Fukushima and Chernobyl   No Cause For Alarm! by Ace Hoffman Apr
Channel: Kathy Reed
Date: 2014-01-26

The audio track is from a comedy tape by Ace Hoffman, probably first aired on the Dr. Demento Show June 8, 1986, just seven weeks after (or into) the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It was Hoffman's third comedy routine to be played on Dr. Demento's national show, the first being Three Mile Island Beatles, first aired on Dr. D in 1979, and most recently (as of this writing) aired on the show in 2008, and the second is sometimes called "the Enumerator's Dilemma," about the U.S. Census.

The book cover shown at the beginning of this video is from: Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko, consulting editor Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger (also translated by Dr. Sherman), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1181, 2009, New York, NY.

Images shown (in order):
1) Cover of Chernobyl book. Tree rings mark a permanent change of some sort in 1986, indicated by the color.
2) Chernobyl's first concrete sarcophagus (with scaffolding).
3) Fukushima about two weeks into the catastrophe.
4) Unused ferris wheel in Pripyat, an abandoned city near Chernobyl
5) Empty shelves of water in Tokyo and radiation concerns about the air, too.
6) Chernobyl during arduous containment efforts (note cement pumper trucks in foreground)
7) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration graphic of tsunami wave heights across Pacific ocean from The Great Tohoku Earthquake.
8) Abandoned vehicles used during Chernobyl crisis. All still way too hot to handle.
9) Another view of Fukushima's destroyed reactors.
10 Rail cars filled with deadly spent fuel, heading for Germany from France.
11) Close-up view of one rail car.
12) Fukushima before the catastrophic earthquake / tsunami / human failures.
13) Chernobyl aftermath.
14) Four images of the largest explosion at Fukushima. In the video of this explosion, something very, very big goes about a thousand feet into the air...
15) (left) 9 types of vegetables in Japan which have been found to have dangerously elevated levels of radiation in them. Add mushrooms and milk and meat and of course, fish to the list, too... (right). Map of New Jersey, USA.
16) TEPCO employees at a news conference, invariably underestimating the dangers, as they always have.
17) Arial view of smoldering Fukushima reactors, March, 2011.
18) Smoldering view of Chernobyl reactor, April, 1986.
19) Steam / smoke wafting out of one of the Fukushima reactor buildings.
20) People buying foodstuffs in Japan.
21) The wrecked Chernobyl reactor.
22) Map of radioactive pollutants reaching across the Pacific ocean to land on America. We reap what we sow.
23) Tsunami wave hitting Fukushima.
24) Universal Radiation Alert / Danger Symbol. It says: "Radiation emitted here. It kills. Leave."
24) Evacuation zones around Fukushima (mandatory and suggested for Japanese people by Japanese government, and, outside that, suggested evacuation zone for U.S. citizens by U.S. government (50 miles)).
25) Innovative wind turbine design. One of many.

Images for this video were gathered from various web news and information sources for the purpose of public education. This is a not-for-profit informational / educational usage describing and presenting an immediate danger to all life. Use here of all images is therefore permitted according to numerous prior judicial rulings in similar cases. We regret that we are unable to source each picture, as each one has been transferred numerous times already. Sources often, or even usually, unknown.

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http://www.acehoffman.org

Download a FREE pdf version of his beautiful, educational, technical book about nuclear power, called The Code Killers from his web site.

Read his blogs at:

http://www.acehoffman.blogspot.com/

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