Listing of Links to Whales, Mass Die-Offs, Missing In Hawaii

A Reader asked for an easy to access summary of Whale Articles, this is a Whale of A grouping methinks!

 

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	Over 50% of Hawaii's whales are Dead or Missing, Real Data Finally Gathered by Citizen Scientists		Stock
	Hawaii's Whales Mostly AWOL, Song Is Replaced By Grunts and Moans		Stock
	Stop the Krill Kill! Radiation Kills Krill, It Bio-Magnifies In Their Chitin Shell		Stock
	Starving Bears In Alaska Won't Eat This Dead Whale, Experts Say Its The Algae, Fin Whales Don't Eat Algae		Stock
	The Mass Die Offs Now Seem To Be Hitting the Humans On Weak Ecosystems		Stock
	A Red Herring article by Washington Post Serves to Deflect the Necessary Attention Away From Fukushima By Partly Acknowledging It.		Stock
	A Scientific Basis For Destruction Of Ocean Food Chain Via Radiation		Stock	+2
	Adding More Whales to the Dead Whale Count -- Feb 2		Stock
	Massive Whale Deaths Across the World Now -- And The Wake Up Call, It's Fukushima At Your Door		Stock	+1
	Hawaii Whale Population Severly Reduced. Related to Alaska UME This Summer?		Stock
	Killer Whales Spotted Off Hawaii, but No Humpback Whales to Speak Of		Stock
	Horrific Omen of Dying Whales - Whale Gate in Hawaii		Stock
	Whale Gate -- Hawaii Whale Coverup -- They Have REsorted to Turning Off The Whale Cams		Stock
	Hawaii's Whales are Still Missing -- But the Missing Whale Deniers Are Out In Full Force		Stock
	Radiation Bioaccumulation in Sea Life - Defining the Concentration Factor, and Scary Results		Stock
	Hawaii's Whales Are Missing This Year -- GMI "Because Their Numbers Have Increased"		Stock	+1
	A Rare Whale Death In Alaska, "A Gift from God", Wow		Stock
	100 Ton Blue Whale In "Our Radioactive Ocean" Found On Beach, Starved to Death, They Say El Nino Did It		Stock	+9
	Mass Animal Deaths, Continue		Stock
	61 Pages of Stories of the Death Of The Pacific		Stock	+82
	Ocean Radioactivity and the Primordial Soup of Potassium K-40, et al. Turtles Used to Live to 300 Years Old, Not Anymore Edit | View | Share | Delete		Stock	+52
	Finally Some Real Research On The Death Of The Pacific May Occur		Stock
	Radiation Damage to the Pacific is "Just a Conspiracy Theory"		Stock
	The Government Reporting "Quality" on Radiation Testing is Horrifically Deficient, Even High Schools Kids Are Outperforming

Hanford, Absurdly OverBudget, Unsafe, Inneffective------- Installs "Lawyer" To Make It All Right

Hanford, Plagued by problems and absurd costs for decades, recently had its director removed by police whilst fellow employees described him as a "psychopath" and "accident waiting to happen" a "sexual harasser"

That story here.



http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/02/lanl-radiation-lab-exec-director.html

Now who did they replace him with?   A project manager with a stalwart track history of meeting schedules and budgets?   A trained engineer with health physics and safety background?

No they replaced him with a female lawyer who used to work on issues including regulation of Hanford.  
Seriously?   Serious

“One of the qualities that really impresses me about Alex is her commitment to fair and transparent communications with partners and stakeholders,” Zehm said.

Read more here: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article67331632.html#storylink=cpy

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http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/01/hanford-nuclear-and-radiation-travesty.html

and here is another scary female pushing the nuclear death on our genome.

