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Environment: Ingesting radioactive materials from Fukushima impacts butterflies

Butterfly larvae that ingest radioactive plant materials collected from the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may be more prone to abnormalities and early death. The findings are published in Scientific Reports this week.

The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (NPP) in March 2011 led to the release of a large amount of radioactive materials into the environment. Previous research has indicated that exposure to such radioactive materials may have physiological and genetic effects on the Japanese pale grass blue butterfly (Zizeeria maha). Now Joji Otaki and colleagues examine how radiation from the contaminated region around Fukushima may contribute to lifetime ingestion of radionuclides by butterflies, and the potential biological consequences. The authors fed radioactive plant materials from locations around Fukushima to Japanese pale grass blue butterfly larvae from Okinawa – a Japanese prefecture about 1,000 miles south of Fukushima.

They show that consuming leaves that contain relatively small levels of artificial caesium released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP has measurable effects on the butterflies’ survival, growth and development. Further research is needed to explore the potential implications of these findings for other organisms.

DOI:10.1038/srep04946 | Original article
Article has been pulled off this link however Nature has still got the details on their web site. Here is the information I was able to get; 

The biological impacts of ingested radioactive materials on the pale grass blue butterfly

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140515/srep04946/full/srep04946.html

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May 17, 2014 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Dr. Rima Truth Reports – The Conscience of Fukushima with Misuhei Murata

http://drrimatruthreports.com/fukushima-against-the-will-of-heaven-and-earth/

By rima on May 15, 2014

His Excellency Misuhei Murata, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, in an exclusive interview with Natural Solutions Foundation, identifies the Will of Heaven and Earth to repair Fukushima and end, once and for all, the use of nuclear power.

. . General Bert Stubblebine joins us in one of his rare appearances in this amazing interview.

The Interview Archive Podcast here: http://youtu.be/-9WRJlZ_Hfc

. . Fukushima is not like Chernobyl.  There, a single reactor went bad and, although controlling the contamination took 7 years, 110,000 worker’s lives, it was a relatively straight forward task.

. . Fukushima Daiici (No. 1) is far different:  Murata-San confirmed my information that there are 4 more reactors nearby at Fukushima Daiini (No. 2)  which, while not as badly deteriorated as those at Fukushima, brings to 10 the number of dangerously compromised reactors.

. . His Excellency Ambassador Maurata has refused to remain silent, despite global inattention to the cataclysmic problems Fukushima represents for the entire world. He has formed the Japan Society for Global Systems and Ethics, https://sites.google.com/site/jasgseenglish and has posted a number of his missives to world leaders on Dr Rima Truth Reports: http://drrimatruthreports.com/ambassador-murata-continues-to-speak-truth-to-power/

. . TEPCO’s solutions are inadequate.  The response of the Japanese government has been to criminalize truthful speech about radiation hazards in general and Fukushima in particular.

. . The Natural Solutions Foundation and Ambassador Murata have joined forces to bring this looming cataclysm to the world’s attention so it can be fixed.

. . Currently, there are no real fixes, there are only band aides.  For that reason, the Natural Solutions Foundation has searched for novel or underused technologies which have the potential to actually fix the problem.  These technologies have been made available to Murata-San and the Japanese government.  The silence of the government is, quite literally, deafening.

. . Ambassador Murata has reached out to world leaders, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Pope Frances, Presidents Obama and Carter, among others, asking for the Will of Heaven and Earth, the reassertion of ethical behavior, to make itself felt.

   We join in his call for a return to humane ethics.

. . We reject the crony corporatist system that treats human life and well-being as expendables. We reject the political decisions that led to the uninsurable risk of nuclear power and join Murata-San in calling for a Zero Nuclear Option. The First Rule of Ethics must be, “Do no harm!”

. . This remarkable interview with Murata-San brings General Bert, Counsel Ralph and Dr. Rima together for the first time to consider how health, health freedom, ethics, common sense and survival can solve the greatest threat to human kind ever created and, at the same time, become a spring board for a level of positive change the world has never seen.

Ambassador Murata calls for “an honorable retreat” for Japan, resigning the position of Olympic Host for the 2020 games.  Since Fukushima is already contaminating Tokyo, says Murata-San, bringing people there in large numbers for the games (and the workers building the facilities before that event) is immoral and unethical.

. . He has called for an independent study group to visit Japan and make their recommendation to the International Olympic Committee.  Only public pressure will accomplish that.  Add your voice here to that cry for sanity: http://TinyURL.com/FukushimaHope.

http://tinyurl.com/FukushimaHope

. . Such an outcry, and such a commission, would reveal just how bad the situation is and force world response. Right now, without the data available (remember, disseminating such data is currently illegal in Japan) there is no world will to respond to the problem presented by Fukushima, and the larger problem presented by nuclear power.

May 17, 2014 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment