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Radioactive Japan: Thyroid Control Screening Reveals Much Higher Percentages of Cysts and Nodules in Children Far Away from Fukushima?

It seems these thyroid “abnormalities” are quite normally occurring anywhere in Japan.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/radioactive-japan-thyroid-control.html

Friday, March 8, 2013

The control screening tests for thyroid abnormalities in children is being carried out by the Ministry of the Environment in Hirosaki City in Aomori Prefecture (distance from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant about 420 kilometers), Kofu City in Yamanashi Prefecture (about 380 kilometers), and Nagasaki City in Nagasaki Prefecture (about 1,480 kilometers).

The preliminary results have been announced by the Ministry of the Environment, and they more or less match the unofficial small-scale screening test results announced by doctors in Kobe City back in November 2012: Children in these far-away areas have higher incidents of nodules and cysts than children in Fukushima Prefecture.

Aomori and Nagasaki hardly had fallout from the accident. Yamanashi had some fallout, but the numbers don’t even compare to the prefectures in Kanto, or even to neighboring Shizuoka.

Fallout from the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident in these prefectures in March 2011 (Monthly fallout data from the Ministry of Education):

• Aomori: I-131 1 MBq/km2, Cs-134 0.12 MBq/km2, Cs-137 0.097 MBq/km2
• Yamanashi: I-131 480 MBq/km2, Cs-134 170 MBq/km2, Cs-137 170 MBq/km2
• Nagasaki: I-131 9.8 MBq/km2, Cs-134 0.32 MBq/km2, Cs-137 0.35 MBq/km2

Here are the numbers for the thyroid screening, as reported by Fukushima TV on March 8, 2013:

Number of subjects: 4,300 total
Age of subjects: 3 to 18 years
Tests scheduled to run from November 2012 to the end of March 2013
Locations: Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture; Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture; Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture
Results:

Percentage of children found with nodules and/or cysts

• Fukushima Prefecture: 41.2%
• Nagasaki, Aomori, Yamanashi: 56.6%

Percentage of children in B-category that requires further testing　[with nodules larger than 5mm, cysts larger than 20mm]

• Fukushima Prefecture: 0.6%
• Nagasaki, Aomori, Yamanashi: 1%

For more on thyroid abnormalities in children, see this togetter if you read Japanese. It seems these thyroid “abnormalities” are quite normally occurring anywhere in Japan.

That’s not what many people in Japan and abroad want to hear. The conclusion for people in Japan who believe any bad news and rumors and disbelieves any non-bad news and rumors when it comes to radiation is either that the rest of Japan is so heavily contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear accident that children outside Fukushima have even higher incidents of thyroid abnormalities, or that the government is lying.

The former doesn’t make any scientific sense if they want to attribute these abnormalities singularly to the Fukushima nuclear accident (which they do), and the latter doesn’t advance any understanding or discussion. But it doesn’t seem to matter anyway. Radiation contamination has become almost like a religion, and since the national and local governments and government scientists did such a poor job of informing citizens of the nuclear accident and radiation contamination in the early days of the accident, people heavily discount anything they say or do.

Knowledge hasn’t advanced much, with the 2nd anniversary of the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident fast approaching.

For that matter, recovery hasn’t happened much either, other than the fake dead tree in Rikuzen Takata (which now has fake branches and leaves).

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Although Shinichi Suzuki, M.D., insisted that these ultrasound findings are “mostly normal” and commonly found in children, the study co-authored by Shunichi Yamashita, M.D., in 2001 revealed that normal children in Nagasaki had 0% nodules and 0.8% cysts on ultrasound.

