Published: June 25th, 2011 at 5:57 pm ET
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EPA Halted Extra Testing for Radiation From Japan Weeks Ago, Truthout, June 23, 2011:
[...] EPA has abandoned the extra tests, even as reports from Japan indicate that the Fukushima plant continues to emit radiation and the disaster is one of the worst in world history.
The EPA posted a statement online saying it would return to routine testing on May 3, but the agency did not send out a press release. The media widely ignored the change, even as Japanese officials admitted just weeks later that they were battling a full nuclear meltdown. [...]
“The Fukushima disaster is unlike any nuclear accident we have ever had,” said Dan Hirsch of the nuclear watchdog group Committee to Bridge the Gap. “We haven’t had anything that has gone on for a year, and that is what the Japanese authorities are predicting – if they’re lucky. It might even take longer. The fuel has melted through, there are breaches at the containment structures, and there are constant radioactive releases.” [...]
“The easiest way to not have any concern over data is to have no data at all,” said Hirsch, who is critical of the cozy relationship between the US government and the domestic nuclear industry. “I think the system is there to say they have a system, but not to report any data that would undermine public support for nuclear power.” [...]
Published: June 25th, 2011 at 5:57 pm ET
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New one at Nuclear Free:
Experts urge great caution over radiation risks
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/experts-urge-great-caution-over-radiation-risks.html
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sorry Whoopie, your link not working…
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/experts-urge-great-caution-over-radiation-risks.html
if that not work, then it’s the top link on this google page:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuclearfreeplanet.org+experts+agree&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=jhw&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&q=http:%2F%2Fwww.nuclearfreeplanet.org+experts+urge+great+caution&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=8f0bc854a609edd8&biw=1050&bih=947
what a large looking link….
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Thanks…should have checked it first.
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Radioactive Dust From Japan Hit North America 3 Days After Meltdown
But Governments “Lied” About Meltdowns and Radiation
by Washington’s Blog
The attempted cover up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster is nothing new.Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years, and the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked onNavy submarines … and produced plutonium for the military.
(Indeed, the government’s response to every crisis appears to be to try to cover it up; and see this.)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25383
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Quote: would undermine public support for nuclear power.
I think the support for nuclear power, has already dwindled.
They just haven’t gotten the memo yet.
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OK, just a first draft, that you guys can help with …
Memo
Dear Obama,
We the People, as popular sovereignty dictates in the Constitution of the United States of America, and the rest of the world, wish to avise you that we shall not, in this generation, or any other, accept nuclear power as a solution to our energy needs.
We urge you, as Executive head of the government of the United States, to apply whatever influence or measures necessary to put a halt to the continuing, and increasing, levels of environmental radiation now bio-accumulating and biomagnifying in our air, water, food and oceans for the preservation of life on this planet.
We believe that this is a truly decisive moment for the United States and the rest of the world, and a historic opportunity to prove that transparent government should not entail the witholding of key and timely information for the health and survival of our species but rather full disclosure for our future preservation.
We believe that obfuscation of essential data and prevarication in the interests of the nuclear and military industries are to the detriment, not only of your political longevity, but of the principles embodied in the Nobel Prize you have been awarded, and accepted.
The world is in great danger, and we expect nothing less than transparent, courageous and responsible leadership at this time of great crisis.
Yours Truly,
We the People of the United States and The World
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I know, tame. But, maybe a start.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_sovereignty_in_the_United_States
The American Revolution marked a departure in the concept of popular sovereignty as it had been discussed and employed in the European historical context. With their Revolution, Americans substituted the sovereignty in the person of the English king, George III, with a collective sovereign—composed of the people.
Henceforth, American revolutionaries by and large agreed and were committed to the principle that governments were legitimate only if they rested on popular sovereignty – that is, the sovereignty of the people.[1] In 18th century American political thought, “the people” excluded most of the population, such as women, African Americans, those lacking sufficient property, Native Americans, and children.
This idea that the people were sovereign (often linked with the notion of the consent of the governed) was not invented by the American revolutionaries. Rather, the consent of the governed and the idea of the people as a sovereign had clear 17th and 18th century intellectual roots in English history.
The American contribution lay in what Americans did with the idea that the people were the sovereign—how they struggled with and put that idea into practice. Before the American Revolution, few examples existed of a people deliberately creating their own governments.
Most people in the world experienced governments as an inheritance—whether monarchies or expressions of raw power.[4] What underscored the excitement surrounding the creation of constitutions establishing governments in America after Independence was the fact that Americans deliberately and self-consciously created governments at one single moment explicitly relying on the authority of the sovereignty of the people (or “popular sovereignty”).
Having relied upon the people as the collective sovereign to establish their first state constitutions (and later the Federal constitution), numerous questions remained for Americans to answer.
What did a collective sovereign mean? How did one recognize the voice or expression of that collective sovereign and in what ways could that collective sovereign act? Americans struggled and contested over the answers to these questions from the time they declared Independence to the eve of the Civil War. During this period the idea of the people as the sovereign both unified and divided Americans in thinking about government and the basis of the Union.
Historian Ronald Formisano notes that “assertions of the peoples’ sovereignty over time contained an unintended dynamic of raising popular expectations for a greater degree of popular participation and that the peoples’ will be satisfied.”
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Seems like a Replay of the way oil and Corexit and other things in the gulf was handled in the GOM !
You got to see …
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/?s=FDA+test+
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I sense an sudden even greater tightening of censorship.
NHK has already removed that news about the decontamination device not working only a few hours after posting it.
A google news search for the last hour using the search term “Fukushima” did not return any results just now. First time I’ve seen that happen…there’s usually SOMETHING about Fukushima on the US google news (if you do a search)
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Use mine unlimited results:
http://search.avg.com/?d=4b7237c1&v=7.5.30.4&i=23&tp=tb&q=Fukushima&lng=en-US
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I noticed the absence of coverage as well… I don’t know whether it is censorship or media fatigue or both.
Pathetic.
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when cancer cases start rising in this country our gov’t will just scratch their heads and wonder why…… just like they don’t know why all the fish are dying off, or the bats & honeybees.
expect no information or help from your gov’t….. we’re on our own here!
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@ DarylAnn
FDA has said a word since NOAA isssued it’s notice:
ALERT !! NOAA Confirms Sick Fish in Gulf *GROSS PHOTOS*
To Gulf Oil Spill on Tuesday, May 31, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/677/418/ALERT_NOAA_Confirms_Sick_Fish_in_Gulf_GROSS_PHOTOS.html
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opp’s, meant to type:
FDA hasn’t said a word since NOAA issued it’s notice:
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Plans are being made all over the country to make money..on a cancer increase, etc.