Long Term Exposure to "Low Dose" Radiation is Far Worse a One Time Big Exposure, Especially if the Chronic Exposure is From Man Made Radiation

Doses delivered slowly and continuously over extended periods of time, such as from the ingestion or inhalation of fission-products, are hundreds of times as damaging as short, high-intensity exposures at the same small total dose produced by a brief X-ray.

http://www.mitchelcohen.com/?page_id=329

Radiation and AIDS

Furthermore, as reported in Red Balloon (Spring, 1988), widespread exposure to fallout can affect the immune defenses of the body and increase the mutation rate of micro-organisms. Thus, radioactive releases due to nuclear bomb tests and nuclear powerplant accidents (among other man-made factors) correlate directly with the worldwide epidemics of new diseases and disease complexes such as AIDS, and with a resurgence of older infectious diseases such as measles, hepatitis, tuberculosis, cholera and syphilis. [See Figure 6] The correlation is direct, and the lack of government and scientific concern over the evidence is astounding. Wherever heavy rainfall, diet and social disintegration combine to decimate immune systems and introduce radioactive materials — Strontium-90 being a leading culprit — into people’s bodies, modern plagues are being introduced in populations unable to ward them off.

In recent years, it has become clear that the damage to the immune defenses of the body also lowers its ability to fight cancer. Strontium-90 and other fission products similar to calcium contaminate milk, meat, and root vegetables that are the staples of most western diets. They concentrate in bones and damage the cells of the immune system originating in the bone marrow of newborns as well as adults.

Interestingly, a study by the March of Dimes (NY Times, Apr. 20, 1991), showed that in the mid-1980s, the infant mortality for the Asian population of New York City had plunged to an all-time low of five per 1,000 live births, as low or lower than reached in any other large city in the world — although the infant mortality rate remained about four times greater for the Black population.
The enormous discrepancy fits exactly the hypothesis that it is chiefly the milk, cheese and large amounts of high fat, high Strontium-90 beef that compose the diet of most people in the U.S., but which are not part of most Asians’ diets, that have been devastating the immune systems of the rest of the world’s population since the nuclear age began.

No socio-economic or medical care changes could explain the sudden large fluctuations in mortality over so short a time. Likewise, no other toxic agents such as DDT, PCB, dioxin or other herbicides, pesticides, industrial chemicals or seepages from toxic waste dumps could explain the sharp rises and declines in the U.S. Monthly Vital Statistics across the country as a whole. Only a short-lived toxic agent such as iodine-131 together with other short-lived isotopes could account for such rapid rises and declines of mortality. Indeed, it is the appearance of this short-lived radioactive agent that highly correlates with the sudden rises and declines of all three types of mortality reported for the different regions of the U.S.

Radioactive iodine-131 and other fission products damage key hormone-producing organs such as the thyroid, the pituitary and other glands involved in the control of vital functions such as growth, development, reproduction and immune resistance. As the evidence provided by the Chernobyl accident strongly suggests, low levels of fission products in the air, drinking water and the diet are likely to be the principal factors in the otherwise unexplained changes in mortality and fertility seen in the United States during the years of nuclear weapons testing following World War II.
 

Story of the Bats and the Bees -- Radiation and Destruction of Chitin

This article is also going to be my "go to" link for Bee information that I am gathering and will implement 2 hives in April.

Hey are there any bee keeps on ENE, like to chat.
I have to explain the bats and the bees to my environment.

PavewayIII

March 21, 2016 at 6:05 pm · Reply

Not me, but in case you find others here (or have thoughts yourself, Stock):
Short half-life positively-charged alpha emitters love to stick to pollen, which a plant will negatively charge to stick to bees. Bees themselves positively charge themselves when flying.

Two of the fastest and most powerful natural sentinels for the most dangerous radioactive releases (anything containing much alpha) are pollen and leafy plants with sticky trichomes.
Hand-held counters are not terribly efficient at alpha counting and preparing the sample is critical.

We may have been able to see immediate and profound effects of Fuku by looking at those two natural sources.

If there are any bee keepers in the Northwest or Cali: does anyone have any references for unusual die-offs in the spring/early summer of 2011? Honey and comb would not have been tested properly or quickly enough to see the short-lived alpha, so I know tests showed nothing. The honey itself would not have been an issue by time it went to market. I'm interested in any anecdotal evidence from bee-keepers for unexplained colony collapse. Of course, if you miraculously happened to do detailed alpha surveys of pollen on your hives that spring, that would be most helpful too.

