After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said.
"We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.
"I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen."
In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.
"Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look."
Ivan's brother, Glenn, who boarded at Hawaii for the run into the United States, marvelled at the "thousands on thousands" of yellow plastic buoys. The huge tangles of synthetic rope, fishing lines and nets. Pieces of polystyrene foam by the million. And slicks of oil and petrol, everywhere.
And something else. The boat's vivid yellow paint job, never faded by sun or sea in years gone past, reacted with something in the water off Japan, losing its sheen in a strange and unprecedented way.
BACK in Newcastle, Ivan Macfadyen is still coming to terms with the shock and horror of the voyage.
"The ocean is broken," he said, shaking his head in stunned disbelief.
Source: http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1848433/the-ocean-is-broken/
Source: http://thetruthwins.com/archives/what-is-happening-to-alaska-is-fukushima-responsible-for-the-mass-animal-deaths
Source: http://thetruthwins.com/archives/what-is-happening-to-alaska-is-fukushima-responsible-for-the-mass-animal-deaths
January 6, 2014
Days after a YouTube video emerged showing background radiation at a Coastside beach reaching over 150 micro-REM per hour, Health officials in San Mateo County confirmed the spike but said they were “befuddled” as to its cause.
Days after a YouTube video emerged showing background radiation at a Coastside beach reaching over 150 micro-REM per hour, Health officials in San Mateo County confirmed the spike but said they were “befuddled” as to its cause.
However, officials dismissed the possibility that the
readings could be linked to Fukushima radiation reaching the west coast
despite forecasts by experts last summer that radioactive particles from Fukushima would reach U.S. coastal waters in 2014.
The video shows a man measuring radiation readings at
different spots on a beach south of Pillar Point Harbor. Background
radiation in the areas immediately surrounding the beach are normal, but
once the man approaches the water itself, the radiation spikes to at
least 500 per cent safe levels and the Geiger counter’s alarm goes off.
The man behind the video claims that on his previous visit to the same beach, radiation readings were 13 times the safe level.
“In the following days, other amateurs with Geiger counters began posting similar videos online,” reports the Half Moon Bay Review.
“The videos follow other alarming news last month that starfish were
mysteriously disintegrating along the West Coast, a trend that has not
been linked yet to any cause.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state
Department of Public Health are now investigating the cause of the
radiation and more information is expected to be released this week.
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| Extent of Fukushima radiation by 2014. (Rossi et al./Deep-Sea Research). |
TEPCO and the Japanese government have repeatedly been
caught lying in their efforts to downplay the scale of the Fukushima
disaster. In September it was confirmed that
radiation readings around the power plant were 18 times higher than
previously reported by TEPCO. After a tank leaked 300 tonnes of toxic
water in August, groundwater radiation readings at the plant soared to 400,000 becquerels per litre, the highest reading since the nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.
EPA officials in America also lied in the weeks after
9/11 when they told rescue workers and the general public that the air
at ground zero was safe to breathe. According to insiders,
EPA officials knew that the dust in the air was laden with asbestos but
chose to cover up the truth, leading to at least 20,000 ground zero
workers suffering debilitating illnesses and numerous deaths.
Mainstream media outlets have also largely toed the line
on Fukushima despite overwhelming evidence of a cover-up of the true
scale of the crisis by Japanese authorities. Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was
told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at
the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable
network.
Concerns that the federal government is preparing for
some form of nuclear emergency have heightened after it was revealed
that the Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide,
the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the
aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the
beginning of February, 2014.
October 29, 2013
Scientists are attempting to find out why one species of starfish is literally melting in the waters off of Washington state and Canada.
Biologists in Seattle took to the Puget Sound waters last
weekend to collect sick and healthy sunflower starfish for testing. Several
labs including one at Cornell University will examine and compare samples with
Canadian specimens already being analyzed.
“We’ve got some sea stars that look like they’re melting on
the bottom,” Seattle Aquarium biologists Jeff Christiansen said.
According to Veterinarian Lesanna Lahner, the starfish
specie’s condition is rapidly deteriorating, with more than half displaying the
same disturbing symptoms.
Strangely, the symptoms have only been seen in certain areas
of Washington’s Puget Sound and Canadian waters. While the verdict is still
unknown, many are pointing fingers to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant,
which has continued to leak over 300 tons of highly radioactive water into the ocean every
day.
As reported by investigative journalist Michael Snyder, massive evidence of Fukushima’s effect on
the West Coast continues to be evident despite the silence from most western
media.
Earlier this month, Canadian authorities found massively high radiation levels in sea bass, with one fish
showing 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.
Plankton tested from Hawaii to the West Coast have been
found to have high
levels of cesium-137, with scientists in California finding the same isotopes present in 15 out of 15 Bluefin Tuna tested.
Even in light of one Canadian study that found cesium-137 present in 100 percent of carp, seaweed, shark
and monkfish sold to the Canadian public, western governments have continued to
import Japanese sea food.
As radiation levels rise, it is likely the EPA
will continue to raise ‘acceptable levels’ of radiation in the food supply.
With experts predicting a grim outlook, the best options now available are informing
others while protecting one’s thyroid health from increased radiation
exposure.
Source: http://www.storyleak.com/melting-starfish-along-west-coast-prompts-fukushima-fears/#ixzz2nUDRft4V
September 9, 2013
Martin wrote to invertebrate expert Christopher Mah, a researcher at
the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and author of the Echinoblog. In his
email, he said:
“[The starfish] seem to waste away, ‘deflate’ a little, and then just … disintegrate. The arms just detach, and the central disc falls apart. It seems to happen rapidly, and not just dead animals undergoing decomposition, as I observed single arms clinging to the rock faces, tube feet still moving, with the skin split, gills flapping in the current. I’ve seen single animals in the past looking like this, and the first dive this morning I thought it might be crabbers chopping them up and tossing them off the rocks. Then we did our second dive in an area closed to fishing, and in absolutely amazing numbers. The bottom from about 20 to 50 feet [6 to 15 meters] was absolutely littered with arms, oral discs, tube feet, gonads and gills … it was kind of creepy."
Photos courtesy of Jonathan Martin
You have probably heard of the die-off of sea stars – aka starfish – all along the West Coast, and in some East Coast spots too. Regional and national news organizations are paying attention – the Washington Post covered the die-off just this week. But nothing brings it home like seeing what “Diver Laura” James observed in West Seattle waters this weekend. She recorded video off Seacrest on Saturday and uploaded the clip (go here if you can’t see/play the embedded version above) early today, two weeks after she documented dead stars on the beach (as reported here).
Discussing her video early today via e-mail, she told us, “I knew it was bad, but I hadn’t seen it in a couple weeks, and it was crushing to see bodies piled on top of bodies and the pilings bare.”
This epidemic is fast-growing; this KING 5 report from a month ago features Seattle Aquarium investigators saying only sunflower stars were affected, yet now it’s moved to other species, as Laura’s video shows so vividly. Researchers continue to say they haven’t figured it out, except for the fact that it’s happening in many places – we found this tracking map as well as media coverage including Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Half Moon Bay south of San Francisco, Southern California, and the earliest reports this fall, from British Columbia.
Source: http://westseattleblog.com/2013/11/video-sea-stars-starfish-die-off-seen-in-west-seattle-waters/
Polar bears have symptoms of mystery disease: U.S. agency
April 6, 2012
(Reuters) - Nine polar bears from
the Beaufort Sea region near Barrow were found with patchy hair loss and
oozing sores on their skin, similar to conditions found in diseased
seals and walruses, the agency said in a statement.The disease outbreak was first noticed last summer. About 60 seals were found dead and another 75 diseased, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Most of the affected seals are ringed seals, but diseased ribbon, bearded and spotted seals were also found.
Several walruses in northwestern Alaska were found with the disease, and some of those died as well, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The diseased seals and walruses, many of them juveniles, had labored breathing and lethargy as well as the bleeding sores, according to the experts. The agencies launched an investigation into the cause of the disease, which has also turned up in bordering areas of Canada and Russia.
Spread of the disease among seals continues. A sickened and nearly bald ribbon seal pup was found about a month ago near Yakutat on the Gulf of Alaska coastline, according to the agency. The animal was so sick it had to be euthanized.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/06/us-polarbears-idUSBRE8350MX20120406
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Necropsies and laboratory tests to date have found skin lesions in most cases, as well as fluid in the lungs, white spots on the liver, and abnormal growths in the brain. Some seals and walruses have undersized lymph nodes, which may indicate compromised immune systems.
Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/illness-plaguing-seals-and-walruses-brings-disease-hunters-alaska
(The Globe and Mail) Disease killing Pacific herring threatens salmon, scientist warns
Aug 13, 2013 (Emphasis Added): Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage. [...] “Two days ago I did a beach seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island] and I got approximately 100 of these little herring and they were not only bleeding from their fins, but their bellies, their chins, their eyeballs. [...] “It was 100 per cent … I couldn’t find any that weren’t bleeding to some degree. And they were schooling with young sockeye [salmon]”
(Sun News) Bloody BC herring alarms marine biologist
Aug 12, 2013: [Morton] dragged up several hundred of the fish this past weekend and found the apparent infection had spread – instead of their usual silver colour the fish had eyes, tails, underbellies, gills and faces plastered with the sickly red colour. “I have never seen fish that looked this bad,” [...] In June, the affected fish were only found in eastern Johnstone Strait, but have since spread to Alert Bay and Sointula, she said.
Canada.com, Aug 16, 2013: Morton [...] pulled up a net of about 100 herring near Sointula and found they were all bleeding. “It was pretty shocking to see,” said Morton [...] Herring school with small sockeye salmon and are also eaten by chinook and coho.
Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/is-this-fukushima-pacific-herring-in-canada-bleeding-government-ignoring-problem/5351845
The herring apocalypse: Fish worth millions in exports die in Icelandic lake
February 5, 2013
Stretching as far as the eye can see, dead herring blanket the ground in these chilling pictures taken today.
It is not yet known what is causing the mass fish deaths in Iceland, but today’s grim find is the second such occurrence in two months.
The herring, weighing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 tonnes and worth £18.9million, were found floating dead in in Kolgrafafjorour, a small fjord on the northern part of Snæfellsnes peninsula, west Iceland, according to the country’s Morgunbladid newspaper.
Biologist Róbert Arnar Stefánsson estimates that 7,000 tonnes of herring is laying on the shore and there are many more at the bottom of the fjord.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273992/The-herring-apocalypse-Fish-worth-millions-exports-die-Icelandic-lake-building-work-starves-oxygen.html#axzz2K3UrIxXF
The alarming observations come on the heels of a study revealing that the number of killer whales in Puget Sound is dwindling - especially among reproductive age males.
Bruce Stedman, who heads up the Orca Relief Citizens' Alliance, says numbers from the Center for Whale Research and NOAA show the number of reproductive-age males is down 26 percent since 2009, and there are only 14 reproductive age male orcas left.
And he worries if those numbers don't get better soon, the result could be devastating.
"Slowly but surely, they would go extinct," Stedman said. "That's the worry."Source: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Researcher-High-death-rate-puzzling-behavior-in-BC-orcas--229135551.html
Lake Babine sockeye fishery at risk of unprecedented closure
Only 453,000 sockeye are expected to swim along the Skeena this year, Kotyk said, compared to approximately 2.4 million last year, forcing all commercial and recreational Skeena sockeye fisheries to be closed.
"Most of the Skeena fish come from the Babine system. And when they went out to sea they seemed to be very strong and healthy and in good numbers, so we think something happened to them in the ocean."
"It is forcing me to limit what we can do on our lake in regards to the salmon food fish. I have to balance with the conservation measures that are in place now. We've never seen anything like this in all these years I've done this. I've asked the elders and they have never seen anything like this at all."
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/lake-babine-sockeye-fishery-at-risk-of-unprecedented-closure/article13715638/?service=print
Independent fisheries scientist Alexandra Morton is raising concerns about a disease she says is spreading through Pacific herring causing fish to hemorrhage.
Ms. Morton has called on the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to investigate, saying it could cause large-scale herring kills and infect wild salmon, which feed heavily on herring.
“I’ve been seeing herring with bleeding fins,” Ms. Morton said Monday. “Two days ago I did a beach seine on Malcolm Island [near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island] and I got approximately 100 of these little herring and they were not only bleeding from their fins, but their bellies, their chins, their eyeballs. These are very, very strong disease symptoms.”Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/disease-killing-pacific-herring-threatens-salmon-scientist-warns/article13722113/
We are concerned this hazardous material is hitching a ride on marine life and making its way to Alaska.
Currents of the world’s oceans are complex. But, generally speaking, two surface currents — one from the south, called the Kuroshio, and one from the north, called the Oyashio — meet just off the coast of Japan at about 40 degrees north latitude. The currents merge to form the North Pacific current and surge eastward. Fukushima lies at 37 degrees north latitude. Thousands of miles later, the currents hit an upwelling just off the western coast of the United States and split. One, the Alaska current, turns north up the coast toward British Columbia and Southeast Alaska. The other, the California current, turns south and heads down the western seaboard of the U.S.
The migration patterns of Pacific salmon should also be taken into consideration. In a nutshell, our salmon ride the Alaska current and follow its curve past Sitka, Yakutat, Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands. Most often, it’s the chinook, coho and sockeye salmon migration patterns that range farthest. Chum and pink salmon seem to stay closer to home. Regardless of how far out each salmon species ventures into the Pacific, each fish hitches a ride back to its home rivers and spawning grounds on the North Pacific current, the same one pulling the nuclear waste eastward.
We all know too much exposure to nuclear waste can cause cancer. And many understand that certain chemicals, such as cesium-137 and strontium-9, contained in said waste products can accumulate in fish by being deposited in bones and muscle permanently.
We are concerned our Alaska salmon are being slowly tainted with nuclear waste. We are worried about the impact this waste could have on our resources, and especially the people who consume them.Source: http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-08-25/empire-editorial-fukushima-tainting-one-alaskas-most-valuable-resources#.U2gMpijJx8K
Click on the coastal waters of east Japan by visiting Adrift.org to see an example of how the radiation spilled from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is bound to spread eastwards to the Californian coast.
Starting from March 15, this video map shows the movement of Iodine-131, a highly radioactive isotope, from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant.
ANY becquerels can cause harm. Whatever the adult tolerance is (not that ANY radionuclides are good), for children and for fetuses especially, it's ALL deadly. And 100,000 bq/kg is astronomically over the kill zone for EVERYONE. And there is NO WAY that TEPCO could not know that. This is deliberate mass murder outright. And for what? To save "face"? To save money?
Millions will die as a direct result of this. Daiichi IS THE WORST man made disaster the world has ever seen.
Toxic radiation is every throughout Japan. The good people of Japan deserve better than to be lied to. Untold generations yet to be born will feel the effects of this snub from TEPCO.
Source: http://www.organicslant.com/0000140-hell-in-japan-radiation-everywhere.html
There will most certainly be a major uptick in cancer rates due to the Fukushima incident, as the Japan Meteorological Agency's Meteorological Research Institute estimates that some 60 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and strontium are being dumped into the Pacific Ocean every single day. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) also admits that as much as 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have been released into the Pacific since the disaster began.
There will most certainly be a major uptick in cancer rates due to the Fukushima incident, as the Japan Meteorological Agency's Meteorological Research Institute estimates that some 60 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and strontium are being dumped into the Pacific Ocean every single day. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) also admits that as much as 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have been released into the Pacific since the disaster began.
Radioactive debris mass the size of California still impacting West Coast
Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News
in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of
radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and
that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast.
There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently,
including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures
washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses
observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major
fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning.Then we have the scientific reports that claim radioactive water will continue to impact the U.S. West Coast for many years to come, potentially doubling in strength over the next five or six years. Plankton, bluefin tuna and other sea life collected between Hawaii and California are already testing high for radiation, and these levels are expected to continue increasing.
“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” stated Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz recently to Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.”
- See more at: http://globalresearchreport.com/2013/10/28/the-evidence-is-clear-fukushima-radiation-is-still-tearing-up-west-coast-of-usa/#sthash.d9kY6bfu.dpufOther animals that have been found to have radiation poisoning are Pacific Herring, Sardines, and Squid.
The photos below the the dead "broken open and bleeding" birds, were originally posted by Alaska native David Akeya on Facebook.
Residents have reported groups ranging from 10 to 200 dead or dying barn and violet-green swallows in barns and around other structures where they perch. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said the dieoffs appear to be worst close to rivers and standing water where the birds tend to gather.
The toll, estimated in the thousands, has stunned Fish and Wildlife specialists. “This type of mortality event is unprecedented and considered a rare and unusual event,” said Colin Gillin, wildlife veterinarian for the agency. “The effect on bird populations is unknown.”