Like this one:
http://biodistrictneworleans.org/
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Hopefully..I have been very careful about making predictions.
The data shows the increases in cancer rates after Chernobyl..
Therefore after.. open consideration of the types amount of nuclear material at Fukushima..the initial explosion…wind currents. early predictions out of Norway, etc.
I believe as others like Busby,Bob Nichols,etc…that we have taken a dose of radiation.. particularly on the West Coast.
What concerns me..is the continual fission and the emissions of low dose radiation FOREVER.
Also..too..my concerns are more immediate …the population both Japanese and our troops stationed nearby are being exposed to much higher rates of radiation.
Comtamination of the groundwater..along with the sea and air…a major concern.
The geological implications of core-down ..heavy hypothesis..indications to be watched for.
If I thought for a moment that I was wrong..I’d quit.
But I can’t quit.
Truth must be told and liberty defended.
There are people by the way that have very good estimates as to the intensity and composition of the blast.
but you will never here from them.
But these truths won’t come out for years.
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…Sorry for typos ..point being..yes…I’ll admit I was wrong….publicly..
Sadly I don’t beieve I am.
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Heart of Rose,
You are right – radiation leads to terrible health effects. Please watch the attached utube (incl transcript) Chernobyl: A Million Casualties
http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/zzyKyq4iiV3r/en/26351/
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I lived 500 km from Cernobyl in 1987 – I know based on how my body reacts to radioactivity (alexa dosimeter) that Fukushima is much, much worse than Cernobyl and it’s ongoing. I feel strong radiation in the air in Toronto – which is much further from Japan than 500 km. I feel sorry that a lot of people do not feel the radiation and think radiation is just a theoretical risk.
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fatigue ?
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xdrfox Yes – a lot of fatigue today more than other days, even though I am avoiding exposure.
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..I think we are getting a higher amount of radiation at present from the explosion on June 16..
..That was one hell of an explosion..
..Plutonium…IMHO
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UK thorium?
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what explosion?
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yep..add thorium.
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Explosion June 16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHVLONNtGn0
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I checked radnet data acrosss US and found a very definite spike in many areas of the country around June 19-21.
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@ alexa
I hate that, .. When I go out on my bike/M/C for a few hours the next day I usually am fatigued and for a few days, I Know what it is for I can ride and stay out all day doing things everyday with none of this before !
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entirely past the point, but no go then?
http://www.finance-ol.com/2011/06/uk-research-is-intended-to-replace-radioactive-thorium-to-uranium/
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Thorium reactors…Yep..
I was thinking about thorium in this capacity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertile_material
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3 tins dog food
2 carrots
1 pork chop
pasta shapes
2 packets peas
dried cat food
bottle of spring water
2 toilet roll
3 chocolate
1 hot sauce
3 onions
Looks like a one day post-apocalypse ration for an adult, and his dog and cat. Ever wonder about what shortages would be dire in a Mad Max world? Toilet paper comes to mind as a luxury that would soon become apparent. Books would be scarce because their paper would become too valuable as toilet paper. Eventually all paper would be gone and only leaves and the “toilet” hand would be the bathroom aid as it is today in some primitive societies where the offer of a right handshake is considered nasty (the “bad” hand).
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if i may ask…i am not doubting the threat of cancers, and i know many experts say there will be an increase…but…
what if there isn’t? what if all this talk about a million new cancers never falls through, and in the end we are all the same as we were before? will some of you come back and admit you were wrong, or would you just say ‘keep waiting, it’ll happen’ ? just a question…
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Irradiated Californy….
The hospital business, the medical billing business,
the Pharmaceutical and supply business, all rely
upon the burgeoning senior-baby-boomers, the last
generation that has any pension and insurance and
seizable properties, to die off at an effective, actuarially
profitable rate.
So, EVEN without the new nuke criseeze…
cancers are going throught the roof…
Do YOU or someone you know still regularly
eat ice cream? Cheeze? Soda’s and Diet Sodas?
Smokers? Raised as a kid among smokers?
Use a lot of Sprays and Scents and Cleaning chemicals?
You can review the data, and see that
the “Medical” economy pretty well is designed
for YOU to get cancer, unless you practice careful
self-discipline, make correct choices.
The Big Money is developing Cancer Centers because
they fully Intend for you to Get Cancer and Go Broke
playing their game.
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The Econ starts from kindergarten: youre taught no thinking – believe all youre fed – or you wont pass exams.
Later you learn that by joining the edu curriculum designers brotherhood, youll become a success story glorified in Economist, WSJ or whatever fucuScience…
Lets see if I catch some of the programmed prog rammers:
Freemas0ns; introduced via R0tary, Li0n etc clubs into this shining path; oaths are taken on every step. This forms a vast unseen j€§uit disciplined papal army around the globe, inside every institution, business, police, politics, media…
I.U.0.M. – White Degree; Master Ancient Scottish Builders etcetc; oath:
(I promise) That my breast shall be the sacred repository of his secrets when delivered to me as such, murder, treason, felony and all offenses contrary to the Law of God or the ordinances of the Realm,…
All these several points and others I promise to observe without evasion, equivocation or mental reservation of any kind under no less a penalty, on the violation of them, than to have my body severed in two, my bowels torn therefrom and burnt to ashes in the centre, and those ashes scattered before the four cardinal points of Heaven, so that no trace or remembrance of me shall be left amongst men, more particularly among Master Mechanics: …
Jubela: O, that my throat had been cut serves from ear to ear, my tongue torn out and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours …
I solemnly promise on my word of honor that I will always obey the mandates of this Grand and Noble Order, and that I will forever keep secret the mysteries that shall be shown me tonight. I further promise that I will always treat the members of this order at my expense when reminded of this obligation, and have my bowels opened at regular intervals. I also promise to pay all bills contracted by members of this order. …
Military Order of the Serpent, Ritual of the Degree of Kh atapunan:
…Never shall its mysteries pass my Ups
Outside the holy circle.
Never shall I refuse to receive thee or thy Virus
When thou comest into our midst;
And this vow, O Snake, swear I
By the Sword, the Cord and the Flame.
If ever in thought, word or deed
I am false to Kh atee Puna,
May my death be lingering and wretched;
May my soul be of the pale company
Of horrid wraiths who haunt the mountain;
And may my bowels be ripped out
And cast into the flames of destruction. …
See whole blog http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)
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Search the term CANCERS
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Hi irradiated californian
I hope that I am wrong that Fukushima or any other nuclear accident that may happen won’t effect us.
Sorry but, I don’t see how this won’t effect us in some way.
xdrfox is right look up Cancers and also look up radiation fallout. I know I’m not smarter than the experts.
