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

Fukushima tweets: radiation sickness everywhere

Fukushima Diary reports and translates today the tweets of a woman from Fukushima, which are her agony, but seemingly not only hers. Sorted chronologically:

• (Apr 22) Everyone is having cancer, cancer, and cancer around me. What is going on ??? I’m afraid it is that maybe …
• (Apr 24) Good morning. I’ve been having a stomach problem since my father fell down and was sent to a hospital by ambulance.
• (Apr 24) So sleepy.. feeling so much fatigue.
• (Apr 25) I can’t stop diarrhea.

You may understand why I've almost stopped reading and watching mainstream media: they silence all this. She's naturally not at all the only one with such kind of deadly trouble, most of Japan is since the explosions at the Fukushima nuclear reactors spread plutonium all around the Northern half of Honsu (at least) and no serious containment nor evacuation action has been organized by one of the wealthiest states on Earth. Instead all they did was to silence it, extend and pretend. But you can't hide truth forever: radiation kills. It may take some time but kills, more so if nothing at all is done to prevent that people gets contaminated day after day.


So sad...

Posted by Maju at 3:29 AM

http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogsp...-sickness.html

So sad...

Posted by Maju at 3:29 AM

I agree so sad....I hope we all take a lesson from Japan because our version of it is in the process of being on the West Coast as unreported radioactive plumes continue to come in from the tons of nuclear waste from Fukushima killing everything in its path and contaminating the fish that people eat.

First Hand information, Very much worth the watch.



Published on Apr 11, 2014
Tepco plans to start discharging the bypass water to the Pacific from this coming June, but alpha nuclides including Plutonium-238/239/240 and Uranium-235/238 will not be tested nor filtered.

Exceeding level of Cs-134/137 detected from fish more and more frequently in 20km area of sea since this January

Posted by Mochizuki on April 29th, 2014 · No Comments


Tepco has been measuring higher level of Cesium-134/137 in marine products than the safety limit (100Bq/Kg) increasingly frequently since this January.

Tepco announced this in the report submitted to Fukushima prefectural fishery cooperatives on 4/25/2014.
From their report, the frequency that they measured over 100Bq/kg of Cs-134/137 dropped from 20% to 10% in the second and the third quarter of 2013, it even dropped to approx. 5% this January but it went up to 10% again toward this March.
The sorts of fish that they measured over 100Bq/Kg from jumped up by approx. 10% from this January to February as well.
The sampling location is 20km radius area from Fukushima plant except for Fukushima plant port. The highest reading was 509Bq/Kg (Total of Cs-134 and 137).

It is likely that the biological concentration is on-going among marine products.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-...40425_09-j.pdf


Iori Mochizuki You read this now because we’ve been surviving until today.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/04/e...-this-january/

NY Times in Fukushima: “It’s all lies” from gov’t about radiation — They are forcing us to come back and live 10 miles from leaking nuclear plant — “This is inhumane” — “I want to run away, but… we have no more money” — Radiation still 300% previous levels

Published: April 28th, 2014 at 10:08 am ET By ENENews Email Article

New York Times, Apr. 27, 2014: Ever since they were forced to evacuate during [...] Kim Eunja and her husband have refused to return [...] for fear of radiation. But now they say they may have no choice. [...] government and national news media have trumpeted the reopening of Miyakoji as a happy milestone [...] many residents tell a darker story. [...] [Fukushima Daiichi] is still leaking radiation [...] The government has declared that the stipends [...] will end next March, when temporary housing will also begin to be closed. Villagers who move back before then will receive a $9,000 bonus from Tepco [...] Experts [...] say the evacuees will feel increasing pressure to go back from a government that wants [...] to limit criticism of the powerful nuclear industry. [...] Tepco refused to comment, beyond saying that it had so far paid out $36 billion [...] the government says that Miyakoji is safe. [...] On a recent trip here, radiation measured up to 0.23 microsieverts per hour, about three times preaccident levels [...] Experts admit that they know little about the health effects of long-term exposure to low-dose radiation.***
Yukei Tomitsuka, mayor of Tamura (administers Miyakoji): “Tepco is being so stupidly unfair [...] We are the victims. Should we have to go hat in hand to Tepco to ask for more money?”
Teruhisa Maruyama, lawyer, Support Group for Victims of the Nuclear Accident: “This’s inhumane and irresponsible [...] The national government knows that full compensation could add up to big money, enough to raise public doubts about the wisdom of using nuclear power in Japan.”
Kim Eunja, operator of area restaurant: “The government and the media say the radiation has been cleaned up, but it’s all lies [...] I want to run away, but I cannot. We have no more money.”
Satoshi Mizuochi, who helps his wife Kim at restaurant: “They want to say that everything is back to normal so they can keep their nuclear plants [...] Failing to compensate us for our losses is a way of pressuring us to go back.”
Yoshikuni Munakata, retired Daiichi worker: “Compensation payments force us to come back.”
***The Times repeats the often heard statement that experts “know little about the health effects of long-term exposure to low-dose radiation”. Yet, independent experts say otherwise:

• Gundersen: “Assumption… this radiation is really so hard to measure that it does not count anymore… the data indicates that just the opposite is happening”
• Senior Scientist: “The connection between ionizing radiation exposure and increased cancer risk is very well established… there’s radiation in the environment that wasn’t there before, people are exposed, that will cause additional disease”

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2. NHK: Level 1 nuclear incident today at Fukushima plant — “Extremely high radiation levels” found leaking near Unit 4 (VIDEO) August 19, 2013
3. Watch: Young kids play in ocean nearby leaking Fukushima plant — “Real cause for concern” over radiation levels in sand (VIDEO) August 9, 2013
4. Highest radiation level seen in 2 years near Fukushima reactor — Surges more than 1,000% over previous day October 10, 2013
5. Kyodo: Radiation surged at Fukushima, gov’t tells Tepco “take action” — Asahi: Fish found with “extremely high levels” of radioactive material 40 km from plant January 11, 2014

http://enenews.com/ny-times-in-fukus...but-we-have-no

Radiation in Tuna Triples After Japan Meltdown


Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014 05:03 PM





Radiation in some albacore tuna caught off the Oregon coast tripled after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, a new Oregon State University study has found.


But those levels were a thousand times lower than the maximum safe level set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USA Today reports.


"You can't say there is absolutely zero risk because any radiation is assumed to carry at least some small risk," said the study's lead author, Delvan Neville, a graduate research assistant in OSU's Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics. "But these trace levels are too small to be a realistic concern."


For the study, researchers tested 26 Pacific albacore. Some were caught between 2008 and the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear accident; others were caught between the accident and 2012.


They discovered that levels of specific radioactive isotopes did increase after the accident, although by a minute amount.


"A year of eating albacore with these cesium traces is about the same dose of radiation as you get from spending 23 seconds in a stuffy basement from radon gas," Neville said.


The researchers also found that radionuclides were somewhat higher in older fish, suggesting that the younger albacore may have made only one trans-Pacific migration, while the older fish may have migrated through the Fukushima plume twice.


Although it is possible that additional exposure to the plume could further increase radiation levels in the albacore, it would still be at a low level, the researchers said.


The plume is expected to reach the West Coast this month. Federal agencies aren't testing for it, but the Oregon Health Authority tests quarterly samples of seawater.


The study has been published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

http://www.newsmaxhealth.com/Health-.../29/id/568462/

Nuclear Danger Over Ukraine?

April 29, 2014|Letter to the editor

In the coverage of the crisis over Ukraine there has been very little, if any, discussion over the fact that the U.S. and Russia still have nuclear weapons pointed at each other. There have been too many times when nuclear weapons almost were used due to misunderstanding or accident. This fact underscores the need for a spirited dialogue that moves us to the central issue: nuclear weapon disarmament on the part of the U.S. and Russia.

What has been equally disturbing is the one-sided coverage of the Ukraine crisis. The U.S. media glosses over the fact the regime that was just illegally removed about two months ago was the democratically elected government of Ukraine. There is ample evidence that both sides have been using violence, and public opinion divided on the issues facing the country. We have seen similar distorted coverage that hammered away at so-called weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that turned out to be untrue and unfounded, but led us into war.


