Published: August 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm ET
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Title: The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly
Source: Scientific Reports (via Nature)
Authors: Atsuki Hiyama, Chiyo Nohara, Seira Kinjo, Wataru Taira, Shinichi Gima, Akira Tanahara
& Joji M. Otaki
Published: August 9, 2012
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Discussion
We demonstrated that the Z. maha population in the Fukushima area is deteriorating physiologically and genetically.
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[We] conclude that the present outbreak of abnormal individuals in the Fukushima area was caused by random genetic mutations in addition to physiological effects due to the artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ich NPP.
Our demonstration of heritable germ-line genetic damage caused by low-dose exposure due to radioactive contamination in a species of butterfly has invaluable implications for the possible future effects of radiation on animals. In view of the detection of plutonium released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP44, the possible risk of internal exposure from ingestion should be investigated more accurately in the near future.
From Yesterday:
More About the Butterflies:
- Comparison image shows severe mutation of Japan butterfly's stump-like wings (PHOTO) -- Reporter: "Scary" that humans could be affected by mutations too
- Japan Times: Study finds 'abnormalities' in 52% of second generation offspring from butterflies collected May 2011 -- Unusually small wings, premature death
- Biologist on Mutated Butterflies: Study is overwhelming in its implications for humans -- Japan Researcher: Insects were believed to be very resistant to radiation -- Irregularly developed eyes, malformed antennae, much smaller wings (PHOTO)
- The Australian: The devastating physical & genetic effects of Japan's nuclear disaster are revealed -- All mutant butterflies were caught far outside Fukushima evacuation zone
Published: August 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm ET
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"In view of the detection of plutonium released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP44…"
Somebody actually said the 'P' word.
"P L U T O N I U M !"
Could somebody please tell me again 'why' ALL CHILDREN within 50 miles have not been evacuated?
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hi cha sha
i was thinking why no evacuation too?
Deadly exposure: Plutonium-related cancers plague children of the Manhattan Project
Sue Vorenberg | The New Mexican
Posted: Sunday, May 04, 2008 – 4
"..Young boys would run down the canyons, chasing paper sailboats as they splashed through trickling streams. They'd fish, or try to catch a glimpse of wild deer as they built tents to camp in the wilderness behind their homes in the sealed community.
Little girls would splash in puddles on the sidewalk in the late spring rains, and hug their daddies when they came home from their jobs — covered in the toxic and sometimes radioactive materials they secretly worked with during the day.
"We thought we were in a good place because it was a closed city and our parents didn't have to worry about us getting kidnapped," said Lynne Loss, 65, who lived in Los Alamos from 1949 to 1957. "We had no idea what was going on."
But while nobody warned them to stay out of the radioactive water or to not eat the contaminated fish, there were strange signs that, in retrospect, indicated something was amiss, she said. …"
"..As if reading from some grim grocery list, she ticks off the large numbers of old friends that have already died of cancer. "Breast cancer, brain cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, lymphoma, brain cancer …" she said, adding she keeps an obituary scrapbook in hopes the government might one day pay attention to her group's plight. ."
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and the link for that
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/Deadly-exposure
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Thank you arclight.
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agreed B&B. Awesome stuff arclight!
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great article!
thx 4 the thx
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My dad died of bone marrow cancer in 1996 at the age of 70. He served at Camp Roberts in California in 1944-1945. After that lived in west Texas(28 years) and Houston(20 years).
Not sure if he acquired service-related exposure or just bomb fallout from the Southwest bomb testing. His pain in his backbone and arm was in a world beyond painkillers.
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That plutonium was detected all over the place, Guam, Hawaii, Saipan, mainland USA.
Proof using EPA data
keep in mind, in a MOX plant there is plutonium in everything
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/03/plutonium-admission-by-epa.html
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@stock@hawaii.
Thank you for this post..I did not have the actual data..
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Doitashimashte
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Plutonium from Sellafield in all children's teeth
Government admits plant is the source of contamination but says risk is 'minute'
Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
The Observer, Sunday 30 November 2003
"..The original research was carried out in 1997 by Professor Nick Priest who was working for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. At the time the conclusions of the research received little attention because the study concluded that the contamination levels were so minuscule they were thought to pose an 'insignificant' health risk.
But earlier this year the Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters, looking at health risks posed by radioactive materials, examined Priest's study. Some of the committee's members have now cast doubt on the conclusions that plutonium in children's teeth posed no health risk.
Professor Eric Wright, of Dundee University Medical School, is one of the country's leading experts on blood disorders and a member of the committee. He believes that the tiny specks of plutonium in children's teeth caused by Sellafield radioactive pollution might lead to some people falling ill with cancer.
