Whole body counts in Japan - lots of new info 7/6/12
Folks - this is a write up of Dr. Hayano's work testing food and also doing whole body counts on residents of Fukushima prefecture. Very interesting. This comes from Azby Brown, a Safecast volunteer and director of the KIT Future Designs Institute in Tokto
Posted by BC 7/6/12
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I attended the talk at Temple Univ in Tokyo on Tues night (July 3), at which Dr Ryu Hayano, Nicholas Sternsdorff, and Satsuki Takahashi spoke. I was particularly interested in hearing what Dr Hayano had to say, because he has been spearheading many important efforts in Fukushima, such as measuring the radiation in school lunches and measuring people's internal contamination with whole body counters. His name has come up quite often here. His work has been extremely conscientious and reliable, and has brought him into conflict with the government and his university at several points. His presentation was a model of clarity, and he engaged the audience very well by dotting it with questions which we answered by holding up sheets of paper with "T" or "F." Such as, "About 10% of food from Fukushima has exceeded the 100Bq/kg standard," (F, only 2%), and "No milk from Fukushima has been shown to be contaminated" (T, none has). I believe his presentation will be posted on the Temple Univ site at some point, and hopefully a video of his talk as as well. I'd like to give a brief summary of what he said.
--Their WBC measurements in Minamisoma and Hirata have been very extensive and accurately performed. Between Nov 2011 and May 2012 they've measured about 10,000 people. In Hirata, about 15,000 people have been measured. The vast majority have shown no internal contamination. The levels of others has been extremely low compared to people in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus 5-10 years after the Chernobyl accident. In fact the levels are much lower than the average internal contamination of Japanese people measured in 1964 at the height of nuclear weapons testing. More on that below.
--He spoke a lot about calibration issues and how they solved them. He said that around the end of last year, CRMS, who had been conducting WBC measurements in Fukushima, was about to release a report claiming that the entire population of Fukushima had 20Bq/kg of internal cesium contamination. Dr. Hayano insisted on re-analyzing the data himself to see if their measurements were accurate or not. By calibrating their machine with a plastic "phantom" known to have 0Bq/kg, he determined that their reading of "20" should have been "0." He likened it to using a scale that was set to "20kg" when no weight was on it to weigh people. So the internal contamination of almost everyone CRMS had measured was 0Bq/kg!! This has been borne out in subsequent measurements. (Imagine what we'd be dealing with if CRMS had released that report!!)
--They have remeasured everyone who showed internal contamination after a period of months, and based on that have shown that in almost every case people's body burden of cesium has been sharply decreasing; the slopes of the decrease indicate that most of these people are consuming close to 0 Bq/day. Therefore he concludes that the food screening has been very effective. Of 10,000 people only 2 showed an increase between Nov 2011-May 2012, and they were farmers who have been eating a lot of their own food.
-- "Duplicate portion" measurements of food were conducted with 100 families in Fukushima in April 2012. Only 10 consumed any contaminated food; of those, only one family received more than 10Bq/kg --12 Bq/kg to be exact (the natural radioactive potassium each family consumed however ranged from about 20-50 Bq/kg). Based on the WBC measurements and these studies he expects that very few people in Fukushima will have more than 0.01mSv/yr internal exposure. This is so vastly lower than the 100mSv/yr risk level or even the stricter 10mSv/yr level promoted by others, that he concludes that "there is no health risk." This is an unpopular stance as we all know, but it's based on very solid measurements.
--Only 2% of the 53,000 food samples tested by local gov'ts since the new 100 Bq/kg standards came into effect have exceeded this standard. No milk from Fukushima has been shown to be contaminated yet; no contamination has been found in school lunches in Minamisoma since they started measuring them in Jan 2012.
--On the other hand, soil in Fukushima is very contaminated, and items like wild boar, wild berries, etc. show high levels, so people will have to be very careful to continue effective monitoring for years to come.
--Because the internal contamination has been so low, he thinks that external contamination may present a relatively greater risk (but still very small). Based on glass badge results from Fukushima City, Minamisoma City, Koriyama City, and Soma City, most people there are receiving less than 1mSv/yr.
--In 1964, due to nuclear testing, the entire population of Japan was consuming 5 Bq/kg of Cs137 in their food every day, and this continued for over a year, with average body burdens of 550 Bq. This is much greater than the average levels they have seen in Fukushima so far. He suggested that the exposure in 1964 has not been directly linked to any measurable increase in illness, even after almost 50 years, and that the Fukushima exposures will not either.
