Study shows long term effects of radiation in pediatric cancer patients
AUGUST 21, 2012 BY GARTH SUNDEM
“…For many pediatric cancer patients, total body irradiation (TBI) is a necessary part of treatment during bone marrow transplant– it’s a key component of long term survival. But lengthened survival creates the ability to notice long term effects of radiation as these youngest cancer patients age. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer details these late effects of radiation….”
“…
“These kids basically lie on a table and truly do get radiation from head to toe. There is a little blocking of the lungs, but nothing of, for example, the brain or the kidneys,” says Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, research fellow at the CU Cancer Center and the paper’s first author.
Of 15 patients who received TBI before age 3, many developed endocrine and metabolic problems including testicular malfunction (78 percent), restrictive pulmonary disease due to high levels of blood triglycerides (74 percent), and cataracts (78 percent). Likewise, 90 percent of patients showed abnormally low levels of growth hormone, and 71 percent were considerably under height. Additional late effects of TBI included kidney, liver, skeletal and cardiac malfunction – and three of four patients whose IQ had been tested before TBI showed cognitive decline.
“Fifteen doesn’t seem like a large number, but because we have such a good pediatric bone marrow transplant program here at Children’s Hospital Colorado and radiation therapy program at the CU Cancer Center, we were able to get a large enough cohort of patients to see these overall effects,” Mulcahy-Levy says….”
Finland electricity rates five times more than Sweden
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/08/20/finland-electricity-rates-five-times-more-than-sweden/
Posted on20 August 2012
“…
Current electricity rates in Sweden cost a fraction of those in Finland, according to a recent YLE report.
Officials say that Sweden is seeing some of its lowest electricity rates in more than 20 years thanks to high rainfall levels seen over the summer alongside the massive capacity of regional hydroelectric plants.
As a result, around a third of Finland’s electricity is currently being imported from the Swedish border. Friday’s official average rates were 1.6 euro cents in Sweden and four cents in Finland.
Experts say that Finland has been unable to benefit from the wet summer because it lacks the dramatic topography found in Sweden and Norway that enables the neighbouring nations to take advantage of hydroelectric production methods….”
And then there is this
“…As of 2008, Finland‘s nuclear power program has four nuclear reactors in two power plants, all located on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The first of these came into operation in 1977. In 2007 they provided 28.4% of Finland’s electricity. They are among the world’s most productive, with average capacity factors of 94% in the 1990s.[2] A fifth reactor is under construction, scheduled to go online in 2015 or later….”
Chiba Produce Fair in Thailand – “All-Out Offensive to Sell Chiba Pears”, Says Sankei Shinbun Article
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/chiba-produce-fair-in-thailand-all-out.html
“…”Chiba Fair” is being held for 5 days at a subsidiary of AEON (headquartered in Chiba City) in part of Bangkok where the wealthy people live. In the special corner in the supermarket, various products from Chiba are displayed, including fruits, vegetables, and fresh fish….”
“…Zero information on the volume (or weight) of the samples, how densely they were packed to be tested, and how long they were tested. (I guess the officials think citizens are dumber than them.)
AEON Group is headed by the older brother of the vice prime minister Katsuya Okada….”
and concerning AEON, this odd article based on forged radiation data and a broken deal with greenpeace on the comments here..
there is some comments by me on the top of the thread
Emergency Official on Giant Sinkhole: Still a lot of unknowns… Will it progress any further?
http://enenews.com/emergency-official-lot-unknowns-about-giant-sinkhole-will-progress-further
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 9:58 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Drilling begins in Bayou Corne
Source: WBRZ News 2 Baton Rouge
Author: Adrian Pittman
Date: : Aug 20, 2012 6:48p E
John Boudreaux, the emergency preparedness manager for Assumption Parish, said a mandatory evacuation for residents living in the Bayou Corne community could be in place for at least 2 months while the drilling takes place.
“Still a lot of unknowns, it’s going to take some time for them to get in and see if this cavern is the cause of what has happened, and if it will progress any further,” Boudreaux said.
Japan Professor: “An emergency within an emergency” at Fukushima plant — Tepco may be criminally liable for endangering workers
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 2:18 pm ET
By ENENews
itle: Tepco liable for contract workers’ safety in Fukushima
Source: Japan Times
Author: Hifumi Okunuki (Constitutional and labor law at Daito Bunka University and Jissen Women’s University)
Date: August 21, 2012
[…]
Less than 10 percent of the work at this nuclear power plant is conducted by those directly employed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco). Over 90 percent is done by employees of subcontractors, sub-subcontractors and contractors several times removed. These workers come from a wide range of backgrounds, including some who gave up jobs in local agriculture or fishing, farmers and fishermen who work at the plants during the off-season, day laborers and former coal miners. Some have complicated stories to tell, or not to tell.
