NHK Japanese translated by EX-SKF, Dec. 12, 2011:
- 60-year-old man was found collapsed in a car and confirmed dead
- Doing the decontamination work in Date City in Fukushima
- Near the district assembly hall in the morning
- Scooped the sludge in the side drains
- Eating lunch in the company car
- Found collapsed in a car in Shimo-Oguni District of Date City at around 1pm on December 12
- Cabinet Office says “The cause of death has nothing to do with the decontamination work”, without revealing the details
EX-SKF analysis:
- I just hate to think how radioactive the sludge was
- No indication that the gov’t had measured the density of the soil or sludge
- The decontamination technology for that kind of operation in Japan is hand, shovel, trowel, and sandbag
- Beyond criminal
- Spokesman said in the yesterday’s press conference was “We don’t know the details, but the death is definitely not caused by the radiation, and it has nothing to do with the decontamination work”
- He had to clarify upon being further questioned by a reporter
- All he meant was that the worker didn’t die while he was doing the decon work
sending...
Will the world hear about your death? It seems unlikely, but people are getting restless anyway, according to ABC news:
Americans’ support for nuclear power has fallen, as 70% of those surveyed in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they’ve grown more concerned about the industry’s safety based on the crisis unfolding at reactors in Japan.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-fears-nuclear-disaster-us-rise-japan-quake/story?id=13149497#.TuakOM3QNwF
Report Comment
YAHOOOOOOO!!
Report Comment
70% OF THE PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED WHEN 99.9% OF THE NEWS HAS BEEN HUSHED – THAT’S INCREDIBLE
That means a tsunami of public opinion is going to break out when the public finds out even 10% of what we already know.
I wouldn’t want to be a politician or a regulatory agency employee right now – I the public might be calling for the guillotine again. No doubt people will go to prison for covering this thing up.
Report Comment
82% of surveyed people don’t believe quoted statistics are accurate, another 8% are undecided and a whopping 33% think percentages don’t add up to 100…..
Report Comment
Don’t forget to LEND YOUR VOICE HERE (previous post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/nrc-coup-leader-worked-fo_n_1143895.html
Need ALL ON BOARD!!
Report Comment
OK 60 year old man. Could have died by any means but… why did he die after working for nuclear clean up crew. Makes sense to me that 60 yr old would succumb quicker then 20 yr old. No way of knowing what exposure actually was, could have been cleaning hotspot. But
no way of proving for sure death caused by radiation. My sense is that radiation was at least a mitigating factor. Luckily for TEPCO and government no way to conclusively prove that radiation played into mans death. A good news story for the nuclear ghouls trying to run this place.
Report Comment
Yes but what we do know is that the cabinet office apparently knew immediately that his death was not related to radiation. How fortuitous!
Report Comment
That is because those in charge have law degrees not nuclear anything degrees.
God Bless
Report Comment
Obviously they asked him if he had died from radiation exposure, and he didn’t answer yes, so they took that as no…
Report Comment
A regular Colombo bulldog they are !
Report Comment
I’m wondering if this report of how the man was found on Tepco property can be trusted either. Do workers typically eat lunch in company cars, how close to the site? How do we know that he didn’t collapse while working on the site, and that he wasn’t then put in the car and driven to the location where he was supposedly found?
Not to create a preposterous, inconclusive game of speculation, but just to voice a concern about the absolute untrustworthiness of any scenario relating to a worker’s death that is reported by Tepco.
They will never admit that any of their workers died as a direct cause of radiation poisoning.
Are the other workers also too intimidated to discuss any real aspects of the story that they may have witnessed?
Report Comment
Sounds like he was found close to the site he was working on and it wasn’t Tepco property? Still hard to believe any reported details by the company.
Report Comment
Date city is 60 miles north of the Fuku plant–rice tested there exceeded acceptable standard for cesium contamination. I have my bearings now…
Report Comment
very well explained, thank you
Report Comment
Mark: What TEPCO and the other nuke lobby types most worry about is being able to autopsy death by radiation and this is why the shadows, smoke and mirrors by the nuke world about internalized exposure. The subject studied becomes an emitter of radiation, which is quite easily measurable and much easier to empirically correlate with known illnesses.
Report Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7BGBa6MTI
Report Comment
there will be no hiding all the death in japan in two years. wonder what they are going to do to distract us? I do believe this calls for a new war in the middle east.
Report Comment
Dear bmurr. I tend to agree “there will be no hiding the deaths”; but what about the minimization of the deaths from the tsunami? I think that probably far more than the 25,000 or 30,000 estimated have died (my estimate is more like 85,000). Governments with modern media technology are not less good at hiding data from the masses as time goes by without any real challenge to top-down control by the wealhtiest; but more good at it. Another great example are the ridiculously low numbers published supposedly reflecting deaths of soldiers or civilians by U.S. activities in Iraq over the past nearly nine years (since March 17, 2003 or same syndrome with the Gulf War). Compare what the Pentagon or White House says with what John’s Hopkins or the British medical journal Lancet says about this topic, just one place to start. Getting the word out is very important. Another good recent example of minimization is the amount of oil that gushed for months from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, or the tonnage of incredibly toxic Corexit used by BP, or their lies, revealed, suppressed and forgotten about so many aspects of that disaster. Nonetheless, I’m with you and very much hope that somehow this one does wake people up.
Report Comment
Come to think of it, the Macondo well and others may still be leaking.
Report Comment
Pallas, we are living in a toxic soup given all the dinosaur fuel, dinosaur plastic damn cant buy milk pop ( American soda ) whatever foods thats not packaged in plastic, lots of empirical evidence to show that mixing nuclear waste with chemical waste increases cancer even more. When we here are talking about heightened cancer rates due to increased radiation what factor do you add for all other chemical pollutants we are burdened with for the sake of the “Economy”?
