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Leader Of Fukushima Explosion Response Team Dies From Cancer
With a ridiculous monetarist experiment that is doomed to fail, currently raging in Japan, where girl bands plaud the masculinity of deranged FX and stock traders, it is easy to forget that some two years ago the country suffered the worst nuclear disaster in history. And what is worse, the delayed consequences, all of them tragic, will stay with Japan for the years and decades to come. We got a very sad reminder of the true Japanese tragedy (because deflation is only "horrible" if you live outside your means) earlier when we read that Masao Yoshida, the plant manager who led the fight to bring Japan’s Fukushima atomic station under control during the 2011 nuclear disaster, has died from esophageal cancer. He was 58. He died on July 9 at a hospital in Tokyo, according to a statement from Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.
In keeping with the Japanese government's tradition of lying about virtually everything "for the greater good" until after the bitter end, Tepco also reported that "the illness was unrelated to the radiation exposure after the nuclear accident." Propaganda to get grandma and grandpa invested in NFLX is one thing, but propaganda when people's lives is at stake is simply inexcusable. And yet it continues in Japan, and elsewhere in the developed world, to this very day.
Bloomberg covers Yoshida's story:
Yoshida, an engineer by training, directed workers to stop the reactors from overheating after Japan’s strongest earthquake on record and an ensuing tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He stayed at the plant, helming the disaster response for almost nine months.
“I can not imagine how hard it was for him,” Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice-chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, said in an interview. “He had to make a decision that most of the on-site workers should leave because the situation was getting worse and he also had to have some of his staff remain to work with him. That was probably the hardest decision he ever had to make.”
Yoshida stepped down from his post on Dec. 1, 2011 after having been hospitalized a few days earlier for an unspecified illness. Officials from Tepco disclosed Yoshida’s cancer eight days later.
So 9 months from unprecedented irradiation to cancer hospitalization. Sadly, that sounds about right.
One wonders how many other unreported cancer cases there are behind the media blackout surrounding the health aftereffects in the aftermath of Fukushima. One will find out in due course.
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The capt is supposed to go down with the ship.
They said the cancer was unrelated to the disaster.
But so as to not strain credulity, they didn't say that he was being treated for cancer at the damaged plant as part of yomommacare.
Allstate well that ends.
Officials from Tepco disclosed Yoshida’s cancer eight days later.
Cancers don't develop so fast. This one is not related to Fukushima for sure.
Risk factors for esophageal cancer:
Other risk factors include
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/esophageal-cancer/DS00500/DSECTION=risk-factors
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/06/02/national/u-n-experts-see-no-...
Time to move those experts and their families next to the the site for a four year posting as the cancer risk is minimal. I think that would be fair. That way they could get a closer look at the situation.
It's the only fair way to determine an assessment.
Cancer after Fukushima? This is just a coincidence, I'm sure.
I agree. It's obviously statistical clustering. Total coincidence. :p
"Undergoing radiation treatment to the chest or upper abdomen"
I bet he "underwent treatment" on a daily basis.....
Environmental pollution with radioiodine (iodine-131,) occurred after an accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant (FNP) on March 11, 2011, in Japan. Iodine-131 is probably not the most hazardous fallout isotope and excessive amounts of radiation from this isotope can lead to metabolic disturbances and an increased incidence of thyroid cancer. Radioiodine is an isotope that emits beta and gamma rays and is enriched about 100 times in the thyroid gland through selective accumulation.
Thyroid cancer latency periods from the Chernobyl accident in 1986 varied greatly depending on the dosage amount and age of patients. Children had a longer latency, from 2-12 years, while older adults experienced a much shorter latency on average.
I'll take "Undergoing radiation treatment to the chest or upper abdomen (courtesy of TEPCO)" FTW, please.
You left out sucking cock.
Careful man hater.
I heard he got it from eating bad pussy like Michael Douglas.
"Cancers don't develop so fast. This one is not related to Fukushima for sure."
Because we have so many studies of humans exposed to high doses of radiation from Fukishima? Okay, doctor reason. And certainly the exposure to radiation could not have accelerated the risk factors. Because you are the authority on the subject.
Because we have so many studies of humans exposed to high doses of radiation from Fukishima?
Yes, there are "many studies of humans exposed to high doses of radiation" after radiation therapy for cancer and Chernobyl.
It takes years for any cancer to develop clinical signs and symptoms, not days.
