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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: June 12, 2015, 2:05 pm
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Hat tip to Knarf. :emthup:
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Alarms raised on West Coast over unprecedented die-off — of
nearly endangered marine mammals More have washed up in last few
months than during all of recorded history combined — Experts
scrambling to deal with latest wildlife crisis in Pacific —
Official: “What’s going to happen next?” (VIDEO)
Japan Scientists: High radiation levels near West Coast after
Fukushima disaster — Almost 30 Bq/m3 of cesium offshore — Secret
documents reveal US gov’t previously ordered radiation test
results in Pacific be hidden to avoid contamination fears. >:(
US Gov’t Contractor: Fukushima so fragile it can turn globally
catastrophic at any moment — Concern about impact to West Coast
from another meltdown — Danger of something “far worse” than
initial event — “Substantial risk to stability of Asia-Pacific”
— National Lab: Fukushima already a global disaster (VIDEO)
NOAA: Beaches full of dead baby sea lions off California, many
aborted fetuses — Garbage bags filled with animals along coast —
Carts in freezer overflowing with bodies — Official: Pollution
may well have had an effect… .We deliberately didn’t test for
it.
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(VIDEO)
Gov’t Expert: West Coast will soon be hit by 800 Trillion Bq of
Fukushima Cesium-137 — Nearly equal to amount of fallout
deposited on Japan — Levels in Pacific “higher than expected” —
“Main body of surface plume has reached off coast of US” — Never
slowed down while crossing ocean, contrary to prediction >:( .
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Do we have any chemistry boffins who know if the radiation
remains if the water on the us west coast is desalinated for
drinking? They gotta start building desal for cali soon.
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UB, JD and Eddie,
The problem for desalination is real, of course. But that is not
the salient problem here. Radionuclides behave EXACTLY like
elements they mimic in nature when the liquids they are immersed
in are distilled. Fractional distillation, a HIGHLY energy
intensive process, will get H2O out of anything it is mixed
with. Reverse Osmosis is more expensive but slightly less energy
intensive. Neither of those methods are anything but inefficient
band aids that will NOT stop massive contamination form
occurring.
The problem is the food chain. We are in it. We cannot avoid
the REQUIREMENT that out body has for POTASSIUM. Potassium is an
INTIMATE part of every single cell in our body. Below you will
find all you need to know about that. And lest we forget, a lot
of the SEA SALT that the organic food lovers like my wife and I
eat comes from the pacific ocean... :P Hopefully, the
evaporative process the sea slat producers use will be modified
to extract potassium (i.e ce-137). But then that would extract
the good potassium too!
And Ce-137 is NOT the only bioactive radionuclide traveling up
the food chain thanks to Fukushima. But for now, let's stick to
Ce-137. [img width=30
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[quote]Cesium
The compounds of cesium are similar to those of potassium. This
presents a particular hazard when radioactive cesium-137
contaminates the soil, as it did near Chernobyl. Growing plants
require large amounts of potassium, and concentrate it from the
soil. Since cesium mimics potassium, the radioactive cesium is
also taken up and reconcentrated. The result is that plants
grown on contaminated soil may contain a much higher
concentration of radioactive cesium than the soil in which they
are grown. [/quote]
HTML http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pertab/cs.html
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The human body thinks Cesium-137 that it finds in food you eat
is POTASSIUM. So if you NEED POTASSIUM at the time you eat that
food, you will incorporate a future cancer into your tissues. If
you do not need it, you MIGHT be able to excrete it before it
becomes part of you. California is considering fertilizing large
vegetable crop areas that are becoming increasingly contaminated
with ce-137 with Potassium Cholride (KCl). The reason for this
is that plants supposedly will take up the KCL instead of the
ce-137. We'll see.
Over the long term, the big threat to human health is
cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years. At that rate of
disintegration, John Emsley wrote in “Nature’s Building Blocks”
(Oxford, 2001), “it takes over 200 years to reduce it to 1
percent of its former level.”
It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in
Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.
Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to
potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the
body and can enter through many foods, including milk.
The Environmental Protection Agency says that … once dispersed
in the environment … cesium-137 “is impossible to avoid.”
