Published: August 19th, 2011 at 7:11 am ET
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Nearly half of children near Fukushima plant absorbed radiation, Asahi, August 19, 2011:
[...] During a one-on-one consultation session, a woman who had received a letter from the government saying her 14-year-old son had an internal exposure reading of 0.01 microsievert per hour asked the officials whether it was safe for her family to continue living in Iwaki.
An official responded that radiation levels were low in the city, but said she should be careful of grass and roadside ditches.
“The meeting did not answer my questions or eliminate my anxieties at all,” she said. She complained that the officials’ explanations were no more helpful than what is available on the Internet and other sources of information.
Her son, who also attended the meeting, said: “The figure is not zero because my body has taken in radioactive materials. I would like to be told whether I am OK or not.” [...]
Published: August 19th, 2011 at 7:11 am ET
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Sobbing over my lunch (again)
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Avoid roadside ditches? Are you kidding me!!?? How about avoid nuclear power?
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Shouldn’t it really be avoid food that has radiation poisoning? But then the Goverment would have to test the food…etc.
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Avoid Japan !
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I see the Japanese government are up to their usual creative math games. To paraphase “if you don’t eat, drink, or breathe any more radiation for the next fifty years then your levels are safe.”
The only way to achieve that twisted fallacy is move to another country immediately or commit suicide. I prefer the former.
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“I would like to be told whether I am OK or not”
There’s your problem right there. Waiting to be told has killed more people than cancer.
Good luck kid.
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poor kid!
lets get the facts out then!
nice qoutes from the article linked!
To Summarise:
“The external average dose risk model applied by the ICRP is incorrect when applied to internal radioisotope contamination because internal hot particles and isotopes may give very high doses to some cells but no doses to others. Since it is cell genetic damage which results in cancer, it is cell dose which is the causal parameter.”
“The dose response curve in the low dose region, results from effects in two separate sub groups of cells, those which are engaged in repair-replication, and those which are in quiescent phase. This results in a biphasic response with a high sensitivity window for mutation and cancer in the low dose region below 10mSv. Inappropriate conclusions about results in this region have led to the development of the concept of hormesis, which maintains that low doses of radiation cause good health.”
“A hazard enhancement from radiation exposure occurs when the dose is fractionated in such a way as to provide two hits to a cell within the cell repair replication cycle period of 8-12 hours. This process is called a second event, and mutation is introduced because the first hit causes cells to enter a sensitive and irreversible sequence of repair and replication within which a second hit causes damage that cannot be repaired. This process is very unlikely to occur with external radiation at normal background levels but can occur with internal sequential emitters like Strontium-90 and Tellurium-132, or from particles. “
“Important measurements of various indicators of health and biological parameters have been made by Bandashevsky [Bandashevsky, 2000]. He has shown that various serious conditions result from internal exposure to Caesium. For example, there are degenerative heart conditions as shown by heart muscle conduction anomalies amongst children and students from the Gomel region of Belarus. For children under 14 living in the contaminated region, , with an average body activity of 30Bq/kg between 55 and 98% have cardiac activity disorders. For students aged 18 to 20 years, there were 48.7% who showed pronounced ECG modifications. The average Caesium activity in these young people was 26Bq/kg. The dose response relationship was also significant. Children with different doses of Cs-137 also showed dose dependent increases in arterial blood pressure. About 41% of children from the contaminated region showed symptoms of arterial hypertension. Bandashevsky also shows effects of internal contamination on increases in illness and biological indicators of illness for diseases of the kidney, liver, immune system, eye, brain and nervous system and blood [Bandashevsly, 2000]
Other reports of correlations between objective indicators of biological competence and incorporated radioisotopes are given in the book by Burlakova [Burlakova, 1996], Nestorenko [Nestorenko, 1997,1998] and contribution to the alternative Chernobyl Conference in Vienna in 1996 [IPB, 1996]
In view of the long time lag between initiation and expression for most cancers, it may be that most people will die of other responses to radiation before they will express cancer. “
“The risk models which have been applied to predict the cancer yield of the Chernobyl accident are insecure because they only apply to external irradiation. Recent studies show that they are in error by more than 100-fold.
The main hazards are from particulate inhalation and ingestion and also from internal exposure to second event emitters. The main hazards here are Tellurium-132 and Strontium-90 and long lived hot particles.
There should be study of the movement of radioactive dust particles and of factors affecting their dispersion and concentration in the environment and their availability for inhalation. “
http://www.llrc.org/belarus.htm
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thank you.