The swallows feed on insects while flying.
Radioactive debris mass the size of California still impacting West Coast
Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News
in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of
radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and
that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast.
There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently,
including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures
washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses
observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major
fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning.Then we have the scientific reports that claim radioactive water will continue to impact the U.S. West Coast for many years to come, potentially doubling in strength over the next five or six years. Plankton, bluefin tuna and other sea life collected between Hawaii and California are already testing high for radiation, and these levels are expected to continue increasing.
“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” stated Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz recently to Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.”
- See more at: http://globalresearchreport.com/2013/10/28/the-evidence-is-clear-fukushima-radiation-is-still-tearing-up-west-coast-of-usa/#sthash.d9kY6bfu.dpuf
There is no doubt that the radiation levels we’ve encountered during our tour of the West Coast should be of concern to everyone. The equipment we’re using is designed to detect particles of ionizing radiation. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “any living tissue in the human body can be damaged by ionizing radiation in a unique manner.”
The body attempts to repair the damage, but sometimes the damage is of a
nature that cannot be repaired or it is too severe or widespread to be
repaired,” the EPA’s FAQ page
on the health effects of radiation states. The agency also admits that
ionizing radiation causes cancer and can spur genetic mutations which
can be passed on to offspring.
Additionally, there is the matter of bioaccumulation to worry about. As
the beaches and local communities continue being showered with high
radiation, the real issue is that bioaccumulation is occurring in sea
life, meaning that radiation is building up and accumulating in the
foods many people eat.
In reality, there is no real good news about the radiation levels we’re finding. As documented, very few places and foods are giving low readings.
Source: http://www.infowars.com/the-good-and-bad-news-about-west-coast-radiation/
Delacruz said the samples that “lit up” the most were products from China that she bought in local grocery stores.
It is inexcusable that the Canadian government is not testing this seafood. It isn’t as if they don’t know that it is radioactive. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
Meanwhile, PBS reporter Miles O’Brien has pointed out the extreme negligence of the U.S. government when it comes to testing seafood for Fukushima radiation. The following comes from a recent EcoWatch article…
O’Brien also introduces us to scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have been testing waters around the reactors—as well as around the Pacific Rim—to confirm the levels of Fukushima fallout, especially of cesium.
These scientists are dedicated and competent. But they are also being forced to do this investigation on their own, raising small amounts of money from independent sources. They were, explains lead scientist Ken Buesseler, turned down for even minimal federal support by five agencies key to our radiation protection. Thus, despite a deep and widespread demand for this information, no federal agency is conducting comprehensive, on-the-ground analyses of how much Fukushima radiation has made its way into our air and oceans.
In fact, very soon after Fukushima began to blow, President Obama assured the world that radiation coming to the U.S. would be minuscule and harmless. He had no scientific proof that this would be the case. And as O’Brien’s eight-minute piece shows all too clearly, the “see no evil, pay no damages” ethos is at work here. The government is doing no monitoring of radiation levels in fish, and information on contamination of the ocean is almost entirely generated by underfunded researchers like Buesseler.The Japanese are doing testing off the coast of Japan, and one fish that was recently caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture was discovered to have 124 times the safe level of radioactive cesium.
So why are all the authorities in North America just assuming that the fish are going to be perfectly fine on this side of the Pacific?
One test that was conducted in California discovered that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
So how can the authorities say “don’t worry, just eat the seafood”?
Everyone agrees that a plume of radioactive water has been moving from Fukushima toward the west coast of the United States.
According to researchers at the University of South Wales, that plume is going to hit our shores at some point during 2014…
The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States some time in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after the date of the disaster.The following graphic comes from that study…
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| Surface (0–200m) of Cesium-137 concentrations (Bq/m3) by (a) April 2012, (b) April 2014 (c) April 2016 and (d) April 2021. Image Credit: University of New South Wales |
Surface (0–200m) of Cesium-137 concentrations (Bq/m3) by (a)April 2012, (b) April 2014 (c) April 2016 and (d) April 2021.
Image Credit: University of New South Wales
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/#wMqVpx3cvqZyLqRE.99
Image Credit: University of New South Wales
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/#wMqVpx3cvqZyLqRE.99
Surface (0–200m) of Cesium-137 concentrations (Bq/m3) by (a)April 2012, (b) April 2014 (c) April 2016 and (d) April 2021.
Image Credit: University of New South Wales
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/#wMqVpx3cvqZyLqRE.99
And multiple independent tests have already confirmed that levels of
nuclear radiation are being detected on California beaches that are more than 10 times the normal level.Image Credit: University of New South Wales
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/02/fukushima-radioactive-plume-to-hit-the-us-by-early-2014/#wMqVpx3cvqZyLqRE.99
Clearly something is happening.
So why are the U.S. and Canadian governments willingly looking the other way?
Source: http://www.infowars.com/school-science-project-reveals-high-levels-of-fukushima-nuclear-radiation-in-grocery-store-seafood/
Oregon natives confirmed to Infowars Friday that strange anomalies have sprung up along the Pacific coast in what amounts to further testimony supporting the fact the media is suppressing both the surge in extremely high radiation readings along the West Coast and the subsequent die off of sea life in the area.
Several residents in the Charleston fishing village described suspicious anomalies such as disintegrating bioluminescent jellyfish and Japanese “tsunami debris” washing ashore, with one lifetime resident even telling us he saw about a hundred dead starfish near the Bastendorff Beach County Park. Last week, scientists in Northern Mexico's Laguna Ojo de Liebre discovered "what appears to be the first ever documented case of conjoined gray whale calves," reported StoryLeak's Mikael Thalen.
"While conjoined twins have been found in several other whale species, a search of the database at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by local scientists produced no records of conjoined gray whales." Thalen reported.Witnesses we’ve spoken to from as far away as Alaska have mentioned witnessing Japanese tsunami debris wash ashore with visible Japanese writing, however our measurements indicate the radioactivity is concentrated along the West Coast of California. For instance, readings taken at beaches in Bean Hollow State Park and Salinas River State Beach read 100 CPM or higher, compared to readings taken on the Charleston, Oregon, beach which only gave maximum readings of 54 CPM.
Source: http://www.infowars.com/oregon-locals-witnesses-massive-die-off-of-sea-life/
(NaturalNews) The Pacific Ocean appears to be dying, according to a new study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California recently discovered that the number of dead sea creatures blanketing the floor of the Pacific is higher than it has ever been in the 24 years that monitoring has taken place, a phenomenon that the data suggests is a direct consequence of nuclear fallout from Fukushima.
Though the researchers involved with the work have been reluctant to pin Fukushima as a potential cause -- National Geographic, which covered the study recently, did not even mention Fukushima -- the timing of the discovery suggests that Fukushima is, perhaps, the cause. According to the data, this sudden explosion in so-called "sea snot," which is the name given to the masses of dead sea creatures that sink to the ocean floor as food, has skyrocketed since the Fukushima incident occurred.
"In the 24 years of this study, the past two years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far," stated Christine Huffard, a marine biologist at MBARI and leader of the study, to National Geographic.
At an ocean research station known as Station M, located 145 miles out to sea between the Californian cities of Santa Barbara and Monterey, Huffard and her colleague Ken Smith observed a sharp uptick in the amount of dead sea life drifting to the ocean floor. The masses of dead sea plankton, jellyfish, feces and other oceanic matter that typically only cover about 1 percent of the ocean floor were found to now be covering about 98 percent of it -- and multiple other stations located throughout the Pacific have since reported similar figures.
"In March 2012, less than one percent of the seafloor beneath Station M was covered in dead sea salps," writes Carrie Arnold for National Geographic.
"By July 1, more than 98 percent of it was covered in the decomposing
organisms. ... The major increase in activity of deep-sea life in 2011
and 2012 weren't limit to Station M, though: Other ocean-research
stations reported similar data."
No more sea life means no more oxygen in our atmosphere
Interestingly, Arnold does not even make a peep about Fukushima, which by all common sense is the most reasonable explanation for this sudden increase in dead sea life. Though the most significant increases were observed roughly a year after the incident, the study makes mention of the fact that the problems first began in 2011."Forget looking at global warming as the culprit," writes National Geographic commenter "Grammy," pointing out the lunacy of Arnold's implication that the now-debunked global warming myth was the sudden cause of a 9,700 percent increase in dead sea life.
Backing her up, another National Geographic commenter jokingly stated that somehow "the earth took such a huge hit in a four-month timeframe of a meltdown via global warming and we as a people didn't recognize this while [it was] happening; while coincidentally during that same time frame the event at Fukushima took place."
It is almost as if the powers that be want us all to forget about Fukushima and the catastrophic damage it continues to cause to our planet. But they will not be able to cover up the truth forever, as human life is dependent upon healthy oceans, the life of which provides the oxygen that we all need to breathe and survive.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/043380_fukushima_radiation_ocean_life.html
As radiation levels spike and mutated wildlife washes ashore, government and media promote delusion.
Radiation hot spots are popping up around the United States thousands of percentages higher than ‘background radiation’, mutated wildlife is being found dead on the same West Coast beaches where increased radiation levels have been documented by independent researchers and the Fukushima TEPCO plant workers have been caught using duct tape to fix their nuclear equipment. But according to both the Japanese and United States governments, these events mean absolutely nothing.
In fact, you must be a conspiracy theorist if you fail to believe the official story that it was likely red-painted utensils that led to a spike in documented radiation levels along the California coast (yes, the government actually offered this up as an official answer). And you must absolutely be a conspiracy theorist if you have the gall to actually look back to late 2011, when researchers presented their findings regarding the impending wave of Fukushima radiation that was already being recorded within the country.
Information going back to 2011 shows that scientists were already concerned about an increase in radiation levels and the overall fallout from the delapidated Fukushima plant. We can even go back to the declaration by scientist Marco Kaltofen of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute that radioactive ‘hot particles’ had been found at 2 out of the 3 radiation monitoring stations in Boston. As you are likely aware, hot particles are microscopic pieces of radioactive material that can absolutely wreak havoc on your body via the deliverance of concentrated radiation.
And these particles, according to Kaltofen, were already being found in Boston as far back as 2011. Now enter a new flurry of stories that have seemingly been popping up one after another as radiation levels are continually being monitored around the nation — namely the West Coast, where the bulk of Fukushima-linked scenarios have been documented. In what sounds like an apocalyptic plot for the latest thriller film, we have mutated whales now washing up dead on the West Coast in the first ever documented case of conjoined gray whale calves. We even have elevated radiation readings as far away as St. Louis, Missouri.
Coincidentily, of course, this is happening at the same time that radiation hot spots exceeding a 1,400% increase over ‘normal’ levels are being reported by researchers. It’s even happening at the same time that similar 500% increases have been disregarded by government officials who admit they have no idea what’s going on but fervently deny any connection to Fukushima in any capacity whatsoever. In fact, that has always been the mantra of these government health officials: We have no idea what’s really going on, but it’s definitely not Fukushima!
Because just as the Japanese government has assured its citizens that Fukushima is perfectly safe and poses no real threat to your health while secretly reviewing studies that reveal the plant released massively more radiation than admitted and led to 78% of the radioactive waste being dumped into the Pacific Ocean, the United States government would much rather silently purchase 14 million doses of potassium iodide than tell you that there may be some cause for concern.
The very core of the Fukushima disaster timeline that has been regurgitated by the mainstream media and government agencies alike was almost exclusively based on information provided by plant operator TEPCO — a company that is now on record as having lied to the population of the world in a major way. And there were no signs they would ever tell the truth unless forced to. It wasn’t until an independent investigation revealed the actual levels of radiation released from the plant (around 2 1/2 times more than TEPCO would even admit) that TEPCO was forced to go on record and state that the radiation levels they released were indeed much lower than reality.
However, the independent investigation into Fukushima radiation levels not only exposed the lies by TEPCO regarding the radiation explosion at the plant, but it also found that around 78% of the caesium-137 released by the plant was funneling into the Pacific Ocean. The plant now states that the three reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant released about 900,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances. About 20% fell on Japanese land, 2% somewhere on land outside the country, and a whopping 78% remainder is believed to have entered the Pacific Ocean.
At the very least, the Japanese and United States governments should be preparing citizens for what scientists said could last ‘thousands of years’: the Fukushima nightmare. And that begins with admitting that the threat is real. Because unless we really prepare ourselves and work together as a planet to truly fix the Fukushima plant and ensure that the 1,4000+ rods do not cause yet another massive meltdown (as experts say they likely will during transfer), we really will be facing a radioactive nightmare of epic proportions.
Source: http://www.infowars.com/government-media-cover-up-fukushima-radiation-wave-hitting-us/
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“John Smith, a research scientist at Canada’s Bedford
Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, told the AGU
meeting that since 2011 he and colleagues had measured a radioactive
plume from nuclear complex at ocean monitoring stations west of
Vancouver. Fukushima’s radiation reached Canada before the US on the
powerful Kuroshio Current. It’s predicted to flow south and then circle
back to Hawaii,” reports Planet Save.
Samples of cesium-134 and cesium-137, which has a
half-life of more than 30 years, were found by the researchers. The good
news is that the samples are well below safety limits, although these
were massively increased by authorities in
the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. The full scale of the danger
will not be known until 2016, which is when the cesium radiation is
expected to peak.
Senior scientist Ken Buesseler said that the radiation
has not yet reached Washington, California, or Hawaii, although
researchers are still awaiting tests on samples collected earlier this
month. Some have suggested April as the time when Fukushima radiation will begin to hit the Pacific coast.
Source: http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-fukushima-radiation-reaches-west-coast-of-canada/
This article was posted: Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 6:09 am
Numerous models show that – while the ocean dilutes radiation – pockets and streams of concentrated radiation may still hit the West Coast of North America.
West Coast residents are very concerned. Indeed, many local and state government officials have said that residents are inundating them with questions about Fukushima radiation.
And yet the government isn’t measuring seawater or fish on the West Coast for radiation.
Infowars' Jakari Jackson has been providing location reports on rising radiation levels for the past few weeks.
Ken Buessler is the head scientist at Woods Hole in Massachusetts, one of the world’s top ocean science institutions. Much of Buessler’s career has focused on measuring radioactive particles in the ocean, and he’s been studying groundwater and ocean samples in and around Fukushima since the accident in March of 2011.
Buessler said last week:
What we don’t really know is how fast and how much is being transported across the Pacific. Yes, models tell us it will be safe, yes the levels we expect off the US West Coast and Canada we expect to be low, but we need measurements — especially now, as the plume begins to arrive along the West Coast and will actually increase in concentration over the next 1 to 2 years. Despite public concern about the levels, no public agency in the US is monitoring the activities in the Pacific.
Buesseler says no US government agency currently tests radiation levels in the Pacific Ocean. “I don’t expect the radiation levels to be high but we can’t dismiss the concerns that the public has.” “The effects of Fukushima will be increasing as the front edge of a large water plume coming from the nuclear plant will reach California soon and increase over the years,” said Buesseler.
And Buesseler points out the circular reasoning which the government is using (at 10:00):
I completely agree that no radiation has been seen in the regards that we’re not really testing for it [laughter] in any organized way … We have very few data; it’s not really being organized. The government says we don’t really need to do that because we’re predicting very low levels.This type of circular reasoning is – unfortunately – common these days. For example, when bad policy led to the 2008 financial crisis, the Gulf Oil spill, factory-farming caused disease, runaway pesticide use, and other problems, the government simply stopped testing or changed allowable levels.
University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Doug Dasher notes:
There’s a lot of unknowns, a lot of uncertainties. There are others that also have the same message that they want to get out, we really need to sample to understand this and we really need to look at what’s happening out there in the ecosystem at the same time. There’s an opportunity to do this. It’s a huge amount of initial release, and the models do not address the continuing release [the models all assume that Fukushima was totally contained by about June 2011 ... in fact, it has leaked continuously hundreds of tons of radioactive water every day for more than 2/12 years]. Fukushima has continued to leak ….(Dasher’s statement is even more dramatic given that he and other University of Alaska scientists think that Fukushima radiation might have caused Alaska’s seals to become sick.)
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You do have ships and programs going on that may be sampling marine waters for everything else but radionuclides, so you’re not necessarily directing that a ship has to go out solely at cost to sample for radionuclides.
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No concrete information to even delve into making a real judgment on any type of risk to the ecosystem.
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The information’s not out there.
Some West Coast cities – such as Fairfax and Berkeley, California – have passed resolutions pleading for the federal and state governments to conduct tests. But the feds and state governments are so far silent.
As nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has been saying since the Fukushima accident occured, we must demand that our elected representatives require testing.
