Published: June 8th, 2011 at 12:20 pm ET
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Scientists Study Ocean Impacts of Radioactive Contamination from Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Stony Brook University, June 8, 2011:
Scientists from Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) are joining colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, several other U.S. academic institutions and laboratories in Japan and Spain on the first international, multidisciplinary assessment of the levels and dispersion of radioactive substances in the Pacific Ocean off the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. The research effort is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
“This project will address fundamental questions about the impact of this release of radiation to the ocean, and in the process enhance international collaboration and sharing of scientific data,” said Vicki Chandler, Chief Program Officer, Science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The shipboard research team, which includes scientists from labs in the U.S., Japan and Spain, began its work on June 4, 2011. It will collect water and biological samples and take ocean current measurements in an area 200 km x 200 km offshore of the plant and further offshore along the Kuroshio Current, a strong western boundary current akin to the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, which could rapidly carry the radioactivity into the interior of the Pacific Ocean. [...]
Published: June 8th, 2011 at 12:20 pm ET
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Gee, I wonder what kind of sanitized, A-OK, mighty-fine report we’ll get out of this take-your-time research report.
The time to stock up on canned tuna and salmon was March and April, and I’m loaded to the gills with ‘use by’ dates to 2016 and 2016.
Fuku’s effect on humans, animals, seafood, soil and atmosphere is way past the research stage; spending time and money going down that road makes you a party to the crime.
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Messing with the oceans is very bad for the planet and all its residents, except for ann coulter.
I wonder what is instore for the atlantic.
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Oh and who said pre fuku tuna is that great. The health food guy had a client that was a canned tuna freak who developed heavy metal poisoning. He had to do cleanses and chelation.
You just can’t catch a break.
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It’s the mercury. People who eat a lot of sushi often develop mercury problems. Just watch Earthlings & go vegan.
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When I was a 10-11 year old, our family dentist used to give me vials of liquid mercury to take home and play with (if you can imagine that from a big city dentist?), and it worked wonders when rubbed on certain coins making them shiny.
Thinking of that childhood exposure and a lifelong tuna habit, a few years ago I took a heavy metals test, which came back normal.
Right now I’m more worried about passing a radiation check, and what I might just have inhaled on today’s 24 mile sunny CA bike ride. Still waiting for those N95 facemasks; drivers and other bikers will freak when they see those.
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Uh, you mean green leafy veggies? Uh huh.
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Well a good bit of this water ends up in the Atlantic !
ALERT !! NOAA Confirms Sick Fish in Gulf *GROSS PHOTOS*
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/677/418/
The waters around the world seem to be in trouble already with many deaths of her creatures !
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/in/0000000000000169
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And while returning, the Gulf Stream conveyor belt would carry the Fukuradpollution right round the oceans. See http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.com
Chernobyl pollution has caused 662000 infant mortalities plus still births(IM+SB) in India.
Sellafield has caused millions of IM+SB in India.
I estimate tentatively due to F 6 million IM+SB in India from 2011 to 2019.This is at the rate of ten Chernobyls.
And all this , IAEA mind you for no benefit(!) at all.
Nuclear Programmes the world over are net energy consumers.
Human beings are fallible at all stages of the nuke cycle from conception to decommissioning and entombing and with time extending to 100 million years(Half life of Neptunium). Nuclear power cumulatively must be infallible in forbidding the propagation of error. Instead since the human being is fallible he is the error. And the nuclear genie has crowned himself the emperor of death by ensuring infallibility in forbidding the propagation of error read the human species. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred in their bones, wrote Shakespeare. But the nuke genie has rephrased it: I, the emperor of death, created by them,am infinitely more than the natural and appear as strontium 90 in their bone marrows to alter their genes to extinction…
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Well put.
QFT:
“…Human beings are fallible at all stages of the nuke cycle from conception to decommissioning and entombing and with time extending to 100 million years(Half life of Neptunium). Nuclear power cumulatively must be infallible in forbidding the propagation of error. Instead since the human being is fallible he is the error. And the nuclear genie has crowned himself the emperor of death by ensuring infallibility in forbidding the propagation of error read the human species. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred in their bones, wrote Shakespeare. But the nuke genie has rephrased it: I, the emperor of death, created by them,am infinitely more than the natural and appear as strontium 90 in their bone marrows to alter their genes to extinction…”
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Wow that Kumar can write like a Mofo!…gimme five!
