Thread: WHY IS'NT MSM REPORTING ON THE escalating DANGERS of Radiation, UPDATED

The Good and Bad News About West Coast Radiation

Jan 15, 2014 Contributing Author

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The reality is there is no good news about the radiation levels we’re finding
Adan Salazar

January 13, 2014

There is no doubt the radiation levels we’ve encountered during our tour of the West Coast should be of concern to everyone. The equipment we’re using is designed to detect particles of ionizing radiation. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Any living tissue in the human body can be damaged by ionizing radiation in a unique manner.”
“The body attempts to repair the damage, but sometimes the damage is of a nature that cannot be repaired or it is too severe or widespread to be repaired,” the EPA’s FAQ page on the health effects of radiation states. The agency also admits that ionizing radiation causes cancer and can spur genetic mutations which can be passed on to offspring.
This is bad news. Normal background radiation levels should typically hover below or around 30 CPM (counts per minute). It is concerning that up and down the West Coast, nearly every place monitored tested well above this level, the highest concentration of course being found at Surfer’s Beach in Half Moon Bay, California and further south.
The readings below document locations investigated from Half Moon Bay up to Portland, Oregon:
Half Moon Bay (Surfer’s beach), California: 374 CPM
Golden Gate Bridge (southside): 50 CPM
Crescent City, California: 54 CPM
Eugene, Oregon (University of Oregon campus): 58 CPM
Charleston, Oregon: 54 CPM
Portland, Oregon (Columbia River): 76 CPM
We also found that the California coastline south of Half Moon Bay had increased radiation levels three times higher than what is considered to be normal, with a reading of 112 CPM taken at Salinas River State Beach.
Also bad news is the fact that residents are almost completely oblivious of the threatening dangers surrounding them, in part due to media brainwashing and the downplaying of the significance of the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. As far as we can tell, Infowars is the only media organization taking the initiative to conduct readings and report the actual facts.
Additionally, there is the matter of bioaccumulation to worry about. As the beaches and local communities continue being showered with high radiation, the real issue is that bioaccumulation is occurring in sea life, meaning that radiation is building up and accumulating in the foods many people eat.
However, there is also some good news to report.
The extremely high level of radiation encountered at Surfer’s Beach does not appear to be widespread throughout the coast, according to our measurements.
Also, fish we tested at local markets showed only slightly elevated levels of radiation, meaning the people eating it are likely not ingesting high levels.
See the readings below:
Eureka, CA, Ahi Tuna: 40 CPM
Beaverton, Oregon: Columbia River King Salmon fillet: 31 CPM
Beaverton, Oregon: Sashimi hamachi raw yellowtail (imported from Japan): 18 CPM
Beaverton, Oregon: Uni (sea urchin): 34 CPM
Beaverton, Oregon: Raw sashimi (from: Atlantic Ocean – Canada): 40 CPM
However there were still fish that tested higher. For instance a wild Tako imported from Japan gave a reading of 44 CPM, in addition to an albacore tuna, imported from Canada, which also read 44 CPM.
Two small croakers caught off of Hartford Pier in Avila Bay, California right near the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility read in at 60 CPM, nearly twice the normal radiation level for the region.

In Crescent City, California, fresh crabs measured at 56 CPM, and two small croakers a man caught off the Hartford Pier in Avila Bay, near the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility, scanned in at 60 CPM, double the standard 30 CPM for the Half Moon Bay area.
Fresh crab purchased in Crescent City, California read in at 56 CPM, higher than normal levels for the region.

We were unable, however, to test what is believed to be one of the most highly irradiated fish in the ocean, the blue fin tuna. One fish market owner in Eureka, California told us he specifically doesn’t carry that type of fish due to public concerns about radiation.
It is also no exaggeration that ambient radiation readings taken at almost every location climbed into the 70s, a startling indicator that the ionizing radiation is unknowingly and constantly bombarding the people of California.
In reality, there is no real good news about the radiation levels we’re finding. As documented, very few places and foods are giving low readings.
We encourage everyone to independently research the unusual levels of radiation which the federal government and even academic officialdom says is perfectly safe. As the EPA admits on their own site, “There is no firm basis for setting a ‘safe’ level of exposure above background” levels.
This article was posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 6:00 pm

http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-ne...ast-radiation/

Monday, January 13, 2014


Fukushima



As we look back at 2013 and forward into 2014, one hopes we will begin to see more coverage in the U.S. media of the most significant under-reported story of our time. It's the on-going disaster in Japan, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility.



