Post by nudawaya on Jan 3, 2014 3:56:36 GMT
“A Nuda to You about the Fuk-u-shima and Shamu too”
Recently I have been watching several media outlets copying the alternative media’s “random questions about current events, posed to John Q. and Mary Lou Public. Just like Babes and Buster Bunny of Tiny Toons having no relation none exist between Mary and John either. The Publics in all these little interviews, mainstream and alternative, used to elicit a smirk and a laugh from me but the recent one asking about how they felt about the White house scandals disappointed me. Most were not aware of the scandals; those that were, seemed oblivious to how many and all seemed unconcerned.
Now granted I know it might have taken all day to find several people on a college campus with a high probability of being clueless students. Based on the sunlight and shadows during the filming they had this filmed in less that an hour. Although I was never this deeply vested in politics as I am today but informed enough to list at least three scandals, which I thought most severe. I bet Mary and John could tell you Babes and Buster Bunny are not related and I am sure the Publics probably knew that Tiny Toon relationship. I added this experience because I thought it would be funny. It’s not instead its pathetic and an effect largely caused by apathy.
So if none is aware of three current Presidential events occurring to Scamander and Thief, with a couple of these vacant eyed, Libgressive intellects even trying to justify the Annoying Ones actions. Then it’s a snow-ball’s chance in the heliosphere that I will reach any one with news regarding Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. That’s right Fukushima held over for its 169th big week and still keeping residents in limbo. Its remains an exclusion zone, buster to this day still with a no civilian within 20 km (12 mi) from the event epicenter.
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
They said most of the radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant would fall into the ocean, where it should not pose any danger due to dilution…Or perhaps delusion, these teleprompter puppets tend to annunciate poorly when speaking about the big Fuk-up in Japan. It is a class for Communications Majors called “Leaving Yourself an Out”. They teach you how to speak both arbitrarily and so subjectively, people will form their own opinions, which you can deny in court. Required class for Political Science degrees also, I think.
Adding Science after Political is really a bit of a stretch, you think. Much like the existential, mental masturbation of Psychiatry called a science. If all you have is competing taxonomies based on different schools of theoretical thought with no firm grasp of the operation of each individuals psyche, its hardy a science, although the medical term practice does apply. It will never make Psychiatry perfect or even technically valid. Politics holds the same wild ride when it comes to undefined variables. The one constant is saying only those things that show you in the best light; politics is the antithesis of Psychiatry, which is listening to only those things that show the speaker in the worst light.
I digress in those to pretentious, predilections of insecurity personified, though, let us return to the matter composed of atoms before you split.
So the media repeated their delusion which was solely, written and prepared for us to fit into the big soap opera our lives have become by being plugged into the mass media. Some of you may even know it by name; it is the “Narrative”.
“Dr. Dale Dewar was not convinced. Dewar, a family physician in Wynyard, Sask., does not eat a lot of seafood herself, but when her grandchildren come to visit, she carefully checks seafood labels.”
Obviously one of those freaks that bother to read labels and critically examine what they are buying and consuming. By not accepting the “Narrative” like the rest of the herd, they will not let you play in their sheep herd games. You could be branded by the herd with a name like; “Rudolph the Reynolds Wrapper” because of your very shiny, tin foil, hat.
As much as the herd, brands and re-brands everything in their circles trust me, branded once as a Reynolds Wrapper is far better that multiple brandings.
“She wants to make sure she is not serving them anything that might come from the western Pacific Ocean.”
Obviously just another alarmist, like that Kevin Blanch guy or the Crazy Wolf, Reynolds Wrapper.
Dewar, the executive director of Physicians for Global Survival, a Canadian anti-nuclear group, says the Canadian government has downplayed the radiation risks from Fukushima and is doing little to monitor them.
“We suspect we’re going to see more cancers, decreased fetal viability, decreased fertility, increased metabolic defects – and we expect them to be generational,” she said.
And evidence has emerged that the impacts of the disaster on the Pacific Ocean are worse than expected.
Since a tsunami and earthquake destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant last March, radioactive cesium has consistently been found in 60 to 80 per cent of Japanese fishing catches each month tested by Japan’s Fisheries Agency.
In November, 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material created by nuclear reactors), according to a Gazette analysis of data on the fisheries agency’s website. Cesium is a long-lived radionuclide that persists in the environment and increases the risk of cancer, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which says the most common form of radioactive cesium has a half-life of 30 years.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which monitors food safety, says it is aware of the numbers but says the amounts of cesium detected are small.
“Approximately 60 per cent of fish have shown to have detectable levels of radionuclides,” it said in an emailed statement.
“The majority of exported fish to Canada are caught much farther from the coast of Japan, and the Japanese testing has shown that these fish have not been contaminated with high levels of radionuclides.”
But the Japanese data shows elevated levels of contamination in several seafood species that Japan has exported to Canada in recent years.
In November, 18 per cent of cod exceeded a new radiation ceiling for food to be implemented in Japan in April – along with 21 per cent of eel, 22 per cent of sole and 33 per cent of seaweed.
Overall, one in five of the 1,100 catches tested in November exceeded the new ceiling of 100 Becquerels per kilogram. (Canada’s ceiling for radiation in food is much higher: 1,000 Becquerels per kilo.)
“I would probably be hesitant to eat a lot of those fish,” said Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Fisher is researching how radiation from Fukushima is affecting the Pacific fishery. “There has been virtually zero monitoring and research on this,” he said, calling on other governments to do more radiation tests on the ocean’s marine life.
“Is it something we need to be terrified of? No. Is it something we need to monitor? Yes, particularly in coastal waters where concentrations are high.”
Contamination of fish in the Pacific Ocean could have wide-ranging consequences for millions.
The Pacific is home to the world’s largest fishery, which is in turn the main source of protein for about one billion people in Asia alone.
“It’s completely untrue to say this level of radiation is safe or harmless,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
Edwards, who is also a math professor at Vanier College, said Fukushima has highlighted how lackadaisical Canadian authorities are about radiation risks – the result, he says, of the influence of Canada’s powerful nuclear industry.