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A "study" on some poor beagles: (neoplasms are growths)
--- Quote ---/LABORATORY ANIMALS:
Chronic Exposure or Carcinogenicity/ The toxicity of cesium-137
in the beagle dog was investigated... as part of programs to
evaluate the biological effects of both radionuclides in atomic
bomb fallout and internally deposited fission-product
radionuclides. ...
63 dogs in three age groups (15 juveniles, 142-151 days old; 38
young adults, 388-427 days old; and 10 middle-aged dogs,
1387-2060 days old) were given cesium-137 intravenously at
levels (61-162 MBq/kg) near those expected to be lethal within
30 days after injection. There were 17 control dogs from the
same colony.
Twenty-three of the dogs injected with cesium-137, including all
middle-aged dogs, died within 52 days after injection due to
hematopoietic cell damage resulting in severe pancytopenia that
led to fatal hemorrhage and/or septicemia. The other significant
early effect was damage to the germinal epithelium of the
seminiferous tubules of all male dogs. ...
The most significant non-neoplastic late effects in the
cesium-137-injected dogs... were atrophy of the germinal
epithelium of seminiferous tubules with azoospermia, and a
significant dose-dependent decrease in survival. ...Numerous
neoplasms occurred at many different sites in the dogs injected
with cesium-137... .
Two differences in the findings of the two studies were that
(1) there was an increased risk for malignant thyroid neoplasms
in /one group of/ ... male dogs injected with cesium-137, but
not the... dogs /in the other study/ and
(2) there was an increased relative risk for benign neoplasms
excluding mammary neoplasms in /one group of/... dogs injected
with cesium-137, but not /in the other group/. ...In both
groups, there were dose-related increased incidences of
malignant neoplasms, malignant neoplasms excluding mammary
neoplasms, all sarcomas considered as a group, all non-mammary
carcinomas considered as a group and malignant liver neoplasms.
In summary, the similarity of the findings between the two
studies and the dose-response relationships for survival and for
large groupings of neoplasms suggests that these results are
consistent findings in cesium-137-injected dogs and might be
dose-related late effects in humans exposed to sufficient
amounts of internally deposited cesium-137. /Cesium-137/
[Nikula KJ et al; Radiat Res 146 (5): 536-47 (1996)] **PEER
REVIEWED** PubMed Abstract
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Agelbert NOTE: "MIGHT be dose-related in humans exposed" is
SCIENTIST SPEAK for covering their asses about the TRUTH that
humans are every bit as dose dependent as the dogs are.
We are going need a LOT of Ce-137 absorbing mushrooms if the KCL
doesn't cut it.
The human body is 0.4% potassium. That may not seem like a lot
but it is in every single cell we have, SO, if ce-137 sneaks in,
it will destroy DNA all over the place.
Check out how IMPORTANT to our body POTASSIUM is and how the
food that has it that we need will uptake ce-137 as easily as WE
DO thinking it is Potassium! That means mutations in the food
and in us out the YING YANG, get it?
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Potassium is a mineral that is needed for your body to work
properly. It is a type of electrolyte.
Function
Potassium is a very important mineral to the human body.
Your body needs potassium to:
•Build proteins
•Break down and use carbohydrates
•Build muscle
•Maintain normal body growth
•Control the electrical activity of the heart
•Control the acid-base balance
Food Sources
Many foods contain potassium. All meats (red meat and chicken)
and fish such as salmon, cod, flounder, and sardines are good
sources of potassium. Soy products and veggie burgers are also
good sources of potassium.
Vegetables including broccoli, peas, lima beans, tomatoes,
potatoes (especially their skins), sweet potatoes, and winter
squashes are all good sources of potassium.
Fruits that contain significant sources of potassium include
citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, and apricots.
Dried apricots contain more potassium than fresh apricots.
Milk and yogurt, as well as nuts, are also excellent sources of
potassium.
People with kidney problems, especially those on dialysis,
should not eat too many potassium-rich foods. The doctor or
nurse will recommend a special diet.
Side Effects
Having too much or too little potassium in the body can have
very serious consequences.