Postscript: Dr. Buessler at Woods Hole will conduct some sampling of West Coast seawater for radiation. Dr. Buessler will use crowdsourcing and crowdfunding to pay for his testing. Please support his efforts.
And Dr. Manley will test some West Coast kelp for radiation. But these are small-scale, isolated efforts.
Safecast, Netc, Radiation Network and others have set up national geiger counter networks. And Infowars has heroically sent a reporter up and down the West coast using a hand-held geiger counter to test for radiation. But these all test for radiation on the land, and do not test the seawater or fish themselves.
So we need to demand that the government test seawater and fish, and publicly report the results.
Many government officials have, unfortunately, fallen for voodoo science promoted by the nuclear industry that you get more radiation from eating bananas or from background radiation. In the real world, however, Fukushima radiation is not comparable to bananas, and there was no background radiation in elements spewed by Fukushima – such as radioactive cesium or iodine – until nuclear bombs and nuclear accidents through them into the environment a few decades ago.
Source: http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-radiation-in-us-no-one-is-measuring-so-therefore-we-should-be-alarmed/
And – in typical Orwellian agency-speak – the FDA is trying to reassure people that eating contaminated fish poses no health risk. As the Wall Street Journal notes:
U.S. public-health officials sought Tuesday to reassure consumers about the safety of food in the U.S., including seafood, amid news that fish contaminated with unusually high levels of radioactive materials had been caught in waters 50 miles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
No contaminated fish have turned up in the U.S., or in U.S. waters, according to experts from the Food and Drug Administration [which isn't testing], Environmental Protection Agency and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They expressed confidence that even a single fish sufficiently contaminated to pose a risk to human health would be detected by the U.S. monitoring system. [But would the government announce such detection?]
They also dismissed concerns that eating fish contaminated at the levels seen so far in Japan would pose such a risk. [Alexander Higgins points out that Japanese fish exceed federal radiation limits by 2400%]
Thomas Frieden, head of the CDC in Atlanta, said he expected continued detection of low levels of radioactive elements in the water, air and food in the U.S. in coming days, but that readings at those levels “do not indicate any level of public health concern.”Is this yet another example of the government responding to the nuclear accident by trying to raise acceptable radiation levels and pretending that radiation is good for us?
Indeed, the ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.
As AP notes:
The floating debris will likely be carried by currents off of Japan toward Washington, Oregon and California before turning toward Hawaii and back again toward Asia, circulating in what is known as the North Pacific gyre, said Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam.Here is what the North Pacific Gyre looks like:
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“All this debris will find a way to reach the West coast or stop in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a swirling mass of concentrated marine litter in the Pacific Ocean, said Luca Centurioni, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
CNN said that “the Hawaiian islands may get a new and unwelcome addition in coming months — a giant new island of debris floating in from Japan.” It relied in part on work done by the University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center, which predicts that:
“In three years, the [debris] plume will reach the U.S. West Coast, dumping debris on Californian beaches and the beaches of British Columbia, Alaska, and Baja California. The debris will then drift into the famous North Pacific Garbage Patch, where it will wander around and break into smaller and smaller pieces. In five years, Hawaii shores can expect to see another barrage of debris that is stronger and longer lastingthan the first one. Much of the debris leaving the North Pacific Garbage Patch ends up on Hawaii’s reefs and beaches.”
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| Enlarge University of Hawaii’s International Pacific Research Center |
The projected path of the debris field, from March of this year (in
upper left), through March 2016 (lower right). That’s the Pacific
Ocean, with Japan to the left and the west coast of the U.S. to the
right. Hawaii is the small chain of islands in the center.
Indeed, CNN notes:
The debris mass, which appears as an island from the air, contains cars, trucks, tractors, boats and entire houses floating in the current heading toward the U.S. and Canada, according to ABC News.
The bulk of the debris will likely not be radioactive, as it was presumably washed out to sea during the initial tsunami – before much radioactivity had leaked. But this shows the power of the currents from Japan to the West Coast.
Of course, fish don’t necessarily stay still, either. For example, the Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:
That might be extreme, but the point is that fish exposed to radiation somewhere out in the ocean might end up in U.S. waters.
Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/is-it-safe-to-eat-salmon-from-the-west-coast.html
According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete.
Sadly, the true horror of this disaster is only starting to be
understood, and most people have absolutely no idea how serious all
of this is.
What fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT the other day should be very sobering for all of us…
We have endless releases into the Pacific Ocean that will be ongoing for not only our lifetimes, but our children’s’ lifetimes. We have 40 million people living in the Tokyo area nearby. We have continued releases from the underground corium that reminds us it is there occasionally with steam events and huge increases in radiation levels. Across the Pacific, we have at least two peer-reviewed scientific studies so far that have already provided evidence of increased mortality in North America, and thyroid problems in infants on the west coast states from our initial exposures.
Source: http://www.fukushimaupdatereport.com/
What fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT the other day should be very sobering for all of us…
We have endless releases into the Pacific Ocean that will be ongoing for not only our lifetimes, but our children’s’ lifetimes. We have 40 million people living in the Tokyo area nearby. We have continued releases from the underground corium that reminds us it is there occasionally with steam events and huge increases in radiation levels. Across the Pacific, we have at least two peer-reviewed scientific studies so far that have already provided evidence of increased mortality in North America, and thyroid problems in infants on the west coast states from our initial exposures.
Source: http://www.fukushimaupdatereport.com/
As reported by GlobalNews.ca, scientists from Simon Fraser
University recently published the results of tests that they conducted
on pollock, hake, pink salmon and various other fish caught off the B.C.
coast, which revealed the presence of radiation
at low levels. Though they denied that any of this radiation is
connected to Fukushima, ocean current patterns suggest otherwise.
"I'm sceptical when the government claims that the contamination isn't getting here in the ocean currents -- especially in light of the economic impact of finding contamination in our Pacific fish stocks," wrote one GlobalNews.ca commenter. "What we really need is sampling by a trustworthy organization with no connection to the fishing industry."
Radiation is not something to toy with, of course, as being exposed to or consuming it can cause long-term health problems and even death. Even small quantities of radionuclides from contaminated fish, for instance, can lodge themselves inside the body or in bodily organs where they continue to emit radiation over time, eventually leading to cancer and other conditions.
"Radiation does not 'dilute' in water," adds another Globalnews.ca commenter. "It DISPERSES, covering more mass and distance.
"The only way this radiation, or more accurately RADIONUCLIDES, [goes] away is by decaying, and by decaying [it] releases radiation."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044718_Japanese_government_radioactive_groundwater_TEPCO.html#ixzz2yzxFD6c
Class action lawsuit seeks Fukushima damages from General Electric
(NaturalNews) "Okura claims that GE's improper design, construction, assembly, testing, maintenance and modifications of the reactors and other facilities at the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused explosions and a meltdown at the plant after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011," CNS reports.
"I'm sceptical when the government claims that the contamination isn't getting here in the ocean currents -- especially in light of the economic impact of finding contamination in our Pacific fish stocks," wrote one GlobalNews.ca commenter. "What we really need is sampling by a trustworthy organization with no connection to the fishing industry."
Radiation is not something to toy with, of course, as being exposed to or consuming it can cause long-term health problems and even death. Even small quantities of radionuclides from contaminated fish, for instance, can lodge themselves inside the body or in bodily organs where they continue to emit radiation over time, eventually leading to cancer and other conditions.
"Radiation does not 'dilute' in water," adds another Globalnews.ca commenter. "It DISPERSES, covering more mass and distance.
"The only way this radiation, or more accurately RADIONUCLIDES, [goes] away is by decaying, and by decaying [it] releases radiation."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044718_Japanese_government_radioactive_groundwater_TEPCO.html#ixzz2yzxFD6c
Class action lawsuit seeks Fukushima damages from General Electric
(NaturalNews) "Okura claims that GE's improper design, construction, assembly, testing, maintenance and modifications of the reactors and other facilities at the Fukushima nuclear power plant caused explosions and a meltdown at the plant after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011," CNS reports.
CNS further stated, "The plant released radiation and other
contaminants into the environment, causing Okura and other class
members 'personal injury, mental anguish, emotional distress,
property damage, business interruption, loss of business, loss of
income, economic injuries, and ongoing long-term physical, mental and
emotional health problems,' according to the document."
At the very least, GE should be held partially responsible for damages since the company is on record as knowing that the reactors were unsafe prior to the disaster. According to GlobalResearch.ca, GE knew for decades that its reactors, which represent five of the six at the Fukushima plant, were inherently flawed in their design and unsafe.
At the very least, GE should be held partially responsible for damages since the company is on record as knowing that the reactors were unsafe prior to the disaster. According to GlobalResearch.ca, GE knew for decades that its reactors, which represent five of the six at the Fukushima plant, were inherently flawed in their design and unsafe.
"The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the
design of the containment, [GE] did not take into account the dynamic
loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant,"
explained Dale G. Bridenbaugh, a former GE employee, and two of his
colleagues to ABC News back in 2011. The three actually quit their
jobs after learning just how dangerous the plant really was.
"The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release," he added, which is exactly what happened.
If successful, the two lawsuits are expected to completely bankrupt GE, which more than likely would invoke a massive restructuring of the nuclear industry as we currently know it
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044735_class_action_lawsuit_Fukushima_General_Electric.html#ixzz2z5DzKnvE
"The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release," he added, which is exactly what happened.
If successful, the two lawsuits are expected to completely bankrupt GE, which more than likely would invoke a massive restructuring of the nuclear industry as we currently know it
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044735_class_action_lawsuit_Fukushima_General_Electric.html#ixzz2z5DzKnvE
Link between radiation exposure and first and second cancers exposed by researchers
(NaturalNews) Large-scale population studies of survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have confirmed that radiation exposure can lead to multiple cancers that manifest separately over the course of years or decades -- a finding with implications not just in cases of nuclear accidents or attacks but also for radiation-based cancer treatments.
The landmark study was conducted by researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the National Cancer Institute, and published in the journal Cancer Research in September 2010. It found that the risk of developing a second cancer from radiation exposure was nearly identical to the risk of developing a first.
"Our findings suggest that cancer survivors with a history of radiation exposure should continue to be carefully monitored for second cancers," said researcher Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD.
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Radiation causes cancer when it damages the DNA of a cell but does not kill that cell outright. If the cell is unable to repair itself, it will continue to produce other mutated cells every time it divides. Eventually, this cluster of mutated cells may progress into clinical cancer.
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"If irradiated at a young age, the lifetime risk is much higher than for those irradiated when older, and the risk is higher for females," Lawrence said.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044750_radiation_exposure_cancer_tumors.html
Fukushima catastrophe causing significant radiation exposure to Californians, says expert
(NaturalNews) "It's been known for decades -- and it's not me saying this, it's the U.S. National Academies of Science -- that any exposure to ionizing radioactivity, no matter how small the dose, carries a health risk for cancer. And the higher your exposure to ionizing radioactivity, the greater the risk."
Kamps went on to say that "these risks accumulate for a lifetime."
(NaturalNews) Large-scale population studies of survivors of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have confirmed that radiation exposure can lead to multiple cancers that manifest separately over the course of years or decades -- a finding with implications not just in cases of nuclear accidents or attacks but also for radiation-based cancer treatments.
The landmark study was conducted by researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the National Cancer Institute, and published in the journal Cancer Research in September 2010. It found that the risk of developing a second cancer from radiation exposure was nearly identical to the risk of developing a first.
"Our findings suggest that cancer survivors with a history of radiation exposure should continue to be carefully monitored for second cancers," said researcher Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD.
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Radiation causes cancer when it damages the DNA of a cell but does not kill that cell outright. If the cell is unable to repair itself, it will continue to produce other mutated cells every time it divides. Eventually, this cluster of mutated cells may progress into clinical cancer.
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"If irradiated at a young age, the lifetime risk is much higher than for those irradiated when older, and the risk is higher for females," Lawrence said.
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/044750_radiation_exposure_cancer_tumors.html
Fukushima catastrophe causing significant radiation exposure to Californians, says expert
(NaturalNews) "It's been known for decades -- and it's not me saying this, it's the U.S. National Academies of Science -- that any exposure to ionizing radioactivity, no matter how small the dose, carries a health risk for cancer. And the higher your exposure to ionizing radioactivity, the greater the risk."
Kamps went on to say that "these risks accumulate for a lifetime."
Source:
http://www.naturalnews.com/044883_Fukushima_radiation_exposure_California.html#ixzz30VAkyBYC
In the video above Leuren Monet recommends the Bio-mat, a macrobiotic diet, a reverse-osmosis water filter, the GammaScout geiger counter, and the book, "Political Ponerology".
She also mentions staying away from Genetically Modified foods (GMOs), sticking to whole foods, and grounding yourself. Grounding yourself or 'earthing' yourself, means having physiological contact with the earth. If you haven't already, watch the groundbreaking documentary, "Grounded".
I, however, recommend a Raw Fruit and Vegetable diet, as it is optimal and nutritionally sound for us humans.
My favorite Raw Food website to help you get started on a raw food lifestyle -- to boost your immunity -- is- 40 Below Fruity hosted by the beautiful and wise Tarah Millen.
I also recommend the ProPur water filtration system over reverse osmosis because of it's superiority when it comes to producing the cleanest water.
If you got something from this post, you might also want to check out my post, "FDA Gets Radiation Happy With Our Food".
Thanks for reading. Take care!
Chernobyl scientist discovers antioxidants help body adapt to radiation
(NaturalNews) Research on birds living near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area adds more proof that antioxidants are able to protect the body from radiation damage. The study was published in the journal Functional Ecology on April 24.
The meltdown, explosion and fire at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was, at the time, the worst civilian nuclear disaster the world had ever seen (today, scientists are split over whether the Chernobyl or Fukushima disaster was worse). The disaster widely contaminated the surrounding area with radiation, leading the Soviet government to permanently evacuate a three-kilometer area around the power plant.
The negative effects of the ongoing radioactivity in the region have been well documented, including changes in abundance, distribution, life history and mutation rates of many species. Birds in the area have smaller than usual brains and are more prone to cataracts, and radiation appears to be hampering the normal activity of decomposers such as insects and microbes.
But the absence of humans has also led to increase in biological diversity, with many rare plants and birds returning to the region, and wolves and boars even seen roaming the streets of an abandoned town.
Adaptation and antioxidants
The new study sought to determine whether any species of bird had been able to adapt to the elevated radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Laboratory studies have shown that over time, many organisms are able to adapt to low doses of radiation, making themselves less susceptible to damage caused by later, higher doses.
Much of the damage from radiation exposure occurs because ionizing radiation leads to the production of free radicals, which in turn damage (oxidize) cells and DNA inside the body. The presence of antioxidants inside the body, however, can neutralize free radicals before they are able to do damage.
In order to see whether wild birds were able to boost antioxidant levels to decrease radiation damage, the researchers captured 152 birds from 16 species at eight sites in and around the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They took blood and feathers samples from each bird and then released them, and also measured the background radiation levels at each site. Blood samples were tested for DNA damage, oxidative stress and levels of the key antioxidant glutathione. Feathers samples were tested for levels of the melanin pigments pheomelanin and eumelanin.
The body needs much higher levels of antioxidants to produce pheomelanin than it does to produce eumelanin.
Antioxidant-rich blood is protected
The researchers found that birds in higher radiation areas actually had higher levels of antioxidants (along with less DNA damage and less oxidative stress) than birds in lower radiation areas. This suggests that the higher radiation levels had caused the birds' bodies to better adapt by increasing antioxidant levels and thereby better protecting them from radiation.
The researchers also found that two species of birds, , great tits (Parus major) and barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), actually did worse in high radiation areas. Notably, these were the species with higher levels of pheomelanin in their feathers. This suggests that because the birds needed more antioxidants to make their feather pigments, they had less available to protect their bodies from the damaging effects of radiation.
The study does not mean that radiation exposure is a good thing, the authors cautioned.
"The effects of radiation at Chernobyl on populations of organisms, and for birds in particular, have been negative overall," they wrote.
What it does show is that the body seeks to protect itself from radiation - and antioxidants are one of the main tools it uses to do so.
Information about Iodine to protect yourself from Radiation:
Avoid foods such as cabbage, mustard, turnips, peanuts, soybeans, millet, pine nuts, cassava root, brocolli and kale as these contain goitrogens that block the body's usage of iodine. Although, sometimes cooking deactivates these compounds.
Information on Antioxidants to protect yourself from Radiation:
Record outdoor radiation level that 'can kill in 20 min' detected at Fukushima
German oceanographers Claus Böning and Erik Behrens and colleagues from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel used global ocean circulation models to simulate the movement of a tracer which was continuously injected into Japanese coastal waters over several weeks. They then modeled its spreading and dilution in the Pacific Ocean for 10 years.
