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Tokyo Professor: Cesium detected in urine of Fukushima infants “definitely has no effect on human body”

Published: July 2nd, 2012 at 3:31 am ET
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Cesium found in urine of Fukushima children
The Japan Times
Monday, July 2, 2012

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The average amount of cesium in the 141 samples was 2.2 becquerels per kilogram. Cesium was not detected in 1,881 of the 2,022 infants and kids surveyed, the Yokohama-based [Isotope Research Institute] said.

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The survey from last November to January covered infants and kids up to age 7. The institute said the survey was free and performed out of concern for those who may have suffered internal exposure to radioactive materials.

Hideaki Karaki, honorary professor of food safety at the University of Tokyo

  • “The level of cesium is lower than that of potassium, and it definitely has no effect on the human body”
  • “But we still need to know how cesium entered the infants’ bodies”
  • The cesium will be excreted and doesn’t remain in their bodies as long as in adults because the metabolism of children is faster
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122 comments to Tokyo Professor: Cesium detected in urine of Fukushima infants “definitely has no effect on human body”

  • Seitsukie
    July 2, 2012 at 4:06 am

    Karaki-san has certainly earned that honorary degree- radioactive material in infants and young children "definitely has no effect on the human body."

    From the article: "The three children found to have the highest levels of cesium were on a steady diet of home-grown vegetables".

    This is pretty disgusting, as dismissive and patronizing articles by the mainstream media in this country go.


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    July 2, 2012 at 4:06 am

    This is just plain criminal. Survey conducted from November to January, results publisched a mere 6 months later, and still wondering how on earth the cesium (and who knows what else) entered the children's bodies?
    If those are the requirements for being a professor, I'll apply tomorrow.


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    • arclight arclight
      July 2, 2012 at 4:33 am

      hi bnb
      "6 months later"

      do you think they were holding it back for the WHO report? the timing is interesting? also as seitsuke notes, a nice PR moment for the visiting corporations

      looks like operation mindshare is really sharing and thinking well in advance..

      checkmate!… :(


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  • Seitsukie
    July 2, 2012 at 4:08 am

    Also, I wonder about the timing between this and U.S. Ambassador Roos' visit with the representatives from 30 U.S. companies to Fukushima prefecture and his remark that their presence (as well as that of other Americans) would endorse to the world the Fukushima is in fact safe.


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    • Time Is Short Time Is Short
      July 2, 2012 at 10:59 am

      Sure don't want the parents of all those US teenager volunteers knowing they're sending their kids into a hot zone before the Presidential election.

      I wonder how all those kids were rounded up for this. What group/s sponsored this trip? Centrally coordinated? Who paid for their flights and accommodations? Was this all dreamed up in Japan and the State Department?

      This is murder, plain and simple. Sending innocent teenagers into a hot zone. All the dangers should have been carefully explained before they made their final decision. Brutal.


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      • Sue
        July 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm

        @TIS

        The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and the Laurasian Institution are co-ordinating the Kizuna Project you mention above

        http://www.jpf.go.jp/cgp/e/exchange/project/kizuna.html
        http://www.laurasian.org/kizuna/index.htm

        I know that there are 2 high schools from Orange County participating, probably to try and convince the locals that re-starting San Onofre is not such a bad idea, and another high school in Boise. Still searching for the other 37 schools on the list.

        I have spoken to a Principal at one of the schools, I have spoken with the co-ordinator at the Laurasian Institute, I have spoken with Helen Caldicott's office and Nuclear Free Planet, I have had a Celebrity tweet the story and all the relevent links and I have asked a writer at the Orange County Register to get this story out, but still I doubt that anything has changed. It breaks my heart. Do you or anyone else here have any better ideas as time is moving on and we are wasting time. How many American kids have gone to Japan since this story broke?


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        • Seitsukie
          July 2, 2012 at 8:05 pm

          I'm one of them, but based on my conversations with friends during the past year, literally very few people know about what's going on. I've been dumbfounded by the number of people who have flat out told me they had know idea where Fukushima was or why it mattered. Subtle hubris via national identity may or may not play a part in it, but the utter lack of knowledge about what radiation is and how it actually works is probably a large part of their decision to come to Japan (no thanks to pricks like our Veterinarian in question above, Karaki)- it certainly influenced mine largely.


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          • Time Is Short Time Is Short
            July 2, 2012 at 10:02 pm

            Welcome to the red pill here, Seitsukie. You'll learn a lot.

            We are all here (well, mostly, lotsa' trolls) trying to learn as much as we can, to help spread the word to as many as we can. It does get difficult, but we do try.

            The greatest battles are those in front of us.

            Peace.


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        • Time Is Short Time Is Short
          July 2, 2012 at 9:53 pm

          Hi, Sue.

