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Title: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on November 06, 2013, 12:28:41 am
Radionuclides, despite what the authorities claim as an "unexplained epidemic",  are starting to poison the Pacific Ocean sea life food chain. God Help Us. :'(


Starfish Along West Coast Are Dying, ‘Star Wasting Disease’ (http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php?topic=785.msg35417#msg35417)

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“Every population has sick animals,” Gaydos said. “Are we just seeing sick animals because we’re looking for it, or is it an early sign of a large epidemic that may come through and wipe out a lot of animals?”

Surly, Thank you for this article. This is FAR more serious than meets the eye.

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WHAT EATS A STARFISH?

What Eats A Starfish? What eats starfish?

What do starfish eat?

To us humans, starfish look like they’d be a bit too hard and crunchy to make a good meal. But starfish do have a few predators, or natural enemies.

Manta rays, some sharks and other large, bony fishes like to pick starfish off the bottom of the ocean, crunch them up and eat them.

In addition, small starfish need to be on the lookout for larger starfish, which will sometimes attack, kill and eat them.

What do starfish eat? Most species eat mussels and other mollusks, or shellfish.
http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-a-starfish (http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-a-starfish)

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The reason this is so serious is because the mollusks that starfish eat are mainly FILTER FEEDERS. Why is this important (as in OH ****! :P)? Because filter feeders are THE life form that concentrates radioactive cesium (taking it up into their muscle tissue). I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is a sign of the Fukushima radioisotopes concentrating in mussels starting to move up the chain of sea life that eats them.

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It has begun. The BULLSHIT the nuke pukes were always putting out that the "solution to pollution is dilution" DOES NOT WORK with living sea life that sucks in the radioisotopes and concentrates them because, in nature, the non radioactive elements and the elements these God Damned radioisotopes mimic ARE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS! Radioinuclides are the ULTIMATE poison pill disguised as an attractive natural important nutrient. Another "minor detail" the IDIOTS that back nuclear power never have gotten through their greedy skulls. 

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http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/23399560/website-map-tracks-path-of-ocean-pollution-fukushima-radiation-plume (http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/23399560/website-map-tracks-path-of-ocean-pollution-fukushima-radiation-plume)

"Since caesium does not volatilise from water, transport of caesium from water to the atmosphere is not considered likely,except by windblown sea sprays. Most of the caesium released to water will adsorb to suspended solids in the water column and ultimately be deposited in the sediment core. Caesium can also bioconcentrate and has been shown to bioaccumulate in both terrestrial and aquatic food chains. Mean bioconcentration factors (BCF) for 137Cs of 146, 124, and 63 were reported for fish, brown macroalgae, and molluscs, respectively." :P

http://datasheets.scbt.com/sc-203876.pdf (http://datasheets.scbt.com/sc-203876.pdf)

And radioactive cesium is just ONE of the 57 or so radioinuclides STILL getting pumped into the Pacific ocean. UGH! :'(



Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 21, 2013, 06:47:39 pm
FUKUSHIMA “BREAKING”…..75 US NAVY SAILORS HAVE CANCER AFTER BRIEF VISIT TO LEAKAGE SITE

By John Ward December 18, 2013 Fukushima disaster

Fukushima is not another needless panic Murder by Cover-up Not a conspiracy myth: a fact USS Ronald Reagan   >:(


MURDER BY COVER-UP

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Veteran human rights lawyer Charles Bonner (left) has practiced law for 27 years, so by now he’s pretty good at it. Mr Bonner has been the lead attorney in over sixty-five jury trials involving civil rights cases, police misconduct, child protection and a myriad other attempts to protect the vulnerable poor from the mendacious rich. Now he is leading a class action lawsuit against TEPCO, the regulator/owner of the Fukushima nuclear energy plant.

He’s unlikely to lose it, because he represents 75 sailors who came down with a host of medical problems, including cancers and leukemias, all kinds of gynaecological problems, and tumors on the brain. These service men and women are mainly young people in their early to mid twenties, and no one in their family had ever any of these kinds of illnesses before. Just since Bonner took the case, another 21 sailors have begun to show the same dire symptoms….of radiation sickness.


Their common link? They were all serving on board USS Ronald Reagan during a brief visit to the waters around Fukushima three years ago. As the Ronald Reagan desalinates all its water from the sea for drinking, bathing and other cleaning purposes, all the sailors were multiply exposed to radiation from the Fukushima accident. Calmed by the bollocks being put out about how “harmless” the radiation leakage was, these 75 service men and women now face death.

I’ve just been to eighteen internet sites. I have verified who Bonner is, checked the case credentials (“Cooper et al v. Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. et. al. case number 3:2013cv00773, filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California”) – and confirmed the case’s existence with Bonner’s law firm. This is not left-of-centre urban myth: this is the best indication so far, in my view, of just how serious the Fukushima disaster is going to be.

But not a single mainstream medium I can find within the US, UK or European mainstream has gone near it.

Al Jazzeera, Russia Today, and every eco-site you can find is crawling with the story. At first – obviously – that made me suspicious. I am always wary of any site with an agenda.

But this is not anti-Americanism gone mad. This is the Establishment in the dock, not the rogue sites.

The story is just beginning to leak into the more “respectable” questioning sites like silver doctors, which concluded yesterday:

‘Three days ago, The News Doctors published a story that drew some skepticism within social media.  Unfortunately, the story is not an internet conspiracy theory. 51 US sailors are reportedly suffering from Fukushima-radiation related medial issues, and have filed suit in US District Court against TEPCO.
 Upon further investigation, this is NOT a conspiracy, and appears to be the sort of story that needs to go through multiple rounds of “distribution”  before the mainstream media is forced to cover the story.’

Yet the plaintiffs being represented by Charles Bonner filed their case last April.

We should not be under any illusions: had this case come to light in China or Russia, the western media would be giving us daily 24/7 coverage and analysis of such serious, mass evidence of radioactive danger to human life.

The MSM loves to ridicule the blogosphere as consisting entirely of naive dupes and madcap amateurs. Well, I’d rather be an amateur investigator than a professional ****.

CP Snow said facts are sacred. They’re also inconvenient. I prefer George Orwell’s definition of being a good reporter:

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/fukushima-breaking-75-us-navy-sailors-have-cancer-after-brief-visit-to-leakage-site/
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 21, 2013, 10:03:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6fK7kSvTA&feature=player_embedded
For want of 12 Volt batteries, some valves were not opened and one of the reactors went into meltdown. So much for "NUCLEAR POWER". It's unreliable, dangerous and fragile as well as being incredibly poisonous. We need to get rid of these monsters. or they will be the end of us.  >:(
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:44:17 pm
I looked around and this story, or portions of it, has been kicking around for a while. THIS site:
ENE News has kept tabs on it all along. That would be my first choice for the latest because they gave ALL the truth on Fukushima from DAY ONE.

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12:33 PM EST on December 22nd, 2013 | 21 comments
Navy Rescuer: Japan refused to let us in during 3/11 operation, said ship too radioactive; We were literally chased by a death sentence, radiation was everywhere — Gundersen: “Like a horror movie where beast never gets killed… Worst yet to come for Pacific” (VIDEO)


05:10 PM EST on December 21st, 2013 | 137 comments
Prime Minister’s Wife: “Fukushima calamity beyond people’s assumptions… So much hidden… I hope they will make everything public” — Inside Source: They’re now trying to get people 55 & older to work on Fukushima reactors


01:16 AM EST on December 21st, 2013 | 188 comments
TV: Worries at Fukushima as radioactive materials found 80+ feet below Unit 4 — Record high contamination in groundwater near Unit 2 (VIDEO)

08:05 PM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 63 comments
Fox Host: I wasn’t aware sickness among Navy sailors was so widespread after Fukushima; Experts say dangerous radioactive releases to air and ocean — Tepco didn’t give U.S. radiation data for 3 to 4 days (VIDEOS)

05:25 PM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 69 comments
Fox News: “So many US sailors coming forward” with symptoms after mission near Fukushima; “Strange lumps all over… he’d been poisoned with radiation”; Hemorrhaging, cancers, leukemia, tumors — Another 50 service members may join lawsuit

08:57 AM EST on December 20th, 2013 | 95 comments
Investigation Chairman: “One Fukushima may destroy the whole country” — “Collapse of a whole country possible”



Note: ENENEWS was talking about Ronal Reagan contamination issues as far back as July. You can find it in their archives. I got a hit on it in Google search yesterday so our BOYZ in the media have been STUDIOUSLY burying this bag of radioactive WORMS!

http://enenews.com/category/japan (http://enenews.com/category/japan)

Brother and Sister wordsmiths of the internet: Please DO NOT FORGET, when you pass this story on, the LESSONS FROM LUNTZ PROPAGANDA TOOLS! Yes, they used it to lie and fool us. But WE can use it to destroy them with TRUTH! ALWAYS include the name RONALD REAGAN with that sailor cancer story. You are doing a service to the planet by demonizing ANYTHING associated with Ronald Reagan, the Predatory Capitalism he championed and Nuclear Power. What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander!
Go for it!  (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/47b20s0.gif)

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Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:45:47 pm
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Gov’t scientists concerned Atlantic Ocean to be contaminated by Fukushima plume now in Pacific — Currents would carry it to U.S. East Coast (PHOTOS) (6,240)

http://enenews.com/scientists-concerned-atlantic-ocean-be-contaminated-fukushima-plume-pacific-northeast-coast-potentially-impacted-photos (http://enenews.com/scientists-concerned-atlantic-ocean-be-contaminated-fukushima-plume-pacific-northeast-coast-potentially-impacted-photos)

“Unprecedented activity” near Canada’s West Coast: Whales in record numbers, displaying highly unusual behavior — Expert: Problems in Pacific could be bringing sea life to area; “Something’s amiss out there” (5,260)

http://enenews.com/unprecedented-activity-off-canadas-west-coast-whales-in-record-numbers-displaying-highly-unusual-behaviors-expert-problems-in-ocean-to-blame-somethings-amiss-out-there (http://enenews.com/unprecedented-activity-off-canadas-west-coast-whales-in-record-numbers-displaying-highly-unusual-behaviors-expert-problems-in-ocean-to-blame-somethings-amiss-out-there)

Navy Rescuer: Japan refused to let us in during 3/11 operation, said ship (RONALD REAGAN) too radioactive; We were literally chased by a death sentence, radiation was everywhere — Gundersen: “Like a horror movie where beast never gets killed… Worst yet to come for Pacific” (VIDEO) (2,534)

http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video (http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video)


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Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:47:42 pm
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At 9:40 in

Lindsay Cooper, USS Ronald Reagan crew member during 3/11 rescue operations in Japan: You could tell the entire command was concerned because they were trying to do everything possible that they could to take care of us. We couldn’t get any assistance from ships because ships weren’t allowed to come in the area that weren’t already exposed to radiation. No ports would let us in. Japan wouldn’t let us in because we had too much radiation. Guam wouldn’t let us in, Korea [too].

At 13:30 in

Cooper: It got to the point where the water’s contaminated, we’re going to have a lock down, we’re going to go on the opposite side of Japan and try and get away over there. As soon as we got there, our water was still contaminated. So it was just where ever we went, it was an ongoing issue with radiation. We were being chased, literally, by a death sentence.

http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video (http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video)

P.S.