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And if you DO get cancer will you come back and post that you did? When the spent fuel pool inside the number 3 building detonated, I read where ‘tons’ of the contents were aresolized and blown into the jet stream. If this is true, ELE.
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reactor #3 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBYQ5opMLs&NR=1
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REACTOR 3 dome top blown across to the long building in front of it, see the BIG hole in it’s roof !
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chemfood, thanks for the link. This might also be of interest for you – also an analysis of some unit 3 pictures. You can actually see the RPV steaming away, sitting in the remains of unit 3 without its cap.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55934120/A-couple-of-Fukushima-Photos
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Hello StPaulScout L0y0la University Jۤuit. More pills today?
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First, I would be extremely happy if there were no increase in the cancer rate in the near term, or ever.
Unfortunately, radiation exposure and the resulting cancer rates are a very complicated phenomena. It’s a function of the total dose, the type of dose, the age at which the person was exposed, the general health of the individual when exposed, the genetics of the exposed individual, was it ingested, etc. The consequences of radiation exposure can take decades to play out. For example scientists now suspect that in terms of genetic damage a toddler getting a sunburn (radiation) is the equivalent of that same individual getting 20 sunburns as an adult. Also, a lightly complected child given the same amount of sun exposure will experience more genetic damage than a darker complected one. If the kid has lots of moles, the damage may even be worse. If the child was suffering from poor nutrition during the sunburn that will impair the bodies ability to repair the damage. Sadly, this damage can ultimately result in skin cancer at any time during that individuals life. Once, the damage has been done, you can never say that someone is totally out of the clear in terms of there being adverse consequences. Therefore, one can’t scientifically say after 1, 2, 3, etc. years that NO harm was done. One couldn’t even say this after 10-20 years. All you could honestly say if the rates don’t increase over any given period is that no harm is evident – so far.
Those who poo poo the consequences of nuke accidents count on the fact that most of the serious damage from a radioactive release may not show up for years, or even decades. In a society full of people who are scientifically illiterate and who also have only a 15 min attention span, it makes white washing these things easy.
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If uranium and plutonium are dispersed around the planet, cancer rates will jump so high there will be no debating what caused it. Plutonium is, after all, the single most deadly/poisonous ‘thing’ a human can be exposed to and at high enough doses, you will simply drop dead.
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I heard somewhere that Curium-244 is even worse – and that is being spewed out too.
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Curium’s gamma rays are so strong that it takes two inches of lead to block them safely, more than plutonium requires as a barrier. Or so I have read. Strontium, plutonium, it’s all as bad as it gets.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curium-244#Curium-244
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Plutonium
Plutonium. (icon | p | l | uː | ˈ | t | oʊ | n | i | əm ploo | TOH | nee-əm is a transuranic radioactive chemical element with the …
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Plutonium-239
Plutonium-239 is an isotope of plutonium . Plutonium-239 is the primary fissile isotope used for the production of nuclear weapon s, …
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Isotopes of plutonium
Plutonium (Pu) is an artificial element , except for trace quantities of primordial sup 244/sup Pu , and thus a standard atomic mass …
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Allotropes of plutonium
Even at ambient pressure, plutonium occurs in a variety of allotrope s. These allotropes differ widely in crystal structure and density; …
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Nuclear fuel cycle(section Plutonium cycle)
One alternative to this low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel are Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuels produced by blending plutonium with natural or …
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Metal Men
Magnus is assigned to design and construct a new Plutonium Man robot, but deliberately makes little progress, saying to Morrow that the …
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Ploutonion (redirect from Plutonium (cave))
In ancient Greek religious topography , a Ploutonion (Πλουτώνιον), Latinized as Plutonium, was a sanctuary dedicated to the god Plouton …
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Plutonium-240
Plutonium-240 (Pu-240) is an isotope of the metal plutonium formed when plutonium-239 captures a neutron . About 62% to 73% of the …
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Plutonium-238
Plutonium-238, is a radioactive isotope of plutonium with a half-life of 87.7 years. Because it is a very powerful alpha emitter that …
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Plutonium-241
Plutonium-241 (Pu-241) is an isotope of plutonium formed when plutonium-240 captures a neutron . Like Pu-239 but unlike 240 Pu, 241 Pu …
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Plutonium-244
Plutonium-244 (244 Pu) is an isotope of plutonium that has a halflife of 80 million years. other isotopes of plutonium and longer than …
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Nuclear reprocessing (redirect from Plutonium uranium extraction)
Nuclear reprocessing technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel …
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Plutonium hexafluoride
Plutonium hexafluoride is the highest fluoride of plutonium , and is of interest for laser enrichment of plutonium, in particular for the …
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Plutonium(IV) oxide
Plutonium(IV) oxide is the chemical compound with the formula PuO 2. This high melting point solid is a principal compound of plutonium . …
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Plutonium(III) fluoride
Plutonium(III) fluoride or plutonium trifluoride is the chemical compound composed of plutonium and fluorine with the formula PuF 3. …
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Plutonium-242
Pu-242 is one of the isotopes of plutonium , the second longest-lived, with a half-life of 373,300 years. 242 Pu’s halflife is about 15 …
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Pit (nuclear weapon) (redirect from Plutonium core)
Some weapons tested during the 1950s used pits made with U-235 alone, or in composite with plutonium but all-plutonium pits are the …
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Reactor-grade plutonium
Reactor-grade plutonium is found in spent nuclear fuel that a nuclear reactor has irradiated (burnup ) for years instead of weeks or …
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Plutonium-gallium alloy
Plutonium-gallium alloy (Pu-Ga) is an alloy of plutonium and gallium , used in nuclear weapon pits – the component of a nuclear weapon …
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Plutonium hydride
Plutonium hydride is the chemical compound with the formula PuH 2. It is one of two characterised hydrides of plutonium, the other is PuH …
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&search=plutonium
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more wiki:
“Owing to its high radioactivity, curium and its compounds must be handled in appropriate laboratories under special arrangements. Whereas curium itself mostly emits α-particles which are absorbed by thin layers of common materials, some of its decay products emit significant fractions of beta and gamma radiation, which require a more elaborate protection.[44] If consumed, curium is excreted within a few days and only 0.05% is absorbed in the blood. From there, about 45% goes to the liver, 45% to the bones, and the remaining 10% is excreted. In the bone, curium accumulates on the inside of the interfaces to the bone marrow and does not significantly redistribute with time; its radiation destroys bone marrow and thus stops red blood cell creation. The biological half-life of curium is about 20 years in the liver and 50 years in the bones.[44][46] Curium is absorbed in the body much more strongly via inhalation, and the allowed total dose of 244Cm in soluble form is 0.3 μC.[12] Intravenous injection of 242Cm and 244Cm containing solutions to rats increased the incidence of bone tumor, and inhalation promoted pulmonary and liver cancer.[44]“
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What r u smokin?