There is a question if you could even detect the amounts of alpha likely to collect on pollen/bees even in the most extreme circumstances. Enough to kill the bees, but not enough even for good equip. to detect
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bat chitin crazy, bats rely on digesting the chitin in the insects they pound, say 600 to 1000 per day.

The gastrointestinal tract of animals is adapted to their primary source of food to optimize resource use and energy intake. Temperate bat species mainly feed on arthropods. These contain the energy-rich carbohydrate chitin, which is indigestible for the endogenous enzymes of a typical mammalian gastrointestinal tract. However, the gastrointestinal tract of bat species should be adapted to their diet and be able to digest chitin. We hypothesized that (i) European vespertilionid bat species have the digestive enzyme chitinase and that (ii) the chitinolytic activity is located in the intestine, as has been found for North American bat species. The gastrointestinal tracts of seven bat species (Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Plecotus auritus, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis nattereri, Myotis daubentonii, Myotis myotis, and Nyctalus leisleri) were tested for chitinolytic activity by diffusion assay.

Gastrointestinal tracts of P. pipistrellus, P. auritus, M. nattereri, M. myotis, and N. leisleri were examined for acidic mammalian chitinase by western blot analysis. Tissue sections of the gastrointestinal tract of P. pipistrellus were immunohistochemically analyzed to locate the acidic mammalian chitinase. Chitinolytic activity was detected in the stomachs of all bat species. Western blot analysis confirmed the acidic mammalian chitinase in stomach samples.

Buzzing Bees

http://www.westword.com/restaurants/colorado-hemp-honey-is-the-bees-knees-and-a-healthy-cbd-option-7318363

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 The story of continuining damage to the Pacific, well, continues

theworldisalie

March 22, 2016 at 11:20 am · Reply

So let's see. Since 2011, we have had a continuous degradation of the Pacific west and north west ocean and even south pacific now.

We had reports of massive amounts of iodine in the kelp early on. We have the collapse of various feeder fish species and their fisheries. We have the collapse of krill. The collapse of many sea birds.
We have chronic wasting diseases of various otherwise hardy sea life all over.

Now there is starving and sick higher order sea life all over the place that is continuing to get worse.
The tidal pools on the west coast look completely sterilized. Even early on there were many reports from the arctic and Alaska of radiation sickness in mammals.

You are in denial, wake up. This is real and it isn't going away.

In a few years, there isn't going to be anything left to argue over because the few remaining unhealthy sea mammals kicking around will have perished.

It started with the plankton/phytoplankton super concentrating isotopes and it's been working it's way to the top ever since. We sterilized the Pacific, it's dying.

It's blatantly obvious.

Liver Damage and Cancers Skyrocketing, As Lying GMO Scientists Get Shamed In Court, Forbes Also Guilty Via Henry Miller

Nice Lady from CDC answered a question I first posed in 2014

Good morning,

The U.S. Cancer Statistics data can be found here: https://nccd.cdc.gov/uscs/.

The recently published Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2012, can be found here: http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/arn_7512.htm.

I no longer work in CDC’s main press office. For future inquiries, please contact CDC-INFO at cdcinfo@cdc.gov or 1-800-232-4636.

Thanks,

Brittany

Brittany Behm, MPH

Public Affairs Specialist

Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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from above links 

Special Feature: Liver Cancer

Unlike most other kinds of cancer, liver cancer incidence and death rates are going up. From 2008 to 2012, the liver cancer incidence rate went up an average of 2.3% per year, and the liver cancer death rate went up by an average of 2.8% per year for men and 3.4% per year for women. About twice as many men as women get liver cancer.

What Causes Liver Cancer?

• In the United States, hepatitis C causes about 20% of liver cancers. People born between 1945 and 1965 are most likely to have hepatitis C.

• Having hepatitis B also raises the risk for liver cancer. Asians and Pacific Islanders, especially Asians not born in the United States, are most likely to have hepatitis B.

• Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and drinking too much alcohol can cause cirrhosis, or scarring of the liver, which can lead to liver cancer.

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Scientist who linked GMOs and glyphosate to rat tumors wins SECOND court case against criminal biotech shills who forged signatures to discredit his research Monday, March 21, 2016

by: Amy Goodrich Tags: Seralini, Monsanto, fraudulent scientists Twitter Seralini (NaturalNews) The Parisian High Court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, a scientist known for his controversial research linking GM feed with cancerous tumor growth in rats, was right when he concluded that GMOs are unsafe for human consumption.

