I copied the entire article below on DETOX, I didn't write it. But want a ready resource. Reading some nuke and conspiracy sites, the promotion of potassium iodide is "Amazing". Just one quick note. Radioactive Iodine is one of the most dangerous isotopes released in quantity during a nuclear meltdown. It goes to the thyroid and get sucked in there just like normal iodine. You should have Potassium Iodide on hand just in case, HOWEVER, you should not be taking it like a vitamin. It is only good during a big event. Too much Iodine will mess you up. Yet the hucksters who want to sell something seem to ignore this fact. Disturbing, fear mongering for money while doing damage to people.
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How to Detox Your Body of Depleted Uranium Residues, the Effects of Radiation, and Radioactive Contamination
http://www.radiationdetox.com/depleted-uranium-detox.htm
It's
sad but true that there are thousands of scientific references and
medical studies out there on the fact that radiation and radioactivity
can harm you, yet despite millions of dollars spent by the government to
study radiation, virtually nothing is available about a detoxification
diet or nutritional supplements you might use if you are exposed to
radioactive contamination.
Here's some of the information we do
know from the only book in the world on the topic. Keep this information
in the back of your mind as it may one day help save you or someone you
know.
Most people are aware taking potassium iodide (KI) or
potassium iodate (KIO3) tablets will help block your thyroid gland from
absorbing radioactive iodine should there ever be a dirty bomb explosion
or nuclear power plant mishap such as the Three Mile Island incident.
In 1999, another such accident happened in Tokaimura, Japan where
several individuals died from radiation exposure in a fuel processing
facility.
What people don't recognize is that potassium iodide or
iodate tablets only protect the thyroid gland and do not provide
protection from any other radiation exposure, so taking them should not
give you a false sense of security. It's important to detox your body
after radioactive exposure!
One question is, what do you do if KI
or KIO3 tablets aren't available during an emergency? Interestingly
enough, according to research by Ken Miller, health physicist at the
Hershey Medical Center, he found that an adult could get a blocking dose
of stable iodine by painting 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on
the abdomen or forearm approximately 2 hours prior to I-131
contamination. Potassium iodine tablets are best, but if they're not
available this is the next best thing.
An entirely different
problem arises after you've been exposed to radioactive contamination
because now you have to get rid of any radioactive particles you may
have ingested through the air you breathed, water you drank, or food you
ate. Some people suggest Epson salt, Clorox or clay baths to remove any
residues on your skin and to leach out any heavy metals you may have
absorbed, but the big worry is internal contamination. To gain some
insights into what to do, we have to turn to the story of the atomic
bombing of Nagasaki.
At the time of the atomic bombing,
Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D. was Director of the Department of Internal
Medicine at St. Francis's Hospital in Nagasaki and he fed his staff and
patients a strict diet of brown rice, miso and tamari soy soup, wakame,
kombu and other seaweed, Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt. He also
prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets since they suppress the
immune system.
By imposing this diet on his staff and patients,
no one succumbed to radiation poisoning whereas the occupants of
hospitals located much further away from the blast incident suffered
severe radiation fatalities.
Much of this positive result has to
do with the fact that the sea vegetables contain substances that bind
radioactive particles and escort them out of the body. This is why
seaweed sales usually skyrocket after radiation disasters, and why
various seaweeds and algae are typically used to treat radiation
victims.
In Chernobyl, for instance, spirulina was used to help
save many children from radiation poisoning. By taking 5 grams of
spirulina a day for 45 days, the Institute of Radiation Medicine in
Minsk even proved that children on this protocol experienced enhanced
immune systems, T-cell counts and reduced radioactivity. Israeli
scientists have since treated Chernobyl children with doses of natural
beta carotene from Dunaliella algae and proved that it helped normalize
their blood chemistry. Chlorella algae, a known immune system builder
and heavy metal detoxifier, has also shown radioprotective effects.
Because they bind heavy metals, algae should therefore be consumed after
exposure to any type of radioactive contamination.
In 1968 a
group of Canadian researchers at McGill University of Montreal, headed
by Dr. Stanley Skoryna, actually set out to devise a method to
counteract the effects of nuclear fallout. The key finding from their
studies was that sea vegetables contained a polysaccharide substance,
called sodium alginate, which selectively bound radioactive strontium
and eliminated it from the body.
Sodium alginate is found in many
seaweeds, especially kelp, and since that time the Russians have been
seriously researching the use of their own kelps from Vladivlostok, from
which they have isolated the polysaccharide U-Fucoidan, which is
another radioactive detoxifier. Because miso soup was so effective in
helping prevent radiation sickness, the Japanese have also done research
identifying the presence of an active ingredient called zybicolin,
discovered in 1972, which acts as a binding agent to also detoxify and
eliminate radioactive elements (such as strontium) and other pollutants
from the body.
The kelps and algaes aren't the only natural foods
with radio-detoxifying effects. In terms of fluids to drink, black and
green tea have shown "radioprotective effects" whether consumed either
before or after exposure to radiation. This anti-radiation effect was
observed in several Japanese studies, and studies from China also
suggest that the ingredients in tea are radioactive antagonists.
In
short, after any sort of radioactive exposure you want to be eating
seaweeds and algaes along with almost any type of commercial heavy metal
chelating formula to bind radioactive particles and help escort them
out of the body. Whether you're worried about depleted uranium,
plutonium or other isotopes, this is the wise thing to do which can
possibly help, and certainly won't hurt. Many nutritional supplements
have been developed for the purpose of detoxifying heavy metals, most of
which contain the algaes and plant fibers and other binding substances.
Basically, an anti-radiation diet should focus on the following foods:
· Miso soup
· Spirulina, chlorella and the algaes (kelp, etc.)
· Brassica vegetables and high beta carotene vegetables
· Beans and lentils
· Potassium, calcium and mineral rich foods
·
High nucleotide content foods to assist in cellular repair including
spirulina, chlorella, algae, yeast, sardines, liver, anchovies and
mackerel
· Cod liver oil and olive oil
· Avoid sugars and sweets and wheat
· A good multivitamin/multimineral supplement
Yet
another benefit of the sea vegetables rarely discussed is their high
mineral content, which is a bonus in the case of radioactive exposure.
Consuming natural iodine, such as in the seaweeds, helps prevent the
uptake of iodine-131 while iron inhibits the absorption of plutonium-238
and plutonium-239. Vitamin B-12 inhibits cobalt-60 uptake (used in
nuclear medicine), zinc inhibits zinc-65 uptake and sulfur is
preventative for sulfur-35 (a product of nuclear reactors) incorporation
by the body.
Since nuclear workers are potentially exposed to
radioactive sulfur, this means that workers in the atomic power industry
need a higher content of sulfur in their diet. MSM supplements provide a
source of dietary sulfur, but thiol supplements such as cysteine,
lipoic acid and glutathione serve double-duty in this area because they
help detoxify the body and attack all sorts of other health problems as
well.
The immune system is usually hit hard after radiation
exposure, and a number of steps can be taken to help prevent
opportunistic infections after a radioactive incident. Though the full
dimensions of the protective mechanism is still unknown, Siberian
ginseng is one form of ginseng that exerts a definite radioprotective
effect and has been demonstrated to lessen the side effects of
radiation. It was widely distributed by the Soviet Union to those
exposed Chernobyl radiation and is commonly used to help cancer patients
undergoing radiation therapy.
Consuming Reishi mushrooms is
another proven way to bolster your immune system after radiation
exposure and helps reduce the damage from radiation. It's been used to
decrease radiation sickness in animals and help them recover faster
after potentially deadly exposure.
Panax ginseng has prevented
hemorrhaging after radiation exposure, prevents bone marrow death and
stimulates blood cell formation, so it's another supplement to add to
one's protocol. In short, yeasts, beta glucans, bee pollen and various
forms of ginseng have all been shown to bolster the immune system after
radiation incidents. In terms of radiation burns, aloe vera has a proven
ability to treat serious radiation burns and offers other
radioprotective effects, and can easily be grown in your house.
The
amino acid L-Glutamine can be used to help repair the intestine in case
of the gastrointestinal syndrome usually suffered due to radiation
exposure, and a variety of substances can help rebuild blood cells to
prevent hematopoietic syndrome. Those particular foods include beet
juice, liver extract, spleen extract, and shark alkyglycerols. Most
oncologists don't know that shark liver oil, with alkyglycerols, can
help platelet counts rebound in days.
Depleted uranium is
currently in the journalistic spotlight because US weapons are made from
this material, and after being fired leave a legacy of depleted uranium
dust in the environment, which anyone can absorb. Because the kidneys
are usually the first organs to show chemical damage upon uranium
exposure, military manuals suggest doses or infusions of sodium
bicarbonate to help alkalinize the urine if this happens. This makes the
uranyl ion less kidney-toxic and promotes excretion of the nontoxic
uranium carbonate complex.
In areas contaminated by depleted
uranium dusts, it therefore makes sense to switch to drinking slightly
alkaline water and to favor a non-acidic diet to assist in this
detoxification. Any of the heavy metal detoxifiers, such as miso soup,
chlorella, spirulina and seaweeds, are also commonsense warranted.