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Just load my rations up with
Dog Food
Water
TP
Chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate
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Is that a recipe? If it is you are going to have to cut down on the toilet paper or it will turn out too dry and heavy.
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or for after the hot sauce.
Hot Sauce is definitely Not on my list
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I was kidding about it being a recipe!
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Not really !
http://www.damnlol.com/pics/183/402ec7ea9b7b2b74f69dc352a37cc21a.gif
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OMG!!!!
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See some strang things at the DMV, almost as bad as Wallmart !
lol
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wonder if this could happen outside france too? like the usa for instance…??
“Since March 2001, 400 lawsuits have been filed in France against “X” (the French equivalent of John Doe, an unknown person or company) by the French Association of Thyroid-affected People, including 200 in April 2006. These persons are affected by thyroid cancer or goitres, and have filed lawsuits alleging that the French government, at the time led by Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, had not adequately informed the population of the risks linked to the Chernobyl radioactive fallout. The complaint contrasts the health protection measures put in place in nearby countries (warning against consumption of green vegetables or milk by children and pregnant women) with the relatively high contamination suffered by the east of France and Corsica. Although the 2006 study by the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety said that no clear link could be found between Chernobyl and the increase of thyroid cancers in France, it also stated that papillary thyroid cancer had tripled in the following years”
off this wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
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it might be noted that the eu gave an advisory to pregnant women and children to not eat soft cheeses milk or leafy vegetables..what happened about that??
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i meant an advisory for the fukushima disaster… sorry tired..
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I belive there are some “signature” in the range of Isotops relised into the enviroment, so its posible to track a radioactiv “spill”.
To be brutaly honest, no more dicking aroud, I know by now that this is going to be bad, realy bad. All this goverments cowerups is going to backfire, and when it backfires it probably be to late for the vast majorety of people, particulary in the USA/Canada and Japan(where are the numbers from the island comunetys in the Pacific). This is going to afect the young ones and short lifespan chreatures all over the globe, to us that are “old fosils” are infact in better position, because of rate of Cellmutation, it slows down with age. And the realitve time span for deseasess to surface, we are “safe” and probably die of other things:)
After 3 months we are been told less and less, the numbers giver, dont mean Jack shitt.
It will surface, ohyea, it will, but to what price. They are right now sacrifising the globe on the altar of big companys and simple greed. Govermn by corruption and covardness.
Its not evil people or whatever that in the end was/is our biggest enemy, nope, its our inherent covardnes. The fear of any rocking of the Status Quo, that is our second biggest enemy.
Thats it.
If you are waiting for a savior, you are going to die.
You can run, but you cant hide. For a lot of people its already to late, from now on its a matter of time before the consequenses rise, and shows it self.
Thats my initial anger, on behalf of those that is incapable of sounding a woice, the unborn and our mother earth.
So beat around the bush for as long as you want, but reality and nature will kick back. And when it kicks back, its going to be without mercy.
No mercy at all.
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it sounds like the French Association of Thyroid-affected People are showing us the way forward on this one….still bullish uranium or thorium anyone???? cest la guerre!!
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in the near future comparison to these type of charts ; http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/thyro.html
will give this sort of info
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/i131/Fallout-PDF
pro nuclear points but got some diagrams and stats…dont agree with the summary ended up talking about being better placed to deal with nuclear disasters, terrorism etc. because of the data from nuke testing!! thank heaven for helen caldicott and co.!! gonna be a hell of a legal battle though…anyone got very deep pockets??
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EPA Monitoring Equiptment
Does anyone have the actual type and model of the monitoring/detection/spectrographic equipment the EPA is actually using? Or not using.
I heard it is old and outdated. But what is it?
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Why would they want to keep monitoring for the public to access data to their testing, when the federal government can contract testing out to corporations, already controlling the government, and keep the data to themselves by classifing it for “national security” reasons?
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nilu is a government institution that is still running flexpart projections…only for the military/elite…suppose they are still testing thouroughly and running projections in america too!!….on a need to know compartmentalise infosharing basis!! question …if you knew a cloud of radioactivity was coming to town and it was to be kept secret, what would you do….tell family only or your friends etc??? sad times we live in…
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http://www.naturalnews.com/032670_Fukushima_HAARP.html
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)connected to Fukashima quake….
lithotripsy on the earths crust…. knowing this is how medicine uses technology on a smaller scale …
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How long will it be before We all start distrusting our own government like the Japanese??
I for one, never did…
This in horrendous news.
Yet the total ignorance keeps on playing.
It is sad but true.
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Morning and night drink:
1 teaspoon zeolite powder
1 teaspoon bentonite clay powder
1 teaspoon vitamin C w/bioflavinoids
1 teaspoon apple pectin powder
Mix above four in small glass (6-8 oz) of water and drink the mud!
Also these supplements:
* 1 drop “Xodine” (nanocolloidal iodine) 2-3 times daily (not too late in the day, as it gives a good hit of energy – can keep you awake), generally before food
* 4-6 chlorella tablets (“Nepro Rella”) morning and night
* N-Acetyl Cysteine (“Vital Nutrients”) in the morning only (600mg)
That’s the regimen that myself and my wife have been on since late March (some of the stuff from early April).
Where we live in the Pacific Northwest is near to one of the EPA stations that had some of the highest readings, until they stopped bothering to continue their “testing” (that was almost non-existent in the first place) in mid-April. So, doing our best to counter the rads that are surely entering our bodies even with a careful diet (including soaking vegetables in bentonite saturated water for 15-20 mins before use).
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Oh, forgot to mention that it is best to add the apple pectin powder after mixing the other three powders quite well in a small glass of water. Easiest to drop the teaspoon of pectin on top of the mud, then pour a small amount of extra water on top to make it kind of sink in (it is quite sticky and blobby and does not actually dissolve). Then enjoy downing that healthy lumpy muddy drink!
For those who are not aware, apple pectin is good for helping to cleanse cesium (and other radioactive particles) out of the digestive tract (http://www.naturalnews.com/031969_apple_pectin_radiation.html).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_citrus_pectin
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Thanks for mentioning that too – I had forgotten about this type of pectin. This could well lead to even MORE powder being in our already very muddy drinks…
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Good advice Savvy.
Thank you.
A book I am about to dive in to is one my brother has loaned me
DIET FOR THE ATOMIC SAGE
Sara Sahnnon
Looks like a good read.
Just wish it was from the perspective of fore sight instead of hind sight.