There are several things being reported elsewhere, but seldom in this country. For instance, the nuclear powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami and crisis in the Japanese countryside with a humanitarian mission off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture. In doing so, the carrier, with a crew of about 5,000, was exposed to the radiation coming from the three reactors that had melted down. Because the plant operator and the Japanese government minimized the radioactive releases, crew from the Reagan were in radioactive water rescuing survivors floating on debris, were bathing in and drinking desalinated ocean water that was contaminated, and washing down the deck and planes in a radioactive plume of air. They were stationed for about a month 10 miles off the coast before being informed of the seriousness of the risks.

In December of 2012, a law suit was filed by several of the Reagan's crew against TEPCO, the private operator of the nuclear facility. The suit alleges that TEPCO's lies led the Navy to sail into intensely dangerous waters and put the crew at risk. As of early this month, there are some seventy crew members who have joined the lawsuit, and as the health problems grow for Reagan crew members, the numbers in the suit will grow as well. Some anticipate as many as 1,400 eventual plaintiffs, not just from the Reagan, but from the 70,000 service members sent into harms way.



Many of the crew members in the lawsuit are in their 20's and have been diagnosed with leukemia, testicular cancer, gall bladder cancer and thyroid cancers. Others are experiencing rectal bleeding, hair loss, fatigue, gastrointestinal troubles, unremitting headaches and strange menstrual cycles.



One is reminded of those soldiers that were sent into the area of the first U.S. atomic bomb tests. They were told there was no danger, entering the zone shortly after the blast. It wasn't till years later that I visited one of those soldiers in the hospital, where he was losing a leg in his latest struggle, of many, with the results of that long ago exposure.



It happens so often we have almost come to expect it; sacrifices made by members of the military on behalf of political or economic expediency.


Another challenge not being reported is the growing threat to the Pacific Ocean. This is a huge body of water. But when you pour 300-400 tons of radioactive water into the ocean every day and threaten to stop storing contaminated water on site, as it leaks, and you can't build storage tanks fast enough to hold it, over time it creates problems for the ocean ecosystem.



Scientists are studying the demise of starfish off the West coast of the U.S. They seem to be melting on the bottom of the ocean, with an estimated 60% of them in some areas affected. Some are pointing the finger at Fukushima. Canadian officials have found amazingly high levels of radioactivity in sea bass. Scientists in California have found cesium 137 in 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna tested. Canadians have also discovered cesium 137 in 100% of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish sold to the Canadian public. And for more than a year those in Alaska who depend on seal, walrus and polar bears have been noticing severe sicknesses and die offs, consistent with radiation poisoning.

If that weren't enough, TEPCO, a private for profit company, accused of hiring untrained and sometimes homeless workers willing to risk their lives in challenging circumstances, (with some suggestions organized crime has gotten involved), are moving 1,500 fuel assemblies from unit 4 to safer storage facilities for at least the next year. Carefully, of course! Should they lose a damaged one in the process, or God forbid, should there be another earthquake before they finish, some are saying the West Coast of the U.S. should be evacuated and Japan would be history.



If that possibility isn't worth a story or two in the mainstream media and an international takeover of the removal process, I can't imagine what is.



So when you make your plans for 2014, include some prayers and political action for the health and safety of the planet and the people and all life affected.

Carl Kline

http://www.livingnonviolence.com/2014/01/fukushima.html

Fukushima water decontamination system breaks down


Posted January 12, 2014
by Common Sense Canadian



Tanks containing radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant (Issei Kato / Reuters)

Read this Jan. 9 story from RT.com, reporting on the failure of the water decontamination system at Japan’s badly-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) has stopped using its systems to decontaminate radioactive water at the facility, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.

The Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, has been utilized to liquidate radioactive substances from contaminated water stored at the plant.

The crane to get rid of the container from the ALPS ceased working on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, TEPCO stopped operating all 3 ALPS systems at the facility. The company officials say the system may take a long time to restart.

The container where the radioactive substances are stored has to be replaced when it fills up.
TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, said that the company plans to decontaminate all radioactive water stored in the tanks by March 2015, NHK reported.

That’s despite the company officials telling The Japan Times a month ago that the radioactive water will be decontaminated by the end of fiscal 2014.It’s not the first time that the ALPS system has experienced trouble: at the beginning of December, the system was reported to have broken down during trial operations.

The Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) consists of 14 steel cylinders, through which the contaminated water is filtered. After the filtering, waste materials like the absorbent and remaining sludge are transferred to high-integrity containers (HICs) that are transported to a temporary storage facility.

