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Instead of Protecting People, Governments Cover Up by Raising "Safe" Radiation Levels
American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.
Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.
Does that mean that we don't have to worry about radiation from Fukushima?
It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a "safe level" of radiation is determined by politics ... rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.
And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced:
If you smile, the radiation will not affect you.
In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.
Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem "safe".
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.
And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE's Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone is immune to low doses of radiation:
In reality, not only is there overwhelming evidence that low doses of radiation can cause cancer, but there is some evidence that low doses can - in certain circumstances cause more damage than higher doses.
As I pointed out in April:
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that one of the best-known scientists of the 20th century – Dr. John Gofman – also believed that chronic low level radiation is more dangerous than acute exposure to high doses. Gofman was a doctor of nuclear and physical chemistry and a medical doctor who worked on the Manhattan Project, co-discovered uranium-232 and -233 and other radioactive isotopes and proved their fissionability, helped discover how to extract plutonium, led the team that discovered and characterized lipoproteins in the causation of heart disease, served as a Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley, served as Associate Director of the Livermore National Laboratory, was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake a series of long range studies on potential dangers that might arise from the “peaceful uses of the atom”, and wrote four scholarly books on radiation health effects.
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The AP did an in-depth story not long ago on how the safety standards at domestic (U.S.) nuke plants are being lowered, drastically in some cases, to ensure that outdated plants get recertified. More horsecrap. I have been looking for 1/2 an hour, but can't find the story.
There is still time for us to build LFTRs nationwide before the Chinese overtake us.
Name one thing, world wide, where money is involved, that is NOT a scam.
Run low to the ground, in a zig-zg pattern. Use available cover, such as parked cars, dumpsters and innocent bystanders, for cover. Stock up on duct tape and plastic sheet. Borrow money to go to Disney World. Use nothing but 2-Ply toilet tissue. Did I forget anything?
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Not really, but do you have some kind of problem with corporate governance? Why do you attempt to bite the benevolent hand that feeds you? Maligning the good people that have unselfishly brought prosperity and riches to so many is just not right. Please reconsider your views. You are way, WAY off the reservation and using charming humour to conceal your anti social views simply will not do.
Naughty, naughty children, looking for a free (energy) lunch.
Thanks again, George. Keep on it. Gives me stuff to spread to my friends.
NFP
Too much emphasis on cancer, not enough on other radiation-related illnesses.
Radiation also causes heart and circulation disorders leading to death, loss of metabolic function, anemia and bone marrow disease, loss of thyroid function, birth defects, vision impairment and hearing loss, chronic fatigue, learning disabilities and retardation in children also dementia in elderly.
A Russian-language study of Chernobyl- area inhabitants and 'liquidators' by Soviet clinicians indicated over 900,000 deaths due to radiation exposure due to Chernobyl event. This included cancer deaths as well as from other radiation-caused illnesses.
It is possible the current epidemic of so-called 'age related dementia' and Alzheimer's disease is the result of atmospheric nuclear testing that took place during the 1950s and 60s. If so, the cost of nuclear testing will rise to the trillions of dollars when the costs for necessary long-term care are added.
Studies of animal populations within the Chernobyl exclusion zones indicate 6% of births exhibit defects/mutations, this is due to chromosome damage, the result of low-dose radiation.
Japanese are currently exhibiting non-cancerous symptoms of high dose exposure to rads such as nausea, diarrhea, hair and tooth loss, bleeding, 'beta burns', also sudden death(s) from heart failure. These were also common after Chernobyl melt-down.
Both Chernobyl and Fukushima are ongoing catastrophes. A collapse of the Chernobyl sarcophagus is inevitable as it was hastily built with a foundation of a broken reactor. The core is disintegrating into dust which contains hundreds of kilograms of Plutonium. A collapse will push this dust into the atmosphere. Meanwhile, Ukraine is too broke to afford to remove the destroyed core or nuclear debris. It is also too poor to repair or reinforce the sarcophagus. A new, euro-funded shelter is being slowly built to cover the existing reactor and sarcophagus but cannot contain radioactive dust. It is unfunded and unfinished.
In Fukushima Dai-ichi there are four derelict reactors. Three cores are not accounted for, the authorities cannot find them, each with thousands of kilos of intensely radioactive fuel. That this fuel is 'hot' and able to support chain reactions is evidenced by steam in reactors plus detection of Iodine-131, gases such as Hydrogen and isotopes of Xenon and Krypton within the containments. A chain reaction within a confined space would be an explosion, as would melted fuel contacting water, as would a buildup of Hydrogen in containment: also, the reactor building(s) could collapse leading to a spent fuel fire. Immense amounts of additional radiation would be released making service of other reactors problematic.
Silly humans have created large problems for ourselves without thinking through consequences. It is likely we will have to learn consequences the hard way, like naughty children.
Since the Japan incident, I've been keeping tabs on RadiationNetwork, a site that, as far as I know, is a a completely private radiation monitoring system composed of volunteers, and well, their numbers have not fluctuated very much. Unless RadiationNetwork has been co-opted by the feds, I don't think there is much to be concerned about.
With what equipment? A dosimeter? THere might other reasons why we don't have shit to test any toxicity in our world.
'My, you're looking radiant this morning."
And we really enjoyed seafood........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzw5YgUESiY
...move along, nothing to see here.
See the radiation readings for the marble halls of the US Capitol.
High enough to cause you to lose your hair and for your testicles to rot.
Well now, that expalins a lot of shit....
Hair plugs, dumb ass comments, maleable principles....
It may be time to get that Radiation Detector again.
If the Government wont monitor, We will.
You need top line equipment that the EPA has. Dispersed alpha and beta particles are difficult to detect when you only have a gamma detector.
The gamma Gieger thingy can't detect many readings when the particles are the majority of the contamination. A little particle shows very gamma, but ingested starts to do its nukey magic on your lung tissue and colon, etc. THe perfect silent killer.
the guv knows what's best for us
"Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials"
Hillary has a history of ignoring and condoning older men who put young women at physical and emotional risk
Unfortunately, interest in the ongoing disaster that is Fukushima is nearly non-existent except of course among those who are really awake. I figured this would happen when the MSM ignored the EPA changing (raising) the acceptable levels of radiation exposure (PAG, Protective Action Guides) shortly after the accident. This sad story is far from over and those of us with decent detectors could be in high demand in the near future.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2162
Keep up the good work George!
I was just chewed out by a relative with a 30 year old son living in Tokoyo. He basically asked if I was embarrassed that I had suggested they bring he and his wife back to the states to avoid the radiation. "See," he added, "nothing has happened and no one has been hurt."
Everyone has their own coping mechanism. I had a neighbor who grew up in Tokyo break down crying because she does not believe Japan or the US are telling the truth and is in fear for her friends and family.
Unless there really isn't a problem, that is. You know, not everyone at EPA is a corrupted fuckstick statist nitwit.
They already have the bell curve to anticpate who can handle this burst of goodies. Every opp for pop reduc.
My luck is that I will suffer through it. Still, tuffer than boiled owl shit.
Pretty much. They have already found high concentrations of radiation in Portland, OR, San Diego, and Seattle. Its already over here. Certainly not in as high a doses as it is in Japan, but several hundred times higher than normal.
Prepare for the rate of thyroid cancer on the West Coast to skyrocket over the next few decades.
Come on, we all know that only South American Dictators get that.