Published: February 28th, 2012 at 10:48 pm ET
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Title: ATSDR-PHA-HC-Kerr-Mcgee Corporate Cushing Refinery-p2 – PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT
Source: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Date: December 17, 2009
Site-Specific Gamma Radiation and Effects
Radiological contamination at the site is localized within specific areas.[...] the levels of ionizing radiation do pose a serious, long-term health effect as exposures can approach or exceed 1 rem [10 millisieverts] per year [...]
Furthermore, when coupled with the possible incidental ingestion of radionuclide-contaminated sludge [ranging in contamination from 8.3 to 34 pCi/g], these risks are increased as the radiation dose from the ionizing radiation component must be added to the radiation dose from the ingestion pathway.
At this potential level of exposure the chance of leukemia, other cancers, or organ damage is greatly increased. [...]
Read the report here
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. -Wikipedia
Published: February 28th, 2012 at 10:48 pm ET
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I see new posts are stil working.
Admin. This site is seriously wounded.
Or people who visit this site have been infected so that when we return the site barely functions.
Can you please comment if you have noticed anything on your end?
It has been happening to me for three days.
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Me too. I've just lost "most viewed". On some threads there are no "reply" buttons and also no big box for making a posting. Often the site disappears, and when I get it back, I've been logged out.
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ageezerofgiza, since 10 pm the "latest headlines" on the right side has had several previous topics added.
Also, there are comments since 10pm added to the "AP: crucial equipment…" thread, some detailing similar problems.
Admin busy restoring?
I have seen enenews posters on Fuku Diary and EX-SKF saying enenews was down. It's not just us.
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no more avatars, somehow puts picture in that I did not want or place there.
Also no avatar function in profile.
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I sincerely hope that the admin posts something so that we know what is going on here. All the best.
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Radiation increasing again in Longmont, CO
204 CPM, 1.6565 uSv/h, 1.0759 AVG uSv/h, 3 time(s) over natural radiation
6:06 PM – 28 Feb 12
https://twitter.com/#!/LongmontRadMon
https://pachube.com/feeds/30643
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The query link at:
https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/showMap.do
isn't working right now. And the last data is from Feb. 20, 2012.
The query link did work on Feb. 24 where there were two readings in Denver of Gross Beta Count Rate of 450 and just over 375 on Feb. 23 and 24.
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This site looks hacked and altered. Almost impossible to use. Most people are not getting through to the articles or comments.Hope admin. can fix this.Looks suspiciously bad. Hang in there, folks.
We need to continue this information flow. Very necessary.
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Sometimes in the past they were just changing the server.
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Admin has a note – top right hand side – "Site is experiencing technical difficulties. For latest posts, see the right sidebar as homepage is not working properly."
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I'm having similar issues. There is no main body of content, only the right hand side column of 'recent posts'. Clicking on them will take me to that particular post, (which is how I arrived here to comment).I can also view the footer of the page with the recent external posts.
Another blogger on seismic, volcanic, and extreme weather events' site was also corrupted (attacked) recently, and his YouTube channel taken out twice (eventually reinstated. This is common for bloggers who are 'truth-tellers' against the 'powers that be'.
It's surprised me that I've not had more problems with ENENEWS before, as I've found no better or consistent source of info on what's actually taking place in FUKU. I've been following the site since 3/11, and have recommended it often. I'd like to take the opportunity of this post to sincerely thank the Admins for the extraordinarily valuable information that you disseminate, and all the postors for many illuminating comments…thank you all.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but when ENENEWs id down, so am I. I get panicky. It's my only connection to nuclear reality.
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Thx U, US Agency: But we already know, thankyou for the 1 year delay, Very Frigin helpful !
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I found my way here by clicking on linked article on Bakrad News Report. Thank you Admin for trying to fix this problem. I find it highly suspicious. I just read a post at EnviroReporter with Fukushima webcam video showing smoke at reactor 3? It looks bad. They are going to keep updates. Maybe time to run or take shelter for awhile.
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Well said Omni and I'd like to add my thanks also. I've been trying to get the site for four hours now. Sure hope they can save the site. I've never met a better group of humans……..
