Nuclear Expert: Largest amount of Fukushima radiation fell on US West Coast and Pacific — “Why don’t we hear complaints from US?”… Officials are criminals and trying to cover it up — Public must be aware even more radiation is coming… “People need to realize impact of contamination on them”
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Published: May 16th, 2016 at 11:44 am ET
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Interview with nuclear engineer Hiroaki Koide (translation by Prof. Robert Stolz, transcription by Akiko Anson), published Mar 8, 2016 (emphasis added):
- Now, strontium-90 [Sr-90] has been leaking from Fukushima into the ocean, so it will eventually reach the United States, especially the west coast. This much we are sure of… it is the masses of people who need to realize the impact of the contamination on them. In the case of the Fukushima disaster, for example, they need to be aware that some radioactive material is reaching the North American coast, and the prevailing westerly winds will carry anything released into the atmosphere to the US…
- While we are not really sure [how much radioactive material has leaked from Fukushima] we do know that a portion of this material will ride the prevailing winds across the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, closer to the ground, the winds will be east, south, and north, and therefore this other portion will fall on Japan―and we can investigate the actual levels here: how much fell on this town, on this prefecture? Adding these up, it seems to be only 2.4 PBq. Which is to say of the total fifteen PBq, 2.4, or roughly only 16%, fell on Japanese soil. If the totals are higher, still a smaller share of the total contamination will have fallen on Japan compared with the Pacific, with the largest portion falling on the west coast of the United States.
- So why don’t we hear complaints from the US? Why are there no calls for compensation? Whenever someone asks me this, I simply say that there just aren’t any such complaints. Why is this so? Well the levels released by the US during the atmospheric testing were tens of times greater than Fukushima. They are the criminals, so they cannot ask for compensation from Japan. The U.S. government does not want to have to reflect on its own past, and I think they are eager to completely avoid bringing up anything like that conversation.
See also: TV: North America will not be safe from Fukushima radiation if plant keeps leaking -- Animals "suddenly died" on west coast right after 2011 disaster... Whole world noticed this strange phenomenon -- "Fatally high" levels of radioactive material has entered ocean... serious pollution is ongoing (VIDEO)
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Yes. HillbillyHoundDog. Ty. A few nails, a little paint,… Peace
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A few loose screws…
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Indeed!
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Pay probably $100 with shipping to see a study that proves GMO foods don't affect health of animals?
Was the study paid for by Monsanto by any chance?
Hmmmm,
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Those photos say it all
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Hunters Point Shipyard: Navy admits burning 600,000 gallons of radioactive fuel at S.F. shipyard
In its announcement, the Navy contended that the burning of more than 600,000 gallons of fuel oil containing traces of plutonium and other radioactive materials caused no harm to the environment or to people. But the Navy did not make clear how it determined there had been no harm.
Atomic Energy Commission) burned some 610,000 gallons of contaminated [plutonium] fuel oil from the Independence, the Gasconade, and the USS Crittenden in boilers at the shipyard's power plants..
Wait until you read what the Navy did with 'massively contaminated mangled' ships.
http://www.eurocbc.org/usn_admits_burning_rdncontam_oil_21may2003page1032.html
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May 16, 2016..Canada Fire Update
Fort McMurray Fire forces more evacuations. Extreme burning conditions on Monday caused the Fort McMurray Fire (Horse River Fire) to spread further to the north, adding tens of thousands of hectares to the already huge fire. An additional 8,000 people were ordered to evacuate from oil camps north of Fort McMurray and many more are on alert.
Wildfire Alberta’s official name for the blaze is the Horse River Wildfire.
Maps, color coded satellite images, weather, oilsands evacs
http://wildfiretoday.com/2016/05/16/fort-mcmurray-fire-update-may-16-2016/
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Here is the map:
http://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FtMacFire-249-am-5-17-2016.jpg
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The Destruction of Alberta/ Part 2
May 17, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0-hEc0Alr4
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Alberta/Large Surface Collapse Possible/Steam Caverns
May 17, 2016
The Beast, Alberta's Large Forest Fire is Forcing Large Underground Thermal Steam Caverns to Shut Down, These Large Steam Chambers will collapse.
http://www.BPEarthWatch.Com
Canada oil sands thermal shutdowns pose risk to delicate reservoirs http://www.reuters.com/article/canada-wildfire-thermal-idUSL2N18621H
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxYX_3QbYks
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Don't miss tonight's "Executive Executioner" when we'll condemn a former Navy Admiral for covering up dumping of radioactive waste at sea!
And stick around for after the break when last weeks Phone-In Winner – a Mom with anencephalic twins joined at the hip – gets to attach cement weights to the Admirals BEEP and of course THE COUNTDOWN!
That'll be YOUR signal to start dialing and when she pushes him off the deck it could be YOUR call we take to select next weeks…Executive Executioner!
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I think we have run out of time. Once uranium is enriched it cannot be made safe except by time. Longer time than evolution needed to create complex life forms. All the nuclear waste that festoons every reactor site, all the insane arsenals. We cannot seem to manage any of it. And it is getting loose and contaminating the biosphere at a quickening pace.
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Jackasses….
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article78187457.html
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Just today, 3.1 Quake near WIPP.
Wonder how those "hair trigger" barrels did during the shake? May want to watch radnet for outages…
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Yes. General User. Ty. I will turn my station on. WIPP is 200 miles North, which is no distance at all, Plutonium in the environmnently speaking, and WIPP has BIG VENT FANS.
That 3.1 is about the size of the larger EQ's often caused by fracking. There are hundreds of fracked wells surrounding WIPP. The well sites extend to the surface boundary of the WIPP site. In 2014 I was able to use oil field roads to get to approximately five to six miles from the main buildings.
WIPP could not have been put in a worse place, nor could it be more poorly managed. Any Tectonic Movement and WIPP will be a boiling cauldren of gas, oil, radioactive saltwater, and mass criticalities. Just like McDonald's…a Happy Place.
The catchy, trendy motto of WIPP when it was being sold to New Mexican's was, "Start Clean. Stay Clean."
Now it is, "Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid."
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"Let's put these murderers and bribe-takers in the ground."
EPA, 2 other agencies skip Bridgeton meeting due to threats.
The threats were posted after The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an article citing experts who said concerns about radiation at the landfill in Bridgeton and nearby Coldwater Creek could be overblown, the paper reported
http://www.lebanondailyrecord.com/news/state/article_cfd501cc-c8a9-5999-beac-60fa10e9d561.html
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Get a rope
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EPA probably posted the threat themselves…so they wouldn't have to attend.
What?? That's how they roll!
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It is the nuclear industry and fossil fuels that are destroying the environment and causing deaths. Why make threats at the EPA? Since at least 2 or 3 bloggers here are making threats, the threats are probably real. Why not support a political candidate who would close down all the nuclear energy reactors and not allow any more to be built including nuclear fusion reactors.
Sanders and/or Dr. Jill Stein would close down all nuclear energy and put people in charge of the EPA to enforce the law.
Getting rid of the EPA would allow those who rape the land to do whatever they want. The EPA is needed to enforce the Clean Air Act and radiation limits. The EPA is needed to monitor the air and publish the results. We need a president who appoint an environmentalist as head of the EPA and to make sure the law and cleanups are enforced.
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Petition to protect the air and to replace dirty energy with clean energy:
Our National Parks Are Choking
“National parks across the country are beset with hazy skies that spoil their natural beauty. Fortunately, the EPA is taking comments on a proposal to help protect our parks by curbing air pollution from coal-fired power plants, including requirements that states take concrete action to reduce haze. Polluters, natch, are doing their level best to avoid replacing dirty, inefficient coal plants with clean energy. “
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Tell them that nuclear energy is the dirtiest energy of all and is bankrupting the country.