Another
thing you can do is use homeopathics for radiation exposure. People
commonly argue over whether homeopathics work or not, but if you assume
the position that they produce no results whatsoever then you must also
assume that they certainly won't hurt you, which means the only loss
from using them is a few dollars. Frankly, there are countless cases and
double-blind studies where homeopathic tinctures do provoke physical
healing effects in the body. Therefore they are a viable adjunct
treatment option. One homeopathic, in particular, is URANIUM NITRICUM
(nitrate of uranium) which homeopaths suggest should be used in cases of
depleted uranium exposure or uranium poisoning. Not just soldiers or
civilians exposed to battlefield dusts, but uranium miners and radiation
workers may find it quite useful.
While we've discussed just a
few of the many supplements and protocols you can use to help detox the
body of the lingering results of radioactive contamination, including
the residues of depleted uranium, the last thing that might be of
interest is that there is a plant that is a natural geiger counter. The
spiderwort plant is so sensitive to changes in radiation levels (its
petals change color upon exposure) that it's often used as a natural
radiation detector (dosimeter), just as they use canaries in mines as
detectors of poisonous gas. Some people like knowing that they have an
ongoing monitoring system for radiation in the environment, and this is
just another tip available in "How to Neutralize the Harmful Effects of
Radiation or Radioactive Exposure."
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Radiation Continues Spreading and Spiking Across USA
Oct 10, 2012 reporting from Honolulu
We noted in a prior post that "Something Happened around September 17" and radiation spiked high in a number of US cities, but especially the Pacific Northwest.
These are the areas that were the hardest hit by Fukushima the first time around, as the jet stream usually makes a beeline for them.
I was hoping that would be a week or so spike, and then back to normal, but that is not the case, and the radiation continues to spread east and south. Disturbingly, over half of the Radnet data has gone black, especially in the bigger cities. Your tinfoil hat won't protect you from this radiation fallout, no matter how thick.
This is time to alert your friends and neighbors, anything over 100 Clicks Per Minute (CPM) is time to get concerned, and now there are MANY places up over 100, some at 500. Exposure to 100CPM for a year gives you a significantly increased chance of cancer....and that is just from getting hit externally with the radiation. If you breath it in, it can be 20 times worse. Exposure to 500 CPM for 90 days gives you a significantly increased chance of cancer.
Please review this handy Cheat Sheet on radiation. Nuke Pro blog made this summary sheet in order to send a Geiger to Japan for local testing by Japanese families.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Source data for the charts is here, check it out, see how many have gone black
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
What Happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas! LOL
We noted in a prior post that "Something Happened around September 17" and radiation spiked high in a number of US cities, but especially the Pacific Northwest.
These are the areas that were the hardest hit by Fukushima the first time around, as the jet stream usually makes a beeline for them.
I was hoping that would be a week or so spike, and then back to normal, but that is not the case, and the radiation continues to spread east and south. Disturbingly, over half of the Radnet data has gone black, especially in the bigger cities. Your tinfoil hat won't protect you from this radiation fallout, no matter how thick.
This is time to alert your friends and neighbors, anything over 100 Clicks Per Minute (CPM) is time to get concerned, and now there are MANY places up over 100, some at 500. Exposure to 100CPM for a year gives you a significantly increased chance of cancer....and that is just from getting hit externally with the radiation. If you breath it in, it can be 20 times worse. Exposure to 500 CPM for 90 days gives you a significantly increased chance of cancer.
Please review this handy Cheat Sheet on radiation. Nuke Pro blog made this summary sheet in order to send a Geiger to Japan for local testing by Japanese families.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Source data for the charts is here, check it out, see how many have gone black
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Yamada Japan, Extremely High Radiation
Patty wrote–
High numbers being measured around Fuku area today…
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atom-moc.pref.fukushima.jp%2Fdynamic%2FC0002-PC.html
but Yamada is the Hi-Rad winner for the day!
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.atom-moc.pref.fukushima.jp%2Fdynamic%2FC0001-PC.html
Another guy wrote
Please see here for explanation of above numbers:
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1394413/pg1
18000 nGy/hr sounds like a lot. It's higher than normal, but nowhere near lethal. The main hazard is from contamination rather than direct radiation.
stock wrote
Bullsheesh on that.
At 18.4 microSv per hour
And annual exposure max of 20 MILLI Sievert per YEAR, that is 20,000 micro sievert per year.
simple math guys…no need to start appearing to do some scientific manipulations to get people to turn their brain off.
So how many hours to hit the max annual level? Simple math 20000/18.4 = 1086 hours.
How many days is that? 45 freakin days! OK?
What is the normal "it's time to retire from the nuke industry after 20 years of service", total dose, the answer is 100 MilliSievert.
100 MilliSievert equals 100,000 Micro Sievert, now divide that by 18.4 MicroSv per hour. 5434 Hours. Someone living at 18400 nGy/hr would therefore receive the max lifetime dose that a "paid for hazard pay nuke worker" in 7.5 months!!!!!!
And that is if they had a protective suit and HEPA air filter!@!!!!
The internal radiation becomes at least 20 times worse.
Sorry, godlike productions picked up a real lemon of an article there. Lies of the pro-nukers.
Monday, October 8, 2012
On Fukushima Beach
This is a great video summary of the lies associated with Fukushima
It is an hour long.
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It is an hour long.
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Voyager, Carrington, Meteorites, and Greed
And as our Voyager craft leaves the solar system, back here on the home planet,
we have the government/military nuclear cartel pushing for a “renaissance” in
nuclear power. And while we study solar
physics, a major Coronal Mass Ejection CME from a sun event similar to
Carrington event of 1867 could wipe out our power grids over much of the
planet, taking decades to restore “civilization”. However, we could survive that, but we
cannot survive the hundreds of nuke plants that would melt down with the fry
out of the electricity grid. The
systemic collapse would make if unfeasible to even deliver diesel for the backup generators (which rarely get properly testing anyway).
So we have set ourselves up for extinction, as greed for “cheap power”
puts everything on the chopping block.
Obvious extinction scenarios should be dealt with. Also in April 2012 a 154,000 lb meteorite
snook up on the earth, entered the atmosphere, and hit the earth, the only
warning about 2 days in advance from an amateur astronomer. It landed in fragments in the foothills of
California. Bet you didn’t hear too
much about that….it is harder the shear the sheeple when they are running
around all panicked.
Obvious extinction scenarios should be dealt with.
Instead, governments remain in a currency war to see who can have the
weakest currency so they can sell to other countries. Money printing and propaganda, i.e. “communication”
used as tools to achieve these goals, only problem is that everyone in the
world is pursuing the race to the bottom.
It also seems like another war
is setting up, and wouldn’t it be a great distraction for the upcoming
election? We will see, I think the odds
are pretty low, like 15% but still very possible, this would be an Israel and
Iran thing which could get out of control easily.
At least in the USA we have the best economic hitmen, only trouble there
is that they have turned their sights on the motherload of wealth, the citizens
of the USA, in particular, the public and 401K type retirement plans.
No great and glorious future will be launched by “technology” in the
face of huge systemic and fundamental problems that are societal and
governmental in nature.
And that is about all I have to say about that.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Hawaii still up 50% and Captain D Kickin' Okole on San Onfre
CaptainD, ahoy there CapnD....
the Capn been kicking some serious butt created these data docs to support the death of San Onfre. Get em down, keep em down. No more mister nice guy, or nice gal either...
Time for a nail in the coffin of nuke, before it kills us all.
CHECK IT OUT!
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit
Also disturbingly, Inspector alert on 8 hours acculumulated click run, showed a confirmation of the 50% increase in airborne radiation in Hawaii.
Sure looks like Fukushima, swirling around the Pacific now, after a direct hit in the west coast, sorry coasties....maybe you should just move?
Yep 17990 clicks in 8 hours. Not terrible, but a huge and obvious change. Cleaning my HEPA filters and going to 2000g vitamin C every 3 to 6 hours.
The rain never seems to be radioactive here. So it first dumps on the ocean and west coast and then we get the light airborne particles come to Hawaii. What a sucky wolrd that we have to live on our home planet with these sociopaths that promote this poison as "clean energy"
VISIT THE CAPTAIN AND CHECK his fine work.
And kill San Onofre, like a centipede under your bed, it will eventually get you if you don't get it first.
the Capn been kicking some serious butt created these data docs to support the death of San Onfre. Get em down, keep em down. No more mister nice guy, or nice gal either...
Time for a nail in the coffin of nuke, before it kills us all.
CHECK IT OUT!
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGpvRlo4aXJCT2s/edit
Also disturbingly, Inspector alert on 8 hours acculumulated click run, showed a confirmation of the 50% increase in airborne radiation in Hawaii.
Sure looks like Fukushima, swirling around the Pacific now, after a direct hit in the west coast, sorry coasties....maybe you should just move?
Yep 17990 clicks in 8 hours. Not terrible, but a huge and obvious change. Cleaning my HEPA filters and going to 2000g vitamin C every 3 to 6 hours.
The rain never seems to be radioactive here. So it first dumps on the ocean and west coast and then we get the light airborne particles come to Hawaii. What a sucky wolrd that we have to live on our home planet with these sociopaths that promote this poison as "clean energy"
VISIT THE CAPTAIN AND CHECK his fine work.
And kill San Onofre, like a centipede under your bed, it will eventually get you if you don't get it first.