          No, I don't have a better idea for letting these kids know what's going on before they make their decisions. I speak to as many people as I can, in a slow, one-step-at-a-time kind of way, to lead them to question what's going on. I find if you flat out tell people what's up, they turn a deaf ear. But if you help them form their own questions, they may go looking for more info.

          One or two at a time. I don't have a large audience. That's why I am so appalled at the lack of attention from the world's leading religious/spiritual figures. They're all going to lose their flocks, and not one damn word. This has to make G-d cry. If life is a test, we have a 100% failure rate with them. Just appalling.

          Thank you for the information, Sue. Good detective work, and it pushes me to do more. It even got a response from Seitsukie, so you are a butterfly whose ripples will spread around the world. We never know who we touch, will do something incredible.

          The more kids here, the better. It's their future being cut short. I'm on the other side of the bell curve, with years of battle scars from work like this.

          Peace.


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  • arclight arclight
    July 2, 2012 at 4:12 am

    so this is the tests that the WHO report ignored..

    cesium 134 or 137??

    type of test?

    where were tests subjects from in relation to hot spots..

    voluntary testing? so no organised testing..

    nice to see such a small sample.. and after the cs134 has reduced AFTER doing its damage..

    does this guy know allinson wade and geraldine thomas…

    "..the risk from radiation of 100 to 200 mSV is almost the same risk as that of getting cancer from a lack of vegetables or passive smoking…."

    http://sciencelinks.jp/content/view/1247/33/

    this is a schill test i think.. i am not reassured..
    no methodology etc??


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  • Cindy
    July 2, 2012 at 4:23 am

    This last statement seems like an outright lie :

    'The cesium will be excreted and doesn’t remain in their bodies as long as in adults because the metabolism of children is faster'

    What ??

    I thought internal exposure was worse in kids because their cells divide faster , and less harm would come to an adult ….


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
      July 2, 2012 at 4:35 am

      Hi Cindy, I think all internal exposure is bad.
      Eating it is superbad, while inhaling is even worse (as the particles get stuck in the lung forever).
      This is just plain horrible.

      :-(


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    • richard richard
      July 2, 2012 at 5:14 am

      @cindy – i am no expert, but this is how i read it.

      no all 'by-products' will be excreted as the body doesn't try to repel them. apparently iodine is actually attracted to the thoyroid, where it will inbed itself. the iodine is the cesium.

      the next two parts of the equation factor against the children – yes, their cells are dividing quicker, so there is more opportunity for 'errors' to sneak in and then those faults are imbedded in any future cell reproduction (probably thru to off-spring).

      the second part is simply age. older adults wont be around for as long for problems to propogate fully (or though they still will have effects, i'm sure).

      The children will have many more years and future generations for the faulty cells to replicate. Extrapolate that out to your own speculation – I am not qualified to even begin.

      So, in summary, three factors combine to make the situation far worse for children.

      Just my opinion. I am not a professional. This is how I understand it. I'm certainly open to correction and criticism.


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    • JoyB
      July 2, 2012 at 9:34 am

      Hi, Cindy. Cesium is uptaken by the body as if it were potassium, and incorporated into biological processes like potassium. 'Normal' adult intake of potassium is about 3.3 grams per day. A tiny percentage of natural potassium is radioactive [K40], which 'normally' amounts to just over 3.3 thousand Bq (disintegrations per second). Mostly in bone tissue, but also muscles.

      That exposure is inescapable, considered 'natural background' along with some low level exposure to gamma released by K40 in the environment (external dose). This is NOT harmless, a recent Oxford study estimated that fully 15% of childhood leukemia is caused by background gamma exposure.

      Deal with uptaking cesium is that it provides its level of Bq disintegrations IN ADDITION TO the K40 already inside us. The chances of a cesium isotope replacing a K40 isotope are vanishingly small due to the small percentage of natural potassium that is K40. So it must be added to, not constantly switched out as potassium is – you can eat a ton of bananas and your internal concentration of K40 would never change in your lifetime. Cesium is in addition to that.

      And yeah, children's growing bodies are indeed more susceptible to radiation damage. They can make stupid claims about relative danger because K40 exposure is much higher. That doesn't mean cesium is harmless. It's not.


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    • Tacomagroove
      July 2, 2012 at 10:57 am

      GREAT ARTICLE ON CESIUM
      http://www.chemistryexplained.com/elements/A-C/Cesium.html#b
      Chemical properties

      Cesium is a very reactive metal. It combines quickly with oxygen in the air and reacts violently with water. In the reaction with water, hydrogen gas is released. Hydrogen gas ignites immediately as a result of the heat given off by the reaction. Cesium must be stored under kerosene or a mineral oil to protect it from reacting with oxygen and water vapor in the air.

      Cesium also reacts vigorously with acids, the halogens, sulfur, and phosphorus.

