Is there an appropriate forum?

I too have been an active poster, though mostly anonymously. I'd love to join a separate forum to compare notes among active researchers and hopefully to... ORGANIZE. I used to work at an enviro organization in NY and worked on the campaign to shut Indian Pt. Now live in Berkeley with my 2 year old daughter. Looking for ways to help stop the collective insanity! Perhaps we could join up with some of the active posters on the Forbes blog too..

First, I will say that I rely on the European Committee on Radiation Risk models and recomendations (BRAWM does not, but they are not health physicists)

I also recommend reading the research articles at the Radiation and Public Health Project website for the best current research on risk and radiation from nuclear plants as well as some of their new info re: Fukushima. They can be found at www.radiation.org

I would also recommend highly all of the posts and discussions at the following site:

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/27/radioactive-strontium-fou...

Jeff is clearheaded, objective, serious and is digging deeper and encourages discussion on his blog forum. He has done an eccellent series of very worthwhile articles - especially on the EPA and FDA risk issues we often discuss here. I have learned a lot be reading material there and discussions with several folks (including Rick) who post there in the forums (click on the "see all comments" button to see them all, otherwise only the posts Jeff "calls out" will appear.

I would summarize my views as follows:

The radionculides we have seen will, in my opinion, result in increased birth defects, spontaneous abortions, infant deaths, cancers and metabolic disorders in the foreseeable future in the United States. Research shows that this happened after Chernobyl in the United States. I have taken away the milk and most fresh produce from my kids meals and use frozen veggies and whatever ese makes sense. Almond milk is excellent. NEXT year these foods may have contamination but this year they are probably fine.

The radioiodine will be out of milk products in a matter of -3 months (depending, of course, on the releases being eliminated which is uncertain as I watched NHK today and they are still emitting huge plumes of steam (but the radioiodine is not too likely to be from spent fuel).

The intial explosions MAY have released strontium 90, a deadly kiler with a half life of 28 years or so in particulate and vapor form and NOW various reports (see the McMahon blog and comments) say radiostrontium is in Hawaiian milk (strontium-89 with a half life of 55 days or so which means it is very likely a Fukushima release) and the EPA reports that where they see radiocesium, they look for Strontium 90 (but as near as I can tell they are barely looking as according to most reports it is everywhere already and they are saying they are finding none --- but they have done VERY few tests and, according to what I read on McMahon's blog, they are obfuscating or just not testing or testing what they need to.

Whattever long term radionuclides are in the rains and dry dispersion will begin to bioaccumulate in food, milk, meat, fish, cheese, etc and will be pretty much everywhere (which is why Strontium 90 testing is SO important along with the much easier to detect radiocesium) as their half life is 28 years and they bioaccumulate in bones and organs where they rip apart and mutate our dna (especially fetuses) cauing all sorts of horrors.

The BEST info I have found on radioprotection is Dr. Blaylock (sorry - no link, but google dr. Blaylock and radiation health, you will find him) who did a few interviews and recommends, among other things, Turmeric (take with black pepper for better bioavailability). Cinnamon also is excellent as is garlic and many other natural products which have antioxidents and other healing qualities.

Once the radioiodine is gone avoiding the most likley contamants is important but it will be damn near impossible so protective diets are in order (aside from water filters etc which I cannot afford and I have a deep water well right now so I am not too worried).

Get your thyroid tested (see Mary Shomon's site for info as blood tests are often not useful to detect metabolic problems from the radioidine extcept in severe cases) in a few months.

I try to get troipical products and found the safe food thread here useful (if I could afford it). But I do work with herbs and turmeric is really magic as may be cinnamon and you can just make it as a tea or add it to tea or coffee.

I suspect that Strontium 90 us already ubiquitous and more may have arrived with the rains, so boning up on that is a good idea.

A healthy immune system ,reduced stress, antioxident foods (love blueberries and autumn olives), avoiding dairy for a few months, a little wine, etc

and

we have to keep beating the NO NUKES drums and LEARNING as much as we can. Once a decade of renewed massive exposure is WAY too much and we have been soaking up this radiation for nearly 70 years now (ECRR, btw, estimates TOTAL deaths from man made radionuclides as MORE than 65 MILLION people. Chernobyl alone may have caused nearly 200,000 cancers in the US according to the NY Academy of Sciences publication and globally a MILLION cancer deaths (not to mention hypothyroid disease, heart disease, etc etc etc)

So that kind of sums up my perspective so far. I am glad I am not a young parent (my kids are teens) or parent to be but my daughter is child bearing age and one of her friends, a downwinder, just told us he has bone cancer (grew up near the local nuke plants). I expect that what is in our environment will be deadly to a much larger extent than anyone in authority is letting on and has been for a long long time.

My REAL opinion? I think they WANT the population reduced to more manageable levels. But i usually do not post that as it sounds too CT. But if you study history, as I do, it makes perfect sense. Cull the herd and weaken the opponents to corrupt power.

I agree with the late Nuclear Scientist Dr. John Gofman (google him - he worked on the Manhattan project) who said that the people who promote these technologies are guilty of crimes against humanity and that Nuremberg Trials are in order for those who do so knowingly, because it is , in his words, "premeditated murder".

You asked. (BTW - I worked in the industry very briefly and became an opponent when I learned the true dangers that were being hidden and lied about by our government and industry and military: cancer pandemics, disease pandemics with mutating viruses and bacteria we have no immunity to, thyroid disease causing total endocine breakdowns - and all of that BEFORE Fukushima!)

Cheers. Carry on or flame away. Thats my opinion and last I looked its still a pretty free country.