Report Comment
Then add to that genetically engineered (or modified)food.
Report Comment
Past behavior is best predictor of future behavior !
Report Comment
True that, how noble is the nuclear industry?
Report Comment
Pallas89juno, Oh yes, they will let the dogs out again, … most folks will get whiplash !
: o
Report Comment
Germany going no nuke, Switzerland too I believe, Italy big anti nuke vote…. Protests in India, just a matter of time when nuke will be a bad word just like second hand smoke is now.
Report Comment
Good job conflating two unrelated things.
The powers that be would be proud.
Second-hand smoke was never dangerous and it’s entirely nothing like radiation.
Report Comment
Second hand smoke is dangerous. But I was using second hand smoke to demonstrate changing social mores. Smoking was acceptable at work, in a hospital everywhere. Now not so much. Here in BC it is illegal to smoke in a car with minors. Can’t smoke in Bars or Restaurants. Can’t smoke at work. Unheard of twenty years ago.
Hopefully one day people will be just as unaccepting of nuclear reactors.
Report Comment
OK only way I can justify this is that John Wayne starts this clip. He always said he thought he developed lung cancer due to working in films using land that was in close proximity to nuclear bomb tests in Nevada desert. That is not empirical evidence but is what John Wayne said. Trust him before experts, says Mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SMc2oTZmCk&feature=related
Report Comment
The Duke was onto something. Many experts agree, it’s not so much the tobacco itself but the intentionally radioactive soil it is grown in
http://www.acsa.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_tobacco.html
Report Comment
Plus this year them broad leafs allow much fallout this year, a great time to quit !
Report Comment
Tobacco is off topic, but I can say from living in BC Bud capitol Vancouver, second hand tobacco smoke is harsher then second hand pot smoke. There are many additives in tobacco which are added to make the product more marketable. You don’t have to go with nuclear dirt. Pot is grown for potency only. No chemicals are added after growing period. Tobacco gets “cured”.
Sulpher is added to make cigarette burn without attention. Smoking a marijuana cigarette, if you leave it in the ash tray it will go out. Other things are added to tobacco to market cigarettes. More addictive then heroin, yet less of a kick then pot. Yeah plutonium is legal and USA gov is financing plutonium nuclear fuel program.
To recap. uranium and plutonium are legal, tobacco and alcohol are legal, pot heroin and coke are illegal. Fossil fuels are legal and in Japan 20 mSv per year of radiation to children is legal thus legalizing nuclear pollution. Its a strange world we live in.
God Bless
Report Comment
With a gut full of 65 lbs of fecal matter, I would say he didn’t exercises much after all them meat and potatoes !
Now the Marlboro man may be more suited !
Report Comment
It is well known that many children and adults drop dead suddenly due to Cesium toxicity in the heart.
Yuri Bandazhevsky, scientist and medical researcher discovered and proved a Long term incorporated radionuclides syndrome in Chernobyl area inhabitants.
This is a totally new disease that did not exist before. This disease is a disease of the heart, due to a toxic loading of Cesium in the heart muscle.
As the Cesium collects and concentrates in the heart muscle, it causes problems there. After about 50Bq/kg, the heart and other organs will see lesions developing, according to him and his research results.
At a rate higher than that, he found that the child can die suddenly for no obvious reason, or have heart attacks, strokes, or other problems around the heart.
He is saying that statistics about children are not being shared with ANYONE in the nuclear community, not the UN, not the WHO, not anyone else. As a matter of fact, the same coverup that happened after Chernobyl, is now happening in Japan after Fukushima.
Nuclear experts associated or supported/directed by the nuclear industry claim that radiation is good for you, does no harm, and that children are not affected. They also claim all damage found in people or children is due SOLELY due to stress or phobias about nuclear stuff, but NOT from radiation.
Report Comment
It would be nice to do an autopsy, and see if there are any lesions or problems with the heart, and to measure the internal radiation exposure of this individual who was cleaning up high level radiation..
How long did he do this? What was his training? Did he have a dosimeter? Where are the records for this?
I will bet money that the nuclear industry will not count this death as due to Fuku. They will also not be interested in finding out if it was or not.. His death will be just another meaningless statistic of millions of deaths from FUKU, just like Chernobyl.
UN Secretary General Dr Kofi Anan; “Consequences of Chernobyl do not fade away, but actually grow over time and in many ways, become more intense.”
D. Zupka, UN representative of UN humanitarian affairs UN – OCHA
Both agree and say that there are 9 million victims from Chernobyl as of 2001, and the tragedy is only beginning. The calamity will be with us for generations to come, even if IAEA and other pro nuclear ‘experts’ claim the opposite.
Children are dying; Chernobyl radiation effects have been extensively studied by many independent scientists around the world. Here is what they found. Children are affected in many ways, and the following is a brief summary:
Increase in Spontaneous abortions
Increase in mortality
Increase in number of ill and feeble newborns
Increase in number of genetic defects and diseases, total of over 2,000 possible
Increase in number of congenital malformations
Increase in incidence of cancers of all kinds
Increase in impaired mental development
Increase in psychiatric diseases
Increase in alterations of immune system, weakening
Increase in abnormal hormone balances
Increase in diseases of the cardiovascular system
Increase in abnormal slow growth of children
Increase in abnormal exhaustion of children
Increase in delayed recovery from diseases
Increase in premature aging effects
Source
http://video.google…
Report Comment
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826&hl=en
Link for above info….and quotes
Report Comment