Few other workplaces require no experience or skill, and fewer still guarantee anonymity to those hoping to hide their background. Nuclear power firms also benefit from the weak position of such individuals since they are largely spared the obligations of most employers to protect the health and safety of each worker on-site.
[…]
Gundersen: Essentially U.S. Congress is totally co-opted by nuclear industry — Host: Influence is hair-raising (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-essentially-congress-totally-opted-nuclear-industry-courage-fight-video
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 3:35 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Live at Five with Margaret Harrington and Arnie Gundersen
Source: CCTV
Date Aired: Aug 14, 2012
Date Published: Aug 19, 2012
Gundersen: Essentially congress has been totally co-opted, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey of Massachussets, and a few others, Dennis Kucinich.
Just a few congressman and senators have the courage to fight this lobby.
Almost all of them have been co-opted by the money and are pro-nuclear.
Gundersen: Rapid insect mutations seen after Fukushima are frightening (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-rapid-insect-mutations-after-fukushima-frightening-video
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 12:10 am ET
By ENENews
” Gundersen: There’s some good science out about rapid mutations in insects.
Insects are relatively radiation resistant compared to human beings.
So, yeah, it is frightening.
And of course, if it’s in the human gene poll, it will be 2 or 3 generations before it completely manifests itself.
The butterflies already have a couple generations and already it’s starting to manifest itself.
So we won’t see the results on the human gene pool for 30, 60, or 90 years…
In fact it’s a very real, terrible consequence.”
Mystery yellow substance on rooftop near Tokyo has cesium at 177,000 Bq/kg (VIDEO)
Source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55244556/SPViewer/spviewer.html
From Fukushima Diary: “180,000 Bq/Kg from the yellow substance in Kashiwa Chiba”
Date Measured: August 18, 2012
- Total Cs: 176,939.8±390.3
- Cs-137: 107,627.2±264.1
- Cs-134: 69,312.6±287.4
IAEA sees significant nuclear safety progress since Fukushima
NATIONAL AUG. 20, 2012
“….Since the adoption of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, significant progress has been made in several key areas,” the Vienna-based agency said….”
The Nun Who Broke Into the Nuclear Sanctum
“…The IAEA report on the plan’s implementation so far – which will be presented to the Sept 17-21 General Conference of the agency’s more than 150 member states – said there had been progress in assessing “safety vulnerabilities” of atomic plants….”
Greenpeace ‘bombs’ French nuclear reactor in mock terror attack (but could activists do the same in the US?)
“…However Steve Kerekes, spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, dismissed the possibility as ‘completely speculative’, and points to a 2002 study which found that U.S. nuclear containment structures can withstand even a crash from a commercial airliner.
He told MSNBC: ‘Our facilities are extremely well-defended. Let’s leave it at that.’…” (see above 🙂 )
“…This and other measures had contributed to “the enhancement of the global nuclear safety framework,” it said, without giving details about the situation in individual countries….”
Was there a bombing at this Iranian nuclear site? New satellite images show big changes at underground facility
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 20:29, 10 December 2011
“…There is “increased attention and focus on vitally important areas such as accident prevention,” it added….”
Serious long lasting contamination found in hungary!
“…Iodine 125 with a half life of 60 days found in grass clippings near the institute of
Hungarian production of radioisotopes.
CRIIRAD warned in its letter of 15 November 2011 on the need
quickly determine the source of contamination “because people close to the
source could have been and still be exposed to large doses…” “
“……A release of radioactive iodine 300 + 324 GBq or 624 GBq as that reported by Izotop
Intézet for 2011 is indeed 28 300 times higher than the release of radioactive iodine
made in 2009 by the nuclear power plant Tricastin (France) and 130 times
those made by the reprocessing plant at La Hague …”
“…The IAEA was criticized for its initial handling of the Fukushima disaster, with media and Vienna-based diplomats saying it was slow to give information in the early days of the crisis…”
IAEA sees significant nuclear growth despite Fukushima
Reuters | Mar 16, 2012 1
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/16/iaea-sees-significant-nuclear-growth-despite-fukushima/
“…But preparatory work last year on the IAEA plan exposed differences between states seeking more international commitments and others wanting safety to remain an issue strictly for national authorities…”
“…Although Israelhas produced enough plutonium for 100-200 warheads, the … …Despite two North Korean nuclear tests, there is no publicly available evidence that North ….”
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html
“…One group of nations – including Germany and France – voiced disappointment about the final version of the IAEA’s safety action plan for not including stricter measures.
The United States, India and China were among countries stressing the responsibility of national authorities….”
Pakistan
Isreal
North Korea
Japan (maybe?)
NOT Iran
Etc…..
link to the IAEA report nearly.. got this?
