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US service personnel affected by Fukushima radiation – but now “on their own”

Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Americans, New Jersey News, 31 JANUARY 2013 BY ROGER WITHERSPOON
The Department of Defense has decided to walk away from an unprecedented medical registry of nearly 70,000 American service members, civilian workers, and their families caught in the radioactive clouds blowing from the destroyed nuclear power plants at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The decision to cease updating the registry means there will be no way to determine if patterns of health problems emerge among the members of the Marines, Army, Air Force, Corps of Engineers, and Navy stationed at 63 installations in Japan with their families. In addition, it leaves thousands of sailors and Marines in the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group 7 on their own when it comes to determining if any of them are developing problems caused by radiation exposure. Continue reading →

February 16, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation, Reference, USA | Leave a comment

AUDIO: Medical issues of US navy sailors affected by Fukushima radiation

Hear-This-wayAUDIO “I’ve got people who are bleeding from their behinds, who have sores all over their bodies” -Attorney for U.S. Navy sailors exposed to Fukushima radiation (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/ive-people-bleeding-behinds-sores-all-bodies-attorney-navy-sailors-exposed-fukushima-radiation
  February 12th, 2013 
Title: 70,000 US Service Personnel Exposed To Radiation: Operation Tomodachi 3/11
Source: Nuked Radio with RadChick
Date Published: Feb 9, 2013

Attorney Paul C. Garner, representing U.S. service members who were in Japan after 3/11: Kim Geiseking who was on the Reagan, and she was pregnant at the time and didn’t know it.

Her fetus, her baby is now a couple of years old and doesn’t speak.

I’m not an expert, but experts say the fetus takes up most of the radiation, more than the mother does.

Then I’ve got people who are bleeding from their behinds, who have sores all over their bodies.

More from the U.S. service members:

February 15, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, health, Resources -audiovicual, USA | Leave a comment

No One in Charge of Risk – USA’s plan to put nuclear waste materials into consumer “goods”

radiation-warning“Nothing has changed since 2000 that would justify lifting its current
ban. Rather, just the opposite: since then the National Academy of
Sciences has acknowledged that there is no safe level of radiation
exposure, and we’ve learned that women are even more vulnerable to
radiation than men (while children have long been known to be more
vulnerable than adults).”

NIRS and other advocacy organizations are currently engaged in aFlag-USA
campaign to submit comments before the Feb. 11 deadline to ask the
Energy Department to withdraw this proposal.

radioactve-crockeryMultimillion Dollar Bonanza: Nuclear Waste from US Weapons Industry To
Be Sold for Profit? By William Boardman Global Research, February 05,
2013
Consortiumnews 4 February 2013 “……No One in Charge of Risk

There is no federal agency with responsibility for such oversight or
enforcement [of radioactive materials in consumer products] . This regulatory vacuum was illuminated by the discovery
in 2009 of thousands of contaminated consumer products from China,
Brazil, France, Sweden and other countries, as reported by Mother
Nature Network:

“The risk of radiation poisoning is the furthest thing from our minds
as we shop for everyday items like handbags, furniture, buttons, chain
link fences and cheese graters. Unfortunately, it turns out that our
trust is misplaced thanks to sketchy government oversight of recycled
materials.

“The discovery of a radioactive cheese grater led to an investigation
that found thousands of additional consumer products to be
contaminated. The source is recycled metals tainted with Cobalt-60, a
radioactive isotope that can cause cancer with prolonged exposure.” Continue reading →

February 8, 2013 Posted by | radiation, Reference, wastes | Leave a comment

Fukushima evacuation zone – all 47 cows tested had radioactive silver

Study: Radioactive silver found inside all 47 cows tested from Fukushima evacuation zone http://enenews.com/study-radioactive-silver-found-inside-every-cow-tested-fukushima-evacuation-zone
Title: Distribution of Artificial Radionuclides in Abandoned Cattle in the Evacuation Zone of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Source: PLoS One. 2013; 8(1): e54312
Published Online: January 23, 2013

[…] Between August 29 and November 15, 2011, we collected 79 cattle in total, 27 of which were from Minami-soma city located north and 52 from Kawauchi village located southwest of the FNPP. […]

In the liver (100%: 47/47 animals) and PB [whole peripheral blood] (9.8%: 5/51 animals), 110mAg (half-life: 249.8 d) was detected  (Table 1). […]

