Published: September 13th, 2011 at 2:35 pm ET
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Inside Japan’s nuclear ghost zone, BBC by David Shukman, September 13, 2011:
Tomioka lies just inside the 20km exclusion zone [...]
[Local farmer, Naoto] Matsumura believes the authorities have failed the people of the area – which is why he’s taken the risk of bringing us in.
As we keep watch on the Geiger counter, the radiation level, as expected, is generally higher down on the ground, very occasionally peaking at around 30 microsieverts an hour.
On a very rapid visit like ours, these rates are by no means threatening. But I ask our guide if he worries about living in this environment. “I refuse to think about it,” he says [...]
Published: September 13th, 2011 at 2:35 pm ET
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Cattle safe because they are raised in doors.
Farming products surely to be safe next year.
Can you say dead people walking…
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>Cattle safe because they are raised in doors
Yep…they are undoubtedly safe…as long as they can live without water, air, and food.
Because the cows won’t be safe just because of stout barn lumber.
The contaminated mushrooms in the greenhouse are a prime example:
[...] Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:26 – NHK
Radioactive cesium detected in Fukushima shiitake
Radioactive cesium exceeding the government standard has been detected in shiitake mushrooms grown indoors in 2 cities in Fukushima Prefecture, about 60 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. […}
http://laaska.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/japanradioactive-cesium-detected-in-fukushima-shiitake-related-news/
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Just as the radiated mushrooms that were raised indoors !!
Indoor mushrooms contain 1,770 bq/kg of radioactive cesium — Gov’t “determining the cause”
http://enenews.com/indoor-mushrooms-contain-1770-bqkg-radioactive-cesium-govt-determining
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Only half a chest xray? Equals how many xrays per day?
…poor blind fools/victims.
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30 microsieverts per hour equals 262.8 millisieverts per year.
Get these people out of there!
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Dr Brenda Howard MBE
Radioecologist
Research interests
“I have studied the transfer of radionuclides to agricultural and wild animals for more than 30 years”
“My contribution has concerned radionuclide transfer to agricultural animals, part of which has been achieved by synthesizing, with Dr Fesenko of the IAEA, the large amount of Russian-language work on large animals. I am currently chair of the transfer working group 5 of the IAEA EMRAS II programme (Environmental Modelling for Radiation Safety), which is preparing a Technical Report Series handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife.”
“……This provided a scientific justification to propose numerical targets or standards for protection of the environment from ionising radiation. I am leading CEH participation in the STAR network which commenced in February, 2011. “
“I have published 17 books, including special issues of journals and contributions to a number of IAEA documents, notably the Transfer Parameter handbook (TRS 472) and the environment section of Chernobyl forum report published on the 20th anniversary of the accident.
I was awarded an MBE for my radioecological work in 2002.
(IAEA 2010 Handbook of Parameter Values for the Prediction of Radionuclide Transfer in Terrestrial and Freshwater Environment: Technical Reports Series No. 472. IAEA, Vienna.)”
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/staffWebPages/DrBrendaHoward.html
hmmmm! 20th anniversary, 2006……Chernobyl forum report ehh!??
“As noted in the…
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….arse!!
“As noted in the Chernobyl Forum report on Health , “the mental health impact of Cherno-byl is the largest public health problem unleashed by the accident to date.”
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
right im off to rip this bbc article apart!!! Unless some bright spark beats me to it!!
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Just to put you in the picture a bit!
“In September 2005, a comprehensive report was published by the Chernobyl Forum, comprising a number of agencies including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations bodies and the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. This report titled: “Chernobyl’s legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts”, authored by about 100 recognized experts from many countries, put the total predicted number of deaths due to the disaster around 4,000 (of which 2,200 deaths are expected to be in the ranks of 200,000 liquidators). This predicted death toll includes the 47 workers who died of acute radiation syndrome as a direct result of radiation from the disaster, nine children who died from thyroid cancer and an estimated 4000 people who could die from cancer as a result of exposure to radiation. This number was subsequently updated to 9000 excess cancer deaths.[31]
An IAEA press officer admitted that the 4000 figure was given prominence in the report “…to counter the much higher estimates which had previously been seen. … “It was a bold action to put out a new figure that was much less than conventional wisdom.””