--Afterward, I asked him his opinion about the recent WHO report on exposures, and he got very agitated and said it was terrible, because it overestimated exposures so blatantly. He will be bringing his findings to the UN in a few weeks to push for the data to be included in the WHO Fukushima health risk report due out in a few months.
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Body counts....
Sooner or later the whole body (radioactive) counts, become just body counts.
A crime.
36% Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths
"36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure"
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-stunning-36-percent-of-fukushima-childr...
36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure
Michael Kelley | Jul. 16, 2012, 1:28 PM | 14,541 | 34
There are about 360,000 Fukushima residents who were 18 or younger in March 2011.
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the "Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey," published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com/
immune competence decline triggers new symptoms
"This decline in the immune competence is thought to be triggering the worsening of symptoms and the new symptoms."
https://sites.google.com/site/fukushimareport/
Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR): The research and collection of data due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. We have a monthly report that can be viewed at the end of the month by anyone interested. Our website is not just for those affected by Fukushima but also for anyone in the world that may have been exposed to radiation. Our hope is to improve the situation of those who are suffering from radioactive contamination anywhere in the world. Please contact us by e-mail if you have any questions or valuable information on these matters.
This month a big characteristic is a change in the number of symptoms per person. The whole group saw an increase from 3.96 symptoms to 4.5 symptoms per person. The children’s group went from 3 symptoms to 3.6 symptoms per person. Also, the addendum to prior reports revealed progression of symptoms in the form of worsening symptoms or a new onset of symptoms. Both in the whole group and the children’s group, the top three symptoms were in bronchi, skin, and general, and the numbers have markedly increased. Also infections are increasing, suggesting decline in the immune competence. This decline in the immune competence is thought to be triggering the worsening of symptoms and the new symptoms.
Begin
It is a start
Let the Fukushima Body Counts ... BEGIN
The Fukushima Body Counts will NEVER END
The Fukushima nuclear disasters will kill more Japanese than John Wayne & the USA Marines.
More than Brigadeer General Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
More than Major General Charles W. Sweeney, who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
More Japanese than General Douglas MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
Fukushima will kill FAR MORE Japanese than all these events combined.
Stack those bodies high! And keep those minimalist lies coming.
Right, but you forgot all the
Right, but you forgot all the Japanese killed by the Russians in all their conflicts. That was more than all the Japanese killed by Americans. Fukushima will kill more Japanese than even the Russians did! A real tragedy!
Concur
The total Fukushima Body Count will likely exceed the Japanese death tolls from every external war in Japanese history.
It will likely exceed the total Japanese death toll from every civil war in Nippon history.
It may exceed the total Japanese death toll from every earthquake and tsunami in Japanese history.
It could possibly exceed ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Time will tell!
Let the 'Whole Body Counts' begin
Even more dead
The Fukushima body count will probably exceed one trillion people!
It has already sterilized most of the women in the northern hemisphere. They will have to move to the southern hemisphere to reporduce!
It killed 20,000 people in the US in the first three months alone!!! How many more since then? And the mainstream media is silent!!
The human race is DOOMED by the Fukushima DEATH BOMB caused by US HAARP!!!
The truth is all here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/RadChick-Radiation-Research-Mitigation/260...
Yes, well....
I can't believe that all of these recent posters are serious. But I checked the "Radchick" FB page, and it seems fairly off the deep end. People there really seem to believe the US caused the Tohoku earthquake with HAARP, and that lots of people are dying in California from Fukushima fallout, being hidden away in secret FEMA morgues. I don't think any amount of solid data gathered by even the best-intentioned, conscientious, and skeptical scientists would change the minds of people like that.
That said, no-one should accept gov't data for anything without seeking independent confirmation. One of the few positive developments to come out of the Fukushima accident (oops, sorry, US sneak attack...or was it MOSSAD?) is the rise of citizens' groups measuring radiation, gathering health statistics, measuring food etc.. This has never happened in Japan before, and rarely happens elsewhere on this scale. Add to this the non-cooperation of scientists like Hayano and Tsubokura, who ignore university and gov't requests not to publicize their findings, and we have an unprecedented network of watchdogs ready to nail the gov't and TEPCO for every deception. Unprecedented, and very effective, but not omniscient.