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Just some points I didn’t quite understand in the article!
1 “Examinations were conducted on about 1,150 children aged 15 or younger, including babies under 1 year old. Data was obtained for 1,080 children. In 55 percent of cases, no internal exposure was detected. “
2 “The Fukushima prefectural government plans to conduct lifelong screening for thyroid gland cancer on about 360,000 children in the prefecture who were 18 or younger on April 1.
The inspections will start as early as October, and initial ultrasound examinations will be carried out by March 2014. These children will undergo ultrasonography once every two years until they turn 20 and once every five years for the rest of their lives.”
3 “Separate studies of internal exposure started in late June, covering all 2 million residents of Fukushima Prefecture. In preliminary examinations, internal exposure levels were measured using whole-body counters for about 180 residents of Iitate, Kawamata and other areas where high radiation levels were detected.”
4 “Initial estimates are that all residents’ internal radiation levels over several decades will not exceed 1 millisievert per person, officials say.”
Right where to start….
1 what happened to the other 70 kids tested?
2 presuming that 55 percent (doublespeak moment here) are not effected the remaining err…45% would initially estimate the number of kids in this prefecture alone to some 162,000 children contaminated, on going for 5 months!
studies will began in october months after the time it takes for iodine to disintegrate , funny enough?
3 bit short on detail, blood samples, biopsies, what equipment are they using…alpha and beta sensitive?
4 “1 millisievert per person” what does this mean?? /kg /hr /oclock ? what??? I don’t understand is I millisievert on its own bad?????? Just I millisiervert huh? How much plutonium do you need to get a reading of 1 milisievert? Is it possible to get I millisiervert of plutonium??
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1 millisievert without any indication of time is pure nonsense.
Like discussing fuel efficiency in a car without indicating volume of fuel. “My car is very fuel efficient, it runs 3 miles.”
Makes no sense.
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I dont know if its been posted earlyer but I do it anyway.
About Radiation protection
Without sufficient magnesium, the body
accumulates toxins and acid residues,
degenerates rapidly, and ages prematurely.
http://blog.imva.info/medicine/magnesium-radiation-protection
And the home site:
http://blog.imva.info/medicine/nuclear-toxicity-book-launch
Its sometimes basic cemistry and the sources we gain it from may be suprising, but never the less a source.
There are lessons learned from Tjernobyl and hopefully its incorporated in this links.
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Thank you Mikael!!! These are important links.
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Compost made from chicken manure in Japan is contaminated with radioactive cesium.
http://ok-life.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/hibi-zakkan/image/E983BDE58685E794A3E5AEB6E7959CE381B5E38293E5A086E882A5E381AEE694BEE5B084E883BDE6A49CE69FBBE7B590E69E9CEFBC88E7ACAC5E5A0B1EFBC89.jpg
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/radioactive-beef-conundrum-high-level.html
But the chickens were fed chicken feed from the US.
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Maybe we all should be tested for radioactive materials.
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hang on isnt september supposed to be radioactive chicken month?? does that mean that radioactive pig month has been brought forward…i didnt get the memo!!!
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where are we going to squeeze in radioactive boar month?? huh??
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Between Chicken and deer months, after whale and bird months !
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ok if we add radioactive fish month to radioactivedeer month, we then need 4 more radioactive beasties to make an enenews astrological chart of radioactive beasties…. oh and anyone out thier thinking of bringing some spurious 13 sign they had better come along with their boxing gloves! queensbury rules apply! lol!
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3500 Prions Seabirds Found Dead west coast New Zealand ?
Mass Animal Death on Thursday, July 14, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/818/649/3500_Prions_Seabirds_Found_Dead_west_coast_New_Zealand.html
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interesting link in exskf comments though
About a week after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl a number of German nationals returning from their various staging back in the Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany. Chromosome analysis of these individuals showed a surprisingly strong increase in chromosome damage (DNA damage): Acentric chromosome abnormalities were about twice as frequently as dicentrics.
Centric chromosome rings were also found. The increases were significantly different from those in the control group.
(1) In Belarus, an increased number of malformed fetuses 5-12 weeks old was diagnosed. There also an increased rate of children with anemia or congenital malformations was observed
(2) Nine months after the Chernobyl became more frequent in Belarus -. As in Berlin -. In January 1987, the cases of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) in neonates
(3 ) In Belarus, it was typical to post-Chernobyl radiation increases malformations. Accordingly, increased rates were in the following disturbances:
anencephaly (absence of the brain), spina bifida (spina bifida), cleft lip / cleft palate, polydactyly (superior number of fingers or toes), atrophy of limbs. Also, genetic mutations have doubled among children living around Chernobyl.