The team found that using models with different resolutions to simulate eddy fields gave different results. “This shows that high-resolution models are needed,” said Böning. “We also did not model biological processes which might lead to accumulation of 137Cs in areas of high biological productivity, and potentially affect vertical tracer distributions due to adherence to sinking particles.”
The researchers published their work in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).
Source: http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/50176
Canada: Fish Eaters Threatend by Fukushima Radiation
"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.
In October, a U.S. study - co-authored by oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts - reported Fukushima caused history's biggest-ever release of radiation into the ocean - 10 to 100 times more than the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.
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 macroalgae had 19,000
times the safe level.
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.
Source: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/343-203/9463-canada-fish-eaters-threatened-by-fukushima-radiation
Fish data belie Japan's claims on Fukushima
About 800 people worldwide will get cancer from radiation due to Fukushima in fish eaten to date, according to Georgia Straight calculations. The Straight
results relied on a widely used cancer-risk formula developed by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as radiation levels in
33,000 fish tested by the Japanese Fisheries Agency.
Half the cancers will be fatal. About 500 will be in Japan; 75 will be due to Japanese fish exports to other countries; and 225 will be from fishing in the Pacific by nations other than Japan.
And that’s likely only a small part of the actual long-term cancer impacts from eating the fish. Two nuclear experts who saw the Straight’s figures said the real cancer toll could be 100 times higher—or 80,000 cancers.
“The potential numbers could be two orders of magnitude [100 times] higher than your numbers,” Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear-policy lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said in a phone interview. “Hundreds of cancers are nothing to sneeze at, and it is a fraction of what I suspect the total will be.”
That could be the toll, Hirsch said, if all factors are taken into account, including: future fish consumption (the Straight’s number only includes fish eaten up to mid-July 2013); highly damaging isotopes that were released in the disaster but aren’t being monitored, such as strontium 90 and plutonium 239; consumption of contaminated fish caught in the entire Pacific (our number includes only fish caught in Japan and regions to the north and west of the archipelago, where the most radiation data exists, and doesn’t include any farmed fish); and research suggesting that radiation causes many more cancers than official formulas predict.
“Apologists say it’s a large ocean and dilution is the solution to pollution,” said Hirsch, who cochaired a California state appointed panel that oversaw a study of cancer among nuclear-power workers in the 1990s. “Dilution actually does nothing except expose a larger population.”
Because of the uncertainties involved with such calculations, it’s not clear how many cancers would occur in Canada or the U.S. The cancer numbers don’t include risk from fish catches in North American West Coast waters, where only a few sporadic radiation tests have been done.
The cancer numbers also don’t include other possible health impacts from radiation in the fish, such as heart disease, stillbirths, and genetic damage to subsequent generations.
Those cases could actually outnumber the cancers, according to Sebastian Pflugbeil, a physicist in Germany who traveled to Japan to study Fukushima’s health impacts and who studied the impacts of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Pflugbeil checked the Straight’s calculations to make sure they were accurate, and he agreed with Hirsch that the final cancer toll could be 100 times higher. “Your calculation is nearly the lowest possible number of problems,” he said in a phone interview from Berlin.
The Straight also sent its cancer calculations to Eiichiro Ochiai, a retired chemistry professor in Vancouver who taught at UBC and the University of Tokyo and has written a book titled Hiroshima to Fukushima: Biohazards of Radiation.
In a phone interview, Ochiai agreed the calculations were done correctly and that the actual cancer toll will likely be higher. He said cancer-risk formulas used by governments underestimate the true cancer impact, especially those cases that arise from eating contaminated food.
“The official data is all denial,” Ochiai said. “The nuclear industry tries to suppress the truth.”
Hinton coauthored a study in the June Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that dismissed fears about eating fish contaminated by radiation from Fukushima, saying that radiation in tuna caught near California was “below levels that should cause concern”.
After the Straight sent him its cancer calculations, Hinton said in an email that the risk is still smaller than from natural sources such as cosmic rays, and that the average radiation level in the fish is below the Japanese government ceiling, which is 100 becquerels per kilo in food. Hinton didn’t respond to a phone-interview request.
In Berlin, Pflugbeil rejected Hinton’s argument, saying radiation from Fukushima can still cause cancers even if it is lower than natural radiation and government ceilings.
For example, 150,000 more people in Germany would die of cancer each year if all food had radiation at the European Union ceiling, according to a 2011 study Pflugbeil coauthored about Fukushima for Berlin-based Foodwatch.
“The allowed level of radiation in food is not the result of medical calculations but is a level which the atomic industry thinks it can accept. It’s very important to understand that the health of people plays almost no role in such calculations,” Pflugbeil told the Straight.
Arnold Gundersen, chief engineer at energy consulting firm Fairewinds Associates in Burlington, Vermont, also verified the Straight’s math.
Gundersen, who has a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, said by phone that the final number of cancer cases could be “over an order of magnitude higher” than the Straight figure. “Cancer rates are going up. It’s a useful fiction for the nuclear industry to say no one died.”
Edwin Lyman, a physicist specializing in nuclear issues and a senior scientist with the Washington, D.C.–based Union of Concerned Scientists, also checked the calculations. “There is a small risk for people who eat that fish,” he said in a phone interview. “If you ingest radioactive material, there is a cancer risk associated with that.”
And according to Cindy Folkers, a radiation and health specialist for the group Beyond Nuclear, in Takoma Park, Maryland, the presence of natural radiation doesn’t make it okay to add more carcinogens to the environment. “All this BS about natural radiation is used as an excuse to expose us to more radiation through their nuclear-industry processes,” Folkers said by phone.
In Ottawa, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency briefly tested food imports from Japan and required safety documentation on imports from the area around Fukushima. It dropped both those measures in June 2011, three months after the disaster.
The CFIA’s tests included about 50 fish and seafood products. But a CFIA product list supplied to the Straight included few of the fish species that have been found to have especially high levels of cesium, such as landlocked salmon, eel, carp, cod, and sea bass—all of which Japan has exported to Canada since the disaster. One sample of smoked bonito had 7.7 becquerels of cesium per kilo but it was allowed on the market, said CFIA spokesperson Elena Koutsavakis by phone.
“If it is below the Health Canada action level, we don’t see a reason for concern or a safety risk,” she said. Health Canada’s ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo for cesium is 10 times that of Japan.
The CFIA did more radiation tests on Japanese food imports in the Vancouver region in September and October 2012; it still hasn’t released those results. Asked why the information has not been made public, Koutsavakis said that it is still being analyzed a year later: “It’s just a matter of doing the work based on the risk. That’s why it took longer.”
The Straight has filed a freedom-of-information request for the results.
Closer to home, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control long ago dismissed concerns about Fukushima’s impacts here. “There is no health risk from radiation from the nuclear-power plants in Japan to people in B.C.,” it said in a statement in March 2011.
“At Fukushima, [the reactor’s] design is great. No human error. Natural disaster,” said Abderrachid Zitouni, the BCCDC’s radiation specialist, explaining the disaster’s cause during a talk to B.C. medical professionals in April 2011. He delivered a PowerPoint presentation that said the accident had involved only a “minor release” of radiation with a “local impact only”.
(In fact, a Japanese parliamentary commission last year called Fukushima “a profoundly man-made disaster—that could and should have been foreseen and prevented”, blaming “a multitude of errors” and “ignorance and arrogance unforgivable for anyone or any organization that deals with nuclear power”.)
Zitouni didn’t return a phone message. Instead, BCCDC spokesperson Alex Dabrowski emailed the Straight to refer questions to the CFIA and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Other countries are taking the risks more seriously. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and South Korea this month expanded restrictions on Japanese fish imports. South Korea also rejects other food from Japan if it has any cesium. In all, 42 countries and regions had restrictions on food imports from Japan due to Fukushima as of October 2012, according to an August Japan Times story.
Hirsch believes that restrictions and monitoring aren’t enough. “Even fish below limits pose a risk. The fundamental lesson is to try to stop from doing this again. Nuclear power might be safe, but only in the hands of another species.”
Ochiai agreed: “We should keep uranium safely in the ground.”
That lesson doesn’t seem to have sunk in. Since Fukushima, Canada has okayed uranium and nuclear-technology sales to the United Arab Emirates and India. And Japan has signed a deal to help build a new nuclear plant in quake-prone Turkey.
Source: http://www.straight.com/life/497646/fish-data-belie-japans-claims-fukushima
Some fish samples tested to date have had very high levels of radiation: one sea bass sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.
While Canadians are exposed to radiation every day from the sun and the environment, Edwards notes that radioactive cesium doesn't exist in nature at all and it's not known if there is any safe level.
"The background level is zero. So this is all comes from the Fukushima disaster," he said of the fish.
Source: http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-raises-fresh-concerns-about-radiation-levels-in-japanese-fish-1.1486514
Is Fukushima Causing the Epidemic of Dead and Starving Sea Lions In California?
Associated Press reports:
Reuters notes:
Moreover, the Vancouver Sun reported in January 2012 that 94 per cent of the anchovies and 92 per cent of the sardines sold by the Japanese to Canada contained radioactive cesium. Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters; but others were made many hundreds of miles away in the open ocean.
(Note: there may be additional reasons for fluctuations in the numbers of anchovies and sardines other than radiation.)
Moreover, radiation from Fukushima was directly deposited into the kelp off the Western coast of North America … especially in Southern California.
Fish that eat the kelp have also gotten exposed to the radiation … as have the animals that eat those fish.
NOAA reports:
There are numerous other routes in which the Fukushima radiation could be getting to the sea lion pups. We noted last year:
And things may get worse for California, instead of better.
Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-31/fukushima-radiation-causing-epidemic-dead-and-starving-sea-lions-california
California pelicans fail to mate, animals dying 'like a horror show' - is Fukushima to blame?
(NaturalNews) The "fun in the sun" lifestyle that Southern California is known for apparently no longer applies to the region's seabirds, many of which are disappearing at an alarming rate. New reports indicate that the vast majority of California pelicans have simply stopped reproducing, with less than 1 percent of the usual number of baby pelicans turning up for the season.
Between 80 and 90 percent of Southern California's brown pelicans hail from Mexico's Baja Peninsula, which abuts California's southern border. The birds typically breed here in the tens of thousands and travel north, making their homes along the coast. But this year, very few baby pelicans emerged from the peninsula, a phenomenon that seasoned professor Dan Anderson says is unusual.
"It's been almost a nearly complete failure to breed, which is quite unusual actually," stated the instructor from the University of California at Davis to 89.3 KPCC. "At one island that we study, Isla Salvatierra, which would normally have 8,000-10,000 young, only had like 20 young," he added.
Unsure as to what might be causing this lack of reproduction, some are speculating that depleted fish food sources, which include small fish like sardines and anchovies, may be responsible. Other areas where adult pelicans are actually swarming in higher-than-normal numbers reveal that many of them are just hanging out rather than nesting or rearing young, lending credence to this hypothesis.
Pelicans are known to populate many of the areas around the Salton Sea, for instance, after other smaller birds have had the chance to nest and move on. But this year, adult pelicans moved in early and took over, without reproducing. Thousands of non-reproducing adult pelicans have also swarmed the Malibu Lagoon area north of Los Angeles.
"I was just sort of flabbergasted at seeing 3,500 brown pelicans resting in Malibu Lagoon," stated Dan Cooper, a biologist who monitors birds in the region, to 89.3 KPCC. "I checked my notes, and I have numbers in the hundreds, but I've never seen anything like that."
Massive fish kills linked to Fukushima could be harming pelican reproduction
One explanation for the earlier-than-normal migration patterns of pelicans, as well as their lack of reproduction, is the potential for an El Nino climate event. El Nino is the name given to unusually warm ocean temperatures that occur in the Pacific every few years.
"This was the first time that a major El Nino event could be directly tied to these massive breeding failures," stated Kimball Garrett, an ornithology collections manager at the Natural History Museum, to reporters. "It's become clear that this can happen in many areas and not just that little narrow area along the equator."
Another possibility is the dreaded Fukushima disaster, which may have been linked to numerous mass die-offs of ocean fish that occurred along the California coast over the past several years. Just a few weeks ago, in fact, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up in the Marina del Rey harbor, the second time such an event has occurred in the area since 2011.
These fish would normally have been food for hungry pelicans.
"It's horrible," stated area resident Lisa Lascody to KTLA 5 Local News about the more recent discovery of the dead fish. "There's like a million dead anchovies floating around, as well as other fish. It's creepy and weird."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/045573_California_pelicans_mating_season_Fukushima.html#ixzz3GuwAJMvq
According to the Prison Planet News Service:
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Chris Busby updates Japan on what to do to reduce the risk of radiation damage from the contamination from the Strontium-90, Uranium and Plutonium dispersed widely over northern Japan.
First of all, evacuate the children and evacuate yourselves. The contamination of the ground and the food is a serious health hazard. Car air filter analysis shows the material on the ground becomes airborne and can be inhaled. Get away If you can; but if not not then you can reduce the access of these radionuclides to the DNA. It is basic Physical Chemistry that increasing the Calcium concentration, (Calcium which stabilises the DNA phosphate backbone), will inhibit the equilibrium binding of radionuclides like Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium and other high DNAP affinity elements and complex ions. The Iodine thyroid blocking method is based on the same thermodynamic chemical equilibrium idea. A number of websites have been selling pills based on his ideas and more are being set up but it is straightforward, he says, to buy Calcium/ Magnesium tablets from health food shops where they are not expensive. The adult dose is about 800mg Calcium and 350mg Magnesium. Reduce the dose for children in proportion to their relative weight, so for a 10-year old, about 400mg Calcium and 175mg Magnesium. This is a critical issue: it will save lives and it is so simple and is absolutely harmless.
http://www.lirc.org
http://www.greenaudit.org
http://www.bsrrw.org
http://www.euradcom.org
*Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.]
* Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years
Children's Heart Attacks in Fukushima
6 Month Anniversary
Originally uploaded by radioactivebsr on Sep 11, 2011
Source: http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/childrens-heart-attacks-in-fukushima-6-month-anniversary/
A Decontamination Manual for the People of Japan
Uploaded by NibiruMagick2012 on Aug 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Japan’s Idea of Decontamination: Give Manual to Citizens and Let Them Do It:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/japans-idea-of-decontamination-give.html
Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Here are some things you can do to mitigate the problem.
By Barbara H. Peterson of Farm Wars
At this point in time, most of us can say “no” to vaccines, genetically modified (GM) food, fluoride, and Big Pharma drugs. But we can’t “just say no” to radiation in the air all around us coming from Japan, and through oceanic contamination resulting from the BP Gulf incident. So, the difficult question is not how do we avoid this contamination, but rather, how we mitigate our exposure. Let’s face it. We are surrounded by radioactive contaminants in the air, water, soil, and in our food, which is grown outdoors. We cannot control the air, which contaminates the soil, water, and plants.
So, if we cannot get away from the problem, then what do we do? We can start by making sure that we have the knowledge to do the right things and collect the right resources to lessen our exposure. The following is a collection of some of the materials and applications that can be used to mitigate radiation exposure.
Personal detoxifying – people and animals
Unless we live in a bubble, our bodies will be contaminated with radioactive particles, so don’t just wait until someone tells you that you have been exposed, do something about it now. There are certain materials that will help detoxify the body without ill effects whether or not you have been exposed to these harmful materials. Some of these are:
• Zeolite Clay
• French Green Clay
• Bentonite Clay
• Baking Soda
• Boron
• Certain foods
The same products that are good for humans, are good for the animals you care about also. You can mix the above-mentioned clays in food and water for ingestion, as well as in bath water or use body wraps and clay packs to draw radioactive materials out of the body, and aid in preventing the uptake of harmful radioactive materials.
Clay of all kinds ─ in the bath, on the body and taken internally ─ is recognized (albeit quietly) as being the fastest and most effective way to remove all forms of radiation from the body.
Taking a clay that is high in electrolytes internally… sets up an electromagnetic polarity in the body causing heavy metals, radiation, chemicals and other toxins (which are positively charged) to gravitate to the clay as it passes through the body and through the bloodstream.
Before the Response Team at Chernobyl put on their radiation suits, they smeared clay all over their bodies. (What did the Russians know that we are just now beginning to understand?) (Vitality Herbs and Clay)
The research on the use of Zeolite in Chernobyl show that giving 1-2 zeolite cookies per day cleared all radiation after 3 days for adults and children. (Gabriel Cousins)
Growing up in Provence, South of France, the use of green ILLITE clay was a part of our lives. Mom made me drink it, would spray her plants with a clay/water solution, it was given to dogs, cats, horses… Internally and externally..