The ALPS can remove 62 different types of radionuclides, including strontium and cobalt from contaminated water.

The year has started off badly for the Fukushima Daiichi plant: a few days ago, a Japanese worker, who participated in the mending of the plant to avoid further radiation leaks, has revealed that adhesive tape had been used to deal with the issue of sealing in radioactive water.

The 48 year-old, Yoshitatsu Uechi, an auto mechanic and tour-bus driver, was one of the 17 workers to be sent to the crippled facility to make more containers to store the contaminated water.

http://commonsensecanadian.ca/REPORT...-system-breaks

Enjoy The Radioactive Fish: Tests Show Fukushima Fish Are Up To 124X Above Safe Level

By Michael Snyder, on January 14th, 2014

Are you purchasing radioactive fish at the grocery store? Are you absolutely certain that you know the answer to that question? You are about to read about a test that discovered that a fish recently caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture was found to have 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium. That is 124 times above the level that is considered to be safe. But it is not just fish caught off the coast of Japan that you need to be concerned about. In this article I will also discuss a report by the National Academy of Sciences which states unequivocally that Pacific Bluefin tuna have “transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean”. In fact, if you just had a tuna sandwich for lunch you may have ingested radioactive material without even knowing it. Each day, another 300 tons of highly radioactive water is released into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima, and that means that the total amount of radioactive material that is getting into our food chain is constantly increasing. And since some of these radioactive elements have a half-life of about 30 years, that means that our food chain is going to be contaminated for a very, very long time.
Strangely, the mainstream media in the United States has been extremely quiet about all of this. The following is an article from a Russian news source about this highly radioactive fish that was just caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture…

Fish with deadly levels of radioactive cesium have been caught just off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, as scientists continue to assess the damage caused to the marine food chain by the 2011 nuclear disaster.
One of the samples of the 37 black sea bream specimens caught some 37 kilometers south of the crippled power plant tested at 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, making it 124 times deadlier than the threshold considered safe for human consumption, Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency announced.

That same article also noted that a fish that was caught last year near Fukushima contained a level of cesium that was actually far greater…

The record cesium reading was recorded last year when a fish caught near the plant carried 740,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.

Would you eat such a fish?
The truth is that there might be one in your freezer right now.
According to an absolutely shocking report put out by the National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported highly radioactive material “across the entire North Pacific Ocean”…

“We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”

Do you buy a lot of tuna?
If so, you might want to start asking some questions.
And there is a lot of other evidence that the food chain in the Pacific Ocean is becoming highly contaminated. The following are just a few facts from one of my previous articles entitled “36 Signs The Media Is Lying To You About How Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West Coast“…
-The population of sockeye salmon along the coastlines of Alaska is at a “historic low”.
-Something is causing Pacific herring to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.
-Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.
-One test in California found that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
-Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
You can read the rest of that article right here.
So once again, are you absolutely certain that you are not purchasing radioactive fish at the grocery store?
The U.S. government says that the fish are safe.
But the government also promised the sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan that they would be safe when they went over to provide assistance in the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake back in 2011. It turns out that was a lie too…

The roll call of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were irradiated while delivering humanitarian help near the stricken Fukushima nuke is continuing to soar.
So many have come forward that the progress of their federal class action lawsuit has been delayed.
Bay area lawyer Charles Bonner says a re-filing will wait until early February to accommodate a constant influx of sailors from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and other American ships.

More than 70 sailors from that aircraft carrier have reported that they have developed conditions such as testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, Leukemia, “unremitting gynecological bleeding” and brain tumors. Their lives have been ruined, and nobody wants to step forward and take responsibility.
So are you going to just blindly trust that the government is telling you the truth about all of this?
Out in California, one team of researchers from California State University is so concerned that they are going to start monitoring California’s kelp forest for signs of radiation…

Researchers from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have launched “Kelp Watch 2014,” a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state’s kelp forest from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
Initiated by CSULB Biology Professor Steven L. Manley and the Berkeley Lab’s Head of Applied Nuclear Physics Kai Vetter, the project will rely on samples of Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp from along the California coast.
“The California kelp forest is a highly productive and complex ecosystem and a valuable state resource. It is imperative that we monitor this coastal forest for any radioactive contaminants that will be arriving this year in the ocean currents from Fukushima disaster,” said Manley, an expert in marine algae and kelp.

