Study shows long term effects of radiation in pediatric cancer patients
AUGUST 21, 2012 BY GARTH SUNDEM
“…For many pediatric cancer patients, total body irradiation (TBI) is a necessary part of treatment during bone marrow transplant– it’s a key component of long term survival. But lengthened survival creates the ability to notice long term effects of radiation as these youngest cancer patients age. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer details these late effects of radiation….”
“…
“These kids basically lie on a table and truly do get radiation from head to toe. There is a little blocking of the lungs, but nothing of, for example, the brain or the kidneys,” says Jean Mulcahy-Levy, MD, research fellow at the CU Cancer Center and the paper’s first author.
Of 15 patients who received TBI before age 3, many developed endocrine and metabolic problems including testicular malfunction (78 percent), restrictive pulmonary disease due to high levels of blood triglycerides (74 percent), and cataracts (78 percent). Likewise, 90 percent of patients showed abnormally low levels of growth hormone, and 71 percent were considerably under height. Additional late effects of TBI included kidney, liver, skeletal and cardiac malfunction – and three of four patients whose IQ had been tested before TBI showed cognitive decline.
“Fifteen doesn’t seem like a large number, but because we have such a good pediatric bone marrow transplant program here at Children’s Hospital Colorado and radiation therapy program at the CU Cancer Center, we were able to get a large enough cohort of patients to see these overall effects,” Mulcahy-Levy says….”
Finland electricity rates five times more than Sweden
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/08/20/finland-electricity-rates-five-times-more-than-sweden/
Posted on20 August 2012
“…
Current electricity rates in Sweden cost a fraction of those in Finland, according to a recent YLE report.
Officials say that Sweden is seeing some of its lowest electricity rates in more than 20 years thanks to high rainfall levels seen over the summer alongside the massive capacity of regional hydroelectric plants.
As a result, around a third of Finland’s electricity is currently being imported from the Swedish border. Friday’s official average rates were 1.6 euro cents in Sweden and four cents in Finland.
Experts say that Finland has been unable to benefit from the wet summer because it lacks the dramatic topography found in Sweden and Norway that enables the neighbouring nations to take advantage of hydroelectric production methods….”
And then there is this
“…As of 2008, Finland‘s nuclear power program has four nuclear reactors in two power plants, all located on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The first of these came into operation in 1977. In 2007 they provided 28.4% of Finland’s electricity. They are among the world’s most productive, with average capacity factors of 94% in the 1990s.[2] A fifth reactor is under construction, scheduled to go online in 2015 or later….”
Chiba Produce Fair in Thailand – “All-Out Offensive to Sell Chiba Pears”, Says Sankei Shinbun Article
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/chiba-produce-fair-in-thailand-all-out.html
“…”Chiba Fair” is being held for 5 days at a subsidiary of AEON (headquartered in Chiba City) in part of Bangkok where the wealthy people live. In the special corner in the supermarket, various products from Chiba are displayed, including fruits, vegetables, and fresh fish….”
“…Zero information on the volume (or weight) of the samples, how densely they were packed to be tested, and how long they were tested. (I guess the officials think citizens are dumber than them.)
AEON Group is headed by the older brother of the vice prime minister Katsuya Okada….”
and concerning AEON, this odd article based on forged radiation data and a broken deal with greenpeace on the comments here..
there is some comments by me on the top of the thread
Emergency Official on Giant Sinkhole: Still a lot of unknowns… Will it progress any further?
http://enenews.com/emergency-official-lot-unknowns-about-giant-sinkhole-will-progress-further
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 9:58 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Drilling begins in Bayou Corne
Source: WBRZ News 2 Baton Rouge
Author: Adrian Pittman
Date: : Aug 20, 2012 6:48p E
John Boudreaux, the emergency preparedness manager for Assumption Parish, said a mandatory evacuation for residents living in the Bayou Corne community could be in place for at least 2 months while the drilling takes place.
“Still a lot of unknowns, it’s going to take some time for them to get in and see if this cavern is the cause of what has happened, and if it will progress any further,” Boudreaux said.
Japan Professor: “An emergency within an emergency” at Fukushima plant — Tepco may be criminally liable for endangering workers
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 2:18 pm ET
By ENENews
itle: Tepco liable for contract workers’ safety in Fukushima
Source: Japan Times
Author: Hifumi Okunuki (Constitutional and labor law at Daito Bunka University and Jissen Women’s University)
Date: August 21, 2012
[…]
Less than 10 percent of the work at this nuclear power plant is conducted by those directly employed by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco). Over 90 percent is done by employees of subcontractors, sub-subcontractors and contractors several times removed. These workers come from a wide range of backgrounds, including some who gave up jobs in local agriculture or fishing, farmers and fishermen who work at the plants during the off-season, day laborers and former coal miners. Some have complicated stories to tell, or not to tell.