Source: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B68f83tqq7QuNTVkOVdrNzlRWUk

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Please refer to this post for the translation of Shunichi Yamashita’s letter to the Japan Thyroid Association members on January 16, 2012. He has asked/ordered physicians to adhere to his protocol. It is unclear why physicians need to follow his orders, but many do. Some hospitals simply refuse to see anybody for radiation-related symptoms.

http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com/2012/05/fukushima-childrens-thyroid-examination.html

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

Women Rising #22: International Anti-Nuclear Activists

As part of celebrating Womens Day

Listen to Audio interview here

http://www.radioproject.org/2013/03/women-rising-international-anti-nuclear-activists/

With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories:

Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shutdown Japan’s nuclear power plants, after the Fukushima disaster.

Winona LaDuke, has spent much of her life working to oppose uranium mining on indigenous land. 

And Alice Slater is part of a global initiative to ban nuclear weapons.

On this edition, is the anti-nuclear movement on the rise? This is a special collaboration with Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Featuring:

Kaori Izumi, Japanese anti-nuclear activist, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe activist, Alice Slater, Abolition2000 founder.

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Startling new find! – Boars “radioactive” in the woods of Valsesia NE Italy More than 600 Bq/Kg

ALARM – “We need to immediately extend the analysis to other wild animals as soon as possible and make clear the sources of contamination,” said Coldiretti. “The boars are animals sentinel pollution conditions in the areas where they live, because they provide precise information thanks to a certain way of exploiting the environment,”

h/t orsobubu from enenews

Traces of cesium-137 found in samples of animals killed during the hunting season 2012/2013

The discovery does not make you happy hunters and lovers of game. Traces of cesium-137, a radioactive isotope released from the nuclear accident in 1986 by the Chernobyl plant, have been found in dozens of wild boars forests of the Sesia Valley, in the province of Vercelli.

We analyzed samples of tongue and diaphragm of animals slaughtered during the hunting season 2012/2013: 27 samples of the level of Cesium 137 is higher than the threshold specified by Regulation 733 of 2008 as the tolerable limit in the event of a nuclear accident.

(600 Bq/kg, although codex allows for 1250 bq/Kg as an average but will allow higher one off finds. The article has shied away from making an actual measurement, this is standard IAEA policy of non information,, So, where does THIS cesium 137 come from? It could be from one of the medical reactors or a culmination of all the most likely sources as cesium 137 lasts for 300 years. Are the cesium 137 levels increasing quicker than the decay rate? If so the implications are staggering! especially as the UK has stopped testing  Sheep from the highlands of Scotland and Wales for radioactive contamination  – Arclight2011)

According to the deputy of the Piedmont Region Roberto Ravello alarmism should be avoided because the health risks would be “contained and controlled.”

HYPOTHESIS – ‘The artificial radionuclide cesium-137 is produced by nuclear fission. Is released from nuclear sites, “says Elena Fantuzzi, head of the Institute of Radiation Protection Enea. The hypothesis most immediate are those that may have been issued after the accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986.

But we must also consider the nuclear sites in the area, including the central Trino Vercellese dismantled in 1987 and the experimental site Enea, in Saluggia. Is not excluded even the trail of toxic waste.

According Fantuzzi, you should also consider the metabolism of boars, whether has features that promote the accumulation of cesium-137 above the limits considered safe. “It can not be anything but the fallout of the Chernobyl plant emissions,” adds Gian Piero Godio, Legambiente Piedmont and Val d’Aosta, an expert on nuclear issues. “Other explanations could be: the district of Valsesia has no radioactive source.”

NAS AND NOE – Health Minister Renato Balduzzi alerted the police of Nas and Noe: together with the Directorate General for hygiene and food safety and nutrition of the Ministry will coordinate all investigations. The first coordination meeting is scheduled on March 8.

ALARM – “We need to immediately extend the analysis to other wild animals as soon as possible and make clear the sources of contamination,” said Coldiretti.

“The boars are animals sentinel pollution conditions in the areas where they live, because they provide precise information thanks to a certain way of exploiting the environment,” adds Aldo Grasselli national secretary of the Union of Italian public veterinary medicine (Sivemp).