And as I noted the other day, one independent researcher recently discovered radiation levels near the water at Pacifica State Beach that were up to five times higher than normal background radiation.
The evidence is piling up, and it is becoming clear that the Japanese government and the U.S. government are not telling us the truth. Of course governments all over the world have not been telling us the truth about a lot of things for a very long time. This is a theme that I explored extensively in my new novel. In this day and age, it is imperative that we all learn to break out of “the matrix” and learn to think for ourselves.

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/enj...ove-safe-level

Thanks for posting this thread, it is very informative and people need to be aware of what is going on.

You're welcome Freedomlover, glad the information is of use to you.

A Race to Extinction – Fukushima

Japanese Medical Scientist says that smiling and laughing will save people from radiation

During the 5 min speech by Mr. Syunichi Yamashita, a Japanese medical scientist, professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University and Fukushima Radiation Health Risk Advisor, I felt ill and outraged. In his speech about the Fukushima nuclear radiation he said the following: ‘’As citizens of a democratic nation, we at least have to trust the national policies and the information from the government.


However, we don’t have an independent organization to audit and evaluate such information and tell you whether it’s correct or not’’ ‘’The only thing we need to keep an eye on is the amount of exposure of plant workers who are working with a do-or-die resolution’ ‘’But we don’t have to worry about the health effects of ordinary people’’ ‘’Every radiation protection safety limit is based on the amount allowable for babies’’ ‘’Adults over 20 years old have very little sensitivity to radiation. Almost zero’’ ‘’You smoke and drink, and worry about radiation?


They are much more dangerous. Men don’t have to worry’’ ‘’To tell you the truth, radiation doesn’t affect those who are smiling, but those who are worried. This has clearly been demonstrated by animal studies’’ ‘’Drinking may be bad for your health, but happy drinkers are less affected by radiation, luckily’’ ‘’Im not advising you to drink, but laughter will remove your radiation-phobia’’[1] I wonder why such (a) simple measures to battle the nuclear radiation exposure such as smiling, or drinking alcohol, were not advised or implemented in Chernobyl?


Instead, the citizens of the nearby city Pripyat were evacuated within 24 hours after the explosion and a large concrete sarcophagus had been built around the crippled reactor to seal off its content to prevent further release of radiation into the atmosphere. It is said that the cost of the containment and decontamination of Chernobyl disaster (had) cost the Soviet Union 30 billion rubles, which was at the time equivalent to 30 billion dollars.


Would it not be cheaper to supply the people of Pripyat with vodka instead? Just make them drunk and tell them to smile. Sounds like the problem solved. But how would the people of Ukraine feel if told by the officials that radiation exposure has minimal effects on their health and that laughter will remove their radiation-phobia?


And even though there has been an attempt to conceal the scale of the disaster by the Soviet government, nevertheless, the measures to halt the crises were taken promptly. It took them 8 months to completely seal the damaged reactor with concrete. What measures were taken by the TEPCO and the government of Japan to halt the Fukushima nuclear disaster other than drastically increasing its official “safe” radiation exposure levels a month later?
So are we to believe that the worst nuclear disaster in human history has become somehow safer because the safety level was raised? Same thing, by the way, was done in Chernobyl where guidelines for levels of radioiodine in drinking water, were temporarily raised, allowing most water to be reported as safe.


I remember my outrage when I’ve first heard that the American and Canadian government had stopped monitoring airborne radiation and had raised the acceptable levels of radiation shortly after the Fukushima explosion. In other words, if a certain level of radiation was said to be deadly for you yesterday, today it has suddenly became safe just because the government has said so. Is this an international nuclear conspiracy or just a standard procedure?
And yet we are asked to trust our government even though it is constantly lying to us? I was recently asked why did I care for the Fukushima so much if I live far away, high in Peruvian Andes? Can you believe that question? I don’t blame you if you don’t. Because I can’t believe it either, and I was the one who was asked. Well, I guess, I am human enough to care for human suffering as such, and I would care for the people of Japan even if I wouldn’t be affected by Fukushima myself. But I also understand that there are no such things as separate oceans on our planet. In reality, there is only one global interconnected and continuous body of water which is called the World Ocean.

Thus, contaminating a part of it means contaminating all of it. And it’s only a matter of time til all of the water on our planet will be radioactive. Also, one doesn’t need to be a nuclear physicist to understand that dangerous radioactive isotopes released from the Fukushima damaged reactor are here to stay for millions of years, continuously contaminating our air, our water and our food supply with deadly radiation forever.

http://intellihub.com/2014/01/15/a-r...ion-fukushima/

Thus, contaminating a part of it means contaminating all of it. And it’s only a matter of time til all of the water on our planet will be radioactive. Also, one doesn’t need to be a nuclear physicist to understand that dangerous radioactive isotopes released from the Fukushima damaged reactor are here to stay for millions of years, continuously contaminating our air, our water and our food supply with deadly radiation forever.

