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My slow and agonizing death seems to be related to the wife, kids and job. Radiation from Japan? Not so much.

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oldguy said:
My slow and agonizing death seems to be related to the wife, kids and job. Radiation from Japan? Not so much.

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Wife alone is good for the agony bit ;-)
 
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http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/wor...79c76-bf9a-575f-9529-f08490a88003.html?photo=

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A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency praised Japan on Friday for steps it has taken to reduce radiation exposure for the public, particularly children, near the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

During a nine-day trip, the IAEA team visited schools, farms and government offices outside the 20-mile (12-kilometer) exclusion zone surrounding the power plant, which was damaged by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

In a preliminary report submitted to the government, the 12-member team said Japan had developed "an efficient program for remediation _ allocating the necessary legal, financial and technological resources to bring relief to the people affected by the accident, with priority being given to children."

The report noted efforts to decontaminate schools and some 400 playgrounds _ mostly by volunteers, many of them parents of students. Towns around the exclusion zone have begun washing down public areas and removing topsoil in parks and school yards.

It was the U.N. atomic agency's second major mission to Japan since the nuclear crisis began. Its purpose was to assess Japan's strategy and plans to reduce radiation exposure in areas around Fukushima prefecture.

No one has died from radiation in the nuclear crisis, but concerns remain high over how the lingering contamination will affect Fukushima's youth. On Sunday, local doctors began a long-term survey of children in the region for thyroid abnormalities, a problem linked with radiation exposure.

In Ukraine, more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer have been detected in people who were children or adolescents when they were exposed to high levels of fallout immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Japan's nuclear safety agency has said the radiation that leaked from the Fukushima plant was about one-sixth of that released from Chernobyl.

Tero Tapio Varjoranta, deputy chief of the IAEA team, told a news conference in Tokyo that many of the Chernobyl cancer cases came from drinking milk that contained radioactive cesium, but that Japan's food controls in this area were in "very good order."

The IAEA has "done a lot of work to learn the lessons from Chernobyl," he said.

The report also urged Japanese authorities to help the public focus on dose levels _ the amount of radiation an individual is exposed to _ rather than the contamination of certain areas or objects that could be far from the closest humans.

"Contamination means radioactivity somewhere. Dosage is how it affects me," Varjoranta explained.

The team found Japan's radiation monitoring system was "very good, very extensive," said leader Juan Carlos Lentijo, adding that it would detect any dangerous spike in radiation.

The Fukushima accident forced about 100,000 people living around the plant to be evacuated, and many now live in temporary homes or shelters, uncertain of when they will be able to return to their homes. Some Japanese officials say it could be years.
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Though another worker died, bringing the total to three. However, it wasn't slow, and only he can say if it was agonizing:
Following the accident, set off by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, TEPCO was criticized for insufficient attention to worker conditions, subjecting dozens of workers to dangerous levels of radiation. In March, six workers were exposed to over 250 millisieverts of radiation -- the ceiling set for emergency workers at the plant -- including two who sustained suspected radiation burns to their legs after wading through contaminated water without wearing boots.

Safety records improved significantly in recent months -- In July, only six workers received doses of between 20 and 50 millisieverts, compared with 1,264 who were exposed to at least 20 millisieverts in March.

The two other deaths among Fukushima workers came in May, when a man died of a heart attack, and in August, when a man died of an acute form of leukemia after working for just seven days at the plant.

In both cases, TEPCO said the death was unrelated to the man's work at the plant.

The worker who died this week had worked there since Aug. 8, helping to install a tank used to treat contaminated water. He spent a total of 46 days at the plant, logging an average three hours a day. His accumulated dose of radiation exposure was two millisieverts, well below the 250-millisievert ceiling.

A Sept. 9 whole-body scan of the man had shown no excessive exposure, the spokesman said. TEPCO was still waiting for a test result to see if the worker had experienced more internal exposure since.
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The Japanese government says the problem hasn't spread to the big city of Tokyo, so it must be true.

TOKYO — Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Like Japan’s central government, local officials said there was nothing to fear in the capital, 160 miles from the disaster zone.

Then came the test result: the level of radioactive cesium in a patch of dirt just yards from where his 11-year-old son, Koshiro, played baseball was equal to those in some contaminated areas around Chernobyl.