Drafting Online March 7, 2013 | 21:25 © REPRODUCTION RESERVED

http://www.corriere.it/cronache/13_marzo_07/cinghiali-radioattivi-intervengono-nas_f9ba913e-874c-11e2-82ae-71d5d7252090.shtml

And this from last year

Testing Food For Fukushima Radiation, Swiss Find Chernobyl Contamination Instead

ht vital1 from enenews

Published on 2012-05-28 10:20:46

Mushroom lovers beware. Health authorities in Zurich recently destroyed 10 tons of Ukrainian mushrooms after determining that the wild fungi contained unacceptable levels of radiation.

ZURICH – A food-testing lab in Zurich, Switzerland is sounding the alarm after discovering that a batch of mushrooms shipped from Ukraine contained too much radioactive cesium-137. Ukraine had cleared the mushrooms for export.

The laboratory had been on its toes last year because of the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan. It ran dozens of tests on various foods from Japan and came up with no radiation-contaminated items. Chemist Rolf Etter was all the more surprised, therefore, to find radiation in food of another provenance – Ukraine – especially since his team stumbled upon the findings by pure chance. Yet in two of the 14 tests conducted on frozen wild Ukrainian mushrooms, tolerance levels of cesium-137 were well over the acceptable mark. The mushrooms had all been imported by the same company.

The results mean that 25 years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, dangerous levels of radioactivity are still making their way into the food system. Etter said that what surprised him most was that the declared cesium values were three times lower than what was actually found in his lab’s tests, and that Ukraine had cleared the shipment for export. “It makes you wonder if those declarations are worth anything at all,” he said.

After learning of the results, Zurich authorities destroyed the 10-ton Ukrainian mushroom shipment. The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health is now working with its counterparts in Ukraine to ensure that there are no further problems of the sort.

Read the full story in German by Patrick Kühnis

Photo – Timm Suess

*This is a digest story, not a direct translation

http://www.worldcrunch.com/testing-food-fukushima-radiation-swiss-find-chernobyl-contamination-instead/food-travel/testing-food-for-fukushima-radiation-swiss-find-chernobyl-contamination-instead/c6s5431/#.UTlpOByP8xA

And where do these horses graze?

Title: Radioactivity cesium 137 cesium 134 feces horses fattening calves period june october 1986

Description: The paper deals with data on radioactivity levels of Cs-137 and Cs-134 in feces of horses and fattening calves, as a particularly relevant indicator of radionuclides metabolism in biological systems. The result indicated much higher degree of equine feces contamination in relation to the feces of fattening calves.

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/02/26/radioactive-horse-meat-dark-dealings-of-europes-cruellest-trade/

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

982 Bq/Kg from Shiitake mushroom in Kashiwa Chiba

Posted by Mochizuki on March 7th, 2013 ·

According to Kashiwa city Chiba, 982 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 was measured from Shiitake mushroom.
It was produced in Kashiwa city Chiba for self-consumption.

Sampling date : 2/7/2013
Cs-134 : 356 Bq/Kg
Cs-137 : 626 Bq/Kg

They also measured 96.8 Bq/Kg from Chinese citron. It was also produced in Kashiwa city for self-consumption.

http://www.city.kashiwa.lg.jp/soshiki/059000/kekka02110220.html

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Français :

982 Bq/kg dans des champignons Shiitake à Kashiwa dans Chiba

Selon la municipalité de Kashiwa dans Chiba, 982 Bq/kg de Cs 134/137 ont été relevés dans des champignons Shiitake.
ls ont été produit dans la commune de Kashiwa dans Chiba pour consommation personnelle.

Date d’échantillon : 7 février 2013
Cs 134 : 356 Bq/kg
Cs 137 : 626 Bq/kg

Ils ont aussi relevé 96,8 Bq/kg dans des citrons chinois. Ils étaient aussi produits dans Kashiwa pour consommation personnelle.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/03/982-bqkg-from-shiitake-mushroom-in-kashiwa-chiba/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Obama’s Nominee for Secretary of Energy Is an MIT Professor Who Said It Would Be a Mistake to Abandon Nuclear Power Because of #Fukushima Accident

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

EXSKF

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/obamas-nominee-for-secretary-of-energy.html

It sort of rhymes with the Jiji’s interview with Dr. Antonino Zichichi, the 83-year-old Italian particle nuclear physicist who extolled the virtue of safe and cheap nuclear power, dismissing the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident as caused “human errors” committed by lowly non-specialist workers.