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Petition to protect coasts from oil drilling:
Another Spill in the Gulf: Just the Cost of Doing Business for Big Oil
“Last Thursday, Shell Oil was forced to shut down an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico after it spilled nearly 90,000 gallons of crude oil, creating a 26-square-mile slick 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. "Shell's unapologetic, indifferent response to this spill — which doesn't even use the word 'spill' (Shell calls it a 'release') — reveals how commonplace offshore oil spills are," says Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. "To Big Oil, frequent oil spills, polluted water, dead wildlife, and even climate change are all just the cost of doing business."
Send a message –> Tell President Obama to protect our coasts from drilling
“Five years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — the worst in American history — the Gulf of Mexico still bears scars from this tragedy. Yet Big Oil is on the verge of getting the green light to drill off our coasts again.”
http://sierra.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0024748
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There are a number of petitions at this link for clean energy, including a green energy jobs petition.
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Want to shut down a few plants in Illinois by 2017 and 2018??
Call these folks and tell them NO TO EXELON!
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/billstatus.asp?DocNum=1585&GAID=13&GA=99&DocTypeID=SB&LegID=88279&SessionID=88
http://midwestenergynews.com/2016/05/05/surprise-illinois-energy-bill-turns-up-heat-on-nuclear-solar-debates/
http://neis.org/illinois-nuclear-hostage-crisis-exelon-to-close-byron-nuke-ax-2300-job-without-state-help/
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http://enenews.com/forum-general-nuclear-issues-discussion-thread-new-april-2016/comment-page-3#comment-770623
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http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-05-11/updated-officials-will-plead-exelon-nuke-case-rauner.html
Same Game Different Name. They just keep threatening to shut 'em down unless they get what they want. Extortion? Blackmail? Coercion? Fraud? Hostage? What do you call it? Shut them all down! http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-exelon-pro-nuclear-site-1030-biz-20141030-story.html
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Agreed, I won't click on an unexplained link by a new poster… how can spammers get in here — and their posts stay here? Strange.
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Japan riddled with active faults: a chain of major quakes could strike anywhere
Posted on May 16, 2016
“May 2016 – JAPAN – A chain of earthquakes like the ones that hit Kumamoto Prefecture and neighboring areas could occur in other regions, given the numerous active faults in the nation. The Kumamoto Earthquake illustrated the fact that Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries. About 10 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur in the nation. The Kumamoto Earthquake occurred in an active fault zone that was causing quakes following repetitive movements that created fissures in the ground. Active faults move once every 1,000 years to tens of thousands of years, but it cannot be predicted exactly when.
“There are 2,000 active faults across the nation, and 97 active fault zones that have been designated as key areas that could move within 30 years, the government’s Earthquake Research Committee announced previously. The Hinagu fault zone caused a magnitude-6.5 quake on the night of April 14, and the Futagawa fault zone caused a magnitude-7.3 quake in the early morning of April 16. Both are designated as key fault zones. The first quake was followed only about 28 hours later by the second one. ‘The quake on the night of April 14 triggered the main quake in the Futagawa fault zone,’ said Prof. Kazuki Koketsu of the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.
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‘We have to be aware that if active faults are connected with others, a series of major earthquakes could occur in areas [other than Kumamoto Prefecture],’ he said.
“Earthquakes frequently occur in Japan because the country is located on four plates — out of a dozen or so that cover the surface of the Earth — that overlap each other. Also, a sea plate is submerging beneath a land plate, causing tension to build up. This is a major factor that causes active faults to move. A new fault zone was found when the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake hit the Tohoku region in 2008. It had a magnitude of 7.2 and registered upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7. An earthquake may occur in the future in a fault zone that has not been found — just like the Iwate-Miyagi earthquake.
“An earthquake with a focus just below an inland area like the Kumamoto Earthquake is likely to cause damage in limited areas compared to those that hit areas bordering seabed plates. It is consequently important for local governments to take disaster countermeasures. Nobuo Fukuwa, director of Nagoya University’s Disaster Mitigation Research Center, said: “Areas that have not been hit by quakes recently should change their mind-set and [assume] that the time for a quake is approaching. They should prepare disaster countermeasures, led by local governments.” –Japan News”
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress…
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https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/japan-riddled-with-active-faults-a-chain-of-major-quakes-could-strike-anywhere/
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Moderately strong earthquake in Ibaraki rattles Tokyo area; agency warns of more shaking
Posted on May 17, 2016
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/moderately-strong-earthquake-in-ibaraki-rattles-tokyo-area-agency-warns-of-more-shaking/
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More earthquakes rumble under Northwest volcanoes – Mt. Hood shaken by quake swarm
Posted on May 17, 2016
https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/more-earthquakes-rumble-under-northwest-volcanoes-mt-hood-shaken-by-quake-swarm/
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This is what you get when there is so much krypton-85 released by Fukushima and other nuclear sources:
Intense thunderstorms produce 30 000 lightning strikes, New Zealand, tornadoes possible
“…At the height of the storm, between 4 000 and 5 000 lightning strikes were reported to hit in a period of only one hour, both over the land and sea on May 16….”
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2016/05/17/intense-thunderstorms-produce-30-000-lightning-strikes-new-zealand-tornadoes-possible/
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160517094214.htm
May 17, 2016
Source:
Kyoto University
Summary:
Researchers have mapped the distribution of boron compounds in a model control rod, paving the way for determining re-criticality risk within the reactor.
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http://majiasblog.blogspot.com.au/
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2016
Goodbye Bees
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To bee… or not to bee.
“That is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles”
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rogerthat, re bees, we have plenty of bees here in my immediate area of downtown Albuquerque. Last year they discovered my hummingbird feeders and the current generation of bees discovered the feeders again this year. They like the sweet water that they can reach somehow, but also as it is so hot this summer, they look for any source of water. I've put out a special tray for them with shallow sweetened water in it (cane sugar), hoping to draw them away from the hummer feeders so the hummers can drink there (woodpeckers also steal sweet water, sigh!). I think the bees appreciate it in their own way. They act a little scary but have not to my knowledge stung anyone yet. Also, we have a lot of birds, and more new (as in visiting) birds than in previous years. Now if Monsoon Season would just start…
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/plan-to-store-nuclear-waste-near-great-lakes-proves-radioactive/2016/05/16/b6c25a9c-0651-11e6-bdcb-0133da18418d_story.html
By Steve Friess May 16
KINCARDINE, Ontario — If there was an off-key moment during the otherwise flawlessly executed trip to the U.S. Capitol this spring by the new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, it might have come when he was cornered by Rep. Debbie Dingell.
“We never want to see nuclear waste in the Great Lakes,” the freshman Democrat from Michigan sternly told Trudeau during a visit to the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Trudeau knew what Dingell was talking about. A few weeks earlier, his administration delayed an expected final ruling on whether Ontario Power Generation (OPG) could blast an area twice as big as the White House in a hole as deep as four Washington Monuments and then dump and seal inside 50 years’ worth of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste amassed by the province’s three nuclear power plants. …
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http://www.dw.com/en/european-union-to-publish-strategy-paper-on-nuclear-energy/a-19262144
European Union to publish strategy paper on nuclear energy
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The Asia Pacific Journal
Japan Focus
http://apjjf.org/2016/10/Yagasaki.html
May 22: Symposium Crises in the Asia-Pacific at Sophia University, Tokyo (Click here for details)
Internal Exposure Concealed: The True State of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Yagasaki Katsuma
May 15, 2016
Volume 14 | Issue 10 | Number 3
Yagasaki Katsuma, emeritus professor of Ryukyu University, has been constantly sounding the alarm about the problem of internal exposure related to nuclear weapons testing and nuclear electricity generation.
