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Enforced Amnesia – The Dispossession of Memory

 Slight change of plan on this article (see the comments)

Extract from article (full article to be posted later in the month)

“Yes, dose is very important. Very often the initial dose measurements are totally inadequate and must be reconstructed years later. Usually these dose reconstructions under value the contribution of internalised radioactive dust. [49] The dual concepts and labels of “non-stochastic” and “Stochastic” under the broad headings encompass the Western view of the health effects of radiation exposure. The headings themselves give no hint of the existence of a health syndrome caused by chronic exposure to environmental radiological contamination.”

By Paul Langley
31 March 2014

http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com

Introduction

Victors write the history books. The thrust of the official view washes over individual experience and memory, threatening to submerge it. The vitality of insight memory brings is lost if one stops swimming against the tide. The counter current of the official view bends the wind and it whips the face of the solitary witness with the cold cutting chill of denial.

He had seen the Black Rain. Living in Hiroshima he suffered as many did in those suburbs, washed by the tar like liquid that fell from the bomb cloud in 1945. That Black Rain fell far more widely than admitted at that time or since. Now even his own government doubted that his suffering was real. Bent and weakened, often bed ridden, the years had been an ordeal. Bura Bura disease. Ha. Too much worrying about nothing, the nations’ experts had said recently. His skin had borne witness to the truth.

The day the smoke went up at Fukushima Diiachi, the old man’s children remembered, and knew that their own “Black Rain” was on it’s way. They knew what they had to do, for it would last a long time. First: Remember. Don’t let there be forgetfulness. Build a living library of facts sufficient to silence the voices of denial. The nation’s memory extends beyond the horizon. It will always be August 1945. It will always be March 2011. Few remain with recollection of the Black Rain as we watch Fukushima unfold.

The children stood ready to demolish the cruel official claim that they were nothing but fearful worriers. They held their courage high. With calm resolution they formed a blockade against the official attempt to impose old lies onto the latest disaster.
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On the 15th of March 2011, the words of the Chief Scientist of Britain, Lord Beddington, were transmitted and streamed around the world by the BBC. I watched him speak on local TV in Adelaide. If there were a meltdown, he said, “you would get an explosion and radioactive material would be emitted. But it would be emitted to about 500 meters and it would be a relatively short duration of the order of an hour or so. Compare that with Chernobyl…” [1]

Not long after Beddington spoke, the Prime Minister of Japan, dressed in his blue overalls, appeared at the rostrum in Japan. He pleaded for calm. The situation was urgent. He and his Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Edano, told Japan and the world that radiation from the reactor plant was “now high enough to endanger health”. People up to 10km outside of the 20km evacuation zone were told to stay indoors with doors and windows shut. Their homes became their “containment domes”. 250km to the south, Tokyo was receiving far higher levels of radiation than normal. The people there were told they were perfectly safe. China responded by evacuating its citizens from Japan. [2]

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I have reason to think that the threat to the ocean and to the fisheries off the Japanese coast has long been known to the nuclear industry in the event of major accident occur at any Japanese reactor site. I also wonder whether Mr. Ergen and his consulting companies, General Electric and Westinghouse, considered wet sand advantageous in the attempt to mitigate meltdown consequences.

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The venting into air and emissions into water lasted longer than Beddington’s magic hour. It is still going on, and will continue for more years to come. Ergen, 1967, study shows that at 100,000 hours after meltdown, the fuel is still molten. [3]

 

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Above: “The frantically scribbled log the engineers kept on a whiteboard in the control room as the nuclear plant slid towards disaster. “15:42, nuclear emergency declared. 15:50, loss of water level readings. 16:36, emergency core cooling system malfunction. No water can be injected.” [9]

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One of the failures of the nuclear industry and mass media narrative since the March 2011 disaster has been its enforced amnesia in regard to the warnings the industry and regulators have had since the probability of core melt in the event of cooling system and emergency cooling system failure was first recognised in the 1960s. It has been over 40 years since these warnings were issued and ignored. Nothing has changed. The fact is the enormity of the natural disaster did not cause the inadequacy of the Fukushima Diiachi emergency cooling systems. The designed in inadequacy of reactor ECCS have been known by many industry experts for decades. While these issues do relate specifically to the Fukushima Diiachi General Electric type reactors in this instance, they also relate to ALL types of commercial power reactors designed and produced by the United States at that time and since.