After moving to the US and becoming fully involved in the horse world, I became aware of how little was known about the benefits of the green illite french clay. It is my hope to bring the clay and its healing properties into public awareness. (Clay for All)
Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate is by far the least expensive addition to our defense against radioactive contamination.
The oral administration of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity of the changes produced by uranium in the kidneys. The kidneys are usually the first organs to show chemical damage upon uranium exposure. Old military manuals suggest doses or infusions of sodium bicarbonate to help alkalinize the urine if this happens. This makes the uranyl ion less kidney-toxic and promotes excretion of the nontoxic uranium-carbonate complex. The oral administration of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity of the changes produced by uranium in the kidneys. (IMVA)
Baking soda taken internally, or used in baths along with salt is very effective at cleansing the body from radiation.
This bath counteracts the effects of radiation, whether from X-rays, cancer treatment radiation, fallout from the atmosphere, or television radiation: 1 cup of baking soda and 1 to 2 cups of ordinary coarse salt (or epsom salts or sea salt) to a tub of water. You can soak for 20 minutes. (Our Little Place)
The backup system to force-fed potassium iodide in severe, acute radioactive poisoning is boron.
In the entire table of elements, including subatomic particles, there is only one mineral that is capable of accepting and ionizing radiation that never changes the innards or the nucleus of the cell — boron. The protons and the neutrons do not change under any conditions in the boron molecule. Boron can take radiation and release it without upsetting this very delicate balance.
That makes Boron an excellent candidate to have into your system, whether the radiation be from excessive sunlight or spent uranium bullets that’s being ionized and released into the atmosphere. When that mineral is present in your system, your DNA creates a much better buffering system to ward off radiation. Even when chromosome breaks do occur, they are much more easily repaired and maintained by the system. (New Paradigm Digest)
Interestingly enough, Boron can be found in Borax.
Borax: Yes, this is the laundry detergent. It is quite safe, it has been for years. The Boron content of Borax is approx 11 %. While Borax is classified as a chemical, but it is usually a mined product – meaning that it is a natural mineral complex. It has some H202 quality and emulsifies fat. Hence its use as laundry powder. (New Paradigm Digest)
Foods
Here are 19 of the best foods to naturally combat radiation poisoning:
Brown rice
Seaweed
Kelp
Miso
Pumpkin
Spirulina
Bee pollen
Wheat grass
Rosemary
Blue-green algae
Beets
Garlic
Ginger
Alfalfa sprouts
Broccoli
Onions
Olive oil
Leafy greens
Apples and other sources of pectin
If you are concerned that your garden will be subjected to rain containing radioactive material, and you are able, a greenhouse or indoor gardening space will protect your fruits and veggies. Make sure to use uncontaminated soil by treating it with one of the clays discussed earlier, rock dust, and/or baking soda before planting. These soil treatments will be discussed in the next section titled “Treating the soil.”
Here is a nifty video with instructions on how to turn a room in your home into an indoor gardening area.
If inside gardening is not an option, or you prefer to garden outdoors, here are instructions for small hoop houses on the cheap:
If you have a large outdoor area that you want to use for growing fruits and veggies, then you might want to consider treating your fruits and veggies after harvesting. This will be discussed in a later section titled “Treating veggies and fruits.”
There are a few products that will bind radioactivity in the soil and keep your plants from assimilating it. The following are a few examples:
Rock dust
Simple rock dust can be used to remineralize the soil and remove radioactive materials. At the Chernobyl disaster it was found that:
Zeolite
The following information is from John:
I heard about zeolite a few weeks back and thought I could buy enough for a 1 acre garden but saw how expensive it was. So I thought “go to the source” and called a mine I think was in Texas. Turned out that they sold a minimum of 2 tons or so but told me that a horse deodorizer called “Sweet PDZ” is 100% zeolite. Comes out of Spokane, Wa and is sold locally here on the west side of the state.
They assured me not to worry about radiation in our soil but went on to tell me how much I should buy if I were to treat 1 acre, off the top of my head I think the guy calculated I should get 10 or 12 bags…..50 lb bags. (John VanVoorhees)
This equates to roughly 500-600 lbs per acre.
Bentonite Clay
Calcium Bentonite clay will bind radiation in the soil, as well as other toxins. You can mix this clay with water, and sprinkle it on your soil.
When it is safe to go outside, get a clean new garden sprayer and add ½ cup of liquid clay to a gallon of water and spray your lawns and gardens. (New Paradigm Digest)
Baking Soda
So useful and strong is sodium bicarbonate that at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researcher Don York has used baking soda to clean soil contaminated with uranium. Sodium bicarbonate binds with uranium, separating it from the dirt; so far, York has removed as much as 92 percent of the uranium from contaminated soil samples. I started writing about baking soda after discovering that the United States Army recommends the use of bicarbonate to protect the kidneys from radiation damage. (IMVA)
Here are some instructions for using baking soda in your garden. They are not specific to radiation cleanup, but are a rule of thumb for normal use:
Acidity test for soil: To test the acidity level of your garden soil, add a pinch of baking soda to 1 tablespoon of soil. If it fizzes, the soil’s pH level is probably less than 5.0. Flower species that prefer alkaline soil such as geranium, begonia, and hydrangea should be watered occasionally with a weak baking-soda and water solution.
Sprinkle baking soda lightly around your tomato plants. This will sweeten the tomatoes by lowering their acidity.
Raise alkalinity in potted plant soil: Carnations, mums, and petunias prefer neutral soil. To raise potting soil alkalinity, apply some baking soda but use it sparingly.
Flowers and planting pots: Coat clay pots with a thin layer of baking soda when transplanting plants but before adding the soil. This helps keep the dirt fresh. If you have cut flowers, dip them in a solution of baking soda and water to lengthen their life. (How Stuff Works)
Treating Veggies and Fruits
According to the CRIRAD “Spinach, salads, cabbage and other vegetables with large surface areas are among those food products that are particularly sensitive to iodine-131 contamination, if they are cultivated outside and exposed to rainwater. Washing vegetables does not help, as iodine-131 is quickly metabolized by the plants.”
Calcium Bentonite clay has been proven to remove radiation. Not only can the clay remove radiation but it can also remove pesticides and toxins.
Because Calcium Bentonite Clay has a strong, negative ionic charge, it will act like a magnet when activated with water, adsorbing* and absorbing radiation, pesticides and toxins. The clay grabs these substances which get removed when the clay is washed off.
How to Wash Your Vegetables:
Mix 1 part Calcium Bentonite Clay to 8 parts of water. In a large bowl (non-metallic), mix ¼ cup of liquid clay with 1 quart of water. Toss your produce in this clay water, ensuring complete coverage, and let sit for about 10 minutes. (for a large batch of produce, use more clay/water). Rinse, dry and store. (Vites)
Treating the Water
Reverse osmosis is highly effective in removing several impurities from water such as total dissolved solids, turbidity, asbestos, lead and other toxic heavy metals, radium, and many dissolved organic. The process will also remove chlorine, and also can remove nuclear radiation such as radioactive plutonium or strontium in the drinking water. Therefore, reverse osmosis combined with activated carbon seems to be the most advanced water purification method developed so far. (Free Drinking Water)
Zeolites have the ability to capture cesium 134, 137 and strontium 90 isotopes and are ideally suited for the treatment of liquid radioactive waste effluents…(Steelhead)
Using Zeolite as a filtering material for water is being done in Japan after the nuclear reactor incident:
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a special facility to process radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
The new facility, to go on-stream already in June, will push the contaminated water through an oil filter using zeolite, a mineral that absorbs radioactive materials.. (The Voice of Russia)
Shower heads for the home are available with Zeolite filters. Just type “Zeolite shower filter” into your Internet search engine and you will find information about this product.
The University of Texas has a patent on a Zeolite water filter application that can be used for the production of potable water from wells, bodies of water such as ponds, and/or point of use filters and water bottle filters:
Our Surfactant Modified Zeolite (SMZ) filter is a filter that is designed to remove biological pathogens from water. Removed pathogens include bacteria, viruses, and parasitic protozoa. The material can be included in a filtration device, which can be used as a potable water filter, a point of use water filter, a water bottle filter, or a filter packet that can be placed into a body of water such as a well or a pond. The SMZ filter is especially suited and was intensively tested as a filter pack of wells. SMZ can be produced cheaply (about 50 cents per pound or less than $500 per cubic meter), and used for any types of water ranging from drinking water to waste water. The SMZ can be manufactures in various grain sizes to allow water to flow at reasonably fast discharge rates through the filter. The SMZ was tested in the laboratory and in field experiments and was shown to be extremely efficient in removing bacteria and viruses from water. For example, in field experiments 100 % of E. coli and more than 99.9 % of the bacteriophages tested were removed from sewage water. After 6 months the removal efficiency for E. coli was still 100%. (University of Texas)
We also might want to keep our eyes on this new discovery by Russian scientists:
Russian scientists in the Khibinsky Mountains in the Arctic Circle have made an important scientific discovery. They’ve found a new mineral which absorbs radiation.
It does not yet have an official name and is known only as number 27-4. It can absorb radioactivity from liquid nuclear waste.
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best
Face it. None of us will make it out of this world alive, but we might just be able to make things better along the way. Since we are constantly being bombarded by radiation, which is a clear and present danger due to the Japanese Fukushima reactor melt down, we find ourselves facing the very real prospect of imminent demise. So, what matters most is how we react to the situation. We can succumb to fear and go out cowering, ignore the situation and pretend it isn’t happening, or face it and embrace our circumstances, doing all that we can to make things better for ourselves and the people around us. I choose the latter, and hope you do too.
© 2011 Barbara H. Peterson
Source: http://farmwars.info/?p=6062
Here are some more relevant videos I found.
In the video above Leuren Monet recommends the Bio-mat, a macrobiotic diet, a reverse-osmosis water filter, the GammaScout geiger counter, and the book, "Political Ponerology".
She also mentions staying away from Genetically Modified foods (GMOs), sticking to whole foods, and grounding yourself. Grounding yourself or 'earthing' yourself, means having physiological contact with the earth. If you haven't already, watch the groundbreaking documentary, "Grounded".
I, however, recommend a Raw Fruit and Vegetable diet, as it is optimal and nutritionally sound for us humans.
Genesis 1:29 - Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."
My favorite Raw Food website to help you get started on a raw food lifestyle -- to boost your immunity -- is- 40 Below Fruity hosted by the beautiful and wise Tarah Millen.
I also recommend the ProPur water filtration system over reverse osmosis because of it's superiority when it comes to producing the cleanest water.
If you got something from this post, you might also want to check out my post, "FDA Gets Radiation Happy With Our Food".
Thanks for reading. Take care!
Chernobyl scientist discovers antioxidants help body adapt to radiation
(NaturalNews) Research on birds living near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster area adds more proof that antioxidants are able to protect the body from radiation damage. The study was published in the journal Functional Ecology on April 24.
The meltdown, explosion and fire at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 was, at the time, the worst civilian nuclear disaster the world had ever seen (today, scientists are split over whether the Chernobyl or Fukushima disaster was worse). The disaster widely contaminated the surrounding area with radiation, leading the Soviet government to permanently evacuate a three-kilometer area around the power plant.
The negative effects of the ongoing radioactivity in the region have been well documented, including changes in abundance, distribution, life history and mutation rates of many species. Birds in the area have smaller than usual brains and are more prone to cataracts, and radiation appears to be hampering the normal activity of decomposers such as insects and microbes.
But the absence of humans has also led to increase in biological diversity, with many rare plants and birds returning to the region, and wolves and boars even seen roaming the streets of an abandoned town.
Adaptation and antioxidants
The new study sought to determine whether any species of bird had been able to adapt to the elevated radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Laboratory studies have shown that over time, many organisms are able to adapt to low doses of radiation, making themselves less susceptible to damage caused by later, higher doses.
Much of the damage from radiation exposure occurs because ionizing radiation leads to the production of free radicals, which in turn damage (oxidize) cells and DNA inside the body. The presence of antioxidants inside the body, however, can neutralize free radicals before they are able to do damage.
In order to see whether wild birds were able to boost antioxidant levels to decrease radiation damage, the researchers captured 152 birds from 16 species at eight sites in and around the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They took blood and feathers samples from each bird and then released them, and also measured the background radiation levels at each site. Blood samples were tested for DNA damage, oxidative stress and levels of the key antioxidant glutathione. Feathers samples were tested for levels of the melanin pigments pheomelanin and eumelanin.
The body needs much higher levels of antioxidants to produce pheomelanin than it does to produce eumelanin.
Antioxidant-rich blood is protected
The researchers found that birds in higher radiation areas actually had higher levels of antioxidants (along with less DNA damage and less oxidative stress) than birds in lower radiation areas. This suggests that the higher radiation levels had caused the birds' bodies to better adapt by increasing antioxidant levels and thereby better protecting them from radiation.
The researchers also found that two species of birds, , great tits (Parus major) and barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), actually did worse in high radiation areas. Notably, these were the species with higher levels of pheomelanin in their feathers. This suggests that because the birds needed more antioxidants to make their feather pigments, they had less available to protect their bodies from the damaging effects of radiation.
The study does not mean that radiation exposure is a good thing, the authors cautioned.
"The effects of radiation at Chernobyl on populations of organisms, and for birds in particular, have been negative overall," they wrote.
What it does show is that the body seeks to protect itself from radiation - and antioxidants are one of the main tools it uses to do so.
Information about Iodine to protect yourself from Radiation:
Avoid foods such as cabbage, mustard, turnips, peanuts, soybeans, millet, pine nuts, cassava root, brocolli and kale as these contain goitrogens that block the body's usage of iodine. Although, sometimes cooking deactivates these compounds.
Information on Antioxidants to protect yourself from Radiation:
Record outdoor radiation level that 'can kill in 20 min' detected at Fukushima
Outdoor radiation levels have reached their highest at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, warns the operator company. Radiation found in an area near a steel pipe that connects reactor buildings could kill an exposed person in 20 minutes, local media reported.
The plant’s operator and the utility responsible for the clean-up Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) detected record radiation levels on a duct which connects reactor buildings and the 120 meter tall ventilation pipe located outside on Friday. TEPCO measured radiation at eight locations around the pipe with the highest estimated at two locations – 25 Sieverts per hour and about 15 Sieverts per hour, the company said.
This is the highest level ever detected outside the reactor buildings, according to local broadcaster NHK.Source: http://rt.com/news/fukushima-radiation-record-outdoor-912/
German oceanographers Claus Böning and Erik Behrens and colleagues from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel used global ocean circulation models to simulate the movement of a tracer which was continuously injected into Japanese coastal waters over several weeks. They then modeled its spreading and dilution in the Pacific Ocean for 10 years.
The team found that using models with different resolutions to simulate eddy fields gave different results. “This shows that high-resolution models are needed,” said Böning. “We also did not model biological processes which might lead to accumulation of 137Cs in areas of high biological productivity, and potentially affect vertical tracer distributions due to adherence to sinking particles.”
The researchers published their work in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).
Source: http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/50176
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| An official from Thailand's Food and Drug Administration takes a sample from a shipment of frozen fish imported from Japan soon after the tsunami to test for possible radiation. (photo: Sukree Sukplang, Reuters) |
"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.
In October, a U.S. study - co-authored by oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts - reported Fukushima caused history's biggest-ever release of radiation into the ocean - 10 to 100 times more than the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.
"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 in Montreal, 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.
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.
Source: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/343-203/9463-canada-fish-eaters-threatened-by-fukushima-radiation
Fish data belie Japan's claims on Fukushima
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| Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (second from right) says Fukushima fallout won’t affect the 2020 Games. |
Half the cancers will be fatal. About 500 will be in Japan; 75 will be due to Japanese fish exports to other countries; and 225 will be from fishing in the Pacific by nations other than Japan.
And that’s likely only a small part of the actual long-term cancer impacts from eating the fish. Two nuclear experts who saw the Straight’s figures said the real cancer toll could be 100 times higher—or 80,000 cancers.
“The potential numbers could be two orders of magnitude [100 times] higher than your numbers,” Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear-policy lecturer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, said in a phone interview. “Hundreds of cancers are nothing to sneeze at, and it is a fraction of what I suspect the total will be.”
That could be the toll, Hirsch said, if all factors are taken into account, including: future fish consumption (the Straight’s number only includes fish eaten up to mid-July 2013); highly damaging isotopes that were released in the disaster but aren’t being monitored, such as strontium 90 and plutonium 239; consumption of contaminated fish caught in the entire Pacific (our number includes only fish caught in Japan and regions to the north and west of the archipelago, where the most radiation data exists, and doesn’t include any farmed fish); and research suggesting that radiation causes many more cancers than official formulas predict.