Tom
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Fact,fiction,fantasy?? from Ganapathi's mouse,his vehicle for travel.
(me,retireded physics lab rat). Krishna depicted as blue, once having to suck up immeasurable poisen created by mankind,as told by Avadhuta.May have to again….(if we are so fortunate, this time)
Dearest Enenews family, and Admin. most heart felt thankyou. Sharing this consciousness,of supreme value,never stop…
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Possible worm on ENE hard-drive dismantling bit by bit !
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We keep on creating more and more deadly, toxic,
Nuclear Death Zones
http://youtu.be/K-dzqCIGilA
We are getting better and better at it, with larger and larger disasters.
Fukushima is tiny compared to what is coming next, if we do not learn the lesson here…
Watch the video to see what I mean…
Carrington Effect, here we come, thanks to the nuclear apologists and the 1%
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Indeed, I keep harping on a Carrington, because that it truly an extinction level event, even it only has to be a big sucking event–if we get rid of nuke, and get ALL the spent fuel into dry cask.
Think about getting all the millions of TONS of spent fuel into dry cask…with a deliberate effort, it could be done in 10 years. For those 10 years we remain fully at risk of extinction if the Sun hurls a Carrington at us. That sucks, and yet every day we allow nuke to live, is a another day and a half we are at risk.
How embarrassing that our "technology" and the lie of cheap power has brought to this precipice that now we need to dance on, hoping the reaper doesn't show up.
http://nukeproffesional.blogspot.com/p/carrington-event-and-astronomy.html
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The Enenews database has got to be pretty large by now. It could take hours literally to restore if it got hacked.
Looks like admin is going through that process now.
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@James2, James I think that there is a very very serious situation going on the the North Anna Power Plant. I'm on Wunderground weather using the full screen map found under maps and radar. Once on this page at the top link click radar then the arrow button. Scroll out on your mouse to view more of the U.S.. My point is look at Virgina, I've use this map for years and have seen different kinds of anomaly's. Never anything like this. This looks like Virginia is hot, RADIOACTIVE HOT. Please check it out tell me what you think. Please.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=43204
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Check this out too!
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/radar_tab.php
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Maybe I missed it. I don't see anything unusual on my weather maps. What does it look like?
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i been really ill guys and gals!! and the n i find enenews not well!! weve been there before!! i love enenews!!
heres a BRILLIANTvideo from tokyobrowntabby… if the japanese pliticians had one ounce of the charachter of this 15 year old girl, maybe the japanese people wouldnt have to relearn about the effects of toxic and radioactive metalsgases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB_vG-FH6oM
nice post tbt!! inspiring!!
15-Year-Old Kokoro Fujinami's Speech & Song at Anti-Nuke Rally in Tokyo (Feb/11/2012
The song she sings at the end of her speech is called "Furusato" meaning "Home," a beloved song in Japan. Since 3.11, it has a special meaning for the Japanese all around the world: for those living abroad and cannot come back home… for those whose hometowns were shattered by tsunami… for those who have lost their loved ones through the disaster… for those who are forced to live away from home because of radiation. And for those of us in Japan who fortunately escaped such tragedies, this song is a reminder of the fact that the landscapes which look the same as before are actually not the same anymore.
"Furusato" sung by a chorus, with the English subtitles and some beautiful Japanese scenery is here: http://youtu.be/46bSt1wpOws
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Beautiful…words and music from the soul for the soul!
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Of course……If the dose is evenly distributed like creme through homogenized milk then it is not a sign of brain damage to be talking about dose rates.
However, if the dose is comprised of particles, then the dose is increased by the square of the distance from the source so that when the particle of ingested material is close to a living tissue, then that tissue is receiving thousands of times the dose the surrounding tissue is getting.
I think of it like light globes. As long as they are outside, the, the light is evenly distributed. The moment the light bulb is swallowed or ingested, the living tissue that is closest to it will receive many thousand fold the dose that the surrounding tissue a few inches away is getting.
"Newton's Inverse Square Law
Any point source which spreads its influence equally in all directions without a limit to its range will obey the inverse square law. This comes from strictly geometrical considerations. The intensity of the influence at any given radius (r) is the source strength divided by the area of the sphere. Being strictly geometric in its origin, the inverse square law applies to diverse phenomena. Point sources of gravitational force, electric field, light, sound, and radiation obey the inverse square law.
