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Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: November 5, 2013, 11:28 pm
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Radionuclides, despite what the authorities claim as an
"unexplained epidemic", are starting to poison the Pacific
Ocean sea life food chain. God Help Us. :'(
Starfish Along West Coast Are Dying, ‘Star Wasting Disease’
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[quote]“Every population has sick animals,” Gaydos said. “Are we
just seeing sick animals because we’re looking for it, or is it
an early sign of a large epidemic that may come through and wipe
out a lot of animals?”
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Surly, Thank you for this article. This is FAR more serious than
meets the eye.
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WHAT EATS A STARFISH?
What Eats A Starfish? What eats starfish?
What do starfish eat?
To us humans, starfish look like they’d be a bit too hard and
crunchy to make a good meal. But starfish do have a few
predators, or natural enemies.
Manta rays, some sharks and other large, bony fishes like to
pick starfish off the bottom of the ocean, crunch them up and
eat them.
In addition, small starfish need to be on the lookout for larger
starfish, which will sometimes attack, kill and eat them.
What do starfish eat? [color=red][size=18pt]Most species eat
mussels and other mollusks, or shellfish.[/color][/size][/quote]
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The reason this is so serious is because the mollusks that
starfish eat are mainly FILTER FEEDERS. Why is this important
(as in OH SHIT! :P)? Because filter feeders are THE life form
that concentrates radioactive cesium (taking it up into their
muscle tissue). I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is a sign of
the Fukushima radioisotopes concentrating in mussels starting to
move up the chain of sea life that eats them.
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It has begun. The BULLSHIT the nuke pukes were always putting
out that the "solution to pollution is dilution" DOES NOT WORK
with living sea life that sucks in the radioisotopes and
concentrates them because, in nature, the non radioactive
elements and the elements these God Damned radioisotopes mimic
ARE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS! Radioinuclides are the ULTIMATE poison
pill disguised as an attractive natural important nutrient.
Another "minor detail" the IDIOTS that back nuclear power never
have gotten through their greedy skulls.
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"Since caesium does not volatilise from water, transport of
caesium from water to the atmosphere is not considered
likely,except by windblown sea sprays. Most of the caesium
released to water will adsorb to suspended solids in the water
column and ultimately be deposited in the sediment core. Caesium
can also bioconcentrate and has been shown to bioaccumulate in
both terrestrial and aquatic food chains. Mean bioconcentration
factors (BCF) for 137Cs of 146, 124, and 63 were reported for
fish, brown macroalgae, and molluscs, respectively." :P
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And radioactive cesium is just ONE of the 57 or so
radioinuclides STILL getting pumped into the Pacific ocean. UGH!
:'(
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 21, 2013, 5:47 pm
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[move]FUKUSHIMA “BREAKING”…..75 US NAVY SAILORS HAVE CANCER
AFTER BRIEF VISIT TO LEAKAGE SITE[/move]
By John Ward December 18, 2013 Fukushima disaster
Fukushima is not another needless panic Murder by Cover-up Not a
conspiracy myth: a fact USS Ronald Reagan >:(
MURDER BY COVER-UP
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Veteran human rights lawyer Charles Bonner (left) has practiced
law for 27 years, so by now he’s pretty good at it. Mr Bonner
has been the lead attorney in over sixty-five jury trials
involving civil rights cases, police misconduct, child
protection and a myriad other attempts to protect the vulnerable
poor from the mendacious rich. Now he is leading a class action
lawsuit against TEPCO, the regulator/owner of the Fukushima
nuclear energy plant.
He’s unlikely to lose it, because he represents 75 sailors who
came down with a host of medical problems, including cancers and
leukemias, all kinds of gynaecological problems, and tumors on
the brain. These service men and women are mainly young people
in their early to mid twenties, and no one in their family had
ever any of these kinds of illnesses before. Just since Bonner
took the case, another 21 sailors have begun to show the same
dire symptoms….of radiation sickness.