Most likely this guy already knew he was going to die from esophageal cancer within a few years anyway and volunteered (company promised to take care of his family) to be on Fukushima frontline.
I think you're misreading the article. The way I read it, he was diagnosed with the cancer 9 months post-exposure, and it was disclosed 8 days after he was diagnosed. Can you enlighten me?
Mr. Yoshida took a leave from Tokyo Electric in late 2011 after receiving a diagnosis of esophageal cancer. Experts have said his illness was not a result of radiation exposure from the accident, given how quickly it came on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/asia/masao-yoshida-nuclear-engineer-and-chief-at-fukushima-plant-dies-at-58.html?_r=0
So you totally misread (deliberately?) the article to say he got cancer in 8 days instead of 9 months, but your conclusion is right because "experts say...." Seriously?
He was hospitalized in December 2011 secondary to esophageal cancer. He dies within less than two years after. It means the cancer was already in an advanced stage in December (with lymph node or solid organ metastases). The 5-year survival rate from early stages are pretty good, ~80%. He didn't even make more than two years.
Cancers do not just progress from zero to an advanced stage either within 9 days or 9 months, it takes years.
The reason I quoted the experts was because some ignorant readers of ZH were attacking me for my educated opinion (vs. their ignorant fantasy BS).
Your "research" says nothing about the progression rate after exposure to high doses of Fukishima radiation. High doses of radiation by definition will cause a much accelerated mutation rate versus baseline, which is why it is bad for you in the first place. Perhaps it was totally coincidental but to suggest that it cannot be related has no scientific basis because there are no scientific studies that relate to his case.
High doses of radiation by definition will cause a much accelerated mutation rate versus baseline, which is why it is bad for you in the first place.
This is just absolute 100% nonsense.
High doses of radiation cause thermal injury (burns). Please read any study done post Chernobyl that had all levels of radiation.
An increase in thyroid cancer rates was noted several years after the disaster, not within nine months. Apart from the large increase in thyroid cancer incidence in young people, there are at present no clearly demonstrated radiation-related increases in cancer risk. However most radiation-related solid cancers (as esophageal cancer) continue to occur decades after exposure and because only ~25 years have passed since the accident, it is too early to evaluate the full impact of the accident.
Wrong. Stop pretending you are an expert. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12370437. The fact is that there is very little scientific knowledge of the precise effects of high doses of radiation, and what little does exist will not necessarily tell you jack about the specific types of radiation to which this guy was exposed.
You're ignorant as fuck. I'm not sure as to why I'm wasting my time on you.
Have you ever heard about radiation therapy for cancer -- cancer treatment that uses beams of high doses of radiation (intense energy) to kill cancer cells?
According to your retarded logic, this type of treatment, instead of killing the cancer cells, should cause "a much accelerated mutation rate"? Right?
Up voting yourself is the NKI
As I understand it, cancer starts as a single cell mutation, and then proceeds to muliply. It takes years for this mutated cell cluster to reach the size where it is detecable by, x-ray MRI, etc.
Typically cancer takes several years to develop. Typically people aren't exposed to high doses of radiation of the Fukishima variety (keep in mind that there are lots of different types of radiation).
Your understanding is absolutely correct.
Cult of Reason has studied the effects of high doses of Fukishima specific radiation exposure and cancer development, so can say so with some authority.
Please read any study done post Chernobyl that had all levels of radiation. An increase in cancer rates was noted several years after the disaster, not within nine months.
Heavy smoking could have something to do with cancer.
I would suspect that if entered any contaminated areas he was surely wearing a bunny suit that was washed down afterward.
Plus a dosimetry badge. I believe even exposure of rescue workers is highly regulated.
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From the Guardian, Online:
Yoshida, 58, took early retirement from the plant's operator, Tepco, in late 2011 after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. He died in a Tokyo hospital on Tuesday, reports said.
Tepco and Yoshida, a heavy smoker, said the cancer was not related to the nuclear accident caused by the March 2011 tsunami that hit Japan.
Add: radioactive koolaid
.... No suprise there, pretty sure nothing will ever be related to that disaster.
"They said the cancer was unrelated to the disaster."
The point is that he stayed on the job. If he already had cancer, then his actions were all the more worthy.
They're not brothers. They're more like cousins. Kissing cousins
Like Captain Francesco Shettino .... the life boat jumper .... and his Costa Nostra Concordia ?
Went down on nuclear tailpipe.... New Normal Hari Kari
Always the captain, never the owners nor the designers
Anyone familiar with Galen Winsor's take on all things nooculer? Worth checking out...