As one of the fields which obey the general inverse square law, a point radiation source can be characterized by the diagram above whether you are talking about Roentgens, rads, or rems. All measures of exposure will drop off by the inverse square law. For example, if the radiation exposure is 100 mR/hr at 1 inch from a source, the exposure will be 0.01 mR/hr at 100 inches. "
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/inversesquare.htm
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from the report
"Beta emitting radionuclides can cause injury to the skin and superficial body tissue but are mostdestructive when inhaled or ingested. Beta emitters can be similar chemically to naturally occurringbody elements and will tend to accumulate in certain specific tissues or organs (target organs). Forexample, strontium 90 mimics calcium and as a result accumulates in the bones. The health effects ofbeta particle emissions depend upon the function of the target organ, the radiosensitivity of the targetorgan, the quantity of radioactive material ingested or inhaled, and the retention time of the radioactivematerial in a specific organ or in the body. The beta emitting radionuclides at the Kerr-McGee Cushingsite are daughter products of natural uranium and thorium."
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Umm…decrease by the inverse square of the distance spectro….
Not a brilliant mathematician when it comes to clear expression accuracy. But the focus is there.
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I read the article and I think the Headline is a bit misleading.
I'm not actually finding the text that the headline refers to in the link.
what is says I think is that 10 millisieverts plus ingestion of particles poses a greatly increased risk of health problems. I don't think it says that 10 millisieverts/yr background poses those risks.
But I want to also discuss the term "will greatly increase the risk of health problems"
What does that mean exactly? It's kind of a fluff sentence.
Let me give an example. If I buy a lottery ticket this weekend for the big prize I've increased my chance of winning from zero to not zero. That's an immeasurable change in chances of winning. it's still a very tiny chance, but it is a chance.
If I buy a second ticket, I've doubled my chances of winning, in other words, I've greatly increased my chances. But are my chances very high? No not at all, they are still very very small. I wouldn't really be able to increase my chances to a significant level unless I could buy millions of lottery tickets – which is silly.
So I don't like that type of wording – it could mean something with radiation, or it could mean nothing at all.
I generally agree with Arclight. The bad stuff from Fukushima is airborne and will enter your body through your lungs, not your skin. And for those particles, that are inside you – background levels are meaningless.
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This article cited appeared in the context of the infamous Kerr-McGee corporation. Perhaps you remember it like this: "It is alleged that Karen Silkwood was negligently or purposefully contaminated with plutonium while working at Kerr-McGee's Cimarron Fuel Fabrication Site and investigating safety violations at the plant."
Kerr-McGee was a Big Oil and Gas entity that morphed into a Big Nuke entity. It is a scary example of how interconnected "Big Everything" is. For more on its business practices, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr-McGee
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18. COMMENT: Some statements alarm rather than inform. For example, on Page 1, the Summarystates, "the Kerr-McGee site is considered a public health hazard because…(emphasis bycommenter). The remainder of the sentence contains actions that would make the site a publichealth hazard;
"children and adults could be exposed…if"
"…areas are not adequately remediated as planned…"
"and are subsequently developed for residential use.
Read in full context, a person trained in technical issues may say that this sentence does not saythat the site is a hazard, rather it could be a hazard if a series of highly unlikely circumstancesoccurred in the future. However, local citizens can easily receive the impression that the site iscurrently a public health hazard! ATSDR does itself and Kerr-McGee a disservice in presentingits conclusions in such an alarming and misrepresentative manner.
This sentence could be equally accurate and more precisely describe the actual hazard if written more like the following:
The Kerr-McGee site does not currently present a health hazard to the public. However, ifKerr-McGee does not complete planned remedial activities, and the property is laterdeveloped for residential use, residents could be exposed in the future to contaminants andradioactive materials that might harm their health.Response: Text has been modified to reflect concept presented in the paragraph immediatelypreceding this response.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/pha/pha.asp?docid=696&pg=6#APPENDIX E
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had to sshare!!
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