Marc Fellous, former chairman of France's Biomolecular Engineering Commission (BEC), has been indicted for "forgery" and "the use of forgery," in a libel trial that he lost to Prof Gilles-Eric Seralini. The BEC authorized multiple GM crops as safe for human consumption, while lying to the public and hiding scientific data suggesting GM food may be carcinogenic and health-damaging.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/053378_Seralini_Monsanto_fraudulent_scientists.html#ixzz43ZdXtk4d

MONSANTO guilty of criminal data misdirection

When the scientists took a closer look at Monsanto's data, however, they found the Purina feed given to the control group to be contaminated with 12.8% GM soy and 35.6% GM maize, which wasn't even labeled as GM at all.

stock here: These horrific criminal acts are as bad as the "doctors" in Japan using hand selected control groups in Japan to try to downplay the massive 550 times increase in thyroid cancers.

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/additioning-research-on-550-times.html

Here is the findings of a "control study" of children away from Fukushima using ultrasound to detect thyroid anomalies (cysts and nodules, cysts are softer and more fluid, modules are harder and more likely to be able to be felt).

Here is a link to that study
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep09046?message-global=remove

They picked 3 cities for this "control group".

1) Nagasaki: previously bombed by an atomic bomb
2) Yamanishi: Listed as heavily contaminated by the Japanese government
3) Aomori: Just north of Fukushima, many articles on severe contamination from Fukushima.

They tested around 4500 children, but DID NOT provide the overall test results.    I have asked the author for the full results, we will see.   {this was months ago, no response}

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Physicians Estimating 10,000 to 66,000 excess cancers in Japan from Fukushima

5 Years Living with Fukushima is a report outlining the devastating health effects of the still ongoing disaster of the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  We estimate 10,000-66,000 excess cases of cancer, half resulting in death from this event, even using the underestimated radiation emission data from the WHO and the Japanese government.  Already 16 cases of childhood thyroid cancer have been operated on in children who were cancer free two years prior.  Fifty cases of possibly thyroid cancer by biopsy are awaiting surgery. 

http://www.psr.org/resources/fukushima-report-2016.html

Nuclear Radiation Is Far More Toxic to the Living Environment Than Previously Thought.

CodeShutdown
 

March 20, 2016 at 4:46 pm · Reply

 

Jebus, it comes down to this; 'for reasons only partly understood, nuclear fallout is far more toxic to the living environment than previously thought' That's it in a nutshell

The fallout doesn't seem to disperse to a level of non toxicity, as is commonly believed. Biological response seems to linger even after an element has decayed to very low levels, for reasons science has not adequately examined. It is known that animals can re-concentrate radioactive and non radioactive elements thousands and even millions of times, but science does not apply this knowledge adequately to risk factors.

The in-use risk model is outdated and should be replaced immediately. It was invented before the discovery of DNA and is an antiquated model based on false assumptions and faulty data. The newer models show that man made radioactive elements are 10 to thousands of times more toxic than assumed. These new models will also be outdated someday and its likely that many elements will be revealed as even more toxic.
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This Yale author, Elizabeth Grossman, with some Title shown at the right, seems to be "on topic".    I sent her the "Chitin research" and will see if that gets any traction.



http://e360.yale.edu/feature/radioactivity_in_the_ocean_diluted_but_far_from_harmless/2391/

http://ensia.com/about/people/elizabethgrossman/


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The creatures that are hardest hit in the last few years either rely havily on chitin in their own life, or rely on eating creatures that use chitin. chitin bio-magnifies radiation in water/air. Radiation is one of the few things that destroys chitin. Yes, this is the smoking gun http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-scientific-basis-for-destruction-of.html