He said: 'There are genuine concerns that the risks from internal emitters of radiation are more hazardous [than previously thought]. The real question is by how much. Is it two or three times more risky… or more than a hundred?……."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/nov/30/greenpolitics.health
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Oh joy.
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"the possible risk of internal exposure from ingestion should be investigated more accurately in the near future"
Possible risk? I think we're about 40 years beyond that point. Are these researchers too stupid to do a Google search on 'radionuclide ingestion'? These studies have been out there for decades, and now these 'doctors' want us to think we need more studies?
Disgusting.
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"..Are these researchers too stupid..", actually they are quite clever!
World Health Organisation fails to protect people from nuclear radiation
"..A directive was issued by the University of Fukushima not to mention nuclear issues. Only one young ecology professor is attempting to carry out studies on the effects of the disaster on children. He has received threats. The majority of academics are toeing the line, and are ‘looking the other way’ for the sake of their careers: this is very serious. A country as strong in matters of research as Japan, should be thoroughly investigating the genetic alterations induced by the contamination and developing antimutagenic agents to reduce genetic abnormalities that will be passed on from generation to generation…."
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/15/world-health-organisation-fails-to-protect-people-from-nuclear-radiation/
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and no submissions for contaminated issues from the Japanese Thyroid Association
they are more interested in oncology and xrays at airports this year??????
so they are clever at looking in all the wrong places for thyroid problems in up to 500,000 children (including Miyagi)
heres a snippet from their website
google translated
".."Creating a guidance of therapy internal use I-131.." for oncology
there is more money in that..
aint it true
follow the money..
wonder where they get the iodine 131 from?? Oi?
treatment instead of evacuation is against the residents human rights
and the Alternative WHO have quite alot to say about that…
link to Japan Thyroid Assoc
http://www.japanthyroid.jp/doctor/information/index.html (japanese)
link to the alternative independent WHO
http://independentwho.org/en/2012/08/06/lessons-are-being-ignored/
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You da' man, arclight. How do you come up with all this stuff?
You deserve the Enenews prize for quality research!
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Arclight is an amazing researcher and his web site is easy to read and very informative, which goes without saying. Thanks again Arclight for your relentless work.
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How do you come up with all this stuff?
i got taught by the best of them..
i thank the enenewsers and admin..
peace
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Stuff needs to be outlawed. Absolutely no reason not to.
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July 12, 2012, 9:58 AM 14 Comments
Fukushima vs. Chernobyl: How Have Animals Fared?
"…Contaminated areas of Chernobyl and Fukushima are unlikely to be hospitable habitats for years to come. In Chernobyl, for example, the amount of americium-241, a highly radiotoxic isotope if ingested, is actually increasing as its parent nuclide, plutonium, decays. Radioactive materials like cesium are brought back to the surface soil each year by plant growth and pollination.
And some plutonium isotopes have half-lives of 24,000 years. “These radioactive materials are going to be around for quite a while,” Dr. Mousseau said. “We’re looking at hundreds of years before many of the forested areas get better.”
He and his colleagues plan to continue their surveys at the same time and place each year to see how the populations change…."
"..Dr. Mousseau said
In Fukushima, animals have only cycled through a few generations at most since the disaster, so any mutations have probably not begun to manifest themselves. For short-lived species like insects, however, mutations could soon start to appear…."
PUZZLING STATEMENT he mentioned this in july? i believe..
and we have massive deformations in august, reports and data all collated.. odd?
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/fukushima-vs-chernobyl-how-have-animals-fared/
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Critical Alliances: Japan’s Yamashita and USA’s Yanagisawa –convincing the world of radiophobia lies
“Critical Alliances” is an article by Fukushima Voice
"..One of the speakers was Robert Yanagisawa, M.D., an endocrinologist and an Associate Professor in Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He spoke through the Internet on “Radiophobia and Reality of Thyroid Cancer.”
“..He established the Mt. Sinai-Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMU) exchange program, and has been appointed Visiting Professor by TWMU….”
“..Incidentally, Tokyo Women’s Medical University is one of the hospitals which have put up signs refusing to examine patients for radiation-related illnesses..”…"
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/16/critical-alliances-japans-yamashita-and-usas-yanagisawa-convincing-the-world-of-radiophobia-lies/
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We must outlaw nuclear power while we still are on planet earth. It is the only way to manifest the vision of survivability for our progeny. We,must have leaders that are true visionaries and will work tirelessly to support the research into alternative means of generating needed power; not based in C, nor nuclear.
This will only work if it is not already too late. The constant creation and bombarding of radionuclides continues non-stop.
There are few words to describe the danger that we face.
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