Makes me wonder if you ever
enjoyed the writing of Arthur C. Clarke,
particularly 2061….cosmic jazzCat, ol’ ACC.
Heinlein envisioned the longevity-elite actually time
traveling back to ensure manipulation of Markets and such
at twentieth century times, so as to guarantee Space-Escape
travel for these elites…
Halleluyah I don’t have to try to gasp out some bare
survival in a claustrophobic suit. This World is not my Home!
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I hope the people can stop the building of the huge plant in Jaipur.
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Applause !
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Hey admin, they still have the login hacked.
It’s going to a site called FEnews
Given Domain Name: FENEWS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS0000.NS0.COM
Name Server: NS363.PAIR.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 16-jun-2006
Creation Date: 05-jun-1997
Expiration Date: 04-jun-2015Domain Name: FENEWS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS0000.NS0.COM
Name Server: NS363.PAIR.COM
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 16-jun-2006
Creation Date: 05-jun-1997
Expiration Date: 04-jun-2015
Anybody that wants their login back, you simply have to type in the URL manually. ‘
Hey Sarg.
You didn’t hold up your end of the bargain by giving the site back.
How’s things going in San Diego today?
Be ready for barrage #2.
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James, would you please explain WTF you are talking about? It looks interesting.
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are you pointing at me again?
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look what just happened: http://www.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com-reactor 3 just spewed
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If you fast-forward it, it almost always looks like that at night. No difference to the last days, so no need for (new) panic.
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That site crashes my browsers so many Errors and Violations it’s not even funny that and my AV sft captured over 500 virus/trojans and drive by download attempts on that page.
That site is bad news looks to be fully compromised.
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Yes, mine too ! STICKS/HANGS and won’t close out !
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This is at:
http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/
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oops part of my info got caught in my link-sorry
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LARGE RELEASE FROM REACTOR 3 THIS MORNING
This one seems to be working:
Talks about large releases from Reactor 3 today:
Large Release From Reactor 3 Fukushima Daiichi Power Plaint
http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/
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hardly news is it? it does it everyday,you just cant always see it.if you were to look at all the reactors 24/7 in hot weather you will see them smoking 24/7.its just the conditions that stop you from seeing it.old news
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We can not see the huge amounts of radiation belching into the air, it’s invisible to the naked eyes or the radiation water flowing into the sea, but it’d there in measurements they can not phantom !
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That is a large release!
Also, there were flashes in the far right side of screen that I don’t think were from cameras or lighting…
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Those were lights, they drive around the plant and light certain areas, you can see it every night. It’s clear if you watch it in real time, he’s just fast-forwarding it for dramatization. Again: There IS smoke, yes, and that can’t by no means be good, but it’s not the special smoke and fire event that happened lucaswhitefieldhixson wants you to believe there was, when all he did was pick a more or less random time span and overdramatize it by playing it faster.
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Sorry, I meant “CAN by no means be good” of course.
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they took the video down
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Japanese science ministry, radiation maps, air and ground contamination.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/06/08/1305904_0603.pdf
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Looks like the ‘non’habitable zone is 40 miles from the plant !!
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40 miles from the PLANET!
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i doubt it will
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Well, it’s looks like it’s time for…
A Prayer & A Pint in Tokyo… in Japan!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbnaSjhn-18
Join us as we explore the question:
Is PacMan based on a nuclear holocaust?
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Lucas did a great job.that is heat evaporating outside 1!?
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UN SAYS WEB ACCESS A HUMAN RIGHT
[This is a bit of a diversion, but thought it might be applicable given that we get all our information from the web. If we lose the web, then what? SW radio? Alex Jones?].
