It’s the “duty” of scientific community to reduce public’s fear, anxiety about radiation — No health danger from 876 millisieverts a year? (VIDEO)

Published: October 11th, 2011 at 5:34 pm ET
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SOURCE: German TV-channel ZDF talks with TEPCO-employees (german, english subs), October 8, 2011

At 5:55 in

  • Fukushima prefecture health adviser (Shunichi Yamashita, MD, PhD. Dean. Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences): Those who smile will have no radiation damage, only those who make constant worry…

At 6:10 in

  • Less than 100 MICROsieverts per HOUR no danger to health, or 876 millisievert per year — over double Germany’s 400 millisievert LIFETIME exposure limit for nuclear workers…

And from an article today on the Energy Collective:

[Emphasis Added]

Harold Swartz of Dartmouth Medical School [...] basically said that in the real events of Fukushima [...] the “worried well” are the major issue. Civilians will not experience exposure at a dose which would measurably increase their chances of getting cancer or limit their life-expectancy.

At the same time, they will not believe any official reassurances that “everything is okay.”

It would be the duty of the scientific community to explain that people are not in danger of cancer or early death. In other words, it would be the duty of the scientific community to reduce one of the major public health effects of any type of accident: fear and anxiety.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1T4Ac9nHeY

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgaBUDFeb4

UPDATE: According to the description in the above video

He later corrected his word about “100 micro sievert per hour”. He told that he meant “10 micro sievert per hour”, however what he said after 100 micro sievert is ” It’s obvious that whether if you can stay outside or not under 5, 10 or 20 sievert per hour.” His correction does not make any sense at all.

h/t EX-SKF

 

Published: October 11th, 2011 at 5:34 pm ET
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36 comments to It’s the “duty” of scientific community to reduce public’s fear, anxiety about radiation — No health danger from 876 millisieverts a year? (VIDEO)

  • dpl dpl

    Charge him with cruelty to animals.


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    • Grampybone Grampybone

      Remember the Rage Against the Machine song “Bulls on Parade”? I would like to rename it “pimps on parade” and dedicate it to this idiot who thinks that these levels of radiation are reasonable. Another Fukushima worker has died and the pimps are on parade again with their propaganda. Maybe he should try the cesium fries with a plutonium burger and see how many microseiverts he can take before he dies. Spirits be tellin me this asshole is burning in hell with the rest of the pimps.


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    • Toadmac

      If this guy said it…. it must be true? Perhaps everyone is over reacting and nuclear stuff is all good? I remember the good old days when we were taught about how destructive fission products were to human health. How dumb do all those teachers and scientists feel now?? After all we are mere humans and prone to make the odd mistake here and there. Oh well… guess I bought my Geiger counter for nothing! Wonder what they are teaching our young kids at school these days? Sweet radioactive dreams.


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  • nohobear nohobear

    …”It’s the “duty” of scientific community to reduce fear, anxiety”.

    Crazy me. I thought it was the duty of scientists to be objective and truthful.


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      This is going to end horribly. And they (pro-nukes) are going to be coming a 100 miles a minute downplaying all of this.


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      • Toadmac

        We can only hope or pray that the world will rally together and punish those who are knowingly telling lies! Maybe we can swap them with the families who are stuck in no mans land with no where to go? Bet there science and knowledge of nuclear contamination does a 180 real fast! Send them to live in the contaminated areas and get the poor families OUT!

        THESE PEOPLE SHOULD PAY! :(


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    Heads up. Obama’s is doubling his efforts against MEDICAL Marijuana. HP top headline
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/war-on-weed-obama-marijuana_n_1005483.html#comments


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    • oscar419

      lol… he can poop in his hat as far as this MMJ patient is concerned. Come and get my six plants, tie me up in federal court and look like a bunch of idiots for picking on a crip….That’s right in my hood, “crip” is short for cripple…


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    • More Obama back tracking. Anything to distract Americans from the real issue that your all getting the economic squeeze while being dusted by big businesses pollutants including radiation. I suppose Barry got another suitcase full of unmarked bills from big Pharma. Guess what? Where I live in BC we have arguably the slackest laws and least likely to be enforced in regard to Pot in all of North America along with one of the best economies. Go figure. No one here especially the younger ones even want pot to be legalized. Would just lead to even more taxes. Here in Van, BC I’ve heard you can get an eighth of stinky BC bud delivered to your door for $25. Just a phone call away. Screw medical marijuana.


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  • StPaulScout StPaulScout

    “His correction does not make any sense at all.”

    Then he did his job perfectly. You expect honesty and truth, that is your mistake. The PTB will feed us garbage. Frank Zappa said it best

    I am gross and perverted
    Im obsessed n deranged
    I have existed for years
    But very little had changed
    I am the tool of the government
    And industry too
    For I am destined to rule
    And regulate you

    I may be vile and pernicious
    But you can’t look away
    I make you think Im delicious
    With the stuff that I say
    I am the best you can get
    Have you guessed me yet?
    I am the slime oozin out
    From your tv set

    You will obey me while I lead you
    And eat the garbage that I feed you
    Until the day that we don’t need you
    Don’t got for help…no one will heed you
    Your mind is totally controlled
    It has been stuffed into my mold
    And you will do as you are told
    Until the rights to you are sold

    That’s right, folks..
    Don’t touch that dial

    Well, I am the slime from your video
    Oozin along on your livinroom floor

    I am the slime from your video
    Cant stop the slime, people, lookit me go


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  • StPaulScout StPaulScout

    It won’t matter what the pro-nuke people do, or the government for that matter. If 200 tons, giver or take, aerisolized, it will contaminate the entire worlds farm land and water supplys. The oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, rain, all water will be poisoned, all land will be poisoned. And it will keep coming down for hundreds of years.