President Obama’s pick for the next Secretary of Energy is an MIT theoretical nuclear physicist who wrote in 2011 that it was a grave mistake for governments in the world to abandon nuclear power just because the Fukushima accident happened.

Why? Because nuclear energy is carbon-free energy! (Uggghhh…)

And because Chinese, Indians, Russians, and South Koreans haven’t stopped pursuing nuclear energy even after the Fukushima accident. So why should you?

To address safety of nuclear power plants, he advocates the Small Modular Reactors (SMR), for which Babcock & Wilcox backed by Microsoft’s Bill Gates won the federal government funding for half the cost of its 5-year project to design and commercialize small, modular reactors.

And nuke waste? From what I’ve skimmed through he doesn’t propose anything new. He simply says it has to be addressed.

From his featured essay in Foreign Affairs magazine in 2011 (November/December 2011 issue):

Why We Still Need Nuclear Power
Making Clean Energy Safe and Affordable

By Ernest Moniz

In the years following the major accidents at Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, nuclear power fell out of favor, and some countries applied the brakes to their nuclear programs. In the last decade, however, it began experiencing something of a renaissance. Concerns about climate change and air pollution, as well as growing demand for electricity, led many governments to reconsider their aversion to nuclear power, which emits little carbon dioxide and had built up an impressive safety and reliability record. Some countries reversed their phaseouts of nuclear power, some extended the lifetimes of existing reactors, and many developed plans for new ones. Today, roughly 60 nuclear plants are under construction worldwide, which will add about 60,000 megawatts of generating capacity — equivalent to a sixth of the world’s current nuclear power capacity.

But the movement lost momentum in March, when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the massive tsunami it triggered devastated Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. Three reactors were severely damaged, suffering at least partial fuel meltdowns and releasing radiation at a level only a few times less than Chernobyl. The event caused widespread public doubts about the safety of nuclear power to resurface. Germany announced an accelerated shutdown of its nuclear reactors, with broad public support, and Japan made a similar declaration, perhaps with less conviction. Their decisions were made easier thanks to the fact that electricity demand has flagged during the worldwide economic slowdown and the fact that global regulation to limit climate change seems less imminent now than it did a decade ago. In the United States, an already slow approach to new nuclear plants slowed even further in the face of an unanticipated abundance of natural gas.

It would be a mistake, however, to let Fukushima cause governments to abandon nuclear power and its benefits. Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country. Nuclear power generation is also relatively cheap, costing less than two cents per kilowatt-hour for operations, maintenance, and fuel. Even after the Fukushima disaster, China, which accounts for about 40 percent of current nuclear power plant construction, and India, Russia, and South Korea, which together account for another 40 percent, show no signs of backing away from their pushes for nuclear power.

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(Full article at the link)

At least partial meltdowns? I think at the time of the publication it had been already fully admitted by TEPCO and the Japanese government that they were total meltdowns and partial melt-throughs (out of Reactor Pressure Vessels).

  The concluding part of the essay, Dr. Moniz says “the public needs to be convinced that nuclear power is safe“. Have we seen this before? Yes, in the past 50 years or so in Japan, and particularly in the past 2. This is a political essay urging politicians to do “now or never” to save the planet from global warming, and telling them he is there to help:

The concluding part of the same essay above (emphasis is mine):

NOW OR NEVER

As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, finding ways to generate power cleanly, affordably, and reliably is becoming an even more pressing imperative. Nuclear power is not a silver bullet, but it is a partial solution that has proved workable on a large scale. Countries will need to pursue a combination of strategies to cut emissions, including reining in energy demand, replacing coal power plants with cleaner natural gas plants, and investing in new technologies such as renewable energy and carbon capture and sequestration. The government’s role should be to help provide the private sector with a well-understood set of options, including nuclear power — not to prescribe a desired market share for any specific technology.