“The reassurances have been completely irresponsible. To say there are no health concerns flies in the face of all scientific evidence,” said Edwards, who has advised the federal auditor-general’s office and Ontario government on nuclear-power issues.
Some cesium was found in 16 of these 22 species in November, the last full month for which data was available.
Cesium was especially prevalent in certain of the species:
73 per cent of mackerel tested
91 per cent of the halibut
92 per cent of the sardines
93 per cent of the tuna and eel
94 per cent of the cod and anchovies
100 per cent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters. Other catches were made hundreds of kilometers away in the open ocean.
There, the fish can also be caught by fishers from dozens of other nations that ply the waters of the Pacific.
Yet, Japan is the only country that appears to be systematically testing fish for radiation and publicly reporting the results.
CFIA is no longer doing any testing of its own. It did some radiation tests on food imports from areas of Japan around the stricken nuclear plant in the weeks after the Fukushima accident.
Only one of the 169 tested products showed any radiation. CFIA stopped doing the tests last June, saying they weren’t needed.
The United States secretly sought Japan's support in 1972 to enable it to dump decommissioned nuclear reactors into the world's oceans under the London Convention, an international treaty being drawn up at the time.
Countries working on the wording of the pact wanted to specifically prohibit the dumping of radioactive waste at sea.
But Washington wanted to incorporate an exceptional clause in the case of decommissioned nuclear reactors....
"...It was apparent that the United States constructed nuclear reactors without having decided on disposal methods, forcing it to consider dumping them at sea after they were decommissioned..."
“The quantities of radioactive material reaching Canada are very small and within normal ranges,” CFIA spokesperson Lisa Gauthier said in an emailed statement.
“They do not pose any health risk to Canadians, the food we eat or the plants and animals in Canada.”
In August, CFIA also tested a dozen samples of fish caught in B.C. coastal and inland waters. None of those tests found any radiation.
CFIA said it has no plans to do any other radiation tests on fish in the Pacific or imports from other nations that fish in the ocean, including Japan.
CFIA now relies on Japanese authorities to screen Japanese food exported to Canada.
But Japan’s monitoring of food has come under a storm of criticism from the Japanese public after food contaminated with radiation was sold to consumers.
A Canadian seafood industry official was surprised when told CFIA doesn’t plan any more tests of Pacific fish.
“It is certainly our expectation that the CFIA will test again this year,” said Christina Burridge, executive director of the B.C. Seafood Alliance.
The alliance is an umbrella of Pacific seafood harvesting associations whose member firms generate about $700 million in yearly revenues.
Burridge said CFIA promised her group last spring it would test Pacific salmon and tuna returning to B.C. fishing grounds in 2012 and 2013 because of the possibility those fish could have migrated close to Japan.
“We all agreed that if there was any risk of contamination, it would be in 2012 and 2013,” she said.
She wouldn’t comment on the Japanese fisheries data, which she hadn’t seen previously. But she said of the data: “It would reinforce our expectation that the CFIA would test this year.
“We want to be able to assure our customers that our expectation that there will be no increase in detectable levels (of radiation) is true,” she said.
She said she based this expectation on “a general belief that contamination will be limited to the coastal waters off Japan.”
But despite this belief and the importance of the Pacific fishery, few studies exist on how Fukushima affected marine life.
One of those studies found that fish and crustaceans caught in the vicinity of Fukushima in late March had 10,000 times more than so-called safe levels of radiation. The study, published last May in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, also said macro algae had 19,000 times the safe level.
Those levels were measured before the Japanese utility that runs the crippled nuclear plant dumped 11,000 tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific in April and additional leaks that have released hundreds of tonnes more.
But since that early study, little research has been published on the topic.
“People want to know what’s happening with the cesium and how much is in the fish, but we don’t know. It’s frustrating,” said oceanographer Buesseler.
“It’s disconcerting how big of an event Fukushima was and how little data are out there. No one has taken responsibility for studying this in a single agency (in the U.S.), even though we also have reactors on the coast and other events could happen,” he said.
SUNY’s Fisher agrees: “In the U.S., it’s very difficult to acquire funding to do that work. A lot of people are very frustrated. Funding agencies are already spread incredibly thin, and they were not prepared for this,” he said.
After governments refused to provide funds, Buesseler, Fisher and other scientists secured funds from a private foundation for a research voyage in the Pacific to gather radiation data on fish, plankton and water.
Fisher can’t discuss his findings because they aren’t published yet. He expects to send them for publication in coming weeks.
Buesseler has already reported some results from the 15-day cruise last May and June.
He co-authored the study in October that said cesium levels in the Pacific had gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly leveled off.
In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.
It meant the ocean wasn’t diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling. The finding suggested radiation was still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, Buesseler said in an interview.
“It implies the groundwater is contaminated or the facility is still leaking radiation.”
In November, the average Japanese catch had 111 becquerels of cesium per kilogram – above the new radiation ceiling of 100 becquerels per kilo that Japan has announced it will implement for food this spring.
The November level declined from a peak level of 373 becquerels per kilo last April. But it was an increase from the October average of 78 becquerels per kilo.
Such persistently elevated levels of radiation warrant more monitoring and research, Fisher said. “It’s not something we can easily dismiss.”
Continuing radiation leaks from Fukushima could be to blame, he said. Another culprit, he said, may be a phenomenon called biomagnification – the tendency for radiation concentrations to increase in species that are farther up the food chain.
About 2.7 per cent of the fish catches also exceeded Japan’s existing ceiling for food of 500 becquerels per kilo. That was also up from one per cent in October.
In November, 0.8 per cent of Japanese catches exceeded Canada’s ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo, up from 0.2 per cent in October.
But food with radiation below these limits can still pose health risks, Edwards believes. “There is no safe level of radiation. They should be making every effort to monitor food.”
