Head Scientist on NBC: ‘We almost didn’t believe it to tell you the truth — Every single fish was significantly contaminated with cesium’ (VIDEO)

Published: May 31st, 2012 at 12:41 am ET
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NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
May 30, 2012

At 0:50 in

Nicholas Fisher, Co-author of Study: We almost didn’t believe it to tell  you the truth.

Every single fish was significantly contaminated with two radioisotopes of cesium.

Published: May 31st, 2012 at 12:41 am ET
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30 comments to Head Scientist on NBC: ‘We almost didn’t believe it to tell you the truth — Every single fish was significantly contaminated with cesium’ (VIDEO)

  • Max1 Max1

    Is there a problem with the YouTube videos posted on enenews?

    1) They will NOT open in new window.
    2) They will NOT enlarge to full screen.
    3) They will NOT allow feedback to youtube.


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    • Sickputer

      Don't know the answer to your problem Max… Works on my iPhone. What device are you using?


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      • Max1 Max1

        home pc

        I believe it is a setting one can check mark when embedding…


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        • Sickputer

          Update to IE 9 if you have win7, IE 8 if you have XP. Also install Google Chrome and Firefox. Ond of those should work. I use all three browsers on my Grandpa's box (hot XPS 17 laptop, but I prefer my iPhone for comfort).

          My philosophy: "You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many web browsers on your PC".


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          • Max1 Max1

            YOu must have a good affordable plan to have that much we access on your iPhone. I can't be on line that much or it costs more per month and I'm never near WiFi at work…
            … Safari and IE Vista. Never have hah firefox or GChrome. Two year old PC 2GbRAM

            I did notice the latest flash install, and reinstall (twice) are not compatible with the latest youtube player update about 4-5 weeks ago. Before then, it was always smooth sailing. No security issues, operating issues, memory and performance was great. Then, I get a system failure when I updated Safari. I restored prior to update and yet web2webkit.exe failure. I googled it and it appears to be a common system fail with safari. And it is becoming an all more issue w/ me. Maybe I should try ff…


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    • Madison Ruppert

      I have the same problem here Max. Seems like a way to retain traffic on their part but it's really annoying when you're trying to repost the video.


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      • richard richard

        right click to copy the video url. (and other options)

        embedding and other settings maybe the option of the author. Or the web admin.

        some videos are not permitted on some platforms. ie, i've had videos on the pc that i can't find on the iDevice.

        [end tech head mode]


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      • Max1 Max1

        MR,
        " but it's really annoying when you're trying to repost the video"
        Exactly my point.
        I can't just click, open YT page, mark and place in file.
        Now I have to rt click, copy url, open new tab, paste, enter…
        … THEN I can mark and file.

        It's not fluid in the least…

        May not be Admin is aware or that there is a problem…


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  • Max1 Max1

    The only credible information this brief report gives is calling nuclear waste… POLLUTION!

    NOTICE:
    The Corporate Media Propagandists will NOT discuss…
    … What the "NORMAL LEVELS" of Cs are.
    … What effects Cs has on human tissue.

    "I don't think I'll change my eating habits."
    … If she only knew.

    And the fish monger… "My fish are safe."
    HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT HIS DAILY CATCH WON'T KILL? H-O-W???


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    • was tepco fined for littering yet?


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    • HoTaters HoTaters

      Cesium 134 and 137 are man-made isotopes, right? So there would be no "normal" levels.

      I'm not sure about Cesium 133, but it isn't considered harmful, and is used in scientific instruments.


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      • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium

        "Caesium or cesium[note 1] ( /ˈsiːziəm/ see-zee-əm) is the chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 °C (82 °F), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at (or near) room temperature.[note 2] Caesium is an alkali metal and has physical and chemical properties similar to those of rubidium and potassium. The metal is extremely reactive and pyrophoric, reacting with water even at −116 °C (−177 °F). It is the least electronegative element having a stable isotope, caesium-133. Caesium is mined mostly from pollucite, while the radioisotopes, especially caesium-137, a fission product, are extracted from waste produced by nuclear reactors."