Few other workplaces require no experience or skill, and fewer still guarantee anonymity to those hoping to hide their background. Nuclear power firms also benefit from the weak position of such individuals since they are largely spared the obligations of most employers to protect the health and safety of each worker on-site.
[…]
Gundersen: Essentially U.S. Congress is totally co-opted by nuclear industry — Host: Influence is hair-raising (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-essentially-congress-totally-opted-nuclear-industry-courage-fight-video
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 3:35 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Live at Five with Margaret Harrington and Arnie Gundersen
Source: CCTV
Date Aired: Aug 14, 2012
Date Published: Aug 19, 2012
Gundersen: Essentially congress has been totally co-opted, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey of Massachussets, and a few others, Dennis Kucinich.
Just a few congressman and senators have the courage to fight this lobby.
Almost all of them have been co-opted by the money and are pro-nuclear.
Gundersen: Rapid insect mutations seen after Fukushima are frightening (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-rapid-insect-mutations-after-fukushima-frightening-video
Published: August 20th, 2012 at 12:10 am ET
By ENENews
” Gundersen: There’s some good science out about rapid mutations in insects.
Insects are relatively radiation resistant compared to human beings.
So, yeah, it is frightening.
And of course, if it’s in the human gene poll, it will be 2 or 3 generations before it completely manifests itself.
The butterflies already have a couple generations and already it’s starting to manifest itself.
So we won’t see the results on the human gene pool for 30, 60, or 90 years…
In fact it’s a very real, terrible consequence.”
Mystery yellow substance on rooftop near Tokyo has cesium at 177,000 Bq/kg (VIDEO)
Source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55244556/SPViewer/spviewer.html
From Fukushima Diary: “180,000 Bq/Kg from the yellow substance in Kashiwa Chiba”
Date Measured: August 18, 2012
- Total Cs: 176,939.8±390.3
- Cs-137: 107,627.2±264.1
- Cs-134: 69,312.6±287.4
IAEA sees significant nuclear safety progress since Fukushima
NATIONAL AUG. 20, 2012
“….Since the adoption of the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear Safety, significant progress has been made in several key areas,” the Vienna-based agency said….”
The Nun Who Broke Into the Nuclear Sanctum
“…The IAEA report on the plan’s implementation so far – which will be presented to the Sept 17-21 General Conference of the agency’s more than 150 member states – said there had been progress in assessing “safety vulnerabilities” of atomic plants….”
Greenpeace ‘bombs’ French nuclear reactor in mock terror attack (but could activists do the same in the US?)
“…However Steve Kerekes, spokesman for the Nuclear Energy Institute, dismissed the possibility as ‘completely speculative’, and points to a 2002 study which found that U.S. nuclear containment structures can withstand even a crash from a commercial airliner.
He told MSNBC: ‘Our facilities are extremely well-defended. Let’s leave it at that.’…” (see above 🙂 )
“…This and other measures had contributed to “the enhancement of the global nuclear safety framework,” it said, without giving details about the situation in individual countries….”
Was there a bombing at this Iranian nuclear site? New satellite images show big changes at underground facility
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 20:29, 10 December 2011
“…There is “increased attention and focus on vitally important areas such as accident prevention,” it added….”
Serious long lasting contamination found in hungary!
“…Iodine 125 with a half life of 60 days found in grass clippings near the institute of
Hungarian production of radioisotopes.
CRIIRAD warned in its letter of 15 November 2011 on the need
quickly determine the source of contamination “because people close to the
source could have been and still be exposed to large doses…” “
“……A release of radioactive iodine 300 + 324 GBq or 624 GBq as that reported by Izotop
Intézet for 2011 is indeed 28 300 times higher than the release of radioactive iodine
made in 2009 by the nuclear power plant Tricastin (France) and 130 times
those made by the reprocessing plant at La Hague …”
“…The IAEA was criticized for its initial handling of the Fukushima disaster, with media and Vienna-based diplomats saying it was slow to give information in the early days of the crisis…”
IAEA sees significant nuclear growth despite Fukushima
Reuters | Mar 16, 2012 1
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/03/16/iaea-sees-significant-nuclear-growth-despite-fukushima/
“…But preparatory work last year on the IAEA plan exposed differences between states seeking more international commitments and others wanting safety to remain an issue strictly for national authorities…”
“…Although Israelhas produced enough plutonium for 100-200 warheads, the … …Despite two North Korean nuclear tests, there is no publicly available evidence that North ….”
