Published: August 13th, 2012 at 10:59 am ET
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June 20, 2012 report from geiger.grupo.jp translated by Dissensus Japan:
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I was concerned the number of insects like ants abnormally reduced in my garden in Katsushika.
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I contacted Mr. Tomita, who studies the environmental pollution and has already began a living-body experiment using silkworms to seize the effects of pollutants. He came all the way from Osaka to set up the experiment. Eggshell of silkworm is extremely hard, so that embryo can hardly get damaged by most pollutants.
They don’t die even when they are boiled in 10N, 48 hydrochloric acid for 5 minutes.
When a silkworm ecloses, it breaks the eggshell. Therefore, they can possibly be affected by harmful materials attached to the eggshells.1. Experimental Outline: Put the radiation contaminated dirts (listed below) and 60 silkworm eggs in each container, and observe eclosion and process of growth.
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Alpha ray is shielded by placing plastic sheet and then paper over the dirt of container 1, 2 and 3.
- Container 1. Zeolite@159Bq/kg [...]
- Container 2. The dirt gathered in my garden in Katsushika 4,780Bq/kg [...]
- Container 3. The dirt gathered in Katsushika 5,890Bq/kg [...]
- Container 4. The dirt gathered in my garden in Katsushika/silkworms grown directly on it. 4,780B/kg [...]
The number of surviving worms are as below.
- Container 1. 56
- Container 2. 55
- Container 3. 56
- Container 4. 3
The hatching rate of the container 4 is remarkably low, and some larva were about 10 times bigger than the average at the time of eclosion.
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Source: http://geiger.grupo.jp
The pictures of the silkworms were shown to Mr. Tomita and he gave the following comment
The worms of container 1, 2 and 3 seems to me to grow normally, however, the ones in container 4 are abnormal. They remind me of Godzilla.
I suppose that they grow enormous not because their DNA was damaged but because the damage to epigenetics of DNA causes to produce more growth hormones than usual. When about 2-year old silkworms are grown on a chipboard, rapidity of growth varies greatly. It is considerable that chemical materials affect hormonal series. Some female patients of Suginami sickness grew a mustache or male patients had brest.
Almost all eggs of the container 4 died maybe because of the damage by alpha ray, however, the damage happened not to be fatal, so that there were some larvas still alive, though they should have been affected by radioactivity during the process of growth.
Published: August 13th, 2012 at 10:59 am ET
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Propaganda Alert:
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Radiation fears may be greatly exaggerated
As workers struggle to contain the fallout from a crippled Japanese nuclear plant, people as far away as Illinois are calling public health officials in a state of panic. But the truth is anxiety is largely disproportionate to the actual danger
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/us-japan-quake-radiation-health-idUSTRE72H6IZ20110318
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In Chernobyl, a disaster persists
As Japan battles to prevent a meltdown at its earthquake-hit Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, the people of Ukraine are preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-nuclearchernobyl-idUSTRE72E42C20110315
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Note that Japan is battling "to prevent a meltdown." It's hard to prevent something that has already happened. At least they are admitting that the Chernobyl crisis is ongoing.
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From the above article about Chernobyl:
Most importantly, thick containment walls at the Fukushima Daini plant shield the reactor cores so that even if there was a meltdown of the nuclear fuel it's unlikely to lead to a major escape of dangerous radioactive clouds into the atmosphere.
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the reuters articel was from a week after the disaster start, when the TEPCO/JP Gov propoganda effort was in Full Lie Mode.
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Yes, I see that now. The article link appeared under Reuters/Japan "recent news" and so I didn't think to look at the date.
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This is a google search..concerning gigantism and acute exposure.
This effect should not be a surprise.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gigantism+and+acute+radiation+exposure&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=ky8pUIaaCcjzyAGJ-IHwBg&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQgQMwAA
Photo:
http://iaincarstairs.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/birth-defects-chernobyl.jpg
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PS..I wouldn't be using the word.Godzilla..
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. april 2011, 4458
"..However, addition of silkworm, Bombyx mori, hemolymph to irradiated cells resulted in an obvious decrease in expression of these genes, compared with a single radiation treatment.."
"..Since the early 1970s, proteins of silkworm (Bombyx mori) hemolymph
have been studied as part of the effort to produce more silk; thus, silkworm hemolymph is the most well-understood insect hemolymph. Cultured insect cells have demonstrated greater resistance to radiation-irradiation than those of mammals, and the lepidopteran cell, by far, shows the greatest resistance [9,10]; however, the detailed processes underlying this resistance have remained largely unexplored…"
"..We suggest that there are unknown factors in silkworm hemolymph that prevent down-regulation of irp94 expression under radiation conditions. This different molecular character for irp94 may be associated with its unique biological functions under UPR. For future studies, we propose identification and analysis of new factors from silkworm hemolymph that facilitate irp94 expression under radiation-irradiation.."
http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/12/7/4456/pdf
they still dont fully accept the linkage after 20 years though they say things like
"..compared with a single radiation treatment.."
means that low long dose is worse that short high dose for these silkworms?
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