A low blood level of potassium is called hypokalemia. It can
cause weak muscles, abnormal heart rhythms, and a slight rise in
blood pressure. You may have hypokalemia if you:
•Take diuretics (water pills) for the treatment of high blood
pressure or heart failure
•Take too many laxatives
•Have severe or prolonged vomiting and diarrhea
•Have certain kidney or adrenal gland disorders
Too much potassium in the blood is known as hyperkalemia. It may
cause abnormal and dangerous heart rhythms. Some common causes
include:
•Poor kidney function
•Heart medicines called angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)
inhibitors and angiotensin 2 receptor blockers (ARBs)
•Potassium-sparing diuretics (water pills) such as
spironolactone or amiloride
•Severe infection
Recommendations
The Food and Nutrition Center of the Institute of Medicine has
established the following recommended dietary intakes for
potassium:
Infants
•0 - 6 months: 0.4 grams a day (g/day)
•7 - 12 months: 0.7 g/day
Children and Adolescents
•1 - 3 years: 3 g/day
•4 - 8 years: 3.8 g/day
•9 - 13 years: 4.5 g/day
•14 - 18 years: 4.7 g/day
Adults
•Age 19 and older: 4.7 g/day
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Surly1:
A terrific and typically well researched article. Right on time
as well. Wondering whether I should purchase a geiger counter.
Have already ordered some KI for my family...
AGelbert:
Thanks Surly,
The Geiger counter will expose the heavy contamination but the
becquerel count on food like fish or produce can be high enough
to damage health without registering on the Geiger counter. :P
Remember KI works only to block the radioactive iodine. For some
reason, it doesn't seem to block the Ce-137 even though it has K
in it. The KCL fertilizer is supposed to keep plants we eat from
taking up Ce-137 into their tissues. Apparantly the K in KCL is
more bioactive for uptake than the K in KI.
And then there are those mushrooms Paul Stamets mentions that
suck up Ce-137 into their tissues at the Chernobyl area that
should help.
How Mushrooms Can Clean Up Radioactive Contamination - An 8 Step
Plan
Paul Stamets | Saturday, 16th April 2011 [/quote]
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: June 12, 2015, 2:18 pm
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I'll bet you dollars to donuts the over 10,000 sea lions found
dead in March AND many of the Guadalupe fur seal pups found dead
recently have heart defects. That is PRECISELY what happened in
Chernobyl to human children (and a Russian doctor was imprisoned
for publishing the data) from Ce-137 UPTAKE by pregnant mothers.
Cardiologists will see a boom in pre-natal and childhood heart
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10,000 baby sea lions dead on one California island — Experts:
“It’s getting crazy… This is a crisis… Never seen anything like
it… Very difficult to see so much death” — TV: “Numbers
skyrocketing at alarming rates” — “Woman is burying the rotting
mammals” after digging graves at beach (VIDEOS)
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: April 29, 2017, 10:26 pm
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[center]—Experts: Japan “wants to just drop tanks” of Fukushima
nuclear waste into ocean Americans worried over plumes hitting
West Coast — “Reactors are now leaking really high levels of
radiation into sea… The world does need to help” — Official says
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: July 16, 2017, 6:43 pm
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[center]Fury at Fukushima
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Over 1 Billion pounds of nuclear waste “will be dumped into sea”
— Top Official: “The decision has already been made” — “The
solution is to pour the radioactive liquid into the ocean” —
Toxic radioactive water to cause devastation
Published: July 16th, 2017 at 6:15 pm ET
By ENENews
Kyodo, Jul 14, 2017 (emphasis added): Fukushima’s tritiated
water to be dumped into sea, Tepco chief says — Despite the
objections of local fishermen, the tritium-tainted water stored
at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be dumped into the
sea, a top official at Tokyo Electric says. “The decision has
already been made,” Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric
Power Company Holdings Inc., said in a recent interview with the
media… As of July 6, about 777,000 tons were stored [1.54
billion pounds]… Kawamura’s remarks are the first by the
utility’s management on the sensitive matter…
The Independent, Jul 15, 2017: Radioactive waste from Fukushima
power plant disaster to be dumped in sea — Water tainted with
tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, is to be released into
the Pacific Ocean, says the head of the company responsible for
the Fukushima clean-up operation… Local residents are furious at
plans to release the radioactive tritium from the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear plant, which suffered a triple meltdown, into the sea…
UPI, Jul 14, 2017: Japan utility plans to dump radioactive
Fukushima water into Pacific — The operator of Japan’s paralyzed
nuclear plant in Fukushima has decided to release radioactive
tritium into the Pacific Ocean… Technology has so far been
unable to remove tritium from the water, and TEPCO’s solution is
to pour the radioactive liquid into the ocean… TEPCO insists