Their common link? They were all serving on board USS Ronald
Reagan during a brief visit to the waters around Fukushima three
years ago. As the Ronald Reagan desalinates all its water from
the sea for drinking, bathing and other cleaning purposes, all
the sailors were multiply exposed to radiation from the
Fukushima accident. Calmed by the bollocks being put out about
how “harmless” the radiation leakage was, these 75 service men
and women now face death.
I’ve just been to eighteen internet sites. I have verified who
Bonner is, checked the case credentials (“Cooper et al v. Tokyo
Electric Power Company, Inc. et. al. case number 3:2013cv00773,
filed with the United States District Court for the Southern
District of California”) – and confirmed the case’s existence
with Bonner’s law firm. This is not left-of-centre urban myth:
this is the best indication so far, in my view, of just how
serious the Fukushima disaster is going to be.
But not a single mainstream medium I can find within the US, UK
or European mainstream has gone near it.
Al Jazzeera, Russia Today, and every eco-site you can find is
crawling with the story. At first – obviously – that made me
suspicious. I am always wary of any site with an agenda.
But this is not anti-Americanism gone mad. This is the
Establishment in the dock, not the rogue sites.
The story is just beginning to leak into the more “respectable”
questioning sites like silver doctors, which concluded
yesterday:
‘Three days ago, The News Doctors published a story that drew
some skepticism within social media. Unfortunately, the story
is not an internet conspiracy theory. 51 US sailors are
reportedly suffering from Fukushima-radiation related medial
issues, and have filed suit in US District Court against TEPCO.
Upon further investigation, this is NOT a conspiracy, and
appears to be the sort of story that needs to go through
multiple rounds of “distribution” before the mainstream media
is forced to cover the story.’
Yet the plaintiffs being represented by Charles Bonner filed
their case last April.
We should not be under any illusions: had this case come to
light in China or Russia, the western media would be giving us
daily 24/7 coverage and analysis of such serious, mass evidence
of radioactive danger to human life.
The MSM loves to ridicule the blogosphere as consisting entirely
of naive dupes and madcap amateurs. Well, I’d rather be an
amateur investigator than a professional whore.
CP Snow said facts are sacred. They’re also inconvenient. I
prefer George Orwell’s definition of being a good reporter:
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed:
everything else is public relations.”
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 21, 2013, 9:03 pm
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For want of 12 Volt batteries, some valves were not opened and
one of the reactors went into meltdown. So much for "NUCLEAR
POWER". It's unreliable, dangerous and fragile as well as being
incredibly poisonous. We need to get rid of these monsters. or
they will be the end of us. >:(
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:44 pm
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I looked around and this story, or portions of it, has been
kicking around for a while. THIS site:
ENE News has kept tabs on it all along. That would be my first
choice for the latest because they gave ALL the truth on
Fukushima from DAY ONE.
[quote]12:33 PM EST on December 22nd, 2013 | 21 comments
Navy Rescuer: Japan refused to let us in during 3/11 operation,
said ship too radioactive; We were literally chased by a death
sentence, radiation was everywhere — Gundersen: “Like a horror
movie where beast never gets killed… Worst yet to come for
Pacific” (VIDEO)
05:10 PM EST on December 21st, 2013 | 137 comments
Prime Minister’s Wife: “Fukushima calamity beyond people’s
assumptions… So much hidden… I hope they will make everything
public” — Inside Source: They’re now trying to get people 55 &
older to work on Fukushima reactors
01:16 AM EST on December 21st, 2013 | 188 comments
TV: Worries at Fukushima as radioactive materials found 80+ feet
below Unit 4 — Record high contamination in groundwater near
Unit 2 (VIDEO)
08:05 PM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 63 comments
Fox Host: I wasn’t aware sickness among Navy sailors was so
widespread after Fukushima; Experts say dangerous radioactive
releases to air and ocean — Tepco didn’t give U.S. radiation
data for 3 to 4 days (VIDEOS)
05:25 PM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 69 comments
Fox News: “So many US sailors coming forward” with symptoms
after mission near Fukushima; “Strange lumps all over… he’d been
poisoned with radiation”; Hemorrhaging, cancers, leukemia,
tumors — Another 50 service members may join lawsuit
08:57 AM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 95 comments
Investigation Chairman: “One Fukushima may destroy the whole
country” — “Collapse of a whole country possible”
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Note: ENENEWS was talking about Ronal Reagan contamination
issues as far back as July. You can find it in their archives. I
got a hit on it in Google search yesterday so our BOYZ in the
media have been STUDIOUSLY burying this bag of radioactive
WORMS!
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[move]Brother and Sister wordsmiths of the internet: Please DO
NOT FORGET, when you pass this story on, the LESSONS FROM LUNTZ
PROPAGANDA TOOLS! Yes, they used it to lie and fool us. But WE
can use it to destroy them with TRUTH! ALWAYS include the name
RONALD REAGAN with that sailor cancer story. You are doing a
service to the planet by demonizing ANYTHING associated with
Ronald Reagan, the Predatory Capitalism he championed and
Nuclear Power. What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander!
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[font=impact] Go for it!
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:45 pm
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[quote]Gov’t scientists concerned Atlantic Ocean to be
contaminated by Fukushima plume now in Pacific — Currents would
carry it to U.S. East Coast (PHOTOS) (6,240)
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“Unprecedented activity” near Canada’s West Coast: Whales in
record numbers, displaying highly unusual behavior — Expert:
Problems in Pacific could be bringing sea life to area;
“Something’s amiss out there” (5,260)
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Navy Rescuer: Japan refused to let us in during 3/11 operation,
said ship (RONALD REAGAN) too radioactive; We were literally
chased by a death sentence, radiation was everywhere —
Gundersen: “Like a horror movie where beast never gets killed…
Worst yet to come for Pacific” (VIDEO) (2,534)
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:47 pm
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[quote]At 9:40 in
Lindsay Cooper, USS Ronald Reagan crew member during 3/11 rescue
operations in Japan: You could tell the entire command was
concerned because they were trying to do everything possible
that they could to take care of us. We couldn’t get any
assistance from ships because ships weren’t allowed to come in
the area that weren’t already exposed to radiation. No ports
would let us in. Japan wouldn’t let us in because we had too
much radiation. Guam wouldn’t let us in, Korea [too].
At 13:30 in
Cooper: It got to the point where the water’s contaminated,
we’re going to have a lock down, we’re going to go on the
opposite side of Japan and try and get away over there. As soon
as we got there, our water was still contaminated. So it was
just where ever we went, it was an ongoing issue with radiation.
We were being chased, literally, by a death sentence.
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P.S.
SOMEBODY out there in the INTERNETS is blocking this site
calling it a KNOWN PORNO site. NO WAY Cindy Sheehan Does Porno.
She has an interview ion the Ronal Reagan Radioctive mess on
there I cannot get to. See if YOU can!
This is the message I get:
[quote]Warning! Accessing this Web site is NOT allowed.
You attempted to access: cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com
This is a known "Pornography" web site which is blocked as
specified by your web content filtering policy.[/quote]
I shut off ALL my web content filtering (zero security! Norton
with big red x!) and I STILL got the same message!
That link isn't a fake. It comes from HERE:
[quote]Interview with nuclear expert Arnie Gnndersen of
Fairewinds Energy Education, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, Sept. 1,
2013 (at 41:40 in): “We’re used to solutions that can be solved
in a TV episode. Unfortunately, this is more like a horror
movie, where the beast never gets killed. The worst is yet to
come for the Pacific […] it’s likely to grow because this plant
is still leaking.” >>> Full broadcast available here[/quote]
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:49 pm
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[center]Fukushima giant erector set to pull the fuel rods out of
the pool in danger of collapsing[/center]
[quote]wideawake
December 22, 2013 at 4:51 pm
@webcam ..take a look at these two screen shots taken on 14th
Dec. ..I used Vlc with only enhancement (tools-negate and
mirror)..what is it with nuclear and faces…or maybe its me
(grin)..Good guy -Bad guy a praying mantis? and just captured
dec23 06:43jst ..it made me cry(sigh) the last shot a good cloud
something to give us hope ..I hope ..peace guys and merry
christmas.
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:50 pm
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 22, 2013, 8:52 pm
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U.S. Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO over Cluster-Fukushima Snafu
by William Boardman / December 22nd, 2013
Why has this not made national headlines??? The Aircraft Carrier
Ronald Reagan is nuclear powered. Radiation detection equipment
did not pick up on this?? Why have these sailors and marines
medical records been removed from permanent tracking. Criminal
implications galore. This should be all over mainstream media.
Someone please forward all these ene reports to the media….
Tepco is the lowest of snakes. Hari Kari for the lot of em!!
– comment on enenews, August 15, 2013, by “timemachine2020”
Fukushima lawsuit of 2012 comes as news to too much of the
public
The story referred to in the enenews.com comment above has had
some coverage by Energy News, Tuner Radio Network, Stars and
Stripes, and a few others, but coverage, if any, by mainstream
media is scant to none. All the same, it’s a real story, with
real villains (TEPCO, Japanese government, U.S. Navy for
starters), and real victims (a growing number of American
service personnel put in harm’s way and abandoned by their
government when things got tough).
The core of this story is the lawsuit filed December 21, 2012,
by attorney Paul C, Garner of Brooks & Associates of Encinatas,
California, on behalf of nine plaintiffs (including a
one-year-old), all of whom “were among the members of the U.S.
Navy crew and attached to the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76),
whose home port was San Diego, California, when they were
exposed to radiation off the coast at Fukushima prefecture,
Japan, whereat the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is located, on
and after March 11, 2011, during the mission known as ‘Operation
Tomodachi.’” The plaintiffs are seeking $40 million each in
damages as well as a fund of more than a billion dollars to be
used for their future medical expenses, and requested a jury
trial. On November 26, federal judge Janis Sammartino dismissed
the complaint on narrow jurisdictional grounds and plaintiffs
plan to re-file in January within the judge’s stated parameters.
The U.S.S. Reagan is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a
crew of about 5,000 that arrived off the coast of Fukushima the
day after the tsunami with other ships as part of Operation
Tomodachi, or “friend” in Japanese.
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake near Fukushima caused a tsunami
that killed an estimated 19,000 people and swamped the Fukushima
nuclear power plant. In the aftermath of the tsunami, three of
the six reactors at Fukushima melted down, releasing radiation
into the air, ground, and water. The precise sequence of events
remains unclear, but the Japanese government and TEPCO (the
Tokyo Electric Power Company, a wholly owned public benefit
subsidiary of the government of Japan) were not being fully
forthcoming about the danger as the disaster developed.
Japanese officials apparently lied to everyone about the damage
Although the potential seriousness of the Fukushima accident was
widely apparent, Japanese officials publicly and privately
minimized the danger for as long as they could, lying to their
own people and rescue personnel from other countries alike. At
the time, the first meltdown was thought to have happened on
March 12. But on December 12, 2013, Naoto Kan, the former prime
minister who was in office at the time, told a meeting of the
Japan Press Club that his government had known that “the first
meltdown occurred five hours after the earthquake” which hit at
14:46 on March 11.
The U.S.S. Reagan and accompanying ships were coming into an
environment where radiation levels in the air and water were far
higher than the Navy was being told officially. That lying is at
the heart of the lawsuit against TEPCO, which was exposing its
own workers to even greater risks than U.S. Sailors. The lawsuit
argues that TEPCO’s lies led the U.S. Navy to sail unknowingly
into intensely and dangerously radioactive waters.