SOMEBODY out there in the INTERNETS is blocking this site calling it a KNOWN PORNO site. NO WAY Cindy Sheehan Does Porno. She has an interview ion the Ronal Reagan Radioctive mess on there I cannot get to. See if YOU can!

This is the message I get:
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Warning! Accessing this Web site is NOT allowed.

You attempted to access: cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com

This is a known "Pornography" web site which is blocked as specified by your web content filtering policy.

I shut off ALL my web content filtering (zero security! Norton with big red x!) and I STILL got the same message!

That link isn't a fake. It comes from HERE:
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Interview with nuclear expert Arnie Gnndersen of Fairewinds Energy Education, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, Sept. 1, 2013 (at 41:40 in): “We’re used to solutions that can be solved in a TV episode. Unfortunately, this is more like a horror movie, where the beast never gets killed. The worst is yet to come for the Pacific […] it’s likely to grow because this plant is still leaking.”  >>> Full broadcast available here

http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video (http://enenews.com/navy-sailor-japan-refused-ship-radioactive-literally-being-chased-death-sentence-radiation-everywhere-gundersen-like-horror-movie-beast-never-killed-worst-pacific-video)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:49:08 pm
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Fukushima giant erector set to pull the fuel rods out of the pool in danger of collapsing
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@webcam ..take a look at these two screen shots taken on 14th Dec. ..I used Vlc with only enhancement (tools-negate and mirror)..what is it with nuclear and faces…or maybe its me (grin)..Good guy -Bad guy a praying mantis? and just captured dec23 06:43jst ..it made me cry(sigh) the last shot a good cloud something to give us hope ..I hope ..peace guys and merry christmas. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2011%2057jst.PNG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2011%2057jst.PNG) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2011%2059jst.PNG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2011%2059jst.PNG) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2009%2049jst.PNG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de14%2009%2049jst.PNG) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de23%2006%2043jst.PNG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/de23%2006%2043jst.PNG)




http://enenews.com/forum-about-japan-burning-radioactive-debris/comment-page-2#comment-431370 (http://enenews.com/forum-about-japan-burning-radioactive-debris/comment-page-2#comment-431370)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:50:50 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSz1wGc1PcU&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 22, 2013, 09:52:30 pm
U.S. Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO over Cluster-Fukushima Snafu

by William Boardman / December 22nd, 2013



Why has this not made national headlines??? The Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan is nuclear powered. Radiation detection equipment did not pick up on this?? Why have these sailors and marines medical records been removed from permanent tracking. Criminal implications galore. This should be all over mainstream media. Someone please forward all these ene reports to the media…. Tepco is the lowest of snakes. Hari Kari for the lot of em!!

– comment on enenews, August 15, 2013, by “timemachine2020”

Fukushima lawsuit of 2012 comes as news to too much of the public

The story referred to in the enenews.com comment above has had some coverage by Energy News, Tuner Radio Network, Stars and Stripes, and a few others, but coverage, if any, by mainstream media is scant to none. All the same, it’s a real story, with real villains (TEPCO, Japanese government, U.S. Navy for starters), and real victims (a growing number of American service personnel put in harm’s way and abandoned by their government when things got tough).

The core of this story is the lawsuit filed December 21, 2012, by attorney Paul C, Garner of Brooks & Associates of Encinatas, California, on behalf of nine plaintiffs (including a one-year-old), all of whom “were among the members of the U.S. Navy crew and attached to the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), whose home port was San Diego, California, when they were exposed to radiation off the coast at Fukushima prefecture, Japan, whereat the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is located, on and after March 11, 2011, during the mission known as ‘Operation Tomodachi.’” The plaintiffs are seeking $40 million each in damages as well as a fund of more than a billion dollars to be used for their future medical expenses, and requested a jury trial. On November 26, federal judge Janis Sammartino dismissed the complaint on narrow jurisdictional grounds and plaintiffs plan to re-file in January within the judge’s stated parameters.

The U.S.S. Reagan is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a crew of about 5,000 that arrived off the coast of Fukushima the day after the tsunami with other ships as part of Operation Tomodachi, or “friend” in Japanese.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake near Fukushima caused a tsunami that killed an estimated 19,000 people and swamped the Fukushima nuclear power plant. In the aftermath of the tsunami, three of the six reactors at Fukushima melted down, releasing radiation into the air, ground, and water. The precise sequence of events remains unclear, but the Japanese government and TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power Company, a wholly owned public benefit subsidiary of the government of Japan) were not being fully forthcoming about the danger as the disaster developed.

Japanese officials apparently lied to everyone about the damage

Although the potential seriousness of the Fukushima accident was widely apparent, Japanese officials publicly and privately minimized the danger for as long as they could, lying to their own people and rescue personnel from other countries alike. At the time, the first meltdown was thought to have happened on March 12. But on December 12, 2013, Naoto Kan, the former prime minister who was in office at the time, told a meeting of the Japan Press Club that his government had known that “the first meltdown occurred five hours after the earthquake” which hit at 14:46 on March 11.

The U.S.S. Reagan and accompanying ships were coming into an environment where radiation levels in the air and water were far higher than the Navy was being told officially. That lying is at the heart of the lawsuit against TEPCO, which was exposing its own workers to even greater risks than U.S. Sailors. The lawsuit argues that TEPCO’s lies led the U.S. Navy to sail unknowingly into intensely and dangerously radioactive waters.

True as that may be, it fails to explain why the Navy would be so trusting and negligent in the first place. The Reagan is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Its officers and crew are or should be more sensitive than most to radioactive risk under all conditions, but especially when approaching a damaged nuclear power plant, and operating downwind of Fukushima.

For days (it’s not clear how many), U.S. sailors were going into the radioactive ocean to save people swept out to sea by the tsunami. Sailors were drinking and bathing in desalinated ocean water until someone figured out it was radioactive. Sailors washed planes and surfaces of the ship that were radioactive. How do the people in charge of the Reagan not know they’re in a radioactive environment without being negligent?

U.S. Seventh Fleet Public Affairs issues incredible press release

On March 14, 2011, without explaining what woke them up to the danger, which they minimized anyway, Navy officials issued a press release that began:


The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its aircraft operating in the area. The source of this airborne radioactivity is a radioactive plume released from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant.

For perspective, the maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship’s force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun. (http://www.u.arizona.edu/~patricia/cute-collection/smileys/lying-smiley.gif) (http://www.coh2.org/images/Smileys/huhsign.gif) (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TzWpwHzCvCI/T_sBEnhCCpI/AAAAAAAAME8/IsLpuU8HYxc/s1600/nooo-way-smiley.gif)


Why would anyone believe that, having failed to detect (they say) the radioactive plume, the Navy has any credible way of knowing what exposure any sailor may have received? The Navy also claimed the Reagan was 100 miles away from Fukushima “at the time,” not specified. The Navy further claimed that only 17 crew members in three helicopter crews were exposed, that the “low level radioactivity was easily removed… by washing with soap and water,” and “no further contamination was detected.”  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-141113183729.png)


This impossible-to-believe narrative was then effectively contradicted by the next paragraph of the press release:  :o


As a precautionary measure, USS Ronald Reagan and other U.S. 7th Fleet ships conducting disaster response operations in the area have moved out of the downwind direction from the site to assess the situation and determine what appropriate mitigating actions are necessary. (http://www.imgion.com/images/01/Angry-animated-smiley.jpg)   

If no further contamination was detected, then it should be relatively easy to determine what appropriate mitigation actions were necessary.

Navy “supports the troops,” at least until they really need it

According to individual reports, the Navy passed out iodine pills to officers and pilots, but not to most of the crew. The Navy also required crew members, before they could go on shore leave later in Thailand, to sign papers stating that they were healthy and couldn’t sue the Navy. Clearly that would be mitigating for the Navy, even if it meant abandoning people whose potential radiation injuries wouldn’t be showing up for months or years.

That’s exactly what happened to Petty Officer 3rd Class Daniel Hair, as reported in Stars and Stripes in July 2013. Hair is part of the lawsuit against TEPCO and, like the other plaintiffs, has classic symptoms of low level radiation poisoning. The article also minimizes the possible exposure on the Reagan, quoting a Navy spokesman who uses the exact same language as the 2011 press release to minimize Fukushima radiation levels.

According to Stars and Stripes, Hair was told that the Reagan was just 5-10 miles off the coast of Fukushima. The paper also reported that:


Sailors were drinking desalinated seawater and bathing in it until the ship’s leadership came over the public address system and told them to stop because it was contaminated, Hair said. They were told the ventilation system was contaminated, and he claims he was pressured into signing a form that said he had been given an iodine pill even though none had been provided.(http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-311013200859.png) As a low-ranking sailor, he believed he had no choice.

The Navy has acknowledged that the Reagan passed through a plume of radiation but declined to comment on the details in Hair’s story.

Most of the sick sailors are in their early twenties

There’s no apparent reason to doubt that there are sick sailors, not all of them part of the lawsuit, but all of them with a common source of exposure from Fukushima. Two other plaintiffs, Maurice Enis and his girlfriend, Jaime Plym, held a press conference on March 11, 2013, that was part of a symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine dealing with the medical and ecological consequences of Fukushima. Enis and Plym both served on the Reagan, as the Huffington Post reported:


The couple had been looking forward to leaving the military and starting a family. Now, Enis said, they don’t know if children will be an option due to health problems they’ve both developed since signing away government liability. They’ve both been honorably discharged from the military and don’t know how they will pay for medical treatment.  (http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2955.gif) Plym has a new diagnosis of asthma and her menstrual cycle is severely out of whack. Enis has lumps on his jaw, between his eyes and on his thigh. He’s also developed stomach ulcers and lung problems, and is losing weight and hair.  (http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2955.gif)


In all, the Pentagon sent some 70,000 American military personnel to serve in or near Japan in response to Fukushima during the period from March 12 to May 11, 2011. And in 2011, the Dept. of Defense set out to do the right thing for these men and women who may have been exposed to harmful levels of radiation. The Defense Dept. announced plans to establish the Operation Tomodachi Registry to help these people track their health histories, an initiative pushed by Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. According to the Pentagon:


“The DOD may establish an environmental health surveillance registry when:

1) occupational and environmental health exposures could cause illness, or

2) when the exposure is not expected to cause illness, but individuals need access to exposure data.

In either case, these registries will contain the names of all the individuals who were known or believed to have been exposed along with estimates of their exposure.”