We know that they have been dumping tremendous amounts of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. This is the water that they have been spraying onto the reactors, fuel rods, and fuel pools while trying to keep them from entirely melting down. The problem is, there has been partial meltdown and the radiation is traveling with the water runoff, which is currently being dumped into the ocean (some water is being diverted into storage tanks).
Of much higher concern is Cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years (considered gone after 300 years). Of even higher concern is Plutonium-239 which has an unimaginable half-life of 24,000 years (considered gone after 240,000 years).
The radiation in the seawater is surely getting diluted, however fish are swimming in the water, and the diluted particles of Cesium and Plutonium will remain somewhere in the oceans for 300 to 240,000 years. Do you know how fish stay alive? They constantly are passing water through their mouths into their gills — never ending.
Not only do little fish stay alive this way, but also big fish. So, not only will big fish get their own radiation through water injection through their gills, etc… but the big fish also eat the small fish. Effectively then, they are getting More radiation.
The big fish are then caught for processing, distribution and consumption by humans.
Where does the ‘canned’ tuna come from?
About 68 percent are caught from the Pacific Ocean, 22 percent from the Indian Ocean, and the remaining 10 percent from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
When you open a can of tuna, you don’t know where the actual tuna was caught.
Odds are of course, that the tuna in that particular can may not have been caught off the shore of Japan — it could have been caught in any other number of places in the Pacific. Lots of these tuna migrate their way to the west coast U.S., but it takes awhile — years in some cases.
No doubt the food supply chain will be examined further as time goes on, particularly if the situation continues to worsen at the Fukushima nuclear plant (It’s already a level-7, the highest on the nuke disaster scale). True results may not be measured for many years to come while looking back at cancer rates.
No amount of radiation ingestion is ‘OK’ though. A single Cesium-137 particle stuck in your body could start the chain reaction that leads to cancer.
Now I really enjoy how TEPCO’s Public Relations Department embellishes the deep concern they had for the local citizens. Like creating “Kibitan” a bright yellow, avian, hybrid mango, manga mutant that wasn’t even a ninja.
rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-children-leaflets-369/
I had in an earlier article (Yeah, I’ve been writing about it since day one.) mentioned creepy little, citron Geiger chirping, mascot, who perhaps fills one purpose: Get the children outside in an attempt to psychologically normalize and desensitize their acquired fear they now have for nuclear power. The costume clad, contamination critter is part of a program to teach the children the dangers of ionizing radiation (IR) and ionizing radioactive particulates (IRP) often called “fall-out”. I’m afraid that has nothing to do with the characters primary focus though.
Sadly just based on the standard methods of operation of the nuclear industry it’s an aggressive and they will make your life hell if you screw with their illusion. All the technicians, operators, engineers, physicists and I think at least some of the suits have figured out it’s a sham but it’s a lucrative one and not tough to get a 60K a year job with just high school.
So they play every card in the deck to keep the illusion going and making kids feel safe with nuclear power is investing time into their future utilities customers. They are only supporting the Nuclear Power brain washing program. I won’t due to have kids become anti nuclear and don’t buy the clean, safe and economic adult brain washing program they feed you.
It is a complete and utter fabrication and I will prove it later within this piece for now, I’m trying my best to impart a sound, useful and easy to grasp understanding of a study most don’t want to know.
“Background Radiation”
For easy understanding for the laymen I want you to think of two separate concerns; non-particulate IR and particulate IRP due to the need to isolate the term “particle” to avoid confusion.
Background Radiation represents the non-particulate IR energy that is naturally occurring from cosmic radiation, element decay or environmentally sourced. It primarily consisting of subatomic particles like positively charged ions, protons and larger nuclei derived sources outside our solar system. Entering the planets atmosphere an air shower is created when the particles interact with the air’s atoms producing secondary IR to include: muons, protons, pions, electrons, Carbon-14 or radiocarbon, Alpha particles, X-rays and neutrons. Our own sun provides Gamma, X-ray, and the non-ionizing infrared, ultraviolet, ambient which are all just different frequencies of the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
“Fall-out”
Fall-out or particulate IRP while it can be a contribution to the background radiation separating this as a conspicuous and even inconspicuous fine or microscopic dust that can contaminate food, water, and air to include mucosa, lacrimle, aqueous layer and membranes if unsheltered while it is airborne and this can be to wind, rain, fog, and mist so use protective gear if the potential of risk is there.
So remember Background IR and Fall-out IRP the rest is just explanation that helps you understand why you need to remember those two things.
“Background IR and Fall-out IRP”
These emissions can occur as they may knock off an electron in its target, thus resulting in ionization. When something absorbs the energy of the ray or the particle, irradiation occurs. When a living being absorbs it, that individual has received a “dose” of radiation.
When a radioactive release happens, and the dose to those impacted is estimated or “reconstructed,” the far too cavalier and generalized characteristics of the Standard Man were used. Often as was not only were you playing “Pin the Parameters on the Patient” but even with engineers present at an incident, so few had accurately logged incident readings. At one facility I pointed out I knew the senior floor operator was left handed because in the log book, instead of actually doing the full operations check and systems monitoring gauges and levels, he had taken to just copying one of 4 numbers and entering randomly. Subconsciously his handwriting and his orientation of his letters took on a list to port. He attempted to deny I knew anything by lying and claiming he was right handed.
He had just returned from lunch and had smoked a cigarette and in his packs cellophane was a book of matches. So I explained if he wanted to retain his job he would hand me the matches, opening the book he was indeed pulling them from the left side of the book. “Don’t lie, there are folks like me that know you haven’t a clue what “tells” I use but you look all the more foolish.” I gave them one month to resolve the violations but I got so many complaints from plant Boards and CEOs that I was too tough I wasn’t allowed to do inspections. People think I kid when I say FDA, NRC, DOE, EPA, and USDA are all worthless and each agency could be managed a 16th of the staff and a 10th of the budget. The GS’s I worked with were worthless and they are all now in department heads or vice directorships because they either don’t or can’t demote? I never understood that but I guess it’s easier to kill a zombie that it is to fire a bureaucrat.