        I think 134 and 137 are both bad for you.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

        Caesium has a total of 39 known isotopes that range in their mass number (i.e. number of nucleons in its nucleus) from 112 to 151.


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        • http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/substances/toxsubstance.asp?toxid=107

          "It takes about 2 years for half of 134Cs to give off its radiation and about 30 years for 137Cs; this is called the halflife."

          Cs-133 is called 'stable cesium'.

          http://www.eoearth.org/article/Public_Health_Statement_for_Cesium
          "When a substance is released from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. This release does not always lead to exposure. You are exposed to a substance when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance, or by skin contact. If the substance is radioactive, you may also be exposed to radiation if you are near it.

          External exposure to radiation may occur from natural or man-made sources. Naturally occurring sources of radiation are cosmic radiation from space or radioactive materials in soil or building materials. Man-made sources of radioactive materials are found in consumer products, industrial equipment, atom bomb fallout, and to a smaller extent from hospital waste, medical devices, and nuclear reactors."

          "Consequently, cesium is not readily available for uptake by vegetation through roots. However, radiocesium can enter plants upon falling onto the surface of leaves."


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      • labmonkeywithagun labmonkeywithagun

        Very,very, rare. Any element can be "charged" by cosmic rays in upper atmosphere, then you have some nature decays of other elements that cesium is a daughter product. Then some decays can "charge" normal cesium or things that happen to decay into it……if it catches the right neutron or something. For every mole of cesium,there would be an atom or two.
        Fission gives it as a primary split product.


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      • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad

        How Cesium And Strontium 90 Kills Children (German w English CC) via A Green Road Blog
        http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/german-how-cesium-and-strontium-90.html


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  • alanr alanr

    Hi Max1
    (first post) works for me, i use DownloadHelper – right-click on video, select "copy video url" , open new window/tab, paste & go! Then can download.
    good luck!


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    • Madison Ruppert

      What? You don't need "DownloadHelper" or anything else, all you have to do is just right click the video and select copy video URL.


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    • Max1 Max1

      I shouldn't have to copy/paste video URL when the YouTube logo in the lower right between the 'expand full screen' and 'watch later' IS the hot link. It's been disabled. My question is why?

      When I click on the hot link, the video stops and cues back to beginning. At cue, there is NO control bar to even access 'watch later' etc…

      It doesn't have to be set to such restrictive access by the admin.


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  • "We almost didn't believe it…" WTF? Did these 'scientists' ever study Chernobyl? How about Physics? How about nuclear energy? OMG people on this site have been screaming about this for OVER A YEAR and now everybody knows it, the food chain is contaminated and will be FOR EV ER. Earn your F-ing pay Mr. 'Scientist' we've all been doing your job for you for FREE for OVER A YEAR.

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/RadChick-Radiation-Research-Mitigation/260610960640885


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  • Max1 Max1

    Dear Brian Williams,
    Please report on how Edson built his car on top of a hill and figured that his feet could provide a great means of stopping it once its reached terminal velocity…

    Please, enlighten us to this, "How did that happen" "Never saw that coming" moment of human enlightenment…

    Gawd I detest Corporate Media.


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  • Centaur Centaur

    True, they "honestly don't know the answer" (what will be measured, when this summer's fish is caught)… but the odds are clear (as Gundersen and others pointed out since last year): The contamination most certainly will be more enriched within the tunas, salmons, etc., most propably even more than time-linear. -.-


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  • jackassrig

    Grandpa's box is the same Ganny's dialup. HAHAhaha.


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  • StPaulScout StPaulScout

    Eat as much Tuna as you want because there is no immediate health risk. HA!


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  • StPaulScout StPaulScout

    I wonder if there are any independent labs that could test and compile a list of ALL radionuclides in these fish.


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  • "We almost [always/all ways] … didn't [can't/won't] … tell you the truth [so, don't believe us]."


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