Since the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP), he has drawn on his expertise to conduct field research, and to support those who evacuated to Okinawa.
We asked him to reflect on the five years since the accident at Fukushima Daiichi, and to lay out the issues that lie ahead. …
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the NRC version of reality:
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/slides/2016/20160517/staff-20160517.pdf
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Yes. rogerthat. Ty. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/commission/slides/2016/20160517/staff-20160517.pdf
Maybe the NRC can help TEPCO find the cores.
Peace
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United States Nuclear regulatory Commision~ Protecting people and the environment
• Conclusion –No additional regulatory action necessary.
• Conclusion –No additional regulatory action necessary.
• Conclusion –No additional regulatory action necessary.
• No findings of significance identified
Significant progress has been achieved
– Majority of safety benefit will be in place by end of 2016
• Additional work is needed to closeout Fukushima lessons learned
• Continued engagement with stakeholders
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OK, so Potassium-40 is not benign. It stays in the human body for a half-life of 30 days and can cause cancer…
"What Happens to It in the Body? Potassium-40 can be taken into the body by drinking water, eating food, or breathing air. Once taken in, potassium-40 behaves in the body in the same manner as other potassium isotopes…moving quickly from the gastrointestinal tract to the bloodstream….quickly distributed to all organs and tissues. Potassium-40 is eliminated from the body with a biological half-life of 30 days…Each year this isotope delivers doses of about 18 millirem (mrem) to soft tissues of the body and 14 mrem to bone."
Recap:
…> Potassium-40 has a biological half-life of 30 days
…> It quickly goes to all organs and tissues
…> Each year Potassium-40 = 18 mrem to soft tissues and 14 mrem to the bone
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Cont'd
"What Is the Primary Health Effect? Potassium-40 can present both an external and an internal health hazard. The strong gamma radiation associated with the electron-capture decay process (which occurs 11% of the time) makes external exposure to this isotope a concern. While in the body, potassium-40 poses a health hazard from both the beta particles and gamma rays. Potassium-40 behaves the same as ordinary potassium, both in the environment and within the human body – it is an essential element for both. Hence, what is taken in is readily absorbed into the bloodstream and distributed throughout the body, with homeostatic controls regulating how much is retained or cleared. The health hazard of potassium-40 is associated with cell damage caused by the ionizing radiation that results from radioactive decay, with the general potential for subsequent cancer induction.”
Recap:
…> Health hazard of Potassium-40 is cell damage and potential for cancer induction
https://www.remm.nlm.gov/ANL_ContaminantFactSheets_All_070418.pdf
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Yes. Mack. Ty. https://www.remm.nlm.gov/ANL_ContaminantFactSheets_All_070418.pdf
Much more research could, and should, be done on K40's effects on the human body. One question that needs to be answered is what is the effect of k40 on Aging. Also, under what condition does K40 lead to Cancer. We know persistent, as well as one-time serious damage to DNA can lead to Cancer formation. Is K40 the persistent, the one time variety, or both?
Is there a threshold level of K40 damage beyond which the cellular mechanisms cannot repair? Do individuals that eliminate K40 from the body more effectively have less Cancer? Do individuals with a lower whole body content of K40 live longer?
The research necessary to answer these questions may have already been done. These questions may already be answered. I haven't looked. Survival has been uppermost on my mind lately, though. I just turned on my Geiger Counter. I don't have to look. I already know.
Wanted: Submarine and/or Tunnel Boring Machine
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Mack ISPC…what are you guys talking about? You sound like Praising Jesus (careful, dont steal her identity).
K-40 concentration remains nearly constant throughout life. If not, death ensues because of electrolyte catastrophe.
Whether you think K-40 is benign or dangerous doesnt matter too much because everything has lived with it. No obvious sign of genomic instability, cancer, deformation, immune system dysfunction, sores or anything over the course of endless generations of a specie.
BTW, I never did find an actual test showing this danger that you are freshly concerned about.
The argonne labs 'fact sheets' are straight from the ICRP LNT model which is a failed outdated dose estimate extrapolated in large part from bad data of Hiroshima bomb survivors. You will note that it says K-40 is half as deadly as C-137 per becquerel. Well you should be afraid…very afraid, because you have had approximately 60,000 bq/m3 (70bq/kg) inside your cells, right next to your DNA, since you were a fetus….and maintained that level until today (despite its biological half life of 40 days!, will mysteries never cease?). Considering that Bandazhevsky found irreversible heart damage from short term exposure to less than 50 bq/kg of C137, I find it quite surprising you two are still alive. How do you do it?
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Spooky some people are still talking about bananas as being harmful..
Ouch!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2601633/I-eat-51-bananas-day-Self-proclaimed-diet-guru-claims-toned-physique-MOUNTAINS-fruit-eats-single-meal-time.html
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The slippery slope of the banana diet. She ate the bananas, and now she has appeal.
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A very nice glowing appeal..I must say.
I have met other women with similar diets and all I can say is they glowed very nicely too!
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Perfect example of both ad hominem attack and a straw argument. I am not your whipping boy. If you can't make a rational argument without mentioning me, you have no argument at all.
I just quote the experts. And criticising me is definitely an ad hominem attack. That means attacking a person (unfairly TBW) instead of using a rational argument about the topic on hand.
There is man-made K-40 all over the place from nuclear reactions and from artificial fertilizer. It supplants natural potassium just like cesium. I have a quotation for this, but I have to type it out of a book. I will do this in just a few minutes.
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PT you are off base on this. He was just poking fun at you, and you deserve it.
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Bye-bye thread.
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What was the criticism exactly? Saying Mack and ISPC sound like PJ on the K-40 issue? Thats your definition of a perfect ad hominem attack and straw argument?
No rational arguement? How about this one;
Life did fine with 70 bq/kg constant internal radiation from k-40 since the dawn of life on earth. Then in one generation, the small addition of C-137 caused a terrible increase in cancer and morbidity, affecting a billion people according to expert Rosalie Bertell (link below).
That doesnt ring your bell? It does not spice your vichyssoise? It does not crack your peanut?
And who is the disinfo person NOW? Man didnt make K-40 all over the place and artificial fertilizer didnt MAKE k-40, it was scooped up from one place and put in another. K-40 doesnt supplant natural potassium because natural potassium has a fixed ratio of k-40.
After all the education on this, some might call such disinfo the blatherings of a fool, or the workings of a shill. Not me though, I think its an excellent management squib of a nuclear banana republic. Congratulations, let me shake your hand! (smiling with ebullient enthusiasm)
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/NAvictims.html
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@ Code.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BWfdo-kDyY
Hail the Sun – Falling On Deaf Ears (Acoustic Session)
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Very Nice!
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Code makes this ridiculous and incorrect blanket statement …>
"Life did fine with 70 bq/kg constant internal radiation from k-40 since the dawn of life on earth"
Really?
Let's just discuss what K-40 does to humans…>
K-40 is estimated to cause 4 out of 100,000 human deaths.
Multiply that by billions and billions of humans and that equals thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths from K-40.
Plus K-40 gives an annual dose to soft tissue of 180 microsieverts and 140 microsieverts per year to the bone, and that is nothing to sneeze at.
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Mack…good, educate the people how dangerous K-40 is. When your buds ask you if 12,000 bq/m3 of k-40 in the ocean (and five times that in your cells) is more dangerous than 10 bq of fallout, you will be able to answer with confidence. Relish your expertise
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Slick nuclear cult dose scam. There are over 2,000 radionuclides in fallout, and they are all more dangerous than K-40. Code, you just said that K-40 is just as dangerous as plutonium and curium, not Mack and not me and not every nuclear scientist in the world. Why do you persist is making a false, straw argument? 4 out of 100,000 (K-40) is less than 100,000 out of 100,000 (plutonium and curium). Why is K-40 listed along with plutonium as an element to be cleaned up in the EPA superfund clean up contaminated areas? Because man-made K-40 is in separate from natural potassium and if a person doesn't get enough natural potassium, it will take up artificial potassium-40 just as it does with cesium 134 and cesium 137. Just as if you don't have enough calcium, you will take up strontium-90.
It is a very simple argument. Lethality and 10 Bq is not the same for every radioisotope.
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“…Sometimes these man-made radionuclides are compared to naturally occurring radionuclides, such as Potassium-40, which is always found in bananas and other fruits. However this is a false comparison since naturally occurring radioactive elements are very weakly radioactive. In the lab chart the radioactivity is described as the “specific activity”. Note that Potassium-40 has a specific activity of 71 ten millionths of a Curie per gram. Compare that to the 88 Curies per gram for Cesium-137. This is like comparing a stick of dynamite to an atomic …”
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/StevenStarr.html
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/images/StarrFS04.jpg
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“…Highly-radioactive fission products such as Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 emit 10 to 20 million times more radiation per unit volume than does Potassium-40. So which one of these would you rather have in your bananas?…”
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/StevenStarr.html
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/images/StarrFS05.jpg
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“…Less than two grams of Cesium-137, a piece smaller than an American dime, if made into microparticles and evenly distributed as a radioactive gas over an area of one square mile, will turn that square mile into an uninhabitable radioactive exclusion zone. Central Park in New York City can be made uninhabitable by 2 grams of microparticles of Cesium-137. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
“Remember, these nuclear poisons are lethal at the atomic level. There are as many atoms in one gram of Cesium-137 as there are grains of sand in all the beaches of the world. That’s 1021 atoms—10 to the 21st power. 1480 trillion of them or 1.48 times 10 to the 12th power are disintegrating every second, releasing invisible nuclear energy. So this works out to about one and a half million disintegrations per second per square meter. We can see how this works then….”
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/StevenStarr.html
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Just refer to all the specific activities of different isotopes. Plutonium is listed after Potassium (not exactly alphabetical).
Plutonium 241
1.1E2
Potassium 40
7.04E-6
8.54E-10 per gram of natural K
http://www.iem-inc.com/information/tools/specific-activities
Notice that the specific activity of K-40 is much more than when it is part of natural K:
0.00000704 potassium 40 alone
0.000000000854 potassium 40 as part of natural potassium.
Then compare to Plutonium 241:
110.00000
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When Praise Jesus thinks she is fighting against you with your own teachings, its a sign your job is done. So we all agree that this argonne labs document is incorrect on the toxicity of all elements, including K-40, C-137 and plutonium
https://www.remm.nlm.gov/ANL_ContaminantFactSheets_All_070418.pdf
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CYBER STALKING ATTACK #10,163
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“Milk naturally contains about 2000 picocuries per liter (pCi/l) of potassium-40 [6].While milk is the example here, this applies to all foods [6].
3.
“Potassium-40’s “Lifetime Cancer Mortality Risk ” by ingestion is 500 times more than tritium [6].
“Thus, drinking milk gives a risk equal to water with 1,000,000 pCi/l of tritium. The natural carbon-14 in milk adds to its radioactivity.”
http://energyeai.org/vy–fact-sheet-eep-pdf-rev2.pdf
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This is the opposite of what you say, Code:
Just refer to all the specific activities of different isotopes. Plutonium is listed after Potassium (not exactly alphabetical).
Plutonium 241
1.1E2
Potassium 40
7.04E-6
8.54E-10 per gram of natural K
http://www.iem-inc.com/information/tools/specific-activities
Notice that the specific activity of K-40 is much more than when it is part of natural K:
0.00000704 potassium 40 alone
0.000000000854 potassium 40 as part of natural potassium.
Then compare to Plutonium 241:
110.00000
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Code, I hope you read this:
“…Sometimes these man-made radionuclides are compared to naturally occurring radionuclides, such as Potassium-40, which is always found in bananas and other fruits. However this is a false comparison since naturally occurring radioactive elements are very weakly radioactive. In the lab chart the radioactivity is described as the “specific activity”. Note that Potassium-40 has a specific activity of 71 ten millionths of a Curie per gram. Compare that to the 88 Curies per gram for Cesium-137. This is like comparing a stick of dynamite to an atomic …”
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Fukushima/StevenStarr.html
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what difference does the specific activity make PJ? Why is 70 bq/kg OK from potassium where 70 bq/kg is not OK from cesium? Explain it for us, thanks. (if you need help, please refer to my past posts)
so, we all agree that your oft linked argonne labs safety pages are in error? The ones that inform you of the danger of K-40, being only half as dangerous as C-137 PER BECQUEREL?
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PJ, you believe uncontaminated mothers milk
is as dangerous as water with 1,000,000 pCi/l of tritium. Some people might call you a fool, a troll or demented, but not me. I think you are right on the PJ track anne
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pretty sure I was the first one to highlight the specific activity contrast PJ, then you took up on it, thinking you were fighting me. What, are you stealing my identity? Also, K-40 doesnt exist isolated, nor does potassium exist without K-40, thus its the becquerel count that should concern you; your nemesis radiation. Why arent you mutated from 60,000 bq/m3 constant internal radiation PJ?
"This is the opposite of what you say, Code:"
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Code, and you sound like socref
Think McFly, if K40 has a half-life of 30 days inside the body, which technically means it could remain in the body for 300 days, do you really ever reach homeostasis with K40?
Example,
On June 1st, you eat a potato with K40 in it and it will take until June 30th to get rid of half of it.
Then on June 2nd, you swim in the ocean, and it will take the K40 you receive from the ocean until July 1st to get rid of half of it. Meanwhile your body is still trying to get rid of the other half of K40 from the potato you ate on June 1st.
Then on June 3rd, you eat some kale, and it will take until July 2nd to get rid of half the K40 from the kale, meanwhile your body is still trying to get rid of the K40 from the potato you ate and the K40 from the ocean.
And on June 4th, you have some fish with K40 in it, it will take the K40 from the fish until July 3rd to get rid of half of it
and so on and so on
So is the human body ever really in homeostasis with K40 in it, since K40 is ubiquitous in the environment, it's virtually impossible to avoid, in the food, water and air we breathe?
The bottom line is that the nuclear industry, in comparing everything with K40, is not doing themselves any favors because K40 can cause cell damage, cancer and death.
And stop exaggerating. Everyone doesn't die from Potassium40 but 4 PEOPLE OUT OF 100,000 are estimated to die from it.
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Cont'd
And I understand the bone you pick with ICRP, but if even ICRP admits that K40 can be harmful, it must be bad.
Recap:
…> Homeostasis with K40 is not instantaneous
…> it can take up to 300 days to clear it from the body, and it does radiate soft tissue and bone while it is in the human body
…> K40 is ubiquitous in the environment therefore we are subject to continuous exposure of it
…> it can cause cancer and cell damage
…> 4 people out of 100,000 are estimated to die from it
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"K40 can cause cell damage, cancer and death."
Eureka! The apes ate bananas, they mutated to humans…and we are the mutated, retarded, ignorant, cancerous result. It's was the bananas all along! BAN THEM! The end.
and Code, you know I'm right, so don't even bother. Sushi?
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Mack, maybe you should look up the definition of homeostasis. But you are twisting my peanut here because YOU said it has a 30 day half life, and I said the biological half life is irrelevant because homeostasis (via consumption of food) keeps the K-40 constant, then YOU said we keep getting K-40 from food, which is exactly what I said. Some would say such baffelgab back peddle postings are the work of an ignoramus, troll or goofball, but not me. I think you are right on track Mack.