The dangerous buildup of NATO forces along the Russian border and Russian troops on the Ukraine border moves us too close to nuclear war.

http://articles.courant.com/2014-04-...uclear-weapons

No plan to stop Fukushima from contaminating Pacific? Tepco adviser ‘doubts’ ice wall can stop groundwater from flooding plant — We’re concerned it may affect ‘environmental protection’ and cause ‘unintended consequences’ (VIDEO)

Published: May 1st, 2014 at 2:04 pm ET By ENENews Email Article

Kyodo News, May 1, 2014: Int’l expert doubts ice wall will solve Japanese nuclear plant leaks — An international nuclear expert [Dale Klein, head of TEPCO supervisory panel] expressed skepticism Thursday over [the] plan to set up an ice wall to ultimately stop radioactive water from further increasing [...] Former British Atomic Energy Authority Chairwoman Barbara Judge [...] said there is a need to assess during summer whether the ice wall method would be effective. The remarks by the two overseas experts came at a time when concerns over the plan are being raised by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority and engineering experts. Their opinions may cast a shadow on TEPCO’s plan to begin operating the ice wall by the end of next March.
Dale Klein, head of TEPCO supervisory panel: “I’m not convinced that the freeze wall is the best option. What I’m concerned about is unintended consequences. Where does that water go and what are the consequences of that? I think they need more testing and more analysis [...] No one has built a freeze wall this long for this period of time. Typically, you build a freeze wall for a few months [...] The freeze wall is expensive [and they need to make the] best use of limited resources. [...] I would encourage them to get international advice a little bit more.”
Bloomberg, May 1, 2014: A government-backed plan for a frozen underground wall to limit water contamination at the wrecked Fukushima atomic station needs further vetting for potential risks to the environment, an adviser to the plant’s operator said. The plan, which is intended to keep groundwater from seeping into the basements of the plant’s damaged reactor buildings, may not function as intended because it’s based on untested assumptions about the site’s hydrology, said Dale Klein, who chairs Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee. The wall is scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2015 and will remain in operation through 2020, Mayumi Yoshida, a Tepco spokeswoman, said by phone.
Klein: “Are there any unintended consequences? We’re concerned about safety and environmental protection [...] if Tepco finds technical information that indicates the frozen wall is not the best, they need to communicate that to the government. I know the government has said that they will put in the frozen wall, but I hope that science will trump political policy.”
NHK WORLD, May 1, 2014: Expert: TEPCO’s safety culture still insufficient — A panel of nuclear experts monitoring reforms at the Tokyo Electric Power Company says the utility’s nuclear safety culture has not yet reached the required level. [...] TEPCO officials acknowledge management problems led to troubles with systems used to purify contaminated water, and repeated water leaks. They say the firm has failed to end the vicious cycle of relying on makeshift systems due to lack of time, which leads to fresh troubles. They say they were unable to make full preparations for cleanup work while being aware of a lack of technological capabilities.
Watch NHK’s broadcast here

http://enenews.com/tepco-adviser-dou...om-freezing-gr

Our seafood could possibly be contaminated with radiation

Published on April 30, 2014 in Opinions By Steven Maiken


A Stanford graduate student tests a steak from a blue fin tuna caught in the Pacific Ocean for radiation./Courtesy of MCT

The federal government needs to comprehensively test seafood coming from the Pacific Ocean for radionuclide contamination because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan and make this data available for the public.

The triple nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant run by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) have continued to cause contamination of the Pacific Ocean at a rate of 300 plus tons per day. A plume of radioactively contaminated water is relentlessly heading towards the west coast of North America on the North Pacific Current.

Computer models estimating the initial massive radioactive fallout pollution did not consider the fact that tons of highly radioactive water has been leaking into the ocean from the Fukushima wreckage since the beginning of the accident back in March 2011.

Although dilution has played an important role in decreasing the risk to the Eastern Pacific regions, the potential for concentrated pockets of radioactive hotspots remain a concern.
In any case, man-made radioactive pollution at any level can cause cancer or other health damage in very small doses.

Most worrisome is the bio-concentration of radiological contaminants as they move up the food chain, sometimes resulting in apex predators such as killer whales accumulating an amount of radiation that is thousands of times more than the surrounding waters.

The US National Academy of Sciences, as well as other scientific institutions worldwide, has determined that there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation for humans, which is referred to as the linear no-threshold model.

Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, published a report last spring indicating a possible correlation between the Fukushima disaster and a 28 percent increase in babies born on the West Coast with hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) compared with the previous year.

While this does not indicate a causal connection, radioactive iodine, which is implicated in this type of pathology, was found to be at high levels in rainwater measured by UC Berkeley soon after the Fukushima nuclear plant explosions occurred.