(4) Chernobyl consequences in Germany , even in Germany, far away from Chernobyl, have been reported additional abnormalities. In January 1987, nine months after Chernobyl, were in a laboratory for genetic testing in Munich in newborns two to three times more frequently than usual found trisomy 21 (Down syndrome).
(5) Also, nine months after the Chernobyl accumulated in Berlin cases of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome). 12 children came along in January 1987 in West Berlin in the world, while only two or three would normally have been expected. Because of the previous “island” of the city and without exception the responsibility of an institution for the care of children with Down syndrome, the figures were in contrast to the opportunities in other states, virtually seamlessly. Other causes for the accumulation of chromosomal defects than the radioactive fallout in the spring could be excluded, especially the age of the mothers. The study was later confirmed in a reanalysis.
(6) According to observations in Berlin was a nationwide survey of 40 human genetic research institutes and agencies in the Federal Republic of Germany initiated. The analysis of 28 737 prenatal chromosome analysis of 1986 had then shown in 393 cases, deviations from the normal number of chromosomes, including 237 with trisomy 21 and with the highest number of embryos in the period of particularly high levels of radiation in the days after the accident at Chernobyl had been conceived. This was also more frequently in southern Germany radioactively contaminated the case.
(7) In Hamburg there was Chernobyl in 1986, the second highest in 30 years increase in the number of defects and preterm infants below 2500 grams birth weight. These figures include both the lack born and the preterm infants. This was announced by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg with its response to a written request. During the years 1981 to 1985, before Chernobyl, most were around 60 of 1,000 live-born infants are underweight (1982 it was 65), were there in Chernobyl in 67 underweight babies
(8). Even in East Germany – then East Germany – it was after Chernobyl radiation increases to typical malformations. In the GDR, were prescribed legally autopsied and all abortions up to the age of 16 deceased children. The malformation registers in Jena 1986-87 turned down a four-fold increase of isolated malformations, which subsided in subsequent years. The increase has focused on the central nervous system and the abdominal wall. An analysis of the East German central register of malformations showed an increase in cleft lip and cleft palate, which occurred most markedly in the three northern territories, were most of the fallout hit.
(9) In West Berlin arose after the annual health report for Berlin 1987 a doubling of birth defects in stillbirths. Most commonly hands and feet were affected, as well as heart and urethra, there was also increased gap formation.
(9) In the south of Bavaria, who was by the radioactive fallout relatively heavily loaded, was the malformation rate in late 1987, seven months after the highest cesium loading of pregnant women, nearly twice as high as in northern Bavaria. In the months of November and December 1987, the malformation rate in the Bavarian administrative districts shows a highly significant dependence of the cesium ground contamination. The ratio of the malformation rates in southern and northern Bavaria temporally correlated with the shifted burden of cesium by seven months pregnant. The malformation rate in the 24 most polluted counties in November, plus December 1987 was almost three times as large as in the 24 lowest-polluted districts in Bavaria. In the ten most polluted counties had the malformation rate was even almost eight times higher than in the ten lowest-loaded. The results were consistent with an increased rate of stillbirths
(10). Another research group also found a correlation between the increase in malformation rate after Chernobyl, and the cesium concentration in the soil Bavarian counties. For the malformation group lips, jaw and palate has been an increase in the malformation rate in the years after Chernobyl (1987-1991) compared to previous years (1984-1986) determined.
(11) Chernobyl consequences in other countries was the beginning of 1987 from the particularly affected by the Chernobyl rain west Turkey by a cluster of birth defects reported. Thus, in November 1986 in Düzce in the western Black Sea coast ten babies born without brains. Actually, more than three of these cases were fatal malformation anencephaly been usual. From Turkey were also significant increases in malformations of the central nervous system (CNS) such as anencephaly and spina bifida reported.
(12) In Finland, also has been an increased malformation rate (including increases in the disorders of the CNS and limbs) in the more contaminated regions registered. More cases of CNS defects were also in Odense, Denmark, Hungary and Austria observed.