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Whatever the actual motivation for placing the Fukushima Diiachi over such an aquifer, Tepco and the rest of the Japanese and world nuclear industry has had since 1967 to consider and design a system for catching, holding and decontaminating the contaminated water caused by melt downs at the plant. The Ergen Report of 1967 shows that nuclear authorities have considered meltdown a possibility, from whatever cause, in any multi megawatt reactor built since that time.

The constant denials by nuclear authorities in regard to the constant emissions by the failed Fukushima reactors came in spite of the routine findings to the contrary by those independent researchers who persisted despite the flood of industry propaganda. Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has monitored thousands of fish taken from the ocean off Fukushima and has found continuing highly levels of short lived Cesium 134 in the ocean life. Buesseler stated “It’s getting into the ocean, no doubt about it,” he said. “The only news was that they finally admitted to this.” [17]

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In those early days, the world was awash with the voices of an army of nuclear King Canutes, attempting, it seems, to hold back the flood of nuclear pollution from the public awareness. They failed to hold back the tide of truth as experienced by the people of Japan. It is no longer 1945, there is no legitimate basis for censorship, the people will be heard.

Hiroshi Sano spoke of his family’s ordeal in Iitate village, 20kms outside of the evacuation zone. The village was subject to heavy fallout from the reactors, but for an entire month no official told the village. The farmland lies ruined by fallout from the nuclear plant. The people have become scattered nuclear refugees: “I remember a stream of evacuees coming from the direction of the disaster. I never imagined that I myself would have to evacuate.” Sano says Iitate’s residents were becoming more fearful even before the evacuation order, as bulletins from the International Atomic Energy Agency and rumours on the Internet (which turned out to be correct) suggested the town had been showered with wind borne fallout.” [22] The withholding of computer generated fallout prediction information from the nation’s “SPEEDI” system is now infamous world wide. Japan gave the US military the data, and with held it from its own embattled and struggling people. Major newspapers in Japan describe the details of the “SPEEDI Deception”. The instruments of government are so controlled by the vested interests of nuclear industry that a public fallout prediction system is now known around the world by name as one of means by the people who paid for it were deceived. Nuclear authorities are not the only ones with a right to know. [23]

Greenpeace Map of Japan showing location of Iitate village in relation to the nuclear fallout of March 2011. [24]

In the end, the IAEA heard the month long pleadings from the independent monitors from Greenpeace. The Japanese government was forced, by international pressure, into evacuating a village it knew all along to be dangerously contaminated by nuclear fallout. [25] [26]

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Japanese scientist Masuda Yoshinobu is among those who consider that the survivors the radioactive dust and Black Rain of Hiroshima in August 1945 bear witness to a suppression of facts of great importance in the aftermath of the Fukushima Diiachi Disaster. [28]

Dr. Shuntaro Hida is one of the doctors who witnessed the Hiroshima Atomic bomb. He is among those who describe a disease syndrome discounted by Western Health Physics. This disease blighted the lives of many Japanese people in the wake of August 1945; survivors suffer it still today. In Japan is it called Bura Bura disease. It is a chronic multi-system disorder. [29]

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“I want you to forget. I’m ordering you to forget what you wrote in this report.“ [30]
The Manhattan Project did preserve the work. The integrity of Dr. Nello Pace is not in question here. The order he reports being given is indicative of the cultural norms of the time.

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This and other awards are being made in Australia rarely, and on the evidence. Despite radiation protection officials in Australia stating that all radioactive sources in Hiroshima had dissipated by 1946. This is clearly not the case. [32] The evidence accepted by multiple courts demonstrates the contrary.