So the 1957 Civil Defense standardized assumptions about the impact of radiation on the Standard Man are used as the basis for the estimated dose. The many differences between real people and the Standard Man are not considered when estimating the official dose to individuals but I developed weight and gender specific guidelines as children, with females being the most susceptible to radiations damage and women beyond 40 or pregnant needing rapid action.
Former independent watchdog agency now fully on board the gravy train sent out this FAQ about Fukashima and I will post the question, the propaganda, and the facts about the situation.
Q: What is the health risk of radiation from the Fukushima incident to people in the United States?
A: There is no health risk “of” radiation from the Fukushima incident to people in the United States or its territories, as the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have affirmed.
My rebuttal to this:
So why use “of” instead of “from” replace and reread the sentence, yes they are both arbitrary and ambiguous with word use and everyone who has been in DC at least a year does it. Noting the did not include the initials for (CDC) and my last email with mass spectrum analyzed tissue samples from the Sea Lions had the CDC go silent as of 4 months ago. I bet they refused to comment because I still remember the Ring Neck Seal / Walrus mass die off and I want the results from those test.
They were supplied samples from NOAA, and Alaska Fish and Game were I got my frozen samples to replace my personal ones lost up at Stanford University. That was the first of many marine die offs to follow and they were sent samples on March 30, 2011 and have never reported anything about the tissue. I confirmed blood and muscle tissue having hypothyroid markers, and hair that is showing malnutrition along with reposts of the animals appearing anorexic, with alopecia and lesions, with conspicuous mucus thick whitish, light green. That is what I wanted a simple of to see if it was a bacterium or virus, which finished off what the Radioiodine did not kill. I am positive but the real concern is if the mucus was a viral bug.
They tend to be adaptive more so than bacteria and going from mammal to bird back to mammal is no big jump for them,
My current Sea Lion samples including Thyroid tissue, liver tissue, Bone biopsy, and CFS (spinal fluid) all came back positive for caesium-134 134C, caesium-137 137C, Plutonium-239 239P, and Plutonium-238 238P, (I think France?), Plutonium-240 240P, and americium-239 239A and Strontium-90 90S. I was unable to encounter a sea lion corpse that was possible for me to move and isolate from the oceans large-scale contamination. Therefore, I was unable to get cadaver versus ocean/beach contamination level of isolation effectively. Without an isolated laboratory environment my readings are at best subjective and yet tissue samples all came back 5 to 30 times above background in isolation. The other question looming is why was it 50 times higher at the beach over background?
Affect seafood overseas.
The unchecked radioactive discharge into the Pacific has prompted experts to sound the alarm, as cesium, which has a much longer half-life than iodine, is expected to concentrate in the upper food chain.
According to TEPCO, some 300,000 becquerels per cu. centimeter of radioactive iodine-131 was detected Saturday, while the amount of cesium-134 was 2 million times the maximum amount permitted and cesium-137 was 1.3 million times the amount allowable.
The amount of iodine-131 dropped to 79,000 becquerels per cu. centimeter Sunday but shot up again Monday to 200,000 becquerels, 5 million times the permissible amount.
The level of radioactive iodine in the polluted water inside reactor 2′s cracked storage pit had an even higher concentration. A water sample Saturday had 5.2 million becquerels of iodine per cu. centimeter, or 130 million times the maximum amount allowable, and water leaking from the crack had a reading of 5.4 million becquerels, TEPCO said.
A total of 60,000 tons of radioactive water is believed to be flooding the basement of reactor buildings and underground trenches.
“It is a considerably high amount,” said Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
Masayoshi Yamamoto, a professor of radiology at Kanazawa University, said the high level of cesium is the more worrisome find.
“By the time radioactive iodine is taken in by plankton, which is eaten by smaller fish and then by bigger fish, it will be diluted by the sea and the amount will decrease because of its eight-day half-life,” Yamamoto said. “But cesium is a bigger problem.”
The half-life of cesium-137 is 30 years, while that for cesium-134 is two years. The longer half-life means it will probably concentrate in the upper food chain.
Yamamoto said such radioactive materials are likely to be detected in fish and other marine products in Japan and other nations in the short and long run, posing a serious threat to the seafood industry in other nations as well.
“All of Japan’s sea products will probably be labeled unsafe and other nations will blame Japan if radiation is detected in their marine products,” Yamamoto said.
Tepco on Monday began the release into the sea of 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water to make room to store high-level radiation-polluted water in the No. 2 turbine building. The discharge continued Tuesday.
“It is important to transfer the water in the No. 2 turbine building and store it in a place where there is no leak,” Nishiyama of the NISA said. “We want to keep the contamination of the sea to a minimum.”
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano apologized for the release of radioactive water into the sea but said it was unavoidable to prevent the spread of higher-level radiation.
Fisheries minister Michihiko Kano said the ministry plans to increase its inspections of fish and other marine products for radiation.
On Monday, 4,080 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive iodine was detected in lance fish caught off Ibaraki Prefecture. Fishermen voluntarily suspended its shipment. The health ministry plans to compile radiation criteria for banning marine products.
Three days after TEPCO discovered the crack in the reactor 2 storage pit it still hadn’t found the source of the high radiation leak seeping into the Pacific.
TEPCO initially believed the leak was somewhere in the cable trench that connects the No. 2 turbine building and the pit. However, after using milky white bath salt to trace the flow, which appeared to prove that was not the case; the utility began to think it might be seeping through a layer of small stones below the cable trench.
To halt the radioactive water leak, TEPCO injected sodium silicate to solidify the stone layer Tuesday.
Meanwhile, efforts were also under way to prevent contaminated water from spreading to the outer sea.
TEPCO ordered a silt fence, an underwater curtain like structure, to be draped around the leak and is considering putting big steel fences, often used for constructing bridges, in the perimeter to prevent further contamination.