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socref and/or manpigbear was not this smart.
Remember your slave job "is" your soul…
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There is no validity to a theory about the hermetic value of any radioisotope, including Potassium-40. Comparisons to the pre-Atomic era are useless generalizations if no health studies were performed before the splitting of the atom. The life expectancy in 1900 was 45 years. We can't go back to the pre-Atomic era. The radiation will be around for 1,000,000 years, and more and more radiation keeps being created every day.
Steven R. Schechter, N.D. Fighting Radiation and Chemical Pollutants with Foods, Herbs, and Vitamins. Introduction by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., 1990, p. 120.
“Cesium-137, cesium-134, potassium-40, and potassium-42 are radioactive, competitive sister elements of natural potassium, all of which are in the same chemical family. These radionuclides are absorbed by the body when there is a deficiency of natural potassium. They concentrate primarily in the reproductive organs and the muscles.”
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who said anything about hermetic theory? Wait…YOU did, not me. Comparisons to the pre atomic era are useless generalizations? But you say we have increased our life span from 45 years to 70 something years since the nuclear era? Some would call such expositions the outpourings of nincompoops or mutton-heads, but not me. I say you are right on track PJ
ancient egyptians lived over 100 years old, as do many peoples who live natural uncontaminated lives like the Hunzas have lived for 2000 years;
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/oldage.htm
the life expectancy myth;
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/life-expectancy-myth-and-why-many-ancient-humans-lived-long-077889
PJ, dont look at this graph because it compares cancer rates to pre nuclear era, which you have said is useless
https://malagabay.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/lung-cancer-death-rates-in-sweden.gif?w=640&h=394
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Brilliant!
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Monkeys?
Last time I checked none of these cars were being driven by monkeys..where did all the monkeys go? Where is my monkey!
https://www.google.com/search?q=car+traffic+jams&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuoLu_wOTMAhXKzIMKHZPjDIcQ_AUIBygB&biw=1015&bih=548
Monkeys must be much smarter than humans..
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My guess is that some of the frequents posters and insulters on enenews are trying to turn
Enenews into some bizarre religious cult. The people of Hunza are by some noted for their exceptionally long life expectancy,others describe this as a longevity narrative and cite a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women although with a high standard deviation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusho_people
Most Egyptian pharaohs barely made 30 yo
Hormesis theory is a favorite of pronunkers like Rod Adams
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One reason the life expectancy in the US in 1900 was only 45 years is not that people didn't live longer, but that so many young children died of leukemia. At the time it was diagnosed as an infection. Dr. Alice Stewart pointed this out when after the introduction of antibiotics which cured infections, so many young children had leukemia.
Now, the life expectancy is going down. The US is only 26th in the world with respect to life expectancy because there is so much radiation here and other toxic chemicals, and toxic foods such as GMOs, growth hormones, Round-up, etc…
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vira, careful, dont steal PJs identity!
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The people who stole my identity actually said they were me claiming all the posts I had previously posted with my online names or my real name, anne.
You are just using this argument in a pejorative way to close down the discussion against radiation hormesis. People have the same opinion and ideas all the time and that is not stealing someone's identity.
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http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-largest-amount-fukushima-radiation-fell-west-coast-public-be-aware-rdioactive-material-flowing-america-masses-people-need-realize-impact-contamination-dont-hear-complaints-calls-c/comment-page-2#comment-771622
http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-largest-amount-fukushima-radiation-fell-west-coast-public-be-aware-rdioactive-material-flowing-america-masses-people-need-realize-impact-contamination-dont-hear-complaints-calls-c/comment-page-2#comment-771366
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Oh My!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3598617/UN-Life-expectancy-worldwide-increased-5-years.html
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CodeShutdown
April 21, 2016 at 2:32 am • Reply
no, they dont go by hormesis, they go by the ICRP linear no threshold model. That is the actual problem, not hormesis. We have a dying ocean because of the linear no threshold model, not because of hormesis. The planet could become completely uninhabitable because of the standards and scientific status which does not include hormesis. By the time pro and anti nukers understand hormesis, the earth will already be toast…Its pretty clear neither pro nor anti nuker reads up on hormesis…thus all arguments are just based on feelings.
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Here Code says that whether or not radiation is healthy is debatable:
"“…Whether one deems this poison healthy or not healthy is a secondary and highly debatable point….”
http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-ive-learned-huge-spike-death-rates-fukushima-young-children-being-covered-japanese-authories-doctors-treat-patients-suffering-form-radiation-illness-being-put-business-audio/comment-page-2#comment-762394
Radiation hormesis is not debatable.
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allow me the full quote…context dear anne!
"The result of allowing greater amounts of radiological toxins into the environment, will be greater amounts of radiological toxins in the environment. No model of toxicity yet devised can adequately account for the widely differing sources and amounts and toxicity of radioisotopes, but one equation stands unequivocally true; Adding more poisonous radioisotopes to the environment means there will be more poison. Whether one deems this poison healthy or not healthy is a secondary and highly debatable point. Most would agree its not wise to add poison to a system."
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one of your more astute posts PJ "The planet could become completely uninhabitable because of the standards and scientific status (ICRP LNT dose model) which does not include hormesis."
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I can't reply where I want to but ..
Anne .. why don't you cut out every source of potassium from your diet since this debate has gone on a year now? (All potassium contains some K40)
While you are at cut out all C14 as well.
Let us know how that goes ..
BTW .. you do have a will don't you?
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auna, dare ye invoke the blue flood? The wrath and scorn of the pious? Fear thee not?
"the precautionary principle takes the natural non modified biological state as the de facto baseline, and this natural state includes radioactivity. This point is pertinent to all arguments against hormesis and nuclear industry pollution and points the way toward improved scientific inquiry"
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I guess you missed the advice from Radiation Protection Foods. I eat lots, and lots of natural potassium, so I don't have room to take up cesium or radioactive potassium isotopes. And I eat all vegan, so I'm not eating animal foods. Since I almost died of cancer in 1989, and am still alive at 75 years old, I obviously think your logic is really missing the mark. Non-radioactive potassium has cyto-chemicals which protect against radiation. Also I avoid electromagnetic fields. I have a land based phone and computer, and sit 4 feet from my computer. I have never smoked marijuana or taken any drugs because they are very yin (i.e., like sugar). Besides there is no way to get rid of the radiation. A person can only avoid everything as much as possible. Read Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Conscious Eating, to find out radiation protective foods. I also avoid other sources of radiation. Obviously plutonium is many millions of times more radioactive than Potassium-40.
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I need to find this non radioactive potassium PJ. K40; It is present in all potassium at 0.0118 %. This gives a person almost 5000 radioactive decays per second, or 400 million radioactive decays per day. This amounts to about 70bq/kg which is a morbidy dose of C-137
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In the first place, it you eliminated the K-40 from foods, you would also eliminate all the other nutrients which protect against radiation including K-40. I keep posting that if you eat lots of natural pottasium, you won't pick up cesium and radioactive isotopes of potassium. The nutrients and phytochemicals protect against the K-40 in natural potassium. Also, don't eat too much salt or you will keep less potassium and will be more vulnerable to cesium, etc.
“…Shrink That Footprint’s chart shows that a meat lover has the highest carbon footprint at 3.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. A vegan diet has the lowest carbon footprint at just 1.5 tons CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)….”
http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html
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You don't have to have natural potassium without K-40 because all the phytochemicals in potassium guard against the K-40. Also plutonium is millions of time more radioactive than K-40. When you eat natural potassium then the sister isotopes including man-made K-40 and cesium 134 and cesium 137 and K-42 won't take the place of the natural potassium.
You just need to avoid all the pollutants with radiation including animal based foods.