      Read more: http://www.chemistryexplained.com/elements/A-C/Cesium.html#b#ixzz1zTeypxGO


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  • harengus_acidophilus harengus_acidophilus
    July 2, 2012 at 4:53 am

    Guilty!
    It's a crime against humanity itself!

    There is NO threshold for the negative effects of radioactivity,
    so "no effect" is just a damn lie.

    h.


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  • Tacomagroove
    July 2, 2012 at 5:11 am

    It makes you wonder what other nasties they are finding in the children's urine…

    As if of the over 4000+ radionuclides only one is present in each sample…

    Also which cesium which iodine…

    Short halflife… Long half life…

    And how much radioactivity is in their system and organs vs what the liver is rejecting>>>


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  • arclight arclight
    July 2, 2012 at 5:14 am

    from acro france

    "..Urines of children from Tohoku september – november 2011

    ACRO has also continued to analyse the urine of children at the request of Japanese citizens. Even if there is not 100% of the urine contaminated in Fukushima prefecture, which is good news, many children continue to be contaminated at levels that do not decrease from the levels we measured in May.

    Some of these children live in homes where we controlled the dust from the vacuum cleaner. But it does not seem to be any clear correlation between the contamination of dust and urine. This leads us to point the finger to the food as the main contributor to the internal contamination.

    Urine is the most contaminated in Ichinoseki in Iwate prefecture located 200 km from the crippled nuclear plant…"

    http://www.acro.eu.org/OCJ_en.html#23

    cont..


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    • arclight arclight
      July 2, 2012 at 5:21 am

      Urine from various prefectures of Japan (February 2012)

      "…ACRO continues to face a large demand for urine testing from Japan at the request of local NGOs or individuals and to provide free analysis. This time, the urines come from prefectures that further from the Fukushima NPP.
      Results show that urines are still contaminated almost one year after 3/11 and are contaminated in places located as far as Oshu (Iwate Pref.) at about 220 km from the NPP. In Miyagi Pref. that is closer, urines are also contaminated. It is particularly the case in Marumori.
      Sample n°11 comes from the same girl from Ichinoseki as the last time. We notice a significant decrease of the contamination. Parents were eating vegetables from the Grandparents’ garden without expecting that they could be contaminated. The urine test provided by ACRO allowed them to change their food habits and protect themselves…"

      http://www.acro.eu.org/OCJ_en.html#28

      so it was acro criirad etc warned the japanese to NOT feed their kids the contaminated food and THAT was the reason for the low contamination levels found.. this info was spread via the alternative web news and the people of japan were able to make an informed decision and avoid worse internal contamination.. and the tepgov are saying the food is good to eat..

      then they bring this report out… and they are still promoting the food??? why my head hurt.. ??


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    • arclight arclight
      July 2, 2012 at 5:25 am

      "..many children continue to be contaminated at levels that do not decrease from the levels we measured in May…"

      doesnt really go with

      "the cesium will be excreted and doesn’t remain in their bodies "

      me bad head.. :( ????


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  • Tacomagroove
    July 2, 2012 at 5:17 am

    Note: Tepco cam is un viewable currently…


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  • Urban27
    July 2, 2012 at 5:37 am

    What does this say? So many radioactive isotopes that are released from the reactors, and only one is being represented. This means the children are having a lot more in them.
    And what comes out in urine, is that the body rejects. How much is absorbed by the body? That would be more information. This propaganda machinery is scaring. When ever they give some information you get the feeling there is a lot that is not being told.


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    • VicFromOregon VicFromOregon
      July 2, 2012 at 9:09 am

      Excellent insight! What comes out is what hasn't lodged in a cell somewhere.


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      • Time Is Short Time Is Short
        July 2, 2012 at 11:11 am

        Humans, and all life for that matter, are simply bio-filters with consciousness. The avenues of rad introduction are air, water and food.

        Very little of the rads we are receiving internally are being excreted through our waste system. The majority is being stored, and distributed throughout our bio-system. Personal bio-accumulation.


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  • arclight arclight
    July 2, 2012 at 5:50 am

    and these statements from july 2011

    "..It is unclear whether the levels are high enough to cause health problems in the children.
    Earlier, tests conducted on children in Chernobyl had shown those with elevated Cesium isotopes in their body were more at risk of higher blood pressure…"

    "..Meanwhile, Chairman of Acro, David Boilley, has said hat the results are not conclusive because the sample size was small. On being asked whether the cesium levels found in these children were significant, he said, "The amount of cesium should be zero."