The patch of ground was one of more than 20 spots in and around the nation’s capital that the citizens’ group, and the respected nuclear research center they worked with, found were contaminated with potentially harmful levels of radioactive cesium...possibly settling in areas where the government has not even considered looking.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/w...t-spots-in-tokyo-point-to-wider-problems.html
 
...who do we believe/trust? :dunno:

Japanese consultant: We don’t trust radiation reports from NHK or other channels and newspapers

When Takashi Takemoto goes shopping for groceries, he looks for two things: freshness, and proof that the produce came from nowhere near Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Like many Japanese, Mr. Takemoto says he can’t trust government assurances that the produce from the region around Fukushima Daiichi is safe. So he boycotts rice and vegetables grown in Fukushima prefecture and the surrounding provinces. He avoids all Japanese meat and seafood, concerned that even livestock from elsewhere in Japan might have been fed contaminated grains. Fish, too, in case they were pulled from waters too close to the crippled nuclear reactors.

READ MORE --> http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/10/japanese-consultant-we-dont-trust.html
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...I wonder why :sigh:

Leaked TEPCO report: 120 billion Becquerels of plutonium, 7.6 trillion Becquerels of neptunium released in first 100 hours — Media concealed risk to public

Yokohama, Oct. 15 — Mochizuki of the Fukushima Diary website is reporting on a June 2011 document that has been “leaked on the internet” which reveals that Plutonium-238, -239, -240, and -241 were released “to the air” from Fukushima Daiichi during the first 100 hours after the earthquake.

The amount of plutonium released is said to be 120 billion Becquerels.

It also states there was a release of 7.6 trillion Becquerels of Neptunium-239.

Mochizuki says this report was made by Tepco for a press conference on June 6 and the media knew and “kept concealing the risk for 7 months and kept people exposed”.

READ MORE --> http://enenews.com/leaked-tepco-rep...media-concealed-risk-to-public/comment-page-1
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..and!

News: Actual fallout was 10 times more than reported

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology admitted that they have made a “mistake” on the report about fall out in Fukushima.

The data is about the amount of fallout and the rain, from 6/6/2011 ~ 8/4/2011.

Having said that it was a simple error, it turned out that it was 10 times more than originally reported.

READ MORE --> http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/10/...mpaign=Feed:+FukushimaDiary+(Fukushima+Diary)
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In case some of you have gotten the idea that anything has been done to stop this disaster from continuing...

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/J...ll_Leaking_Recovery_Still_Years_Away_999.html

Over six months have passed since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. What progress if any has been made to deal with what is surely one the worst industrial accidents in history?

The situation at the Fukushima No.1 power station site is far from being resolved. Although Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has said a "cold shutdown" of some of the reactors may be "within reach". Although a drastic reduction from the trillions of becquerals of radiation that were released during the darkest days of March, retired nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson who has supplied us with a steady source of reliable analyses, roughly estimates that the damaged reactors are still emitting a billion becquerals per day. Recently Professor Hiroaki Koide, a radiation metrology and nuclear safety expert at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute, relayed the frightening assessment that:

"The nuclear disaster is ongoing....Without accurate information about what's happening inside the reactors, there's a need to consider various scenarios. At present, I believe that there is a possibility that massive amounts of radioactive materials will be released into the environment again. At the No. 1 reactor, there's a chance that melted fuel has burned through the...floor of the reactor building, and has sunk into the ground.

From there, radioactive materials may be seeping into the ocean and groundwater....Recovering the melted nuclear fuel is another huge challenge.

I can't even imagine how that could be done....there is a possibility that nuclear fuel has fallen into the ground, in which case it will take 10 or 20 years to recover it. We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before". Could Professor Koide be worried that the corium (melted fuel) may reach the ground water, resulting in the classic China Syndrome?

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North Americans are also worried about unwelcome radiation traveling by wind and ocean currents as a Swiss map based on computer modeling clearly illustrates (23). In a recent video Arnold Gunderson points out that a "tent" is being built over reactor no. 1 "to reduce the amount of radiation on site." However, "[t]he radiation inside that tent is still going to have to go somewhere, or else it is going to build up and become lethal. So what is going to have to happen to that radiation, is it is going to be exhausted up the stack" (24).

This means radiation will be guided upwards into the wind where it may travel near or great distances: out of sight is out of mind. Since the winds generally blow to the west, a steady stream (for how many months or years?) is going to land in the ocean or in North America.
 
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How's that agony? You feelin' it yet?
 
This was fun to see (from one of your headlines):
“Women representatives from all over Japan are camping in Kasumigaseki district in Tokyo to express their objection to the nuclear power plants in Japan in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.”

“Tents belonging to various civil anti-nuclear movements are pitched on the sidewalk corner facing the building of Japanese Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry. The women’s movement started on October 30, and continues through November 5.”


SOURCE: PanOrient News
“The activists held banners saying ‘We Are Anti-Nuclear,’ and ‘Don’t Restart Nuclear Plants.’”

“One of the banners said “Occupy Kasumigasaki,” the district in Tokyo where government buildings are concentrated.”