No radiation level is “safe,” and internal radiation is less safe

Since the Pentagon admitted it was unprepared to deal with radiation risk when the Fukushima crisis began, the creation of a registry was something of an after-the-fact means of making up for that initial unpreparedness. By the end of July 2011, the Pentagon reported that it had “already done ‘internal monitoring’ of radiation levels inside the bodies of 7,700 personnel who worked in parts of the disaster zone closest to the damaged power plant, including those who flew over the disaster zone….”  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg)


But the same report went on to minimize the impact without addressing the timeframe in which the radiation was received: “The scans revealed that 98 percent of those personnel did not have elevated radiation inside their bodies…. among the 2 percent of service members (about 154 individuals) with elevated internal radiation levels the highest readings were about 25 millirems, equivalent to the dose that they would receive from 2 1/2 chest X-rays.”  ::)  :P    (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-object-015.gif)


The lawsuit against TEPCO has 50-75 plaintiffs, as new people continue to join. If the 2 per cent with elevated exposure levels found by the Pentagon is relevant, then there would be something like 1,400 potential plaintiffs among the 70,000 service members who were part of Operation Tomodachi. The lawsuit was filed in December 2012, before the radiation exposure registry was completed. In September 2012, the Pentagon put out another press release touting the usefulness of the registry even though it asserted that “no Defense Department personnel or their families were exposed to radiation causing adverse health conditions following the nuclear accident in Japan last year.”

The Defense Dept. promised the registry would be finished in 2012. The suffering veterans filed their lawsuit December 21. Within a month, the Pentagon decided to drop the whole registry thing after an almost two-year effort, saying that it had decided that there was no serious contamination in the first place.  (http://media.tumblr.com/c6492e4b47cfdbd50e74d285fde3c53e/tumblr_inline_mm3g4yCaZc1qz4rgp.gif)


This decision means, as Roger Witherspoon wrote on his blog at the time, “there will be no way to determine if patterns of health problems emerge among the members of the Marines, Army, Air Force, Corps of Engineers, and Navy stationed at 63 installations in Japan with their families. In addition, it leaves thousands of sailors and Marines in the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group 7 on their own when it comes to determining if any of them are developing problems caused by radiation exposure.” (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/acigar.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-devil12.gif)



So as far as the government  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg) is concerned, officially, it doesn’t matter if Operation Tomodachi becomes, for some who served, a mission kamikaze. (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/violent/sterb050.gif)

 
William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre, radio, TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years in the Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers Guild of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont Life magazine, and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. This article was first published in Reader Supported News. Read other articles by William.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/u-s-navy-sailors-sue-tepco-over-cluster-fukushima-snafu/ (http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/u-s-navy-sailors-sue-tepco-over-cluster-fukushima-snafu/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on December 28, 2013, 01:11:12 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCYEDOQU6HM&feature=player_embedded

Bio

Joseph Mangano MPH MBA is a health researcher, and Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP).

The group is the only one in the U.S. with a specific mission of producing research on health hazards of nuclear reactors and weapons.

Among Mangano's accomplishments are 32 medical journal articles, 53 newspaper editorials, 3 books, 27 press conferences on research findings, and testimony to 19 government agencies.
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on January 16, 2014, 01:52:22 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Cz39TUTQs&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rMIrOAHBU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2r7vFi7jOo&feature=player_embedded
Title: Radioactive materials from Japan's Fukushima disaster reaches Canada
Post by: AGelbert on February 27, 2014, 02:16:13 pm
(http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)Radioactive materials from Japan's Fukushima disaster reaches Canada, say scientists(http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/164/f/6/water_mutant_divinus_by_username1996-d53dd5y.png)

Researchers say that minuscule traces of radioactive cesium originating from Japan's ill-fated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been found in Vancouver.

By Sudeshna Chowdhury, Staff writer / February 25, 2014

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0225/Radioactive-materials-from-Japan-s-Fukushima-disaster-reaches-Canada-say-scientists






Title: Stunning New Report on USS Reagan Radiation
Post by: AGelbert on February 28, 2014, 02:07:18 pm
Thu Feb 27, 2014 at 10:08 AM PST.

Stunning New Report on USS Reagan Radiation


by
JusticeSeeker68
 
Harvey Wasserman, Common Dreams . . .


A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago.  Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.

The $4.3 billion carrier is now docked in San Diego. Critics question whether it belongs there at all. Attempts to decontaminate U.S. ships irradiated during the Pacific nuclear bombs tests from 1946-1963 proved fruitless.



Stars and Stripes  . . .


When the March 11, 2011 disaster struck, the Reagan was on its way to Korea, according to Reagan sailors who participated in Operation Tomodachi. They turned around and immediately made their way for the Japanese mainland, passing through a sea of debris.
Sailors told Stars and Stripes that they believe they were as close as five miles off the coast of the stricken plant that spewed radiation into the air and sea.

Sailors who were onboard the Reagan have claimed that they were drinking contaminated desalinated seawater and bathing in it until the ship’s leadership came over the public address system and told them to stop because it was contaminated. They claim the ventilation system was also contaminated. Furthermore, some claim they were pressured into signing forms confirming they had been given iodine pills when none had been provided.

The ship's ventilation system might have been contaminated?  What other systems might have been contaminated?

The US Navy's "investigation" of the turret explosion on the USS Iowa doesn't give me much confidence that we'll be told the truth about conditions aboard the USS Reagan during its exposure to Fukushima radiation, or about what action has been taken to decontaminate the $4.3 billion dollar carrier. 

Wasserman . . .


In the midst of a snow storm, deck hands were enveloped in a warm cloud that came with a metallic taste. Sailors testify that the Reagan’s 5,500-member crew was told over the ship’s intercom to avoid drinking or bathing in desalinized water drawn from a radioactive sea. The huge carrier quickly ceased its humanitarian efforts and sailed 100 miles out to sea, where newly published internal Navy communications confirm it was still taking serious doses of radioactive fallout.
Still taking serious doses of radioactive fallout.
For how long?

Wasserman . . .


Tepco and the Navy contend the Reagan did not receive a high enough dose to warrant serious concern. But Japan, South Korea and Guam deemed the carrier too radioactive to enter their ports.
Tepco and the Navy are insisting that all is well.
Yeah.  Thanks for looking into this, keep up the good work!
.
Originally posted to JusticeSeeker68 on Thu Feb 27, 2014 at 10:08 AM PST.

Also republished by Nuclear Free DK and Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/27/1280845/-Stunning-New-Report-on-USS-Reagan-Radiation
Title: Republic of the Marshall Islands files lawsuits against all nine nuclear nations
Post by: AGelbert on May 02, 2014, 03:31:38 pm
On April 24, 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands filed lawsuits against all nine nuclear-armed nations for failure to negotiate nuclear disarmament. (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/bc3.gif)(http://www.pic4ever.com/images/swear1.gif) The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has stood by the side of the Marshall Islands and played an important role as their consultant in the "Nuclear Zero Lawsuits." This issue of The Sunflower is intended to give readers more in-depth information about the lawsuits and is dedicated to the courageous leaders of the Marshall Islands who filed these lawsuits.

To learn more about the Nuclear Zero Lawsuits, click here:  http://www.nuclearzero.org/

Agelbert NOTE: I signed the petition at the link. If you believe there is no hope and any effort to ameliorate our condition is quixotic and/or cornucopian, don't bother... Have a nice "we are all doomed" day.   (http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_6348.gif) (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/www_MyEmoticons_com__smokelots.gif)  (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/www_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif)


Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on June 14, 2014, 11:00:17 pm
Fukushima’s Children are Dying(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2955.gif)(http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2953.gif)(http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-311013201604.png)

Harvey Wasserman | June 14, 2014 10:11 am

Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.

More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.

The nuclear industry and its apologists continue to deny this public health tragedy. Some have actually asserted that “not one person” has been affected by Fukushima’s massive radiation releases, which for some isotopes exceed Hiroshima by a factor of nearly 30.

http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/14/fukushima-children-dying/

(http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000370273/polls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_356175_answer_4_xlarge.png)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on August 25, 2014, 10:07:43 pm
Physicists Say Fukushima Reactors Pose Eternal Threat to Humanity (http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20140823/192281175/Physicists-Say-Fukushima-Reactors-Pose-Eternal-Threat-to.html)

S. Korea bans imports of all fishery products from Japan's Fukushima region (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-09/06/c_132697046.htm)

Ban on Japanese fish remains in place due to Fukushima accident - oversight service (http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2013_09_20/Ban-on-Japanese-fish-remains-in-place-due-to-Fukushima-accident-oversight-service-5812/)

Study finds parts of Japan no longer safe for farming (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/japan-nuclear-crisis-farm-land-contamination.html)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on August 26, 2014, 10:36:05 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoBGBYDjxQc&feature=player_embedded

Liquid Death Pouring Into The Ocean

 "The Fukushima-Daiichi calamity may well turn out to be, in the final analysis a truly mass extinction event in this once magnificent but now tragic and troubled little planet" says radio host Jeff Rense in this heartbreaking video.

 It is a well produced 22 minutes on the tragedy. He spells out what we are facing. We can't put a nice spin on it, we can't pretend it will dissipate and we can't listen to the authorities, especially not TEPCO.

Here are some facts:

-Radiation is killing the Pacific.

 -Plutonium and hundreds of different radio nuclides have been pouring into the Pacific, 24/7, since March 11, 2011.

 -Fukushima fish carry 258 times the "safe" levels of radiation.

 -The cancer rates for children are up 14 times normal levels in Japan.

 And sadly, much more is explored along these lines.

 Thank you Jeff Rense!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eku4X1-NrkA&feature=player_embedded



 --Bibi Farber

 This video was produced by Jeff Rense
- See more at: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/environment/our-legacy-a-dead-pacific-ocean.html#sthash.K7Cx1mmG.dpuf (http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/environment/our-legacy-a-dead-pacific-ocean.html#sthash.K7Cx1mmG.dpuf)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on August 28, 2014, 06:41:09 pm
Fukushima groundwater bypass operation ineffective: Tepco (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/26/national/fukushima-groundwater-bypass-operation-ineffective-tepco/)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on September 02, 2014, 08:53:25 pm
Fukushima Increased Cesium Levels 100 to 1,000 Times Worldwide ... and 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 Times On the U.S. West Coast (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-29/fukushima-increased-cesium-levels-100-1000-times-worldwide-and-1000000-10000000-time) (http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_1593.gif)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on September 06, 2014, 06:37:40 pm
The Fukushima Disaster Continues to Worsen (http://www.alternet.org/world/fukushima-disaster-continues-worsen)
(http://www.alternet.org/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/shutterstock_186445934-edited.jpg)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on November 02, 2014, 06:00:29 pm
(http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-021114175606.png)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4U4xz94WgU&feature=player_embedded

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/23/fukushima-radiation-west-coast/
 (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-021114150033.png)

Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on March 11, 2015, 03:17:33 pm
Fukushima’s 4th Anniversary Brings Hope Amidst Radioactive Ruins as Renewable Energy Revolution Soars
Harvey Wasserman | March 11, 2015 9:15 am

The catastrophe that began at Fukushima four years ago today is worse than ever.

But the good news can ultimately transcend the bad—if we make it so.
An angry grassroots movement has kept shut all 54 reactors that once operated in Japan.  (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/47b20s0.gif)  
It’s the largest on-going nuke closure in history. Big industrial windmills installed off the Fukushima coast are now thriving. (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-022.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-005.gif)

(http://ecowatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fuk650.jpg)
A team of IAEA experts check out water storage tanks TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Nov. 27, 2013. The expert team is assessing Japanese efforts to decommission the stricken nuclear power plant. Photo Credit: Greg Webb / IAEA

Five U.S. reactors have shut since March 11, 2011. The operable fleet is under 100 for the first time in decades.