True as that may be, it fails to explain why the Navy would be
so trusting and negligent in the first place. The Reagan is a
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Its officers and crew are or
should be more sensitive than most to radioactive risk under all
conditions, but especially when approaching a damaged nuclear
power plant, and operating downwind of Fukushima.
For days (it’s not clear how many), U.S. sailors were going into
the radioactive ocean to save people swept out to sea by the
tsunami. Sailors were drinking and bathing in desalinated ocean
water until someone figured out it was radioactive. Sailors
washed planes and surfaces of the ship that were radioactive.
How do the people in charge of the Reagan not know they’re in a
radioactive environment without being negligent?
U.S. Seventh Fleet Public Affairs issues incredible press
release
On March 14, 2011, without explaining what woke them up to the
danger, which they minimized anyway, Navy officials issued a
press release that began:
The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and
aircraft away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant
after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its
aircraft operating in the area. The source of this airborne
radioactivity is a radioactive plume released from the Fukushima
Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant.
For perspective, the maximum potential radiation dose received
by any ship’s force personnel aboard the ship when it passed
through the area was less than the radiation exposure received
from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation
from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun.
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Why would anyone believe that, having failed to detect (they
say) the radioactive plume, the Navy has any credible way of
knowing what exposure any sailor may have received? The Navy
also claimed the Reagan was 100 miles away from Fukushima “at
the time,” not specified. The Navy further claimed that only 17
crew members in three helicopter crews were exposed, that the
“low level radioactivity was easily removed… by washing with
soap and water,” and “no further contamination was detected.”
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This impossible-to-believe narrative was then effectively
contradicted by the next paragraph of the press release: :o
As a precautionary measure, USS Ronald Reagan and other U.S. 7th
Fleet ships conducting disaster response operations in the area
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If no further contamination was detected, then it should be
relatively easy to determine what appropriate mitigation actions
were necessary.
Navy “supports the troops,” at least until they really need it
According to individual reports, the Navy passed out iodine
pills to officers and pilots, but not to most of the crew. The
Navy also required crew members, before they could go on shore
leave later in Thailand, to sign papers stating that they were
healthy and couldn’t sue the Navy. Clearly that would be
mitigating for the Navy, even if it meant abandoning people
whose potential radiation injuries wouldn’t be showing up for
months or years.
That’s exactly what happened to Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel
Hair, as reported in Stars and Stripes in July 2013. Hair is
part of the lawsuit against TEPCO and, like the other
plaintiffs, has classic symptoms of low level radiation
poisoning. The article also minimizes the possible exposure on
the Reagan, quoting a Navy spokesman who uses the exact same
language as the 2011 press release to minimize Fukushima
radiation levels.
According to Stars and Stripes, Hair was told that the Reagan
was just 5-10 miles off the coast of Fukushima. The paper also
reported that:
Sailors were drinking desalinated seawater and bathing in it
until the ship’s leadership came over the public address system
and told them to stop because it was contaminated, Hair said.
They were told the ventilation system was contaminated, and he
claims he was pressured into signing a form that said he had
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The Navy has acknowledged that the Reagan passed through a plume
of radiation but declined to comment on the details in Hair’s
story.
Most of the sick sailors are in their early twenties
There’s no apparent reason to doubt that there are sick sailors,
not all of them part of the lawsuit, but all of them with a
common source of exposure from Fukushima. Two other plaintiffs,
Maurice Enis and his girlfriend, Jaime Plym, held a press
conference on March 11, 2013, that was part of a symposium at
the New York Academy of Medicine dealing with the medical and
ecological consequences of Fukushima. Enis and Plym both served
on the Reagan, as the Huffington Post reported:
The couple had been looking forward to leaving the military and
starting a family. Now, Enis said, they don’t know if children
will be an option due to health problems they’ve both developed
since signing away government liability. They’ve both been
honorably discharged from the military and don’t know how they
will pay for medical treatment.