    The Fukushima Network to Protect Children from Radiation, a Fukushima-based NGO that sponsored the tests, is now urging the government to perform more widespread, internal contamination screenings using whole body counters or radiation detectors…"

    http://ph.news.yahoo.com/childrens-urine-tests-show-traces-two-radioactive-isotopes-081048706.html


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    • Tacomagroove
      July 2, 2012 at 5:58 am

      I love the small amount conversion tactic…

      Like hello they are invisible particles in the first place pm-10 and below…

      News flash when you detect multiple particle fragments in only one urine sample (that mind you has risen over a period of testing), That means you have a large amount of small harmless particles within your body… (making the amount Harmful).


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  • arclight arclight
    July 2, 2012 at 6:10 am

    TEPCO and the Japanese Government Continue to Obscure Threat to Workers and Residents of Very High Strontium-89 Levels and Lie About Everything Related to Plutonium – Written on September 30, 2011 (updated Oct. 7, 2011)

    "..Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology revealed on Sept. 30, 2011 the results of an advanced soil survey conducted in areas located tens of kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi. (report here) The peak values in the survey of radiostrontiums detected in soils – at 45 out of 100 total sampling locations – were 22,000 Bq/m2 of strontium-89 in Namie soils and 5,700 Bq/m2 of strontium-90 in soil in Futaba. It is important to note that the levels of strontium-89 detected at all locations from the Ministry's June and July soil survey are 1/3 to 1/2 of the levels of this radioisotope that were originally deposited in March. This was not mentioned in any of the news articles on the matter…."

    interesting article

    "In early October, the Ministry stated it has no plans to extend the survey area beyond the 79 km radius.

    Plutonium

    The Ministry also found plutonium isotopes at six locations in the survey area and determined peak amounts of plutonium-238"

    http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/12-5.php


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  • dunno
    July 2, 2012 at 7:14 am

    Human body produce 8000 becquerels, so 2.2 becquerels is insignificant.
    Cesium half-life in human body is 60 days (2 months), so from last November where is 6 months, this mean cesium concentration have been reduced by factor of 8.


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  • dosdos dosdos
    July 2, 2012 at 7:24 am

    Remember the banana argument? The fallacy is that the K40 is passed on through the body, while cesium and iodine isotopes do not pass through the body, but rather cling to the cells without any tendency to be expelled. If a small amount of cesium is present in the urine, a large amount must be present in the body tissue. This is another attempt to downplay the damage being done by using only the figures that appear to be negligible to the uninformed.


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    • VicFromOregon VicFromOregon
      July 2, 2012 at 9:18 am

      thx, dosdos, that was my recall, too, from readings very early on when cesium was on it's way to the West Coast here and questions remained how much blew back over Japan or out over the ocean. If it's showing up in urine, then, that is really an unhappy event. Does anyone know this doctor's background? Is it in radiation illnesses?


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    • GeoHarvey
      July 2, 2012 at 10:28 am

      About 10% of the cesium is excreted, and 90% gets trapped in the body. This does not mean that a small amount of cesium in a urine sample represents nine times that amount is in the body. What it means is that the urine sample is one of many urine samples, all of which combine to 'represent' 10% of the cesium the child ingested. Since the sample is taken long after the event, the actual amount ingested has to be increased according to the half life of the cesium. Since the excretion is slows as time passes, that has to be accounted for as well.
      The amount in the urine seems insignificant. The amount in the child has to be calculated based on a lot of science, because it is very much greater and not related in a way that is intuitively obvious.
      The sense I get from reading this is that the doctor is using a judgement he regards as obvious, rather than careful science and math, to come to his conclusions. His idea that the cesium "definitely has no effect" should be regarded as a possible indicator of bad reasoning.


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  • VicFromOregon VicFromOregon
    July 2, 2012 at 9:27 am

    Oh, i may have answered part of my own question. He is a professor, not a medical doctor? Is his specialty radiation contamination in biologically living organism? If not, then he probably should have the decency to step aside and let someone with that experience and expertise lead the study. If he can't tell the difference between eating a banana and a triple reactor meltdown/explosion…then these kids have more problems than the cesium and strontium. BTW, what gets digested and will be eliminated, spills into the kidneys then on to the bladder very, very quickly – under an hour. So, these kids are either holding onto the cesium and it is slowly sloughing off or they are still being exposed on a routine basis, even if the levels are dropping.


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  • VicFromOregon VicFromOregon
    July 2, 2012 at 9:33 am

    Ok, one more rant. I can't help myself. These are infants this man is dismissing so cavalierly. If he is an "honorary professor" of food safety, what happened to the person who actually earned a degree by studying and practicing in the field? It might be worth asking – when did this "expert" get appointed? Before or after the start of the unfolding disaster?


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  • godzuki
    July 2, 2012 at 10:02 am

    whoopie – its odd not to have you on this site so much. But probably very good for your mindset. Time offline and focused on things you can effect rather than reading about things that you cannot must be much more healthy. Just thought I'd let you know I miss reading your comments, and Im sure everyone else does. But I'm also happy you must be busy with life. Enjoy.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
      July 2, 2012 at 10:22 am

      + 1000, godzuki! I miss "Posted to HP!!"
      It would be great Whoops if you could just pop up very quickly to let us know you're doing good.