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  • Hemisfear311 Hemisfear311

    A recent (Oct. 3) drone video of reactor building #1:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo-rBTZzlxg

    From http://www.japannewstoday.com/ who also have some other photos and videos in their slideshow.


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  • Maybe they would be able to detect all the strontium, and plutonium if they kept looking for it?

    It can’t be that hard, after all: ‘Its everywhere’…

    It won’t show up on your geiger counter.

    however, at this rate it wont show up on your death certificate either…

    If I were a japanese citizen I would organize a 100,000 person force and stand outside the main Tepco corporate office in tokyo. Locking all the doors, and only feeding them food from Fukushima. Until all four sarcophaguses are in place. As well as tunnels are built under the reactors, and cement filled into those tunnels to prevent more oceanic contamination.

    If I were the usa. I would demand that they had done this march 12th.

    too little too late.

    With honesty like this…
    reality is doomed.

    I feel the japanese will soon be held responsible for tepco’s crimes. For they have a responsibility to the globe not just japan.

    Foreign nations are now being affected in masse.
    I wouldn’t take that for granted as they have until now…

    So If I were a japanese citizen I would start doing my part before the rest of the world reacts for them.


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  • Flapdoodle Flapdoodle

    “duty” is another word for sh*t.


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  • Hot Tuna Hot Tuna

    So let me see if I got this straight. They are telling us plutonium doesn’t fly more than a dozen miles or so, kids are playing in radioactive sandboxes, and they’re sealing hydrogen leak with duct tape to prevent explosion?

    If this isn’t a bad dream we’ve been slimed, and I’ll just go back to partying like it’s 1999.


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  • arclight arclight

    morning!!!! :)

    “A new five-year contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will award $30 million in funding to Dart-Dose, Dartmouth’s Physically-Based Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation according to Harold Swartz, a radiology professor at Dartmouth Medical School. The contract, signed Aug. 15, will reenergize Swartz’s ongoing radiation detection project, he said………………”

    ““If there is a large-scale event involving hundreds of thousands of people and the health care system is completely overwhelmed, we must be able to respond,” Swartz said.”

    Better to keep the population there and experiment with all theses new toys eh?AND THIS…

    “In the case of a terrorist attack or major nuclear detonation, the dosimeter could alleviate mob anxiety by providing immediate answers and consolation in a chaotic setting, Flood said”

    NOT QUITE FINISHED THE PROJECT THEN??

    http://thedartmouth.com/2011/10/04/news/dartdose/print


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  • arclight arclight

    :) hes not being swayed by the money here..

    “Lab tests can give more precise estimates, but they are “wildly impractical” after a major event, says Dr. Harold Swartz, director of the Dartmouth Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures Against Radiation (Dart-Dose).”
    WILDLY IMPRACTICLE (getting nearer the truth about nuclear here)

    “The feasibility of using teeth to measure radiation exposure was first suggested by Swartz in the 1960s. But it’s only in the last 10 years that his ideas are coming to fruition.”
    Ten years ?? more like since 2011/10/04 as far as serious funding is concerned!

    With $16.6 million from the National Institutes of Health, plus funds from the Department of Defense :) the Dart-Dose team has built two tooth dosimeter prototypes, while also exploring fingernail dosimetry. “

    “She explores such questions as whether people would rather send fingernail clippings to a lab or have their teeth measured immediately.” NICE SALES ANGLE THAT!

    http://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/summer11/html/vs_radiation.php


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  • arclight arclight

    “……….. Dr. Harold Swartz is PI in this five-year program to establish a new Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation with the goal of developing portable dosimetry devices based on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The new center will be become a key component in a Congressionally-mandated initiative overseen by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop and deploy new medical countermeasures for use in case of radiological or nuclear disaster. The biodosimetry center created by the award (Physically-Based Biodosimetry for Triage after a large Radiation Incident)will be one of eight NIH/NIAID-funded Centers for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation. Each of the centers will focus on one or more aspects the medical response to a large-scale radiation, including exposure assessment, drugs for treatment of radiation injury, and methods for removal of radioactive materials from the body.”

    http://www.dhmc.org/webpage.cfm?site_id=2&org_id=72&morg_id=0&sec_id=0&gsec_id=1510&item_id=1510

    still cant find any psychologists to support the stress induced deppression thing…..still working on it

    november 2 bath university!! hmmmmmm!


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  • In the face of extinction, it is only logical that I resign my Starfleet commission and help rebuild our race.

    I have already located a suitable planet in which to establish a Vulcan colony.


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  • CB CB

    I looked at Fuku webcam, 3 looks like it has fallen in on itself even moreso. I have not looked in a couple days.


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  • radegan

    So it’s their duty to deceive us? Then it’s our duty to take names and make mockery of them all, until their names are as much a synonym for ‘clown’ as ‘Yamashita’.


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  • Edward

    It is NOT their duty to lie, coverup and withhold the truth. I am disgusted by the government and nuclear industry both. Greed!!!


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