Information from Kyodo added
Recently I have been watching several media outlets copying the alternative media’s “random questions about current events, posed to John Q. and Mary Lou Public. Just like Babes and Buster Bunny of Tiny Toons having no relation none exist between Mary and John either. The Publics in all these little interviews, mainstream and alternative, used to elicit a smirk and a laugh from me but the recent one asking about how they felt about the White house scandals disappointed me. Most were not aware of the scandals; those that were, seemed oblivious to how many and all seemed unconcerned.
Now granted I know it might have taken all day to find several people on a college campus with a high probability of being clueless students. Based on the sunlight and shadows during the filming they had this filmed in less that an hour. Although I was never this deeply vested in politics as I am today but informed enough to list at least three scandals, which I thought most severe. I bet Mary and John could tell you Babes and Buster Bunny are not related and I am sure the Publics probably knew that Tiny Toon relationship. I added this experience because I thought it would be funny. It’s not instead its pathetic and an effect largely caused by apathy.
So if none is aware of three current Presidential events occurring to Scamander and Thief, with a couple of these vacant eyed, Libgressive intellects even trying to justify the Annoying Ones actions. Then it’s a snow-ball’s chance in the heliosphere that I will reach any one with news regarding Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. That’s right Fukushima held over for its 169th big week and still keeping residents in limbo. Its remains an exclusion zone, buster to this day still with a no civilian within 20 km (12 mi) from the event epicenter.
After the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years, authorities in Canada said people living here were safe and faced no health risks from the fallout from Fukushima.
They said most of the radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear power plant would fall into the ocean, where it should not pose any danger due to dilution…Or perhaps delusion, these teleprompter puppets tend to annunciate poorly when speaking about the big Fuk-up in Japan. It is a class for Communications Majors called “Leaving Yourself an Out”. They teach you how to speak both arbitrarily and so subjectively, people will form their own opinions, which you can deny in court. Required class for Political Science degrees also, I think.
Adding Science after Political is really a bit of a stretch, you think. Much like the existential, mental masturbation of Psychiatry called a science. If all you have is competing taxonomies based on different schools of theoretical thought with no firm grasp of the operation of each individuals psyche, its hardy a science, although the medical term practice does apply. It will never make Psychiatry perfect or even technically valid. Politics holds the same wild ride when it comes to undefined variables. The one constant is saying only those things that show you in the best light; politics is the antithesis of Psychiatry, which is listening to only those things that show the speaker in the worst light.
I digress in those to pretentious, predilections of insecurity personified, though, let us return to the matter composed of atoms before you split.
So the media repeated their delusion which was solely, written and prepared for us to fit into the big soap opera our lives have become by being plugged into the mass media. Some of you may even know it by name; it is the “Narrative”.
“Dr. Dale Dewar was not convinced. Dewar, a family physician in Wynyard, Sask., does not eat a lot of seafood herself, but when her grandchildren come to visit, she carefully checks seafood labels.”
Obviously one of those freaks that bother to read labels and critically examine what they are buying and consuming. By not accepting the “Narrative” like the rest of the herd, they will not let you play in their sheep herd games. You could be branded by the herd with a name like; “Rudolph the Reynolds Wrapper” because of your very shiny, tin foil, hat.
As much as the herd, brands and re-brands everything in their circles trust me, branded once as a Reynolds Wrapper is far better that multiple brandings.
“She wants to make sure she is not serving them anything that might come from the western Pacific Ocean.”
Obviously just another alarmist, like that Kevin Blanch guy or the Crazy Wolf, Reynolds Wrapper.
Dewar, the executive director of Physicians for Global Survival, a Canadian anti-nuclear group, says the Canadian government has downplayed the radiation risks from Fukushima and is doing little to monitor them.
“We suspect we’re going to see more cancers, decreased fetal viability, decreased fertility, increased metabolic defects – and we expect them to be generational,” she said.
And evidence has emerged that the impacts of the disaster on the Pacific Ocean are worse than expected.
Since a tsunami and earthquake destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant last March, radioactive cesium has consistently been found in 60 to 80 per cent of Japanese fishing catches each month tested by Japan’s Fisheries Agency.
In November, 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material created by nuclear reactors), according to a Gazette analysis of data on the fisheries agency’s website. Cesium is a long-lived radionuclide that persists in the environment and increases the risk of cancer, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which says the most common form of radioactive cesium has a half-life of 30 years.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which monitors food safety, says it is aware of the numbers but says the amounts of cesium detected are small.
“Approximately 60 per cent of fish have shown to have detectable levels of radionuclides,” it said in an emailed statement.
“The majority of exported fish to Canada are caught much farther from the coast of Japan, and the Japanese testing has shown that these fish have not been contaminated with high levels of radionuclides.”
But the Japanese data shows elevated levels of contamination in several seafood species that Japan has exported to Canada in recent years.
In November, 18 per cent of cod exceeded a new radiation ceiling for food to be implemented in Japan in April – along with 21 per cent of eel, 22 per cent of sole and 33 per cent of seaweed.
Overall, one in five of the 1,100 catches tested in November exceeded the new ceiling of 100 Becquerels per kilogram. (Canada’s ceiling for radiation in food is much higher: 1,000 Becquerels per kilo.)
“I would probably be hesitant to eat a lot of those fish,” said Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Fisher is researching how radiation from Fukushima is affecting the Pacific fishery. “There has been virtually zero monitoring and research on this,” he said, calling on other governments to do more radiation tests on the ocean’s marine life.
“Is it something we need to be terrified of? No. Is it something we need to monitor? Yes, particularly in coastal waters where concentrations are high.”
Contamination of fish in the Pacific Ocean could have wide-ranging consequences for millions.
The Pacific is home to the world’s largest fishery, which is in turn the main source of protein for about one billion people in Asia alone.
“It’s completely untrue to say this level of radiation is safe or harmless,” said Gordon Edwards, president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.
Edwards, who is also a math professor at Vanier College, said Fukushima has highlighted how lackadaisical Canadian authorities are about radiation risks – the result, he says, of the influence of Canada’s powerful nuclear industry.