Web access a human right, says UN report: A new United Nations report states that disconnecting people from the Internet is a human rights violation and against international law. The report rallies against the UK and France, which have adopted laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the Internet. The report also protests blocking Internet access to quell political unrest
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf
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Reportlinker Adds Radiation Detection Materials Markets – 2011
Reportlinker
NEW YORK, June 8, 2011 —
/PRNewswire/ –Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Radiation Detection Materials Markets – 2011
http://www.reportlinker.com/p0548288/Radiation-Detection-Materials-Markets—2011.html?utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=NoCategory
The radiation detection industry is about to see accelerated growth reasons ranging from ongoing homeland security concerns to greater concerns about safety in the nuclear power industry. Radiation equipment for both diagnostics and therapeutic applications will also proliferate as populations continue to age.
Read more: http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/06/08/3130384/reportlinker-adds-radiation-detection.html#ixzz1Oi9jgTWZ
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Fisheries Agency opposes plan to release water containing radiation
Although TEPCO told that it will release the water after removing radioactive substances
08 Jun 11 – 11:23
Although TEPCO told the agency that it will release the water after removing radioactive substances to an undetectable level, the agency is not approving the plan, leaving the fate of the 3,000 tons of the water accumulated in the nuclear power station, located 15 kilometers south from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, undecided.
If the water remains in tanks for a prolonged time, the storage facility may be corroded by salt in the water.
After being flooded by tsunami following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11, the Fukushima Daini power station saw about 7,000 tons of water accumulate in its facilities.
Of the water, 3,000 tons in the reactor, turbine and other buildings has been found to contain a small amount of radioactive materials such as cobalt.
TEPCO initially planned to let the water stay in the tank, but changed its mind after seeing rust in the storage facility and decided to release the water into the sea.
The level of radioactive materials detected in the water is below the legal standard for releasing such water to the environment.
To seek acceptance of its plan, TEPCO told the Fisheries Agency and local fishermen it would further clean the water with a mineral called zeolite before releasing it.
The agency declined to comment on the matter. At TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which lost many of the key functions to keep nuclear fuel cool in the wake of the natural calamities, highly contaminated water was found to have leaked into the sea.
The utility has also released water with a low level of contamination in line with its plans to deal with the nuclear crisis.
The moves raised concerns over its effects on fisheries and TEPCO’s unilateral notice on the releases to local fishermen drew public…
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continued… criticism.
http://www.safety4sea.com/page/4487/3/fisheries-agency-opposes-plan-to-release-water-containing-radiation
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Picture of Fukushima..after earthquake…scroll down a bit.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm
After tsumani:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/03/pictures/110318-japan-reactors-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-pictures-radiation/#/nuclear-power-plant-japan-satellite-images-detail_33373_600x450.jpg
No comment.. posted for visual observation.
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to be honest the news is the same everytime,twitter has nothing on it now.i suspect that its all over pretty much on fukushima.it will take a few months to cool but nothing is gona happen.i think they have controlled it and im sure thats the end.of course only conspiracy theorists will doubt me.but who cares about them?no one lol
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Get real fallingdown – unless you want to be marked as a lunacy theorist.
It ‘aint over. It’s just starting.
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its over.you know it i know it.your just trying to scare people.i wont take any of your nonsense
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acting trolly there falling down. or maybe you are hugely stoopid.
I pick both.
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Chernobyl (one core much exploded and burned) a million plus dead and counting, a new containment must be built because it is leaking so bad, they dug under it to keep it from hitting the water table !
Japan has three in melt down, multiple fuel pools catching fire, Mox fuel, a new experience in radiation and plutonium, no way to stop THEM from hitting water table !
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Did I mention, Chernobyl wasn’t spilling into an Ocean !
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There’s a HUGELY different point. I’m still not clear on what might happen when this stuff hits the water table but I gather it’s not good.
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One idea was to dig new, containment pits between or beside the reactors, deep enough to pour new concrete containments, even if below the water table, then clear necessary structures and a path using robot bulldozers of some type so that corium and other contaminent rod pieces could be bulldozed down into the new, lower containment pits.
Then, ring-piling and other above-ground containments could be built as is being done now for Chernobyl (600X600 foot arched enclosure), only in the hot Fuku situation be flooded and cooled with re-circulating ocean water.
But this type of solution is for SeaBees, not the GE and Japanese Pee-H-Dees who are sending us all to our doom.
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Solar storm here yet? Anytime now…
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What time is it supposed to hit Pacific Daylight Time (West Coast, U.S.)?