Hawaii radiation levels up 50% in 2 of 3 tests
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Update on Hawaii rad levels
I has a normal 24 CPM reading over an 8 hours aggregation time
BUT THEN the next 8 hour test came in at 38 CPM. Just odd, given that Hawaii has been consistent and fairly low all of 2012.
I am running another overnight test, this one outside and will report back results.
The issue is, of course, what the heck happened in August and September when mainland US cities started ramping up to scary levels, see post.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/10/radiation-spreading-across-us-update.html
Update on Hawaii rad levels
I has a normal 24 CPM reading over an 8 hours aggregation time
BUT THEN the next 8 hour test came in at 38 CPM. Just odd, given that Hawaii has been consistent and fairly low all of 2012.
I am running another overnight test, this one outside and will report back results.
The issue is, of course, what the heck happened in August and September when mainland US cities started ramping up to scary levels, see post.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/10/radiation-spreading-across-us-update.html
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Hawaii Radiation Report post Fukushima
Here in the Pacific Ocean, we didn't obtain a Geiger until 2012.
Radiation is now spiking up much more than ever before
There were huge waitlists, and doing the research on a proper Geiger was a bit challenging.
Early and midyear we noted very consistent radiation readings that could only be considered "background" at around 12,500 Clicks per 8 Hour Period. Running the 8 hour test is a good way to do it, rather than just instantaneous observations of the current data, it takes out the peaks and valleys and gives a better overall report.
(12,500 / 8 hours ) then further divided by 60 minutes = 26 CPM
Using the Nuke Pro handy conversion chart, permanently located here on the blog
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Surprisingly, I got my first reading of 19,400 Clicks in 8 Hours
Almost a 50% increase!
Before, it was right around 12,500, RAIN OR SHINE
Hawaii is usually far below the jet stream that takes air from Asia to mainland USA, usually first impacted lower Canada and Washington, Oregon, Northern California.
So with Hawaii at 40 CPM, it is still below the 50 CPM level of "keep an eye on it".
Other places on mainland USA are far worse, and some of those are just lately.
But this leads credence to the view that something big happened, and most likely at Fukushima, coincident with the last "no moon" which oftens brings on earthquakes.
HEPA filters
Anti-oxidants
Stay out of the rain
Basic and simple protections, besides working to rid the planet of nukes, that is all we can do for now.
Radiation is now spiking up much more than ever before
There were huge waitlists, and doing the research on a proper Geiger was a bit challenging.
Early and midyear we noted very consistent radiation readings that could only be considered "background" at around 12,500 Clicks per 8 Hour Period. Running the 8 hour test is a good way to do it, rather than just instantaneous observations of the current data, it takes out the peaks and valleys and gives a better overall report.
(12,500 / 8 hours ) then further divided by 60 minutes = 26 CPM
Using the Nuke Pro handy conversion chart, permanently located here on the blog
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Surprisingly, I got my first reading of 19,400 Clicks in 8 Hours
Almost a 50% increase!
Before, it was right around 12,500, RAIN OR SHINE
Hawaii is usually far below the jet stream that takes air from Asia to mainland USA, usually first impacted lower Canada and Washington, Oregon, Northern California.
So with Hawaii at 40 CPM, it is still below the 50 CPM level of "keep an eye on it".
Other places on mainland USA are far worse, and some of those are just lately.
But this leads credence to the view that something big happened, and most likely at Fukushima, coincident with the last "no moon" which oftens brings on earthquakes.
HEPA filters
Anti-oxidants
Stay out of the rain
Basic and simple protections, besides working to rid the planet of nukes, that is all we can do for now.
Funny picture to match the story below on ENENews
[...]
In April last year, researchers from Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University (NVLU), along with other institutions, began sampling muscle tissue of wild Japanese macaques caught in the provincial capital, Fukushima, for radioactive cesium content.
The concentrations ranged between 10,000 and 25,000 becquerels per kilogram immediately after the nuclear crisis began to unfurl the month before.
AP/KOJI SASAHARA
In April last year, researchers from Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University (NVLU), along with other institutions, began sampling muscle tissue of wild Japanese macaques caught in the provincial capital, Fukushima, for radioactive cesium content.
The concentrations ranged between 10,000 and 25,000 becquerels per kilogram immediately after the nuclear crisis began to unfurl the month before.
Radiation Spreading Across the US -- Update
I wrote an article a few days ago that got picked up by the "big blogs" and news gatherers, and even 4 outlets in Japan which brought in around 4000 Japanese visitors.
And ya think that they Japanese are not paying attention to radiation? They are on it.
Heck, I even installed a translator!
The data comes from Higgins
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
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Here are some more captures from today.
And ya think that they Japanese are not paying attention to radiation? They are on it.
Heck, I even installed a translator!
The data comes from Higgins
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
If you like this stuff, sign up as a follower....weird, 10,000 visitors in 2 days and only 5 followers.
Here are some more captures from today.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Disinformation, Nuke Cartel is crude at it
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/disinformation-how-it-works.html
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Disinformation: How It Works
Activist Post
There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.
Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Radiation going up slowly and quickly across the US
A quick review shows some very disturbing trends.
The Charts below comes from Higgins website
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
Also, several months back, after being baffled by all the various radiation units bantered around, and always having to dig deep to figure out whether something mattered or not, I made a simple to use radiation chart. At the same time I was sending my geiger counter to Japan to help a Tokyo area family assess it's real risk, as it is obvious the Japan Gov /TEPCO has been lying through their teeth from day 1. So I also had the chart translated into Japanese, both are at this link
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
An obvious uptrend in radiation is spreading across the country, with some areas seeing scary high levels. Something happened around Sept 17th.
Rule of thumb is that exposure to 100 CPM clicks per minute for a year results in a real risk of cancer, 500 CPM for 90 days is a real risk.
Many places are now up over 100,
25 is "normal" we just don't get that much lower. And back in the day, before Fuku, 50% to 66% of us got cancer, what will the new normal be.
Basic protective measures, air filters, anti-oxidants. Do them now if you are not on track.
The Charts below comes from Higgins website
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Spokane-WA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
Also, several months back, after being baffled by all the various radiation units bantered around, and always having to dig deep to figure out whether something mattered or not, I made a simple to use radiation chart. At the same time I was sending my geiger counter to Japan to help a Tokyo area family assess it's real risk, as it is obvious the Japan Gov /TEPCO has been lying through their teeth from day 1. So I also had the chart translated into Japanese, both are at this link
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
An obvious uptrend in radiation is spreading across the country, with some areas seeing scary high levels. Something happened around Sept 17th.
Rule of thumb is that exposure to 100 CPM clicks per minute for a year results in a real risk of cancer, 500 CPM for 90 days is a real risk.
Many places are now up over 100,
25 is "normal" we just don't get that much lower. And back in the day, before Fuku, 50% to 66% of us got cancer, what will the new normal be.
Basic protective measures, air filters, anti-oxidants. Do them now if you are not on track.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Kelly Rocks the NRC Blog
In response to a post of mine on ENE Kelly Thomas wrote up the hard hitting summary of the nuke cartel, posted on the NRC blog and I am reproducing it here.
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/08/22/taking-the-next-step-building-a-21st-century-digital-government/comment-page-1/#comment-15787
Kelly Thomas September 5, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Petition to Clean up Fukushima Area Better
A friend of our family has family members in Fukushima. They are circulating a petition to get more cleanup done.
Please visit and sign the petition. I will have this link stored on a posting at my blog. Simply type Nukepro into a Google search, and then use the search box for "petition"
http://save-the-fukushima.org/english.html
Please visit and sign the petition. I will have this link stored on a posting at my blog. Simply type Nukepro into a Google search, and then use the search box for "petition"
http://save-the-fukushima.org/english.html
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Continuation of Review Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk. Majia Nadesan
compendium of ailments: a malevolently designed
global slavery and depopulation agenda implemented by the powers-that-be
to shear the sheeple on their way to the slaughterhouse. Whether by
stupidity or malevolence in the end the result is bad news.
I’m mad as hell so allow me to interject a bit of personal vitriol here. In Tokyo where I live, I recently had a conversation with a reputable Canadian university professor who questioned whether further research into the Fukushima disaster wasn’t beating a dead horse. If only that were true. A year earlier at that same university (where I work as a moderately paid but insecure contracted teacher– and gratefully subsidize the full time professors who enjoy the benefits of an academic apartheid) a different and particularly snooty British professor chastised me for writing articles about Fukushima. Apparently criticizing Japan is not good for the university image! At another university where I work most professors are mum on the topic– their policy is simply to ban articles on Fukushima from their in-house journal: blatant censorship. What a bunch of incredible hypocrites and cowards.
Enter Majia H. Nadesan, communications professor in the area of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, an exception to the rule of bought and paid for academicians, a person of honesty, wisdom, no little amount of courage and a holistic understanding of nature.
Her newest book, “Fukushima And The Privatization Of Risk,” is a strong reminder that the Pandora’s Box of nuclear gremlins released into the world during the past two centuries is damaging the genomic integrity of homo sapiens and other species. Though you and I might survive Fukushima’s radiation (or die younger than we should have), future generations of humans and earthy organisms may suffer transgenerational mutations that could ultimately lead to extinction. Of course, humanity has already triggered the Earth’s sixth great extinction episode due to habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, war, etc.