“The reassurances have been completely irresponsible. To say there are no health concerns flies in the face of all scientific evidence,” said Edwards, who has advised the federal auditor-general’s office and Ontario government on nuclear-power issues.
Some cesium was found in 16 of these 22 species in November, the last full month for which data was available.
Cesium was especially prevalent in certain of the species:
73 per cent of mackerel tested
91 per cent of the halibut
92 per cent of the sardines
93 per cent of the tuna and eel
94 per cent of the cod and anchovies
100 per cent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters. Other catches were made hundreds of kilometers away in the open ocean.
There, the fish can also be caught by fishers from dozens of other nations that ply the waters of the Pacific.
Yet, Japan is the only country that appears to be systematically testing fish for radiation and publicly reporting the results.
CFIA is no longer doing any testing of its own. It did some radiation tests on food imports from areas of Japan around the stricken nuclear plant in the weeks after the Fukushima accident.
Only one of the 169 tested products showed any radiation. CFIA stopped doing the tests last June, saying they weren’t needed.
The United States secretly sought Japan's support in 1972 to enable it to dump decommissioned nuclear reactors into the world's oceans under the London Convention, an international treaty being drawn up at the time.
Countries working on the wording of the pact wanted to specifically prohibit the dumping of radioactive waste at sea.
But Washington wanted to incorporate an exceptional clause in the case of decommissioned nuclear reactors....
"...It was apparent that the United States constructed nuclear reactors without having decided on disposal methods, forcing it to consider dumping them at sea after they were decommissioned..."
“The quantities of radioactive material reaching Canada are very small and within normal ranges,” CFIA spokesperson Lisa Gauthier said in an emailed statement.
“They do not pose any health risk to Canadians, the food we eat or the plants and animals in Canada.”
In August, CFIA also tested a dozen samples of fish caught in B.C. coastal and inland waters. None of those tests found any radiation.
CFIA said it has no plans to do any other radiation tests on fish in the Pacific or imports from other nations that fish in the ocean, including Japan.
CFIA now relies on Japanese authorities to screen Japanese food exported to Canada.
But Japan’s monitoring of food has come under a storm of criticism from the Japanese public after food contaminated with radiation was sold to consumers.
A Canadian seafood industry official was surprised when told CFIA doesn’t plan any more tests of Pacific fish.
“It is certainly our expectation that the CFIA will test again this year,” said Christina Burridge, executive director of the B.C. Seafood Alliance.
The alliance is an umbrella of Pacific seafood harvesting associations whose member firms generate about $700 million in yearly revenues.
Burridge said CFIA promised her group last spring it would test Pacific salmon and tuna returning to B.C. fishing grounds in 2012 and 2013 because of the possibility those fish could have migrated close to Japan.
“We all agreed that if there was any risk of contamination, it would be in 2012 and 2013,” she said.
She wouldn’t comment on the Japanese fisheries data, which she hadn’t seen previously. But she said of the data: “It would reinforce our expectation that the CFIA would test this year.
“We want to be able to assure our customers that our expectation that there will be no increase in detectable levels (of radiation) is true,” she said.
She said she based this expectation on “a general belief that contamination will be limited to the coastal waters off Japan.”
But despite this belief and the importance of the Pacific fishery, few studies exist on how Fukushima affected marine life.
One of those studies found that fish and crustaceans caught in the vicinity of Fukushima in late March had 10,000 times more than so-called safe levels of radiation. The study, published last May in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, also said macro algae had 19,000 times the safe level.
Those levels were measured before the Japanese utility that runs the crippled nuclear plant dumped 11,000 tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific in April and additional leaks that have released hundreds of tonnes more.
But since that early study, little research has been published on the topic.
“People want to know what’s happening with the cesium and how much is in the fish, but we don’t know. It’s frustrating,” said oceanographer Buesseler.
“It’s disconcerting how big of an event Fukushima was and how little data are out there. No one has taken responsibility for studying this in a single agency (in the U.S.), even though we also have reactors on the coast and other events could happen,” he said.
SUNY’s Fisher agrees: “In the U.S., it’s very difficult to acquire funding to do that work. A lot of people are very frustrated. Funding agencies are already spread incredibly thin, and they were not prepared for this,” he said.
After governments refused to provide funds, Buesseler, Fisher and other scientists secured funds from a private foundation for a research voyage in the Pacific to gather radiation data on fish, plankton and water.
Fisher can’t discuss his findings because they aren’t published yet. He expects to send them for publication in coming weeks.
Buesseler has already reported some results from the 15-day cruise last May and June.
He co-authored the study in October that said cesium levels in the Pacific had gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly leveled off.
In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.
It meant the ocean wasn’t diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling. The finding suggested radiation was still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, Buesseler said in an interview.
“It implies the groundwater is contaminated or the facility is still leaking radiation.”
In November, the average Japanese catch had 111 becquerels of cesium per kilogram – above the new radiation ceiling of 100 becquerels per kilo that Japan has announced it will implement for food this spring.
The November level declined from a peak level of 373 becquerels per kilo last April. But it was an increase from the October average of 78 becquerels per kilo.
Such persistently elevated levels of radiation warrant more monitoring and research, Fisher said. “It’s not something we can easily dismiss.”
Continuing radiation leaks from Fukushima could be to blame, he said. Another culprit, he said, may be a phenomenon called biomagnification – the tendency for radiation concentrations to increase in species that are farther up the food chain.
About 2.7 per cent of the fish catches also exceeded Japan’s existing ceiling for food of 500 becquerels per kilo. That was also up from one per cent in October.
In November, 0.8 per cent of Japanese catches exceeded Canada’s ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo, up from 0.2 per cent in October.
But food with radiation below these limits can still pose health risks, Edwards believes. “There is no safe level of radiation. They should be making every effort to monitor food.”