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PU239
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/unusual-solar-storm-could-disrupt-earth-communications-194814480.html
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Great timing, as usual, Anthony.
I glimpsed your comment, looked a my watch, and realized “the event” will occur 8 minutes.
I’m backing up my hard drive now … in case the unthinkable happens.
By the way, if the storm arrives with “reverse rotation,” then “unthinkable will occur for certain.
Anyhow, I’m hoping for “normal” rotation.
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Sun Releases Massive Solar Flare
By KSEE News
MASSIVE SOLAR FLARE HIT TODAY
http://www.ksee24.com/home/Solar-Flare-123389073.html
June 7, 2011
Updated Jun 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM PDT
(Space.com) The sun unleashed a massive solar storm Tuesday in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun’s entire surface, NASA scientists say.
The solar storm hit its peak at about 2:41 a.m. EDT, but the actual flare extended over a three-hour period, said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who runs a website called The Sun Today, in a video describing the event.
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“The sun produced a quite spectacular prominence eruption that had a solar flare and high-energy particles associated with it, but I’ve just never seen material released like this before,” Young said. “It looks like somebody just kicked a giant clod of dirt into the air and then it fell back down.”
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The freaking weather channel showed a pic yeasterday, and “seriously” said it was “pretty”.
I fucking can’t keep up anymore. I know cme’s, prepare for it, but this 2.5 or 2.0 scale, so far, means nothing to me.
Surprised nasucks doesn’t sell tickets to it, as a light show.
Kissinger calls us “useless eaters” so what r these goober agencies?
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Wow, I guess the shills are also logging in. Well, let’s just ignore them.
I have a question for you guys. Does anyone have any friends or relatives who are old or have chronic illness or cancer who have taken a downturn the last couple of months?
Friday we have funerals for a maternal uncle and a paternal aunt, then Saturday another for a maternal aunt. Another aunt died a couple of weeks after the meltdowns. A cousin was given six months to live with cancer about then and died two weeks later. An aunt, her mother, was given three months with cancer and died five days later. They lived in Oregon and Washington where all that rain brings down the radiation. Other friends and relatives of ours who have chronic illnesses are struggling way beyond normal.
All of this will probably stay off of people’s radar because it doesn’t seem connected with Fukushima unless you study what radiation does to people with chronic illnesses or cancer. But our family is stunned by all the sudden deaths.
Any of you seen anything like this?
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Nevadan, not personally but thanks for sharing this with us. Sorry to hear such events happening with frequency for you too. One can only wonder though…
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Nevadan
Sorry to here so much going on with your relatives and Friends, my condolences. I keep hearing that what ever is in your health it will make worse, and so many here at times are reporting fatigue and more and that is worrisome, there are also ailments that radiation will cause including heart attacks ! I hope others respond and bring you some information.
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Sorry Nev, Havenot seen any of this.
The weather is crazier than bug fuzz.
Whatever days ago, the det area had a heatwave. The news carried many senoir housing units and lack of A/C.
Very hot conditions can stress the body fast. I don’t know how you are talking, but alot don’t realize it is on them, until it is too late.
Here in D town, it hit mid 90′s and many of the previous sen centers hvac contractors would not get there til the end of June. Just a thought. My condolenses, to you and yours.
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oh please do us a favour? your getting stupid now neva.people die thats life,not nice but thats life.in respect of you your getting very silly now with your posts.
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Just in case you have the wrong forum, try this one:
http://www.mentalhealthforum.net/
Might help, who knows ….
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me mental health? laughs im not the one in cloud cuckoo land am i? you need help dude.i think its disgusting you coming here and saying your relatives and friends are dying from cancer and blaming a false subject for it.wheres your honour towards them? sick or what
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Nevadan did not state unequivocally that these folks were dying from Fuku rad. I read his post as a cross between legit curiousity, speculation and a plea for someone to help explain the sadly unexplainable. With all thats going on with his kin, friends and the ongoing radiation spewing from Fuku, I see it as a viable, and possibly significant question.
What I find disgusting is some jerk coming to this site and NOT feeling disgust, anger and sadness at the nuke industry, MSM and the gov for what is being perp-ed on our planet.