Nuclear Winter In The Heartland
When I was a curious and curly haired boy I vividly recall the day when our teacher informed us about the danger of nuclear war with the Soviets. I was emotionally upset by what I learned. Walking home in the blustery weather, dark clouds on the horizon formed a cold front and puddles covered in thin sheets of ice were broken beneath my feet, and my heart turned hard. What was the point of all the niceties and rituals of life if we were going to die in a nuclear war?
Eventually I learned to repress and forget those thoughts in order to survive, and life went on without a big bang.
On March 11, 2011 during the afternoon while I was at home in Tokyo, I felt a larger than normal tremor, which kept building in intensity, and went on for four or five minutes. Today the flood of bad news emanating from the Fukushima nuclear disaster flows unrelentingly from the magnitude 9 earthquake that occurred on that day. The numerical measurements and scale of radiation released from the accident are unprecedented and catastrophic (3).
Privatizing Risk: Internalizing Profits, Externalizing Costs
Nadesan’s slim volume is written in a scholarly but readable style and offers an authoritative interpretation for the academic, environmental and nuclear politics specialist, and the keenly interested general reader. Although under 150 pages the book has an admirable 512 citations, which render it well argued, if not rock solid, in analysis and conclusion. The book is precise in use and introduction of difficult scientific concepts and vocabulary yet cuts to the bone of the subject. Nadesan sorts through the mass of data now available from scientific and media sources in order to guide the reader to the most relevant and significant information. Wrestling with an inherently complicated topic that is prone to misunderstanding, Nadesan fulfills a badly needed service to offer clarity and scholarly precision to the subject.
The book unfolds in three stages:
Forgive Us Our Criminal Transgressions As We Have Committed Criminal Transgressions Unto The Earth: Lead Us Not Into Denial, But Deliver Us From Extinction
I wrote to Dr. Nadesan and asked what compelled her to face the Fukushima Hydra. Obviously she would have been concerned with the health impacts from the nuclear disaster as Fukushima radiation continues to contaminate the western US (where she lives) as it is transported by wind and water.
“I was working on a book titled Dispossession that examines the financial crisis and the BP oil spill when the Daiichi disaster occurred. What struck me is that all three disasters were managed using the same propaganda techniques, which were designed to minimize public perceptions of risk and criminal transgression.
In all three cases, the disasters’ risks escalated because of a failure of leadership. The BP oil disaster risks were escalated by the unprecedented use of Corexit. The financial crisis still has not been resolved because of the failure to address the derivatives and fraud at the heart of the crisis. The American economy still suffers from the decision to bailout the banks, while leaving citizens to fend as best they can. The Fukushima Daiichi crisis risks continue to escalate because of a failure to acknowledge the scale of disaster and evacuate/mitigate appropriately. Across these cases, risks have been shifted to the general populace because of a prioritization of the interests of those responsible for the crises.
I added a chapter on Fukushima to the Dispossession project, but soon realized the story demanded a full book. Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk evolved as a focused look at how risks during the ongoing disaster have been denied, trivialized, and externalized. I emphasized the genetic effects of radiation because I’ve considerable background writing about environmental health and genomics. My three previous books on autism and biopolitics (the politics of life) offer detailed accounts of the fundamental openness and vulnerability of the human genome. Ionizing radiation, I soon learned, is among the most genotoxic substances known, but the biological effects have historically been highly contested by the global nuclear-military-industry complex. The interests of this complex continue to be prioritized over human health and welfare” (personal communication, December, 2013).
The Fukushima Disaster
Nothing epitomizes the notion of privatization of risk better than the Japanese government’s failure to evacuate residents who were in harm’s way when the Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded and melted down on and after March 11, 2011. Nadesan writes that the government prioritized “managing panic” rather than decisively acting on a “data-driven evacuation of citizens.” Giving that wa (harmony) is a social virtue in Japanese society, it was figured that long term effects from cancer would be preferable over the embarrassment of admitting that a terrible mistake had been made. “[T]he true risks for Fukushima residents and others exposed to Fukushima fallout will only be realized in the future.” Ah, there’s the rub, “no immediate danger” as government spokesman Edano loved to repeat at the time.
The process of bioaccumulation of radiation from the food and water supply can take up to several decades to kill a person, and by then the accident will have been long forgotten with the epidemiological data hidden in a morass of scientific fraud and bureaucratic unaccountability. Even in the best cases of medical science it is nearly impossible to prove cause and effect until it is too late. By the time all data is collected the cohorts are already dead. Such data could be valuable to build a case against nuclear energy, but even with Chernobyl there is still a huge amount of denial by the nuclear establishment of the ill effects on populations.
What happened at Fukushima was nothing new. Limited liability corporations in conjunction with crony politicos have been poisoning the planet and its people for a long, long time. We homo sapiens (the wise species) put up with a heck of a lot of abuse. Nadesan writes that:
“The privatization of risk is a global social trend occurring in myriad ways as risk is shifted from organized entities– such as government and corporations– to private citizens.”
With Fukushima, we have an industrial accident of unprecedented scale, which the powers-that-be cannot sweep under the rug. The issue is plagued with uncertainty and fear, due to the great “scale of emissions” “extent of fallout and deposition patterns” as well as uncertainty about the continued amount of radioactive releases from the FNPP#1.
The reactor buildings themselves are unapproachable by human workers. Bring in the reptilian robot workers from Mars! In fact, Tepco is desperate for workers and hiring old men and foreigners.
The key debate is about the health effects of radiation with authorities in Japan and the US assuring us that the amounts most people are exposed to is nothing to get riled up about. After all, you could slip on ice and bump your head, get run over by a truck or be struck down by a lightening bolt as well.
Nadesan cites an important report from a Tokyo University MD who notes that Fukushima released the equivalent of 29.6 Hiroshima atomic bombs. That is a statistic you would think garner some attention. Yet the internet trolls at the Japan Times comment section love to point out that radiation is in bananas, and bananas are safe and delicious. The same paid disinformation agents who are employed by the CIA, the US government, corporations and the nuclear industry would not want to live in Fukushima, work at the FNPP or move back into the evacuation zone, themselves. Hypocrites, cowards, liars and frauds.
Nadesan asks “[w]hat health risks face citizens of Japan and elsewhere impacted by the dispersion of fallout through weather patterns and ocean current?” Yet even the critical minded Asahi Newspaper was informing readers that “eating more cesium” than usual was not dangerous. Well, that was in early 2012 and since then such ridiculous claims are less commonly heard, and most people are more skeptical of the authorities’ claims of food safety. I live in Tokyo and can say that shoppers will tend to buy foods from outside the Tohoku (northeastern) region, especially if it says “Fukushima” on the label. This is obvious given the low prices of produce sold from that region, and the higher prices of products from the more distant Kyushu island of Japan (where demand but also transport costs drive up prices). Although the government does not clearly explain the risks of consuming radioactive food and water, most people have a vague sense about the danger.
Nadesan points out, and I concur from people I have talked to in Japan, that most are only vaguely aware of the effects from bio-accumulation to themselves and the intergenerational damage to the human genome, which damages the health and viability of descendants. I did not understand the nuances of genomic disruptions and dangers until I read this book. Still, the nuclear agenda has come under attack from a wide variety of conscientious sources, including journalists, scientists and doctors. When the World Health Organization tried to downplay the effects of radiation from Fukushima not everyone bought the toxic goods they were selling (21).
The Nuclear Weapons/Power Cartel: Destroying the World One Missile DU Munition And Dirty Bomb Nuclear Power Plant At A Time
Nadesan points out that “[n]uclear power has from its beginnings been tied closely to nuclear weapons production…. despite engineering challenges, prohibitive costs, and public discomfort about radiation, the major industrial powers launched their nuclear energy programs.”
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech in 1953, was “a masterpiece of inversion, transforming the horrors of nuclear weapons into the productive, peaceful promise of nuclear energy” and was the treacherous launch pad for the world’s most deadly technology. Atoms for Peace lead to Japan’s adoption of the “Atomic Energy Basic Law” two years later.
At the same time the official promoters and apologists for nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), was created in association with the the Food and Agricultural Organization, FAO, a part of the United Nations. How ironic that the IAEA’s work has contaminated the world food supply with radiation spewed from the nuclear power operators. Nadesan writes that the “IAEA endows research at institutes through grants, a practice that began in 1960 and continues today.” The IAEA sees no problems with a nuclear accident here, a catastrophe there, and promotes the “peaceful uses of nuclear energy” without any shame. We need nuclear energy like we need a hole in the head.
I wonder what George Orwell would have said about nuclear power given the cognitive dissonance (a favorite literary device of his) that is required for its implementation. The hubris of the promoters of science and technology often allows them to sacrifice safety and sanity in exchange for material rewards. For example, for 1.4 trillion dollars, just half the cost of the War in Iraq, a genocidal and completely unwarranted attack that killed and displaced millions and destroyed an entire country, enough wind turbines could be built to meet US electricity demands (22). Renewable energy would be the ethical choice in this case.
