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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear friends,Barbara Stephens-Lewallen, Jamie Lee,
and yours truly plan to be on KZYX from midnight until two Thursdays at
Verge Beaulanger's program "On The </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Verge" helping to organize an international
effort to clean up Fukushima. The program streams on the web at
KZYX.org. Love, John</FONT></DIV>
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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><FONT size=3>Fate of
Human Race in Hands of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:place></st1:City> Cleanup Workers<?xml:namespace prefix
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><FONT size=3>October 21,
2013<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:place></st1:City>
cleanup workers deserve the loving support of the whole human race as they begin
next month a one-year process of removing 1,300 damaged radioactive fuel rods
from a tank teetering eighteen feet above ground below Reactor 4.
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</SPAN>Even a mild earthquake may drain the holding tank or bang the rods
together, triggering atmospheric release of four hundred tons of highly
radioactive material, including plutonium.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>A giant steel frame has been constructed above the tank holding the
radioactive rods. The rods and tank are distorted by the earthquake and
tsunami which hit the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:place></st1:City> nuclear power plants on the Japanese
coast in March, 2011, causing three reactors to melt down, and beginning a
cleanup effort now estimated to take forty years and cost $10
billion.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>An October 13 report in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The
Guardian </I>found that the 6,000 workers who suit up and work to maintain the
leaking radioactive containment systems are experiencing plummeting morale.
Workers took a 20 per cent pay cut in 2011, and now most are low-paid private
contractors. Hundreds of the most experienced technicians must leave soon,
because they have received the maximum exposure to deadly radiation allowed
by the Japanese government.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>“I’m particularly worried about depression and alcoholism,” public health
professor Takeshi Tanigawa told <EM>The Guardian. </EM>“I’ve seen high levels of
physical distress and symptoms of post-traumatic stress
disorder.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>The radioactive rods must be removed with manual guidance. If the rods
bump or crumble in the process, what is estimated to be to worst atmospheric
release of deadly radioactive materials ever could occur.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Please consider joining a well-funded international effort to clean up
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Fukushima</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><FONT size=3>--John
Lewallen<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">Philo</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">, <st1:State
w:st="on">CA</st1:State></SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'"><FONT size=3>707-895-2996
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