I’ve wasted enough time on a fucking troll…..when am I gonna learn?
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Poor Daddy, just the same, made me feel better. Thanks.
I wonder if there are simply higher death rates where there is so much rain…Pacific Northwest, and Salt Lake with the most rain on record this spring. I did read some interesting articles a couple of months ago about death and cancer rates after Chernobyl where there were higher rain patterns.
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From spending time on enenews, I’ve learned alot of stuff, and like you, I speculate on alot of it.
Don’t know if the death rates are actually higher, but if so, pollution and radionuclides fall in rain. It would make sense that over the last 50 years of rain, thats alot of radiation and alot of industrial crap for the Pac NW. Might have more to do with it than folks think. It does accumulate. I think your theory might be proven right in the next decade……if we’ve got that long.
I found the piece about the cardiac stuff interesting. A friend of mine has had 3 of his buddies taking trips to the emergency room last month that had no prior history of heart issues….ages 30-55. Some arrhythmias, some chest pains.
I have heart rhythm issues that I take meds for. It has been under control for over 2 years, but the month of April it went nuts again. Seems OK now though. Might have been the fact that I had a sedentary winter, and got outside on the nice days and over-did. Might have been Fuku related stress. Might have been rads. I’ll never know for sure.
Best to you and your family.
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@Nevadan
My prayers got out to you and your family. When we hear sad news like this, it affects all of us.
I pray that Jesus will bless and keep, all of the members of this community.
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For the last 2 weeks during my daily 15-25 mile CA bike rides I have periodically been coughing up, how to say it?, phelgm, the kind you have while recovering from a cold, only I haven’t had a cold.
I have ridden over 10 miles/day, 300 days/year, 3000 miles/year, over 25 years = 75,000 miles, 3 times around the world, without ever leaving town, and my aerobics are good – biked my age (68 yrs = 68 miles) 2 consecutive days last fall, and my lungs have always been clear.
But recently I have to clear unexplained mucous during the ride, and the condition stops immediately after the ride, and doesn’t restart until the next day’s ride.
Soon I will be wearing N95 facemasks, and be interested to see if the condition stops (as well as what drivers and other bikers think of the old guy wearing the mask.)
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I would wear a mask one day and see if there is a change in phelgm or not !
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@ Nevadan You have too much in a short time to deal with. My Condolences. I have seen no link yet, but I do think about it.
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Thanks guys. While I wasn’t looking for sympathy, and was more just curious to know if others were seeing this pattern, it is always nice to feel support from a community I respect like this one.
Some of my family who run also noticed some negative effects running on days that I estimates heavy radiation due to news from Fukushima.
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Im expecting a sudden increase in Asian tourists visiting our lovely country NZ in the southern hemisphere. In the news today was a single mother overstaying with her children because she was afraid to go back to Japan. Also visitors coming from Korea. I wonder how many people are looking for an excuse to get as far away as possible. If TEPCO and the Japanese govt hadn’t “managed” the news about Fukushima I guess there would have been chaos. Personally I’m happy to be out of the way down here. I’ve asked around who would like a free trip to Japan? Not many takers. I wonder what the long term demographic effects will be when the full extent of the event reaches the mainstream press.
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Greetings from a fellow NZ’er. Used to live in Titahi Bay, near Porirua (near Wellington).
I’m on the West Coast of Canada. Maybe a trip back to NZ soon (first time in about 30 years).
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Does it cost much to rent or own a home in NZ?
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Kiwi dollars a bit strong. It was 50c US a few years ago, now its 81c. You can rent for about nz$300pw and buy from about $200k. Flash place $500k up. Good time for a trip. Glad I went to Europe last year.
I don’t know if its worth going on about this, because I don’t think there’s much to be done. Several million people will die, but nobody will notice because they will be statistical changes in cancer rates and premature deaths, spread all over the planet and over about 20 years.
I think the ultimate cost to Japan will be horrendous. What is several thousand square miles of Japanese real estate to be written off at. Who is going to want to go to or live within a hundred miles of Fukushima. Where would 40 million people go. Would you want to live in Tokyo, or have your children grow up there?
