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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (96925)	10/6/2013 3:14:36 PM
From: ggersh	Respond to of 119360

This question is probably the culprit • Do you think this statement is true or false: “Buying a single company stock usually provides a safer return than a stock mutual fund”? Depends on whose fund it is. -g- And over 50? hmmm

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (96925)	10/7/2013 1:22:40 AM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 119360

At 43:00 in Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer: Let me relay just one more thought from my health physicist friend. Even here in the U.S., he’s worried about inhaling a hot particle; I’m just letting you know — and so am I. […] Either uranium, plutonium, or something bad — remember they’re not even monitoring for strontium and uranium, so it’s very difficult to monitor what we’re getting and not getting. […] This is real; we don’t want this to happen here. It’s upsetting other people too. +++++ Abe caves in and admits japan is helpless…. The Japan Times, Oct. 6, 2013: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday requested more foreign assistance in cleaning up the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, where work has been plagued by the radioactive water crisis. “Our country needs your knowledge and expertise [...] We are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem,” he said. [...] many Japanese believe he just swept the plant’s problems under the rug. One Diet lawmaker said he lied [to the International Olympic Committee last month that the leaks were “under control”]. Ground water tainted by radioactive water exiting the plant’s cracked foundations has been entering the Pacific since soon after the March 2011 meltdowns [...] The Times, Oct. 6, 2013: Japan admits it needs help to plug radioactive leaks [...] Japan’s Prime Minister has asked the international community for help in containing radioactive leaks from the Fukushima nuclear plant, a month after promising the International Olympic Committee that the problem was under control. Shinzo Abe told an international science conference in Kyoto yesterday that “my country needs your knowledge and expertise” in dealing with the worsening situation at the power station. [...] Jiji Press, Oct. 6, 2013 (Emphasis Added): The Liberal Democratic Party is studying a plan to split Tokyo Electric Power Co. into two entities [...] The entity responsible for the crippled nuclear plant should assemble expertise from around the world, [Senior LDP official Yasuhisa Shiozaki said on a TV program], adding that the government should invest heavily in the entity to control it. Otherwise, new problems could occur at the stricken facility [...] he said.