Published: July 1st, 2012 at 4:36 am ET
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Small amount of cesium detected in Fukushima children’s urine
Kyodo News
July 1, 2012
A small amount of radioactive cesium was found in the urine samples from 141 infants and young children living in Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled nuclear power plant is located, among 2,022 of those surveyed, a Japanese research group said Saturday.Three urine samples contained more than 10 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, including a case with 17.5 becquerels. Ten becquerels or less of cesium was found in the samples of the other 138, the Yokohama-based Isotope Research Institute said.
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Published: July 1st, 2012 at 4:36 am ET
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anyone got the data of this test of 2000 kids?
when was it done? is it the test that was to come out 3 weeks after the WHO report on the children of fukushima.. does it match the WHO algorithmic findings??
such a small sample of kids after 500 days of daichi spewing
what was the criteria for the kids to get on to the testing project..
will be back..
Saikado Hantai!
peace
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A small amount of radioactive cesium was found in the urine samples from 141 infants and young children living in Fukushima Prefecture, where the crippled nuclear power plant is located, among 2,022 of those surveyed, a Japanese research group has said. Three urine samples contained more than 10 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, including a case with 17.5 becquerels.
Ten becquerels or less of cesium was found in the samples of the other 138, the Yokohama-based Isotope Research Institute said yesterday. The urine samples also contained about an average 64 becquerels of radioactive potassium. "The level of cesium is lower than that of potassium, and it definitely has no effect on the human body," said Hideaki Karaki, honorary professor of food safety at the University of Tokyo. "But we still need to know how cesium was taken into those infants' bodies."
The research institute said those children with over 10 becquerels of cesium were eating home-grown vegetables. The survey, conducted from last November to January, covered infants and children up to age 7. According to Fukushima Prefecture, the cesium testing covered the largest number of citizens since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011
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Moreover. perhaps, how much cesium was retained in the children's system? Radioactive substances are not always identified as 'waste' by human physiological systems, and are often taken up when the organism is deficient in certain vitamins, minererals (i.e. iodine 137 is taken up by the thyroid which, itself, regulates human growth and cell division.)
Have the children been tested for other radioactive substances? If not, why not?
Suffer the little children.
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"OCCUPY TOKYO"….NEXT WEEKEND…SPREAD THE WORD…TELL EVERYONE TO COME
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Just learnt that Isotope Research Institute possibly have a connection with TEPCO. This research data could well be manipulated or even if it's not manipulated, the data could be considered dirty because of the connection which makes this research invalid.
Ex-executive vice president of TEPCO is now CEO of the institute.
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