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      • Time Is Short Time Is Short
        July 2, 2012 at 11:31 am

        There are a lot of posters that have 'retired', or 'temporarily withdrawn'. This is some major, life-changing threats. It's impossible to read about all that's going on, and not undergo major personal crisis.

        Who knows what people will do when/if they reach their breaking point, or what they need to do to get mentally healthy?

        You cannot fill someone's glass from an empty pitcher.


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  • Fred
    July 2, 2012 at 10:20 am

    I suppose, since cesium isotopes have no effect on humans, the good professor won't mind us injecting him with cesium and forcing him to drink and eat cesium-tainted water and food, will he?

    We'll use HIM as the test subject, not the good citizens of Fukushima Prefecture….for a change.

    Any authority figure who lies like this will just be added to the guinea pig list of new test subjects…..(c;]


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  • ShineTheLight
    July 2, 2012 at 10:24 am

    Global Epic Child Abuse


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    • Time Is Short Time Is Short
      July 2, 2012 at 11:35 am

      And not a word – NOT ONE WORD – from any 'spiritual' authorities.

      They have ALL missed the boat. If anyone doubted the failure of religion, it doesn't get any clearer than this.

      The greatest failure of spiritual leadership in this planet's history.


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      • anne anne
        July 2, 2012 at 11:40 am

        Not only is your thesis not true, we are not allowed to discuss this topic on this website.


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        • Time Is Short Time Is Short
          July 2, 2012 at 1:10 pm

          I'm not discussing religion. I'm mentioning the lack of response from religious leaders, in correlation with world government leaders. We know here the world's political leaders are doing their best to hide all this.

          What has the Dalai Lama said? What has the Pope said? How about the Archbishop of Canterbury? Any mega-church preachers? Anyone on the Sunday religious shows? Copts? Imams? Anyone in Israel?

          People here are looking for answers and help. We certainly aren't getting it from our elected officials. Where are the spiritual leaders in this crisis? Many of us here are self-guided. Many, and most of the general population, are not.

          If you have any links along these lines – not religious, but religious leaders speaking out about this disaster – please post.

          Whatever beliefs one may have, we are facing the greatest threat to the human race ever encountered. I would think someone would say something and get the ball rolling. Someone with the authority to be listened to by their followers, which may lead to increased awareness.

          Full respect, anne. Only trying to point out the lack of courage on the part of people whose 'mission' is to show courage.


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 6:00 am

        Japanese government criticized for downplaying nuclear disaster
        "’I didn't know it would be so bad, that there would be so little information. That was a bit of a shock to me,’ Naggai says in Berlin. The former TV moderator was invited to a discussion by the Lutheran Church and various NGOs in Berlin to talk about the Japanese government's handling of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Among other things, he explains how radiation measurements in Fukushima are manipulated….”
        http://margotbworldnews.com/News/Apr/Apr19/downplaying.html
        Minamisoma Official: Plutonium detection not being published by gov’t — Mayor should be blamed if people die
        http://margotbworldnews.com/News/July/July2/plutonium.html


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 6:06 am

        Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Commemorated In South Carolina & Georgia
        March 30, 2012

        “In the next three blog posts we will feature reports from three residents of Fukushima about how they were affected by the earthquake and nuclear disaster that hit north east Japan on 11th March 2011.

        “The reports were translated into English by Elizabeth Baldwin and read out at several commemorative events that were held in South Carolina on 11th March 2012. Elizabeth has kindly offered the translations to us for publication on our blog.

        “South Carolina shares a border with the state of Georgia, where an energy company called Georgia Power has received a license to build the first two nuclear reactors in the USA for 38 years. The reactors are to be built at Plant Vogtle, Burke County on the Savannah River, which borders Georgia and South Carolina

        “So the 100 people who gathered at the Fairfield Missionary Baptist Church in Burke County were there both to commemorate the victims of the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster and to protest against the plans to build those two new nuclear reactors.

        “Author and anti-nuclear activist, Shoji Kihara, the son and brother of Hiroshima a-bomb victims, attended the event in Georgia. He said,

        “’It is unbelievable to me that Plant Vogtle was approved so close after Fukushima,’ he said. ‘Stopping Vogtle will eliminate the revival of nuclear energy in Japan.’


