Fukushima Plant Now in Full Meltdown

I'll let Helen answer the first question for me:

"You don’t understand internal emitters. I was commissioned to write an article for the New England Journal of Medicine about the dangers of nuclear power. I spent a year researching it. You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative, George, because you’re highly intelligent and a very important commentator, that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days. I do suggest, humbly, that if you read my book Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, which I think I’ve tried to send you once, you’ll learn about that."

Re: X-rays: I've had them taken for a broken bone. I have never had mammogram and don't plan to. I breast-fed for five years, that's enough to clean out my system. If I die of breast cancer or any other cancer, it's because of the torture and radiation that I have endured over the past 18 years by the idiot military and Catholic Church/Republican Neocons/ electric companies post my involvement in stopping a nuclear dump from going into Northern Maine and the subsequent closing of Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station.

Background Radiation: That all changed after the first atomic explosion. Natural Background Radiation is a misnomer. There hasn't been anything natural since 'Oppemheimer's deadly toy'. Daily emissions from nuke reactors compounded with nuke weapon explosions keep increasing background radiation. The background radiation today is much higher than it was three weeks ago.

Cancer treatment: Organic vegetable and fruit juices if you can find anything truly organic anymore.

They DID run an article about how Japan was covering up the true severity of the problem, which I discounted due to being from infowars. Then a couple weeks later the mainstream started running the same stories. Infowars IS full of lies and BS, but Jones uses a smattering of truth to reel people in. I wouldn't believe this, but I wouldn't discount it either.

Yes and nowhere to put the waste as the government is quickly running out of space! The main reason solar power hasn't taken on like it should is short term consumer cost so to install solar needs to be made cheaper!

We've actually got a huge top-of-the-line nuclear waste storage facility in the desert of Nevada that is completely empty and is big enough to contain all of America's nuclear waste for the next ten years plus change, but it isn't commissioned to open yet.

I am aware of that and while it isn't commissioned to open they are running out of space! I have NEVER been in favor of nuclear power and have demonstrated many times against it's use and the building of more power plants using nuclear technology. In reality I am also against Nuclear weapons it is to much power for the power hungry to control!

agreed but for some due their income it's hard to come up with the cost! the answer is government subsidy of some sort to ease the financial burden!

Explain!

common sense goes out the window in favor of sensationalism and ratings. Everybody and their dog has suddenly became a radiation expert and feel free to dispense their newfound expertise anywhere they can.

Good for them, to rebuild it so quickly.

I have zero faith in what Japanese does or makes at this point. With the quality of Japan's vehicles and nuclear plants, for all we know, the road-bed of this new road is nothing by styrafoam peanuts, with a veneer of asphalt on top.

When I was growing up, a big slam against a product was to say it was "Made in Japan." It seems nothing, but the Japanese' ability to hire good public-relations' staff, has changed.

Toyoto's ignoring, for years, the death-causing problems in their vehicles was bad enough. What was worse was when the people of Japan got pissy with Americans because we were complaining about Toyota's avarice, greed and negligence slaughtering our people.

I don't expect any better from Japan and their latest death-causing debacle, one that will impact the entire world.

The body-count from Toyota's heinous neglect of their faulty vehicles may look like a molecule in an ocean of water when compared to the body-count from Japan's heinous neglect of its world-threatening nuclear facilities.

what the hell does Toyota have to do with any of this, you thread-jacking crackpot? You're seriously going to blame a whole freaking country for one company? GTFO you despicable little grandstander! You need to grow up some more apparently.

my co-worker in north Tokyo has a 4-month old baby and wanted to buy iodide pills online in the states but they were all bought up within minutes before he could buy them.