“Apologists say it’s a large ocean and dilution is the solution to pollution,” said Hirsch, who cochaired a California state appointed panel that oversaw a study of cancer among nuclear-power workers in the 1990s. “Dilution actually does nothing except expose a larger population.”
Because of the uncertainties involved with such calculations, it’s not clear how many cancers would occur in Canada or the U.S. The cancer numbers don’t include risk from fish catches in North American West Coast waters, where only a few sporadic radiation tests have been done.
The cancer numbers also don’t include other possible health impacts from radiation in the fish, such as heart disease, stillbirths, and genetic damage to subsequent generations.
Those cases could actually outnumber the cancers, according to Sebastian Pflugbeil, a physicist in Germany who traveled to Japan to study Fukushima’s health impacts and who studied the impacts of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Pflugbeil checked the Straight’s calculations to make sure they were accurate, and he agreed with Hirsch that the final cancer toll could be 100 times higher. “Your calculation is nearly the lowest possible number of problems,” he said in a phone interview from Berlin.
The Straight also sent its cancer calculations to Eiichiro Ochiai, a retired chemistry professor in Vancouver who taught at UBC and the University of Tokyo and has written a book titled Hiroshima to Fukushima: Biohazards of Radiation.
In a phone interview, Ochiai agreed the calculations were done correctly and that the actual cancer toll will likely be higher. He said cancer-risk formulas used by governments underestimate the true cancer impact, especially those cases that arise from eating contaminated food.
“The official data is all denial,” Ochiai said. “The nuclear industry tries to suppress the truth.”
Hinton coauthored a study in the June Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that dismissed fears about eating fish contaminated by radiation from Fukushima, saying that radiation in tuna caught near California was “below levels that should cause concern”.
After the Straight sent him its cancer calculations, Hinton said in an email that the risk is still smaller than from natural sources such as cosmic rays, and that the average radiation level in the fish is below the Japanese government ceiling, which is 100 becquerels per kilo in food. Hinton didn’t respond to a phone-interview request.
In Berlin, Pflugbeil rejected Hinton’s argument, saying radiation from Fukushima can still cause cancers even if it is lower than natural radiation and government ceilings.
For example, 150,000 more people in Germany would die of cancer each year if all food had radiation at the European Union ceiling, according to a 2011 study Pflugbeil coauthored about Fukushima for Berlin-based Foodwatch.
“The allowed level of radiation in food is not the result of medical calculations but is a level which the atomic industry thinks it can accept. It’s very important to understand that the health of people plays almost no role in such calculations,” Pflugbeil told the Straight.
Arnold Gundersen, chief engineer at energy consulting firm Fairewinds Associates in Burlington, Vermont, also verified the Straight’s math.
Gundersen, who has a master’s degree in nuclear engineering, said by phone that the final number of cancer cases could be “over an order of magnitude higher” than the Straight figure. “Cancer rates are going up. It’s a useful fiction for the nuclear industry to say no one died.”
Edwin Lyman, a physicist specializing in nuclear issues and a senior scientist with the Washington, D.C.–based Union of Concerned Scientists, also checked the calculations. “There is a small risk for people who eat that fish,” he said in a phone interview. “If you ingest radioactive material, there is a cancer risk associated with that.”
And according to Cindy Folkers, a radiation and health specialist for the group Beyond Nuclear, in Takoma Park, Maryland, the presence of natural radiation doesn’t make it okay to add more carcinogens to the environment. “All this BS about natural radiation is used as an excuse to expose us to more radiation through their nuclear-industry processes,” Folkers said by phone.
In Ottawa, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency briefly tested food imports from Japan and required safety documentation on imports from the area around Fukushima. It dropped both those measures in June 2011, three months after the disaster.
The CFIA’s tests included about 50 fish and seafood products. But a CFIA product list supplied to the Straight included few of the fish species that have been found to have especially high levels of cesium, such as landlocked salmon, eel, carp, cod, and sea bass—all of which Japan has exported to Canada since the disaster. One sample of smoked bonito had 7.7 becquerels of cesium per kilo but it was allowed on the market, said CFIA spokesperson Elena Koutsavakis by phone.
“If it is below the Health Canada action level, we don’t see a reason for concern or a safety risk,” she said. Health Canada’s ceiling of 1,000 becquerels per kilo for cesium is 10 times that of Japan.
The CFIA did more radiation tests on Japanese food imports in the Vancouver region in September and October 2012; it still hasn’t released those results. Asked why the information has not been made public, Koutsavakis said that it is still being analyzed a year later: “It’s just a matter of doing the work based on the risk. That’s why it took longer.”
The Straight has filed a freedom-of-information request for the results.
Closer to home, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control long ago dismissed concerns about Fukushima’s impacts here. “There is no health risk from radiation from the nuclear-power plants in Japan to people in B.C.,” it said in a statement in March 2011.
“At Fukushima, [the reactor’s] design is great. No human error. Natural disaster,” said Abderrachid Zitouni, the BCCDC’s radiation specialist, explaining the disaster’s cause during a talk to B.C. medical professionals in April 2011. He delivered a PowerPoint presentation that said the accident had involved only a “minor release” of radiation with a “local impact only”.
(In fact, a Japanese parliamentary commission last year called Fukushima “a profoundly man-made disaster—that could and should have been foreseen and prevented”, blaming “a multitude of errors” and “ignorance and arrogance unforgivable for anyone or any organization that deals with nuclear power”.)
Zitouni didn’t return a phone message. Instead, BCCDC spokesperson Alex Dabrowski emailed the Straight to refer questions to the CFIA and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Other countries are taking the risks more seriously. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and South Korea this month expanded restrictions on Japanese fish imports. South Korea also rejects other food from Japan if it has any cesium. In all, 42 countries and regions had restrictions on food imports from Japan due to Fukushima as of October 2012, according to an August Japan Times story.
Hirsch believes that restrictions and monitoring aren’t enough. “Even fish below limits pose a risk. The fundamental lesson is to try to stop from doing this again. Nuclear power might be safe, but only in the hands of another species.”
Ochiai agreed: “We should keep uranium safely in the ground.”
That lesson doesn’t seem to have sunk in. Since Fukushima, Canada has okayed uranium and nuclear-technology sales to the United Arab Emirates and India. And Japan has signed a deal to help build a new nuclear plant in quake-prone Turkey.
Source: http://www.straight.com/life/497646/fish-data-belie-japans-claims-fukushima
Some fish samples tested to date have had very high levels of radiation: one sea bass sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.
While Canadians are exposed to radiation every day from the sun and the environment, Edwards notes that radioactive cesium doesn't exist in nature at all and it's not known if there is any safe level.
"The background level is zero. So this is all comes from the Fukushima disaster," he said of the fish.
Source: http://canadaam.ctvnews.ca/report-raises-fresh-concerns-about-radiation-levels-in-japanese-fish-1.1486514
Is Fukushima Causing the Epidemic of Dead and Starving Sea Lions In California?
Painting by Jonathan Raddatz
At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die.Given that the FDA has refused to test seafood for radiation, we’re not that confident that the government is looking that hard to see if Fukushima fallout is the cause.
It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.” That will allow more scientists to join the search for the cause, Melin said.
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Even the pups that are making it are markedly underweight ….
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Rescuers have had to leave the worst of them in an effort to save the strongest ones, she said.
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Routine testing of seafood is being done by state and federal agencies and consumer safety experts are working with NOAA to find the problem.”No link has been established at this time between these sea lion strandings and any potential seafood safety issues,” NOAA said in a statement.
Reuters notes:
From the beginning of this year through last Sunday, 948 sea lion pups came ashore in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, according to figures from NOAA.CNN reports:
“There really isn’t an oceanographic explanation for what we’re seeing,” Melin said. “We’re looking at disease as a possibility and also at the food supply, and it could be some combination.”
This is an unprecedented crisis for the species in this state says the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.
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“So we are seeing exponentially higher numbers” [Keith Matassa, who runs the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach said].
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When you say off the charts, this is what you’re talking about.CBS News reported last week:
”They’re very sick,” said Keith Matassa, who runs the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach. His team is nursing 115 sea lions back to health. “A normal sea lion at this age — 8 to 9 months old — should be around 60, 70 pounds,” said Matassa.AP notes:
“We’re seeing them come into our center at 20 to 25 pounds, and really they look like walking skeletons.”
Biologists knew last spring that this year’s supply of anchovies and sardines could be limited, Boehm said.Time reported in April 2011:
“These two species of fish are an extremely important part of California sea lions’ diets, and females simply may not have been able to nurse their young sufficiently, resulting in abandonment, premature weaning and subsequent strandings,” he said.
Besides anchovies and sardines, sea lions also eat squid and other ocean creatures.
Few people want to see the ocean’s anchovy stocks wiped out by radiation either. That’s just the scenario that seemed to be developing, however, when reports coming out of Japan revealed that elevated levels of cesium-137 had been found in anchovies in the waters off Chiba, near Toky0—a direct result of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.Huge die-offs of sardines were also reported in the Chiba area of Japan after Fukushima.
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In the big-fish-eats-little-fish way of the ocean, the radioactive contamination eventually gets passed up the food chain, concentrating in fats which get consumed and stored, until the isotopes finally come to rest in the very largest creature at the top of the food chain ….
Moreover, the Vancouver Sun reported in January 2012 that 94 per cent of the anchovies and 92 per cent of the sardines sold by the Japanese to Canada contained radioactive cesium. Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters; but others were made many hundreds of miles away in the open ocean.
(Note: there may be additional reasons for fluctuations in the numbers of anchovies and sardines other than radiation.)
Moreover, radiation from Fukushima was directly deposited into the kelp off the Western coast of North America … especially in Southern California.
Fish that eat the kelp have also gotten exposed to the radiation … as have the animals that eat those fish.
NOAA reports:
Sea lions … feed on the fish that live in kelp forests.(Images here.)
There are numerous other routes in which the Fukushima radiation could be getting to the sea lion pups. We noted last year:
A 1955 U.S. government report concluded that the ocean may not adequately dilute radiation from nuclear accidents.
MIT says that seawater which is itself radioactive may begin hitting the West Coast within 5 years.
In 10 years, peak radioactive cesium levels off of the West Coast of North America could be 10 times higher than at the coast of Japan.
As we’ve previously noted, Reuters reports that Alaskan seals are suffering mysterious lesions and hair loss:
Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats.
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“We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity,” said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
“There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage,” he said.
We reported yesterday that a new scientific paper shows that the Fukushima radioactive plume contaminated the entire Northern hemisphere during a relatively short period of time ….Unfortunately, the nuclear accident is nowhere near contained. Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day, the reactors have lost containment, and groundwater is flooding into the stricken reactors (delaying clean-up).
Radioactive fish are also being found off the West Coast.
A California-sized island of debris from Japan is also hitting the West Coast.
And West Coast residents have also been exposed to Fukushima radiation from the air. See this, this and this.
And things may get worse for California, instead of better.
Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-31/fukushima-radiation-causing-epidemic-dead-and-starving-sea-lions-california
California pelicans fail to mate, animals dying 'like a horror show' - is Fukushima to blame?
(NaturalNews) The "fun in the sun" lifestyle that Southern California is known for apparently no longer applies to the region's seabirds, many of which are disappearing at an alarming rate. New reports indicate that the vast majority of California pelicans have simply stopped reproducing, with less than 1 percent of the usual number of baby pelicans turning up for the season.
Between 80 and 90 percent of Southern California's brown pelicans hail from Mexico's Baja Peninsula, which abuts California's southern border. The birds typically breed here in the tens of thousands and travel north, making their homes along the coast. But this year, very few baby pelicans emerged from the peninsula, a phenomenon that seasoned professor Dan Anderson says is unusual.
"It's been almost a nearly complete failure to breed, which is quite unusual actually," stated the instructor from the University of California at Davis to 89.3 KPCC. "At one island that we study, Isla Salvatierra, which would normally have 8,000-10,000 young, only had like 20 young," he added.
Unsure as to what might be causing this lack of reproduction, some are speculating that depleted fish food sources, which include small fish like sardines and anchovies, may be responsible. Other areas where adult pelicans are actually swarming in higher-than-normal numbers reveal that many of them are just hanging out rather than nesting or rearing young, lending credence to this hypothesis.
Pelicans are known to populate many of the areas around the Salton Sea, for instance, after other smaller birds have had the chance to nest and move on. But this year, adult pelicans moved in early and took over, without reproducing. Thousands of non-reproducing adult pelicans have also swarmed the Malibu Lagoon area north of Los Angeles.
"I was just sort of flabbergasted at seeing 3,500 brown pelicans resting in Malibu Lagoon," stated Dan Cooper, a biologist who monitors birds in the region, to 89.3 KPCC. "I checked my notes, and I have numbers in the hundreds, but I've never seen anything like that."
Massive fish kills linked to Fukushima could be harming pelican reproduction
One explanation for the earlier-than-normal migration patterns of pelicans, as well as their lack of reproduction, is the potential for an El Nino climate event. El Nino is the name given to unusually warm ocean temperatures that occur in the Pacific every few years.
"This was the first time that a major El Nino event could be directly tied to these massive breeding failures," stated Kimball Garrett, an ornithology collections manager at the Natural History Museum, to reporters. "It's become clear that this can happen in many areas and not just that little narrow area along the equator."
Another possibility is the dreaded Fukushima disaster, which may have been linked to numerous mass die-offs of ocean fish that occurred along the California coast over the past several years. Just a few weeks ago, in fact, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up in the Marina del Rey harbor, the second time such an event has occurred in the area since 2011.
These fish would normally have been food for hungry pelicans.
"It's horrible," stated area resident Lisa Lascody to KTLA 5 Local News about the more recent discovery of the dead fish. "There's like a million dead anchovies floating around, as well as other fish. It's creepy and weird."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/045573_California_pelicans_mating_season_Fukushima.html#ixzz3GuwAJMvq
Intentional sabotage believed to have disrupted decontamination at Fukushima plant
(NaturalNews) The recent mysterious dumping of more than 200 tons of radioactive water into the basement of a building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has some crying "foul play." New reports suggest that international sabotage may be to blame for the "accidental" spillage, which is prompting calls for new security measures to be implemented at the stricken facility.
The plant's operator told NHK World that the dumping resulted from an alleged "mix-up over switches," which apparently sent the water into the wrong building. Normally, contaminated water at Fukushima is transferred to a special storage container prior to being delivered to a decontamination facility. But in this instance, the water was pumped into an open basement instead.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which owns the Fukushima plant, says it is currently investigating the situation to see what went wrong. Company spokesmen told the media that plant workers may have accidentally redirected the water into the basement when trying to turn on air conditioning units, resulting in four pumps that were supposed to be offline delivering the water to the wrong place.
But there is also the possibility that the incident was a deliberate act of sabotage, something TEPCO officials are considering. The company is currently interviewing plant workers in an attempt to solve this mystery, which is only fueling further contempt from local authorities who have had enough of its mismanagement of the cleanup process.
"Someone did it on purpose," reads an English translation of a recent statement made by a TEPCO worker. "I'm convinced it was intentional."
Earlier contamination event determined to be intentional
This is a much more likely scenario than the air conditioning excuse given by TEPCO, which is why local nuclear regulation authority commissioner Toyoshi Fuketa is calling for security cameras to be installed at the facility. Fuketa is also calling on TEPCO to come up with other preventive measures to avoid future breaches.
"It is probably not a human error," reads a Twitter "tweet" from the same worker. "In other words, someone did it on purpose."
Based on the immense volume of water dumped into the basement, experts say there is now 10 trillion becquerels per liter (Bq/l) of cesium, strontium and other radioactive materials that need to be remediated. Since the water was directly used to cool the damaged reactors, and had not yet been decontaminated, radiation levels are extremely high.
A similar "error" occurred back in February when more than 100 tons of radioactive water leaked from a containment tank at the site. Reports indicate that the valve responsible for the leak was deliberately opened, affirming the supposition that sabotage may be to blame. However, TEPCO officials claim they have not yet identified the culprit, and not everyone is convinced that malicious intent is to blame.
"I teach root cause analysis of accidents and incidents... [and] I am pretty skeptical that it was done on purpose, that it is the fault of one individual," wrote one ENENews.com commenter about the latest incident.