The United States must take a number of decisions to maintain and advance the option of nuclear energy. The NRC’s initial reaction to the safety lessons of Fukushima must be translated into action; the public needs to be convinced that nuclear power is safe. Washington should stick to its plan of offering limited assistance for building several new nuclear reactors in this decade, sharing the lessons learned across the industry. It should step up its support for new technology, such as SMRs and advanced computer-modeling tools. And when it comes to waste management, the government needs to overhaul the current system and get serious about long-term storage. Local concerns about nuclear waste facilities are not going to magically disappear; they need to be addressed with a more adaptive, collaborative, and transparent waste program.

These are not easy steps, and none of them will happen overnight. But each is needed to reduce uncertainty for the public, the energy companies, and investors. A more productive approach to developing nuclear power — and confronting the mounting risks of climate change — is long overdue. Further delay will only raise the stakes.

 

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Physicians: Initial health consequences of Fukushima catastrophe are now scientifically verifiable

http://enenews.com/physicians-initial-health-consequences-of-fukushima-catastrophe-are-now-scientifically-verifiable

Published: March 7th, 2013 at 11:57 am ET
By ENENews

Title: Health consequences resulting from Fukushima
Source: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Author: Henrik Paulitz, Winfrid Eisenberg, and Reinhold Thiel
Date: March 6, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip

Summary

On 11 March 2011, a nuclear catastrophe occurred at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan in the wake of an earthquake and due to serious safety deficiencies. This resulted in a massive and prolonged release of radioactive fission and decay products. Approximately 20% of the radioactive substances released into the atmosphere have led to the contamination of the landmass of Japan with 17,000 becquerels per square metre of cesium-137 and a comparable quantity of cesium-134.

The initial health consequences of the nuclear catastrophe are now, two years after the incident, scientifically verifiable. Similar to the case of Chernobyl, a decline in the birth rate was documented in the nine months following the nuclear catastrophe. Throughout the whole of Japan, the total drop in number of births in December 2011 was 4362, with the Fukushima Prefecture registering a decline of 209 births. […]

Full report here

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Radiation expert back from Fukushima: Radioactivity still very high… not declining — Health risk played down since it can’t be dealt with — Children’s playgrounds at 200 times normal levels

http://enenews.com/radiation-expert-fukushima-radioactivity-very-high-declining-health-risk-played-down-be-dealt-childrens-playgrounds-200-times-normal-levels

Published: March 7th, 2013 at 12:58 pm ET
By ENENews

Title: Greenpeace: Fukushima victims are victims once again
Source: DW
Author: Gui Hao
Date: March 7, 2013

[…] Heinz Smital, of Greenpeace, believes residents are being kept in the dark over the dangers.

You recently measured the radioactivity in and around Fukushima for Greenpeace Germany. What were your findings?

The radioactivity there is still very high. In the city of Fukushima, which has some 300,000 inhabitants, there are still children’s playgrounds that are highly contaminated. The values we measured there on the ground were 200 times higher than before the nuclear accident. In the evacuated ghost towns where there has been a great effort to clean things up, we have found that the radiation has not declined. It simply isn’t going away. […]

Have people been given enough information by the authorities about how great the risk is?