The double-think, hypocrisy and denial of the dangers of the nuclear agenda were apparent during the Cold War, and it is purported by some analysts that the entire Cold War itself was a conspiracy to oppress the world’s peoples under two comparatively oppressive systems, communism (Stalin’s mass murder regime) and capitalism (USA’s global military empire). That issue aside, Nadesan states that it “was clear that the spread of commercial nuclear energy would increase the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation.” This is no small insight. The very technology that was claimed to bring liberating energy and prosperity to the world also enabled the nuclear arms race and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
Today, exporters of nuclear technology such the US, France and Japan also claim to fight “terrorism.” War is Peace when the now totally discredited beacons of peace and democracy are actually the true promoters and supporters of terrorism. What could be more terroristic than the US and France in tearing up the Middle East, or Japan damaging one of the world most important ecosystems, the Pacific Ocean! “BRIC” countries mistakenly to join the nuclear arms and energy bizarre so as not lose geopolitical and economic advantage.
Nuclear power has never been only a form of “peaceful” energy production. Nadesan notes that in Japan nuclear power is about “promoting multiple forms of security.” This process began shortly after the end of WWII when the CIA and a shrewd businessman named Matsutaro Shoriki transformed the Yomiuri shimbun (newspaper) into a propaganda rag in order to persuade the bombed out and shell shocked Japanese public to adapt the very sinister technology that had laid waste to their country.
Previous to Eisenhower’s reign, President Harry S. Truman carried out a massive “soft power…. Campaign for Truth” in order combat communism. This was a US “cultural offensive” that involved “Japanese intellectuals” of which Shoriki was but one, albeit very important, agent (23).
Nadesan outlines how it was not by coincidence that Japan’s first law to legalize nuclear energy production and the LDP, Japan’s major political party, were born the same year, spawned out of a CIA incubator. Years later, the very reactors to meltdown at Fukushima were also American made, the flawed Mark 1 reactor design produced by General Electric (who in collusion with the US government, intentionally carried out an engineering fraud when defects became known in the 1970s but were papered over with duct tape and Elmer’s Glue!). Today GE is integrated with the Japanese corporation, Hitachi.
Not all can be blamed on the USA, however. Nadesan points out “that TEPCO’s nuclear power plants have been plagued with scandals” throughout most of the time of their operation, especially in recent decades as the reactors have aged. She delineates the pattern of criminal negligence on the part of the company to put profits before people and the environment. Even after the 2011 accident “[n]uclear energy was prioritized over the myriad economic and social risks caused by the Fukushima disaster.”
The Nuclear Ace Up The Sleeve Deception
According to the logic of nuclear warfare game theory, Japan’s obsession, especially driven by the political philosophy of the LDP, is to sacrifice, in “kamikaze” fashion, the ecological health and sustainability of the physical nation in exchange for the “security” of holding the barely concealed Ace-up-the-sleeve nuclear weapon capability deterrent.
Japan is the only country to develop a stockpile of weapons grade plutonium– sufficient to equip 5,000 nuclear warheads– which also is technically considered to be a non-nuclear weapons country (similarly Israel is presumed to have hundreds of nuclear weapons already built but has never officially declared their existence or signed the non proliferation treaty).
Nadesan writes that “Japan’s status as nuclear weapons-capable is loudly broadcast through its uranium reprocessing and enrichment capabilities, plutonium stockpiles, and advanced aeronautical capabilities.” Indeed, Japan has “risked accident, terrorism, and international criticism for pursuing plutonium stockpiles” in conjunction with their nuclear fuel reprocessing allies in France and Britain.
Given that it is impossible to provide reliable security for a nuclear reactor in a cost efficient manner, it is clear that nuclear power is the greatest threat to a nations’ security. In Japan’s case, the earthquake that destroyed no less than four reactors and spewed massive radiation into the environment was the “terrorist” at work. But any sitting reactor acts as a ticking time bomb, a veritable doomsday machine with a bull’s eye target painted on its side just waiting for a super high-tech drone attack from an enemy. In this case the sane and ethical option would be to adopt photo voltaic panels which are infinitely safer and fast becoming cheaper.
Fukushima’s Deadly Legacy
Given the well financed campaign by the nuclear industry to downplay nuclear disasters, Nadesan’s analysis of radiation risks is indispensable.
The era of atmospheric testing of nuclear devices (A la Slim Pickens’ beloved mushroom cloud) which occurred mainly in the 1950s, totaled over 500 above ground detonations. This became a cause for grave concern among conscientious scientists and the public.
The 1956 U.S. Academy of Science report, “Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation” (aka the “BEAR” report) is cited by Nadesan “to demonstrate that geneticists warned decades ago of the potential for significant intergenerational health and reproductive risk from nuclear weapons and energy-sourced radiation exposure, but their warnings were discounted” due to “perceived national security benefits” by the nuclear priesthood of scientists and policy makers.
The BEAR report– which was written by highly credentialed scientists that were nevertheless under attack from the nuclear-military proponent sector– states after careful consideration that “even very small amounts of radiation unquestionably have the power to injure hereditary materials” in humans and other organisms. Nadesan summarizes some of the main points of BEAR:
“Radiations cause mutations. Mutations affect those hereditary traits which a person passes on to his children and subsequent generations….
Practically all radiation-induced mutations which have effects large enough to be detected are harmful. A small but not negligible part of this harm would appear in the first generation of the offspring of the person who received the radiation. Most of the harm, however, would remain unnoticed, for a shorter or longer time, in the genetic constitution of the successive generations of offspring….
Any radiation dose, however small, can induce some mutations….
Like radiation-induced mutations, nearly all spontaneous mutations with detectable effects are harmful….
Additional radiation (i.e., radiation over and above the irreducible minimum due to natural causes) produces additional mutations (over and above spontaneous mutations)….
What counts, from the point of view of genetic damage, is not the rate [of exposure to radiation]; it is the total accumulated dose to reproductive cells of the individual from the beginning of his life up to the time the child is conceived….”
Nadesan highlights radiation effects on children and cites the work of Ernest Sternglass who in 1969 “publicized his research by arguing…that radioactive fallout from atmospheric testing had caused the death of 375,000 infants” and “countless fetal deaths” from 1951 to 1966.
In addition to data cited by Nadesan, Epstein reported that a “2002 U.S. Centers for Disease Control report calculated that fallout caused 15,000 U.S. cancer deaths, a figure some believed was a gross underestimate. The following year, a blue ribbon European panel reported 61,600,000 cancer deaths worldwide from fallout” (24).
Bertell makes a bolder estimate that “[u]p to 1,300 million [1.3 billion!] people have been killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since it’s inception. The industry’s figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims from the world” (25).
Nadesan cites the former head of the UN, Kofi Annan who “calculated that at least 7,000,000 people were adversely impacted by the [Chernobyl] disaster.”
The Dangers Of Ionizing Radiation
One of the arguments often marshaled by nuclear apologists is that natural background radiation is not bad for you, ergo radiation released from nuclear fission processes is also safe.
However, Nadesan points out that “mitochondrial DNA is particularly vulnerable to disruption by ionizing radiation, even among people acculturated to relatively high levels of natural (not human produced) background exposure.” She found that in one study “children exposed to higher than ordinary gamma radiation…. found a 12 percent increase in childhood leukemia for every millisievert of natural gamma-radiation dose to bone marrow.” Iran is often mentioned by nuclear apologists as evidence that high background radiation is totally safe, and yet a study found that “higher rates of mitochondrial DNA mutations correlated with higher background exposure” and affected the genomic integrity of future generations of offspring.
In other words, neither natural background radiation nor manmade forms are safe: “common forms of exposure to ionizing radiation can cause cancer and leukemia and…genetic damage can be transmitted across generations.”
There is mounting evidence that radioactive pollution in the global environment plays “a causative role in childhood diseases such as autism and congenital heart disease” and that novel genetic mutations caused by radiation “may have significant transgenerational effects.” One researcher cited by Nadesan notes that “[g]enomic instability is an all-embracing term to describe the increased rate of acquisition of alternations in the genome.” The cellular process of life is open to “multiple pathways” for disruption and the perpetuation of “induced instability” from radiation.
In an important report from 2006, Nadesan concludes of its findings that “radiation exposure that overwhelms repair mechanisms can result in a cascade of genomic events posing long-term adverse effects for biological health and reproduction.”
Nadesan concludes her chapter on radiation effects with this disturbing indictment of the current health regime:
“[C]urrent risk models may under-predict the incidents and range of diseases caused by radiation exposure, within the individuals live span and across generations of their progeny. Bio-accumulation in organs, bio-magnification in predators, synergy effects, and the vulnerabilities produced by increased rates of transgenerational genetic mutations present significant challenges to the ecological validity of contemporary dose-effect models.”
This is a major scandal given that the establishment risk models focus on immediate doses to the individual rather than their descendants. That is what is called the Externalization Of Risk and what I call the Futurization Of Murder as we are exposed to “increasingly radiotoxic environments.”
Conclusion: Time To Loudly Ring The Warning Bell
Nadesan poses a question to thoughtful readers as well as to the lackey politicians tied to the nuclear industry, who claim to care about human and environmental welfare, and economic prosperity.
“A nuclear disaster such as Fukushima produces risks that are truly cataclysmic, but also immeasurable. How does one measure the range of diseases that will be caused and/or exacerbated by an increase of exposure to radioisotopes in the air , drinking water, precipitation, and food, especially across generations?”
But how can this be? By the very fact that radiation risks are largely immeasurable, the powers-that-be can hide behind plausible deniability, and go on their merry way even if their own children may come to suffer from Fukushima induced diseases. The warning bell has been rung loudly, but is there still time to save the planet? Nadesan poignantly asks:
“How many more bells will ring before humanity has destroyed its ecosystem and genome beyond repair?”