You need the natural potassium because it guards against radiation including the K-40 tiny part of natural radiation.
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addled? "if you eat lots of natural potassium, you won't pick up cesium and radioactive isotopes of potassium"
half life of K-42 is 12.5 hours
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TYPO: phytochemicals.
Protection against ionizing radiation by antioxidant nutrients and phytochemicals
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X03001495
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I you just eat the foods lowest on the food chain, like spirulina and other plant foods, you are getting only 1/20 the radiation than if you eat animal based foods.
I read an interesting book by a medical doctor who cured himself of cancer of the pancreas by eating only plant based foods (non-GMO, and organic, non-processed). He is still alive and continues to eat that way.
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I avoid all microwaves. I don't cook with a microwave oven or eat in restaurants because the microwaves kill the germanium which is a protection against cancer and radiation. When I was dying of cancer I took germanium supplements.
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Didn't miss it Anne. There is no source.of "natural" potassium that does not.contain K40.
Period. I think this argument becomes ridiculous.
Code .. what am I .. number 10k730 something?
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yes, clearly aunavoz is CYBERSTALKING attack # 10,047,478.
But what is really going on? Intentional bafflegab or sincere lunacy some might ask?
Not me, I say PJ is right on track
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auna, I shall now call you friend.
I won't use "that other word"- don't need the lashing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTdaWUDeGsg
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Both, or actually a trifecta – - bafflegab, lunacy and just plain ignorant.
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When ene'ers hear K40…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KIKrSG-Xzc
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Yes. CodeShutdown. Ty. I'm not feeling well. Peace
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Get well soon.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-tokyo-payments-idUSKCN0Y90FV
A Japanese official who led the successful bid for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics said on Wednesday the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) plans to investigate the bidding after questions were raised about payments by the bid committee.
Media has reported the bid team made payments totalling more than $2 million to a Singapore bank account linked to Papa Massata Diack, son of disgraced former international athletics chief Lamine Diack.
Japanese officials have said the payments were legitimate consultant's fees. …
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/18/national/former-prime-minister-koizumi-backs-u-s-sailors-suing-over-fukushima-radiation/#.Vzxo-CN95aU
KYODO
MAY 18, 2016
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – Former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday he stands behind a group of former U.S. sailors suing the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, who claim health problems they now suffer were caused by exposure to radiation after three reactors melted down in the days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Koizumi made the remarks at a news conference in Carlsbad, California, with some of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought in the United States in 2012 against plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., which has renamed itself Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.
The plaintiffs include crew members of the U.S. aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which provided humanitarian relief along the tsunami-battered coastline in a mission dubbed Operation Tomodachi.
“Those who gave their all to assist Japan are now suffering from serious illness. I can’t overlook them,” Koizumi said. …
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Yes. rogerthat. Ty. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/18/national/former-prime-minister-koizumi-backs-u-s-sailors-suing-over-fukushima-radiation/#.Vzxo-CN95aU
This is certainly one of the most important legal cases that I have seen, and it is proceeding very well indeed.
Peace
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Yes. Though, clearly, far too slowly. Peace
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http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201605180045.html
Mayor blasts nuclear power to students visiting from Taiwan
By MASAKAZU HONDA/ Staff Writer
May 18, 2016
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture–The mayor here has lamented to visiting Taiwanese students how the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe tore his city apart, with 27,000 residents still unable to return to their homes.
Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai went on to blast nuclear energy in an impassioned speech to the 30 visiting students and their teachers on May 17.
“Putting money ahead of people’s lives is totally unacceptable,” he said. …
The mayor said that the terrible damage was not simply limited to the leakage of radioactive material, and emphasized that nuclear disasters had great potential for driving families apart and destroying local communities.
“Many local leaders tend to refrain from saying this, but I am making a strong plea to the central government, the business circles and the world that nuclear power plants are not needed because (if there is an accident) it can totally ruin people's lives,” he said. …
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http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/1946625/unusual-japanese-quake-leads-calls-rethink-skyscraper
‘Unusual’ Japanese quake leads to calls for a rethink on skyscraper designs and safety rules
Tuesday, 17 May, 2016
Julian Ryall
Scientists studying the earthquake that struck southern Japan in April have identified a number of seismological factors that made the tremor so destructive – and warn that should the same factors combine beneath a major city it could bring down a skyscraper.
The 7.3 magnitude quake that struck beneath the city of Kumamoto on the evening of April 14 caused extensive damage, with hundreds of homes, buildings and other infrastructure collapsing from the violence of the shaking. Others were engulfed in landslides.
A total of 49 people were killed, and 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes. Many have been unable to return due to the damage or the threat posed to unstable buildings by the ongoing aftershocks.
A team at Tokyo’s Kogakuin University headed by Professor Yoshiaki Hisada has determined that a specific type of seismic movement took place in Kyushu and that the long-period ground movement was the most powerful ever observed during an inland quake caused by faults slipping.
“There are many different types of earthquake, but …
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in the case of the Kyushu quake we have confirmed that a major fault – the Futagawa Fault – close to the surface slipped directly beneath Kumamoto City,” Hisada told The South China Morning Post.
When that was combined with long-period ground motion, “there can be severe damage, as we see in this case”, he said.
The residents of Kumamoto and surrounding districts were relatively fortunate that there are few multi-storey structures in the city as the damage would have been far more extensive, the professor added.
In a simulation involving a 29-floor building in Tokyo, for example, the structure would have been seriously shaken by the combination of factors that occurred in Kyushu.
The upper stories of the 150-metre-tall building, for example, would have oscillated by as much as 3.5 metres, the simulation suggested.
There is also a high likelihood that the building would remain on an angle after the tremors had abated, rendering it unusable.
“In a worst-case scenario, a high-rise building could come down,” he said.
The tallest structure in Japan at present is the Tokyo Skytree, which is 634 metres tall, while more than 20 office buildings are over 200 metres high.
The city was struck by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake on Monday evening, …
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http://www.thedenverchannel.com/lifestyle/health/residents-who-lived-near-rocky-flats-from-1952-and-1992-to-be-surveyed-about-health
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Roger, TY very much for this link. I will contact them although they have left out residents of Boulder out of the survey. I looked at the map at
http://rockyflatsdownwinders.com/
and it is obvious that Boulder is in the 10 mile range. By driving Boudler is 10.9 miles, but obviously closer in a straight line.
We had many people working at Rocky Flats living in Boulder and they tracked radiation all over.
I was in Boulder in 1969 when they had the biggest fire and criticality.
When I moved in in 1971 into Federal Low Income Housing in Boulder, I had to sign a form that said that I knew that I was living near Rocky Flats. So the government already knew the dangers (but I stupidly did not), and was preparing to not have responsibility.
My son's friend's father worked at Rocky Flats (but has since died). And he said that they had fires at the plant every day, plutonium is so volatile. That radiation was tracked into Boulder on a daily basis. One of my friends' husband at my church in Boulder worked at Rocky Flats measuring the environmental contamination. She got me into low income housing, and told me that I shouldn't be at the low income housing in Boulder on the western side because it was built on uranium tailings.
So many people have already died. My husband 20 years ago; he was living in San Jose, CA, when he died of a rare sinus cancer. Their survey is undoubtedly going to be incomplete.
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One of the ways that the nuclear industry avoids responsibility is that people move and get multiple exposures to the worst radioactive contamination.
Think of all the students who have been exposed at the University of Colorado and all the federal facilities in Boulder. Boulder is one of the highest priced places to live in Colorado, but if the truth were known its economy would collapse.
I don't know if I could get a copy of the form I signed. So much information has been covered up.
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Boulder has a high rate of MS. It is no mystery that there are over 2,000 uranium mines in Colorado, and there is close proximity to Rocky Flats.