To view the Annual Report and other reports online please visit the IAEA
from this
Social media a factor, as Japan’s anti nuclear protests influence government Submitted by Contributors on August 19, 2012
“…Many of the protesters are disgusted and disillusioned with the mainstream Japanese media coverage of the nuclear problem. They credit the success of their movement to social media, word of mouth, and the Internet. And it is true that the mainstream Japanese media, which was the recipient of TEPCO’s annual $400 million worth of advertising, has been very reluctant to even report on the existence of the protesters until recently…”
“..Hattori insists that his movement is not useless: “The fact that so
many people gather together for the same cause is a very rare thing.
The only demonstrations well known in Japan were those organized in
the 60s, and they were organized by labor unions and the participants
were workers. Here and now, it’s different. You can see families,
children, old people—in other words, very ordinary people from all
social classes…”
“…Hattori says, “The reason we are being taken seriously is not just
because of Twitter or social media anymore. It is thanks to the people
who made the difference by communicating face to face with their
colleagues at work, with the primary-school teachers where they take
their kids to school, with their old high school friends. The people
who passed the information on about our movement by word of mouth made
a big difference.”…”
Increasing citizen distrust of Japan’s corrupt “nuclear village”
“The government is appointing experts from the so-called nuclear-power village to a new nuclear-power regulation committee. They are corrupt,”
Citizens’ groups propel rising wave of antinuclear activism Japan Times, 19 Aug By ERIKO ARITA “……Mirei Akagi, a 33-year-old mother of two from Saitama Prefecture, was at the Yoyogi Park protest. She said she had participated in several protests and that each time she had learned about them via the social-networking website Facebook….. Continue reading
UK’s dangerous plan to make its piles of nuclear waste a commercial asset
Britain’s previous attempts to convert plutonium into Mox fuel which could then be burned in conventional reactors have proved disastrous, culminating in the premature closure last year of the £1.34bn Sellafield Mox Plant, which was a commercial and technical failure.
‘Untested’ nuclear reactors may be used to burn up plutonium waste Feasibility study looks at building revolutionary new facility at Sellafield to dispose of stockpile The Independent, STEVE CONNOR 20 AUGUST 2012 An ambitious plan to rid Britain of its civil plutonium stockpile – the biggest in the world – has come a step closer with the submission of a feasibility study for building revolutionary nuclear reactors to “burn” the waste at Sellafield in Cumbria.
The plan envisages the construction of twin nuclear “fast reactors” at Sellafield that can dispose of the plutonium directly as fuel to generate electricity while ridding the country of a nuclear-waste headache that has dogged governments for half a century. Continue reading
British government’s PR for the nuclear industry – playing down Fukushima risk
The Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, who sits on the Commons environmental audit committee, condemned the extent of co-ordination between the government and nuclear companies that the emails appear to reveal.
“The government has no business doing PR for the industry and it would be appalling if its departments have played down the impact of Fukushima,” he said.
Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima Internal emails seen by Guardian show PR campaign was launched to protect UK nuclear plans after tsunami in Japan • Read the emails here Guardian UK, 19 Aug 12,
British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushimanuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japanand before the extent of the radiation leak was known. Continue reading
Can we trust Nuclear Regulatory Commission to study radiation risks?
Nuclear Regulatory Commission may study power plant health risks Agency considers conducting a large-scale epidemiological study of whether living near a nuclear power plant, such as San Onofre, raises health risks. Doing so would pose major challenges.By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times August 18, 2012,
The last time federal officials assessed cancer rates in the communities surrounding nuclear power plants, they concluded that radiation releases were insignificant and health risks, if any, were too small to measure.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commissionhas been relying on the results of that 1990 National Cancer Institute study ever since to inform the public about cancer risks posed by the 104 licensed reactors it governs nationwide.
Now, in response to growing concerns that using uranium in the production of electrical energy may be dangerous even without accidents, the NRC is trying to decide if it should launch one of the largest epidemiological studies ever conducted to determine if it is a
health risk to live near a nuclear facility — such as the San Onofre plant in north San Diego County….. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0818-sanonofre-cancer-20120819,0,3382517.story
Julian Assange’s mother gets Nazi taunt on Australian radio
Assange’s mother subjected to Nazi taunts The Age August 19, 2012 – Julian Assange’s mother has hung up the phone on a Melbourne radio host after he taunted her with a Nazi slogan when she backed out of an interview.
Christine Assange was due to speak to 3AW’s Sunday morning show about her son, the founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, and his successful appeal for asylum in Ecuador.
But she changed her mind after hearing how co-host John-Michael Howson had treated a previous guest.
“I won’t be doing an interview with you because you’re acting like a pig,” Ms Assange said. Howson responded by screaming on air: “Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!”
Ms Assange then hung up the phone…… http://www.theage.com.au/national/assanges-mother-subjected-to-nazi-taunts-20120819-24g2f.html
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