Thank you Professor Nadesan. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming: News at 11:00 followed by the late late show starring Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Have a pleasant evening, and remember: “yeeehaw.”
Richard Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from a social science, holistic perspective. He teaches at a number of universities in the Tokyo, Japan area. His articles on environmental topics including the Fukushima nuclear disaster are archived at http://wilcoxrb99.wordpress.com/ and he can be contacted at wilcoxrb2013@gmail.com
References
1. Majia Holmer Nadesan, Fukushima And The Privatization Of Risk. 2013, 149 pp. (Palgrave/Pivot).
I’m mad as hell so allow me to interject a bit of personal vitriol here. In Tokyo where I live, I recently had a conversation with a reputable Canadian university professor who questioned whether further research into the Fukushima disaster wasn’t beating a dead horse. If only that were true. A year earlier at that same university (where I work as a moderately paid but insecure contracted teacher– and gratefully subsidize the full time professors who enjoy the benefits of an academic apartheid) a different and particularly snooty British professor chastised me for writing articles about Fukushima. Apparently criticizing Japan is not good for the university image! At another university where I work most professors are mum on the topic– their policy is simply to ban articles on Fukushima from their in-house journal: blatant censorship. What a bunch of incredible hypocrites and cowards.
Enter Majia H. Nadesan, communications professor in the area of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, an exception to the rule of bought and paid for academicians, a person of honesty, wisdom, no little amount of courage and a holistic understanding of nature.
Her newest book, “Fukushima And The Privatization Of Risk,” is a strong reminder that the Pandora’s Box of nuclear gremlins released into the world during the past two centuries is damaging the genomic integrity of homo sapiens and other species. Though you and I might survive Fukushima’s radiation (or die younger than we should have), future generations of humans and earthy organisms may suffer transgenerational mutations that could ultimately lead to extinction. Of course, humanity has already triggered the Earth’s sixth great extinction episode due to habitat destruction, poaching, pollution, war, etc.
Nuclear Winter In The Heartland
When I was a curious and curly haired boy I vividly recall the day when our teacher informed us about the danger of nuclear war with the Soviets. I was emotionally upset by what I learned. Walking home in the blustery weather, dark clouds on the horizon formed a cold front and puddles covered in thin sheets of ice were broken beneath my feet, and my heart turned hard. What was the point of all the niceties and rituals of life if we were going to die in a nuclear war?
Eventually I learned to repress and forget those thoughts in order to survive, and life went on without a big bang.
On March 11, 2011 during the afternoon while I was at home in Tokyo, I felt a larger than normal tremor, which kept building in intensity, and went on for four or five minutes. Today the flood of bad news emanating from the Fukushima nuclear disaster flows unrelentingly from the magnitude 9 earthquake that occurred on that day. The numerical measurements and scale of radiation released from the accident are unprecedented and catastrophic (3).
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Fukushima nuclear power plant no. 1 (FNPP#1) (in Japanese “dai-ichi”
meaning “no. 1”) is leaking upwards of 160 billion becquerels of
radiation into the ocean every day (4);
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Not including the initial releases, nearly 45 trillion becquerels of
radiation were released into the air and water just during a recent two
year period (5);
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There is much debate about what effect the huge amount of radiation
released is having on the health of the Pacific Ocean and its biota. The
radioactive plume of doom has already reached the North American
western shores (6) and will likely reach the Atlantic Ocean (7). Some
scientists say the radiation is diluting and in general not a dire
threat to biota or humans who consume seafood (8; 9), although these
reports should be greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism (10; 11).
Some medical researchers say that the above ground nuclear tests alone
have resulted in millions of deaths (as will be discussed);
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There is a growing amount of data that indicate the ongoing radiation
releases are bioaccumulating up the food chain. In conjunction with
other forms of pollution that threaten oceanic and terrestrial health
this could be contributing to disease and death of various ocean biota
(12);
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Although US officials downplay radiation traveling from Japan along
currents toward the US west coast, levels of cesium in seawater may
range from 30 to 100 becquerels per cubic meter, not a trivial amount
considering bioaccumulation and magnification rates in sealife and that
it may be ongoing for a practically unlimited period of time (13);
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In Japan fish are contaminated with radiation (14) while US west
coast seaweed has shown signs of Fukushima contamination (15). Tokyo
drinking water has detectable amounts of radiation and recently it was
found that half of children tested there had cesium in their urine (16);
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While Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Company) slowly removes the fuel
rods from the Unit 4 fuel pool (we wish them luck in a very risky
operation), everyone agrees that getting to units 1, 2, and 3 is
currently impossible with human workers given that the fuel (corium) is
melted below the reactor containers and continues to be intensely
radioactive. As far as I know, no one has come up with a plan to deal
with the corium, and the idea of creating a concrete sarcophagus over
the plant as was built in Chernobyl has been dismissed by many experts.
Fukushima is built on soft, artificial “fill” ground which would allow
the radiation to leak from beneath the reactors to the ocean. Radiation
continues to leak with no end in sight;
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In Japan the passage of the ambiguous and vaguely worded “Secrets”
law threatens freedom of press, thereby criminalizing honest reporting
of the ongoing nuclear crisis (17; 18; 19; 20). This resurrects phantoms
of Japan’s past militarism, Orwell’s 1984 and Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag
Archipelago of Interogators now stalking Japan’s archipelago of iPhones
and teen idol dimbots. What seems like a harsh and desperate measure
from the atavistic cronies in the majority Liberal Democratic Party may
actually succeed given the lack of organized political or public
opposition.
Privatizing Risk: Internalizing Profits, Externalizing Costs
Nadesan’s slim volume is written in a scholarly but readable style and offers an authoritative interpretation for the academic, environmental and nuclear politics specialist, and the keenly interested general reader. Although under 150 pages the book has an admirable 512 citations, which render it well argued, if not rock solid, in analysis and conclusion. The book is precise in use and introduction of difficult scientific concepts and vocabulary yet cuts to the bone of the subject. Nadesan sorts through the mass of data now available from scientific and media sources in order to guide the reader to the most relevant and significant information. Wrestling with an inherently complicated topic that is prone to misunderstanding, Nadesan fulfills a badly needed service to offer clarity and scholarly precision to the subject.
The book unfolds in three stages:
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A concise history of the nuclear weapons and energy project which
exposes the fatal link between the two ventures and how Japan’s nuclear
power program emerged from that context;
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A coherent time line of the chaotic and complex events that occurred during the March, 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster;
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Radiation risks from Fukushima and other sources and how they will
affect human, wildlife and environmental health and integrity.
Forgive Us Our Criminal Transgressions As We Have Committed Criminal Transgressions Unto The Earth: Lead Us Not Into Denial, But Deliver Us From Extinction
I wrote to Dr. Nadesan and asked what compelled her to face the Fukushima Hydra. Obviously she would have been concerned with the health impacts from the nuclear disaster as Fukushima radiation continues to contaminate the western US (where she lives) as it is transported by wind and water.
“I was working on a book titled Dispossession that examines the financial crisis and the BP oil spill when the Daiichi disaster occurred. What struck me is that all three disasters were managed using the same propaganda techniques, which were designed to minimize public perceptions of risk and criminal transgression.
In all three cases, the disasters’ risks escalated because of a failure of leadership. The BP oil disaster risks were escalated by the unprecedented use of Corexit. The financial crisis still has not been resolved because of the failure to address the derivatives and fraud at the heart of the crisis. The American economy still suffers from the decision to bailout the banks, while leaving citizens to fend as best they can. The Fukushima Daiichi crisis risks continue to escalate because of a failure to acknowledge the scale of disaster and evacuate/mitigate appropriately. Across these cases, risks have been shifted to the general populace because of a prioritization of the interests of those responsible for the crises.
I added a chapter on Fukushima to the Dispossession project, but soon realized the story demanded a full book. Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk evolved as a focused look at how risks during the ongoing disaster have been denied, trivialized, and externalized. I emphasized the genetic effects of radiation because I’ve considerable background writing about environmental health and genomics. My three previous books on autism and biopolitics (the politics of life) offer detailed accounts of the fundamental openness and vulnerability of the human genome. Ionizing radiation, I soon learned, is among the most genotoxic substances known, but the biological effects have historically been highly contested by the global nuclear-military-industry complex. The interests of this complex continue to be prioritized over human health and welfare” (personal communication, December, 2013).
The Fukushima Disaster
Nothing epitomizes the notion of privatization of risk better than the Japanese government’s failure to evacuate residents who were in harm’s way when the Fukushima nuclear reactors exploded and melted down on and after March 11, 2011. Nadesan writes that the government prioritized “managing panic” rather than decisively acting on a “data-driven evacuation of citizens.” Giving that wa (harmony) is a social virtue in Japanese society, it was figured that long term effects from cancer would be preferable over the embarrassment of admitting that a terrible mistake had been made. “[T]he true risks for Fukushima residents and others exposed to Fukushima fallout will only be realized in the future.” Ah, there’s the rub, “no immediate danger” as government spokesman Edano loved to repeat at the time.
The process of bioaccumulation of radiation from the food and water supply can take up to several decades to kill a person, and by then the accident will have been long forgotten with the epidemiological data hidden in a morass of scientific fraud and bureaucratic unaccountability. Even in the best cases of medical science it is nearly impossible to prove cause and effect until it is too late. By the time all data is collected the cohorts are already dead. Such data could be valuable to build a case against nuclear energy, but even with Chernobyl there is still a huge amount of denial by the nuclear establishment of the ill effects on populations.