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Hopefully there is still some room for me and my fam in NZ
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To all my friends at Enenews,
Interesting:
http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-is-worse-than-chernobyl.html
This is just too sad:
http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/06/japan-suicide-rates-hit-2-year-high-in.html
I am sure many of you are already aware of this site. I found the right hand sidebar
Keep up the great work.
had many interesting suggestions and info on protection. I know some is dated but still quite pertinent. I do also enkoy their weekly updates but usually I have read it here days or weeks prior.
http://nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm
Sad sad feelings as the real truth emerges. I never wanted to speculate here in the past when asked because I always feared this was the reality (Yes easy to say now). Sorry for this next statement but as I review the headlines lately all that comes to mind is “fuck”.
I sincerely hope you all remain well.
Peace.
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Thx, : (
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@Xdrfox.. hope to catch you here.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/gulf-oil-spill-june-2011-venice-louisiana_n_873432.html
I’m downwind to this..at present.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/08/arizona-wildfire-size-phoenix-video_n_873239.html
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Heart of the Rose
Thx, got it posted
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/699/932/
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@xdrfox..Gosh..you are fast as lightning..!
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Thanks for the links! The first link,the story on the right about nets on factorys in China to prevent suicides-Priceless!
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One last link because this woman REALLY knows her stuff:
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/06/real-dangers-nuclear-power-and-nuclear-war
And of course I meant enjoy (not enkoy.. oops) above.
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On National News, Japan and the people hardships MSNBC now !
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If you missed it !
Japan’s radiation fallout ‘a monster you can’t see’
No one in Fukushima has shown signs of illness from radiation exposure, but more than 80,00 people have been turned into radiation refugees. NBC’s Robert Bazell reports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43332637#43332637
Tsunami-devastated town may flee the sea
The townspeople of Koizumi district in Kesennuma, Japan, are considering what would have been unthinkable three months ago: rebuilding their seaside enclave on the top of an inland hill, out of reach of any future tsunamis.
On this page : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036059/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
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Hmmmm. I guess MSNBC didn’t like being “scooped” by CNN yesterday. Might be a good idea to email MSNBC and CNN and let them know how much we appreciate the FUKU coverage. The radiated cat is slowly crawling out of the Fuku bag.
And FOX says what?
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Sent an email to CNN and MSNBC expressing my thanks for the little bit of Fukushima coverage they did in the last couple days. Also told them there has been no news since end of March, and it was refreshing to get some info finally. Here is response:
Thank you for your questions or concerns regarding the Japan Earthquake/Tsunami.
This auto reply is your notification that we have received your email. While we are unable to personally reply to every e-mail, your comments are important to us, and we do read each and every one. Comments become part of the viewer response report that is prepared and made available each day to our producers and senior management.
Maybe shoot em an email and we might hear more. Wake the people up!
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Another all white sky over Fukushima..
Tokyo.. getting dosed.
http://www.freeetv.com/modules.php?name=Video_Stream&page=watch&id=3275
http://www.earthcam.com/japan/tokyo/
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Japan: After the Wave – the entire series from the beginning
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43253843
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Japan’s radiation fallout ‘a monster you can’t see’
World Blog – Japan: After the wave
Robert Bazell writes:
For more than two weeks following the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident that struck Japan in March, I reported on Fukushima every day from Tokyo. Now, nearly three months later, I’ve been able to actually go there – not to the nuclear plant, but as close as 12 miles away, to the Fukushima Prefecture that surrounds the crippled reactors and gives them their name.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/08/6815027-japans-radiation-fallout-a-monster-you-cant-see?chromedomain=dailynightly
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Japan may have no nuclear reactors running by next April – ministry
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By Risa Maeda
TOKYO | Wed Jun 8, 2011 6:25pm IST
(Reuters) – All 54 of Japan’s nuclear reactors may be shut by next April, adding more than $30 billion a year to the country’s energy costs, if communities object to plant operating plans due to safety concerns, trade ministry officials said on Wednesday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/idINIndia-57576920110608
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Thanks, Anthony.
This is good news, if true.
There are 440 reactors worldwide.
http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.oprconst.htm
Minus 17 reactors to be shut down in Germany by 2022, or sooner.
That leaves 369 active reactors; but every shutdown is a victory for the human race.