"The entire system is corrupt- the management plan, the procedures, the training, the supervision, the sharing of information, the risk assessments, the job hazard analyses and personal protective equipment choices, the marking and labeling of hazards, the medical surveillance, the communication of risk, the investigation of on site hazards and accidents... the entire system is a non system."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/045109_Fukushima_sabotage_radiation_decontamination.html
(NaturalNews) The recent mysterious dumping of more than 200 tons of radioactive water into the basement of a building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan has some crying "foul play." New reports suggest that international sabotage may be to blame for the "accidental" spillage, which is prompting calls for new security measures to be implemented at the stricken facility.
The plant's operator told NHK World that the dumping resulted from an alleged "mix-up over switches," which apparently sent the water into the wrong building. Normally, contaminated water at Fukushima is transferred to a special storage container prior to being delivered to a decontamination facility. But in this instance, the water was pumped into an open basement instead.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which owns the Fukushima plant, says it is currently investigating the situation to see what went wrong. Company spokesmen told the media that plant workers may have accidentally redirected the water into the basement when trying to turn on air conditioning units, resulting in four pumps that were supposed to be offline delivering the water to the wrong place.
But there is also the possibility that the incident was a deliberate act of sabotage, something TEPCO officials are considering. The company is currently interviewing plant workers in an attempt to solve this mystery, which is only fueling further contempt from local authorities who have had enough of its mismanagement of the cleanup process.
"Someone did it on purpose," reads an English translation of a recent statement made by a TEPCO worker. "I'm convinced it was intentional."
Earlier contamination event determined to be intentional
"It is probably not a human error," reads a Twitter "tweet" from the same worker. "In other words, someone did it on purpose."
Based on the immense volume of water dumped into the basement, experts say there is now 10 trillion becquerels per liter (Bq/l) of cesium, strontium and other radioactive materials that need to be remediated. Since the water was directly used to cool the damaged reactors, and had not yet been decontaminated, radiation levels are extremely high.
A similar "error" occurred back in February when more than 100 tons of radioactive water leaked from a containment tank at the site. Reports indicate that the valve responsible for the leak was deliberately opened, affirming the supposition that sabotage may be to blame. However, TEPCO officials claim they have not yet identified the culprit, and not everyone is convinced that malicious intent is to blame.
"I teach root cause analysis of accidents and incidents... [and] I am pretty skeptical that it was done on purpose, that it is the fault of one individual," wrote one ENENews.com commenter about the latest incident.
"The entire system is corrupt- the management plan, the procedures, the training, the supervision, the sharing of information, the risk assessments, the job hazard analyses and personal protective equipment choices, the marking and labeling of hazards, the medical surveillance, the communication of risk, the investigation of on site hazards and accidents... the entire system is a non system."
Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/045109_Fukushima_sabotage_radiation_decontamination.html
If you have been exposed to any form of radiation, either for medical diagnostic purposes (fluoroscopy / mammography / other medical x-ray exams) or in the course of radiotherapy treatment, or if you are otherwise concerned by excessive radiation exposure, overload or poisoning (such as living near a nuclear reactor facility, working with diagnostic radiological equipment / in the nuclear processing industries / uranium mining / uranium or plutonium processing), or if you have been exposed to radioactive particles or higher ionizing radiation doses stemming from other sources such as depleted uranium (DU), testing of atomic weapons, frequent flights in higher altitudes, a nuclear disaster (radiation fallout from the Japan nuclear power plants) etc.,
Here are a number of tips and suggested remedies how to naturally help your body excrete damaging radioactive elements (e.g. strontium and radioactive iodine) or detoxify their noxious byproducts such as free radicals as well as deal with radiation burns.
If you are having any kind of radiation treatments, macrobiotic is the cure. Macrobiotics is very effective in curing radiation sickness and cancer.
If you are diagnosed with cancer and you want to survive the cancer avoid any and all exposure to radiation treatment. Radiation treatment of any kind is what actually kills people diagnosed with cancer.
Exposure to radiation causes a cascade offree radicals that wreak havoc on the body. Free radicals damages DNA, protein, and fats. Free radical damage has been clinically proven to be a major contributor to cancer. That being said, people don’t die of cancer, they die of radiation poisoning.
The repeated exposure to radiation through so-called treatment overwhelms the body’s immune system. Cancer doesn’t cause hair loss for cancer patients, the radiation treatment is solely responsible for that. Cancer doesn’t cause weight loss, the radiation treatment causes that because it suppresses your appetite. Cancer doesn’t cause a cancer patient to become very weak and sick, the radiation treatment poisons the body and makes them very weak and sick.
According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, in his book Macrobiotic Diet, Michio Kushi states: ‘At the time of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the radioactivity that had been released.
Dr. Akizuki fed his staff and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables, Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.’”
In case you missed it the secret to surviving all forms of radiation exposure is sea salt. If you are concerned about the radiation fallout from the Japan nuclear plants disaster or if you had an X-ray (from hospitals and airport screening) or radiation treatments for cancer, soak your body in sea salt (not iodized table salt) baths to help pull out the radiation from your body.
If you were diagnosed with mouth or throat cancer and you were subjected to deadly radiation treatments gargling with baking soda mixed in water will help neutralize the radiation.
Baking soda is so powerful in curing radiation contamination that at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researcher Don York has used baking soda to clean soil contaminated with uranium.
Sodium bicarbonate binds with uranium, separating it from the dirt; so far, York has removed as much as 92 percent of the uranium from contaminated soil samples. Still not convinced? Would it help to know that the United States Army recommends the use of baking soda to protect the kidneys from radiation damage.
Radiation is very toxic. Exposure to radiation of any amount is harmful to your body. Exposure to radiation through x-rays (hospitals and airport screening) or any of the so-called cancer treatments are the most dangerous source of radiation poisoning. X-rays and radiation cancer treatments are far deadlier than radiation fallout because the exposure is concentrated and frequent.
To pull the radiation poison out of the body, try bathing in half a cup of sea salt and half a cup of baking soda. Soak for at least 20-30 minutes, every day for three weeks or every other day for six weeks. . . or go on a vacation to the West Indies or South Pacific and swim in the ocean every day for three weeks! Why the Indies or South Pacific? Because of the higher concentration of sea salt.
Where is the best place on Earth to go for curing yourself of radiation? The Dead Sea. The Dead Sea salt content is four times that of most world’s oceans. Sea salt draws the radiation out of the body.
Can’t afford to travel to the Dead Sea and cure yourself of the radiation poison from nuclear plant fallout, x-rays and radiation cancer treatment? A tiny pinch of good quality sea salt in several glasses of distilled water each day will provide one with all the minerals and trace elements you need to rid your body of the radiation and stay healthy.
Can’t stomach sea salt? The amino acid, cysteine also protects against the damaging effects of radiation by terminating the free radicals produced by ionizing radiation. Cysteine, together with methionine, cystine, and their derivatives, is numbered among the “sulphurated amino acids” due to the fact that these amino acids contain sulfur in addition to carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
Source: http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/sea-salt-and-baking-soda-best-all-naturalremedy-for-curing-radiation-exposure-and-cancer/
Here are a number of tips and suggested remedies how to naturally help your body excrete damaging radioactive elements (e.g. strontium and radioactive iodine) or detoxify their noxious byproducts such as free radicals as well as deal with radiation burns.
If you are having any kind of radiation treatments, macrobiotic is the cure. Macrobiotics is very effective in curing radiation sickness and cancer.
If you are diagnosed with cancer and you want to survive the cancer avoid any and all exposure to radiation treatment. Radiation treatment of any kind is what actually kills people diagnosed with cancer.
Exposure to radiation causes a cascade offree radicals that wreak havoc on the body. Free radicals damages DNA, protein, and fats. Free radical damage has been clinically proven to be a major contributor to cancer. That being said, people don’t die of cancer, they die of radiation poisoning.
The repeated exposure to radiation through so-called treatment overwhelms the body’s immune system. Cancer doesn’t cause hair loss for cancer patients, the radiation treatment is solely responsible for that. Cancer doesn’t cause weight loss, the radiation treatment causes that because it suppresses your appetite. Cancer doesn’t cause a cancer patient to become very weak and sick, the radiation treatment poisons the body and makes them very weak and sick.
According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, in his book Macrobiotic Diet, Michio Kushi states: ‘At the time of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the radioactivity that had been released.
Dr. Akizuki fed his staff and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables, Hokkaido pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.’”
In case you missed it the secret to surviving all forms of radiation exposure is sea salt. If you are concerned about the radiation fallout from the Japan nuclear plants disaster or if you had an X-ray (from hospitals and airport screening) or radiation treatments for cancer, soak your body in sea salt (not iodized table salt) baths to help pull out the radiation from your body.
If you were diagnosed with mouth or throat cancer and you were subjected to deadly radiation treatments gargling with baking soda mixed in water will help neutralize the radiation.
Baking soda is so powerful in curing radiation contamination that at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researcher Don York has used baking soda to clean soil contaminated with uranium.
Sodium bicarbonate binds with uranium, separating it from the dirt; so far, York has removed as much as 92 percent of the uranium from contaminated soil samples. Still not convinced? Would it help to know that the United States Army recommends the use of baking soda to protect the kidneys from radiation damage.
Radiation is very toxic. Exposure to radiation of any amount is harmful to your body. Exposure to radiation through x-rays (hospitals and airport screening) or any of the so-called cancer treatments are the most dangerous source of radiation poisoning. X-rays and radiation cancer treatments are far deadlier than radiation fallout because the exposure is concentrated and frequent.
To pull the radiation poison out of the body, try bathing in half a cup of sea salt and half a cup of baking soda. Soak for at least 20-30 minutes, every day for three weeks or every other day for six weeks. . . or go on a vacation to the West Indies or South Pacific and swim in the ocean every day for three weeks! Why the Indies or South Pacific? Because of the higher concentration of sea salt.
Where is the best place on Earth to go for curing yourself of radiation? The Dead Sea. The Dead Sea salt content is four times that of most world’s oceans. Sea salt draws the radiation out of the body.
Can’t afford to travel to the Dead Sea and cure yourself of the radiation poison from nuclear plant fallout, x-rays and radiation cancer treatment? A tiny pinch of good quality sea salt in several glasses of distilled water each day will provide one with all the minerals and trace elements you need to rid your body of the radiation and stay healthy.
Can’t stomach sea salt? The amino acid, cysteine also protects against the damaging effects of radiation by terminating the free radicals produced by ionizing radiation. Cysteine, together with methionine, cystine, and their derivatives, is numbered among the “sulphurated amino acids” due to the fact that these amino acids contain sulfur in addition to carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen.
Source:
Source: http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/sea-salt-and-baking-soda-best-all-naturalremedy-for-curing-radiation-exposure-and-cancer/
A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities… including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.
The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.
The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.
According to this report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical” as they have no other place to resettle so many people that would, in essence, become the largest migration of human beings since the 1930's when Soviet leader Stalin forced tens of millions to resettle Russia’s far eastern regions.
Important to note, this report continues, are that Japanese diplomats told their Russian counterparts that they were, also, “seriously considering” an offer by China to relocate tens of millions of their citizens to the Chinese mainland to inhabit what are called the “ghost cities,” built for reasons still unknown and described, in part, by London’s Daily Mail News Service in their 18 December 2010 article titled: “The Ghost Towns Of China: Amazing Satellite Images Show Cities Meant To Be Home To Millions Lying Deserted” that says:
“These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices. Some estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being built every year in the country’s vast swathes of free land.”
Foreign Ministry experts in this report note that should Japan accept China’s offer, the combined power of these two Asian peoples would make them the largest super-power in human history with an economy larger than that of the United States and European Union combined and able to field a combined military force of over 200 million.
To how dire the situation is in Japan was recently articulated by Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura who warned that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.
According to the Prison Planet News Service:
“Matsumura posted [this] startling entry on his blog following a statement made by Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, on the situation at Fukushima.
Speaking at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on 22 March 2012, Murata warned that “if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4,” writes Matsumura.
In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421.”
Disturbingly, the desperate situation facing Japan is, also, facing the United States as Russian military observers overflying the US this week as part of the Open Skies Treaty are reporting “unprecedented” amounts of radiation in the Western regions of that country, a finding that was further confirmed by scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have confirmed that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US west coast.
Important to note is that this new wave of Fukushima radiation headed towards the US is in addition to earlier radiation events that American scientists are now blaming for radioactive particles from Japan being detected in California kelp.
Though the news of this ongoing global catastrophe is still being heavily censored in the US, the same cannot be said about Japan, and as recently reported by the leading Japanese newspaper The Mainichi Daily News that reports:
“One of the biggest issues that we face is the possibility that the spent nuclear fuel pool of the No. 4 reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will collapse. This is something that experts from both within and outside Japan have pointed out since the massive quake struck. TEPCO, meanwhile, says that the situation is under control. However, not only independent experts, but also sources within the government say that it’s a grave concern.
The storage pool in the No. 4 reactor building has a total of 1,535 fuel rods, or 460 tons of nuclear fuel, in it. The 7-story building itself has suffered great damage, with the storage pool barely intact on the building’s third and fourth floors. The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy company Areva have warned about this risk.
A report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool of the plant’s No. 4 reactor has clearly been shown to be “the weakest link” in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear disaster. The worse-case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of the No. 4 reactor pool, but the disintegration of spent fuel rods from all the plant’s other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate.”
Even though this crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war” and the US Military is being reported is now stocking up on massive amounts of anti-radiation pills in preparation for nuclear fallout, there remains no evidence at all the ordinary peoples are being warned about this danger in any way whatsoever.
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First of all, evacuate the children and evacuate yourselves. The contamination of the ground and the food is a serious health hazard. Car air filter analysis shows the material on the ground becomes airborne and can be inhaled. Get away If you can; but if not not then you can reduce the access of these radionuclides to the DNA. It is basic Physical Chemistry that increasing the Calcium concentration, (Calcium which stabilises the DNA phosphate backbone), will inhibit the equilibrium binding of radionuclides like Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium and other high DNAP affinity elements and complex ions. The Iodine thyroid blocking method is based on the same thermodynamic chemical equilibrium idea. A number of websites have been selling pills based on his ideas and more are being set up but it is straightforward, he says, to buy Calcium/ Magnesium tablets from health food shops where they are not expensive. The adult dose is about 800mg Calcium and 350mg Magnesium. Reduce the dose for children in proportion to their relative weight, so for a 10-year old, about 400mg Calcium and 175mg Magnesium. This is a critical issue: it will save lives and it is so simple and is absolutely harmless.
http://www.lirc.org
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http://www.bsrrw.org
http://www.euradcom.org
*Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements
[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.]
* Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years
Children's Heart Attacks in Fukushima
6 Month Anniversary
Source: http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/childrens-heart-attacks-in-fukushima-6-month-anniversary/
A Decontamination Manual for the People of Japan
Uploaded by NibiruMagick2012 on Aug 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Japan’s Idea of Decontamination: Give Manual to Citizens and Let Them Do It:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/japans-idea-of-decontamination-give.html
Feel like a radiated sitting duck? Here are some things you can do to mitigate the problem.
By Barbara H. Peterson of Farm Wars
At this point in time, most of us can say “no” to vaccines, genetically modified (GM) food, fluoride, and Big Pharma drugs. But we can’t “just say no” to radiation in the air all around us coming from Japan, and through oceanic contamination resulting from the BP Gulf incident. So, the difficult question is not how do we avoid this contamination, but rather, how we mitigate our exposure. Let’s face it. We are surrounded by radioactive contaminants in the air, water, soil, and in our food, which is grown outdoors. We cannot control the air, which contaminates the soil, water, and plants.
So, if we cannot get away from the problem, then what do we do? We can start by making sure that we have the knowledge to do the right things and collect the right resources to lessen our exposure. The following is a collection of some of the materials and applications that can be used to mitigate radiation exposure.
Personal detoxifying – people and animals
Unless we live in a bubble, our bodies will be contaminated with radioactive particles, so don’t just wait until someone tells you that you have been exposed, do something about it now. There are certain materials that will help detoxify the body without ill effects whether or not you have been exposed to these harmful materials. Some of these are:
• Zeolite Clay
• French Green Clay
• Bentonite Clay
• Baking Soda
• Boron
• Certain foods
Clay
The same products that are good for humans, are good for the animals you care about also. You can mix the above-mentioned clays in food and water for ingestion, as well as in bath water or use body wraps and clay packs to draw radioactive materials out of the body, and aid in preventing the uptake of harmful radioactive materials.
Clay of all kinds ─ in the bath, on the body and taken internally ─ is recognized (albeit quietly) as being the fastest and most effective way to remove all forms of radiation from the body.
Taking a clay that is high in electrolytes internally… sets up an electromagnetic polarity in the body causing heavy metals, radiation, chemicals and other toxins (which are positively charged) to gravitate to the clay as it passes through the body and through the bloodstream.