Although Silver and Tellurium […] were efficiently captured by the mother’s organs and were not delivered to the fetus. […]

We detected 110mAg in the liver of all of the cattle except for fetuses examined (Table 1 and Figure 3A). […]

See also: CNN: Scientists surprised by high levels of radioactive silver in fish off Japan coast

February 8, 2013 Posted by | environment, Fukushima 2013, radiation | Leave a comment

Nuclear waste area has suspicious cluster of cancers and birth defects

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Cancer cluster map of St. Louis http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/358520/3/Cancer-map-may-show-enormous-St-Louis-cluster–

 

cancer_cellsTV: “Staggering number of cancers, illnesses, and birth defects” linked to nuclear waste? Over 700 cases found in only four square miles — “There’s something very wrong” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/tv-staggering-number-cancers-illnesses-birth-defects-linked-nuclear-waste-700-cases-found-only-4-sq-miles-video
   February 1st, 2013
Title: Cancer cluster map of St. Louis
Source: KSDK
Author:  Leisa Zigman
Date: Feb 1, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip

Transcript Excerpts

Anchor: There are radioactive secrets beneath the banks and waters of a north St. Louis County creek that may be linked to a staggering number of cancers, illnesses and birth defects. In four square miles, there are three reported cases of conjoined twins and cancer rates that one data expert says is statistically impossible. […]

Source: KSDK (See .pdf: Illnesses Linked to Manhattan Project Waste CHART)
Janell Wright, class of ’88 McCluer North High School, Accountant and former auditor: “There’s something very wrong.” […]

Leisa Zigman, Reporter: At first she found 30 cases. Within two months, she had data on 200 cases. Now, her maps have more than 700 cases in four square miles […]

Wright: “The children usually came down with brain cancer in the first 15 years of life, in addition, leukemia. In my peer group’s children, there were several children who had to have their thyroid removed before they were 10-years-old.”

Zigman: In the 1940s, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in downtown St. Louis purified thousands of tons of uranium to make the first atomic bombs. […] 21 acres of airport land became a dumping site where a toxic mixture of uranium, thorium, and radium sat uncovered or in barrels. In the 60s, government documents noted contents from the rusting barrels were seeping into nearby Coldwater Creek. And by the 90s, the government confirmed unsafe levels of radioactive materials in the water. […]
Watch the video here

February 5, 2013 Posted by | health, Resources -audiovicual, USA | 1 Comment

USA Defense Department closes medical registry of Fukushima radiation affected servicemen and women

eyes-surprisedThe decision to cease updating the registry means there will be no way to determine if patterns of health problems emerge among the members of the Marines, Army, Air Force, Corps of Engineers, and Navy stationed at 63 installations in Japan with their families. In addition, it leaves thousands of sailors and Marines in the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group 7 on their own when it comes to determining if any of them are developing problems caused by radiation exposure.

Flag-USAJust In: Over 150 U.S. service members say Fukushima radiation has triggered medical issues — Now Defense Department abandons medical registry, leaving them on own http://enenews.com/150-service-members-fukushima-radiation-triggered-medical-issues
February 1st, 2013 
 Title: Fukushima Rescue Mission Lasting Legacy: Radioactive Contamination of Americans http://enenews.com/150-service-members-fukushima-radiation-triggered-medical-issues
Source: New Jersey Newsroom
Author: ROGER WITHERSPOON
Date: January 31 2013

The Department of Defense has decided to walk away from an unprecedented medical registry of nearly 70,000 American service members, civilian workers, and their families caught in the radioactive clouds blowing from the destroyed nuclear power plants at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. Continue reading →

February 2, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation, USA | Leave a comment

The space exploration dream. What a pity only robots could stand the radiation!

Space robots: Coming soon to a planet near you Phys Org, February 1, 2013 by Gordon Roesler “……the reality is, if we want to achieve our dreams of exploring the solar system, robots will be the means. With the exception of a few select missions, human space flight is in a prolonged hiatus. It has languished in low-Earth orbit over the past four decades and is likely to continue languishing for many more. The International Space Station, or ISS (take a guided tour) continues in its orbit 400 kilometres up. And China will soon visit the moon. But for more distant destinations, we’ve realised that radiation and bone loss would harm space travellers for life…… http://phys.org/news/2013-02-space-robots-planet.html

February 2, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health, radiation | Leave a comment