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If Fuku I isn’t contained, German and other reactor shutdowns will be nuclear versions of the Pyrrhic Victory.
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Breaking point: Modern civilization as we know it on the verge of unraveling?
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/breaking-point-modern-civilization-as-we-know-it-on-the-verge-of-unraveling/
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If so,good riddance.
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0004310.php
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Antinuclear group to hold 1st of annual meetings in Fukushima
PTI | 02:06 PM,Jun 08,2011
Tokyo, Jun 8 (Kyodo) A Japanese group working for the elimination of nuclear weapons will convene the first of its annual meetings this summer in Fukushima Prefecture, home to the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a member of the group has said.The Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, or Gensuikin, which has been calling for a nuclear-free world based on the country’s experience of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has decided this year to also focus on opposing nuclear power plants.The meeting will be held in the city of Fukushima on July 31, followed by meetings on Aug. 4 to 6 in Hiroshima and Aug. 7 to 9 in Nagasaki.The group will wrap up its meetings in Okinawa Prefecture around Aug. 11, where the US military presence is set to be discussed.”We have been arguing that nukes and humans cannot coexist, but I feel powerless that it has been proven this way,” said Toshihiro Inoue, vice director of Gensuikin, referring to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima plant yesterday.”We have to change Japanese society, which is built on burdening local residents with troublesome facilities such as nuclear power plants and US military bases,” he said.It will be the group’s first meeting in Fukushima, it said. (Kyodo)
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/antinuclear-group-to-hold-1st-of-annual-meetings-in-fukushima/718779.html
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@xdrfox
Thanks to the link to that story and that great site.
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u r welcome, it is a really good site !
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/
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LATEST ARNIE VS CNN
http://vimeo.com/24803980
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I know that it’s not his personality, but I wish Arnie would (just once), stop giving his measured replies and just yell, DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE LYING!
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I hnow that feeling too !
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A scorpion wanted to cross a river, so he asked a frog to carry him. “No,” said the frog. “No, thank you. If I let you on my back, you may sting me, and the sting of the scorpion is death.” “Now, where,” asked the scorpion, “is the logic of that?” (for scorpions always try to be logical.) “If I sting you, you will die and I will drown.” So the frog was convinced and allowed the scorpion on his back. But just in the middle of the river he realized a terrible pain and realized that, after all, the scorpion had stung him. “Logic!” cried the frog as he started under, bearing the scorpion down with him. “There is no logic in this!” “I know,” said the scorpion, “but I can’t help it – it’s my nature.”
arnie reminds me of a quaker in the middle of the battle of starlingrad waving a white flag.
whispering as loudly as he can, come on folks gather around and let’s talk about this.
ARNIE EITHER AREVA OR TEPCO AGENTS ARE GONNA GET YOU.
OR THE PLUTONIUM IS SO SPILL THE FUCKING BEANS BEFORE IT’S TO LATE.
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Well said Tony W.
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mmmhh, have anyone heard about this ?
Reports of an explosion in the reactor Anshas in Egypt on july 4.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-617719?ref=feeds%2Flatest
“Providence saved Egypt and Inshas reactor of a nuclear disaster after an explosion reactor pump, and leakage of radioactive water used in cooling reactor.
The officials added it’s level 3 according to the rules of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
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pierrot,
I hadn’t heard. Thanks. I think you meant June 4.
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yeah, i meant june, sorry and in fact june 4 was the date of the first report of the event which according to the various sources had occured may 25.
Also this reactor is located near Cairo where live 20 millions people. Not very good.
others sources :
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=52713
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Esteri/Egitto-esplosione-in-una-centrale-nucleare-Probabile-la-fuga-di-acqua-radioattiva_312094345065.html
http://www.globalproject.info/it/mondi/Egitto-Esplosione-nella-centrale-nucelare-di-Anshas/8719
http://english.youm7.com/News.asp?NewsID=340749&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Awesome catch – thanks for this post! Boy we are in BIG trouble on Earth.
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Dear Nevadan, sincerist condolances on your losses.
I’m in the greater Sacramento area where we have had excessive rain and the temp just jumped from the 60′s to the hi 80′s tda. After living here almost 10 yrs, this is an unusal weather pattern.