“The anti nuclear energy movement is gaining more support among Japanese civilian groups” [...]
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MARIS61 said:
Not me personally, but scores (so far) of NW babies have died in the womb just as they did when Chernobyl radiation circled the globe.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork....-and-joseph-mangano-is-the-dramatic-incr.html
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From another progressive site:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/is-fukushima-causing-baby_n_882313.html

However, this analysis is deeply flawed, wrote Michael Moyer in Scientific American. Moyer conducted his own analysis of the CDC statistics.

While true that the four weeks before the incident saw fewer infant deaths than after, the researchers didn't look even further back to see if there was an actual trend, he wrote. But if the researchers had token January and February statistics into account, and not just the four weeks in March before the nuclear incident, they would've found that there actually is no overall increase in baby deaths -- and, if anything, there has been a slight decrease, Moyer said.

"A check [of the data] reveals that the authors’ statistical claims are critically flawed -- if not deliberate mistruths," Moyer wrote in Scientific American. He added, that doesn't mean there aren't any health repercussions from the Fukushima incident.
 
I feel closer to death than when I first read this thread.

Ed O.
 
plenty.

1) That the "occupy" movement now includes Japanese folks
2) That it seems to include disbanding nuclear power
3) That because it's a bunch of women, it's different somehow
4) That by doing it near the government offices, they seem to get a little bit better than our OWS folks.
 
BrianFromWA said:
plenty.

1) That the "occupy" movement now includes Japanese folks
2) That it seems to include disbanding nuclear power
3) That because it's a bunch of women, it's different somehow
4) That by doing it near the government offices, they seem to get a little bit better than our OWS folks.
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So the whole "radiation is killing human fetuses" thing was of no interest to you, a pro-lifer?

You give a whole new meaning to the word "fun".
 
No, I saw that "radiation can't have killed many fetuses, since it went down from the Jan and Feb rates." And I'll happily shut down substandard power plants to reverse Roe v. Wade. But that's not my decision.

And yes, I realize that you generally don't understand my definitions. :cheers:
 
Just wanted to reassure everyone that everything's still fine. A year later, they haven't invented equipment to allow them to see inside 3 of the 4 bad reactors. It will take NASA-like inventions.

Good news--This week they fearfully passed a camera down into the 4th reactor, the easiest one. The endoscope was destroyed by heat and radiation in 14 hours. It found that they were way short in their computer simulation estimate of how much radioactive steam is in there. Anyone who enters the chamber will die, even wearing protection. They say this condition will remain for decades (read: centuries).

But the solution is simple. Just don't walk in there. If the buildings ever leak or fall apart over the generations, just keep your distance. Well, I just wanted to do my bit to reassure the public that there's nothing to worry about, and how much we need a lot of new reactors to be built.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...khL1UQ?docId=dff2ed1434ab430c86596f672dab8414

Bad news at the end of the article. Japan shut down all its reactors, just like Germany. Idiots.
 
Each time I reread my article, it's like watching The Wizard of Oz--I get a new angle on it. Now I notice how far off the estimate was which produced the happy December prognosis that Reactor #2 is "stable," whatever that means.

The estimate, from a computer simulation since direct measurement would kill people, was that 10 meters deep of hot radioactive water lie inside, slowly seeping through floor cracks into the underground water table, circulating into human water sources like wells and streams.

This is good, because the more water, the less explosive radioactive steam, pushing outward and eating away at the roof and walls. Water turns into steam and will take decades to cool.

But the endoscope (this is the only reactor with a slot for it, so the other reactors will have to continue using computer simulations) showed only 6% as much water (60 centimeters depth, not 10 meters). So I just now noticed that the computer sim estimate was 94% off, making all their previous conclusions unreliable. I guess they can retract the simulation's conclusion, that the reactor is "stable."
 
 
You guys are drowning me in a tsunami of reading. Everyone read MY article first. It's really quite surprising. The official opinion/rating has gone downhill since the December optimism about "stability."
 
Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution
(NaturalNews) A Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) request filed by Friends of the Earth (FoE), Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and the Nuclear Information and Resource Center (NIRS) has unearthed a shocking series of new evidence proving a deliberate, global cover-up of the true severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. And the unfortunate reality is that the mainstream media continues to blatantly ignore this colossal scandal.

Private emails, meeting transcripts and other key documents reveal that both the Obama White House and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) were well aware of just how bad things really were with Fukushima from the early days of the disaster, but did nothing to warn the public about it. In fact, NRC and the White House purposely did not warn Americans about a massive radiation plume that struck the West Coast just days after the massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan's eastern coast.

CONTINUED --> http://www.naturalnews.com/035847_plume-gate_Fukushima_radiation.html#ixzz1ulNJBVbQ
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Where's Brian?! I want to hear the official spin :sigh:
 
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