(13) In the region of Pleven in Bulgaria fell to malformations of the heart and central nervous system and multiple anomalies. At the University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia between 1980 and 1993 all preterm births and dead babies who died within 28 days after birth were necropsied. Here, too, showed increased rates of CNS abnormalities after Chernobyl.
(14) In Finland, a significant increase in premature births among children whose mothers during the first three months of her pregnancy in the by the Chernobyl fallout higher polluted areas in Finland, lived for the birth period of August have been found until December 1986.
(15) An international group of scientists published in 1991, the results of its examination of chromosome damage in lymphocytes of Salzburg (Austria) people living in the aftermath of nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. . Here, the number of chromosome damage increased in the peripheral blood lymphocytes of test subjects compared to pre-Chernobyl first on about six times
(16) In Scotland and Sweden, there was – as in Berlin – after Chernobyl to a sudden increase of Down Syndrome . cases (trisomy 21) (17) Conclusion Given the demonstrated increased chromosomal aberrations after Chernobyl holds the epidemiologist and radiation expert Professor Wolfgang Hoffmann, the common argument that the – estimated by model assumptions – fallout doses from Chernobyl in neighboring countries were too small to be measurable effects produce, for disproved. Angelika Claussen and Henrik Paulitz
appendices on link
peace
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Here is the link:
http://tschernobyl-folgen.de/index.php?id=43&expand=675&cHash=f7a8bc7d32
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totally missed that anne …thanks!!
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Scottish Sheep Farms finally free of Chernobyl Fallout
To Japan Earthquake on Thursday, March 24, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/505/601/Scottish_Sheep_Farms_finally_free_of_Chernobyl_Fallout.html
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“The UK government’s food watchdog monitored the levels of radioactivity in live sheep and began lifting restrictions where it was was deemed there was a low enough risk to the public, set at 1,000 becquerels per kilogram in sheep meat.
Bob Carruth, a spokesman for the National Farmers Union in Scotland, said: “It seems incredible that 24 years after the Chernobyl accident, a small number Scottish sheep farms remained under restrictions on when they could sell their lambs and were required to undergo annual monitoring for radioactivity.
“Only two years ago, five Scottish farms remained under restriction, while in June 1986, immediately after Chernobyl, restrictions were in place on 2,900 Scottish units. It will be a blessed relief for the last affected farm to have now been given the all-clear this summer, and that all farms affected by the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster have now returned to normal marketing of lambs from their flocks.”
1000 BK/KG SAFE!!
LAMB IS OFF THE MENU
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repost to counter the 1000 bequerel ammount given for sheep in the uk
“Germany forbids anyone to sell meat containing high levels of radioactive caesium-137, meaning that animals with contamination levels of
600 becquerel per kilogram or higher must not be eaten.
Some meat in Southern Germany has been measured at 7,000 becquerel per kilogram, ”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2564829/posts
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put this in here cos it seemed right
Japanese Government Will Lift Shipping Ban on Cows from Fukushima and Miyagi (Hello #Radioactive Beef Again)
“Even when they do test, they will just do the simple test using “affordable” instruments that cost only a few thousand dollars and take only 15 minutes to test, and as long as the number is below 250 becquerels/kg they won’t test further. Only if it goes above 250 becquerels/kg, they will use expensive instruments that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take 1 hour to test.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/japanese-government-will-lift-shipping.html
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Breathing and water consumption are left !
Seems may be higher concentration of isotopes in air during nights as it settles over the lands !
Also~
If stored food from anywhere in Japan is in storage and is aloud to become heated during the day temperatures it may draw in moister as it cools in the evening/night hours, and in that moister would be the contamination ! Would not matter the orgin of, U.S., there or other !
Storage facilities may not be air tight, the temperature’s have been above normal this summer causing more effects but have not had the radiation as this in the air ! May be how the straw was contaminated as well, drying during the day, cooling at night !
Does anyone know if the rice straw is harvested in rolls as we do hay here and other country’s ?
Rolls can become very hot internally during the day and remain somewhat warm through the night but absorb moister from the air as in condensation, sponge effect !
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This would explain why the Mushrooms indoors became radioactive as well if not from water to them, the air condensation in the buildings heating and cooling !
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good theory xdr! and as mushrooms take in moisture from thier skins…but the systems have to be enclosed…so maybe contaminated water supply by rain and mist?
Temperature 5-26°C+/-2°C
- Humidity 60-90%+/-5%RH
- Room Pressure 10-15 Pa
- Virtual Cleanliness class 100k
- Fresh Air Intake 10%
http://enercov.com/chitralada.html
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Fresh Air Intake 10%
Thats enough !