Fukushima area: radioactivity in 79 tested cattle

text ionisingDiscovery.com: Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima — “In the event of a nuclear Armageddon, don’t eat the steak” — Newborns, fetuses concentrating contamination http://enenews.com/discovery-radioactive-cattle-found-near-fukushima-in-the-event-of-a-nuclear-armageddon-dont-eat-the-steak-newborns-fetuses-concentrating-contamination
Title: Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima
Source: Discovery News
Author: Tim Wall
Date: Jan 30, 2013
Radioactive Cattle Found Near Fukushima
[…] Now, nearly two years after the disaster, those abandoned cattle were found to be contaminated with radioactive elements. Traces of radioactive cesium, silver and tellurium were found in the 79 cattle analyzed by a scientific team led by Nagoya University engineer Toshio Fukuda and published in the journal PLOS ONE.

Fetuses and calves had radioactive materials concentrations up to 1.5 times higher than the adults. The calves had been born, and the fetuses conceived, after the disaster.

In the event of a nuclear Armageddon, don’t eat the steak. Radioactive elements collected most heavily in the cattle’s skeletal muscle. […]
See also: Gov’t to begin testing fetuses for gene mutations in “Fukushima Genomic Analysis”

February 1, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, radiation | Leave a comment

Fukushima Genomic Analysis will test three generations for gene mutations

Gov’t to begin testing fetuses for gene mutations in “Fukushima Genomic Analysis” http://enenews.com/govt-to-begin-testing-fetuses-for-gene-mutations-in-fukushima-genomic-analysis
September 9th, 2012
http://www.minpo.jp/news/detail/201209073518 …

Source: http://www.minpo.jp/news/detail/201209073518

Grandparents will also be investigated if possible in order to investigate three generations of gene mutations

February 1, 2013 Posted by | Fukushima 2013, health, radiation | Leave a comment

Standard for “acceptable” radiation needs to be changed: it discriminates against women and children

The standard still used for “allowable” and “legal” radiation
doses is a chauvinistic and alarmingly dangerous method of calculating
risk.

The standard is called “reference man.” Created by the International
Commission on Radiological Protection in 1975,  it defines humanity as
a 5-foot-7-inch, 154-pound “Caucasian” male, 20-to-30 years old, who
is “Western European or North American in habitat and custom.” Of
course, this set represents neither the most vulnerable population nor
the average person.

radiation-warningWomen & Children First! (to be Harmed by Radiation)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/30/women-children-first-to-be-harmed-by-radiation/
  JANUARY 30, 2013
 “Reference Man” Risk Model Lambasted as Obsolete,
Unscientific by JOHN LaFORGE

“Woman and children first” is redefined in the nuclear age, now that
science has shown that they are far more susceptible to the ravages of
radiation than men and boys. Continue reading →

January 31, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, radiation, Reference, women | Leave a comment

Gaol for French doctors who radiation overdosed patients

Doctors jailed in French radiation scandal The Australian,  AAP
January 31, 2013  A FRENCH court has sentenced two doctors and a
radiophysicist to 18 months in prison each for their role in radiation
overdoses that killed at least 12 people and left dozens seriously
ill.

Overdoses were given to nearly 450 cancer patients at the Jean Monnet
hospital in Epinal in northeastern France between 2001 and 2006.

It is the most serious incident of its kind France has
known…..http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/doctors-jailed-in-french-radiation-scandal/story-fn3dxix6-1226565535205

January 31, 2013 Posted by | France, health | Leave a comment

Future deaths from Fukushima radiation – new research shows

radiation-warning“Serious concern” over long term health consequences from Fukushima disaster — New Study: 8 times more cancer deaths than predicted http://enenews.com/new-study-serious-concern-over-long-term-health-consequences-from-fukushima-disaster-8-times-more-cancer-deaths-than-predicted
January 25th, 2013
Title: Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
Source: Chemistry World
Author: Rebecca Brodie
Date: 25 January 2013

While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern. […]

Jan Beyea, from the US expert consulting service Consulting in the Public Interest, together with fellow colleagues has been analysing previous calculations of the subsequent nuclear accident in Japan, and believes that the number of predicted future mortalities from cancer is higher than originally predicted. […] the mid-range, predicted number of future mortalities from cancer is closer to 1000 than the 125 figure calculated without considering long-term groundshine [gamma radiation emitted from radioactive materials deposited on the ground].’ […]