And this
“The methodology of the Chernobyl Forum report has been disputed by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy, such as Greenpeace and the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear Warfare (IPPNW), as well…
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“The methodology of the Chernobyl Forum report has been disputed by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy, such as Greenpeace and the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear Warfare (IPPNW), as well as some individuals such as Elisabeth Cardis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer,[35] Dr. Michel Fernex, retired medical doctor from the WHO and campaigner Dr. Christopher Busby (Green Audit, LLRC). The main criticism has been with regard to the restriction of the Forum’s study to Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Furthermore, it only studied the case of 200,000 people involved in the cleanup, and the 400,000 most directly affected by the released radiation”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
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Good find ! Nice Job !
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im warming to mr nakanshi already…must be a mate of jdogt lol
Tomoko M. Nakanishi
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
“Radiation and Radioisotopes have been played an important role in the wide range of agrucultral science, from the field study, such as fertilizer or pesticide development or production of new species, to gene engineering researches. Many mutants through radiation have been introduced to the market, such as rice, soybean, pear plant etc., and the usage of radioactive tracers was an effective tool to study plant physiology. The development of the devices to measure radiation has also been supported the tracer researches. It has been granted that the contribution of radioisotopes has been accelerated the development of the gene engineering technology, which is now overwhelming all the other usages of radiation or radioisotopes. However, because of the difficulty to get social acceptance for gene modified plants, the orientation of the agricultural, i.e. life science is now changing towards, so called “post genome era”. Therefore, from the point of radiation or radioisotope usage, new application methods are needed to develop new type of researches. I would like to present how (1) neutron activation analysis, (2) neutron radiography and (3) positron emission tomography are promising to study living plant physiology. Some of these techniques are not necessarily new methods but with a little…
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a little modification, they show new aspects of plant activity. To understand the living plant itself, not the dead plants, is expected to open new research field not only in agriculture but also in the wide range of life science.”
http://www.codata.org/04conf/abstracts/DataVis/Nakanishi-ApplicationofRadiationandRadioisotopes.htm
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basically this guy will be part of the new exciting research that will be going on in japan! with a view to making better and stranger genetically modified everything!! they must be so excited!! and the whole thing is under media blackout!! wey hey!! there gonna be quids in!!
oncology, GM, weapons effects research, biology, chemistry and have i missed any? the private sector is gonna turn this around and make a buck!!
notice the small number of people that support the nuclear industry in the media…notice who the reporters are!!
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Never let a disaster go to waste !
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looks like the bbc had to wait a month for this up to date info too!!
Published online 12 July 2011 | Nature 475, 154 (2011)
No fallout legacy for Japan’s farms
“”People are panicking because there are no data,” says plant radiophysiology expert Tomoko Nakanishi at the University of Tokyo.