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GAAK!
DIET FOR THE ATOMIC SAGE
Sara Shannon
Sorry
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Combatting radiation poisoning tips: Chelating (detoxifying) excess ionizing radiation & destructive radioactivity from your body and treating radiation burns naturally
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/chelating-ionizing-radiation.html
TECHNOLOGY’S CURSE: Diet for the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by Sara Shannon
http://www.amazon.com/TECHNOLOGYS-CURSE-Diet-Atomic-Age/dp/0941683265
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And one more detail is that it is not good to use a metal teaspoon for serving out the zeolite/bentonite, as the ionisation of the metal can apparently detract a little from the beneficial properties of these volcanic powders.
So, use a PLASTIC TEASPOON with the whole process – that’s the simplest! We use one dry plastic teaspoon that sits in/on one of the jars of powders (that should also not be metal – use glass or plastic jars) and then we use one wet plastic teaspoon for the mixing process. It does take a good vigorous stir to mix those powders up well.
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And do not store your baking soda in a clean use pickle jar and lid ! … yuck !
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Good news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005977/Standards-nuclear-power-plants-question-radioactive-leaks-cracked-foundations-unpunished.html
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Is Fukushima radiation killing U.S. babies? Not likely
Austin Baird | Jun 24, 2011
The wide-ranging impacts of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan have been well reported.
But according to Dahr Jamail, a self-described “independent journalist” who previously spent time as a wilderness guide and rescue ranger in Alaska, there is a disturbing trend that has been conspicuously absent from headlines. In a story for Al Jazeera English — an offshoot of the Arabic-language news agency Al Jazeera, based in Qatar — Jamail reports that there has been a 35 percent increase in infant mortality rates in the U.S. Pacific Northwest since the Fukushima disaster. Jamail cites a report compiled by progressive activists Janette D. Sherman and Joseph Mangano, who pull data from recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports as an attempt to back the claim that U.S. children are dying en masse since the Fukushima disaster.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but that’s all the substance the researchers are able to provide, because there appears to be more at play than a pair of concerned doctors turning to Jamail to shine light on a story that’s been inexplicably underreported.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/fukushima-radiation-killing-us-babies-not-likely
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And as a reminder for people, the true story about this is in this article:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06172011.html
“Post-Fukushima Infant Deaths in the Pacific Northwest”
That’s the heading to look for in the article, which is about half way down. Here’s a quote from it:
“Simply by moving the boundary line northward from Santa Cruz Sprey found that the four northernmost Pacific Northwest cities in the CDC sample – Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane – show remarkably significant results – a larger infant mortality increase than the original Sherman-Mangano results.
“During the ten weeks before March 11 those four cities suffered 55 deaths among infants less than one year old. In the ten weeks after Fukushima 78 infants died – a 42 per cent increase and one that is statistically significant. To confirm once again that these results were not due to seasonality Sprey compared these infant deaths in the ten weeks after Fukushima to the deaths in the equivalent ten weeks a year earlier. The results were almost identical with the ten weeks before Fukushima in 2011. Within the equivalent ten weeks of 2010 53 infants died in these four cities.
“The post-Fukushima deaths are 47 per cent higher than they were in the same period a year before – once again statistically significant. If you add Boisie, Idaho to the four city sample the results remain almost unchanged.”
– So, in actual fact, the results are even worse than those that were supposedly “debunked” by the “(UN-)Scientific American” spin piece.
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This “Alaska Dispatch” piece was so bad that I signed up and have put this comment on the article:
Response to: “Is Fukushima radiation killing U.S. babies? Not likely”
True. It is “not likely” that babies are dying from the radiation. It is almost a certainty. The analysis quoted in this article above is actually itself incorrect about this matter. A correct analysis is found in an article here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06172011.html
“Post-Fukushima Infant Deaths in the Pacific Northwest”
That’s the heading to look for in the article, which is about half way down. Here’s a quote from it:
“Simply by moving the boundary line northward from Santa Cruz [Pierre] Sprey [CounterPunch's statistical consultant] found that the four northernmost Pacific Northwest cities in the CDC sample – Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane – show remarkably significant results – a larger infant mortality increase than the original Sherman-Mangano results.
“During the ten weeks before March 11 those four cities suffered 55 deaths among infants less than one year old. In the ten weeks after Fukushima 78 infants died – a 42 per cent increase and one that is statistically significant. To confirm once again that these results were not due to seasonality Sprey compared these infant deaths in the ten weeks after Fukushima to the deaths in the equivalent ten weeks a year earlier. The results were almost identical with the ten weeks before Fukushima in 2011. Within the equivalent ten weeks of 2010 53 infants died in these four cities.
“The post-Fukushima deaths are 47 per cent higher than they were in the same period a year before – once again statistically significant. If you add Boisie, Idaho to the four city sample the results remain almost unchanged.”
– So, in actual fact, the results are even worse than those that were supposedly “debunked” by the “Scientific American” piece.
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Oops. Didn’t really need to repost all that text once again – meant to only include the intro part that I put on the Alaska Dispatch comment.
Ah well. Tired. Later.
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Radiation actually a NORM
KUALA LUMPUR: For most of us, the word “radioactive” brings to mind images of
a very dangerous substance which we should shun, what more handle.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/6/25/nation/8969625&sec=nation
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Tokyo says radiation levels at 100 locations pose no risk
by Mark Willacy, North Asia Correspondent
Last Updated: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:36:00 +1000
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government says radiation levels at 100 locations across the city pose no health risk, but that there are high readings in some eastern areas.
The monitoring was carried out in response to public fears about contamination from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Radiation measurements were made at five centimetres and one metre about the ground, at 100 sites across Tokyo.
The Metropolitan Government says all readings were relatively low, although several spots in the city’s east recorded higher measurements.
The highest level was detected at a primary school in eastern Tokyo.
Analysts say wind direction and river flows most likely caused the elevated radiation levels in these areas.
http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201106/3253598.htm?desktop
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‘Radioactivity inside the reactor buildings is too high for workers to take measurements there.
The machine got stuck at a staircase landing and failed to go downstairs, Tokyo Electric spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said. A cable that was supposed to drop a gauge into the basement also malfunctioned.
The workers retrieved the robot and were going to make adjustments before sending it back in for another try, Matsumoto said. He did not elaborate.’
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2011/06/25/robot_drone_fail_on_japan_nuke_plant_missions/
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5 Rules for Summer Food Safety
Good Housekeeping By Paul Hope | Good Housekeeping – Thu, 23 Jun, 2011 10:10 AM EDT
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/5-rules-for-summer-food-safety.html
Missing something?
