“Truly Frightening”: Doctors being threatened for linking illnesses to Fukushima — Strange tumors, kids dying, pets dying — Much higher incidences of whole range of health problems reported — Experts: 1,000,000 cancers, plus many other ailments possible (AUDIO & VIDEO)
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education on Radio Ecoshock, released Oct 29, 2014:
- Alex Smith, host of RadioEcoshock (at 10:30 in): We’ve heard almost nothing about the impacts [of the Fukushima catastrophe] on people in that region. There are accounts coming out of there of strange tumors, kids dying, pets dying — what have you heard? Can we ever expect an honest accounting from Japanese authorities?
- Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer (emphasis added): That’s a pretty good summary, frankly. We continue to get information from people who live there about cancer rates — and illnesses in general, not just cancer. We think of radiation as a cancer causing thing, but it also causes many other ailments. Much higher incidences of a whole range of illnesses than they had in 2010, the year before the accident… We’re also working with doctors in Japan, and some brave doctors are saying that they’ve been threatened — that their hospital rights have been threatened — if you tell your patient this illness is radiation related you’ll lose your right to practice and things like that. So there’s enormous pressure on the medical community to tell the patients that what they’re experiencing is not at all related to radiation. The key is statistics, and the question is when will the statistics be released for mortality, morbidity, and general illnesses… We’re not seeing the data. The medical community now has to file every report that it writes with the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, before it’s issued. So if you’re a hospital, and you’ve got mortality data, you’re not allowed to issue that to the public until those reports have been cleared by the IAEA. Well, Article II of the IAEA charter is to promote nuclear power. So even if the hospital was conscientious — there’s a lot of political pressure not to be — but even if it was conscientious, there’s another step in the process, and they’ve got to clear an IAEA hurdle before those numbers are released. It’s truly frightening, the pressure the medical community is undergoing in Japan. Very few of them are willing to tell the truth.
Arnie Gundersen, nuclear engineer, Oct. 20, 2014 (at 15:00 in): There’s experts out there like me – independent experts – who are saying that as many as a million cancers may result.
Sneak peek of Oct. 29 broadcast here | Watch Oct. 20 presentation here
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Conspiracy Alleged in Energy Worker Exposure at Hanford, Portsmouth
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 – 02:34 Updated 2 hours ago
BY TONY E. RUTHERFORD, NEWS EDITOR
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The allegations include "flawed science to measure worker exposure." Some of the testing procedures for exposure took place 45 to 120 minutes after incidents when chemicals had already dissipated. The Hanford report stated too that inhalation measurements were not in real time "short bursts." Instead, exposure was spread out over hours.
Walburn has made similar allegations and provided documented evidence that the same broken worker and leaking measurement protocols apply to PGDP, too…
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RSC Lecture: Can advanced materials cleanup radioactive contamination released from the Fukushima Daiichii Power Plant
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They visited the stricken plant on Wednesday as special committee members of the government-backed Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation…
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Yeah, maybe someday is today.
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Apparently there is no logic on the part of those who think we have too many people on the planet..I say that because within a very short time there maybe no life left on this dying planet. Yes we out of greed and the urge to coverup the radioactive nightmare we all face.
Again as the precious planckton die we will lose 70% of the worlds oxygen..The food chain will soon be gone.As the oxygen dissapears methane will become our new atmosphere leading to massive explosions throughout the planetTHe worlds population will totally collapse in very short time.A nightmare awaits those of us who would rather dream.
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Whatever happened to mans humanity to man???Jung said it all when he wrote about man creates his own evil.Now the very wealthy celebrate their power with their ignorance cruelty and barbarism..Our time on this planet is vanishing quickly.The gates of hell will soon open…
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