“…But if you live in Colorado, chances are you already know someone who has MS. Colorado has one of the highest MS rates, per capita, in the nation. Minnesota ranks first, but one out of every 800 Coloradans has MS, which means MS is ten times as common in Colorado as in states along the southern tier of the U.S.
“For reasons that remain as mysterious as the cause and the cure for MS, the disease is most common along and north of the 40th parallel – Baseline Road in Boulder. The "high risk'' area north of the 40th parallel holds up throughout the Northern Hemisphere….”
http://extras.denverpost.com/news/news0905e.htm
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http://en.trend.az/world/turkey/2534451.html
Metsamor nuke plant – possible reason for cancer growth in Turkey’s eastern provinces
17 May 2016
Baku, Azerbaijan, May 17
By Orkhan Quluzade – Trend:
Radiation from the Metsamor nuclear power plant may be the cause of the recent growth of cancer cases in eastern provinces of Turkey, including the Igdir province, MP of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey Mehmet Emin Adiyaman told Trend May 17.
"Metsamor nuclear power plant was built in the days of the Soviet Union," the MP said. "This is a nuclear power plant of Chernobyl type. The Chernobyl accident led to an increase in cancer cases, birth of children with a variety of pathologies in the region, and the consequences of the accident are still being felt in Turkey."
"There are suspicions in radiation leaking at the Metsamor nuclear power plant," said the MP. "In recent years the border areas of Turkey, including Igdir province, experience growth of cancer cases, pathologies regarding the newborns. There are suggestions that this is due to radiation from the Metsamor nuclear power plant."
He went on to add that the radiation effects are also noticeable in the provinces of Kars and Agri.
"The international community must take responsibility to solve this problem and increase efforts in this direction," said Adiyaman, stressing that Armenia's operation of outdated Metsamor nuclear power plant …
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/advocacy-group-protests-against-highlevel-nuclear-waste-dump-in-sa-saying-it-poses-great-health-environment-and-financial-risks/news-story/96cdad301b1c7490332b51c9e38d7ec2
Advocacy group protests against high-level nuclear waste dump in SA, saying it poses great health, environment and financial risks
May 16, 2016
Erin JonesThe Advertiser
A NEW advocacy group will lobby against a high-level nuclear waste dump being built in SA.
The No Dump Alliance group launched on Monday and already has the support of several groups, including the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, the Maritime Union of Australia and SA Aboriginal Congress.
The group formed after the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission earlier this month recommended the state urgently pursue the opportunity of a nuclear dump.
The No Dump Alliance believes the proposal shows a lack of respect for traditional owners, who opposed the dump and said it could pose significant health, environment and financial risks. …
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/germany-just-got-almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy
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http://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/11928-should-croatia-build-a-nuclear-waste-storage-facility
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http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160515/NEWS01/160519696/Uranium-caused-cancer-inspires-Fort-Lewis-College-graduate
After watching her family battle cancer caused by uranium dust, recent Fort Lewis College graduate Natalie Joe is driven to work on a cure.
“My grandparents worked in the mines, came home hugged everybody with the uranium dust on them, so they developed mutations. … A lot of my aunts and a couple of my cousins have gotten ovarian cancer and different types of cancer,” she said.
So, she was drawn to preliminary research at FLC focused on metal-containing compounds that could lead to new anti-cancer drugs.
Now that she has finished her majors in cellular and molecular biology and biochemistry, she will attend Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to pursue a doctorate degree in cellular and molecular medicine and plans to continue working on cancer research. …
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http://www.postandcourier.com/20160515/160519614/dont-let-srs-serve-as-nuclear-dump-site-
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http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2016/05/15/lab-team-visits-japan-ignores-bomb-victims/84290802/
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Mayor blasts nuclear power to students visiting from Taiwan
May 18 2016
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201605180045.html
Fighting the good fight.
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http://phys.org/news/2016-05-decommissioning-fukushima-boron-molten-debris.html
Clap Clap Clap.
?????
It is as if TEPCO has NO CLUE, none, nada, as to the where abouts of the missing coriums.
But we know that….right?
Simple veracity about, say I-131 amounts in REAL TIME ought to give one a clue as to ongoing recriticalities.
Egits.
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Another link, about the same http://www.nuclearpowerdaily.com/reports/Towards_decommissioning_Fukushima_Seeing_boron_distribution_in_molten_debris_999.html It's a small scale study at Kyoto university.
""This finding demonstrated on a micro-scale what needs to be done in Fukushima," says Kasada. "This can't yet be applied in the field, but in the meantime, we plan to visualize the chemical state of other elements so as to create a sound materials base for decommissioning Fukushima.""
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Translation: We have no idea what we are doing here. But it's a start.
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Yes. Nick. Ty. It wasn't helpful to you? Peace
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Instead of where boron goes, how about studying the moron effect?
Knowing what percentage of TEPCon executives are morons would probably speed up the "de-commissioning" fairy tale that is Fukushima.
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"Millions of people around the country—and around the world—are asking themselves the same simple question: how could such a blathering dummy be in a position to become the next president of the United States? There is no need to mention any names here, of course, because the dimwit is all too well known."
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"The United States has known many dummies in recent history, including a clueless B-grade Hollywood actor and the ignorant loser son of a Texas oil tycoon-turned-politician. Like the current moron, they were just as much products of the system, packaged and sold by the corporate idiocracy, which seeks to keep people dumb and distracted in order to favor business interests and the powers that be. Its initial motto, ‘make them dumb and keep them down,’ has developed over time into a powerful mantra: ‘make them even dumber so they keep themselves down!’"
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"Moreover, the system is completely rigged, such that you actually do not need to stultify—or buy—that many people. The media frenzy around the question ‘what makes productrump so popular?’ misses the point entirely. The real question is: ‘how has the corporate thought machine succeeded in producing the illusion that productrump is so popular?"
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Or product Clinton. One is just as disgusting as the other… The real question is why have we let these (insert favorite derogatory here) dictate to us all these years about who the candidates are? Are these colons really the best we have to offer? If so, well….
"People tend to get the government they deserve". H.L Mencken
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Oxygen loss in the Pacific.
See chart of dust deposition.
Why it's right there off of the shore of Japan.
Right there where tons of nuclear material has been dumped into the ocean.
That's where it's the highest…
OK..ADD IT INTO THE EQUATION?
Feel better ..you.. cognitive dissonant freaks?
Pacific’s big drop in oxygen blamed on pollution from Asia
May 17 2016
http://www.futurity.org/air-pollution-pacific-oxygen-1163962-2/
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Very interesting link Heart
The article attributes dropping oxygen to excess iron, among other factors.
I wonder what the impacts of uranium, strontium, and cesium include in combination with other industrial pollutants?
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Roll it all in ..quit supplanting one cause for another.
Roll it all in and ADD FUKUSHIMA!
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Iron dumps on purpose http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/pacific-ocean-iron-dumping-geoengineering_n_1986517.html
Another was for sport-fishing, but no link right now.
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The "study"
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9/n4/full/ngeo2665.html
Notice the lack of sustenance:
" Aerosol ammonium nitrate concentrations were assumed to increase to compensate for decreasing sulfate, which would result from increasing neutrality. Here we use observed gas and aerosol composition, humidity, and temperature data collected at a rural southeastern US site in June and July 2013 (ref. 1), and a thermodynamic model that predicts pH and the gas–particle equilibrium concentrations of inorganic species from the observations to show that PM2.5 at the site is acidic."
"Assumed, would result, data collected at rural US site, model, predicts"
Yeah, seems irresponsible to leave out Fukushima's… or dare I say…even an attempt to divert focus.