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 6:20 am

        Radiation protection standards are skewed towards industry, says Japanese interfaith group
        April 23, 2012
        http://www.pcusa.org/news/2012/4/23/radiation-protection-standards-are-skewed-towards-/

        Christian network: Japan disaster victims still ‘isolated and uncertain’
        June 4, 2012
        “The network was founded in Japan’s northeastern city of Sendai, one week after March 11 and close to the epicenter of the magnitude-nine quake that triggered a tsunami and radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
        “The network has provided spiritual care to disaster victims through listening, counseling, and hosting a radio program. It assists those in temporary housing. It has also confirmed the extent of damage to more than 200 churches and is helping 17 damaged churches. Toukoku (which means ‘northeast’) HELP is also aiding 158 church-related households.
        “It has created a network among disaster-affected churches and promotes cooperation between them and churches worldwide. The network set up centers to measure radiation levels in food, supports foreign victims of the disaster and promotes their relief work, according to its new English website: http://www.touhokuhelp.com.”
        http://www.pcusa.org/news/2012/6/4/christian-network-japan-disaster-victims-still-iso/


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 6:26 am

        Anglican Communion News Service
        Church in Japan calls for nuclear power to be abolished, alternative energy pursued
        June 29, 2012
        For a World Without Nuclear Power Plants
        -The Anglican/Episcopal Church in Japan Opposed to Nuclear Power Generation –
        http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/6/29/ACNS5134

        Demand Japanese Prime Minister to Shut Down All Nuclear Power Plants
        June 30, 2012
        http://holisticradioprotection.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 7:08 am

        Nobel winner Caldicott here for Japan nuclear crisis anniversary
        March 13, 2012
        Dr. Helen Caldicott's appearance Saturday at Temple United Methodist Church in Seattle is part of weekend events scheduled around the one-year anniversary of Japan's Fukushima tsunami and resulting nuclear crisis.
        http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017741115_quakeevents14m.html


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        • anne anne
          July 3, 2012 at 7:08 am

          Mar. 17th “Fukushima: Lessons for the Northwest”
          Agenda for Mar. 17th
          March 14, 2012
          Topic: Nuclear Legacy – Health & Environment, Nuclear Power
          “Fukushima: Lessons for the Northwest”
          University United Methodist Temple Church, 1415 NE 43rd Ave., Seattle, 98105
          Saturday, March 17, 2012, 9 AM – 3 PM
          All sessions free and open to public (Free parking in parking lot, University Lutheran Church, 1604 50th St. NE, 98105)
          Question and answer session follows each speaker.

          9:15 Dr. Helen Caldicott “What We Learned From Fukushima”
          10:30 Break
          10:45 (video conference) Robert Alvarez , Institute for Policy Studies
          "Assessing Risk: Nuclear Spent Fuel”
          12 Noon LUNCH BREAK (NO HOST)
          1 PM (vid. con.) Dr. Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates
          “Lessons for Hanford from Fukushima”
          2 PM Tracy Bier, “Introducing Our Northwest Activist Groups”
          • Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility,
          • Heart of America of the Northwest
          • Hanford Challenge
          http://www.psr.org/chapters/washington/news/fukushima-lessons-for-the.html


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 7:53 am

        INTERNATIONAL ECUMENICAL PEACE CONVOCATION
        Towards A Nuclear Weapon Free World
        2011 MAY 23

        “….Fukushima took us into the realization that calculations with regard to intensity of earthquakes and tsunamis could go dangerously wrong and a combination of the two natural phenomena could bring havoc to reactors and endanger humanity itself.

        “Many years will pass before we realize the full extent of the damage inflicted by Fukushima but it has shaken the faith in the minds of many about the safety of nuclear power. Whatever may be their other benefits nuclear reactors have begun to be seen as potential killers….”
        http://www.peaceforlife.org/resources/usmilitarism/2011/11-0523-koshy-nuclearweaponfreeworld.html


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  • ShineTheLight
    July 2, 2012 at 10:30 am

    http://worldbabyreport.com/?p=6013

    Parents please fight back. This is not just a problem for Japanese parents, or for just those parents in the Pacific Northwest and not just for those parents on the West Coast. This WILL impact your children, too.


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  • stopnp stopnp
    July 2, 2012 at 10:30 am

    Criminals.

    I hope they take in some cesium.

    What about the fallout videos that say how horrible exposure is for you? It's safe now?

    F@#$ me


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    • Tacomagroove
      July 2, 2012 at 10:37 am

      Related:
      http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3534291.htm

      MARK COLVIN: Directors and auditors at TEPCO – the Japanese operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant – have used the company's annual general meeting today to resign. In theory, they're doing so to take responsibility for last year's disaster. But the ABC can confirm that nearly half of those who resigned will take up lucrative posts with other TEPCO group companies.

      Some of the executives are also facing the biggest lawsuit in Japanese history – a $67 billion compensation claim from shareholders for what they describe as unforgivable negligence.

      Our correspondent Mark Willacy was at today's TEPCO meeting in Tokyo.