Nakanishi is coordinating seven teams to study the impact of the disaster on soil, plants, animals, fisheries and forests for the next decade, measuring contamination levels and assessing the long-term threat. Their first results, to appear in the Japanese journal Radioisotopes in August, paint a surprisingly optimistic picture”…….cont
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“The scientists studied crops at a Tokyo research field, including cabbages and potatoes that were planted a few weeks after rains showered the field with radioisotopes from Fukushima. The crops were harvested on 16 May, and contained low levels of radiation — around 9 becquerels per kilogram (Bq kg–1; wet weight), much lower than the 500 Bq kg–1 safety limit for human consumption. Furthermore, most of the radiation had accumulated on the leaves and could be washed off, suggesting that the plants were not absorbing dangerous levels of radioisotopes directly from the soil. “
“Despite this good news, the team’s data also show that the radioisotopes seem to be stuck firmly to the soil, mainly in the top five centimetres (see ‘Skin deep’), and are not being washed away by rain. This might prevent the radioisotopes from entering groundwater but suggests that cleaning up the more radioactive public spaces in Fukushima prefecture will not be easy. “
“A separate group from Kobe University, led by radiation expert Tomoya Yamauchi, has found that soil radiation levels at four sites in Fukushima city, some 60 kilometres from the reactors, measured up to 47,000 Bq kg–1 — surpassing the 10,000 Bq kg–1 human exposure safety level set by the government. Yamauchi says that these areas, which are outside the current 30-kilometre evacuation zone, should be evacuated immediately”
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/120711/full/475154a.html
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personally the nature report was slightly more fair and balansed, up to date and mentioned the need for further evacuations….and he didnt have to sit in a car wearing protective gear for 3 hours!! nor did he have to get a predictable soundbite from dr howard of the iaea report fame….her research department stands to get some of hundreds of billions of euro floating about since the crash of 2008
peace
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I ask our guide if he worries about living in this environment. “I refuse to think about it,” he says
Sounds like some people in the US, refusing to think about it.
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Dear Windor: Yes, I’m reading some Arabic literature, maybe the “first” novel written in Arabic in Egypt, for an Arabic literature course. The setting is 1904-ish and is during British occupation of Egypt. The novel is called Zaynab, the apathy of the bourgie classes is definitely a theme. I would love to crack the code of how to awaken the bourgie (apathetic middle classes)to have the same effectiveness that the scumbag despot billionaires/military/covert orgs/parasitic multinational corporations have to keep them asleep!
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“David Roderick Shukman (born 30 May 1958, St Pancras, London) is the BBC’s Environment and Science Correspondent.
…….. He attended Eton College, then read Geography at Durham University (Hatfield College), gaining a BA.
He worked at the Coventry Evening Telegraph from 1980-3 and joined the BBC in 1983. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985-7 (at a busy time in Northern Ireland’s history), then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987-95. From 1995-9 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003. In 2003 he became the Environment and Science Correspondent.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shukman
interesting choice of reporter for this article…hardly a relevant science background, seemingly!
“The public and media are banned from entering the zone but as we approach a police checkpoint we are not stopped.”
“We continually operate a Geiger counter – and though the radiation level rises slightly once we cross into the zone, it is even lower than we had expected. (inside the car)
For the record, during the course of a three-hour visit – which we kept deliberately short to minimise the risks – the rate averages about three microsieverts per hour. “ (30 microsievert on the ground?)
On a very rapid visit like ours,
these rates are by no means threatening.”
(professor chris busby thought they were, because of the particulates and gases in the air, the alpha…
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i nearly managed it admin
……alpha emmitters, of which, would not show up on the Geiger counter!!)
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so ~250 millisieverts a year for just living in the area. Now add up the foods/water/dust (yes dust does carry radioactive particles) radioactive levels/amounts. This is terrible..and of course there are the alpha emmitters whom NO ONE is calculating in the totals. The 250 millisieverts a year..is the very LOWEST possible exposure….probably looking at a lot higher numbers and weeks vs months to reach dangerous levels for adults.For children, its too high to live near this level of radiation. Good news, it takes a bit for reactions to occur in adults –bad news when the symptoms start showing up do, its too late.
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Can someone fugure how long before the U.S. will be as that area is now, 2, 3yrs …
250 millisieverts a year ? The whole world ?
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It would be 100% speculation. Where we are with this now is in the complete unknown.
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the bbc was infiltrated by mi6 a good 50 years ago.
since the dr david kelly murder and the spineless response to pressures from tony liar blair,the bbc is now a mouth piece of uk gov.con.
it is really interesting to look at what they report and what they choose not to report.
look at news 24 asia you would not think an economic collapse is coming never mind the biggest fucked up nuclear accident in history.
through infiltration from mi6 and chatham house rothchild cliques.
the bbc are never going to be a reliable information source for news.
the bbc shaping,framing and bending the news.
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