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Plym has
a new diagnosis of asthma and her menstrual cycle is severely
out of whack. Enis has lumps on his jaw, between his eyes and on
his thigh. He’s also developed stomach ulcers and lung problems,
and is losing weight and hair.
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In all, the Pentagon sent some 70,000 American military
personnel to serve in or near Japan in response to Fukushima
during the period from March 12 to May 11, 2011. And in 2011,
the Dept. of Defense set out to do the right thing for these men
and women who may have been exposed to harmful levels of
radiation. The Defense Dept. announced plans to establish the
Operation Tomodachi Registry to help these people track their
health histories, an initiative pushed by Independent Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont. According to the Pentagon:
“The DOD may establish an environmental health surveillance
registry when:
1) occupational and environmental health exposures could cause
illness, or
2) when the exposure is not expected to cause illness, but
individuals need access to exposure data.
In either case, these registries will contain the names of all
the individuals who were known or believed to have been exposed
along with estimates of their exposure.”
No radiation level is “safe,” and internal radiation is less
safe
Since the Pentagon admitted it was unprepared to deal with
radiation risk when the Fukushima crisis began, the creation of
a registry was something of an after-the-fact means of making up
for that initial unpreparedness. By the end of July 2011, the
Pentagon reported that it had “already done ‘internal
monitoring’ of radiation levels inside the bodies of 7,700
personnel who worked in parts of the disaster zone closest to
the damaged power plant, including those who flew over the
disaster zone….” [img width=160
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But the same report went on to minimize the impact without
addressing the timeframe in which the radiation was received:
“The scans revealed that 98 percent of those personnel did not
have elevated radiation inside their bodies…. among the 2
percent of service members (about 154 individuals) with elevated
internal radiation levels the highest readings were about 25
millirems, equivalent to the dose that they would receive from 2
1/2 chest X-rays.” ::) :P
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The lawsuit against TEPCO has 50-75 plaintiffs, as new people
continue to join. If the 2 per cent with elevated exposure
levels found by the Pentagon is relevant, then there would be
something like 1,400 potential plaintiffs among the 70,000
service members who were part of Operation Tomodachi. The
lawsuit was filed in December 2012, before the radiation
exposure registry was completed. In September 2012, the Pentagon
put out another press release touting the usefulness of the
registry even though it asserted that “no Defense Department
personnel or their families were exposed to radiation causing
adverse health conditions following the nuclear accident in
Japan last year.”
The Defense Dept. promised the registry would be finished in
2012. The suffering veterans filed their lawsuit December 21.
Within a month, the Pentagon decided to drop the whole registry
thing after an almost two-year effort, saying that it had
decided that there was no serious contamination in the first
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This decision means, as Roger Witherspoon wrote on his blog at
the time, “there will be no way to determine if patterns of
health problems emerge among the members of the Marines, Army,
Air Force, Corps of Engineers, and Navy stationed at 63
installations in Japan with their families. In addition, it
leaves thousands of sailors and Marines in the USS Ronald Reagan
Carrier Strike Group 7 on their own when it comes to determining
if any of them are developing problems caused by radiation
exposure.”
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Tomodachi becomes, for some who served, a mission kamikaze.
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William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre,
radio, TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years
in the Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers
Guild of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont
Life magazine, and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences. This article was first published
in Reader Supported News. Read other articles by William.
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: December 28, 2013, 12:11 am
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Bio
Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive
Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP).
The group is the only one in the U.S. with a specific mission of
producing research on health hazards of nuclear reactors and
weapons.
Among Mangano's accomplishments are 32 medical journal articles,
53 newspaper editorials, 3 books, 27 press conferences on
research findings, and testimony to 19 government agencies.
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