CodeShutdown

March 20, 2016 at 2:02 pm · Reply

at 20:35 Buesseler puts up a bar chart of quantities released. Note its logarithmic. Iodine is nearly 10x th cesium. "but its gone" he says. Wishing I suppose, that the thyroid and constitutional damage left behind in every creature is gone with it.
Buesseler seems like a likeable guy. His expositions are obfuscation. One wonders how much even he realizes it. The ICRP dose model is the keystone to this problem -------------------------------------------------- at 20:35 Buesseler puts up a bar chart of quantities released. Note its logarithmic. Iodine is nearly 10x th cesium. "but its gone" he says. Wishing I suppose, that the thyroid and constitutional damage left behind in every creature is gone with it. Buesseler seems like a likeable guy. His expositions are obfuscation. One wonders how much even he realizes it. The ICRP dose model is the keystone to this problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a rebuttal to the Science Pimps of "Our Radioactive Ocean"

CodeShutdown March 20, 2016 at 1:48 pm · Reply as far as man made k-40, we have stocks position as of last year. http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/wrap-up-on-radioactive-potassium-k40.html Dr Goodhearts article on this extrapolates from different sources but misses the actual science, the timing and physics of neutron absorption and actual yields. Some of the potassium isotopes that can be created have short half lives and thus dont contribute to the background level. Paveway was quite outspoken that man has not contributed measurably to the background. Paveway appears to be high level in physics carbon 14 is another issue and its rather shocking to realize how much carbon14 was added from the bomb test era. Man, with his relatively (compared to background) small addition of radioactive elements has made the earth a hell for the animal kingdom in just a few short generations.

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Rad Chick on Fukushima 5 Year Anversary, Bumped From RT Program After Wanting to Talk About Clinton Emails

Court Order Nuke Plant to Shutdown Because it Is A Danger to the Public, And They Agree

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/kansai-electric-plunges-after-court-injunction-on-takahama

Kansai Electric Power Co. fell by the most in more than 28 years, leading Japanese utilities lower after a court injunction prevented the company from operating two nuclear reactors, threatening the country’s return to atomic power five years after the Fukushima disaster. Kansai Electric, Japan’s second-largest power utility, closed down 15 percent at 1,047 yen in Tokyo on Thursday, the biggest drop since October 1987. The 20-member Topix Electronic Power & Gas Index slumped 3.1 percent, compared with a 1.5 percent rise in the broader index. The Otsu District Court cited safety concerns in issuing the injunction Wednesday in a decision that applies to the plant’s No. 3 and No. 4 reactors at its Takahama plant, according to court documents. The utility said it will begin shutting its No. 3 unit on Thursday. The ruling is a setback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has backed the return of atomic power after the 2011 Fukushima disaster led to the shutdown of the country’s entire nuclear fleet. Kansai resumed operations at its Takahama No. 3 unit in January and the No. 4 unit in February before the latter was placed in cold shutdown on March 2 after an alarm.

This is big folks, the biggest story perhaps. Could be a first. Court orders nuke plant to shut down and they comply. Is this a model for USA to get them shut down?

 And finally, they come out and admit that there will be additional cancers in Japan due to Fukushima.    Then they minimize at 10,000.    It's probably 10,000,000,  one thousands times higher.

 http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fukushima-report--10000-excess-cancers-expected-in-japan-as-a-result-of-2011-reactor-meltdowns-ongoing-radiation-exposure-300233493.html

St Louis Nuke Waste Dump -- Town Meeting -- Shows The Sheeple Apathetic As They are Poisoned

Skip the first 20 minutes, its all just pre-meeting chatter.

Caldicott makes some extremely strong statements, but the rest is BS Sheeple

penny at ENE summed it up nicely

I watched it yesterday, no problem; when i looked for it today it told me the site was not secure. If you watch, skip the first 20 minutes or so, most of which are crowd noise and the titles. And if you watch to the end, prepare to be sickened by the crowd itself, as it claps politely for the gov't reps who tell them everything is under control, they can apply for compensation for their deceased loved ones through the proper channels, and there will be a peer-reviewed epidemiological study done (to be filed away with the 1000's of others) whilst they die. The only outrage came from Caldicott herself, and one woman who has stage 4 lung cancer. She got a standing ovation, as if that made everything okay…

The NRC is a Captured Agency, Their Conflict of Interests have Made Them Dangerous Overseeing Nuclear Power in USA

This shows it clearly.  A known nuclear plant risk, with a simple fix, and the NRC decides to "do nothing" in fact rejecting multiple attempts from engineers within the NRC to push for the required safety upgrades.