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“When we look at Chernobyl, most of West Germany was heavily contaminated. Norway, Sweden. Hungary was terribly contaminated. The radiation was taken up into the plants. The food was radioactive. They took the milk and turned it into cheese. The cheese was radioactive. That’s the big danger, the crops in this country being contaminated, the milk in particular, with Strontium 90. That radiation is incorporated into the bones and stays a lifetime.”
https://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/children-sickness-linked-to-fukushima-radiation
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Experts urge great caution over radiation risks
By TOMOKO OTAKE
Staff writer
In order to address public concerns over post 3/11 food safety, the government should be more forthcoming in the monitoring and disclosure of data regarding radiation contamination of soil, Akira Sugenoya, mayor of Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, told this reporter recently.
Sugenoya, a medical doctor, speaks from experience, having spent 5½ years from 1996 in the Republic of Belarus treating children with thyroid cancer. He was there because the incidence of that disease in children surged after the Chernobyl disaster in neighboring Ukraine in 1986. In that April 26 event, which involved an explosion and a fire at the nuclear power plant there, large amounts of radioactive substances were released into the atmosphere.
Consequently, due to his unique experience, Sugenoya — who has held his position as mayor since 2004 — was asked by Japan’s Food Safety Commission to share his opinion as an expert at a series of meetings convened in late March to set emergency radiation limits for domestic food.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110626x3.html
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‘Commenting on these to the JT, Sugenoya said it is his understanding that the current limits set by the commission (see table) are “relatively stringent” by international standards.
However, he added that infants, children up to the age of 14 and pregnant and breastfeeding women should avoid eating food contaminated with even the small doses of radiation. In fact he said that adults should leave safer food for these more at-risk segments of the population even if it means they will eat contaminated food themselves.
Sugenoya also pointed out that what is fueling people’s concerns in particular is the slow disclosure of soil contamination data, despite the fact that it is only through such data that it becomes clear where, and even whether, safe vegetables can be grown. Instead, he said, the government has been occupied only with monitoring radiation levels in the air.
“I think some municipal governments have only recently begun to release soil data in response to mounting calls from the public,” he said. “But the central government should have taken the initiative to release them much earlier … . What the central government must do now is release all data, no matter how bad, because if it doesn’t it can only add to people’s suspicions that it is manipulating information.’
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Irradiated food poses moral dilemmas
By TOMOKO OTAKE
Staff writer
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110626x2.html
*** The issues posed in Japan are the same posed here. There is no *worst case* in this disaster in my opinion, it is a shared and collective catastrophe. It would be extremely prudent at this stage for all governments to either step up and communicate and collaborate with their citizens, OR step aside and let smart and good people live in the world they want and deserve. We don’t deserve to be treated like this. The world and life belongs to every creature and if the governments cannot be entrusted then the people’s trust should be placed elsewhere.
There is no point in investing in and paying for the loss of your life.
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I love that last line…please tell me, how do we get them to step aside??? I certainly wish they would, but don’t see much hope of it happening…
I guess when I see the power these mega-corporations have, I feel helpless…angry, but helpless.
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westcoastgirl,
have you thoight about joining an activists group? There are many, and as a group so much more can be achieved than by a single person. Sitting around feeling depressed and angry will get us nowhere…look here for a start:
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6207
I work a lot in groups and donate if i can. YOU can make a difference. Bottoms up!!
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Believe me, I sign every petition I can (I’ll definitely sign this one), and donate when I can, although I’ve found that when I donate I get put on mailing lists and then bombarded by every cause under the sun…I can’t save the whole world!
Right now is the busy season at work, and with that and a serious back injury I haven’t been able to do much besides work…I am sometimes tempted to just take off so that I can put my energy into some kind of activist work. It would be losing a lot of job security, though, not sure I can risk it.
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Signed it, now I need to go to bed, lots of work tomorrow…
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The latest Fairewinds.com video has a couple of good ideas.
Every system has a weakness, and that includes non-physical systems like concerted global coverups.
The weakness is the press – whether MSM, independent, or half-way in between. Getting a well-written article into the press is like a torpedo. Elected representatives will respond like bees to honey, they absolutely cannot ignore it, they’ll be all over it.
So, some (maybe most) of our energies should be put towards somehow getting articles, or letters to the Editor, into the press.
The press needs to be gradually educated, even though they’re typically a little smarter than most folks. They know about blackhawk helicopters, unmanned drones, bunker busters, collateral damage, M50′s and Kalishnokovs, but they’re not quite up to speed on spent fuel pools and internal versus external radiation (e.g. Monbiot – normally a bright fellow himself).
So, as information aggregators, we need a two-pronged attack – to educate [esp. the press], and to spread the word of danger to get these reactors offline.
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Japan prepares for the consequences of population Fukushima
‘The effects of subjecting large groups of people for a long time at a low dose of radiation are unknown. There is no precedent, and experts are not able to rule out going to see a higher incidence of some cancers. The radioactive iodine collects in the thyroid, and cesium in bones.’
http://www.allvoices.com//contributed-news/9495221-japan-prepares-for-the-consequences-of-population-fukushima
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First sentence is incorrect:
Chernobyl
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Two points:
(1) Thanks to the people in this thread for all the home remedies/preventatives for radiation (washing veggies in bentonite, etc.), but they aren’t going to work. Nothing will prevent the cancer epidemic to come as a result of Fukushima. There is simply too much of it. Chernobyl had 13 tons of radioactive material. Fukushima has about 2000, including lots of deadly plutonium.
(2) The purpose of the censorship is not merely to protect the nuclear industry. Our scientists and governments know exactly how serious the catastrophe is liable to be, and are hoping to prevent a panic of unprecedented proportions, including the collapse of every economy in the world. I’m sorry to say it, but censorship–as much as I hate it–has some merit in these circumstances. If we are all–or almost all–going to die from this event, and nothing can be done about it, what is the point of providing information that will only lead to chaos?
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to point two..censorship is good? it is really a matter of opinion!! i think censorship causes problems for the individual and for the larger community…an open society has less to fear because everything is known to all…try to stop knowledge you increase fear and distust…ie who knows where the fallout fell? those that know can mitigate the effects somewhat…example of your logic was the same as the soviets when they let the may day celebrations go on in pipryat during chernobyl…personnaly i see that as a crime that was hidden…meanwhile full testing and countermeasures in norway..open and honest is best…dont trust the shareholders to make decisions for your benefit !!! just my opinion!
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err in the fairness of accuracy i should mention that the norwegian guv is not being so efficient this time
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From your post: “Censorship is good?”
Did I say that? Actually I said I hated it. But let me ask you this. Suppose you were in charge of things, and you knew that all life on earth would be gone in 30 or 40 years as a result Fukushima. Would you tell everyone about it right away? Think it through. I mentioned some of the consequences in my post.