These numbers make the world seem very small. So, how much time do we have and how come we are still here - guess it's just a matter of time?

it is. I have a feeling futuregen is just a Alex Jones fanboy troll trying to get attention. They posted a fake video of Chernobyl video and even the videos of the explosions at Fukushima have fake explosion sounds added to them to heighten the drama

Yeah totally, because if there wasn't capitalism we wouldn't need energy at all! Wait....what? There would still be nuclear power without capitalism (unless you prefer something arguably much worse like coal) and there no matter what, there will still be earthquakes and other tragedies. Is this a tragedy? Yes, undoubtedly. Preventable by the demise of capitalism? Highly unlikely. Saying things like that in my view takes away from the true impact and magnitude of the situation and devalues the lives have been lost.

It doesn't have to be nukes or coal, in fact we should stop using both. There are many other viable options.

Actually...no there aren't. According to recent estimates it would take over 50 years to switch over to an alternative energy source like solar or wind power and that's just for domestic energy use and if we started putting all our resources in to those technologies. Not that it wouldn't be a good thing....it's just not here yet. Besides, my real point was that does JonRaymond really think that a different kind of economic system would prevent things like this? It wouldn't. End of story.

The problem with capitalism has nothing to do with the fact that we need power or what form of power we need. It has to do with the motivation that makes those decisions, which is obviously only about corporate profit and has nothing to do with safety or human needs or even our very survival. In other words, capitalism destroys humanity for the sake of greed and profit. It is backwards, short sighted, moronic, and self serving. it is archaic, criminal, unjust, and horrific. It is plainly wrong and is revealing itself to be the worst system of human exchange that could ever have been invented. It will self destruct and take humanity along with it. If you believe capitalism has any merit, you don't deserve to exist, because you won't.

There is a thing called socialism, which makes a lot of sense for the needs of the many, as we see it working in America with socialized police, fire fighters, libraries, highways and so on. When something is required for human need and survival, it belongs in the realm of total government control, or at least very highly government regulated control that supersedes all profit interest, which by definition requires any private parties involved to be non-profit.

It would remove the profit motive which is at the root of the problem. Without profit motive and with responsible government regulation (assuming the government were to actually move to a democracy instead of the Wall Street corporate oligarchy it is now), we would at least have the hope of implementing true safety standards to curb the threat that the dangers involve have over humanity.

By that I mean to say, the nuclear energy industry, as all corporate profit making industries, pays lip service to safety, make a big PR campaign that they have safety standards, while all the while doing nothing of the sort, as we clearly see over and over with oil spills, nuclear disasters, flood damages as in New Orleans, and on and on. Capitalism does not work for these kinds of big utilities required for people to survive.

Not only does it not work. It is in fact a danger, a liability, a threat to our survival, and if we don't revoke it in at least these areas, we are doomed. If you think that is conspiracy or chicken little, take a trip to Japan and live there a few years. I doubt you'd have the balls to even book a plane ticket.

I'm just a freaked out concerned mother with a son in Seattle who is currently snorting over 230 different radioisotopes. Futuregen stands for future generations. I compiled this paper and know that it is all true. BEIR VII report states there is no longer any doubt that low doses of radiation cause cancer and other diseases. We have all the Chernobyl data now.

BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM LOW-LEVEL RADIATION

Compiled and edited for the Midcoast Health Research Group and the Maine Nuclear Referendum Committee by Francene McClintock, P.T., Maria Holt, R.N., and Elisabeth King.

“It is becoming generally recognized that we are living in an age of truth decay, distortion and suppression of fact. This leaves us vulnerable – because ignorant – in personal search for health, and ineffective in service to the country”.

..............Independent Citizen's Research Foundation, Inc.

Whether radiation penetrates us from the outside (gamma and beta) or it is ingested via air, water, milk or other foods (gamma plus beta and alpha), it harms us at the molecular level. (1,2) This molecular damage causes imbalances which have vast ramifications. (1) The probability of developing a cancer or other harmful effect is simply a matter of chance. (2) It takes only one call damaged by radiation to start the process. (3)

“Each electron emitted by a radioactive nucleus of Iodine 131 or other beta emitter possesses a few million electron-volts of energy, sufficient to disrupt millions of organic molecules In living cells. As a result, radioactive isotopes that concentrate in specific organs......are millions of times more dangerous per unit mass than ordinary chemical toxins.”

…................................Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D.

Free Radical Damage:
In 1972, Dr. Abram Petkau discovered that very low doses of radiation can “unzip” or dissolve cell membranes. This “unzipping” is performed by highly reactive “free radical” molecules that are formed when dissolved oxygen captures an electron liberated by the absorbed radiation. These free radicals attach themselves to the phospholipid cell membrane, where an oxidative chain reaction ensues. This destroys the integrity of the cell and the cell function. The more prolonged the dose of radiation, the smaller the total dose required to break the cell membrane. (1,4,5,17)
Free radicals can combine with and deactivate one another. Since increased doses of radiation produce a greater population of free radicals with a consequently greater probability of mutual deactivation, there is a greater probability of cell damage at lower radiation doses.(4,6,7)
Short, intense doses of radiation usually kill a cell outright or alter the DNA (causing mutation). (2) Low, prolonged doses, on the other hand, indirectly harm cells by increasing exposure to free radicals which damage cell membranes. (1,4,8) An individual's risk of contracting a cancer during his or her lifetime increases with each exposure. (9,17)

“Every dose is an overdose.”......
…..............Dr. George Wald, Nobel Laureate
Cancers:
Radiation can cause cancers of the bone, digestive tract, brain, lung, thyroid, breast, stomach, central nervous system, lymph system, blood or skin. (1,2,3,6,9,10,11,12,13) The radiation – related leukemias are the acute myeoblastic, acute lymphoblastic, and chronic myelocytic forms. (8)
Historically, early leukemias take about four years to develop, whereas other cancers take longer – up to forty years for a solid tumor or lung cancer. (3) Radiation appears to be not only a cancer instigator but a cancer promoter. (8,10)

BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM LOW-LEVEL RADIATION...............page 2

Effects of “Internal Emmitters”
Strontium 90 can be ingested in milk, leafy green vegetables, and other supposedly health – giving foods. It is taken up by the body in the same manner as calcium, which it chemically resembles. (1,2,9,11,14) Deposited in the bones in the same manner as calcium, it is situated close to the bone marrow in which blood cells are formed. By impairing the action of white blood cells, radiation can damage the immune response system, opening the way to a wide spectrum of diseases and infections (1,2,4,8,9,11), especially in vulnerable populations such as the invalid and elderly. (11,15,17) Damage to the immune system may linger for the duration of a lifetime, resulting in chronic poor health. (4,8)
Iodine 131 is ingested in milk, which is heavily consumed by expectant and nursing mothers, infants, and young children. The iodine 131 settles in the thyroid, disrupting the production of growth hormone, which can lead to spontaneous abortion, low birth-weight babies, hyaline membrane disease and generally poor growth and development. (4,11)

Demographic Evidence:
In 1970, Dr Alice Stewart completed a study of over 16,000,000 children born in England and Wales, which showed that fetuses and infants are 1000 times and 100 times, respectively, more sensitive to radiation than adults. (3,4,11)
In the three years since the Chernobyl accident, Down's syndrome has doubled in West Germany (15) and in the Ukraine, the cancer rate in the area immediately around the plant has doubled and calves have been born without heads, limbs, eyes or ribs. Pigs have been born google eyed or with deformed skulls. (8,10)

“There were at least 40,000 more deaths than normal in the U.S. in the eight months after the arrival of the Chernobyl cloud. There was also a highly significant drop in live births, especially on the west coast and in New England, where rainfall brought down the fallout which then concentrated in the milk. This concentration lead to miscarriages and spontaneous abortions which caused the birth rate to plummet. What we had was a four-month long radiation epidemic.”
….................Dr .Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D.

Impacts from DOE and Military Activities and Facilities:
Mental retardation, decreased intellectual ability, birth defects, hypothyroidism, abnormal blood clotting, and premature aging have all been associated with radiation exposure, as have other diseases such as arthritis, heart disease, and diabetes.(1,2,3,8) Impaired intellectual functioning as a result of radiation exposure is suggested by a study of SAT scores of college applicants from the area downwind of the Nevada above-ground test. (4,15) 20,000 children may have been affected by releases in the late 1940's from the Hanford site in Washington. (8)
24 out of the 28 families who settled near the Hanford site in 1957 have been affected by cancer, serious birth defects, thyroid problems and early deaths. (8) Similar effects have been noted around the weapons plants at Rocky Flats. Fabricators of nuclear warheads suffer excess deaths from cancer of the brain, lungs, central nervous system and lymphatic system. (3, 14) Their brain tumor deaths are nearly five times as high as are expected for the general public.
Uranium processing workers suffer from lung and brain cancers, respiratory diseases, and a 36% excess rate of digestive tract cancer. (3) The DOE is now candidly admitting for the first time that they have deliberately, knowingly been releasing toxic radioactivity into people's back yards, essentially creating a gigantic experiment. They have been killing the very people they are supposed to protect. (8)
“How can we feel secure when we are the victims of deliberate government experiments?”
…................................Millie Smith, Seattle Post Intelligence 10/22/88

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BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM LOW LEVEL RADIATION …........page 3

Impacts from Civilian Power Reactors:
Radioactivity is routinely released from nuclear power plants into our air and water. (2,,8,12,14,16,17) Because many radioisotopes persist for many years, they are building up in our food chain and elsewhere in the environment. (1,12,14) this is definitely a health risk. (12,14)
A 1987 study of people living near nuclear power plants in England and Wales showed that there were twice as many deaths as expected in this population from leukemia, Hodgkin's disease and multiple myeloma. (12) In some areas incidence of leukemia alone was twice as high as expected. (12, 14)

“In the ongoing age of rampant laissez-faire, when will the stack of bodies in the morgue be high enough and specifically defined enough to warrant action?”
…...................................Harvey Wassserman

A 1987 study in the U.S. by Dr. Sidney Cobb showed similar elevations
in cancer deaths in the population living near the pilgrim plant in plymouth, Massachusetts. (12,13) Dr. Cobb has surmised that airborne radiation may be trapped in coastal fogs and carried back and forth over coastal communities in on-shore, off-shore wind cycles. (13) Two separate studies in England and the U.S. have shown high mortalities in coastal areas near nuclear facilities. (12, 13, 15)
In a study of the area surrounding the Maine Yankee reactor in Wiscasset, Maine, Dr. Theodore Hauschka found a significant rise in radiation-related leukemias in those rural communities in comparison with the rest of the state of Maine, which before Maine Yankee went on line in 1972 had one of the lowest rates for leukemia in the 48 contiguous states. (8,17)

“The only way to avoid further pollution with man-made radioisotopes is to stop the use of nuclear fission both for weaponry and for the production of electricity.”
…..............Maria Holt and Elizabeth King, citizen monitors of Maine Yankee

“The armament consortium
They're selling us plutonium
Now you can make your own H-bomb
Right in the kitchen with your Mom

The nuclear power that costs you more
Than anything you've known before
The half-wit's answer to a need
For cancer, death, destruction, greed

We've got to save the world
Someone's children, they may need it
So far we've seen
The big business of extinction bleed it
We've got to save the world.”
…..................George Harrison

BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE FROM LOW LEVEL RADIATION ….......PAGE 4

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It is because of fearmongering chicken little idiots like you that people like myself in Japan particularly Tokyo have dozens of families and friends back home needlessly worrying. Thank you ever so much! You seem to take delight in all this.

I tell you now - STOP! You are an idiot and panic spreader. You don't know enough to even to begin to even make a case for or against this situation. You are just funneling conspiracy theories and alarmist attention seeking drama queens. Stop while you are horribly behind.

If there's no maximum alert, there should be.

All operating reactors, whether they start with any plutonium in their fuel or not, build up plutonium in the course of operations.

Is all the name calling and condescending attitude necessary?

I live here and I have to deal with this. I have no respect for someone who seems to take glee with this situation while spreading disinformation, fear, and panic. Look at the stupid Chernobyl video for example. It is because of people like futuregen that those of us in Japan have people back home needlessly worrying about us so I really don't care to mince words and be polite to someone who doesn't deserve it.

I agree that the Chernobyl video wasn't constructive and didn't add much to the discussion. Things are undoubtedly worse for those closer to this disaster, but this will affect the whole planet and has already caused radiation to be found in milk near me in the state of Washington. While I certainly wouldn't advocate spreading disinformation, fear, and panic, I doubt that that she is doing that intentionally, but rather dealing with this terrible situation the best she knows how.

whether intentionally or deliberately she/he is not helping things in the slightest and both videos the obvious fake one from chernobyl and the fukushima ones with with fake explosion sounds make me think futuregen is just a conspiracy nutter doing their usual rounds. they are just regurgitating stuff without thinking about it and in the process spreading fear and panic causing more harm than good

The radionuclides are produced in the rods once the chain reaction in the reactor starts. They are all man-made radioisotopes and do not exist in nature. In a normal reactor, pin-holes develop in the rods and the radionuclides escape into the coolant water. This water is filtered and then dumped into our waterways. That's why all reactors are near water. Saltwater is more corrosive than fresh water so the inside of salt water reactors disintegrates faster. Nuclear bombardment disintegrates all the reactors. They die from the inside out. So what you see outside is not what is happening inside. In the case of Fukishima, the rods exploded. you can see them being ejected in the videos of the MOX reactor 3. That goes into the atmosphere and is carried world -wide, coming down in the rain. When they say levels of Iodine -131 have been found in the milk in Mass. ,that's because they're o nly testing for that particular radionuclide. They don't isolate themselves like that. If Iodine 131 is found, that means the other 230+ radionuclides are also around. For it to have gotten in the milk, the cows would have had to ingest grass with radioactivity on it. Which means the cescium has deposited in the cows muscles (i.e. radioactive cow meat/hambuger) and strotium-90 and plutonium in the cows bones. The iodine would also uptake in the cow's thyroid. The pregnant mother drinks the milk and she and her baby uptake it in their thyroids. The fetus is the most affected as they have rapidly dividing cells. Low-birth weight babies (if they are not spontaneously aborted) become the norm. See my paper for more info.

really? Did you see the explosions of Chernobyl? The video you posted of Chernobyl is a fake that a 5 year old could spot. Are you an idiot or just a troll?

Can you find another one?

what you posted was a fake video which makes me think you are just a troll

you moron, that's not even a real video! That's someone's 5-second editing project! Get the hell out of here with your sky is falling conspiracy crap!

now is not the time for some joker on youtube.

wow, what a brilliant rebuttal! Yes let's focus on the chicken little experts screaming for attention with their over-generalizations and fearmongering!

FAKE!

That fact that they are already reading small traces of radiation from the plant in the rain as far as N.C. means that we are all in one hell of a jam.

Excellent post. Thank you so much. I am very impressed with Prof Busby. He is like Ernest Sternglass, MD.

Poo through the diaper. See Nuclear Boy above.

I read there were traces of radiation found in milk in Washington State, but the EPA said it will disipate... Will the winds disipate however? I just do not trust what governments tell us. Look at how we are being lied to about the BP Gulf ecocide. I think we should be very wary and cautious now. It is simply common sense, so thanks for the link.

From link:

Meanwhile, IAEA head of nuclear safety and security Denis Flory says he has heard there might be "recriticality" at the Fukushima plant, in which a nuclear chain reaction would resume, even though the reactors were automatically shut down at the time of the quake.

He says this could lead to more radiation releases but it would not be "the end of the world".

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The fact that he even had to say that tells us about all we need to know about nuclear power.

It will take years to cool these rods down. Humans don't have years to wait for that as the radiation continues to seep into our air, water and soil. It is insane to build anymore of these monstrosities.