tritium poses few health hazards, but Japanese fishermen are
outraged because of the announcement…
Newsweek, Jul 14, 2017: Fukushima’s Nuclear Waste Will Be Dumped
Into the Ocean, Japanese Plant Owner Says — Toxic waste produced
by one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters will be dumped
into the sea, according to the head of [TEPCO]… Takashi
Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), told
foreign media that nearly 777,000 tons of water tainted with
tritium, a byproduct of the nuclear process that is notoriously
difficult to filter out of water, will be dumped into the
Pacific Ocean…
The Telegraph, Jul 14, 2017: Fishermen express fury as Fukushima
plant set to release radioactive material into ocean — Local
residents and environmental groups have condemned a plan to
release radioactive tritium from the crippled Fukushima nuclear
plant into the Pacific Ocean… Around 770,000 tons of highly
radioactive water is being stored in 580 tanks at the site. Many
of the contaminants can be filtered out, but the technology does
not presently exist to remove tritium from water… Fishermen who
operate in waters off the plant say any release of radioactive
material will devastate an industry that is still struggling to
recover from the initial nuclear disaster…
Kyodo, Jul 15, 2017: Tepco backpedals after disaster
reconstruction chief knocks plan to dump tritiated water into
sea — [Tepco] backed off its tritium-dumping decision Friday
after disaster reconstruction minister Masayoshi Yoshino said it
would cause problems for struggling fishermen… The remarks made
Friday by the Fukushima native came shortly after the chairman
of [Tepco] was quoted as saying that the decision… had “already
been made.” After Tepco Chairman Takashi Kawamura’s remarks were
widely reported, the utility scrambled to make a clarification
the same day. According to Tepco’s clarification, Kawamura meant
to say that there was “no problem” with the dumping plan, based
on government guidelines and “scientific and technological
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West Coast (VIDEO)
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: July 27, 2017, 6:43 pm
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[quote]Is Fukushima Still Melting Down?[/quote]
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Thom Hartmann
Big Picture Interview - It's been 6 years since the 2011
earthquake and tsunami that caused the most serious nuclear
incident since Chernobyl - and we might - just might - finally
have some good news out of Fukushima. Over the weekend - a robot
operated by TEPCO - the company that owns the Fukushima Daiichi
power plant - found fuel fods from a reactor involved in the
2011 disaster. To help explain the significance of this
development - I'm joined now by Kevin Kamps - Radioactive Waste
Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear.
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: August 18, 2017, 10:19 pm
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debris wait to be processed inside the exclusion zone, close to
the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant on February 26, 2016, in
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When Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a
triple-core meltdown in March 2011 as the result of devastating
earthquake, most people had no idea this was only the beginning
of a nuclear disaster that has arguably become the single worst
industrial accident in human history.
Keeping the three core meltdowns cool has been an ongoing
challenge that has yet to be met. As fresh water is pumped over
the cores, it is then stored on site in massive tanks. The Tokyo
Electric Power company (TEPCO), the operator of the plant, then
has to figure out what to do with that water.
Recently, TEPCO announced that it would dump 770,000 tons of
radioactive tritium water into the Pacific Ocean.
The announcement infuriated local fishermen and environmental
groups across Japan. According to Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an
environmental toxicologist and winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson
prize, their outrage and alarm is not without merit.
"The release of thousands of tons of radioactive tritium by a
giant utility company into our aquatic and natural environments
is a blood-chilling prospect," Savabieasfahani told Truthout.
She questions why there is not more outrage from those in the
Japanese government who are responsible for safeguarding the
health and wellbeing of the general public.
"Where are the defenders of our public's health?" she asked. "If
they could pull the plug out of their mouth, they could tell us
that tritium is a toxic radioactive isotope of hydrogen, and
that, once released, tritium cannot be removed from the
environment. Let that sink in."
"The Decision Has Already Been Made"
Takashi Kawamura, TEPCO's chairman, when asked about the
decision to introduce this vast amount of radioactive water into
the ocean, initially responded, "The decision has already been
made."
While he quickly softened the statement, he has not stated that
the action will not occur.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Japanese Nuclear Regulation
Authority (NRA), Shunichi Tanaka, has claimed that tritium is of
little danger to humans and supports TEPCO's plans to dump the
water into the ocean.