Yet there are those who appear clueless .........

NPR Affiliate: Fukushima cesium detected in Alaska salmon sample — Radioactive plume has already reached West Coast — Concerned fishermen forced to pay for tests since officials not doing it — “People don’t trust gov’t… they don’t trust corporations” (AUDIO)

Loki Fish Co., Jan. 7, 2014: [...] In response to customer concerns over radiation releases into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima, fisherman-owned Loki Fish Company [paid for] radiation testing on seven stocks of wild salmon. [...] Although the FDA contends that there is no evidence that radionuclides from Fukushima are present in Alaskan and Pacific Northwest seafood at a level that would be harmful to human health, it has not published results. [...] Of the seven samples, five did not register detectable levels of radionuclides. Two of the samples registered at trace levels – Alaskan Keta at 1.4Bq/kg for Cesium 137, and Alaskan Pink at 1.2Bq/kg for Cesium 134 [Cesium-134 is a "clear fingerprint" for Fukushima's nuclear contamination].
Pete Knutson, fisherman and co-owner of Loki Fish Co.: “As fishing families who put salmon on the table of consumers, we are as concerned as anyone about the health of our marine ecology.”
Oregon Public Broadcasting (NPR Affiliate), Jan. 16, 2014: Scientists Say Stop Worrying About Fukushima Radioactivity In Fish[...] Japan’s nuclear disaster released hundreds of millions of gallons of radioactive water in 2011**, sparking rampant speculation that a contaminated plume would reach the waters of North America’s West Coast. [...] There is radioactive material from Fukushima making its way across the Pacific Ocean and it has already reached the West Coast in small amounts. [...] Scientists are still debating how high those radioactivity levels could be. [...]
**After years of denials, Fukushima plant officials have recently admitted around 400 metric tons of radioactive water has been flowing into the Pacific every day for nearly 3 years
More from Loki Fish Co. co-owner Pete Knutson: “We had people passing on our fish this year. It was directly because they were worried about Fukushima. [...] People do not trust governmental authorities. They don’t trust corporations. They don’t trust explanations and they don’t have a good science background.”
And the scientists demanding the public ‘stop worrying about Fukushima radioactivity in fish” may want to tell their colleagues the same thing and see how they respond:

• Senior Scientist: I’m very concerned about sea life on West Coast accumulating radioactive material; Some contamination will arrive in concentrated pockets (AUDIO)
• CBC Headline: Radiation from Fukushima arrives on Alaska coast -- University scientists concerned -- "Is the food supply safe?... I don't think anyone can really answer that"
• Physician in Canada on Cancer Estimates: Epidemic of Fukushima radiation-related deaths from fish in Pacific may have started -- "Vast implications for human health" -- "I eat so much salmon... I'm vulnerable"

Listen to the broadcast here

http://enenews.com/npr-affiliate-fuk...comment-452868

Senior Scientist: Fukushima cores melted through the containment vessels — I’m very concerned about sea life on West Coast accumulating radioactive material; Some contamination will arrive in concentrated pockets (AUDIO)

Published: January 3rd, 2014 at 9:39 am ET By ENENews

The Smart Show, Dec. 23, 2013:
At 38:00 in

Steven Starr, Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri and a senior scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility: I still marvel at the fact that they announced that everything was under control, that there was a cold shutdown at Fukushima about a year after the accident. After that, the corporate news essentially stopped — but in fact, they’ve got the cores melted through the containment vessels, and 300 to 600 tons of radioactive groundwater going into the Pacific every day.

At 47:30 in

Starr: I’m very concerned that this stuff is going to accumulate and concentrate in marine life. Since we really don’t have any kind of good screening process going on for the stuff, there’s a group Beyond Nuclear actually got a petition to try and change the existing standards to lower them greatly from the 1,200 Bq/kg that the US allows in for its foodstuffs. I read a very good study that was done at a big center in Australia and Spain. They predict that every cubic meter of water off the West Coast is going to have something like 10 to 20 atomic disintegrations per second from cesium in it over the next several years. That doesn’t sound like a lot I guess, but what we’ve also seen is that the stuff comes across the Pacific, some of it’s concentrated. It’s in pockets of it, the fish swim through that and they feed in it. It’s kind of a random process. […] It’s kind of a crap-shoot really.

Interview available here

http://enenews.com/senior-scientist-...-pockets-audio