We know that they have been dumping tremendous amounts of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. This is the water that they have been spraying onto the reactors, fuel rods, and fuel pools while trying to keep them from entirely melting down. The problem is, there has been partial meltdown and the radiation is traveling with the water runoff, which is currently being dumped into the ocean (some water is being diverted into storage tanks).
Of much higher concern is Cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years (considered gone after 300 years). Of even higher concern is Plutonium-239 which has an unimaginable half-life of 24,000 years (considered gone after 240,000 years).
The radiation in the seawater is surely getting diluted, however fish are swimming in the water, and the diluted particles of Cesium and Plutonium will remain somewhere in the oceans for 300 to 240,000 years. Do you know how fish stay alive? They constantly are passing water through their mouths into their gills — never ending.
Not only do little fish stay alive this way, but also big fish. So, not only will big fish get their own radiation through water injection through their gills, etc… but the big fish also eat the small fish. Effectively then, they are getting More radiation.
The big fish are then caught for processing, distribution and consumption by humans.
Where does the ‘canned’ tuna come from?
About 68 percent are caught from the Pacific Ocean, 22 percent from the Indian Ocean, and the remaining 10 percent from the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
When you open a can of tuna, you don’t know where the actual tuna was caught.
Odds are of course, that the tuna in that particular can may not have been caught off the shore of Japan — it could have been caught in any other number of places in the Pacific. Lots of these tuna migrate their way to the west coast U.S., but it takes awhile — years in some cases.
No doubt the food supply chain will be examined further as time goes on, particularly if the situation continues to worsen at the Fukushima nuclear plant (It’s already a level-7, the highest on the nuke disaster scale). True results may not be measured for many years to come while looking back at cancer rates.
No amount of radiation ingestion is ‘OK’ though. A single Cesium-137 particle stuck in your body could start the chain reaction that leads to cancer.
Now I really enjoy how TEPCO’s Public Relations Department embellishes the deep concern they had for the local citizens. Like creating “Kibitan” a bright yellow, avian, hybrid mango, manga mutant that wasn’t even a ninja.
rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-children-leaflets-369/
I had in an earlier article (Yeah, I’ve been writing about it since day one.) mentioned creepy little, citron Geiger chirping, mascot, who perhaps fills one purpose: Get the children outside in an attempt to psychologically normalize and desensitize their acquired fear they now have for nuclear power. The costume clad, contamination critter is part of a program to teach the children the dangers of ionizing radiation (IR) and ionizing radioactive particulates (IRP) often called “fall-out”. I’m afraid that has nothing to do with the characters primary focus though.
Sadly just based on the standard methods of operation of the nuclear industry it’s an aggressive and they will make your life hell if you screw with their illusion. All the technicians, operators, engineers, physicists and I think at least some of the suits have figured out it’s a sham but it’s a lucrative one and not tough to get a 60K a year job with just high school.
So they play every card in the deck to keep the illusion going and making kids feel safe with nuclear power is investing time into their future utilities customers. They are only supporting the Nuclear Power brain washing program. I won’t due to have kids become anti nuclear and don’t buy the clean, safe and economic adult brain washing program they feed you.
It is a complete and utter fabrication and I will prove it later within this piece for now, I’m trying my best to impart a sound, useful and easy to grasp understanding of a study most don’t want to know.
“Background Radiation”
For easy understanding for the laymen I want you to think of two separate concerns; non-particulate IR and particulate IRP due to the need to isolate the term “particle” to avoid confusion.
Background Radiation represents the non-particulate IR energy that is naturally occurring from cosmic radiation, element decay or environmentally sourced. It primarily consisting of subatomic particles like positively charged ions, protons and larger nuclei derived sources outside our solar system. Entering the planets atmosphere an air shower is created when the particles interact with the air’s atoms producing secondary IR to include: muons, protons, pions, electrons, Carbon-14 or radiocarbon, Alpha particles, X-rays and neutrons. Our own sun provides Gamma, X-ray, and the non-ionizing infrared, ultraviolet, ambient which are all just different frequencies of the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
“Fall-out”
Fall-out or particulate IRP while it can be a contribution to the background radiation separating this as a conspicuous and even inconspicuous fine or microscopic dust that can contaminate food, water, and air to include mucosa, lacrimle, aqueous layer and membranes if unsheltered while it is airborne and this can be to wind, rain, fog, and mist so use protective gear if the potential of risk is there.
So remember Background IR and Fall-out IRP the rest is just explanation that helps you understand why you need to remember those two things.
“Background IR and Fall-out IRP”
These emissions can occur as they may knock off an electron in its target, thus resulting in ionization. When something absorbs the energy of the ray or the particle, irradiation occurs. When a living being absorbs it, that individual has received a “dose” of radiation.
When a radioactive release happens, and the dose to those impacted is estimated or “reconstructed,” the far too cavalier and generalized characteristics of the Standard Man were used. Often as was not only were you playing “Pin the Parameters on the Patient” but even with engineers present at an incident, so few had accurately logged incident readings. At one facility I pointed out I knew the senior floor operator was left handed because in the log book, instead of actually doing the full operations check and systems monitoring gauges and levels, he had taken to just copying one of 4 numbers and entering randomly. Subconsciously his handwriting and his orientation of his letters took on a list to port. He attempted to deny I knew anything by lying and claiming he was right handed.
He had just returned from lunch and had smoked a cigarette and in his packs cellophane was a book of matches. So I explained if he wanted to retain his job he would hand me the matches, opening the book he was indeed pulling them from the left side of the book. “Don’t lie, there are folks like me that know you haven’t a clue what “tells” I use but you look all the more foolish.” I gave them one month to resolve the violations but I got so many complaints from plant Boards and CEOs that I was too tough I wasn’t allowed to do inspections. People think I kid when I say FDA, NRC, DOE, EPA, and USDA are all worthless and each agency could be managed a 16th of the staff and a 10th of the budget. The GS’s I worked with were worthless and they are all now in department heads or vice directorships because they either don’t or can’t demote? I never understood that but I guess it’s easier to kill a zombie that it is to fire a bureaucrat.