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I have a mind and can think for myself. No need for the government to decide what I need to know. Let me be the judge of that.
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I’m sure you think for yourself. So try thinking about this. If you were President of the US, would you tell everyone that they or their children were all going to die of radiation induced illness as soon as you knew about it? Even if you knew that nothing could be done to prevent it? Imagine the results of the ensuing panic.
On balance, I would prefer the truth. All I said was that in this case, censorship “has merit.” That means is that good reasons can be given in favor of it. I can also think of good reasons against it, including the intrinsic evil of deception. But these considerations have to be weighed thoughtfully. Knee-jerk reactions are not appropriate when it comes to something as important as this.
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When the people of Britain were being attacked by the Luftwaffe there was no panic, only organization. Additionally, the immediate danger was broadcast to all through air-raid sirens.
The presumption of automatic panic is erroneous.
We’re being bombed. They took the radar offline.
Imagine a world of full disclosure. That kind of world would enable us all to solve the problem, or at least mitigate it.
Both Japan, and the U.S. are playing a very stupid game, exceptionally stupid and ultimately injurious to everyone on earth, including themselves.
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A discussion of an excellent book about this: http://www.johannhari.com/2011/03/18/the-myth-of-the-panicking-disaster-victim-and-why-we-should-be-inspired-this-week
Some things to do: http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html
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Hi Bob and arclight: interesting thoughts, pros and cons, on censorship. Personally I’m against it. The bottom line is even if all censorship of this topic ceased there would still be quite a bit of people that would not understand or care what the information was telling them. My point is that there is no point in censoring; most people are too busy watching inane TV shows or are busy popping their brain cells one way or the other.
I think that part of the game is this: The rise in thyroid cancer, autoimmune disorders, heart attacks etc that arise from radiation poisoning are money makers for people invested in medicines that treat those diseases. Just one thought.
All facts on this crisis need to be released as they come about. Most of us do not get to send our families on African Safaris (avoiding being doused?) the least we have a right to is information that is accurate.
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Stacy,
Thanks for your thoughtful post. You may be right. But I’m inclined to think that if President Obama got on the teevee and said “We’re all gonna get cancer and other radiation induced diseases within 20 or thirty years, people would not just ignore it and keep on watching television. Many of them would pull all their money out of the stock market and spend it, so investment and jobs would go to hell. Working class people who have some savings would quit their jobs or mortgage their houses and go on permanent vacation. So in addition to all of us dying of cancer, most of us would live in poverty and chaos until we die. I’m not saying this argument is conclusive, but it needs to be taken seriously. I don’t know the answer, but I would like to continue discussing it with people like you in this forum.
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TEPCO to Inject Nitrogen into #2 Reactor?
http://www.rense.com/general94/tepdos.htm
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wow..good find
Now they are going to pump liquid nitrogen into the core of reactor 2. Liquid nitrogen freezes at -346 degrees F and boils at -321 degrees F. A 25 degree F difference. First, they will probably never actually get any liquid nitrogen near the core – it will boil away immediately upon being pumped into the containment (they tried it at Chernobyl – it didn’t work there, either).
interesting observation …thanks for posting
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Here you get the full loead at a glance:
- nitrogen in reactor 2
- boric acid in SFP 3
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
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Interesting article. I like how only ‘tiny amounts’ of gasses will be displaced as they pump in untold cubic feet of rapidly expanding nitrogen. Tiny amounts, yes, billions and billions of ‘tiny amounts’……
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the rense comment is nonsense. no word about liquid nitrogen except at rense. the given situation is shit, liquid nitrogen is only an idea to pep it up. like in sixth graders chemistry lesson with frozen orange and frozen terminators. they will produce more leaked radiation by injecting gas (that will come ot elsewhere) and the stressed building will be stressed a little more by a new component introduced, but thats it. at least they say by this that they fear there might be something down there hot enough to produce hydrogen (+2000 C) but thats it. everyone had guessed that before. And to add boron to a pool the same applies: the structure has seen harder threats to its integrity lately, its ok, inject whatever u want.
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but maybe start to get things out of the pools to calm things down? fish for rods with a crane, whatever. and stop dreaming of rewelding the reacotr next week and be productive again next month. fuku is dead forever. thats not a burned site just has to be rebuild. it is actually by now no mans land for centuries. just use the site as the long sought for high-radioactivity trash bin for the world and sell that deposition service in the future
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Unfortunately Fuku can’t be used for a nuclear waste disposal site even for the waste at Fukushima for the same reason that it should never have had a nuclear energy plant built on it. The plant is built on back fill and is very porous and all the nuclear waste leaches out to sea and with more seismic activity and earthquakes will continue to lower the whole island into the ocean.
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yeah, seld disintegrating trash bin …. a real marketing opportunity
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I’m starting to think that some problems don’t have a solution.
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Some don’t.
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You’re right. We learned that in our advanced calculus class at university.
Solution: restate the problem, or ignore it.
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Massive Radioactive Debris Field Heading to West Coast
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_18356804
What is potentially a new problem arising from the Japanese tsunami, however, is the particular material that has been washed out with the debris field.
Ebbesmeyer is concerned that solid objects from the nuclear reactor explosion have mixed in with the rest of the debris.
”There are some things that won’t dilute over the next five years, that will still be radioactive,” said Ebbesmeyer, who predicts the debris field will hit the West Coast traveling along the Pacific gyre in two to three years. “This is really an unprecedented catastrophic world disaster.”
Jeffry Borgeld, a professor at Humboldt State University specializing in geological oceanography, said it is difficult to know exactly where on the West Coast the debris will end up.
”It depends on the currents and the wind,” Borgeld said, giving an example of a container that spilled into the ocean several years ago, releasing different kinds of bathtub toys. According to Borgeld, the toys ended up on different beaches depending on how high they stuck out of the water.
Ebbesmeyer anticipates that the debris field will follow a straight line, hitting parts of Oregon, Washington and Northern California. But he doesn’t know for sure.
”We know very little about the ocean,” he said.
HSU geologist Lori Dengler suspects that a lot of the debris will sink to the ocean floor as it makes its way across the Pacific.
”We certainly won’t be finding bodies,” she said.
It’s hard to know what you will find, Ebbesmeyer said. He has seen bodies in survival suits last as long two years in the ocean.
Ebbesmeyer urges beachcombers to keep their eyes open for items as they wash up along the coast line.
He asks that if items are found individuals report them on his website at http://beach combersalert.blogspot.com/.