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/nuclearweapons/nukestatus.html
“…One group of nations – including Germany and France – voiced disappointment about the final version of the IAEA’s safety action plan for not including stricter measures.
The United States, India and China were among countries stressing the responsibility of national authorities….”
Pakistan
Isreal
North Korea
Japan (maybe?)
NOT Iran
Etc…..
link to the IAEA report nearly.. got this?
To view the Annual Report and other reports online please visit the IAEA
from this
Social media a factor, as Japan’s anti nuclear protests influence government Submitted by Contributors on August 19, 2012
“…Many of the protesters are disgusted and disillusioned with the mainstream Japanese media coverage of the nuclear problem. They credit the success of their movement to social media, word of mouth, and the Internet. And it is true that the mainstream Japanese media, which was the recipient of TEPCO’s annual $400 million worth of advertising, has been very reluctant to even report on the existence of the protesters until recently…”
“..Hattori insists that his movement is not useless: “The fact that so
many people gather together for the same cause is a very rare thing.
The only demonstrations well known in Japan were those organized in
the 60s, and they were organized by labor unions and the participants
were workers. Here and now, it’s different. You can see families,
children, old people—in other words, very ordinary people from all
social classes…”
“…Hattori says, “The reason we are being taken seriously is not just
because of Twitter or social media anymore. It is thanks to the people
who made the difference by communicating face to face with their
colleagues at work, with the primary-school teachers where they take
their kids to school, with their old high school friends. The people
who passed the information on about our movement by word of mouth made
a big difference.”…”
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks ‘witch-hunt’
“..Barrister and former government lawyer, Carl Gardner, said Mr Assange’s options were now severely limited.
“There’s no legal action he can take now. All he can do is make these public calls for people to do things he would like them to do and play a waiting game with the British authorities.
“The British government is likely to think that time is on their side. It’s Julian Assange who is stuck in this embassy…..”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310335
yes trapped in a room with a…….. high speed broadband connection! hmmm?
Urgent appeal to stop misuse of the medical based “radiation dose model” after nuclear accidents.
Urgent 31st August 2012 deadline for this petition!
the ICNJ (International Commission on Nuclear Justice) has been appealing to the european population to sign up to a petition to challenge the ICRP dose model on permitted doses of radiation to the public.
This campaign was contrived and developed during the convention in Berlin 2011 and The “Alternate World Heath Organisation” Geneva 2012
For the independence of W.H.O.
«The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) is failing in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination.»
and a short video of all the main players here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDclUdedZcs
out of those meetings of minds was born this organisation
The International Committée on Nuclear Justice was formed on the 7th of December 2011 by the attendees of the international conference of environmental NGOs and scientists in Vilnius, holding three day seminars in the houses of Lithuanian Parliament and Vilnius Municipality. The original 24 committee members were doubled after the Independent WHO Conference in Geneve 12-13th of May 2012, now collecting a full scope of globaly acknowledged scientists fr Japan, UK, Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Ukrain, Sweden, USA etc and environmental NGO leaders from France, Germany, Sweden, Finland…
Chairman, ICNJ: Pr Georgij Lepin, Belarus
Vice Chairman, ICNJ: Nikolai Ulasevich, Belarus
The current steering committee of the ICNJ is:
Chair: Georgy Lepin, Belarus
Vice Chair: Nikolai Ulasevich, Belarus
Scientific Secretary: Christopher Busby, UK
General Secretary: Ditta Rietuma, Sweden
Committee Member: Roland von Malmborg, Sweden
Committee Member: Richard Bramhall, UK
Pr A.Yablokov
Talks here about the realities of measuring nuclear contaminated lands against the “dose model” used by the IAEA and ICRP supported Chernobyl Forum group..