The health risks are played down, in part because it is something that can’t be dealt with. It’s not possible to decontaminate whole swathes of land, mountains, rivers and riverbanks. You can’t get rid of that contamination. Now there is an effort underway to get people to accept the higher radiation levels. They say it doesn’t have any effects, to stop people from worrying. In this respect, the victims of the disaster are becoming victims once again in that they are being encouraged to accept living in areas where the radiation levels are too high. […]

See also: Headline: “Rising doubts about Japan’s official radiation figures” — Large cities still exposed to high levels of radioactivity from Fukushima plant

March 8, 2013 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

BBC breaking news shows Fukushima protester interrupting high-profile press conference — Televised for nearly 2 minutes, event ended abruptly (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/bbc-breaking-news-features-fukushima-protester-interrupting-high-profile-press-conference-televised-for-nearly-2-minutes-forced-to-end-event-video

Title: Vicky Pryce Trial: Anti-Nuclear Campaigner Stuart Holmes Reveals Why He Is Protesting At Court
Source: Huffington Post UK
Author: Christopher York
Date: March 7, 2013

Watch any recent footage of Vicky Pryce [ex-wife of former UK Energy secretary Chris Huhne]  approaching Southwark Crown Court and behind the defendant and the gaggle of lawyers, press and TV crews waiting outside, you might just catch a glimpse of Stuart William Holmes. […]

At the time of the catastrophe, Chris Huhne was the UK energy minister and was heavily criticised by some for his response to Fukushima.

E-mails that surfaced after the event appeared to show Huhne co-ordinating a strategy with the nuclear industry to play down the effects of the disaster.

At the time, the UK government was trying to promote its own nuclear agenda. […]

Holmes is angry that Huhne has gone through the legal wrangler for a relatively trivial crime yet he goes unpunished for what he did as energy minister. […]

See also: Vicky Pryce’s Emails With The Sunday Times Reveal Her Plot To Bring Down Chris Huhne

>>> Watch video from today’s breaking news on the BBC here

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Chernobyl disaster. Чернобыльская катастрофа.

Uploaded on 27 Apr 2011

Kseniya Simonova

h/t beyond nuclear

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western Russia and Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other being the Fukushima I nuclear incident, which is considered far less serious and has caused no direct deaths). The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles, crippling the Soviet economy.

The disaster began during a systems test on 26 April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is near the town of Pripyat. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite. The resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive smoke fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area, including Pripyat. The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union and Europe. From 1986 to 2000, 350,400 people were evacuated and resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. According to official post-Soviet data,about 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.

The accident raised concerns about the safety of the Soviet nuclear power industry, as well as nuclear power in general, slowing its expansion for a number of years and forcing the Soviet government to become less secretive about its procedures.

Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care costs of the Chernobyl accident. Thirty one deaths are directly attributed to the accident, all among the reactor staff and emergency workers. A UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008. Estimates of the number of deaths potentially resulting from the accident vary enormously: the World Health Organization (WHO) suggest it could reach 4,000; a Greenpeace report puts this figure at 200,000 or more; a Russian publication, Chernobyl, concludes that 985,000 excess deaths occurred between 1986 and 2004 as a result of radioactive contamination.

разрушение 26 апреля 1986 года четвёртого энергоблока Чернобыльской атомной электростанции, расположенной на территории Украинской ССР (ныне — Украина). Разрушение носило взрывной характер, реактор был полностью разрушен, и в окружающую среду было выброшено большое количество радиоактивных веществ. Авария расценивается как крупнейшая в своём роде за всю историю атомной энергетики, как по предполагаемому количеству погибших и пострадавших от её последствий людей, так и по экономическому ущербу. На момент аварии Чернобыльская АЭС была самой мощной в СССР. 31 человек погиб в течение первых трех месяцев после аварии; отдалённые последствия облучения, выявленные за последующие 15 лет, стали причиной гибели от 60 до 80 человек. 134 человека перенесли лучевую болезнь той или иной степени тяжести, более 115 тыс. человек из 30-километровой зоны были эвакуированы. Для ликвидации последствий были мобилизованы значительные ресурсы, более 600 тыс. человек участвовали в ликвидации последствий аварии.

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Update from the North Korean Press Agency – They are NOT happy!

The provocative war exercises of the U.S. and south Korean warmongers are increasing the danger of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula hour by hour. The present reality clearly proves that closer cooperation with outside forces will lead to nothing but a war.

March 6. 2013

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