Before the Response Team at Chernobyl put on their radiation suits, they smeared clay all over their bodies. (What did the Russians know that we are just now beginning to understand?) (Vitality Herbs and Clay)
The research on the use of Zeolite in Chernobyl show that giving 1-2 zeolite cookies per day cleared all radiation after 3 days for adults and children. (Gabriel Cousins)
Growing up in Provence, South of France, the use of green ILLITE clay was a part of our lives. Mom made me drink it, would spray her plants with a clay/water solution, it was given to dogs, cats, horses… Internally and externally..
After moving to the US and becoming fully involved in the horse world, I became aware of how little was known about the benefits of the green illite french clay. It is my hope to bring the clay and its healing properties into public awareness. (Clay for All)
Baking Soda
Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate is by far the least expensive addition to our defense against radioactive contamination.
The oral administration of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity of the changes produced by uranium in the kidneys. The kidneys are usually the first organs to show chemical damage upon uranium exposure. Old military manuals suggest doses or infusions of sodium bicarbonate to help alkalinize the urine if this happens. This makes the uranyl ion less kidney-toxic and promotes excretion of the nontoxic uranium-carbonate complex. The oral administration of sodium bicarbonate diminishes the severity of the changes produced by uranium in the kidneys. (IMVA)
Baking soda taken internally, or used in baths along with salt is very effective at cleansing the body from radiation.
This bath counteracts the effects of radiation, whether from X-rays, cancer treatment radiation, fallout from the atmosphere, or television radiation: 1 cup of baking soda and 1 to 2 cups of ordinary coarse salt (or epsom salts or sea salt) to a tub of water. You can soak for 20 minutes. (Our Little Place)
The backup system to force-fed potassium iodide in severe, acute radioactive poisoning is boron.
In the entire table of elements, including subatomic particles, there is only one mineral that is capable of accepting and ionizing radiation that never changes the innards or the nucleus of the cell — boron. The protons and the neutrons do not change under any conditions in the boron molecule. Boron can take radiation and release it without upsetting this very delicate balance.
That makes Boron an excellent candidate to have into your system, whether the radiation be from excessive sunlight or spent uranium bullets that’s being ionized and released into the atmosphere. When that mineral is present in your system, your DNA creates a much better buffering system to ward off radiation. Even when chromosome breaks do occur, they are much more easily repaired and maintained by the system. (New Paradigm Digest)
Interestingly enough, Boron can be found in Borax.
Borax: Yes, this is the laundry detergent. It is quite safe, it has been for years. The Boron content of Borax is approx 11 %. While Borax is classified as a chemical, but it is usually a mined product – meaning that it is a natural mineral complex. It has some H202 quality and emulsifies fat. Hence its use as laundry powder. (New Paradigm Digest)
Foods
Here are 19 of the best foods to naturally combat radiation poisoning:
Brown rice
Seaweed
Kelp
Miso
Pumpkin
Spirulina
Bee pollen
Wheat grass
Rosemary
Blue-green algae
Beets
Garlic
Ginger
Alfalfa sprouts
Broccoli
Onions
Olive oil
Leafy greens
Apples and other sources of pectin
Indoor Gardening
If you are concerned that your garden will be subjected to rain containing radioactive material, and you are able, a greenhouse or indoor gardening space will protect your fruits and veggies. Make sure to use uncontaminated soil by treating it with one of the clays discussed earlier, rock dust, and/or baking soda before planting. These soil treatments will be discussed in the next section titled “Treating the soil.”
Here is a nifty video with instructions on how to turn a room in your home into an indoor gardening area.
If inside gardening is not an option, or you prefer to garden outdoors, here are instructions for small hoop houses on the cheap:
If you have a large outdoor area that you want to use for growing fruits and veggies, then you might want to consider treating your fruits and veggies after harvesting. This will be discussed in a later section titled “Treating veggies and fruits.”
Treating the Soil
There are a few products that will bind radioactivity in the soil and keep your plants from assimilating it. The following are a few examples:
Rock dust
Simple rock dust can be used to remineralize the soil and remove radioactive materials. At the Chernobyl disaster it was found that:
“Remineralization protects not only soil and plants from radioactivity, but humans, too. Supplying abundant minerals especially trace elements to the human body improves radiation tolerance, immune system integrity and radiation exposure recovery.” -David Yarrow, 2006The intelligence of Nature tends to work to maintain health. Life on earth has evolved systems to selectively incorporate healthy minerals and trace elements into biological structures, and to repair the damage done by low levels of radiation, which is a common phenomenon even in Nature. Plants, for example, will selectively uptake healthy metals over radioactive particles if given the choice. However, under high levels of radioactive stress such as those encountered during a nuclear disaster, those systems become stressed and cannot cope with the damage, resulting in radiation sickness. Replenishing these systems with remineralized foods or a finely ground rock dust supplement is an important part of coping with this unprecedented radioactive stress.” (Remineralize the Earth)
Zeolite
The following information is from John:
I heard about zeolite a few weeks back and thought I could buy enough for a 1 acre garden but saw how expensive it was. So I thought “go to the source” and called a mine I think was in Texas. Turned out that they sold a minimum of 2 tons or so but told me that a horse deodorizer called “Sweet PDZ” is 100% zeolite. Comes out of Spokane, Wa and is sold locally here on the west side of the state.
They assured me not to worry about radiation in our soil but went on to tell me how much I should buy if I were to treat 1 acre, off the top of my head I think the guy calculated I should get 10 or 12 bags…..50 lb bags. (John VanVoorhees)
This equates to roughly 500-600 lbs per acre.
Bentonite Clay
Calcium Bentonite clay will bind radiation in the soil, as well as other toxins. You can mix this clay with water, and sprinkle it on your soil.
When it is safe to go outside, get a clean new garden sprayer and add ½ cup of liquid clay to a gallon of water and spray your lawns and gardens. (New Paradigm Digest)
Baking Soda
So useful and strong is sodium bicarbonate that at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, researcher Don York has used baking soda to clean soil contaminated with uranium. Sodium bicarbonate binds with uranium, separating it from the dirt; so far, York has removed as much as 92 percent of the uranium from contaminated soil samples. I started writing about baking soda after discovering that the United States Army recommends the use of bicarbonate to protect the kidneys from radiation damage. (IMVA)
Here are some instructions for using baking soda in your garden. They are not specific to radiation cleanup, but are a rule of thumb for normal use:
Acidity test for soil: To test the acidity level of your garden soil, add a pinch of baking soda to 1 tablespoon of soil. If it fizzes, the soil’s pH level is probably less than 5.0. Flower species that prefer alkaline soil such as geranium, begonia, and hydrangea should be watered occasionally with a weak baking-soda and water solution.
Sprinkle baking soda lightly around your tomato plants. This will sweeten the tomatoes by lowering their acidity.
Raise alkalinity in potted plant soil: Carnations, mums, and petunias prefer neutral soil. To raise potting soil alkalinity, apply some baking soda but use it sparingly.
Flowers and planting pots: Coat clay pots with a thin layer of baking soda when transplanting plants but before adding the soil. This helps keep the dirt fresh. If you have cut flowers, dip them in a solution of baking soda and water to lengthen their life. (How Stuff Works)
Treating Veggies and Fruits
Clay
According to the CRIRAD “Spinach, salads, cabbage and other vegetables with large surface areas are among those food products that are particularly sensitive to iodine-131 contamination, if they are cultivated outside and exposed to rainwater. Washing vegetables does not help, as iodine-131 is quickly metabolized by the plants.”
Calcium Bentonite clay has been proven to remove radiation. Not only can the clay remove radiation but it can also remove pesticides and toxins.
Because Calcium Bentonite Clay has a strong, negative ionic charge, it will act like a magnet when activated with water, adsorbing* and absorbing radiation, pesticides and toxins. The clay grabs these substances which get removed when the clay is washed off.
How to Wash Your Vegetables:
Mix 1 part Calcium Bentonite Clay to 8 parts of water. In a large bowl (non-metallic), mix ¼ cup of liquid clay with 1 quart of water. Toss your produce in this clay water, ensuring complete coverage, and let sit for about 10 minutes. (for a large batch of produce, use more clay/water). Rinse, dry and store. (Vites)
Treating the Water
Reverse Osmosis
Reverse osmosis is highly effective in removing several impurities from water such as total dissolved solids, turbidity, asbestos, lead and other toxic heavy metals, radium, and many dissolved organic. The process will also remove chlorine, and also can remove nuclear radiation such as radioactive plutonium or strontium in the drinking water. Therefore, reverse osmosis combined with activated carbon seems to be the most advanced water purification method developed so far. (Free Drinking Water)
Zeolite
Using Zeolite as a filtering material for water is being done in Japan after the nuclear reactor incident:
The Tokyo Electric Power Co. will build a special facility to process radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant.
The new facility, to go on-stream already in June, will push the contaminated water through an oil filter using zeolite, a mineral that absorbs radioactive materials.. (The Voice of Russia)
Shower heads for the home are available with Zeolite filters. Just type “Zeolite shower filter” into your Internet search engine and you will find information about this product.
The University of Texas has a patent on a Zeolite water filter application that can be used for the production of potable water from wells, bodies of water such as ponds, and/or point of use filters and water bottle filters:
Our Surfactant Modified Zeolite (SMZ) filter is a filter that is designed to remove biological pathogens from water. Removed pathogens include bacteria, viruses, and parasitic protozoa. The material can be included in a filtration device, which can be used as a potable water filter, a point of use water filter, a water bottle filter, or a filter packet that can be placed into a body of water such as a well or a pond. The SMZ filter is especially suited and was intensively tested as a filter pack of wells. SMZ can be produced cheaply (about 50 cents per pound or less than $500 per cubic meter), and used for any types of water ranging from drinking water to waste water. The SMZ can be manufactures in various grain sizes to allow water to flow at reasonably fast discharge rates through the filter. The SMZ was tested in the laboratory and in field experiments and was shown to be extremely efficient in removing bacteria and viruses from water. For example, in field experiments 100 % of E. coli and more than 99.9 % of the bacteriophages tested were removed from sewage water. After 6 months the removal efficiency for E. coli was still 100%. (University of Texas)
New Discovery
We also might want to keep our eyes on this new discovery by Russian scientists:
Russian scientists in the Khibinsky Mountains in the Arctic Circle have made an important scientific discovery. They’ve found a new mineral which absorbs radiation.
It does not yet have an official name and is known only as number 27-4. It can absorb radioactivity from liquid nuclear waste.
“It can extract radioactive substances from any water-based solution and so has a very important practical significance,” said Yakov Pakhomovsky, the head of the Kolsky Research Institute.After coming into contact with the mineral, radioactive water becomes completely safe. Had this mineral been available to physicists after the Chernobyl or Three Mile Island disasters, the consequences might have been very different, as both accidents resulted in contamination from radioactive water. (RT)
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best
Face it. None of us will make it out of this world alive, but we might just be able to make things better along the way. Since we are constantly being bombarded by radiation, which is a clear and present danger due to the Japanese Fukushima reactor melt down, we find ourselves facing the very real prospect of imminent demise. So, what matters most is how we react to the situation. We can succumb to fear and go out cowering, ignore the situation and pretend it isn’t happening, or face it and embrace our circumstances, doing all that we can to make things better for ourselves and the people around us. I choose the latter, and hope you do too.
© 2011 Barbara H. Peterson
Source: http://farmwars.info/?p=6062
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http://enenews.com/biologist-pacific-herring-in-canada-bleeding-from-eyeballs-faces-fins-tails-ive-never-seen-fish-looking-this-bad-all-100-caught-were-bleeding-hemorrhaging-first-noticed-in-summer-of-201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Dd-5B-uUk#t=661
http://beforeitsnews.com/mass-animal-death/2013/08/fish-bleeding-from-eyeballs-faces-fins-tails-in-pacific-ocean-canada-2432268.html
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-sockeye-salmon-at-dire-historic-low-may-entirely-shut-down-fishery-on-canadas-west-coast-we-think-something-happened-in-the-ocean-the-elders-have-never-seen-anything-like
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/72-mjt
http://birthofanewearth.blogspot.com/2013/12/serious-and-extensive-radiation-effects.html
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3162#.U3Ey1ijJx8I
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/radioactive-debris-washing-up-on-pacific-coast.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156007/The-sardine-apocalypse-Mystery-200-ton-shoal-dead-fish-washed-port-turned-sea-red-created-HUGE-stink.html
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/something-is-killing-life-all-over-the-pacific-ocean-could-it-be-fukushima
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation-from-fukushima
http://www.leurenmoret.info/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253160/-Fukushima-Radiation-Killing-the-Sardines
U.S. Sailor Crippled by Fukushima Radiation Speaks Out on Government Lies
Fukushima owner boasts $4,3 billion profit from rate hikes, government bailouts
Nuclear Cheerleaders Use Voodoo Science to Pretend Low Levels of Radiation are Safe ... Or Even Good For You
A Practical approach to Coping with Radiation in the Environment by Anti-Proton Tom
READ:
http://www.naturalnews.com/045109_Fukushima_sabotage_radiation_decontamination.html
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/mysterious-coral-disease-strikes-hawaiian-island/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/radiant-wildlands-the-forests-near-fukushima-and-chernobyl-likely-have-been-changed-forever/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/moose-die-off-is-massive-and-a-mystery-to-scientists/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/scientists-looking-for-answers-after-hundreds-of-dead-turtles-wash-ashore/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/scientists-report-some-gulf-dolphins-are-gravely-ill/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/california-dead-dolphins-and-sea-lions-along-coast/
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/humanlike-skin-cancer-found-in-wild-fish/
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/mysterious-outbreak-killing-arctic-alaska-ringed-seals
http://enenews.com/biologist-pacific-herring-in-canada-bleeding-from-eyeballs-faces-fins-tails-ive-never-seen-fish-looking-this-bad-all-100-caught-were-bleeding-hemorrhaging-first-noticed-in-summer-of-201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Dd-5B-uUk#t=661
http://beforeitsnews.com/mass-animal-death/2013/08/fish-bleeding-from-eyeballs-faces-fins-tails-in-pacific-ocean-canada-2432268.html
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-sockeye-salmon-at-dire-historic-low-may-entirely-shut-down-fishery-on-canadas-west-coast-we-think-something-happened-in-the-ocean-the-elders-have-never-seen-anything-like
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/72-mjt
http://birthofanewearth.blogspot.com/2013/12/serious-and-extensive-radiation-effects.html
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3162#.U3Ey1ijJx8I
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/radioactive-debris-washing-up-on-pacific-coast.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2156007/The-sardine-apocalypse-Mystery-200-ton-shoal-dead-fish-washed-port-turned-sea-red-created-HUGE-stink.html
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/something-is-killing-life-all-over-the-pacific-ocean-could-it-be-fukushima
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation-from-fukushima
http://www.leurenmoret.info/
http://www.zengardner.com/28-signs-west-coast-absolutely-fried-nuclear-radiation-fukushima/
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http://www.endalldisease.com/28-signs-west-coast-absolutely-fried-nuclear-radiation-fukushima/
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/12/29/scientists-test-sick-and-dying-alaska-seals-for-fukushima-radiation/
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/04/poplar-bears-in-alaska-loss-of-hair-and.html
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Radioactive debris mass the size of California still impacting West Coast
Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News
in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of
radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and
that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast.
There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently,
including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures
washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses
observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major
fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning.Then we have the scientific reports that claim radioactive water will continue to impact the U.S. West Coast for many years to come, potentially doubling in strength over the next five or six years. Plankton, bluefin tuna and other sea life collected between Hawaii and California are already testing high for radiation, and these levels are expected to continue increasing.
“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” stated Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz recently to Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.”
- See more at: http://globalresearchreport.com/2013/10/28/the-evidence-is-clear-fukushima-radiation-is-still-tearing-up-west-coast-of-usa/#sthash.d9kY6bfu.dpuf
Radioactive debris mass the size of California still impacting West Coast
Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News
in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of
radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and
that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast.
There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently,
including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures
washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses
observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major
fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning.Then we have the scientific reports that claim radioactive water will continue to impact the U.S. West Coast for many years to come, potentially doubling in strength over the next five or six years. Plankton, bluefin tuna and other sea life collected between Hawaii and California are already testing high for radiation, and these levels are expected to continue increasing.
“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” stated Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz recently to Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.”
- See more at: http://globalresearchreport.com/2013/10/28/the-evidence-is-clear-fukushima-radiation-is-still-tearing-up-west-coast-of-usa/#sthash.d9kY6bfu.dpuf