The NRC itself claims the risk to be just 1E-4 (using confusion at every chance to get people to turn off their brains).    1E-4 risk of a meltdown per reactor year.   Now what does that really mean?

Well let the NukePro shed some light with clarifying numbers. 

If we trust the NRC's own numbers, that means 1 in 10,000 chance of a meltdown per reactor year.    We know the NRC has been low balling risk for decades.   Even in 1990, after TMI they pegged the risk of a reactor meltdown in USA at 1 in 1,000,000, when in fact there have been 5 meltdowns in the world with 440 nuclear plants, so the risk is greater than 1 in 100.

Now lets get back to the calcs.    There are about 100 reactors in the USA, so that means every year there is  100 reactor years.    So 1/10,000 times 100 = 1/100 chance of a reactor meltdown per year.

This means in 10 years, there is a one in 10 chance of a meltdown in the USA.  Again, that is if we trust the NRC low-ball numbers.

The cost of a meltdown can vary, but lets put a range of 100B to 800B.

Lets say the safety fix at the plants is $10M each.   A total of 1 Billion.

In 10 years the chance of a meltdown is 1/10, and the cost is 100B to 800B, so the "Expected Value" is 10B to 80B in a 10 year period.  

This would be a VERY smart bet to implement the safety features.   Yet the NRC refuses to put this cost onto the dying nuclear industry.   Clearly they do not have our best interests at heart.


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The "NRC Seven" have been unable to get the NRC to take effective safety action, and are so frustrated that they have gone outside the NRC to file a petition.

I can imagine their future promotions will be greatly curtailed, but good on them!

These are modern day heroes, like the Fukushima 50

Roy Mathew, Sheila Way, Swagata Som, Gurcharan Singh Matharu, Tania Martinez Navedo, Thomas Koshy, and Kenneth Miller

Here is the petition
http://www.scribd.com/doc/302275655/NRC-employees-petition-for-corrective-action

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Seven electrical engineers who work for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission have taken the unusual step of petitioning the NRC as private citizens in hopes of compelling regulators to fix a "significant safety concern'' that affects all but one of the nation's 100 nuclear plants.

The petition filed this week by the NRC Seven, as some call them, is similar to what anti-nuclear activists or other outside watchdog groups would file to raise a concern with the NRC.

The engineers say there is a design flaw in the electric power systems of all but one of the 100 U.S. nuclear plants. The flaw prevents the detection of certain disruptions on power lines connected to the plants. If a degraded power line were called into service during an emergency, the reactor's motors, pumps and valves could burn out, preventing a safe shutdown.

No such catastrophe has occurred. But since discovering the flaw in 2012, NRC staff have looked back and identified 13 events since 2002 when an undetected electrical fault could have resulted in serious problems during an emergency plant shutdown, the employee petition said.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/7_engineers_at_us_agency_go_public_with_nuclear_safety_concern.html 

Here is more

http://allthingsnuclear.org/dlochbaum/the-nrc-seven-petitioning-the-nrc-over-safety 

http://www.utilitydive.com/news/nrc-engineers-urge-shutdown-of-nuclear-plants-if-design-flaw-not-fixed/414919/ 

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The NRC refuses to listen to its own people to protect the public.
Roy K. Mathew
found it
Roy.Mathew@nrc.gov
Mr. Mathew has extensive experience and background, approximately 33 years, in the nuclear power plant design, construction, start-up, and operation. Mr. Mathew joined the NRC in 1988 as a Reactor Engineer in Region I. He led NRC inspection teams from Regions and headquarters such as EDSFIs, SSFIs, ORATs, AITs, and AE Design Inspections. He was the lead senior staff for developing many of the Engineering, Maintenance, and Surveillance program inspection procedures for ROP. He was a Team Leader in the Division of License Renewal, NRR. He has been the Acting Chief of the Electrical Engineering Branch, NRR. He is currently a team leader in the Electrical Engineering Branch, Division of Engineering, NRR.
Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Mathew worked as a design engineer, construction engineer, start-up engineer and a supervisor for Bechtel Power Corporation. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Kerala and attended Master’s Degree program in Electrical Power System at the California State University. He is a graduate of the NRC Team Leader Development Program. He is a member of the IEEE. He represented NRC in developing several standards at the IAEA, IEC, and NEA.