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In reply to xdrfox’s picture taken at a DMV site:
The last time I renewed by driver license (in March) I felt as though I was a prisoner being read his/her rights! A security guard with pistols wandered among the crowd. We were yelled at and told nobody would get a license unless they had a list of items of proof of their identity, marital status, residence, etc. They yelled that everybody had to get a gold star on their license. If they couldn’t–no new license. When asked why they were doing this the response was, oh yes, we now have home grown terrorists. The room was crowded with poor people who couldn’t understand what had happened. I understood. Police state. They tell us what to do now, we don’t tell them anymore.
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Bin Laden is dead. But “terrorism” is now a universal excuse for every imaginable fascist-style technique by official and unofficial law enforcement.
I could not believe the shake-down I just got at Seattle-Takoma airport. When I asked why I had to take out my wallet and comb before being screened, the answer was “No need to get snooty.” I told the guy I knew the penalty for that.(You get groped for being “arrogant” toward a TSA officer.) Here’s a link on the subject: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/04/18/tsa-more-likely-to-focus-attention-on-passengers-who-complain-about-the-tsa/
Sorry to go off topic, but it just happened, and I am still pissed off about it.
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I would like to thank the Joint Chiefs of Staff..for the incredible show of death… they are party to this morning.
YOU know all about this situation..and in your offices you too are watching.
Why do the people have to take this unwarned?
Why? …because you have anti-radiation meds…so all is cool.
Or you know…you are getting dosed and can’t say?
Either way.. it is the stance of cowardice.
Thank you for defending the people..
..I hope you are sweating in your uniformed collars….as you deceive the people.
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BinLadins boss is very alive, controlling his every move … how many are still alive?
Here the Boss cowardly declares he is the BOSS:
http://preparator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/hoooded-bas-tards-s.jpg?w=700&h=501
And his hidden agenda:
http://preparator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/papal-terror-engl-s1.jpg?w=700&h=437
And here’s the whole story http://wp.me/pwIAV-19 (repost)
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“terrorism”, do you know there are people in the U S that believe in the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and The Decoration of Independence, this dose not bode well for the NWO !
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Sadly these brave folks spend their day watchin MSNBC … and conform.
Oh yes I know lots patriots follow Glenn – and fail to see through his mormonism. Just another flavourino italiano: theses great patriots great offspring to be lured into DU-wars under the banner of …
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He may be dead, but there’s no proof of it.
In fact, there’s no proof he was ever alive. He certainly didn’t need to be alive – the myth is as good as the reality.
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Malformations in newborns in Bavaria
http://umweltinstitut.org/radioaktivitat/tschernobyl-folgen/niedrigstrahlung/fehlbildungen-nach-tschernobyl-1-79.html
So you will know what can happen, at
74 kBq/m² Cs-137.
That is in german, google translate will not do it right, but perhaps it is helpfull although.
Google translator:
“A reevaluation of data from congenital malformations in Bavaria is a clearly significant association of malformation rates before and after the Chernobyl cesium loading of the counties. However, this relationship is not linear. At low loads itself shows a steep rise followed by a fall and rise again with increasing cesium loading. The increase in the malformation rate per unit dose at very low dose approximately 5 times larger than at high dose. The Bavarian malformation data could play a key role in understanding the effect of small doses of radiation play.”
Also there are Studies for Cancer.
http://www.ohsi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/umg-1.11-Frenzel_Lengfelder-T.pdf
“It was found there (Czechya) among adults a few years after the Chernobyl disaster, a significant increase in
thyroid cancer cases.
In Bavaria, is therefore also an increase,and higher than in the Czech Republic to suspect. The clarification of these Question is difficult because there is still no nationwide cancer registry in Germany.”
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Malformations in newborns in Bavaria – CHERNOBYL DATA.
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Thought this interview was amusing:
He seems to thing everything is getting better. (I think not), telling by the live camera right now:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
NISA Interview
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=ca%2F6_0_s_1_0_t&ct3=MAA4BkgBUABgAWoCY2F6AA&usg=AFQjCNHkLLyZ3pTJwJwXDRAJEQgadb95yg&did=46b301cb14d555a1&sig2=OE8lvev8FYy8ciweDLiFgg&cid=0&ei=Zl4HTqCeKqmwiALg-5L5Aw&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPPMQV5NzbTs
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yipee obama is going to make government cool again…
nrc,epa fcc,fda filled with cronies he says he is gonna change it all,shake um up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxl2cVFTLw
ok it is very old news and shows he did fuck all apart from put 50 billion dollars on the table for new reactors.
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I’m wondering about the big picture here. Fukushima, Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Cooper Nuclear Station, Los Alamos, and now French nuclear plant Tricastin. Not to mention Fukushimas #5&6 and the Monju reactor. That’s 10 nuclear (clean fuel) reactors with major problems within 3 month’s time. How ironic.
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Which “big picture” are you looking for? What we see is just 30/40 years old nuke plants becoming brittle, companies being greedy as usual. And more people (finally!) paying attention.
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The coincidence of 10 reactors simultaneously having problems raises suspicions, and main stream media coverage is almost nonexistent. Of course when the clean energy companies pays millions for clean energy advertisements, along with oil companies, the media is told the shut the hell up. TEPCO is a power house (or was) and pays a huge influence on our government, so they tell them to shut up too. I appreciate links like this, but few people know what the gravity of the real situation is. That’s if most people even know there is one.
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“That’s if most people even know there is one.”
That’s true. Most people have absolutely no idea, and how should they? Unless you’re interested in the topic, you’re not only getting no information, but are intentionally mislead. I think
- cover-up: yes, absolutely
- conspiracy: ummmm….no
And the 10 reactors we see having problems right now is probably not even all there is.
How could you expect your 60s car running without problems in 2011? How can people just imagine this being possible? And now the pro-nuks are asking for a 100 years license for their killing machines….insane.
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nuke news at your fingertips
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
Share if you care
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There are a lot more than 10 with problems. There are many more in Japan alone. E.g., Fukushima Daini has three reactors that by the Japanese are rated at the same level as #4 reactor at Fukushima Daini. Just because we are not getting news doesn’t mean there is no trouble. We aren’t even getting truthful updates of those that are in the public eye. Nor truthful updates about the radiation levels in food, water, and air around the world.
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I don’t nderstand why most people when told don’t follow up or inquire. Maybe its just my OCD. LOL…..wish it was funny.
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Lot of people don’t really want to know. It’s to scary to face for many. Puts an end to their convenient lifes.
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Yup, sheeple.
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This is closest I could find to the Nebraska Plants today. Washinton County has nothing airing. Otoe county is.
N0NHB Amateur Radio Repeater 146.655MHz Live Audio Feed
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=1241
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Nebraska repeaters
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=1716
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