Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 11:29 am ET
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Title: Off-clock radiation exposure ignored | The Japan Times Online
Source: Kyodo
Date: Jan. 23, 2012
The health ministry is not calculating how much radiation workers at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant absorbed after they evacuated or while off the clock, casting doubt on the adequacy of the current radiation control regime. [...]The maximum doses for the workers and those involved in decontamination efforts are 100 millisieverts over five years and 50 millisieverts a year. [...]
Katsuyasu Iida, head of the secretariat for the Tokyo Occupational Safety and Health Center (works on the health of nuclear plant workers)
- “No matter where they are exposed to radiation, it’s the same thing for an individual”
- Total dosage “should be strictly controlled by adding up doses received when they are not at work”
Read the report here
Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 11:29 am ET
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Dosimeter badges! Anyone in the area needs to wear a radiation badge such as the ones used for xray workers, or emergency responders. Not selling or involved with this one company, BUT the badge is very good, the RADTriage badge.
RADTriage Badge. RADTriageTM is part of the Self-Indicating Radiation Alert Dosimeter (SIRAD®) family of dosimeters. It is always active and ready to use. Each person wears one, the dose is accumiltated over the course of a year, then a new badge is started with the results tallied once a year..or if the sensor shows HIGH RADIATION. Its a warning system as well as accumulator. SO..dont care WHAT badge is used, but just a geiger counter gets a single spot, but does not calculate individual exposure..at work or at home or on vacation..
Individual self-indicating radation dosmeters..SIRAD..or similar needs to be used by everyone concerned with radiation. At least the children..please..they are such innocents in all this mess.
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jec, do you have an opinion on whether dosimeter badges would make more sense than rad counters for those of us who live far from Fukushima? I’ve been thinking about getting a rad counter but the hassle and costs seem daunting so far, along with the “pickiness” of using one correctly.
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Get a counter, in my opinion. There are several that are very compact and very affordable ~$150 on ebay. A dosimeter badge is not capable of alerting you to levels we will find here in the states or anywhere else except Japan. (When concerning Fukushima sourced radiation) A Radbadge will also not be able to measure foods you eat or areas around your house or, perhaps if you have children, where they play. Now, if you are in the vicinity of a nuclear blast or working at the plant (You would also have a counter) the radbadge or dosimeter would be helpful. Basically, a dosebadge (I believe) can be thought of as a gastank meter and when it is full you have reached dangerous levels. We also know that fuel gauges are not the most precise, but can be accurate. A counter will measure current levels of radiation AND several models have an accumulated dose program and so act as a radbadge as well. Does that make sense? lol I hope I helped you!
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Thanks, Bones. That is indeed helpful.
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Reallistically, it is difficult to understand and record ones exposure to the various kinds of radiation. This monitoring business is just a feel good bunch of propaganda. You only get a lethal dose of radiation when you die from it. And then no one really knows what level of exposure you had. But, they can isolate the various isotopes and tell you what it was. Spontaneous fission from Uranium and Plutonium decay with the highest ionization. Refer to the periodic table for the electronvolt energies. Much higher energies than alpha or beta. 200 Ev vs. about 5 Ev for Alpha.
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“You only get a lethal dose of radiation when you die from it.” Pithy comment – ouch!
I guess there’s a corollary: “No dose is recognized as lethal unless you can prove it even though you are dead.”
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lol – those atomic guys really decided to have a rather opportunistic view on their surrounding people and on the world in general. And as usual, they forget, that THEY could be the ones…
(… with the deadly dose, that is. -.-)
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And, dead people don’t talk. TPTB are counting on that!
There will be no CSI team coming in the find out the CAUSE of our deaths.
I must remind myself that it reads, “Vengeance is MINE, sayeth the LORD”.
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For those of us who don’t believe in divine entities, vengeance is ours to be had in this lifetime. I don’t feel justice in letting them die peacefully after a long life and letting a supernatural being judge them. We must judge them and force justice upon the evil greedy bastards who are complicit in the deaths and torture of many souls, in this life! I don’t mean to attack your beliefs, but instead not rely on God to do our work. We have been given free will for a reason and must make these apathetic murderers pay.
I go so far as to implicate the workers of these plants, as they run the very machines we need to stop and they are also very vocal supporters integral to the propagation of propaganda. They say, “but I need to feed my family” or, “I need this job” as a way to subdue their consciousness. The Nazi soldier’s and populous said the same thing. The blind following of authority for your own benefit is the same thing that enables every evil act and organization to thrive. It has already happened to America. Look how crowds cheer gingrich’s, “We must kill Iran.” It is taken straight from the movie “1984″, where the brainwashed crowd fervently cheers the death of other cultures and people displayed on the large screen. They called it fighting for peace, the ultimate doublespeak.
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Was Nuclear mentioned here?
“When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come and see!” I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”
Let us be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain!
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Yeah,…..that’s the way it will be! Amen.
Almost thought I saw the pale rider coming out of the fires over in Egypt. Did anyone else catch that?
We are ‘in the thick of it’, that much is FOR SURE!
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Good Morning, Jill…
Saw that on a youtube vid a while back. I think it was photoshopped in some way though.
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There is no way to measure everything…
There are the different kinds of radiation; alpha, beta, and gamma. Meters often detect only one or two.
Then we have internal radiation exposure, which comes in with food, drink and water, or breathed in air.
Then we have the hot particles.. so small you cannot see them and so diffuse, we cannot measure them. Yet just one of them can kill us, by initiating cancer.
Bottom line, we have to get rid of man made nuclear elements or they will get rid of us, slowly, painfully and with an assortment of 2,600 genetically linked diseases, over multiple future generations…if we live that long.
After all, we can look forward to the Carrington Effect, no matter what we do voluntarily, by choice. Eventually we will be forced to give up nuclear power by FORCE.
I wonder how he would counter the months or years of the power being out after the Carrington Effect hits Earth?
(http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194…)
The story goes on to explain:
“Several federal government studies suggest that this extreme solar activity and emissions may result in complete blackouts for years in some areas of the nation. Moreover, there may also be disruption of power supply for years, or even decades, as geomagnetic currents attracted by the storm could debilitate the transformers.”
So how would all of these nuclear ‘experts’, prevent all 400+ nuclear power plants from melting down and blowing up, after the power has been out for weeks or months?
Fukushima melted down within 8 hours of the power being out and exploded shortly afterwards.
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Solar (of all flavors) will reverse the trend of ever more Trillion Dollar Eco-Disasters and or Wars fought over dwindling resources!
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Your link needs reposting
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I call this “Radioactive Cherry Picking”…
It is a wonder that TEPCO and or the Japanese Gov’t. can measure anything except PROFITS!
In North America, during the 60′s they had an expression, “Power to the People”
… Japanese people should adopt that expression
… And demand low cost SAFE Solar Energy ASAP!
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