a speech on ‘Nuclear Disasters and Global Ethics’ on March 16.
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I hope that UN will play a central role in coping with Fukushima.
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See also General Bert’s comment at: http://drrimatruthreports.com/murata-san-abolish-nuclear-power-to-stop-ultimate-terror-attack/
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