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Radiophobia

damchodronma, 11 July 15    Address each one with reason and science ! “Radiophobia” plants, insects, animals and people… radiophobia is propaganda… all species have the same response… they fall apart from the atomic level on up.

“The evidence from the Chernobyl affected territories reveals the real-world consequences of a simple and terrible new discovery: that the effects of low dose internal irradiation cause subtle changes in the genome that result in an increase in the general mutation rate. … first seen in cells in the laboratory. The Chernobyl evidence, shows that this seems to be true for all species, for plants and animals and humans. It has profound implications that go beyond radiation protection and risk models.

“Krysanov …find that mice living in the high irradiation zone, 22 generations after the initial exposure, are MORE radiosensitive than mice living in lower exposure areas. The same effect is reported for plants by Grodzhinsky who wryly points out that plants cannot exhibit the ‘radiophobia’ that many of the Chernobyl effects have been blamed on. This flies in the face of current ideas about genetic selection.

“The effects of genomic instability are apparent in the evidence of massive harm to the organs and systems of living text ionisingcreatures at low doses of internal exposure, resulting in a kind of radiation ageing associated with random mutations in all cells….

“WHOLE BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS COLLAPSE; at the cell level, at the tissue level and at the population level. Burlakova and Nazarov describe these subtle effects at lower doses of internal irradiation in laboratory cell systems and also people, Grodzhinsky shows the effects in plants, – higher for internal exposures than external, Krysanov shows the effects in wild animals and Yablokov and the Nesterenkos in the children and adults living and continuing to live in the contaminated territories. The effects clearly operate at what are presently thought to be vanishingly low doses.”

“ECRR Chernobyl: 20 Years On” (2006) pg 2
ECRR = European Committee on Radiation Risk
Dr. Chris Busby, Scientific Secretary wrote Introduction.
co-edited with Dr. Alexey Yablokov
http://life-upgrade.com/DATA/chernobylebook.pdf
Spanish http://ciaramc.org/ciar/boletines/cr_bol226.htm

July 12, 2015 Posted by | 2 WORLD, history, spinbuster | Leave a comment

The vegetables of a grandmother

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Today, a grandmother in my neighborhood asked me if I ate the vegetables produced locally.   

She had given me several times vegetables that she had grown.
It seems it’s tomato season now, and she has them abundantly.

I replied that I was eating them, but still selecting them.    

It seems that her grand-daughter works in the medical sector. When the grandmother serves her at the table pumpkins or green beans, she says she will eat them later, but in fact she never eats them.

As for her son, before the disaster (of March 2011), he loved and ate every day salty pickled plums. After the disaster, he eats them no more, even after the lifting of the restriction on plums distribution.

I told the grandmother that it was sad.
No one is wrong, not the grandmother nor the son nor the grand-daughter.
I understand the feeling of the grandmother but I also understand the concern of the family members. And no one takes responsibility for this situation. It’s really absurd.

But the grandmother was well aware.
“I grow vegetables in a greenhouse, but as I aerate the greenhouse, it enters through the opening.”

I had heard that radioactivity was detected at the entrance of the greenhouse.

The grandmother said with a laugh, “We, the elderly, we eat everything.”
She also said that after the disaster she measured radioactivity, but as it is no longer detected, these days she does not measure.      

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Published on July 9, 2015 on Facebook by a resident of Date city (in Fukushima Prefecture)

Source : Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11

http://nosvoisins311.wix.com/voisins311-france#!L%C3%A9gumes-dune-grandm%C3%A8re/c1tye/559ef1dd0cf286eab01f08a7

July 12, 2015 Posted by | Japan | , | Leave a comment

Radiation and Baseball Dream

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The highschool baseball tournament in Fukushima Prefecture began today.
A former classmate of my son plays in it.

I remember that summer of 2011, my son was still in 2nd year highschool when he quarreled seriously with J, his best friend
J was playing in a baseball club.
Trainings were happening outside.
Slides, dust …
My son was concerned for J risk of internal radiation by inhalation.

The year when my son took refuge alone in Sapporo, J came to visit me.
During our conversation, he apologized.
“Every time when we met, S (my son) insisted me to pay attention to radiation. It was because he cared for me … but I was tired. I told him to stop. Still, I knew it was because S was thinking of me …. “
“But if I was careful to radiation, I could not play baseball. To avoid it, I would have been forced to give up my dream … “
In saying this, J had some tears in his eyes.

Two years already.
This summer, this is the last highschool baseball tournament for him.
I’d like to see his achievement.
Today his highschool won.
My son screamed with joy when I gave him the news.

I hope my son will have a chance to go to the tournament to show his support.

The radiation….
Currently there is an atmosphere of discomfort to use this word within Fukushima Prefecture.        

The baseball exploits of the highschool students from Fukushima Prefecture.
My support is for them.

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Published: July 10, 2015 YOKOTA Asami, a resident of the city of Koriyama in Fukushima Prefecture.
Source : Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11
http://nosvoisins311.wix.com/voisins311-france#!La-radiation-et-le-r%C3%AAve-de-baseball/c1tye/55a184740cf286eab020799d

July 12, 2015 Posted by | Japan | , | Leave a comment