Published: March 10th, 2012 at 11:35 am ET
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Title: High thyroid radiation levels found in Fukushima residents
Source: Asahi AJW
Author: YURI OIWA/ Staff Writer
Date: March 09, 2012
- 65 Fukushima Prefecture residents who were examined by a team of researchers [...] at Hirosaki University’s Institute of Radiation Emergency Medicine
- Detected radioactive iodine in 50 residents, nearly 80 percent
- Five residents were above [...] 50-millisievert
- Maximum reading of 87 millisieverts
- Highest reading among children was 47 millisieverts
- Levels of 24 residents, or about half, were 10 millisieverts or less [24 of 65 = half?]
Professor Shinji Tokonami, who led the research team
- “Levels could have exceeded 100 millisieverts if infants had stayed in a district with a high iodine concentration”
- “The central and local governments need to provide thorough care to protect the health of children”
Gen Suzuki, head of the clinic of the International University of Health and Welfare
- It is time to re-evaluate the reality of thyroid radiation because a number of data, albeit piecemeal, have recently become available
- “The government should have conducted accurate examinations of thyroid radiation immediately after the accident”
Yoshio Hosoi, professor at Hiroshima University’s Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine
- “The research is valuable because it is based on measurement data more detailed than the government’s, although iodine 132, whose half-life is two hours, is not considered”
- Examinations need to be considered also for adults, citing an epidemiological survey that found increased thyroid cancer risks among people 40 years old or older after the Chernobyl accident.
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Published: March 10th, 2012 at 11:35 am ET
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No doubt, but such considerations would put a damper on the happy anniversary chatter from the main stream media
Morning Edition Fri am
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148231452/a-year-on-japan-is-still-looking-for-the-road-ahead
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148227596/trauma-not-radiation-is-key-concern-in-japan
ATC Fri pm
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148298076/crippled-japanese-reactors-face-decades-of-work
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148304286/for-kids-in-japan-adjusting-to-a-changed-world
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The Gundersens, fresh back from Japan, beg to differ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BS-GVlqFQU
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Right, they did not measure I-132, or I-133, or I-135, or I-129… all radioactive isotopes of iodine affect the thyroid. There was 10 times as much I-132 as 131, and 25 times as much I-135. There are also isotopes like I-123 and I-126 that come from interaction of solar storms (like now) with cesium in the atmosphere.
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Radiation burns showing up in tissue right before the 1 year mark of the worst disaster in human history. The public remains unwilling to pay heed to the warning signs and selective particles are measured to achieve lowest possible radiation exposure detection. The anatomy of a cover up from March, 11 becomes glaringly clear to a sickening population unable to move from their homes in a polluted mire next to the emitting death machine down the street.The people keep their children inside for fear of unseen poison that shreds the hair from their bodies, causes their noses to bleed for months, and burns their flesh from the inside out. These symptoms could have been delayed, but nobody listened when Busby said to take your vitamins. And now you have it the makings of a scam a nuclear death zone for all who live in it.
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Aye Grampybone -
Could it be that Nuclear weapons and Nuclear Power Plants are 'Planetary Death Machines'?
Do not both (and their waste products) require constant vigilance by human beings as long into the future as the world exists (maybe 5 billion years? Until the sun goes supernova?)
How long have humans been around? ~ 2 million years?
Technology to create these Death Machines? About 65 years?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Geologic_Clock_with_events_and_periods.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
Is it not true that if one of these, or several of these Death Machines kills the life on this planet and no one is left to babysit them, 400+ will then go into meltdown mode and cover the planet with radiation?
Will this not be the End of beautiful (Heaven) on Earth?
Please tell me there is a different ending to this story!!
Can we not as humans come together and charter a different path to save ourselves and the planet?
- Peace
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