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What then were the consequences for those who grew up as children among the fallout and induced radioactivity? What is the story of the chronic exposure, the story which isn’t told, as opposed to the one that is? We all know about Acute Radiation Sickness. What about the chronic effects? Why is there argument about the boundaries of the Hiroshima Black Rain Area still today? For surely, where an area causes harm, there is a duty to properly map it. War or Peace, this should have been done in 1945.

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Is there any confirmation in the public arena which confirms Dr. Hida’s observation and diagnosis of Bura Bura disease as an outcome of chronic radiation exposure? Such as that caused by living in a chronically contaminated environment?

Of the material aimed at the general public, that provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency has a long standing importance. The EPA states: “In general, the amount and duration of radiation exposure affects the severity or type of health effect. There are two broad categories of health effects: stochastic and non-stochastic…Stochastic effects are associated with long-term, low-level (chronic) exposure to radiation. (“Stochastic” refers to the likelihood that something will happen.) Increased levels of exposure make these health effects more likely to occur, but do not influence the type or severity of the effect. Cancer is considered by most people the primary health effect from radiation exposure… Other stochastic effects also occur. Radiation can cause changes in DNA, the “blueprints” that ensure cell repair and replacement produces a perfect copy of the original cell. Changes in DNA are called mutations. Sometimes the body fails to repair these mutations or even creates mutations during repair. The mutations can be teratogenic or genetic. Teratogenic mutations are caused by exposure of the fetus in the uterus and affect only the individual who was exposed. Genetic mutations are passed on to offspring.” [48]

This description is brief and for the general information of the public. It does not mention any symptoms remotely like those of Bura Bura disease as described by Dr. Hida. Further, there is no mention of chronic effects related to chronic (long term) exposure. People are also confronted with a rarely used word – Stochastic- and a basic translation of it.

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Is there any reference anywhere from a qualified source that verifies Doctor Hida’s observations of a condition caused by radiation which inflicts a very long lasting, constant, debilitating fatigue and susceptibility to recurrent illness upon victims? One that is not the result of an acute one time high dose exposure from an external source to the whole body? One which causes multi-system disease states within the person and which occurs in response to chronic but lower dose and dose rates than that of ARS? Is there, in the records of any other country, documentation of Bura Bura disease by another name? When was it discovered? Who discovered it? What did the West do with this knowledge? Is there a treatment?

Official ignorance of health outcomes is the cause of the dichotomy between nuclear victims and nuclear authorities. I believe this official ignorance is willful and universal in the West.

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I have question: On what basis do agencies of the US government hold that the Russian disclosures of June 1992 regarding Chronic Radiation Syndrome inflicted upon Soviet citizens to be NEW when in fact the disease syndrome and the events which caused it had been disclosed in 1971 by the Soviet government via the publication, in English, of Guskova AK, Baysogolov GD ?

On what basis do these US agencies hold the 1992 Russian disclosures to be NEW when the United States Atomic Energy Commission REPUBLISHED the work of Guskova AK, Baysogolov GD in 1973?

How many people were ordered to forget Guskova AK, Baysogolov GD by US nuclear authorities between 1971 and June 1992?

How many people were ordered to forget Dr. Hida, 1945, by these same authorities, years earlier?

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Dose is a medical term, a technical term and a legal term. Let us see what the nuclear authorities cook up for us as the minimum dose deemed permissible before a diagnosis of “Chronic Radiation Syndrome” can be made in the medico-legal jungle which is the modern nuclear world.

“Dose” is also political. It is my observation that with each nuclear disaster there is an assurance of safety – on the basis of measured dose. Then, some time later – sometimes within years, sometimes within decades, there come disclosures that crucial dose measurements were omitted or wrong originally. Will this happen in Japan post Fukushima? It is a safe bet that it will in my opinion. In fact it already has.

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