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Japanese monkeys’ abnormal blood linked to Fukushima disaster – study

Prof Hayama said that caesium levels were used as an indicator of the radiation exposure of the monkeys. “The low haematological values in the Fukushima monkeys could have therefore been due to the effect of any radioactive materials,” he said. “We did not conclude the low-blood cell counts are caused by caesium but so far we cannot find other reasons except radiation.”

“This first data from non-human primates — the closest taxonomic relatives of humans — should make a notable contribution to future research on the health effects of radiation exposure in humans,” he said. The work, which ruled out disease or malnutrition as a cause of the low blood counts, is published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/24/japanese-monkeys-abnormal-blood-linked-to-fukushima-disaster-study

Primates in Fukushima region found to have low white and red blood cell levels and radioactive caesium

Wild monkeys in the Fukushima region of Japan have blood abnormalities linked to the radioactive fall-out from the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster, according to a new scientific study that may help increase the understanding of radiation on human health.

The Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) were found to have low white and red blood cell levels and low haemoglobin, which the researchers say could make them more prone to infectious diseases.

But critics of the study say the link between the abnormal blood tests and the radiation exposure of the monkeys remains unproven and that the radiation doses may have been too small to cause the effect.

The scientists compared 61 monkeys living 70km (44 miles) from the the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant with 31 monkeys from the Shimokita Penisula, over 400km (249 miles) from Fukushima. The Fukushima monkeys had low blood counts and radioactive caesium in their bodies, related to caesium levels in the soils where they lived. No caesium was detected in the Shimokita troop.

Professor Shin-ichi Hayama, at the Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University in Tokyo, told the Guardian that during Japan’s snowy winters the monkeys feed on tree buds and bark, where caesium has been shown to accumulate at high concentrations.

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July 24, 2014 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Fukushima Spent Fuel Pools & Nuclear Waste by Robert Alvarez

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Published on 23 Jul 2014

Robert Alvarez, former senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Energy, is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, where he works on the subject of nuclear disarmament, the environment and energy policies. He speaks here of the dangers of low secure storage of spent nuclear fuel in many plants, Japan or the United States pools. It is also in America found closest to saturation pools, in 2015, battered fuel having suffered the highest rate of combustion in the world. There is also talk of high activity radioactive waste produced by the defense sector, which nobody really knows what to do in 60 years in terms of stabilization and final disposal. Resources mentioned in the video:
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-n…

COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR WASTE
Effects of a Termination of the Yucca Mountain Repository Program and Lessons Learned

Click to access d11229.pdf

EIS-0250: Final Environmental Impact Statement
http://energy.gov/nepa/downloads/eis-…

NUREG-1889 http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0729/M… and NUREG-1887
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0724/M…

Video made ​​the symposium “The medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident” (medical & environmental consequences of the nuclear accident at Fukushima) organized by the Helen Caldicott Foundation 11 & 12 March 2013 in New York.
http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/symposiu…

Original Video: … Video http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/ better by Cinema Forum Fukushima:
http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?…

According to the English transcription of HO & AK (http://Afaz.at). Robert Ash translation, proofreading Odile Girard
http://fukushima-is-still-news.over-b… July 23, 2014
TEPCO using secondhand tanks to store radioactively contaminated water

, Pierre Fetet http://www.fukushima-blog.com/ and kna60 Editing and subtitle by kna60. http://kna-blog.blogspot.com/

original upload here Piscines à combustible nucléaire usé et déchets radioactifs – R. Alvarez 12 03 13 http://youtu.be/RNSe7_MQNJ0 Pools for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste – March 12, 13 R. Alvarez

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