      (Sounds of speaker addressing a protest)

      MARK WILLACY: It's not a football field, but a footpath; although there is a scrum of TEPCO shareholders, anti-nuclear activists, and Japanese police forming there. But by western standards it's a polite affair – no pushing, no shoving, certainly no raised voices.

      Still TEPCO shareholders meetings never used to be like this. Then again, TEPCO shareholders like Taro Shisido never had to flee their homes because of a nuclear meltdown.


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    July 2, 2012 at 11:07 am

    BREAKING High level of radioactive cesium detected in Fukushima freshwater fish
    "The Environment Ministry said Monday it detected 61 to 2,600 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in 23 varieties of freshwater fish sampled at five rivers and lakes in Fukushima Prefecture between December and February (!!!).
    After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant crisis, the government reduced the level of radioactive cesium deemed safe for consumption to a maximum of 100 Bq/kg for fish, meat and other food items.
    A kind of goby taken from the Mano River in Minamisoma, located north of the crippled nuclear plant, showed 2,600 Bq/kg, according to the ministry."

    http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/07/167153.html

    WHY DOES IT TAKE 4 MONTHS TO PUBLISH THIS!!


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  • ChasAha ChasAha
    July 2, 2012 at 11:22 am

    I am not a Mathamagician, but I think these 'experts' are.

    I think these numbers are obviously skewed.

    from article:
    "…samples from 141 infants and young children…"

    "Three samples had OVER 10 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, including one with 17.5 becquerels. UP TO 10 becquerels were detected in the other 138 samples", the Isotope Research Institute said.

    Which would mean that 3 children had very low amounts detected which causes the average to be much lower.
    _____

    Note:
    Hazardous to Life = Decay rate(half-life) x 10 (IMPORTANT!)
    _____

    Some had been exposed for 8 months and some up to 10 months. We are now approaching 16 months. So wouldn't it make sense to at least double the quantity. Then, I would also think it prudent to mention the POTENTIAL in 24 or 36 months.

    And yet again, an extremely 'blatant' lack of data prevails.
    What kind of cesium?
    What other isotopes?
    What kind of test?
    What about PLUTONIUM!?
    Somehow? Always followed by "there is no concern…"

    The 'average joe' would read an article like this and think to themselves, "How nice, the kids are okay, from those poor crippled power plants."

    This is so not right.
    We here at enenews now know better.

    They need to STOP KILLING US!
    …or at least be honest about it.


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  • Ron
    July 2, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    On the off chance… Just wondering if maybe he said (or meant to say) "use" instead of "effect" and perhaps it was lost in translation? It would change the meaning.


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  • Myme
    July 2, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Prof. Hideaki Karaki 唐木 英明 is a government patronage scholar with deep appetite for political power and money.

    He is a veterinarian, specializing in veterinary and agricultural pharmacology. He is no expert in radiology or public health.

    Hideaki Karaki 唐木 英明 is responsible for setting the 100 mili Sievert food safety limit. He said such internal exposure is less dangerous than smoking.

    Hideaki Karaki 唐木 英明 is a skillful expert in data spinning and lying, notably in case of the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) study on the imported beef from the U.S. He opposed to the 100% inspection and at the same time said there’s definitely zero risk.

    Now Karaki says “The level of cesium is lower than that of potassium, and it definitely has no effect on the human body.” Then why “we still need to know how cesium entered the infants’ bodies”?

    I nominate him as a criminal against humanity.


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  • Cindy
    July 2, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    Lets not forget that the professor is a DVM …

    How about presenting evidence from an ONCOLOGIST !! see what they say about radiation & internal contamination….

    Just a reminder, Hawaii was found to have Strontium 90 and cesium 134 & 137 and Americadium (SP?) in our milk, so it must be present in much higher levels in Japan..

    infact it probably has all the nasties in it plutonium included …


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    • Time Is Short Time Is Short
      July 2, 2012 at 1:15 pm

      It is interesting that in the last year, we have not heard from any oncologists, or any oncology association. Who better to tell us about the dangers of ingested radiation? They deal with it every day. Sometimes I wonder how they sleep, seeing what they see.

      The silence is deafening.


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      • tomarsandbeyond tomarsandbeyond
        July 2, 2012 at 8:58 pm

        I believe oncologists today like most doctors are focused on their limited world of patients, medications, journal articles, conferences, and financial matters. They generally want to do good and cure people but (I think) they do not often think about causes of cancer, or about what happens outside of their own nation or region. They are too busy to read up on nuclear issues as we do here and if they think about radiation it is only to do with how much to use in treatments. Most are probably constrained by paying large amounts of money for malpractice insurance, student loans, etc, so they do their work like most people and are too tired at the end of their day to worry about something they don't see as directly relevant.
        Maybe some retired oncologists would have the time to think about such things.
        Of course if things were as they should be, governments and industry would pay for many oncologists to study the matter (of contamination effects) thoroughly. And would let them really come to true conclusions. But interested parties in power aren't interested in too much truth being bandied about.