This claim, however, is vehemently disputed by toxicologists and
nuclear experts with more background in toxicology than Tanaka.
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human
Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the
University of British Columbia in Canada, and is also a
contributing author to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report
for 2016. He is critical of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's
administration's mishandling of Fukushima.
"The proposed release of radioactive, contaminated water from
Fukushima against the wishes of the local residents, especially
fishermen, represents yet another violation of people's rights
to a clean environment and a decent livelihood so as to protect
the financial interests of TEPCO," Ramana told Truthout.
Tanaka argued that dumping the radioactive water is safe because
that level of tritium is unable to penetrate plastic wrapping.
However, Ramana said that justification misses the point.
"NRA Chairman Tanaka is correct when he says that tritium is 'so
weak in its radioactivity it won't penetrate plastic wrapping,'
but that is irrelevant if the material is ingested," Ramana
said. "Because the tritium that is released will be in the form
of tritiated water, it can be easily absorbed by the body as it
is chemically identical to water."
According to Ramana, a special concern with tritiated water is
that, when ingested by pregnant women, it can pass through the
placenta and affect the fetus.
"During this stage, the developing organism (the embryo and the
fetus) is highly radiosensitive," he added.
And this is only one of the many ways in which tritium is
dangerous for humans, at even the lowest levels.
Fukushima Is an "Ongoing Disaster"
Dr. Bruno Chareyron, an expert in radiation effects, won The
Nuclear-Free Future Award in 2016. He is the director of the
CRIIRAD lab (Commission de Recherche et d’Information
Indépendentes sur la RADioactivité), founded in 1986, which not
only monitors the environment for radiation contamination, but
trains people to investigate radioactivity as well.
Chareyron was blunt with Truthout about what is happening at
Fukushima.
"It is important to understand that the Fukushima disaster is
actually an ongoing disaster," he said. "The radioactive
particles deposited on the ground in March 2011 are still there,
and in Japan, millions of people are living on territories that
received significant contamination."
According to Chareyron, even territories located more than 200
kilometers away from the damaged nuclear reactors received
significant fallout depending on wind direction, rainfall and/or
snow.
And it's not just Fukushima prefecture that is affected by
radioactive contamination.
"The Japanese authorities have launched a huge program of
decontamination on a territory of about 2,400 square
kilometers," Chareyron explained. "It is estimated that every
day about 15,000 people are involved in this program. The ground
and most contaminated tree leaves are removed only in the
immediate vicinity of the houses, but a comprehensive
decontamination is impossible."
Cesium 137 is a radioactive isotope that is one of the more
common byproducts from the formation of Uranium-235 in nuclear
reactors.
"Six years later, the radioactive Cesium 137 has decreased by
only 14 percent," Chareyron said.
Chareyron said the powerful gamma rays emitted by Cesium 137
could travel dozens of meters in the air. Therefore, the
contaminated soil and trees located around the houses, which
have not been removed, are still irradiating the inhabitants.
To underscore these points, his lab produced a video that shows
the power of gamma radiation emitted from outside a building in
Fukushima city in May 2011. That video can be viewed here, as
can another clip showing the contamination inside Fukushima city
in June 2012.
"In the contaminated territories, people are also exposed to an
internal contamination through the ingestion of food and
inhalation of radioactive dust suspended by the wind," Chareyron
said. "For example the forest fire that lasted several days in
April and May 2017 in the contaminated forest of Mont Jûman has
dispersed radioactive dust all around."
He also reminded us not to forget the workers in the nuclear
plant who were exposed to radiation. This occurred even while
managing the radioactive waste that continues to be generated by
the disaster, as well as the management of the Fukushima Daiichi
damaged reactors.
Chareyron said that, according to TEPCO, in May 2017, 8,862
workers were monitored for radiation exposure at the nuclear
plant (of which 7,899 are contractors).
The most elevated individual external dose was 7.36 milliSievert
in one month.
By comparison, the annual dose limit for a member of the public
is 1 milliSievert per year.
"A Carcinogen, a Teratogen and a Mutagen All Rolled Into One"
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in living cells.
"Once toxic tritium makes it into the environment, it will bind
anywhere hydrogen binds," Savabieasfahani said. "Imagine a toxic
particle that can freely travel through our cells and bind to
every molecule of life in our bodies and cause damage. Tritium
is a carcinogen, a teratogen and a mutagen all rolled into one."