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46819-A-video-they-won-t-want-you-to-see--Galen-Winsor-nuclear-scam-
...money money money. Who do ya trust?
I think most everyone missed the reference there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JVqUuNZxXA
Not the first, and certainly not the last.
But it's OK - Tepco's employees are their most valuable asset.
/s
oh goodie.....they can burn them in their old thermal boilers....since they don't have any nuclear power any more....
I'm sure this had nothing to do with Fukushima and it will be divulged that he smoked 42 packs a day of Lucky Strikes.
For me, smoking and Vietnam were interconnected. Three days after I DEROSed out to the World (the USA) in August 1969, something told me to stop smoking - I spontaneously gave away all my cigarettes and my Zippo and my etui (cigarette case) and never smoked a cigarette again. From two packs+ per day to zero and moved on. All I smoke today is ZH."All I smoke today is ZH"
My wife thinks I smoke too much ZH too. =)
tell her you don't inhale
Good luck--your risk of cancer developing is still high because you smoked, but at least your lung tissue and throat have had years to recover.
Definitely, gave all for the team, truly loyal in typical Japanese fashion.
May he rest in peace...
DaddyO
reminds me of that Clint Eastwood film
In the Rine of Fire?
Another story you won't hear in the MSM: http://intellihub.com/2013/05/29/absolutely-every-one-bluefin-tuna-tested-in-california-waters-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ype-cSMCwUM
One more update to add to this. Fukishima levels rising (tritanium stronium)
Starkist may want to add 'Cesium' as an ingredient on their labels and change their branding to 'Kist Your Ass Goodbye!' for truth in advertising reasons...
"the illness was unrelated to the radiation exposure after the nuclear accident."
Excuse me if I seem a bit doubtful of an official statement from TEPCO.
"I fell down some stairs."
Never forget that it was none other than the criminal syndicate known as Wall Street that termed this epic global tragedy "a generational buying opportunity in Japanese equities."
sometimes you wonder if corporations just assume people are dumb enough to believe everything they say, or they wouldn't make the statement right?
then again you figure given the track record for how dumb the public is, they probably figure most people will believe it . hell we believed there were WMDs in iraq, that we had to bail out the banks, etc, and i'd bet most japanese people don't feel they have to worry about super QE and JGBs
Dunno....when I get to work I'll call HR and ask.
Sleepy: The corporations don't "assume" we're that dumb. They know goddam well we're that dumb.
I used to work for a company that did scenery and special effects for TV commercials. Some of the planning and Creative meetings I sat in were mind-boggling. Suffice it to say, they've done their homework and left nothing to chance. They know exactly how dumb we are.
The Democrat party must have sat in on those creative meetings ?
Do you really think public education in the US is to teach kids? It's to mold them to be obedient.
Banzai!
Will they bury him in a lead lined coffin or just incinerate the body like they do with all the other radioactive waste?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YahuORkIL.jpg
I'm sure that just like Chernobyl , Fukushima will have thousands of unrelated cancer deaths.
It's being poored into seawater. I think will have perhaps millions, in the years to come.
I blame Stolper.
Don't worry, they can cure cancer with radiation ;-)
post of the week award
shit i'm still laughing
Another reason not to eat sushi....
Maybe he was as dumb as those Russians .... flying helicopter at Chernobyl to dump cement on the raging whole .... but they wouldn't tell their neighbor countires they were being poisoned .... bravery doesn't trump evil socialist state secrecy !
most critical decision was to use salt ocean water to cool the reactor.
it meant the reactor would get crippled beyond repair but it prevented fast heat up and blow up (the way it happened in Chernobyl)
The thing is, it never should have gotten down to such desperate last-ditch measures. That's totally fucked up--"let's try pissing on it!"
Japan is world leader .... ahem .... in radiation disaster management .... sometimes you get lucky .... and stumble onto new vocation ?
This just can't be. Are we sure the cancer wasn't caused by eye licking?!
Maybe he died from eating at McDonalds .... sarc .... your tongue is a sophisicated probe .... too noble to use for kissing socialist ass .... but it can tell you McDonalds food is good stuff !
The MSM will never report the truth; especially that all California produce is at risk. Most specifically all leafy vegetables, strawberries and bluberries, even carrots and celery. I, for one, eat only locally (Florida) grown produce; I am fortunate because of where I live; many of you who post here not so much.