Shills for the nuclear industry have downplayed the potential hazards of human exposure to ionizing radiation by comparing bananas, which have low levels of radioactive potassium (K-40), to man-made radioactive cesium-137 discharged from the destroyed reactors.

This is a false comparison as cesium-137 is 10 to 20 million times more radioactive per unit volume than the K-40 found in bananas. Additionally, due to homeostasis, the body excretes the ingested potassium soon after digestion. Cesium-137 mimics potassium in our bodies and the food we eat, and can accumulate in our muscle tissue and potentially cause heart attacks, cancer, thyroid damage and other health problems.

Dr. Steven Starr, director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia, challenges the official EPA position that cesium accumulates evenly throughout the body as opposed to concentrating in the heart and thyroid tissues, thereby making it far more dangerous to humans.

Starr, who is also a senior scientist at Physicians for Social Responsibility, cites studies that show cesium to be far more dangerous to populations that are eating even relatively low levels of cesium on a daily basis because the bio accumulation exceeds the excretion rate in the human body.

When consumers eat fish contaminated with radioactive particles they become internal emitters by lodging themselves in and attacking bodily tissues, making them far more dangerous than an external radiation exposures of an equivalent amount. This is because of the fact that a small area of the body, on a molecular level, receives an extremely high dose of radiation from an internally placed radioactive particle.

Ultimately, these internal emitters can cause serious genetic damage and mutations that can lead to cancer.
The Japanese government and Tepco have repeatedly misled the public about the disaster, while not acknowledging for two months that the three reactors fully melted down within days. They have also restricted the public from reporting on the events at Fukushima,threatening Fukushima whistleblowers with jail time.

When the plume reaches the West Coast within the next few months, it will contain, among other radionuclides, strontium 90 and about 5 to 10 times of the amount of cesium-137 found in the Northern Pacific Ocean prior to the accident. These particles originated primarily from nuclear weapons testing done until the 1960s.
However, critics respond by pointing out correctly that adding any additional amount of radioactive contamination just exacerbates an already existing problem.

The US allows 12 times the amount of radioactive cesium in seafood as opposed to Japan, at a rate of 1,200 Becquerel’s per kilogram of flesh.

The national AMA adopted a recent California AMA resolution, that asks for the federal government to test, monitor and report the radioactivity levels of edible Pacific Ocean seafood sold in the US.
Denise Duffield of the Physicians of Social Responsibility said if “people eat contaminated fish there will be an increase in cancer, and pregnant women and the young are especially at risk as the rate of contamination increases.”

When the federal government says this, the rate at which cancer might be induced is minimal and when “there is no immediate health threat for the public,” is announced, some people may get cancer but maybe not for 50 years or so, Duffield said.

Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, has done extensive testing off the coast of Japan for radionuclide contamination and has stated his concern about the Japan fisheries near Fukushima, which have for the most part been closed. Because of dilution, he says the seafood on the West Coast of the US remains relatively safe for now

Because the Canadian and US governments are not testing and releasing data on radiation off the West Coast of North America, Buesseler has enlisted citizens to test the Eastern Pacific Ocean for radioactive cesium from Costa Rica up to Washington.

Migratory blue fin tuna caught off the coast of California have been found to contain radioactive cesium from the Fukushima disaster, but at levels below concern for the US government to take action.
It is hard to determine what and who to believe when it comes to the safety of the fish you’re eating when. According to the group Oceana, one third of the seafood they have tested at US restaurants is mislabeled according to FDA standards.

Fish caught within 86 miles from Fukushima have shown extremely high levels of cesium contamination according to Shoji Tsurumi, an expert from Japan’s Marine Science & Technology Institute in an interview with Xinhua.
Daniel Hirsch, professor at UC Santa Cruz, who exposed one of the nation’s worst nuclear disasters at the nearby Santa Susana Rocketdyne facility while teaching at UCLA, claims the EPA formulas for radiation exposures underestimate cancer impacts because it dis-inclines much scientific research.
It’s an invisible destroyer of cells, radiation, and due to latency, might take 50 years to manifest itself into cancer. Hirsch says this is an underestimate of potential cancer rates for fish consumers in the Pacific Basin, while others say…nonsense.

http://sundial.csun.edu/2014/04/our-...ith-radiation/