According to Savabieasfahani, there is no safe threshold level
for tritium, as it can harm living organisms no matter how low
its concentrations.
"Tritium can cause tumors, cancer, genetic defects,
developmental abnormalities and adverse reproductive effects,"
she explained. "Tritiated water is associated with significantly
decreased weight of brain and genital tract organs in mice and
can cause irreversible loss of female germ cells -- eggs -- in
both mice and monkeys even at low concentrations. This we know."
Even at very low concentrations, tritium causes cell death,
mutations and chromosome breaks. Per dose, it is twice as
damaging to our genetic makeup as x-rays and gamma rays
"Once tritium travels up the food chain it becomes even more
dangerous to life," Savabieasfahani said. "When incorporated
into animal or plant tissue and digested by humans, tritium can
stay in the body for 10 years or more. Internally exposed
individuals can expect to be chronically exposed to the toxic
impacts of this carcinogen for years to come."
And for infants and growing children, tritium exposure is even
more dangerous.
Savabieasfahani explained that qualitative, quantitative,
physiological and epidemiological evidence show that the
internal uptake of tritium is 10 times more likely to cause
cancer and neurological deficit in infants and children than in
adults.
"Infants' and children's higher vulnerability to tritium is
attributed to their increased gut absorption and their smaller
body mass, as well as their heightened sensitivity to
radioactive exposures," she added. "We have already observed
that childhood cancers and leukemia are 22 percent higher near
nuclear reactors, and where tritium has leaked into the
environment."
Citing numerous studies -- including research from the
University of Florida and the journal Radiation Protection
Dosimetry -- Savabieasfahani stated emphatically that it is not
enough to store that knowledge in "dusty library stacks."
"That knowledge must be taken down from the shelf and broadcast
now, before 777,000 tons of radioactive water hit us in the
face," she said.
Surfing in Tritium?
Truthout recently reported on how the Japanese government, by
allowing TEPCO to dump tritium and then encouraging people who
fled the Fukushima contamination zone to return to their homes,
is essentially planning to expose both its own people and 2020
Tokyo Olympians to Fukushima radiation.
Furthermore, the International Olympic Commission is also
working to paint conditions as "normal" -- it even has plans for
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to hold baseball and softball games at
Fukushima.
Why are so many powerful entities engaging in this bizarre and
harmful attempt at normalization?
Chareyron believes that a nuclear disaster like the one
affecting the TEPCO nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi
site simply cannot be "handled properly," because highly
radioactive material that should usually be kept confined inside
the core of nuclear reactors has been dispersed in the
environment.
"Therefore, the Japanese government authorities and TEPCO both
try to influence the general public and the workers so that a
situation of exposure to radiation that would usually be
considered as unacceptable becomes progressively 'accepted,'" he
said. "For example, the annual dose limit of 1 milliSievert for
the public has been changed into 20 milliSievert, the annual
dose limit for the workers has been increased to 100
milliSievert for those exposed to 'especially high radiation,'
contaminated water is still leaking into the sea, and the
authorities are planning to re-use contaminated material for
road construction in order to lower the cost of radioactive
solid waste management."
Chareyron also said that corium, a highly radioactive material,
accumulated at the bottom of reactors one and three and is still
to this day has not been precisely located, and nobody yet knows
when it will even be possible to dismantle the reactors.
Chareyron believes both the Japanese government and TEPCO face
enormous difficulties, because of the fact that it is impossible
to properly decontaminate the affected territories. Furthermore,
Fukushima prefecture residents are more or less "forced" to come
back to their houses while the radiation is still high, since
the government announced it will cut housing subsidies that were
being provided to any of them not under mandatory evacuation
orders.
He also shed light on how this massive dumping of radioactive
tritium water is not likely to be the last time this occurs.
Chareyron said that TEPCO still must pump out on a daily basis
massive amounts of heavily contaminated water that isused to
cool the reactor cores, and this water is also already
contaminating the water table with radiation. He also expressed
concerns around the lack of monitoring of how the general
population in the region is being affected by the contaminated
water.
Chareyron emphasizes that both the Japanese government and TEPCO
have been fundamentally dishonest with the public.