What happened at Fukushima was nothing new. Limited liability corporations in conjunction with crony politicos have been poisoning the planet and its people for a long, long time. We homo sapiens (the wise species) put up with a heck of a lot of abuse. Nadesan writes that:
“The privatization of risk is a global social trend occurring in myriad ways as risk is shifted from organized entities– such as government and corporations– to private citizens.”
With Fukushima, we have an industrial accident of unprecedented scale, which the powers-that-be cannot sweep under the rug. The issue is plagued with uncertainty and fear, due to the great “scale of emissions” “extent of fallout and deposition patterns” as well as uncertainty about the continued amount of radioactive releases from the FNPP#1.
The reactor buildings themselves are unapproachable by human workers. Bring in the reptilian robot workers from Mars! In fact, Tepco is desperate for workers and hiring old men and foreigners.
The key debate is about the health effects of radiation with authorities in Japan and the US assuring us that the amounts most people are exposed to is nothing to get riled up about. After all, you could slip on ice and bump your head, get run over by a truck or be struck down by a lightening bolt as well.
Nadesan cites an important report from a Tokyo University MD who notes that Fukushima released the equivalent of 29.6 Hiroshima atomic bombs. That is a statistic you would think garner some attention. Yet the internet trolls at the Japan Times comment section love to point out that radiation is in bananas, and bananas are safe and delicious. The same paid disinformation agents who are employed by the CIA, the US government, corporations and the nuclear industry would not want to live in Fukushima, work at the FNPP or move back into the evacuation zone, themselves. Hypocrites, cowards, liars and frauds.
Nadesan asks “[w]hat health risks face citizens of Japan and elsewhere impacted by the dispersion of fallout through weather patterns and ocean current?” Yet even the critical minded Asahi Newspaper was informing readers that “eating more cesium” than usual was not dangerous. Well, that was in early 2012 and since then such ridiculous claims are less commonly heard, and most people are more skeptical of the authorities’ claims of food safety. I live in Tokyo and can say that shoppers will tend to buy foods from outside the Tohoku (northeastern) region, especially if it says “Fukushima” on the label. This is obvious given the low prices of produce sold from that region, and the higher prices of products from the more distant Kyushu island of Japan (where demand but also transport costs drive up prices). Although the government does not clearly explain the risks of consuming radioactive food and water, most people have a vague sense about the danger.
Nadesan points out, and I concur from people I have talked to in Japan, that most are only vaguely aware of the effects from bio-accumulation to themselves and the intergenerational damage to the human genome, which damages the health and viability of descendants. I did not understand the nuances of genomic disruptions and dangers until I read this book. Still, the nuclear agenda has come under attack from a wide variety of conscientious sources, including journalists, scientists and doctors. When the World Health Organization tried to downplay the effects of radiation from Fukushima not everyone bought the toxic goods they were selling (21).
The Nuclear Weapons/Power Cartel: Destroying the World One Missile DU Munition And Dirty Bomb Nuclear Power Plant At A Time
Nadesan points out that “[n]uclear power has from its beginnings been tied closely to nuclear weapons production…. despite engineering challenges, prohibitive costs, and public discomfort about radiation, the major industrial powers launched their nuclear energy programs.”
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s “Atoms for Peace” speech in 1953, was “a masterpiece of inversion, transforming the horrors of nuclear weapons into the productive, peaceful promise of nuclear energy” and was the treacherous launch pad for the world’s most deadly technology. Atoms for Peace lead to Japan’s adoption of the “Atomic Energy Basic Law” two years later.
At the same time the official promoters and apologists for nuclear energy, the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), was created in association with the the Food and Agricultural Organization, FAO, a part of the United Nations. How ironic that the IAEA’s work has contaminated the world food supply with radiation spewed from the nuclear power operators. Nadesan writes that the “IAEA endows research at institutes through grants, a practice that began in 1960 and continues today.” The IAEA sees no problems with a nuclear accident here, a catastrophe there, and promotes the “peaceful uses of nuclear energy” without any shame. We need nuclear energy like we need a hole in the head.
I wonder what George Orwell would have said about nuclear power given the cognitive dissonance (a favorite literary device of his) that is required for its implementation. The hubris of the promoters of science and technology often allows them to sacrifice safety and sanity in exchange for material rewards. For example, for 1.4 trillion dollars, just half the cost of the War in Iraq, a genocidal and completely unwarranted attack that killed and displaced millions and destroyed an entire country, enough wind turbines could be built to meet US electricity demands (22). Renewable energy would be the ethical choice in this case.
The double-think, hypocrisy and denial of the dangers of the nuclear agenda were apparent during the Cold War, and it is purported by some analysts that the entire Cold War itself was a conspiracy to oppress the world’s peoples under two comparatively oppressive systems, communism (Stalin’s mass murder regime) and capitalism (USA’s global military empire). That issue aside, Nadesan states that it “was clear that the spread of commercial nuclear energy would increase the risks of nuclear weapons proliferation.” This is no small insight. The very technology that was claimed to bring liberating energy and prosperity to the world also enabled the nuclear arms race and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
Today, exporters of nuclear technology such the US, France and Japan also claim to fight “terrorism.” War is Peace when the now totally discredited beacons of peace and democracy are actually the true promoters and supporters of terrorism. What could be more terroristic than the US and France in tearing up the Middle East, or Japan damaging one of the world most important ecosystems, the Pacific Ocean! “BRIC” countries mistakenly to join the nuclear arms and energy bizarre so as not lose geopolitical and economic advantage.
Nuclear power has never been only a form of “peaceful” energy production. Nadesan notes that in Japan nuclear power is about “promoting multiple forms of security.” This process began shortly after the end of WWII when the CIA and a shrewd businessman named Matsutaro Shoriki transformed the Yomiuri shimbun (newspaper) into a propaganda rag in order to persuade the bombed out and shell shocked Japanese public to adapt the very sinister technology that had laid waste to their country.
Previous to Eisenhower’s reign, President Harry S. Truman carried out a massive “soft power…. Campaign for Truth” in order combat communism. This was a US “cultural offensive” that involved “Japanese intellectuals” of which Shoriki was but one, albeit very important, agent (23).
Nadesan outlines how it was not by coincidence that Japan’s first law to legalize nuclear energy production and the LDP, Japan’s major political party, were born the same year, spawned out of a CIA incubator. Years later, the very reactors to meltdown at Fukushima were also American made, the flawed Mark 1 reactor design produced by General Electric (who in collusion with the US government, intentionally carried out an engineering fraud when defects became known in the 1970s but were papered over with duct tape and Elmer’s Glue!). Today GE is integrated with the Japanese corporation, Hitachi.
Not all can be blamed on the USA, however. Nadesan points out “that TEPCO’s nuclear power plants have been plagued with scandals” throughout most of the time of their operation, especially in recent decades as the reactors have aged. She delineates the pattern of criminal negligence on the part of the company to put profits before people and the environment. Even after the 2011 accident “[n]uclear energy was prioritized over the myriad economic and social risks caused by the Fukushima disaster.”
The Nuclear Ace Up The Sleeve Deception
According to the logic of nuclear warfare game theory, Japan’s obsession, especially driven by the political philosophy of the LDP, is to sacrifice, in “kamikaze” fashion, the ecological health and sustainability of the physical nation in exchange for the “security” of holding the barely concealed Ace-up-the-sleeve nuclear weapon capability deterrent.
Japan is the only country to develop a stockpile of weapons grade plutonium– sufficient to equip 5,000 nuclear warheads– which also is technically considered to be a non-nuclear weapons country (similarly Israel is presumed to have hundreds of nuclear weapons already built but has never officially declared their existence or signed the non proliferation treaty).
Nadesan writes that “Japan’s status as nuclear weapons-capable is loudly broadcast through its uranium reprocessing and enrichment capabilities, plutonium stockpiles, and advanced aeronautical capabilities.” Indeed, Japan has “risked accident, terrorism, and international criticism for pursuing plutonium stockpiles” in conjunction with their nuclear fuel reprocessing allies in France and Britain.
Given that it is impossible to provide reliable security for a nuclear reactor in a cost efficient manner, it is clear that nuclear power is the greatest threat to a nations’ security. In Japan’s case, the earthquake that destroyed no less than four reactors and spewed massive radiation into the environment was the “terrorist” at work. But any sitting reactor acts as a ticking time bomb, a veritable doomsday machine with a bull’s eye target painted on its side just waiting for a super high-tech drone attack from an enemy. In this case the sane and ethical option would be to adopt photo voltaic panels which are infinitely safer and fast becoming cheaper.
Fukushima’s Deadly Legacy
Given the well financed campaign by the nuclear industry to downplay nuclear disasters, Nadesan’s analysis of radiation risks is indispensable.
The era of atmospheric testing of nuclear devices (A la Slim Pickens’ beloved mushroom cloud) which occurred mainly in the 1950s, totaled over 500 above ground detonations. This became a cause for grave concern among conscientious scientists and the public.