Ohio’s Davis-Besse, New York’s Ginna, five reactors in Illinois and other decrepit American nukes could shut soon without huge ratepayer bailouts.

Diablo Canyon was retrofitted—probably illegally—with $842 million in replacement parts untested for seismic impact. Already under fire for illegal license manipulations and an avoidable gas explosion that killed eight in San Bruno in 2010, Pacific Gas & Electric has plunged into a legal, economic and political abyss that could soon doom California’s last reactors.

Meanwhile, Germany is amping up its renewable energy generation with a goal of 80 percent or more by 2050.   (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/19.gif)

France—once nuke power’s poster child—has turned away from new reactor construction and is moving strongly toward renewables. (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-object-062.gif)

Worldwide the Solartopian revolution is ahead of schedule and under budget. Predictions about its technological and economic potential are being everywhere exceeded.   (http://www.smile-day.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Smiley-Thumbs-Up2.jpg)

More than twice as many Americans now work in solar as in coal mines. As the head of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund recently put it: “We are quite convinced that if John D Rockefeller were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Agelbert NOTE: I disagree. The historical evidence points in the Koch Brothers type response to renewable Energy initiatives in the USA. From about 1870 on to THIS DAY, Big Oil has worked to throttle Geothermal powerplant building, ethanol use for internal combustion engines, chemurgy (hydrocarbons from plant carbohydrates) for all pharmaceuticals and plastics, wind generation (see Cleveland 1890!), electric trolley mass transport (see many cities 1900-1930!) and, of course, cheap solar power (1960 - present) .  Their skullduggery covers a lot more putrecent, corrupt and murderous bases than that but the above is a VERY brief summary of the fossil fueler mens rea modus operandi. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-241013183046.jpeg)
Now back to this otherwise excellent article.  ;D

Even America’s Tea Party has developed a green wing promoting renewables.

Vital focus now centers on battery breakthroughs needed to escalate rooftop solar, electric cars and other post-nuke game-changers.

But there’s plenty of bad news. The State Secrets Act of Japan’s authoritarian Abe regime renders unreliable all “official” information from Fukushima. Grassroots nuclear campaigners are under serious attack.

At least 300 tons of radioactive water still pour daily into the Pacific Ocean. The utility wants to dump even more untreated outflow into currents that are already testing radioactive along the California coast. Details of fuel rod bring-downs and site clean-ups remain unknown.

Thyroid damage rates are soaring among downwind children. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183337.bmp)   

Abe is forcing evacuees back into areas that are seriously contaminated. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183337.bmp) 

Fukushima’s owner (Tepco) is the #1 money funnel to his Liberal Democratic Party, which flips untold billions back to the utility. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183337.bmp)

More than 128,000 petitioners asking that the world community take charge at Fukushima have been ignored by the United Nations since November, 2013. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183337.bmp)

Throughout the world decaying reactors threaten our survival. Ohio’s Davis-Besse containment is literally crumbling. Diablo Canyon is surrounded by 15 known fault lines, one just 700 yards from the cores. New reactor sites in Finland, France and Georgia show slipshod construction, substandard parts and corrupted supervision that would make them instant threats should they go on line.

Citizen activism challenges all that. Today Solartopian activists will picket Japanese consulates worldwide.
An evolving electricity boycott to “unplug nuclear” and a growing grassroots demand for green energy herald a new era of people power.

Four years after the endless Fukushima disaster began, that renewable revolution defines our survival.   (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/301.gif)

It’s a fight we can’t afford to lose. It’s a victory we must soon embrace … with the utmost relief (http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-052.gif) and joy. (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/earthhug.gif)
http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/11/fukushimas-anniversary-renewable-energy-soars/

Renewable energy= (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-301014181553.gif)                                (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-scared002.gif)= Fossil Nukers
(http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-forum/popcorn.gif)
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 17, 2015, 08:29:19 pm
Pandora's Promise was a LIE!  >:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOelqGl2Ux0&feature=player_embedded
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2015, 01:57:21 am
 :exp-evil:
Quote from: RE on April 18, 2015, 11:34:55 pm
Collapse has ARRIVED for the Sardines.  :'(

I still have a few dozen cans in my preps.

RE

Fukushima Fallout? Emergency Closure of Fishery Along Entire West Coast: Alarming Die-Offs, Mass Reproductive Failures, Strange Diseases

Global Research, April 17, 2015
ENENews 16 April 2015
Region: Asia, Canada, USA

NY Times, Apr 15, 2015 (emphasis added): [Regulators] approved an emergency closure of commercial sardine fishing off Oregon, Washington and California… Earlier this week, the council shut down the next sardine season… [R]evised estimates of sardine populations… found the fish were declining in numbers faster than earlier believed… [Stocks are] much lower than estimated last year… The reasons are not well-understood.

Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, April 13, 2015: Ben Enticknap, Oceana senior scientist (1:08:00 in) — “We’ve seen a significant change in recruitment [Recruitment: The number of new young fish that enter a population]. There’s been practically no recruitment in recent years, and this was not expected.”

Undercurrent News, Apr 14, 2015: [A]ccording to the report on the emergency action from the PFMC… “the total stock biomass of Pacific sardine is declining as a result of poor recruitment“… [A California Wetfish Producers Association official said] “little recruitment was observed in 2011-2014.”

Oregonian, Apr 13, 2015: Pacific coast sardines are facing a population collapse so severe[fishing] will be shut down… [The] downward spiral in spite of favorable water conditions has ocean-watchers worried there’s more to this collapse than cyclical population trends. “There are a lot of weird things happening out there, and we’re not quite sure why they aren’t responding the way they should,” said Kevin Hill, a NOAA Fisheries biologist… Fishery managers are adding it to a list of baffling circumstances off the West Coast… NOAA surveys indicate very few juvenile fish made it through their first year. “The population isn’t replacing itself,” Hill said.

SFist, Apr 14, 2015: [T]he population appears decimated… As the Council writes, “temperatures in the Southern California Bight have risen in the past two years, but we haven’t seen an increase in young sardines”… Sardines typically spawn in warmer waters, with cold water decreasing their numbers.

SF Chronicle, Apr 14, 2015: Sardine population collapses… [There's] evidence stocks are going through the same kind of collapse [seen in the 1950s]… The sardine population along the West Coast has collapsed… Causes of crisis — A lack of spawning… was blamed for the decline… Severedownturn… things recently took a turn for the worse… because of a lack of spawning due to poor ocean conditions in 2014… The collapse this year is the latest in a series of alarming die-offs, sicknesses and population declines in the ocean ecosystem along the West Coast. Anchovies… have also declined [due to] a lack of zooplankton… Record numbers of starving sea lions… Brown pelicans, too, have suffered from mass reproductive failures and are turning up sick and dead… Strange diseases have also been proliferating in the sea…

Monterey Herald, Apr 13, 2015: For the first time in 30 years [sardine fishing] will be banned.

KPCC, Apr 1, 2015: The first time that sardine fishing has been banned since federal management of the fishery began… Many are worried a… catastrophic crash is happening.

Full recording of the PFMC meeting here

Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 19, 2015, 06:13:12 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3WGEXvD4Y&feature=player_embedded
The Total release of Radiation from Fukushima is WORSE than Chernobyl. AND it is ADDED TO EVERY DAY!
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 23, 2015, 10:50:12 pm
Professors: 100s of Millions of animals have died recently along West Coast — Worst mortality event ever known — “Wiped out at least 20 different species” — Marine life also disappearing from Fukushima coast (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/professors-largest-mass-mortality-associated-disease-recorded-place-along-west-coast-hundreds-millions-died-epidemic-wiped-20-different-species-sea-life-along-fukushima-coast-missing-video
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2015, 08:54:57 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE7qL4o5bQM&feature=player_embedded
You were WARNED.
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 24, 2015, 10:05:32 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5LbRICUQXQ&feature=player_embedded
Radioactive Cesium (134/137) from Fukushima is quite EFFECTIVE in deforming embryos. Radioactive Cesium REPLACES, GUESS WHAT, in biological organism muscles?  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-070814193155.png)

Quote
Published on Oct 4, 2014


I don't mean to "scare you", but here is what is happening...

A very informative link is HERE: Got Cesium ??? Fukushima: Do Not Panic - You Will All Die -

Cesium 137 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3KNq-PtJZ4&feature=player_embedded 

World Record #2 FUKU, Cesium Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octALkPM-N0&feature=player_embedded   Published by by Troy

Livingston https://www.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcP... (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdcP...)