"Since the beginning of the crisis, the Japanese authorities and
TEPCO have been lying to the people about the adverse impact of
radiation on health and the extension of the disaster," he said.
Savabieasfahani noted that TEPCO has been rewarded with
trillions of yen in government subsidies since the 2011 nuclear
disaster began. That disaster was preceded by TEPCO's false
reporting of technical data to authorities on hundreds of
occasions, and by the 2008 shutdown of one of its nuclear power
plants following an earthquake.
Instead of doling out future subsidies, Savabieasfahani said,
the government should be holding the company accountable.
"A far better outcome would be to force TEPCO's shareholders,
starting with the largest, to pay for cleaning up the damage
their company has caused," she said. "Let it be a warning to
everyone trying to make similar profits, worldwide, from similar
nuclear power ventures. The insane alternative of dumping all
that radiation into the seas, and letting TEPCO shareholders
keep the trillions of yen they have made from poisoning and
lying to the public, is simply unspeakable."
Savabieasfahani wonders why so many academics and universities
are silent on these matters.
"From Los Angeles to Tokyo, the universities are loaded with
environmental scientists, public health researchers,
epidemiologists, medical school professors, and soon they will
be drinking tritium along with everyone else," she said.
On July 27, the journal Science of the Total Environment
published a peer-reviewed article about radioactively hot
particles being detected in soil and dust across northern Japan.
The article details the analysis of radioactively hot particles
collected in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns.
Based on 415 samples of radioactive dust from Japan, the USA and
Canada, the study identified a statistically meaningful number
of samples that were considerably more radioactive than current
radiation models anticipated. If ingested, these more
radioactive particles increase the risk of suffering a future
health problem.
However, despite substantial scientific research that
demonstrates the ongoing radioactive danger created by the
Fukushima disaster, Savabieasfahani notes that -- much like the
government and the industry -- most academics have chosen not to
speak out about the contamination.
"Don't these academics have anything to teach us, before their
fish, seaweed, plants, crops and children are poisoned with
770,000 tons of radioactive water?" Savabieasfahani asked. "The
silence of the entire academic world, as these proposals to dump
tritium in our laps are being favorably discussed in the media,
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: November 29, 2017, 12:43 pm
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[center]US Nuclear Waste Dump Threatened By Rising Sea Levels,
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November 29th, 2017 by Steve Hanley
SNIPPET:
[quote]The problem is, the floor of the crater was supposed to
be lined with concrete before the toxic waste was dumped in. But
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nuclear weapons explosion,” says Michael Gerrard, the chair of
Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York. “It’s
permeable soil. There was no effort to line it. And therefore,
the seawater is inside the dome.” That toxic seawater is then
finding its way back into the ocean.
“That dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the
climate change age,” says Marshall Islands climate change
activist Alson Kelen. “It’ll be a very devastating event if it
really leaks. We’re not just talking the Marshall Islands, we’re
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: June 1, 2018, 7:59 pm
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Published on Apr 15, 2018
Acclaimed poet and activist, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, explores the
nuclear testing legacy of the Marshall Islands through the
legends and stories of Runit Island.
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: July 11, 2018, 2:00 pm
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Agelbert Note: It was the radiation that killed most of the life
on that island, not the small tsunami. The island is STILL toxic
to life to this day, and will be for CENTURIES. 😡
[center]1946 The First man-made 💥 massive tsunami ever
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[quote]Published on Mar 3, 2017
this is total record about the first man-made massive tsunami
cause by an underwater atomic exploding ,rare footage shows the
tsunami and it's effect in 1946
this compare with 2011 Japan's earthquake ,the energy of atomic
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Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
By: AGelbert Date: February 2, 2019, 5:44 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Though NOT a peep about radionuclide poisoning is
mentioned in the following video, it is no coincidence that
these massive starfish deaths began at exactly the time the
ocean radiation plume from the 2011 Tsunami caused Fukushima
Nuclear power Plant meltdown leak (that CONTINUES TO THIS DAY)
arrived on the west coast of the USA.
SEE the plume prediction below and then watch the video. If you
think that starfish are the only species threatened with
extinction by the radionuclides, you are into wishful thinking
about how the ocean trophic pyramid works. >:(
Radionuclides DESTROY immune systems. THEN ANY WEAK VIRUS or
BACTERIA can easily wipe out the affected species. This is going
to get a LOT WORSE.
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