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i may be very wrong here …shitake mushrooms are grown in shaded areas on treated wood blocks…means that maybe the rain and mist could have done the job before the condensation! sorry about casting doubt..
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Up around Maryland/ Penn there are miles of buildings that grow mushrooms off from the interstate I have seen in direct sunlight since the mid 60′s !
Look a bit like chicken or turkey grow buildings but looked lower, not as high but possibly partially underground ?
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Videos
How its made – Mushroom production. This is a segment from Discovery Channel explaining how Agaricus mushrooms are produced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n99zZ4nbunE (Time: 4:31)
Mushroom Farm. This video explains how Hopewell Mushrooms Farm, Rising Sun, Maryland, grows portabella.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9eE1hcA2t8 (Time: 13:09)
Many more here:
http://www.mushroomcompany.com/articles/0902/video.shtml
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cool !! well i know me way around the mushrooms now, what about boars and deers etc that eat the wild ones? when do we get to hear about them? kyodo news report by mungo …problem with boar,,havent got the full story yet!
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Radioactive Boars Part of Chernobyl’s Legacy
To Japan Earthquake on Thursday, March 24, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/505/588/Radioactive_Boars_Part_of_Chernobyls_Legacy.html
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Mushroom hunting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushroom_hunting
Homesteading (21) Wild mushroom picking – YouTube
3 Sep 2010 … Some insights into the delights of picking your own wild mushrooms! Some guidelines include: * Dress appropriately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR3W0XM_P00
How to Pick Wild Mushrooms: Food + Cooking : gourmet.com
19 Aug 2009 … All wild fungi possess a bit of sorcery, but telling the difference between the evil and the delicious is, of course, the trick.
http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/08/how-to-pick-wild-mushrooms
How to Pick Edible Wild Mushrooms (Safely!) – Planet Green
13 Jul 2009 … Before I start I should say that this post is not intended to teach you how to pick and identify edible mushrooms—that is way too big a …
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/pick-edible-mushrooms-safely.html
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Of course they are all likely contaminated by now !
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Caesium-137 spreads readily in the environment in soil, water and in the air. It can be ingested or inhaled and locates in muscle tissue, bones and fat. It has a half-life of 30 years and is extremely toxic.
http://www.defyingdisaster.com/2011/07/radioactive-contamination-of-meat-and-milk-and-health/
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Great to see folks here researching more on Mycology. The Telluride Mushroom Fest is taking place this week. I attended in 2003 and 2005 with faculty/lecturer John Corbin. These folks are unpretentious kind. Since Art Goodtimes lives in CO, I’ve been sending him news from here and CPM. Paul Stamets work is also worthy to note. Sadly I couldn’t bring myself to attend since the Fuku aftermath as those mushrooms tempting to foray and eat! Paul Stamets:
http://bit.ly/eak1qV
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This video is worthy of watching also by Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. http://youtu.be/XI5frPV58tY
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Or send our air filters to Arnie.
Yes,…I think we are ALL carrying some radiation from Fuku,….and NOT just 45% of those kids are EITHER! Pure CYA,….
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OT
around.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/nuclear-regulatory-commission_n_923098.html#comments
I see New Names at HP today and just wanted to say Thank YOU. Spot on comments all!! (if it IS you
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Here’s what I don’t understand. They are testing (measuring?) how much iodine the kids’ thyroids absorbed. The iodine was mostly absorbed between March 12 and March15/16, but they did not test the kids for it until March 24-30. If I-131 has a half life of 8 days (though strangely this article says “five to seven”), at least one-full half life would have passed by the time they were tested (e.g., March 16 to March 24), and possibly more if exposed c. March 12 and not tested until March 30 (then it was more than two-full-half lives). So won’t testing them at this point inevitably produce a smaller number than what they actually received?
Along similar lines, they did not test the rest of the residents for internal radiation until late June, but by this time most of the I-131 would have already decayed away. Hence, any damage to their internal organs caused by the iodine would already have been done, though the true amount of that isotope that they had absorbed would not be detectable by the time of the testing. I’m not a scientist and don’t know exactly how the testing is done, but it seems like such testing will inevitably show much less iodine in their bodies than they might originally have absorbed.
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This is what we call a strategy^^ and obviously it will be working^^ in 10 years tens of thousands of citizens will have to remove the thyroid gland but then the authorities will say: no relevance to the Fukushima accident… washing their hands in innocence.