Lynn Anspaugh, from the University of Utah, US, who works in the field of radiology and reconstructing radiation doses and who analysed the Chernobyl accident, agrees that Beyea’s research points out several inaccuracies in the previous work. However, he feels that the real question this work raises regards the future of nuclear power itself. […]
Read the study’s abstract here

January 28, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | Leave a comment

Hydraulic Fracking is a source of radiation pollution, too

“We’ve known for a long time that there is radiation coming back in the wastewater”

Among the radioactive material often found in drilling wastes is radium 226, which can cause cancer, anemia and cataracts, according to the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

diagram-fracking

DEP backtracks on radiation issue Times online,January 25, 2013  By Rachel Morgan  HARRISBURG — For months, the state Department of Environmental Protection denied that radiation in wastewater from natural gas drilling was an issue. On Thursday night, the state announced plans to study the effects of radiation in natural gas drilling wastewater.

After continued questioning by Shale Reporter regarding radioactivity in wastewater, Gov. Tom Corbett’s announcement of a 12-month DEP study of radioactive wastewater was a surprise. The DEP had consistently denied radiation was even an issue……. In the governor’s unexpected announcement Thursday evening, DEP officials said they will begin sampling and analyzing fracking flowback for radioactivity, testing everything from fracking wastewater, drill cuttings, treatment solids and sediments at well pads and wastewater treatment and disposal facilities.

They also plan to analyze radioactivity in pipes, well casings, storage tanks, treatment systems and trucks. http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/dep-backtracks-on-radiation-issue/article_9e5853a5-325b-5f9a-83ed-24aea5811db0.html

An Increase in Radiation Monitoring for Fracking, NYT, Jan 25 13 By JON HURDLE Pennsylvania will step up its monitoring of naturally occurring radiation levels in water, rock cuttings and drilling wastes associated with oil and gas development in a yearlong study that will be peer-reviewed, the state’s environmental agency reports.

The study will also assess radiation levels in the pipes, well casings, storage tanks, treatment systems and trucks used by the natural gas industry, which has drilled thousands of wells in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale over the last five years….

Hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting chemicals and water under enormous pressure into underground shale formations to extract gas or oil, got under way in Pennsylvania in 2008.

In New York, state officials are currently weighing whether to allow the drilling process to begin. The state’s health commissioner is conducting a review of whether the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation has adequately addressed potential impacts on public health. Continue reading →

January 26, 2013 Posted by | radiation, Reference, USA, water | Leave a comment

Radiation concentrates in the foetus, more than in the mother

Author-Fukushima-diaryTohoku university, “Radiocesium is more concentrated in the fetus than in the mother of Fukushima cattle” Fukushima Diary Posted by Mochizuki on January 24th, 2013  On 1/23/2013, researching group of the experts published the report about the internal exposure of cattle abandoned in evacuation zone.

The result shows radionuclides are more concentrated in children than mothers. It can happen to human beings too. The transfer of radionuclides from mother to fetus is one of the major concerns of exposure to internal radiation. …. http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/tohoku-university-radiocesium-is-more-concentrated-in-the-fetus-than-in-the-mother-of-fukushima-cattle/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29

January 25, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation | Leave a comment

A personal story of nuclear submarine tragedy in the Kara Sea

The crew of 144 were poisoned – nine died of radiation sickness soon after the emergency, and the others were ill for years before their premature deaths

Many Soviet sailors and officers were ordered to donate blood and bone marrow, knowing nothing about the accident, which remained an official secret for three decades.

K-27 officers were later warned they should not have children for five years and were given regular check-ups, but there was no proper medical follow-up for the ordinary submariners, according to CWO Mazurenko. Many of them were declared “healthy” by military doctors, despite their illnesses, he added.

Eyewitness: Tragedy of Soviet nuclear submarine K-27BBC News, By Yaroslava Kiryukhina, 24 Jan 13 BBC Russian reporter The Russian authorities are investigating whether a sunken Soviet nuclear-powered submarine, the K-27, can be safely raised so that the uranium in its reactors may be removed.

At the height of the Cold War, in 1968, the K-27 met with disaster when radiation escaped from one of its reactors during a voyage in the Arctic.

Vyacheslav Mazurenko, then 22, was serving as a chief warrant officer (CWO) on the vessel, which now lies abandoned in the Arctic’s Kara Sea. Today he lives in Ukraine and he told BBC Russian what happened. Continue reading →

January 25, 2013 Posted by | health, Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

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