and have a peek at: World Record #1 FUKU, The Canary In Coal Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0vr4KZfnE&feature=player_embedded
~~~~
Cabinet approves bill on Fukushima waste disposal

The Abe Cabinet approved a bill on Friday that will ensure that radioactive soil and other waste stored in Fukushima Prefecture is removed within 30 years.  ::)

The move follows a demand from local communities near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that have agreed to temporarily store contaminated soil and other waste. The facilities are to be built in Futaba and Okuma towns.

The bill obliges the central government to ensure that the waste is safely stored, and that it is moved to a final disposal site outside the prefecture within 30 years.

Environment Minister said he hopes to gain the trust of the local people.

Got Cesium ??? World Record #2 FUKU, Cesium Effects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=octALkPM-N0&feature=player_embedded 

Dr. Chris Busby on Heart Problems after exposure to Cesium Link HERE: Pr Chris Busby on children´s heart attacks in Fukushima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Kkuo-IK-A
&feature=player_embedded

as Always, please feel free to copy paste or resubmit video on any forum you wish.

Have a delightful day.

Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2015, 09:56:08 pm
Marshall Islands to U.S. – Keep Your NPT Promises

by NAPF Press Office
 
Update: Marshall Islands to U.S. – Keep Your NPT Promises
As the NPT Review Conference approaches, the Marshall Islands take the next step

April 9, 2015 – The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) filed its Court ordered Mediation Questionnaire today in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, taking the next step in the appeal of the Nuclear Zero Lawsuit.

The lawsuit, brought by the RMI against the U.S., claims the U.S. is in breach of its legal obligations under Article VI of the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to pursue negotiations in good faith for an end to the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament. The U.S. has refused to negotiate and is instead modernizing its nuclear arsenal.

The case was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds  ;) on February 3, 2015 by the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California, before the U.S. filed an Answer or submitted any evidence, and without any analysis of the merits of the claims.  ;)

In the Mediation Questionnaire, the RMI cites a statement made by the U.S. Embassy in the Marshall Islands on February 5, 2015 which asserted that “the U.S. commitment to achieving the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons is unassailable.”   (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9HT4xZyDmh4/TOHhxzA0wLI/AAAAAAAAEUk/oeHDS2cfxWQ/s200/Smiley_Angel_Wings_Halo.jpg) (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/ugly004.gif)

Taking the Embassy’s statement at face value, the RMI goes on to say, “If the U.S. were willing to demonstrate that commitment by calling for and convening negotiations for cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament under the NPT (which is the very relief sought by the Marshall Islands), then this case could have strong potential for a successful mediation.”   (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/301.gif)

David Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and consultant to the RMI in their case, commented, “The RMI has set forth a means by which mediation could be successful. If the U.S. were acting responsibly, they’d simply do what they promised to do 45 years ago when the NPT entered into force – fulfill their obligation to negotiate in good faith for an end to the nuclear arms race and for nuclear disarmament. It’s ironic that while the U.S. is focusing world attention on the progress being made on nonproliferation with Iran, there has been zero progress on initiating negotiations for cessation of the nuclear arms race or nuclear disarmament.”    (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200714183312.bmp)

With the filing of this Mediation Questionnaire coming just two weeks prior to the 2015 NPT Review Conference to be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, there will likely be heightened attention paid by those attending the conference to the status of the Marshall Islands lawsuits. This year’s Review Conference will mark the 20-year anniversary of the NPT’s indefinite extension agreed to in 1995. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-311013200859.png)
Click here to read the Mediation Questionnaire in its entirety. For more information about the Nuclear Zero Lawsuits, visit nuclearzero.org.

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Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on May 13, 2015, 01:53:32 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLYuaMho7c&feature=player_embedded
SHOCKING Photos! "Pacific Ocean Now Dead From Fukushima Radiation" 2015 HD
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on June 11, 2015, 08:37:31 pm
Quote from: knarf on June 11, 2015, 12:53:30 pm
Alarms raised on West Coast over unprecedented die-off — of nearly endangered marine mammals More have washed up in last few months than during all of recorded history combined — Experts scrambling to deal with latest wildlife crisis in Pacific — Official: “What’s going to happen next?” (VIDEO)

Japan Scientists: High radiation levels near West Coast after Fukushima disaster — Almost 30 Bq/m3 of cesium offshore — Secret documents reveal US gov’t previously ordered radiation test results in Pacific be hidden to avoid contamination fears.  >:(

US Gov’t Contractor: Fukushima so fragile it can turn globally catastrophic at any moment — Concern about impact to West Coast from another meltdown — Danger of something “far worse” than initial event — “Substantial risk to stability of Asia-Pacific” — National Lab: Fukushima already a global disaster (VIDEO)

NOAA: Beaches full of dead baby sea lions off California, many aborted fetuses — Garbage bags filled with animals along coast — Carts in freezer overflowing with bodies — Official: Pollution may well have had an effect… .We deliberately didn’t test for it.  (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fam/fam12.gif)
(VIDEO)

Gov’t Expert: West Coast will soon be hit by 800 Trillion Bq of Fukushima Cesium-137 — Nearly equal to amount of fallout deposited on Japan — Levels in Pacific “higher than expected” — “Main body of surface plume has reached off coast of US” — Never slowed down while crossing ocean, contrary to prediction  >:( .
http://enenews.com/alarm-unprecedented-die-endangered-marine-mammal-west-coast-washed-2015-all-recorded-history-combined-experts-scrambling-deal-latest-wildlife-crisis-pacific-official-whats-going-happen-next-v
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2015, 03:05:20 pm
Quote from: Uncle Bob on June 12, 2015, 02:24:50 am
Quote from: agelbert on June 11, 2015, 08:47:27 pm
Hat tip to Knarf.  :emthup:

Quote from: knarf on June 11, 2015, 12:53:30 pm
Alarms raised on West Coast over unprecedented die-off — of nearly endangered marine mammals More have washed up in last few months than during all of recorded history combined — Experts scrambling to deal with latest wildlife crisis in Pacific — Official: “What’s going to happen next?” (VIDEO)

Japan Scientists: High radiation levels near West Coast after Fukushima disaster — Almost 30 Bq/m3 of cesium offshore — Secret documents reveal US gov’t previously ordered radiation test results in Pacific be hidden to avoid contamination fears.  >:(

US Gov’t Contractor: Fukushima so fragile it can turn globally catastrophic at any moment — Concern about impact to West Coast from another meltdown — Danger of something “far worse” than initial event — “Substantial risk to stability of Asia-Pacific” — National Lab: Fukushima already a global disaster (VIDEO)

NOAA: Beaches full of dead baby sea lions off California, many aborted fetuses — Garbage bags filled with animals along coast — Carts in freezer overflowing with bodies — Official: Pollution may well have had an effect… .We deliberately didn’t test for it.  (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fam/fam12.gif)
(VIDEO)

Gov’t Expert: West Coast will soon be hit by 800 Trillion Bq of Fukushima Cesium-137 — Nearly equal to amount of fallout deposited on Japan — Levels in Pacific “higher than expected” — “Main body of surface plume has reached off coast of US” — Never slowed down while crossing ocean, contrary to prediction  >:( .

http://enenews.com/ (http://enenews.com/)

http://enenews.com/alarm-unprecedented-die-endangered-marine-mammal-west-coast-washed-2015-all-recorded-history-combined-experts-scrambling-deal-latest-wildlife-crisis-pacific-official-whats-going-happen-next-v (http://enenews.com/alarm-unprecedented-die-endangered-marine-mammal-west-coast-washed-2015-all-recorded-history-combined-experts-scrambling-deal-latest-wildlife-crisis-pacific-official-whats-going-happen-next-v)

Do we have any chemistry boffins who know if the radiation remains if the water on the us west coast is desalinated for drinking? They gotta start building desal for cali soon.

UB, JD and Eddie,
The problem for desalination is real, of course. But that is not the salient problem here. Radionuclides behave EXACTLY like elements they mimic in nature when the liquids they are immersed in are distilled. Fractional distillation, a HIGHLY energy intensive process, will get H2O out of anything it is mixed with. Reverse Osmosis is more expensive but slightly less energy intensive. Neither of those methods are anything but inefficient band aids that will NOT stop massive contamination form occurring.

The problem is the food chain.  We are in it. We cannot avoid the REQUIREMENT that out body has for POTASSIUM. Potassium is an INTIMATE part of every single cell in our body. Below you will find all you need to know about that. And lest we forget, a lot of the SEA SALT that the organic food lovers like my wife and I eat comes from the pacific ocean... :P Hopefully, the evaporative process the sea slat producers use will be modified to extract potassium (i.e ce-137). But then that would extract the good potassium too!

And Ce-137 is NOT the only bioactive radionuclide traveling up the food chain thanks to Fukushima. But for now, let's stick to Ce-137.  (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-070814193155.png)


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Cesium

The compounds of cesium are similar to those of potassium. This presents a particular hazard when radioactive cesium-137 contaminates the soil, as it did near Chernobyl. Growing plants require large amounts of potassium, and concentrate it from the soil. Since cesium mimics potassium, the radioactive cesium is also taken up and reconcentrated. The result is that plants grown on contaminated soil may contain a much higher concentration of radioactive cesium than the soil in which they are grown.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pertab/cs.html (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pertab/cs.html)


The human body thinks Cesium-137 that it finds in food you eat is POTASSIUM. So if you NEED POTASSIUM at the time you eat that food, you will incorporate a future cancer into your tissues. If you do not need it, you MIGHT be able to excrete it before it becomes part of you. California is considering fertilizing large vegetable crop areas that are becoming increasingly contaminated with ce-137 with Potassium Cholride (KCl). The reason for this is that plants supposedly will take up the KCL instead of the ce-137. We'll see.

Over the long term, the big threat to human health is cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years. At that rate of disintegration, John Emsley wrote in “Nature’s Building Blocks” (Oxford, 2001), “it takes over 200 years to reduce it to 1 percent of its former level.”

It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.

Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the body and can enter through many foods, including milk.

The Environmental Protection Agency says that … once dispersed in the environment … cesium-137 “is impossible to avoid.”

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/nuke-puke/nuclear-insecurity-today/5/?wap2 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/nuke-puke/nuclear-insecurity-today/5/?wap2)

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A "study" on some poor beagles: (neoplasms are growths)

--- Quote ---/LABORATORY ANIMALS:

Chronic Exposure or Carcinogenicity/ The toxicity of cesium-137 in the beagle dog was investigated... as part of programs to evaluate the biological effects of both radionuclides in atomic bomb fallout and internally deposited fission-product radionuclides. ...

63 dogs in three age groups (15 juveniles, 142-151 days old; 38 young adults, 388-427 days old; and 10 middle-aged dogs, 1387-2060 days old) were given cesium-137 intravenously at levels (61-162 MBq/kg) near those expected to be lethal within 30 days after injection. There were 17 control dogs from the same colony.

Twenty-three of the dogs injected with cesium-137, including all middle-aged dogs, died within 52 days after injection due to hematopoietic cell damage resulting in severe pancytopenia that led to fatal hemorrhage and/or septicemia. The other significant early effect was damage to the germinal epithelium of the seminiferous tubules of all male dogs. ...

The most significant non-neoplastic late effects in the cesium-137-injected dogs... were atrophy of the germinal epithelium of seminiferous tubules with azoospermia, and a significant dose-dependent decrease in survival. ...Numerous neoplasms occurred at many different sites in the dogs injected with cesium-137... .

Two differences in the findings of the two studies were that

(1) there was an increased risk for malignant thyroid neoplasms in /one group of/ ... male dogs injected with cesium-137, but not the... dogs /in the other study/ and

(2) there was an increased relative risk for benign neoplasms excluding mammary neoplasms in /one group of/... dogs injected with cesium-137, but not /in the other group/. ...In both groups, there were dose-related increased incidences of malignant neoplasms, malignant neoplasms excluding mammary neoplasms, all sarcomas considered as a group, all non-mammary carcinomas considered as a group and malignant liver neoplasms.