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First of all I really feel terrible about the Japanes population, about the innocent young kids who are trapped between a “the goverment doesn’t bother” on the one side and the “nothing happened, we pretend everything is fine” of parents and environment on the other hand. What are they supposed to do?
I really get a little upset about the ego-games of US citizens. Of course it is terrible that it’s the wind and the ocean that brings the radioactivity to you and Canada. But all this whining as if it were the end of days is absolutely indecent! Sooner or later tha particles will dilute everywhere on this planet.How can you make yourself heard like that? They laugh about us. All we do is throwing raw eggs toward a gigantic rock! Organize yurself in organisations which are heard – I work together with Greenpeace here in Europe, for example ( since the early eighties, even before Chernobyl). We should bring all our efforts to inform as many people as possible what is going on in Fukushima, as it is not only a concern of Japanese nation, but it is a worldwide concern. Again we stand with ouzr back against companies, lobbies and bribed politicians. Fact is: THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US.They give a Sh*t upon us! We are just “human resources”, like grass growing on the meadow.The Russians put their efforts in rescuing the people overe there, but the Japanese don’t give a damn… that is, because they know, there is nowhere to escape, but they do not tell this terrible truth. The rich people will vanish, the money will vanish, the companies have worldwide organizations and will abandon the Japanese plants. And they simply don’t mind. What a degenerated system they created…
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This disaster is beyond sad…It is quite possible Honshu will become in a few years an island of mutants.
The dead zone label for super hot radiation spots is a misnomer…yes it will kill many people prematurely, but the people will continue to live there.
The mutations will be the really sad evolutionary story of this Faustian tragedy. Tepco and the Japanese made a pact with a devil and now everyone in the world suffers the consequences…the Japanese citizens worst of all.
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The number of Down’s syndrome pregnancies has risen sharply over the last 20 years as women have opted to have children later(??????????????????), according to new research published in the British Medical Journal.
Analysis of the data has revealed a 71 per cent increase in the number of Down’s syndrome pregnancies and births, which the researchers believe is primarily the result of women delaying having children.
The risk of having a baby with Down’s syndrome is just one in 940 for a woman aged 30. By age 40 the risk rises to one in 85.
The number of babies born with Down’s syndrome has fallen by just one per cent since 1989. There has been a sharp increase in the proportion of Down’s syndrome pregnancies in women under the age of 37 being detected by screening — rising from 3 per cent to 43 per cent — while the figure in older women has stayed constant at around 70 per cent. This is a reflection of improvements in screening, particularly for younger women.
The proportion of couples diagnosed with a Down’s syndrome pregnancy who decide to terminate has also remained constant at 92 per cent.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026192907.htm
and this study that shows a link to downs however biased the figures might be
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1060102/pdf/jepicomh00189-0054.pdf
and this cracking link, first the quote!
Effects of Human Exposure to Ionizing Radiation”
1.1500% increase in incidence of testicular and ovarian cancer in children on Navaho reservation in uranium mining area
2.500% increase in bone cancer in children affected by uranium
3.250% increase in leukemia (all ages) in the Navaho population
4.200% increase in each of the following non-cancer effects: miscarriage, infant death, congenital defects, genetic abnormalities, learning disorders.
Baseline for 1-4: Navajo residents living near Uranium facilities were compared to Navajo residents in non-uranium areas
5.500% increase in birth defects when compared to the national average.
6.400% increase in leukemia incidence in the population living downwind of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Massachusetts in the first 5 years after fuel was know to have leaked excess radioactivity.
Baseline: Disease in population before and after Pilgrim radioactive releases and comparison to upwind population.
7.300—400% increase in lung cancer in the general population within the plume of the Three Mile Island accident releases
8.600—700% increase in leukemia in the general population within the plume of Three Mile Island accident releases
Baseline: Disease in population upwind (out of the radiation plume path) is compared to disease in population downwind (in the pollution plume.)
9.50% increase in childhood cancer incidence in the Three Mile Island area for each 10 millirem increase in radiation exposure per year.
Baseline: Children living with different radiation levels are compared for evidence of disease.
10.8000% increase in thyroid cancer in Belarussian children living near Chernobyl, reported 6 years after the meltdown.
Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion.
Further effects found in victims of the Chernobyl accident less than ten years after the meltdown
11.500% increase in thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children.