Can't blame the universities an scientists, really. They are just doing what they are paid to do…and protecting the citizens of the world from some very harsh realities…and the subsequent retaliation on the nuke industries. Much better to say dilution is the solution to pollution when it comes to nuclear… and pollution is the solution to dilution, when we throw every polluter into the mix. No one is to blame, in this case, so nothing can be done. Win/win. Yes, the ocean loses, in either case. Carry on people.
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Yes. HillbillyHoundDog. Ty. http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9/n4/full/ngeo2665.html
Onward! Through the Fog! ~ Oat Willy
No Wait! WAIT! ~ Lao Tzu
Peace
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Yes. http://oatwillies.com/
and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
It is only fair.
Peace
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Yes. Heart of the Rose. Ty. http://www.futurity.org/air-pollution-pacific-oxygen-1163962-2/
Finally, something temperature does not explain for the scientists. How rare. They are wrong, anyway. How predictable.
Everything that was living near the surface of the ocean producing Oxygen, is now at the bottom of the ocean producing Methane.
Get your Oxygen. Get your Oxygen right here. Get your Oxygen.
Hey buddy where's this Oxygen from?
Never mind that.
Get your Oxygen.
Peace
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What to do in the case of a nuclear disaster: How to protect yourself and other lessons from Tepco's Fukushima workers by none other than MT Keshe, world famous nuclear physicist. So simple a Cave Man can do it. Of course, if you have not been following his workshops you will have some homework to do. Fortunately, there are many videos on Youtube to guide you along, also, many Facebook pages to help. See, FB's Golden Age of Gans, lots of good info there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4NhfoX7Fsk&feature=youtu.be&t=56m26s
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re: Officials are criminals and trying to cover it up"
Look at the email sent by Cheryl Mills, a close advisor of Hilary Clinton, regarding the Fukushima plume:
From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton Date: 2011-03-11 19:33 Subject: RADIATION – FYI
Sent:Saturday, March 12,2011 06:5 AM To: Edelman, Martin
Subject:FW: radiation –
"fyi From a guy we know here in japan who does background searches for us etc…
This is not advice that is currently in the news…. Also by coincidence I have a 1.4(C) B1 UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05780602 Date: 01/29/2016
Radiation leak from the Fukushima reactor 1.4(C) Stay indoors if at all possible. There is nothing,,no events, parties, sports, movies, etc that are worth getting more exposure to radiation. The stuff travels far, very far. Wind is all over the place, but we must assume it is heading towards a major area like Tokyo, a city, a heat source. As long as the radiation leak is going, and up to 24-48 hours later, the threat is at is highest in most cases. Here is a wind chart online. It shows wind all over the place, but one trend is there – winds head to Tokyo….
Also, power outage expected to hit about 1800 this evening as more people return home and start using more electricity. Charge any devices you have that need charging. People will draw a lot of power about 1800-1900, so expect blackouts and brownouts…. Very similar to 3-Mile Island, and maybe Chernobyl…
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continued:
"… VOA news has this take. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asiaaapans-Tsunam i-Death-Toll-Seen-Reaching-1000-117829978.html Leak has been doing since last night. It is still not under control. A US team was flown in to help get this thing under control, but that is not public record yet. It will come out later, I think. Anway, leak from last night means it is hitting us about now. I am not going outdoors for a while.
Normally one might also take K-I (Potassium Iodine) tablets as a precautionary measure. Substitutes include alternative sources of iodine includingisojinor consuming seaweed (nori). Wear a mask, and a hat if possible. Take a shower immediately after you return home and wash your clothes. Radioactive steam was released yesterday and continues today. It will likely be in the area now. What I suggest above is not costly, and not too onerous. Do it and play it safe. Don't go outdoors unless it is necessary.
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05780602 Date: 01/29/2016 Mitch M. Murata"
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http://www.dispensaryexchange.com/read/17/111/Hillary-Clinton-Emails-and-Fukushima-Hot-Particles-in-Seattle
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Hillary Clinton Email Archive
RADIATION – FYI
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/11782
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Yes. lam335. Ty. http://www.dispensaryexchange.com/read/17/111/Hillary-Clinton-Emails-and-Fukushima-Hot-Particles-in-Seattle
"There is absolutely no way that our Government did not know about this radioactive contamination as shown in the Hillary Clinton Email, so they on purpose did not warn us which how else can you put it as a act of treason against people you are sworn to protect."
Peace
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Hey- they're protecting nuclear stock holders and nuke industry peeps jobs…and their own. Optimism, ISPC, optimism.
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Clinton email from WIKILEAKS..with a SECRET and classification declass date decades in future. Now Clinton had to know there was a problem, our Ms. Secretary of State. Just who was she protecting? Not US citizens, that's for sure. Guess she went out and purchased health care stocks..or cancer drug stocks.
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This is suspect:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article77095242.html
Then there is:
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/humans/nuclear_du_radiation/news.php?q=1463241642
NORML?
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Yes. Nick. Ty. http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/humans/nuclear_du_radiation/news.php?q=1463241642
"The EPA confirms"…U.S. Nuked U.S..
Peace
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAc8K_to1Vc
"one arm, one leg, three fingers on it's foot"
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So….
…we have arrived at a juncture in this planet's history where a species has altered the biosphere beyond repair.
Why are we talking about gender issues and NOT talking about the TATAL loading of the biosphere (which is probably bending genders!)?
Are we really so stupid as I have come to believe?
Nick,,,,give it a rest, you know most of the planet wasn't endowed with the same brain pan as you have…chill.
No. I will not.
All of us need to know real truths about the toxic loading of the planet…it affects us all.
Carbon is not going to kill us.
What will is, stupidity and hubris.
Be a TATAL teller.
DUh!
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GMI
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22376039
externalfile:drive-035d7c6c1408283c4352d6970ba8f15962c60d7a/root/MentalHealthFactSheet.pdf
As you reflect on your day tonight….tell me you haven't seen GMI spreading!
Forget the physical effects, ponder the quantum realities of
fried neurons.
Absolutely mind boggling (literally).
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"Under appointment of the IAEA, Shigematsu Itsuzō (now deceased), the former chairman of RERF(formerly ABCC), carried out a health survey of Chernobyl residents. He remarked in a report he made in 1990 that “there are virtually no diseases that are caused by radiation, but attention must be paid to the psychological stress that is caused by wondering whether or not one has been exposed to radiation”. The theory that “psychological stress causes illness” is a method used to conceal the radiation victimization of the nuclear age."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-true-state-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-accident-internal-exposure-concealed/5525723
Nobody….I mean nobody talks about how radiation affects the brain at the atomic if not quantum level. All the emphasis is on the turmoil of relocation, stress, etc.
Radiation stresses the body.
That stress is capable of inflicting lasting mental disease.
Learn neuro-chemistry and become aware of the horror of our modern world.
GMI
Gee Am I?
Yup.
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I have proven the hormesis theory….if I poke PT just a little, and now and then, then when her real wallpapering starts, and whines about being attacked…I can pretty much ignore it without any harm.
Immune response in action. O-K40!
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constant low level exposure to PJ posts may build immunity to the flood of wallpaper which cometh, but then there are the sleeper cells. This is what makes it so insidious
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Hormesis is total bunk and is used by pronukes to justify poisoning the earth more than it already is. My guess is that some of the frequents posters and insulters on enenews are trying to turn
Enenews into some bizarre religious cult. The people of Hunza are by some noted for their exceptionally long life expectancy,others describe this as a longevity narrative and cite a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women although with a high standard deviation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusho_people
Most Egyptian pharaohs barely made 30 yo
Hormesis theory is a favorite of pronunkers like Rod Adams
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Vira, you posted exactly this same message at 3:28pm, May 19, this same page. Just FYI, people notice.
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