The Nuclear Cartel Say People In High Background Radiation Areas Are Just As Healthy -- They Lie

 stock here, also see at the bottom, an epidemic of thyroid cancer around nuke plants.
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Jebus

March 2, 2016 at 10:05 pm Log in to Reply

Genetic study of high background radiation regions/India – 1990
(April 27, 1990) The US National Academy of Sciences recently revised the risk estimate for radiation induced cancer which is now 10 to 14 times higher than their 1980 estimate (see WISE News Communique 326/7.3261). The new estimate is based on recent reanalysis of data on bomb survivors and the studies of medically irradiated persons conducted by Dr. Alice Stewart and others.
"What," they ask, "will be the effect of an increase in radiation exposure due to nuclear power and other human-made sources on the health and well being of future generations? How many more unfinished children (known as Downs syndrome caused due to an extra two chromosomes) will be born if Kaiga and Koodamkulan (nuclear plants being built in India) start functioning?"
http://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/331/genetic-study-high-background-radiation-regionsindia

March 2, 2016 at 10:06 pm Log in to Reply

The center says a near accurate answer to that question would already be available had the nuclear research establishment conducted a recommended detailed health study among the people living in higher natural background radiation regions (HBRRs) in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India. Due to the presence of thorium and uranium, the background radiation in the fishing villages of Neendakara, Chavara, Ponmana and Alappat in Kollam and all the coastal villages in the Kanyakumari district is very high. People have been living in these HBRRs for several generations. Considering the uniqueness of these people, the World Health Organization had, in 1957, recommended that such a study be conducted there. However, the nuclear energy researth establishment instead went to the extent of preventing or dissuading researchers from civil medical research establishments such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Medical College Trivandrum from conducting it. So, now, the center has taken on the task.
So far, the center has completed a survey in the Kerala and Tamil Nadu HBRRs, details of which are summarized below:
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Between 18 and 25 February of this year the center's international advisory board met and discussed the findings. The preliminary results show that the prevalence of Down's syndrome in the radiation exposed population is three times higher than that of the control population. There is a significant deviation from an earlier study showing no cases of Down's syndrome in the control area (population 6,000). There was a statistically significant difference In the prevalence of mental retardation, epilepsy, cleft lip and palate, etc. A few extremely rare genetic disorders have also been observed. A further disturbing finding is the higher number of childless couples in the HBRR.
The advisory board meeting, chaired by Dr. Rosalie Bertell of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health in Canada, decided to do a finer analysis of over 96,000 pregnancies of 18,000 mothers from both the regions. The parish data needs also to be analyzed to see if there is any difference In sex ratio at birth and sex-wise age at death in the study and control population. These should be completed during the next few months. In the meantime, the preliminary findings are available from the address below.
http://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/331/genetic-study-high-background-radiation-regionsindia

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The Nuke Cartel likes to pretend that people around nuclear plants have zero effect from the plant, and sometimes I hear the incredulous "people are even healthier"

But that is a Bald Faced Lie (BFL)

Invisible Epidemic: Thyroid Cancer in the US
Feb 2016
The highest rates of thyroid cancer in the United States, according to federal statistics, are found in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, states with the densest concentration of reactors in the nation. In a study conducted in 2009, one of this article’s authors (Janette Sherman) found the highest rates of thyroid cancer occurring within 90-mile radiuses of the 16 nuclear power plants (13 still operating) in those states.
By Janette Sherman, MD and Joseph Mangano Director, Nuclear & Public Health, NY
Posted on February 4, 2016 in Environment, Politics
http://washingtonspectator.org/thyroid-invisible-epidemic/

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Then nukists pretend that because thyroid cancer is unlikely to kill someone, that if the thyroid is "treated" then everything is A OK.  

A BLF, living without a thyroid really sucks, it controls your whole metabolism.