In summary, the similarity of the findings between the two studies and the dose-response relationships for survival and for large groupings of neoplasms suggests that these results are consistent findings in cesium-137-injected dogs and might be dose-related late effects in humans exposed to sufficient amounts of internally deposited cesium-137. /Cesium-137/
[Nikula KJ et al; Radiat Res 146 (5): 536-47 (1996)] **PEER REVIEWED** PubMed Abstract
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Agelbert NOTE: "MIGHT be dose-related in humans exposed" is SCIENTIST SPEAK for covering their asses about the TRUTH that humans are every bit as dose dependent as the dogs are. 



We are going need a LOT of Ce-137 absorbing mushrooms if the KCL doesn't cut it.

The human body is 0.4% potassium. That may not seem like a lot but it is in every single cell we have, SO, if ce-137 sneaks in, it will destroy DNA all over the place.

Check out how IMPORTANT to our body POTASSIUM is and how the food that has it that we need will uptake ce-137 as easily as WE DO thinking it is Potassium! That means mutations in the food and in us out the YING YANG, get it?




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Potassium is a mineral that is needed for your body to work properly. It is a type of electrolyte.

Function

Potassium is a very important mineral to the human body.

Your body needs potassium to:
•Build proteins
•Break down and use carbohydrates
•Build muscle
•Maintain normal body growth
•Control the electrical activity of the heart
•Control the acid-base balance

Food Sources

Many foods contain potassium. All meats (red meat and chicken) and fish such as salmon, cod, flounder, and sardines are good sources of potassium. Soy products and veggie burgers are also good sources of potassium.

Vegetables including broccoli, peas, lima beans, tomatoes, potatoes (especially their skins), sweet potatoes, and winter squashes are all good sources of potassium.

Fruits that contain significant sources of potassium include citrus fruits, cantaloupe, bananas, kiwi, prunes, and apricots. Dried apricots contain more potassium than fresh apricots.

Milk and yogurt, as well as nuts, are also excellent sources of potassium.

People with kidney problems, especially those on dialysis, should not eat too many potassium-rich foods. The doctor or nurse will recommend a special diet.

Side Effects

Having too much or too little potassium in the body can have very serious consequences.

A low blood level of potassium is called hypokalemia. It can cause weak muscles, abnormal heart rhythms, and a slight rise in blood pressure. You may have hypokalemia if you:
•Take diuretics (water pills) for the treatment of high blood pressure or heart failure
•Take too many laxatives
•Have severe or prolonged vomiting and diarrhea
•Have certain kidney or adrenal gland disorders

Too much potassium in the blood is known as hyperkalemia. It may cause abnormal and dangerous heart rhythms. Some common causes include:
•Poor kidney function
•Heart medicines called angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin 2 receptor blockers (ARBs)
•Potassium-sparing diuretics (water pills) such as spironolactone or amiloride
•Severe infection

Recommendations

The Food and Nutrition Center of the Institute of Medicine has established the following recommended dietary intakes for potassium:

Infants
•0 - 6 months: 0.4 grams a day (g/day)
•7 - 12 months: 0.7 g/day

Children and Adolescents
•1 - 3 years: 3 g/day
•4 - 8 years: 3.8 g/day
•9 - 13 years: 4.5 g/day
•14 - 18 years: 4.7 g/day

Adults
•Age 19 and older: 4.7 g/day

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002413.htm (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002413.htm)

Surly1:
 A terrific and typically well researched article. Right on time as well. Wondering whether I should purchase a geiger counter. Have already ordered some KI for my family...

AGelbert:
 Thanks Surly,
The Geiger counter will expose the heavy contamination but the becquerel count on food like fish or produce can be high enough to damage health without registering on the Geiger counter.  :P

Remember KI works only to block the radioactive iodine. For some reason, it doesn't seem to block the Ce-137 even though it has K in it. The KCL fertilizer is supposed to keep plants we eat from taking up Ce-137 into their tissues. Apparantly the K in KCL is more bioactive for uptake than the K in KI.

And then there are those mushrooms Paul Stamets mentions that suck up Ce-137 into their tissues at the Chernobyl area that should help.   


How Mushrooms Can Clean Up Radioactive Contamination - An 8 Step Plan

Paul Stamets |  Saturday, 16th April 2011 

http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/nuke-puke/nuclear-insecurity-today/5/?wap2 (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/nuke-puke/nuclear-insecurity-today/5/?wap2)


Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on June 12, 2015, 03:18:08 pm
I'll bet you dollars to donuts the over 10,000 sea lions found dead in March AND many of the Guadalupe fur seal pups found dead recently have heart defects. That is PRECISELY what happened in Chernobyl to human children (and a Russian doctor was imprisoned for publishing the data) from Ce-137 UPTAKE by pregnant mothers.

Cardiologists will see a boom in pre-natal and childhood heart defects. And ALL other disease syndromes involving muscle tissue will become more prevalent. Count on it.  (http://www.mrwallpaper.com/wallpapers/Sad-Sunflower.jpg)


10,000 baby sea lions dead on one California island — Experts: “It’s getting crazy… This is a crisis… Never seen anything like it… Very difficult to see so much death” — TV: “Numbers skyrocketing at alarming rates” — “Woman is burying the rotting mammals” after digging graves at beach (VIDEOS)

http://enenews.com/experts-10000-baby-sea-lions-dead-one-california-island-getting-crazy-very-difficult-death-crisis-tv-numbers-skyrocketing-alarming-rates-woman-digging-graves-beach-bury-dead-bodies-videos
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on April 29, 2017, 11:26:00 pm
—Experts: Japan “wants to just drop tanks” of Fukushima nuclear waste into ocean  Americans worried over plumes hitting West Coast — “Reactors are now leaking really high levels of radiation into sea… The world does need to help” — Official says Japan lying about catastrophe  (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif) (VIDEO)

 Published: April 26th, 2017 at 10:19 am ET

By ENENews

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https://youtu.be/hMr3pBAPgLg

https://youtu.be/ruk3X-4zs5k

http://enenews.com/experts-japan-wants-to-just-drop-tanks-of-fukushima-nuclear-waste-into-ocean-americans-worried-over-plumes-hitting-west-coast-reactors-are-now-leaking-really-high-levels-of-radiation-into
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on July 16, 2017, 07:43:09 pm
Fury at Fukushima  (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-300115234833.gif)

Over 1 Billion pounds of nuclear waste “will be dumped into sea” — Top Official: “The decision has already been made” — “The solution is to pour the radioactive liquid into the ocean” — Toxic radioactive water to cause devastation

Published: July 16th, 2017 at 6:15 pm ET

By ENENews

Kyodo, Jul 14, 2017 (emphasis added): Fukushima’s tritiated water to be dumped into sea, Tepco chief says — Despite the objections of local fishermen, the tritium-tainted water stored at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be dumped into the sea, a top official at Tokyo Electric says. “The decision has already been made,” Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., said in a recent interview with the media… As of July 6, about 777,000 tons were stored [1.54 billion pounds]… Kawamura’s remarks are the first by the utility’s management on the sensitive matter…

The Independent, Jul 15, 2017: Radioactive waste from Fukushima power plant disaster to be dumped in sea — Water tainted with tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, is to be released into the Pacific Ocean, says the head of the company responsible for the Fukushima clean-up operation… Local residents are furious at plans to release the radioactive tritium from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant, which suffered a triple meltdown, into the sea…

UPI, Jul 14, 2017: Japan utility plans to dump radioactive Fukushima water into Pacific — The operator of Japan’s paralyzed nuclear plant in Fukushima has decided to release radioactive tritium into the Pacific Ocean… Technology has so far been unable to remove tritium from the water, and TEPCO’s solution is to pour the radioactive liquid into the ocean… TEPCO insists tritium poses few health hazards, but Japanese fishermen are outraged because of the announcement…

Newsweek, Jul 14, 2017: Fukushima’s Nuclear Waste Will Be Dumped Into the Ocean, Japanese Plant Owner Says — Toxic waste produced by one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters will be dumped into the sea, according to the head of [TEPCO]… Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), told foreign media that nearly 777,000 tons of water tainted with tritium, a byproduct of the nuclear process that is notoriously difficult to filter out of water, will be dumped into the Pacific Ocean…

The Telegraph, Jul 14, 2017: Fishermen express fury as Fukushima plant set to release radioactive material into ocean — Local residents and environmental groups have condemned a plan to release radioactive tritium from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean… Around 770,000 tons of highly radioactive water is being stored in 580 tanks at the site. Many of the contaminants can be filtered out, but the technology does not presently exist to remove tritium from water… Fishermen who operate in waters off the plant say any release of radioactive material will devastate an industry that is still struggling to recover from the initial nuclear disaster…

Kyodo, Jul 15, 2017: Tepco backpedals after disaster reconstruction chief knocks plan to dump tritiated water into sea — [Tepco] backed off its tritium-dumping decision Friday after disaster reconstruction minister Masayoshi Yoshino said it would cause problems for struggling fishermen… The remarks made Friday by the Fukushima native came shortly after the chairman of [Tepco] was quoted as saying that the decision… had “already been made.” After Tepco Chairman Takashi Kawamura’s remarks were widely reported, the utility scrambled to make a clarification the same day. According to Tepco’s clarification, Kawamura meant to say that there was “no problem” with the dumping plan, based on government guidelines and “scientific and technological standards.” The statement also said that no final decision had been made…  (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)


See also: Experts: Japan “wants to just drop tanks” of Fukushima nuclear waste into ocean — Americans worried over plumes hitting West Coast (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/fury-at-fukushima-over-1-billion-pounds-of-nuclear-waste-will-be-dumped-into-sea-top-official-the-decision-has-already-been-made-the-solution-is-to-pour-the-radioactive-liquid-into-t
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on July 27, 2017, 07:43:14 pm
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Is Fukushima Still Melting Down?

https://youtu.be/kr4mFLws3BM

Thom Hartmann

Big Picture Interview - It's been 6 years since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that caused the most serious nuclear incident since Chernobyl - and we might - just might - finally have some good news out of Fukushima. Over the weekend - a robot operated by TEPCO - the company that owns the Fukushima Daiichi power plant - found fuel fods from a reactor involved in the 2011 disaster. To help explain the significance of this development - I'm joined now by Kevin Kamps - Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear.

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Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on August 18, 2017, 11:19:26 pm
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August 17, 2017

(http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif) Fukushima Plant Is Releasing 770,000 Tons of Radioactive Water Into the Pacific


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Thousands of bags of radiation-contaminated soil and debris wait to be processed inside the exclusion zone, close to the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant on February 26, 2016, in Okuma, Japan.

When Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant suffered a triple-core meltdown in March 2011 as the result of devastating earthquake, most people had no idea this was only the beginning of a nuclear disaster that has arguably become the single worst industrial accident in human history.

Keeping the three core meltdowns cool has been an ongoing challenge that has yet to be met. As fresh water is pumped over the cores, it is then stored on site in massive tanks. The Tokyo Electric Power company (TEPCO), the operator of the plant, then has to figure out what to do with that water.

Recently, TEPCO announced that it would dump 770,000 tons of radioactive tritium water into the Pacific Ocean.

The announcement infuriated local fishermen and environmental groups across Japan. According to Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist and winner of the 2015 Rachel Carson prize, their outrage and alarm is not without merit.

"The release of thousands of tons of radioactive tritium by a giant utility company into our aquatic and natural environments is a blood-chilling prospect," Savabieasfahani told Truthout.

She questions why there is not more outrage from those in the Japanese government who are responsible for safeguarding the health and wellbeing of the general public.

"Where are the defenders of our public's health?" she asked. "If they could pull the plug out of their mouth, they could tell us that tritium is a toxic radioactive isotope of hydrogen, and that, once released, tritium cannot be removed from the environment. Let that sink in."

"The Decision Has Already Been Made"

Takashi Kawamura, TEPCO's chairman, when asked about the decision to introduce this vast amount of radioactive water into the ocean, initially responded, "The decision has already been made."