Early in the video Prof Yablokov states that he uses real data against mathematically derived data and that is how he can get a real estimate of damage done to the point where the data has stopped 2006 (approx)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgBgkZCobQ
first three minutes approx
Alexey Yablokov press conference 25.03.2011 in US – watch on C-Span
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Chernob
Co-author of “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment”
(http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf )
published by New York Academy of Sciences
A personal plea here from Prof. Chris Busby for europeans to sign the petition before the end of August 2012 to get the case moving.. he gives a clear explanation of the procedure
Published on Aug 6, 2012 by radioactivebsr (12 minutes long)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTUDkYp1okc
A quick breakdown here
http://www.nuclearjustice.org is the site dedicated to a new project to force the governments of the world to realise that the radiation risk model of the International Commission on Radiological Protection is unsafe. This will stop further nuclear contamination of the environment and show the military use of Uranium to be illegal. The first part of this is to use existing legislation in Europe, the terms of the EURATOM Basic Safety Standards Directive. What we want you to do is to download the Petition asking for re-Justification from the website, sign it and post it to:
European Parliament
The Petitions Committee of the European Parliament
Rue Wiertz
B-1047 BRUSSELS
Belgium
EDITORS NOTE: Please note that little marketting is possible with this campaign as the IP`s seem to have some way of blocking links etc to this campaign pages so please pass around far and wide .. if we get this done in Europe it will be possible to get it done in Fukushima too! the children of Fukushima and chernobyl are relying on us Europeans to do the right thing.. I sincerely hope we do..
thank you for your attentions!
Radio: Nuclear test site in danger of collapsing — Could create 15 meter tsunami — 193 explosions conducted in little area (AUDIO)
Published: August 18th, 2012 at 5:40 pm ET
By ENENews
“Just in that little area there is over maybe twelve underground tests in that area and we have to remember that France have done altogether 193 nuclear test explosions in Murorua,” he said.
“In the soil of Muroroa, if something happens there is about 150 holes containing very dangerous radioactivity.”
The association says if the atoll were to collapse it could also trigger a 15 metre tsunami.
And how many bombs were set of all together?
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
“..Uploaded by aConcernedHuman on Oct 24, 2010
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea‘s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming…”
Mainichi Interview: “The reactors still continue to release radioactive materials” — “The gov’t needs to recognize the gravity of this situation”
Published: August 19th, 2012 at 5:27 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Do not underestimate the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis: interview
Source: Mainichi
Date: Aug 9, 2012
“..Before her retirement in 2000 from the University of Bremen in Germany, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake had been an experimental physicist who some 30 years ago had analyzed data on nuclear bomb survivors
[…]
Mainichi: How would you evaluate the way the Japanese government has handled the crisis?
Schmitz-Feuerhake: I praise the government for designating the area within a 20-kilometer radius from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a no-entry zone. That it set annual radiation levels of 20 millisieverts as a standard for evacuation is understandable for a government that was unprepared for a large-scale nuclear disaster. But it’s being grossly irresponsible by reactivating nuclear reactors and trying to shift the public’s attention towards “recovery.”….”
“..
Using the average incidence and death rate from cancer and other illnesses among all Japanese, I went to figure out the relative risks of those who entered the cities after the bombings and those who experienced the bomb at least 2.5 kilometers away from the hypocenter. What I found was that the death rate from leukemia and respiratory and gastrointestinal cancers was above the national average, and that the incidence of thyroid cancer, leukemia, and breast cancer among women were 1.5 times to 4.1 times higher.
These results showed that internal exposure to radiation from radioactive fallout (including “black rain” and “ashes of death”) had a great impact on health. But because my findings went against common academic knowledge at the time, my paper was initially rejected when I submitted it for publication in an international medical journal. On the suggestion of the journal, I subsequently had it published in the journal in the form of a “letter to the editor” instead of a scientific paper….”
“….
Mainichi: What do you think of the claim made after the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear crisis by Japanese politicians and some experts that “radiation exposure of 100 millisieverts or less has little effect on health?”
Schmitz-Feuerhake: It’s a statement that completely ignores the medical knowledge that we have accumulated thus far. Cancer among people who have been exposed to less than 100 millisieverts of radiation has been reported in medical journals and elsewhere. Radiation promotes cell mutation, and no amount of exposure is safe. It’s necessary to take precautions and institute measures to reduce radiation exposure……”
Butterfly Mutations Caused by Fukushima Radiation a Redux of the Sokal Affair?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/butterfly-mutations-caused-by-fukushima.html
“..Following the footsteps of “California has banned fishing because of highly radioactive tuna fish from Fukushima!” and “Japanese athletes were excluded from the London Olympics opening ceremony because they were from contaminated Japan and they were wearing badges made of radioactive debris from Fukushima!” (both of which seem to have died a deserved death but not before confusing and distressing many people in Japan and abroad), here comes the latest sensation on Twitter in Japan
Butterflies mutated because of radiation from Fukushima accident!….”
more on this great article on EXSKF link above (recommend)
And this differing point of view.. with advise to read the comments on the EXSKF article
from majia at enenews
1 This Month
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
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