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Gastro-intestinal cancer – added risk for space travellers

Exposure to Space Radiation Reduces Ability of Intestinal Cells to Destroy Oncoprotein Science Daily Apr. 9, 2013 — Two studies funded by NASA and presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013 help explain why space radiation may increase the risk of colorectal cancer in humans.

The researchers, from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, found that cosmic radiation impairs the ability of cells in the intestines of mice to eliminate oncogenic proteins, thus substantially increasing development of colorectal tumors….. “While there is no reliable estimate of colorectal cancer risk from space radiation exposure, we have shown that exposure to cosmic radiation causes markedly increased intestinal tumors in mice,” says Datta, an assistant professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular & cellular biology.

“These findings have implications for the health of astronauts undertaking exploratory missions into outer space and for future space tourists,” he says…..

Both researchers used specialized mutant mice to study the effects of 56Fe radiation, a highly ionizing radiation prevalent in space.”This radiation is considered the greatest challenge for space exploration,” says Datta. “It deposits higher amount of energy in the body than does the gamma-/x-rays causing relatively higher DNA damage. This is believed to increase carcinogenic risk in astronauts, although accurate risk estimates are not yet available.”….http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409144837.htm

April 11, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health, radiation | Leave a comment

Radiation on the moon – a barrier to humans

Moon’s radiation damaging for humans, electronics http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/moon-s-radiation-damaging-for-humans-electronics_841092.html  April 10, 2013 Washington: The radiation environment near the Moon could be damaging to humans and electronics on future missions, it has been revealed. Continue reading →

April 11, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, radiation | Leave a comment

Dr. O. Turk-Warshawsky’s warnings on Fukushima radiation to USA’s West Coast

wind-trajectories-from-FukuTranscript of radio broadcast by Dr. O. Turk-Warshawsky March 17, 2011., Long Beach, California,  

Today I would like to describe a current situation on the US West coast due to Japanese nuclear disaster, go over the possible dangers and provide recommendation how to minimize exposure to the radioactive particles.

I received many questions and would like to address them in my presentation

Can the radiation reach the US West coast?

The answer is yes; the air masses during this season are going at high speed across the Pacific, however most heavy elements such as plutonium and strontium will be deposited near the station (as it happened during Chernobyl disaster back in 1986)

In my opinion we should expect to detect cesium 137- and possible iodine-131 isotopes Continue reading →

April 9, 2013 Posted by | radiation, USA | 1 Comment

Fukushima radiation levels rise in rivers, in food 225 miles away

text ionisingDeadly levels of radiation found in food 225 miles from Fukushima: Media blackout on nuclear fallout continues 
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2013/04/08/deadly-levels-of-radiation-found-in-food-225-miles-from-fukushima-media-blackout-on-nuclear-fallout-continues/   – Source: NaturalNews By Ethan A. HuffAPRIL 8, 2013 NEW DATA flag-japanRELEASED BY JAPAN’S MINISTRY OF HEALTH, LABOR AND WELFARE (MHLW) SHOWS ONCE AGAIN THAT THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR DISASTER IS FAR FROM OVER. DESPITE A COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT ON THE CURRENT SITUATION, LEVELS OF CESIUM-137 (CS-137) AND CESIUM-134 (CS-134) FOUND IN PRODUCE AND RICE CRACKERS LOCATED ROUGHLY 225 MILES (~ 362 KM) AWAY FROM FUKUSHIMA ARE HIGH ENOUGH TO CAUSE RESIDENTS TO EXCEED THE ANNUAL RADIATION EXPOSURE LIMIT IN JUST A FEW MONTHS, OR EVEN WEEKS. Continue reading →

April 9, 2013 Posted by | environment, Japan, radiation | Leave a comment

Sea lions sickness might be result of starvation, not radiation

Starvation, Not Radiation Likely Cause of Ailing Sea Lion Pups: Expert By Monica Garske, Apr 7, 2013 More than 1,000 ailing sea lion pups have been washed ashore in Southern California over the past three months, and a national fisheries expert says a lack of food source is likely the cause, not radiation as reported by some media outlets.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has assembled a team of experts to research the cause of the beached sea lion pup problem.

NOAA has been granted an official declaration of what’s called an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). The status allows for the establishment of a panel of experts to convene to look for answers and will also provide for extra funding.

On Thursday, NOAA held a conference to discuss that research. Experts said the leading hypothesis their panel is looking at focuses on a lack of food source, starvation and dehydration. Other potential causes being studied include possible infectious diseases or pollutants in the ocean.

Experts believe pups are being affected in greater numbers than adult sea lions because they are limited in how far they can travel and unfamiliar with the environment.

Over the weekend, some news outlets reported that radiation from Japan’s March 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is also being looked at as a possible cause for the UME concerning sea lion pups……

“Radiation is being looked at, just like everything else. We haven’t ruled it out, but we really don’t suspect this at all,” Milbury told NBC 7. “We don’t suspect radiation because this would also mean other animals in the ocean would be affected, especially in the oceans of Hawaii, closer to Japan, and we haven’t seen any of that.”Milbury says the more plausible cause is simply starvation…..  http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Starvation-Not-Radiation-Likely-Cause-Sick-Sea-Lion-Pups-NOAA-201844981.html#ixzz2PuGOCdw0

April 8, 2013 Posted by | radiation | Leave a comment

Thyroid damage to US West Coast children, from Fukushima radiation

Decades after the accident, a 2011 study by the National Institutes of Health found that higher absorption of I-131 radiation led to an increased risk for thyroid cancer among victims of Chernobyl radiation – a risk that has not diminished over time.

The children who were unfortunate enough to be exposed to Fukushima radiation on the US West Coast, as well as in Alaska and Hawaii could now face similar risks.

wind-trajectories-from-FukuFukushima fallout – thyroid damage in US children http://www.nyrnaturalnews.com/cancer-2/2013/04/fukushima-fallout-thyroid-damage-in-us-children By Staff Writer Natural News  — If you are still living with the belief that disasters that happen in another country happen ‘somewhere else’,  here’s a stark reminder
that there is no ‘somewhere else’ on our planet.

Researchers working with the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) in New York have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects showing that young children born on the US West Coast are 28% more likely to develop congenital hypothyroidism. Continue reading →

April 6, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation, USA | 8 Comments

First hand witnesses – radiation victims tell their story

text-Please-NoteThe stories can be found at www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/mediacenter/index.php?topic=Exposure_en.

Hiroshima daily posts radiation tales http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/06/national/hiroshima-daily-posts-radiation-tales/#.UWB_jKJwpLs KYODO HIROSHIMA – A website operated by a Hiroshima newspaper has posted a series of stories in English and Japanese about radiation victims across the globe, hoping to spread awareness about all such victims, not just those of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Continue reading →

April 6, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health, radiation | Leave a comment

Internal radiation emitters – cesium and iodine – far more dangerous than external exposure


Risk from internal exposure is 200-600 times greater than risk from external exposure. See this, this, this and this.

cesium-137 and radioactive iodine – the two main radioactive substances being spewed by the leaking Japanese nuclear plants – are not naturally-occurring substances, and can become powerful internal emitters which can cause tremendous damage to the health of people who are unfortunate enough to breathe in even a particle of the substances, or ingest them in food or water.

internal emitters

Fake Science Alert: Fukushima Radiation Can’t Be Compared to Bananas or X-Rays http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-01/fake-science-alert-fukushima-radiation-can%E2%80%99t-be-compared-bananas-or-x-rays George Washington   04/01/2013

“….Mixing Apples (External) and Oranges (Internal) Moreover,  radioactive particles which end up inside of our lungs or gastrointestinal track, as opposed to radiation which comes to us from outside of our skin are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation.

The National Research Council’s Committee to Assess the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program explains:

  Radioactivity generates radiation by emitting particles. Radioactive materials outside the the body are called external emitters, and radioactive materials located within the body are called internal emitters.

Internal emitters are much more dangerous than external emitters. Specifically, one is only exposed to radiation as long as he or she is near the external emitter.

For example, when you get an x-ray, an external emitter is turned on for an instant, and then switched back off.

But internal emitters steadily and continuously emit radiation for as long as the particle remains radioactive, or until the person dies – whichever occurs first. As such, they are much more dangerous. Continue reading →

April 5, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, radiation, Reference | 9 Comments

Tobacco industry hid radiation cancer causer in cigarettes

secret-agent-SmNuclear insiders and Big Tobacco No.1 Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=561&action=detail&ref=1751 5 April 13 University of California Health System, Health and Medicine, Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet  Kim Irwin

Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed “deep and intimate” knowledge of these particles’ cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately kept their findings from the public, according to a new study by UCLA researchers.

The analysis of dozens of previously unexamined internal tobacco industry documents, made available in 1998 as the result of a legal settlement, reveals that the industry was aware of cigarette radioactivity some five years earlier than previously thought and that tobacco companies, concerned about the potential lung cancer risk, began in-depth investigations into the possible effects of radioactivity on smokers as early as the 1960s.

“The documents show that the industry was well aware of the presence of a radioactive substance in tobacco as early as 1959,” the authors write. “Furthermore, the industry was not only cognizant of the potential ‘cancerous growth’ in the lungs of regular smokers, but also did quantitative radiobiological calculations to estimate the long-term lung radiation absorption dose of ionizing alpha particles emitted from cigarette smoke.” Continue reading →

April 5, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health, radiation | 1 Comment

Medicine struggles to deal with nuclear radiation -caused illness

radiation-warningTop Docs’ (Partial) Cure for Nuclear Radiation: Bone-Marrow Drugs http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/health-department-nuclear/ BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN  04.04.13 

Even if a nuclear bomb exploded far enough away for you to survive the blast, the radiation could still kill you. Now the U.S. government wants to find a cure for one the most vexing causes of radioactive death — starting with your bones.

According to a research solicitation released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services, the department is preparing to spend up to $8 million beginning in 2014 to research ways to treat severe thrombocytopenia — or the loss of cell platelets — caused by excessive radiation poisoning of vital blood-producing organs and tissues like bone marrow and the spleen. Once your organs get blasted with radiation from a catastrophic nuclear detonation, you will likely begin to suffer from internal bleeding and get really sick. Then you’ll die. Continue reading →

April 5, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation, Reference, USA | Leave a comment

Radiation releases from fracking for natural gas

among the substances to be tested for are Radium-226, Radium-228, Uranium-238, Uranium-235, Uranium-234, Thorium-232, Radon-220 and Radon-222.

 a December 2011 U.S. Geological Survey report that found that millions of barrels of wastewater from unconventional wells in Pennsylvania and conventional wells in New York were 3,609 times more radioactive than the federal limit for drinking water and 300 times more radioactive than a Nuclear Regulatory Commission limit for nuclear plant discharges.

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DEP begins fracking radiation tests Times Online,  By Rachel Morgan Shalereporter.com 4 April 13 HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection this month will begin testing for radioactivity in waste products from natural gas well drilling.

In addition to analyzing wastewater from hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, the study also will analyze radioactivity in drill cuttings, drilling mud, drilling equipment, treatment solids and sediments at well pads, wastewater treatment and disposal facilities and landfill leachate, among others. The study also will test radiation levels for the equipment involved in the transportation, storage and disposal of drilling wastes. Continue reading →

April 5, 2013 Posted by | radiation, USA | Leave a comment

“Background Radiation” – a favourite lie of the nuclear lobby

Angwin-liesFake Science Alert: Fukushima Radiation Can’t Be Compared to Bananas or X-Rays,Zero Hedge,  April 2013

“…….Most “Background Radiation” Didn’t Exist Before Nuclear Weapons Testing and Nuclear Reactors

Nuclear apologists also pretend that we get a higher exposure from background radiation (when we fly, for example) and or x-rays then we get from nuclear accidents.

In fact, there was exactly zero background radioactive cesium or iodine before above-ground nuclear testing and nuclear accidents started.

Wikipedia provides some details on the distribution of cesium-137 due to human activities:

 Small amounts of caesium-134 and caesium-137 were released into the environment during nearly all nuclear weapon tests and some nuclear accidents, most notably the Chernobyl disaster.

Caesium-137 is unique in that it is totally anthropogenic. Unlike most other radioisotopes, caesium-137 is not produced from its non-radioactive isotope, but from uranium. It did not occur in nature before nuclear weapons testing began. By observing the characteristic gamma rays emitted by this isotope, it is possible to determine whether the contents of a given sealed container were made before or after the advent of atomic bomb explosions. This procedure has been used by researchers to check the authenticity of certain rare wines, most notably the purported “Jefferson bottles”.

As the EPA notes:

  Cesium-133 is the only naturally occurring isotope and is non-radioactive; all other isotopes, including cesium-137, are produced by human activity.

Similarly, iodine-131 is not a naturally occurring isotope. As the Encyclopedia Britannica notes: (Fukushima has spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted.  Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day.   And the cesium levels hitting the west coast of North America will keep increasing for several years.  Fukushima is still spewing radiation into the environment, and the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.)

As such, the concept of “background radiation” is largely a misnomer. Most of the radiation we encounter today – especially the most dangerous types – did not even exist in nature before we started tinkering with nuclear weapons and reactors. In a sense, we are all guinea pigs …….  http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-04-01/fake-science-alert-fukushima-radiation-can%E2%80%99t-be-compared-bananas-or-x-rays

April 3, 2013 Posted by | radiation, Reference, secrets,lies and civil liberties | 4 Comments

Texas new rules for medical radiation starting May 1st

medical-radiationNew Texas radiation rule takes effect May 1 By Eric Barnes, AuntMinnie.com staff writer March 28, 2013 — Hoping to avoid the rash of radiation overexposures that shook California radiology like an earthquake a few years back, the state of Texas has decided to implement its own radiation exposure rule beginning May 1.

Unlike the California law, however, Texas will administer its new highly-recommendedregime as an administrative directive by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

Texas Administrative Code rule §289.227 includes guidelines for radiation reporting, training personnel, and establishing acceptable dose thresholds, Continue reading →

April 3, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation, Reference | Leave a comment

“Acceptable” levels of radiation lifted by governments

text ionisingGovernments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics … Not Sciencehttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/governments-worldwide-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-based-upon-politics-not-science.html  

Instead of Protecting People, Governments Cover Up by Raising “Safe” Radiation Levels

American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation.

Neither American nor Canadian authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.

Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima?

It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a “safe level” of radiation is determined by politics … rather than science. For example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.

And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced: If you smile, the radiation will not affect you.

(Here’s the video.)

In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults. Continue reading →

March 30, 2013 Posted by | 2 WORLD, radiation | Leave a comment

A reminder that Computerised Tomography still has its place in medecine

Immediate health risks outweigh long-term radiation concerns for testicular cancer http://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/immediate-health-risks-outweigh-long-term-radiation-concerns-for-testicular-cancer/article/284572/#  20 March 13 Primary Health Risks Outweigh Long-Term Radiation Concerns (HealthDay News) — Immediate health risks supersede lifetime radiation-induced cancer risk in patients undergoing computed tomography (CT) surveillance for testicular cancer, according to a study published in the March issue of Radiology. Continue reading →

March 21, 2013 Posted by | health, radiation | Leave a comment

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