The 1956 U.S. Academy of Science report, “Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation” (aka the “BEAR” report) is cited by Nadesan “to demonstrate that geneticists warned decades ago of the potential for significant intergenerational health and reproductive risk from nuclear weapons and energy-sourced radiation exposure, but their warnings were discounted” due to “perceived national security benefits” by the nuclear priesthood of scientists and policy makers.
The BEAR report– which was written by highly credentialed scientists that were nevertheless under attack from the nuclear-military proponent sector– states after careful consideration that “even very small amounts of radiation unquestionably have the power to injure hereditary materials” in humans and other organisms. Nadesan summarizes some of the main points of BEAR:
“Radiations cause mutations. Mutations affect those hereditary traits which a person passes on to his children and subsequent generations….
Practically all radiation-induced mutations which have effects large enough to be detected are harmful. A small but not negligible part of this harm would appear in the first generation of the offspring of the person who received the radiation. Most of the harm, however, would remain unnoticed, for a shorter or longer time, in the genetic constitution of the successive generations of offspring….
Any radiation dose, however small, can induce some mutations….
Like radiation-induced mutations, nearly all spontaneous mutations with detectable effects are harmful….
Additional radiation (i.e., radiation over and above the irreducible minimum due to natural causes) produces additional mutations (over and above spontaneous mutations)….
What counts, from the point of view of genetic damage, is not the rate [of exposure to radiation]; it is the total accumulated dose to reproductive cells of the individual from the beginning of his life up to the time the child is conceived….”
Nadesan highlights radiation effects on children and cites the work of Ernest Sternglass who in 1969 “publicized his research by arguing…that radioactive fallout from atmospheric testing had caused the death of 375,000 infants” and “countless fetal deaths” from 1951 to 1966.
In addition to data cited by Nadesan, Epstein reported that a “2002 U.S. Centers for Disease Control report calculated that fallout caused 15,000 U.S. cancer deaths, a figure some believed was a gross underestimate. The following year, a blue ribbon European panel reported 61,600,000 cancer deaths worldwide from fallout” (24).
Bertell makes a bolder estimate that “[u]p to 1,300 million [1.3 billion!] people have been killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since it’s inception. The industry’s figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power, in an attempt to hide its victims from the world” (25).
Nadesan cites the former head of the UN, Kofi Annan who “calculated that at least 7,000,000 people were adversely impacted by the [Chernobyl] disaster.”
The Dangers Of Ionizing Radiation
One of the arguments often marshaled by nuclear apologists is that natural background radiation is not bad for you, ergo radiation released from nuclear fission processes is also safe.
However, Nadesan points out that “mitochondrial DNA is particularly vulnerable to disruption by ionizing radiation, even among people acculturated to relatively high levels of natural (not human produced) background exposure.” She found that in one study “children exposed to higher than ordinary gamma radiation…. found a 12 percent increase in childhood leukemia for every millisievert of natural gamma-radiation dose to bone marrow.” Iran is often mentioned by nuclear apologists as evidence that high background radiation is totally safe, and yet a study found that “higher rates of mitochondrial DNA mutations correlated with higher background exposure” and affected the genomic integrity of future generations of offspring.
In other words, neither natural background radiation nor manmade forms are safe: “common forms of exposure to ionizing radiation can cause cancer and leukemia and…genetic damage can be transmitted across generations.”
There is mounting evidence that radioactive pollution in the global environment plays “a causative role in childhood diseases such as autism and congenital heart disease” and that novel genetic mutations caused by radiation “may have significant transgenerational effects.” One researcher cited by Nadesan notes that “[g]enomic instability is an all-embracing term to describe the increased rate of acquisition of alternations in the genome.” The cellular process of life is open to “multiple pathways” for disruption and the perpetuation of “induced instability” from radiation.
In an important report from 2006, Nadesan concludes of its findings that “radiation exposure that overwhelms repair mechanisms can result in a cascade of genomic events posing long-term adverse effects for biological health and reproduction.”
Nadesan concludes her chapter on radiation effects with this disturbing indictment of the current health regime:
“[C]urrent risk models may under-predict the incidents and range of diseases caused by radiation exposure, within the individuals live span and across generations of their progeny. Bio-accumulation in organs, bio-magnification in predators, synergy effects, and the vulnerabilities produced by increased rates of transgenerational genetic mutations present significant challenges to the ecological validity of contemporary dose-effect models.”
This is a major scandal given that the establishment risk models focus on immediate doses to the individual rather than their descendants. That is what is called the Externalization Of Risk and what I call the Futurization Of Murder as we are exposed to “increasingly radiotoxic environments.”
Conclusion: Time To Loudly Ring The Warning Bell
Nadesan poses a question to thoughtful readers as well as to the lackey politicians tied to the nuclear industry, who claim to care about human and environmental welfare, and economic prosperity.
“A nuclear disaster such as Fukushima produces risks that are truly cataclysmic, but also immeasurable. How does one measure the range of diseases that will be caused and/or exacerbated by an increase of exposure to radioisotopes in the air , drinking water, precipitation, and food, especially across generations?”
But how can this be? By the very fact that radiation risks are largely immeasurable, the powers-that-be can hide behind plausible deniability, and go on their merry way even if their own children may come to suffer from Fukushima induced diseases. The warning bell has been rung loudly, but is there still time to save the planet? Nadesan poignantly asks:
“How many more bells will ring before humanity has destroyed its ecosystem and genome beyond repair?”
Thank you Professor Nadesan. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming: News at 11:00 followed by the late late show starring Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” Have a pleasant evening, and remember: “yeeehaw.”
Richard Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from a social science, holistic perspective. He teaches at a number of universities in the Tokyo, Japan area. His articles on environmental topics including the Fukushima nuclear disaster are archived at http://wilcoxrb99.wordpress.com/ and he can be contacted at wilcoxrb2013@gmail.com
References
1. Majia Holmer Nadesan, Fukushima And The Privatization Of Risk. 2013, 149 pp. (Palgrave/Pivot).
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Fukushima is already an ELE. Three of the cores have melted through the containment vessels and into the Earth. TEPCO says it doesn’t know where it is (NASA can easily spot it, but refuses to show the pictures to the public), but not to worry because they have everything under control and they have achieved cold shutdown. Never mind that pesky little leak or two and the Photoshopped image of #4, and please take our word for it that we are not killing the Pacific Ocean by continuously pouring waste to sea 24/7. Oh, and let’s pretend that the yellow cloud from the explosion at #2 was hydrogen, even though hydrogen burns white and the explosion was obviously plutonium. How sad that I know such a thing and the NRC doesn’t. We are facing the worst environmental disaster of humankind, a disaster that IS DESTROYING THE PLANET every passing second and the NRC is pushing for MORE nuclear power plants!
Do you guys have a death wish? Do you believe that Armageddon is around the corner, so what the hell, why not build more nuclear power planters because the world is going to end in some Dalisque radioactive landscape? How can you possibly keep a straight face while putting forth such useless garbage touting Obama’s “Open Government” (the biggest oxymoron in the world)? Has the NRC been open about the effects of radiation? Of course not.
You guys compare the radiation from Fukushima to that of a banana or a plane ride. You ignore the contamination of the US food supply. Meanwhile in Japan, THE CORIUM HAS MELTED THROUGH THE CONTAINMENT VESSELS! There is nothing underneath. The reactors are on a major fault line. This is a freaking disaster!!! If I can figure this out, why can’t the NRC? It is what is referred to as “The China Syndrome” to the common folk.
The fourth building is near collapse and when – not if – it does, it is “Adios!” to life on this planet. It’s already happening. The entire Northern Hemisphere has been contaminated by radiation and almost all of the food supply has been affected. There has been a huge spike in stillbirths, miscarriages and mutant babies in the Pacific Northwest and California. Seals are dying. Insects are dying. Plants are changing. The United States is doused in radiation and Radnet is…I am not sure where it is. Last I heard it was checking quarterly instead of daily. We do not know what the true levels of radiation are because this government isn’t an open government, no matter what your PR rep wrote.
I do not now what the solution is, but I know that nuclear energy is not part of the equation. Your new platform must rebrand the agency as the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency – and do it soon before the US and Japanese economies and governments collapse, because then there is no one left to fund the decommissioning of these reactors. And god forbid solar activity takes out part of the grid and these plants do not have enough energy to maintain hot and/or cold shutdown. But you guys probably have a plan for this, some super secret plan that does not fall within the parameter’s of Obama’s “Open Government,” right?
If the agency, employees and the PR shills who work for them collectively believe that nuclear power is safe and Fukushima radiation is just bananas, then I propose you put your money where your mouth is and have a little field trip to Fukushima – without radiation gear or even Geiger counter (because nuclear energy is SAFE!) – and eat everything grown in the Fukushima prefecture. You can put it live on YouTube for all to see! Or you could even do Pay-per-view – I think that it would be a revenue maker for the federal government!
I would pay to watch every GS-13 and up (if they are still called that) and every manager have a picnic outside of Fukushima Daichi (but don’t sit too close to #4 in case it collapses). Until you are willing to expose yourself to Fukushima (not that you haven’t been for a year and a half), I think you need to adopt a new platform that better serves Americans and dismantles all nuclear facilities.
I know that signing my name to this will likely put me on some sort of enemy list, if I am not already on one. So be it. At least the person in charge of my dossier will be forced to confront the reality of the situation and to realize just who it is they are serving when they collect their paychecks. At least I cannot be accused of committing a crime against humanity.