Time to revisit the globalist elite meme of depopulation and all of the poisons, vaccines, and GMO products that we are forced to ingest which have elements that have been linked to infertility and cancer.
Human infertility is not on my radar .... as we approach 10 billion earthlings ? We do need a crash program to fix the mix .... need more Jews and Christians and Japanese (Koreans and Taiwanese too) .... fewer Muslims and the other undesireables !
Well, don't count on radiation. It doesn't distinguish between gender, race, religion or whatsoever.
Bad timing since his recently sprouted second head was just beginning to develop a new esophagus.
Timing is everything, but still, good career move.
I'm waiting for the next batch of dead sea lions to float up on west coast beaches...or more hyperthyroid babies out there born with three eyes and a fish tail like Little Mermaid.
Yoshida, an engineer by training, directed workers to stop the reactors from overheating after Japan’s strongest earthquake on record and an ensuing tsunami hit the plant on March 11, 2011, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Fukushima is 50 times worse than Chernobyl by any metric. Typical Bloomberg bullshit mind control being slipped under the radar.
You're right. Chernobyl was used for jingoistic Soviet-bashing while Fukushima is being minimized. Some say that it was what really bankrupted the Soviet Union because they did a bang-up job with over a million Liquidators used for the cleanup, drafted from the military. Very much unlike the Soviets who kept or even tightened their radiation protection standards, Japan is not doing anything to clean up the mess and they've loosened their radiation standards to allow in their children the maximum dose allowed in the West for adult radiation workers.
Cui Bono? Is it because Japanese conglomerates now have majority stakes in both the GE and Westinghouse reactor divisions? Thass right, "American" reactor vendors are really Japanese.
World's worst nuclear accident was the Kyshtym disaster in 1950s Russia. Reprocessing facility. Windscale accident (renamed Sellafield for PR) in the UK has similarites to Fukushima as mostly maritime leakage, while Kyshtym affected a major river.
But you don't hear anything about water pathways because the US NRC decided in late 1970s that they're not important, so there are no consequence models for estimating radiation impacts from liquid releases.
Fallacy: Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Fukushima is becoming as bad as Chernobyl only in the sense of the irrational response to it.
First of all, the latency period for radiogenic cancer is measured in years, not months, with thyroid cancer in juveniles the only type known to develop as quickly as this man's throat cancer.
Secondly, eosophagal cancer is not known to result from radiation exposures. It's most often the result of long-term smoking, which is still very common in Japan.
Instead of jumping to unfounded conclusions, why not ask if he was a smoker, because that would be the most likely cause?
P.S. As readily explained by the fact that organisms have evolved in a radioactive environment, the tissues most sensitive to radiation damage are the internal ones not exposed to ouutside environment.
GI (which includes oesophagus) and lungs are highly resistant to radiation damage because those tissues are constantly exposed to what we ingest and what we breathe.
The type of cancer most clearly associated with radiation exposure is bone sarcoma, which makes sense because our bone surfaces are not exposed to the external environment, plus Sr/Y being so strongly taken up by bone (and plants) for being like calcium. Likewise, when it comes to acute effects such as acute-radiation sickness (ARS), the most sensitive tissue for prompt fatality from radiation exposure is hematopoietic syndome, or bone-marrow death. LD50 for bone marrow is a small fraction of the LD50 for "GI syndrome," which is lower than the LD50 for pulmonary syndrome. Conceptually, our lungs have evolved in a way that they protect themselves better than our GI tract can protect itself, speculating maybe because we tend to have more choice about what we ingest than what we breathe (excepting smokers).
RIP
Sadly, Tyler seems to have lost all objectivity on Fukushima in the same way he posted false info yesterday about 3/4 of all Android phones containing NSA spyware due to him not understanding the term open-source, and him not understanding that Android is simply Linux for phones.
When an issue is strongly polarized, the pros and the antis usually fail to realize that the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Herding is present everywhere. The irony is that the ZH meme seems to be very anti-herding in the way that Krugmanites are disparaged here. If Tyler keeps this up, ZHers will be disparaged as just another mindless herd.
oh, you mean fukushima isnt a complete disaster??? that all is well with tepco? that they have solved the problem of massive leakage/dumping of contaminated water? do tell. this should be good.
You forgot to mention the legendary ZH hype about the global shortage of silver as evidenced by the US Mint running out of proofs. As with anything, a healthy dose of skepticism is key.
In coming years a lot of cancers will develop in California and the pacific northwest due to fallout.
Who didn't see that one comming . . .