While he quickly softened the statement, he has not stated that the action will not occur.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), Shunichi Tanaka, has claimed that tritium is of little danger to humans and supports TEPCO's plans to dump the water into the ocean.

This claim, however, is vehemently disputed by toxicologists and nuclear experts with more background in toxicology than Tanaka.

M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and is also a contributing author to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report for 2016. He is critical of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe's administration's mishandling of Fukushima.

"The proposed release of radioactive, contaminated water from Fukushima against the wishes of the local residents, especially fishermen, represents yet another violation of people's rights to a clean environment and a decent livelihood so as to protect the financial interests of TEPCO," Ramana told Truthout.

Tanaka argued that dumping the radioactive water is safe because that level of tritium is unable to penetrate plastic wrapping. However, Ramana said that justification misses the point.

"NRA Chairman Tanaka is correct when he says that tritium is 'so weak in its radioactivity it won't penetrate plastic wrapping,' but that is irrelevant if the material is ingested," Ramana said. "Because the tritium that is released will be in the form of tritiated water, it can be easily absorbed by the body as it is chemically identical to water."

According to Ramana, a special concern with tritiated water is that, when ingested by pregnant women, it can pass through the placenta and affect the fetus.

"During this stage, the developing organism (the embryo and the fetus) is highly radiosensitive," he added.

And this is only one of the many ways in which tritium is dangerous for humans, at even the lowest levels.

Fukushima Is an "Ongoing Disaster"

Dr. Bruno Chareyron, an expert in radiation effects, won The Nuclear-Free Future Award in 2016. He is the director of the CRIIRAD lab (Commission de Recherche et d’Information Indépendentes sur la RADioactivité), founded in 1986, which not only monitors the environment for radiation contamination, but trains people to investigate radioactivity as well.

Chareyron was blunt with Truthout about what is happening at Fukushima.

"It is important to understand that the Fukushima disaster is actually an ongoing disaster," he said. "The radioactive particles deposited on the ground in March 2011 are still there, and in Japan, millions of people are living on territories that received significant contamination."

According to Chareyron, even territories located more than 200 kilometers away from the damaged nuclear reactors received significant fallout depending on wind direction, rainfall and/or snow.

And it's not just Fukushima prefecture that is affected by radioactive contamination.

"The Japanese authorities have launched a huge program of decontamination on a territory of about 2,400 square kilometers," Chareyron explained. "It is estimated that every day about 15,000 people are involved in this program. The ground and most contaminated tree leaves are removed only in the immediate vicinity of the houses, but a comprehensive decontamination is impossible."

Cesium 137 is a radioactive isotope that is one of the more common byproducts from the formation of Uranium-235 in nuclear reactors.

"Six years later, the radioactive Cesium 137 has decreased by only 14 percent," Chareyron said.

Chareyron said the powerful gamma rays emitted by Cesium 137 could travel dozens of meters in the air. Therefore, the contaminated soil and trees located around the houses, which have not been removed, are still irradiating the inhabitants.

To underscore these points, his lab produced a video that shows the power of gamma radiation emitted from outside a building in Fukushima city in May 2011. That video can be viewed here, as can another clip showing the contamination inside Fukushima city in June 2012.

"In the contaminated territories, people are also exposed to an internal contamination through the ingestion of food and inhalation of radioactive dust suspended by the wind," Chareyron said. "For example the forest fire that lasted several days in April and May 2017 in the contaminated forest of Mont Jûman has dispersed radioactive dust all around."

He also reminded us not to forget the workers in the nuclear plant who were exposed to radiation. This occurred even while managing the radioactive waste that continues to be generated by the disaster, as well as the management of the Fukushima Daiichi damaged reactors.

Chareyron said that, according to TEPCO, in May 2017, 8,862 workers were monitored for radiation exposure at the nuclear plant (of which 7,899 are contractors).

The most elevated individual external dose was 7.36 milliSievert in one month.

By comparison, the annual dose limit for a member of the public is 1 milliSievert per year.

"A Carcinogen, a Teratogen and a Mutagen All Rolled Into One"

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in living cells.

"Once toxic tritium makes it into the environment, it will bind anywhere hydrogen binds," Savabieasfahani said. "Imagine a toxic particle that can freely travel through our cells and bind to every molecule of life in our bodies and cause damage. Tritium is a carcinogen, a teratogen and a mutagen all rolled into one."

According to Savabieasfahani, there is no safe threshold level for tritium, as it can harm living organisms no matter how low its concentrations.

"Tritium can cause tumors, cancer, genetic defects, developmental abnormalities and adverse reproductive effects," she explained. "Tritiated water is associated with significantly decreased weight of brain and genital tract organs in mice and can cause irreversible loss of female germ cells -- eggs -- in both mice and monkeys even at low concentrations. This we know."

Even at very low concentrations, tritium causes cell death, mutations and chromosome breaks. Per dose, it is twice as damaging to our genetic makeup as x-rays and gamma rays 

"Once tritium travels up the food chain it becomes even more dangerous to life," Savabieasfahani said. "When incorporated into animal or plant tissue and digested by humans, tritium can stay in the body for 10 years or more. Internally exposed individuals can expect to be chronically exposed to the toxic impacts of this carcinogen for years to come."

And for infants and growing children, tritium exposure is even more dangerous.

Savabieasfahani explained that qualitative, quantitative, physiological and epidemiological evidence show that the internal uptake of tritium is 10 times more likely to cause cancer and neurological deficit in infants and children than in adults.

"Infants' and children's higher vulnerability to tritium is attributed to their increased gut absorption and their smaller body mass, as well as their heightened sensitivity to radioactive exposures," she added. "We have already observed that childhood cancers and leukemia are 22 percent higher near nuclear reactors, and where tritium has leaked into the environment."

Citing numerous studies -- including research from the University of Florida and the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry -- Savabieasfahani stated emphatically that it is not enough to store that knowledge in "dusty library stacks."

"That knowledge must be taken down from the shelf and broadcast now, before 777,000 tons of radioactive water hit us in the face," she said.

Surfing in Tritium?

Truthout recently reported on how the Japanese government, by allowing TEPCO to dump tritium and then encouraging people who fled the Fukushima contamination zone to return to their homes, is essentially planning to expose both its own people and 2020 Tokyo Olympians to Fukushima radiation.

Furthermore, the International Olympic Commission is also working to paint conditions as "normal" -- it even has plans for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to hold baseball and softball games at Fukushima.

Why are so many powerful entities engaging in this bizarre and harmful attempt at normalization?

Chareyron believes that a nuclear disaster like the one affecting the TEPCO nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site simply cannot be "handled properly," because highly radioactive material that should usually be kept confined inside the core of nuclear reactors has been dispersed in the environment.

"Therefore, the Japanese government authorities and TEPCO both try to influence the general public and the workers so that a situation of exposure to radiation that would usually be considered as unacceptable becomes progressively 'accepted,'" he said. "For example, the annual dose limit of 1 milliSievert for the public has been changed into 20 milliSievert, the annual dose limit for the workers has been increased to 100 milliSievert for those exposed to 'especially high radiation,' contaminated water is still leaking into the sea, and the authorities are planning to re-use contaminated material for road construction in order to lower the cost of radioactive solid waste management."

Chareyron also said that corium, a highly radioactive material, accumulated at the bottom of reactors one and three and is still to this day has not been precisely located, and nobody yet knows when it will even be possible to dismantle the reactors.

Chareyron believes both the Japanese government and TEPCO face enormous difficulties, because of the fact that it is impossible to properly decontaminate the affected territories. Furthermore, Fukushima prefecture residents are more or less "forced" to come back to their houses while the radiation is still high, since the government announced it will cut housing subsidies that were being provided to any of them not under mandatory evacuation orders.

He also shed light on how this massive dumping of radioactive tritium water is not likely to be the last time this occurs. Chareyron said that TEPCO still must pump out on a daily basis massive amounts of heavily contaminated water that isused to cool the reactor cores, and this water is also already contaminating the water table with radiation. He also expressed concerns around the lack of monitoring of how the general population in the region is being affected by the contaminated water.

Chareyron emphasizes that both the Japanese government and TEPCO have been fundamentally dishonest with the public.

"Since the beginning of the crisis, the Japanese authorities and TEPCO have been lying to the people about the adverse impact of radiation on health and the extension of the disaster," he said.

Savabieasfahani noted that TEPCO has been rewarded with trillions of yen in government subsidies since the 2011 nuclear disaster began. That disaster was preceded by TEPCO's false reporting of technical data to authorities on hundreds of occasions, and by the 2008 shutdown of one of its nuclear power plants following an earthquake.

Instead of doling out future subsidies, Savabieasfahani said, the government should be holding the company accountable.

"A far better outcome would be to force TEPCO's shareholders, starting with the largest, to pay for cleaning up the damage their company has caused," she said. "Let it be a warning to everyone trying to make similar profits, worldwide, from similar nuclear power ventures. The insane alternative of dumping all that radiation into the seas, and letting TEPCO shareholders keep the trillions of yen they have made from poisoning and lying to the public, is simply unspeakable."

Savabieasfahani wonders why so many academics and universities are silent on these matters.

"From Los Angeles to Tokyo, the universities are loaded with environmental scientists, public health researchers, epidemiologists, medical school professors, and soon they will be drinking tritium along with everyone else," she said.

On July 27, the journal Science of the Total Environment published a peer-reviewed article about radioactively hot particles being detected in soil and dust across northern Japan.

The article details the analysis of radioactively hot particles collected in Japan following the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns.                           

Based on 415 samples of radioactive dust from Japan, the USA and Canada, the study identified a statistically meaningful number of samples that were considerably more radioactive than current radiation models anticipated. If ingested, these more radioactive particles increase the risk of suffering a future health problem. 

However, despite substantial scientific research that demonstrates the ongoing radioactive danger created by the Fukushima disaster, Savabieasfahani notes that -- much like the government and the industry -- most academics have chosen not to speak out about the contamination.

"Don't these academics have anything to teach us, before their fish, seaweed, plants, crops and children are poisoned with 770,000 tons of radioactive water?" Savabieasfahani asked. "The silence of the entire academic world, as these proposals to dump tritium in our laps are being favorably discussed in the media, teaches a very different lesson: to just drink it up (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-070814193155.png) and let the shareholders make another buck."  (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/acigar.gif)(http://www.smilies.4-user.de/include/Spiele/smilie_game_017.gif)  (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/2z6in9g.gif)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41564-fukushima-plant-is-releasing-tons-of-radioactive-water-into-the-pacific-ocean
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on November 29, 2017, 01:43:35 pm
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US Nuclear Waste Dump Threatened By Rising Sea Levels, Putting Entire Pacific At Risk  (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)

November 29th, 2017 by Steve Hanley

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The problem is, the floor of the crater was supposed to be lined with concrete before the toxic waste was dumped in. But the US government decided doing so would be too expensive, so the work was never done. (http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-120716190938.png) “The bottom of the dome is just what was left behind by the nuclear weapons explosion,” says Michael Gerrard, the chair of Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York. “It’s permeable soil. There was no effort to line it. And therefore, the seawater is inside the dome.” That toxic seawater is then finding its way back into the ocean.