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      • anne anne
        July 3, 2012 at 7:24 am

        New study: Radiation treatments create cancer cells 30 times more potent than regular cancer cells

        March 19, 2012
        “(NaturalNews) In a groundbreaking new study just published in the peer reviewed journal Stem Cells, researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Oncology found that, despite killing half of all tumor cells per treatment, radiation treatments on breast cancer transforms other cancer cells into cancer stem cells which are vastly more treatment-resistant than normal cancer cells. The new study is yet another blow to the failed and favored mainstream treatment paradigm of trying to cut out, poison out or burn out cancer symptoms (tumors) instead of actually curing cancer.
        “Senior study author Dr. Frank Pajonk, associate professor of radiation oncology at the Jonsson Center, reported that induced breast cancer stem cells (iBCSC) "were generated by radiation-induced activation of the same cellular pathways used to reprogram normal cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) in regenerative medicine." Pjonk, who is also a scientist with the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine at UCLA, added "It was remarkable that these breast cancers used the same reprogramming pathways to fight back against the radiation treatment."


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        • anne anne
          July 3, 2012 at 7:24 am

          “In the new study, Pajonk and his team irradiated normal non-stem cell cancer cells and placed them into mice. Through a unique imaging system, the researchers observed the cells differentiate into iBCSC in response to radiation treatments. Pjonk reported that the newly generated cells were remarkably similar to non-irradiated breast cancer stem cells. The team of researchers also found that the radiation-induced stem cells had a more than 30-fold increased ability to form tumors compared with non-irradiated breast cancer cells….”
          http://www.naturalnews.com/035289_radiation_cancer_stem_cells.html


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          • arclight arclight
            July 3, 2012 at 7:36 am

            hi anne thanks for the link.. i really liked this..

            "..The researchers failed to note how cancer cells fought against unnatural treatments. They also failed to take into account the mounting evidence that the best way to beat cancer as well as avoid it is to build and enhance our natural first line of defense – our immune system.

            The safest and most effective way to enhance the natural immune system and fight cancer in general is by working with nature. It is also by far the least expensive way, and therein likely lies the rub. You can't patent and profit from nature like you can with mainstream drugs and treatments…"

            every year recently i have had what i thought was a pollen allergy.. it started a number of years ago out of the blue.. i thought i was just getting old (and i am :) )

            when i bought a gieger i realised the connection between illness and radiation.. ive been really careful to eat plenty of fruit and nutritious foods since my last illness since christmas and it does make a difference on how many headaches and follow up cold/flu there are.. so the immune system is important to fight the side effects of the toxic poisoning from nuke reactors.. brazil sells orange juice!! :) 150 grams of plain choclate in a soya milk hot choclate drink for the zinc (blocks Pblead) and im good to go!
            peace


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      • AGreenRoad AGreenRoad
        July 7, 2012 at 12:48 am

        They all believe in hormesis, which means that the more radiation you get the better your health will be… as in remission of the Big C, etc..

        Never mind that the chemo and radiation greatly INCREASE your chance of future cancers and other health problems, if by some chance you make it through the gauntlet that takes you to the edge and back again, hopefully.

        Does Chemo For Cancer Cause More Harm Than Good? via A Green Road Blog
        http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/does-chemo-for-breast-cancer-cause-more.html


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  • majia
    July 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    I tracked down and read this cesium study cited at Wikipedia

    The study was published in 1972 in Radiation Research by a team of scientists led by H. C. Redman.

    The study injected sixty-six beagle dogs ages 12 to 14 months were injected with Cesium-137 solutions. 11 dogs died less than 1 year post-injection. The dogs that survived at 1 year had been given lower doses. 3.8 millicuries was a lethal dose.

    In a video titled Nuclear Controversies by Vladimir Tchertkoff (2003), Professor Yury Bandazhevsky (former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel), states that based on his research on children exposed to radiation from Chernobyl, "Over 50 Bq/kg of body weight lead to irreversible lesions in vital organs."

    Japan’s children could easily bio-accumulate radiation in excess of this amount with Japan’s standard for seafood exposure set at 500 becquerels per kilogram.

    In April 2012, the Peace Philosophy Centre posted the results of the Fukushima government’s March 2012 survey of 38,001 children under 18 located in thirteen Fukushima prefecture cities. Thyroid nodules ( 5.0mm) or cyst (20.0mm) were detected in 13,460 individuals, or 35.3% of the sample. These results were an increase of 5.6% from a January pre-test.

    http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/240426shiryou.pdf. The Peace Philosophy department posted the results: http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/04/blog-post_28.html; Translation provided by Blogger Fukushima Diary:…


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