So the 1957 Civil Defense standardized assumptions about the impact of radiation on the Standard Man are used as the basis for the estimated dose. The many differences between real people and the Standard Man are not considered when estimating the official dose to individuals but I developed weight and gender specific guidelines as children, with females being the most susceptible to radiations damage and women beyond 40 or pregnant needing rapid action.
Former independent watchdog agency now fully on board the gravy train sent out this FAQ about Fukashima and I will post the question, the propaganda, and the facts about the situation.
Q: What is the health risk of radiation from the Fukushima incident to people in the United States?
A: There is no health risk “of” radiation from the Fukushima incident to people in the United States or its territories, as the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have affirmed.
My rebuttal to this:
So why use “of” instead of “from” replace and reread the sentence, yes they are both arbitrary and ambiguous with word use and everyone who has been in DC at least a year does it. Noting the did not include the initials for (CDC) and my last email with mass spectrum analyzed tissue samples from the Sea Lions had the CDC go silent as of 4 months ago. I bet they refused to comment because I still remember the Ring Neck Seal / Walrus mass die off and I want the results from those test.
They were supplied samples from NOAA, and Alaska Fish and Game were I got my frozen samples to replace my personal ones lost up at Stanford University. That was the first of many marine die offs to follow and they were sent samples on March 30, 2011 and have never reported anything about the tissue. I confirmed blood and muscle tissue having hypothyroid markers, and hair that is showing malnutrition along with reposts of the animals appearing anorexic, with alopecia and lesions, with conspicuous mucus thick whitish, light green. That is what I wanted a simple of to see if it was a bacterium or virus, which finished off what the Radioiodine did not kill. I am positive but the real concern is if the mucus was a viral bug.
They tend to be adaptive more so than bacteria and going from mammal to bird back to mammal is no big jump for them,
My current Sea Lion samples including Thyroid tissue, liver tissue, Bone biopsy, and CFS (spinal fluid) all came back positive for caesium-134 134C, caesium-137 137C, Plutonium-239 239P, and Plutonium-238 238P, (I think France?), Plutonium-240 240P, and americium-239 239A and Strontium-90 90S. I was unable to encounter a sea lion corpse that was possible for me to move and isolate from the oceans large-scale contamination. Therefore, I was unable to get cadaver versus ocean/beach contamination level of isolation effectively. Without an isolated laboratory environment my readings are at best subjective and yet tissue samples all came back 5 to 30 times above background in isolation. The other question looming is why was it 50 times higher at the beach over background?
Affect seafood overseas.
The unchecked radioactive discharge into the Pacific has prompted experts to sound the alarm, as cesium, which has a much longer half-life than iodine, is expected to concentrate in the upper food chain.
According to TEPCO, some 300,000 becquerels per cu. centimeter of radioactive iodine-131 was detected Saturday, while the amount of cesium-134 was 2 million times the maximum amount permitted and cesium-137 was 1.3 million times the amount allowable.
The amount of iodine-131 dropped to 79,000 becquerels per cu. centimeter Sunday but shot up again Monday to 200,000 becquerels, 5 million times the permissible amount.
The level of radioactive iodine in the polluted water inside reactor 2′s cracked storage pit had an even higher concentration. A water sample Saturday had 5.2 million becquerels of iodine per cu. centimeter, or 130 million times the maximum amount allowable, and water leaking from the crack had a reading of 5.4 million becquerels, TEPCO said.
A total of 60,000 tons of radioactive water is believed to be flooding the basement of reactor buildings and underground trenches.
“It is a considerably high amount,” said Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
Masayoshi Yamamoto, a professor of radiology at Kanazawa University, said the high level of cesium is the more worrisome find.
“By the time radioactive iodine is taken in by plankton, which is eaten by smaller fish and then by bigger fish, it will be diluted by the sea and the amount will decrease because of its eight-day half-life,” Yamamoto said. “But cesium is a bigger problem.”
The half-life of cesium-137 is 30 years, while that for cesium-134 is two years. The longer half-life means it will probably concentrate in the upper food chain.
Yamamoto said such radioactive materials are likely to be detected in fish and other marine products in Japan and other nations in the short and long run, posing a serious threat to the seafood industry in other nations as well.
“All of Japan’s sea products will probably be labeled unsafe and other nations will blame Japan if radiation is detected in their marine products,” Yamamoto said.
Tepco on Monday began the release into the sea of 11,500 tons of low-level radioactive water to make room to store high-level radiation-polluted water in the No. 2 turbine building. The discharge continued Tuesday.
“It is important to transfer the water in the No. 2 turbine building and store it in a place where there is no leak,” Nishiyama of the NISA said. “We want to keep the contamination of the sea to a minimum.”
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano apologized for the release of radioactive water into the sea but said it was unavoidable to prevent the spread of higher-level radiation.
Fisheries minister Michihiko Kano said the ministry plans to increase its inspections of fish and other marine products for radiation.
On Monday, 4,080 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive iodine was detected in lance fish caught off Ibaraki Prefecture. Fishermen voluntarily suspended its shipment. The health ministry plans to compile radiation criteria for banning marine products.
Three days after TEPCO discovered the crack in the reactor 2 storage pit it still hadn’t found the source of the high radiation leak seeping into the Pacific.
TEPCO initially believed the leak was somewhere in the cable trench that connects the No. 2 turbine building and the pit. However, after using milky white bath salt to trace the flow, which appeared to prove that was not the case; the utility began to think it might be seeping through a layer of small stones below the cable trench.
To halt the radioactive water leak, TEPCO injected sodium silicate to solidify the stone layer Tuesday.
Meanwhile, efforts were also under way to prevent contaminated water from spreading to the outer sea.
TEPCO ordered a silt fence, an underwater curtain like structure, to be draped around the leak and is considering putting big steel fences, often used for constructing bridges, in the perimeter to prevent further contamination.
Information from Kyodo added
so whats happening in the Solomons, is haarp missing its mark?