“That dome is the connection between the nuclear age and the climate change age,” says Marshall Islands climate change activist Alson Kelen. “It’ll be a very devastating event if it really leaks. We’re not just talking the Marshall Islands, we’re talking the whole Pacific.”

Must read article:

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/11/29/us-nuclear-waste-dump-threatened-rising-sea-levels-putting-entire-pacific-risk/
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on June 01, 2018, 08:59:10 pm
Anointed

by Dan Lin & Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

https://youtu.be/_isgBtJfPzU

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Pacific 🌴 Storytellers Cooperative

Published on Apr 15, 2018

Acclaimed poet and activist, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, explores the nuclear testing legacy of the Marshall Islands through the legends and stories of Runit Island.

This six-minute film is beautiful, powerful, and haunting.
Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on July 11, 2018, 03:00:18 pm
Agelbert Note: It was the radiation that killed most of the life on that island, not the small tsunami. The island is STILL toxic to life to this day, and will be for CENTURIES. 😡

1946 The First man-made 💥 massive tsunami ever recorded in History

1,513,310 views

https://youtu.be/xX8FTGGXjyk

atomic tests channel  (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif)

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Published on Mar 3, 2017

this is total record about the first man-made massive tsunami cause by an underwater atomic exploding ,rare footage shows the tsunami and it's effect  in 1946
 
this compare with 2011 Japan's earthquake ,the energy of atomic bomb like baby!!

music conposer: Yen Chih Zass

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6u...
i will review all comment !! and subscribe this channel for more good video

Title: Re: Nuclear Poisoning of the Pacific
Post by: AGelbert on February 02, 2019, 06:44:56 pm
Agelbert NOTE: Though NOT a peep about radionuclide poisoning is mentioned in the following video, it is no coincidence that these massive starfish deaths began at exactly the time the ocean radiation plume from the 2011 Tsunami caused Fukushima Nuclear power Plant meltdown leak (that CONTINUES TO THIS DAY) arrived on the west coast of the USA. 

SEE the plume prediction below and then watch the video. If you think that starfish are the only species threatened with extinction by the radionuclides, you are into wishful thinking about how the ocean trophic pyramid works.  >:(

Radionuclides DESTROY immune systems. THEN ANY WEAK VIRUS or BACTERIA can easily wipe out the affected species. This is going to get a LOT WORSE. (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818180835-16271224.gif) 

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https://youtu.be/zJpR3TnTZ_w

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/2/1831705/-Science-Round-up-Sunset-for-the-sunflower-star-science-students-under-stress-and-scary-sonar
Title: US backed resettlement so researchers could study effects of lingering radiation on humans
Post by: AGelbert on November 17, 2019, 10:21:49 pm
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What is clear, and which has never been reported before, is that 130 tons of soil transported 5,300 miles from an atomic test site in Nevada was dumped into a 30-foot-wide, 8-foot-deep “conical plug” where the next bomb, Fig, was detonated.

https://youtu.be/cS6FhVa_PvI

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Nuclear Coffin Leaking (https://www.globalresearch.ca/radioactive-nuclear-coffin-leaking-pacific/5677813)

NOV. 10, 2019 | REPORTING FROM MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS

By SUSANNE RUST

Photography and videography by CAROLYN COLE. Graphics and design by LORENA IÑIGUEZ ELEBEE and SEAN GREENE

SNIPPETS:

Now the concrete coffin, which locals call “the Tomb,” is at risk of collapsing from rising seas and other effects of climate change. Tides are creeping up its sides, advancing higher every year as distant glaciers melt and ocean waters rise.

Officials in the Marshall Islands have lobbied the U.S. government for help, but American officials have declined, saying the dome is on Marshallese land and therefore the responsibility of the Marshallese government.

“I’m like, how can it [the dome] be ours?” Hilda Heine, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, said in an interview in her presidential office in September. “We don’t want it. We didn’t build it. The garbage inside is not ours. It’s theirs.”


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Nerje Joseph, 72, was 7 years old when the United States detonated its largest nuclear bomb. The Castle Bravo test sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and unexpectedly irradiated parts of the northern Marshall Islands that she and her family called home.

Nerje Joseph, 72, was a witness to the largest thermonuclear bomb tested by the United States: the Castle Bravo detonation. She was 7 years old at the time, living with her family in Rongelap Atoll, 100 miles east of Bikini Atoll — a tropical lagoon commandeered for nuclear testing.

On March 1, 1954, Joseph recalls waking up and seeing two suns rising over Rongelap. First there was the usual sun, topping the horizon in the east and bringing light and warmth to the tropical lagoon near her home. Then there was another sun, rising from the western sky.

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Project Castle Bravo, a Human-Made Armageddon (https://paulwandrews.wordpress.com/2019/05/23/castle-bravo-a-human-made-armageddon/)

It lighted up the horizon, shining orange at first, then turning pink, then disappearing as if it had never been there at all.

Joseph and the 63 others on Rongelap had no idea what they had just witnessed. Hours later, the fallout from Castle Bravo rained down like snow on their homes, contaminating their skin, water and food.

According to Joseph and government documents, U.S. authorities came to evacuate the Rongelapese two days later. By that time, some islanders were beginning to suffer from acute radiation poisoning — their hair fell out in clumps, their skin was burned, and they were vomiting.

Nerje Joseph, 72, was 7 years old when the United States detonated its largest nuclear bomb. The Castle Bravo test sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and unexpectedly irradiated parts of the northern Marshall Islands that she and her family called home.

The Castle Bravo test and others in the Marshall Islands helped the U.S. establish the credibility of its nuclear arsenal as it raced against its Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union, to develop new atomic weapons. But the testing came at a horrible price; Joseph and other Marshallese ended up becoming human guinea pigs for U.S. radiation research.

Three years after Castle Bravo, U.S. authorities encouraged Joseph, her family and her neighbors to return to Rongelap.

U.S. government documents from the time show that officials weighed the potential hazards of radiation exposure against “the current low morale of the natives” and a “risk of an onset of indolence.” Ultimately they decided to go forward with the resettlement so researchers could study the effects of lingering radiation on human beings.

“Data of this type has never been available,” Merrill Eisenbud, a U.S official with the Atomic Energy Commission, said at a January 1956 meeting of the agency’s Biology and Medicine Committee. “While it is true that these people do not live the way that Westerners do, civilized people, it is nonetheless also true that they are more like us than the mice.”

The resettlement proved catastrophic for the people of Rongelap. Cancer cases, miscarriages and deformities multiplied. Ten years later, in 1967, 17 of the 19 children who were younger than 10 and on the island the day Bravo exploded had developed thyroid disorders and growths. One child died of leukemia.

In 1985, the people of Rongelap asked Greenpeace to evacuate them again after the United States refused to relocate them or to acknowledge their exposure, according to government documents and news reports from the time.

Joseph, who had her thyroid removed because of her radiation exposure, has spent nearly seven decades taking daily thyroid medication, enabling her body to produce hormones it otherwise would not generate.

A quiet, dignified woman with thick, wavy gray hair, Joseph lives in a cinder-block home in Majuro, the capital, a setting far different from the pristine atoll where she grew up.

Full article:

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster (https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/)
Title: Radiation levels inside Fukushima high enough to kill robot sent to clean
Post by: Surly1 on December 10, 2019, 08:39:14 am
Let's not forget the Olympics are in Tokyo. What could possibly go wrong?

Radiation levels inside Fukushima high enough to kill robot sent to clean (https://dunrenard.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/radiation-levels-inside-fukushima-high-enough-to-kill-robot-sent-to-clean/?fbclid=IwAR0-dRUbM8or3uoYzSnu7l4dwleAX1xJG7g8a6Wfc81bmUDKpE9N-idhhm8)

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December 6, 2019

A remote-controlled cleaning robot sent into a damaged reactor at Japan‘s Fukushima nuclear plant had to be removed Thursday before it completed its work because of camera problems most likely caused by high radiation levels.

It was the first time a robot has entered the chamber inside the Unit 2 reactor since a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami critically damaged the Fukushima Da-ichi nuclear plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said it was trying to inspect and clean a passage before another robot does a fuller examination to assess damage to the structure and its fuel. The second robot, known as the “scorpion,” will also measure radiation and temperatures.

Thursday‘s problem underscores the challenges in decommissioning the wrecked nuclear plant. Inadequate cleaning, high radiation and structural damage could limit subsequent probes, and may require more radiation-resistant cameras and other equipment, TEPCO spokesman Takahiro Kimoto said.

“We will further study (Thursday‘s) outcome before deciding on the deployment of the scorpion,” he said.

TEPCO needs to know the melted fuel‘s exact location and condition and other structural damage in each of the three wrecked reactors to figure out the best and safest ways to remove the fuel. It is part of the decommissioning work, which is expected to take decades.

The remote-controlled “cleaning” robot, bottom, was sent in to inspect and clean a passage for another robot in the damaged nuclear facility. (TEPCO/Associated Press)

During Thursday‘s cleaning mission, the robot went only part way into a space under the core that TEPCO wants to inspect closely. It crawled down the passage while peeling debris with a scraper and using water spray to blow some debris away. The dark brown deposits grew thicker and harder to remove as the robot went further.

More obstacles for second mission

After about two hours, the two cameras on the robot suddenly developed a lot of noise and their images quickly darkened — a sign of a problem caused by high radiation. Operators of the robot pulled it out of the chamber before completely losing control of it.

The outcome means the second robot will encounter more obstacles and have less time than expected for examination on its mission, currently planned for later this month, though Thursday‘s results may cause a delay.

Both of the robots are designed to withstand up to 1,000 Sieverts of radiation. The cleaner‘s two-hour endurance roughly matches an estimated radiation of 650 Sieverts per hour based on noise analysis of the images transmitted by the robot-mounted cameras. That‘s less than one-tenth of the radiation levels inside a running reactor, but still would kill a person almost instantly.

Kimoto said the noise-based radiation analysis of the Unit 2‘s condition showed a spike in radioactivity along a connecting bridge used to slide control rods in and out, a sign of a nearby source of high radioactivity, while levels were much lower in areas underneath the core, the opposite of what would normally be the case. He said the results are puzzling and require further analysis.

TEPCO officials said that despite the dangerously high figures, radiation is not leaking outside of the reactor.

Images recently captured from inside the chamber showed damage and structures coated with molten material, possibly mixed with melted nuclear fuel, and part of a disc platform hanging below the core that had been melted through.

https://livingstonledger.com/radiation-levels-inside-fukushima-high-enough-to-kill-robot-sent-to-clean/

Title: Re: Let's not forget the Olympics are in Tokyo. What could possibly go wrong?
Post by: AGelbert on December 10, 2019, 02:06:04 pm
Quote from: Surly1 on December 10, 2019, 08:39:14 am
Let's not forget the Olympics are in Tokyo. What could possibly go wrong?

Radiation (http://www.emofaces.com/en/emoticons/n/nuclear-emoticon.gif) levels inside Fukushima high enough to kill robot sent to clean (http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/nuke-puke/nuclear-poisoning-of-the-pacific/msg14778/#msg14778)

Agressive Cancer ☠️ among olympic athletes will, after the Tokyo Olympics, be the new growth (gallows humor pun intended) industry. Oh, the irony of the Russian athletes avoiding cancer misery and doom by being barred from the olympics due to performance (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-300919160022-2281531.png) doping.

Maybe the Russians, who know ALL the truth about how a significant swath of their population was horribly mutated (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-231113002820.png), and CONTINUES to be poisoned by Chernobyl meltdown radionuclides, know the radiation score truth in Tokyo (https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1sLBdIXXXXXX1XXXXq6xXFXXXp/Free-Shipping-3-PiecesToxic-Nuclear-Toilet-Paper-Novelty-Printed-Zone-Radioactive-Napkin-Paper-Home-Toilet-Tissue.jpg_640x640.jpg) and found a good way to be "forced" to not got. Experience is the best teacher and all that...