As a guinea pig for X-ray to the thymus gland as an infant in the early ’40s, I know it may take a long time for some cancers to show up. Papillary cancer of the thyroid was detected in the early 60′s in my case – and only because my physician was involved at UC Berkley in the development of radio-active iodine scanning, and knowing I had been given X-ray “treatment” in SF as an infant, manually ck’d my thyroid gland. I’ve been living on Armour and Synthroid ever since total thyroidectomy in ’64. Just had an MRI of the neck done a few months ago which showed no sign of recurrance.
Autopsies are rarely preformed on elderly people, since they have pre-exising conditions, so it would be difficult to prove. But I do not believe in coincidence.
From reading current research, my best guess is that excessive radiation of any kind will definitely affect the elderly and immunosuppressed first.
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“…excessive radiation of any kind will definitely affect the elderly and immunosuppressed first.”
Makes since. If immune system is weak, and hot particles start denaturing DNA, then our normal immune system that catches bad cells daily …won’t. Cancer feast courtesy of hot particles and weak immune system.
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Thanks for your response, and good luck.
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Japan Survey: strontium widespread in Fukushima Thursday,June 9, 2011
http://laaska.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/japan-survey-strontium-widespread-in-fukushima/
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ALERT:
http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
Location: Unit 1 nuclear power plant Hukushima
Date: Mar 15, 2011 (Tuesday) to June 08, 2011 (Wed)
Current values: D / W: 51.2 Sv / h , S / C: .857 Sv / h
Status “Instrument failure”
Did anyone notice one of two things…
1.One rad dose exceeded the last reported level of 225; to a high of 250… yet no one wrote of this…
2.Instrument failure. my ars…
This is impossible. To drop from 250 – 25 then rise back to 200. It would take days to slowly decrease… Unless it all went up and out of the reactor…
Its impossible… check the cam… On the days it dropped. I guarantee that there were large releases from reactor 1.
Reactor 1′s fuel is officially beyond containment… This is a huge problem for tepco…
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reactor 1 is a china syndrome…
“Tepco will be forced to evacuate very soon, as the radiation will be accumulating on site now more than ever”…
As in the last week over 200 – 400+SV/h have escaped, on more than one occasion into the atmosphere and is now laying around, all over the site.
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Another video I made. A bit different but still relevant to why I believe the nuclear industry holds to much power:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayQ-91eKeg
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Thanks fellow enenews commentators Jaskal
June 8, 2011 at 2:44 pm,Elenin Velikovsky
June 8, 2011 at 9:40 pm,Boodiba
June 8, 2011 at 6:15 pm, xdrfox
June 8, 2011 at 10:04 pm and related comment of Anthony
June 8, 2011 at 2:42 pm and indeed others joining in. I unfortunately stopped abruptly at Neptunium half life after mentioning 100 million years now and once before. The half life of Neptunium 237, a byproduct of nuke reactions is 2.14 million years(quickest ref: See wikipedia). Considering the ECRR 2010 internal radiation model for nuke hazard risk,and considering the fact that the central dogma of molecular biology now finds junk DNA active participators in determining the future of life, not ten half lives but perhaps fifty half lives have to elapse before radionuclides can be assumed to be safe…The nuclear problem is insoluble.
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Re Comment of Elenin Velikovsky
June 8, 2011 at 9:40 pm: I am aware of the theme as protrayed by films on TV channels here. Thanks for your link. I would love to read it up.
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As we can see here where and who will be effected first by the ill waters !
Ocean Conveyor Belt Animation and Animation, Audio:
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/thelifewire/content/chp58/5802003.html
Ocean Currents (Global Conveyor Belt)
Invisible to us terrestrial creatures, an underwater current circles the globe with a force 16 times as strong as all the world’s rivers combined [source: NOAA: "Ocean"]. This deep-water current is known as the global conveyor belt and is driven by density differences in the water. Water movements driven by differences in density are also known as thermohaline circulation because water density depends on its temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline).
*PIC*, of Full Global Conveyor Belt:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/ocean-current-7b.jpg
ARticle, How Ocean Currents Work:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/ocean-current3.htm
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