12.75% increased incidence of heart disease
13.200% increase in respiratory and digestive disease
14.200% increase in birth defects
15.200% increase in spontaneous abortions
Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion
16.63% increase in leukemia incidence among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories(US) who received very low doses of external (gamma) radiation on the job.
17.123% increase in leukemia incidence in the same population where there were also very low internal doses of radioactivity
Baseline: Cohort comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels
18.80% increase in eight types of cancer deaths in Department of Energy atomic workers exposed to external doses of radiation.
Baseline: Various baselines. Usually cohort comparison of workers with various doses and their deaths from resulting diseases were used.
19.200% increase in leukemia in children of atomic workers
Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
20.287% increase in cancer incidence in children of nuclear workers who received internal radiation in England
Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
21.250% increase in all cancers among atomic workers.
22.190% increase in leukemia incidence
Baseline: General Population
23.500% increase in childhood leukemia in children visiting the beach once a week near the French nuclear reprocessing facility at LaHague
24.760% increase in childhood leukemia if they ate the local fish regularly
25.345% increase in childhood leukemia associated with drinking well water from the vicinity of the nuclear facility
Baseline: Observed leukemia cases were compared to expected leukemia cases.
26.1200% increase in all cancers exist around the Sellafield, (formerly Windscale) reprocessing facility and of these.
27.600-1000% increase in leukemia of children whose fathers were exposed to certain amounts of radiation prior to conception
28.1000% increase in lymphoma was found in children near a reprocessing facility in Cumbria
Baseline: Local and Area Controls
29.1000% increase in leukemia incidence in children living near a nuclear reprocessing facility
Baseline: Children of the same age in the same area prior to the facility’s operation.
30.27.3% increase in all cancer deaths among atomic workers exposed to internal doses of radiation
Baseline: Comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels.
31.500% increase in leukemia among Utah nuclear bomb test Downwinders
32.121% increase in thyroid cancer incidence in the same group
33.200% increase in breast cancer
34.700% increase in bone cancer
Baseline: Utah Mormons exposed to bomb fallout are compared to all Utah Mormons.
35.a greater then 120% increase in thyroid cancer in those who drank milk laced with Iodine-131 from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests
Baseline: Estimated cases are based on dose reconstruction where estimated exposures were between 6-112 rads per individual child in the bombs’ plumes.
36.200% increase in lung cancer in women who received radiation treatments for breast cancer
Baseline: Breast cancer patients treated with radiation were compared to those who were treated only by other methods.
37.66—96% increase in early cancer deaths due to background radiation
Baseline: Deaths of children living with different radiation levels are compared for cancer.
http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radchart.htm
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China: conjoined twins alive and growing stronger
The twin girls, who suffer from a condition that gave them two separate heads but one body …
The twin girls are now able to breath partly on their own without oxygen — a huge step forward .. A pair of conjoined twins is seen at a hospital in Suining, Sichuan province, May 9, 2011. The twin sisters were born on May 5 weighing 4.05 kg (9 lbs). (China Daily/Reuters)
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/110517/china-health-conjoined-twins
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Kaitlin Mary was born on a Wednesday. She breathed and cried for the first time on July 13th, 2011 just after noon. Her mother carried her for thirty-eight weeks. She was born small, weighing just 4 pounds and an ounce and she stretched her legs to fifteen and a half inches. She is called “Katie” …
https://crittersandcrayons.wordpress.com/category/anencephaly-katies-fighters/
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Good morning, Katie. All the best to you.
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Aaaahhh !
Sweet !
: )
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I wake up in the morning furious and cry off and on all day now.
I feel helpless.
It may be time to start making people pay attention in a less honorable way.
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@shaktasna999
if your stress levels get that high….turn off the computer, chill out and then come back…sometimes a break away from the problem can give you inspiration that you wont get if your under pressure…..youve been doing a great job, and we all know how you feel!
remember, look after yourself so you will be able to look after others! peace!
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” To thine self be true”… Do what U need to do to relax, I agree with arclight about the vacation from this. I do however agree with the fact that 99% of everyone seem absolutely blind to what is happening. More than once I have watched in horror as the neighborhood kids play in the rain.
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Thank you Arclight
You are awesome. My other half has been dragging me away lately lol.
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I’m posting this here…Busby fighting for the Japanese children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONpt1J43YWk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8w2QQ6B5w4&feature=related
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My wife and I agree, send us a family that needs evacuation and a safe place to go…
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