If independent measurements confirm gov't numbers, like they generally do so far with radiation levels and doses, does that mean the citizens' groups shouldn't be believed? Hardly. It means the independent groups are keeping the gov't honest. Does that mean we should then automatically accept the gov'ts interpretations and proposals, whether regarding evacuation or restarting reactors, without a much more transparent debate? No way.
Like Ed said several posts ago, there's room for legitimate debate about all of the findings. I hoped that people would bring data to the discussion, which everyone could look at and criticize by using other data. That doesn't seem to be happening.
Azby
Pure Red Herring
HAARPOON Lampoon
That HARP crapola is a clumsy attempt to discredit scrutiny of the Fukushima Man-Made-Disaster.
Red Herring and discredit by association with zany conspiratorial association.
The Present Reality of Honshu Island Japan is unthinkable and undeniable.
Thus attention MUST be diverted from REALITY
Hand Waving Arguments with an unfunny joke
Don't be droll
Droll Troll,
Don't be absurd.
The Fukushima Death Toll should be accurately measured.
But ultimately that will be decided by the Japanese.
Wishful thinking and blatant lies will not lessen the death toll.
Nor will absurdity increase the number, now destined to die.
It is not a funny subject, for most human beings.
Party Line
The nuclear power industry 'party lines' are:
"Only a few pounds of fallout occurred"
"Reactor-3 was not a nuclear explosion"
"Nobody got ARS"
"Nobody will get cancer"
"It is all in your head"
"Things are already much better"
"This could not happen in the USA"
Virtually NOBODY worldwide is falling for this cheap BS, but lots of money is being spent in these deceptive efforts. All the above are blatant lies, but that's their story and they're stickin to it.
Nuclear Power Party Line
I found this on
I found this on physicsforums.com.
Frankly the info on the maps does not square with Hayano's statement or his measurements at all IMO
Or am I wrong??
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/c...3_0518.pdf.pdf Shikoku helicopter map
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/c...03_0608Kin.pdf Kinki region helicopter map
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/c...4/203_0615.pdf Chugoku region helicopter map
How would maps of western
How would maps of western Japan relate to what Professor Hayano was saying?
All those areas were under detection limits.
You did not copy the links correctly, by the way, you can check them in English here: http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/list/241/list-1.html
What those maps show...
The maps you refer to show air and ground contamination levels as measured by aerial survey. Dr Hayano's measurements are of people's internal contamination done with a whole-body counter (WBC). It's like the difference between sticking a thermometer outside to check the temperature in your yard and sticking one in your mouth to check your own. Your own temperature doesn't usually correlate very well with the temperature outside; how closely people's internal contamination will correlate with the radioactivity in their environment is one of the questions Hayano and Tsubokura are helping answer.
There are several methods of estimating internal exposure based on environmental measurements like these maps, all of them very rough, and everyone is forced to use these kinds of estimates until actual WBC tests can be performed.
Azby
more analysis, less name calling
There is a legitimate debate to be had about the interpretation of Dr. Hayano's data. But the critics here aren't even responding to the data, they are attacking Hayano's motives. This rhetorical tactic, all too common in the nuclear debate, makes reasoned argument very difficult. We need far more research. Those who question Hayano's data ought to be encouraging more studies, not trying to knock down the too-few researchers who are actually working in the field in Fukushima.--Ed M. Koziaraski, http://uncannyterrain.com
Unworthy
Rejected --- out of hand
The methods, capabilities, motives and/or conclusions of Hayano, appear to be entirely spurious and unworthy of any serious comment.
Don't pee on my shoes and say it is a cloudburst.
Next
more analysis, less name calling
There is a legitimate debate to be had about the interpretation of Dr. Hayano's data. But the critics here aren't even responding to the data, they are attacking Hayano's motives. This rhetorical tactic, all too common in the nuclear debate, makes reasoned argument very difficult. We need far more research. Those who question Hayano's data ought to be encouraging more studies, not trying to knock down the too-few researchers who are actually working in the field in Fukushima.--Ed M. Koziaraski, http://uncannyterrain.com
Ann Coulter
Rubbish
The hormesis hucksterism of Ann Coulter and this Hayano 'horsechit' represent the lowest ebb of cynicism, and misanthropism on the world scene today.
In My Humble Opinion
Lessons Not Learned From Fukushima
July 6, 2012
Pacifica Radio Host Ian Masters and Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen:
Lessons Not Learned From Fukushima Daiichi
http://fairewinds.org/node/386
Ryugo Hayano
Ryugo Hayano is a known as a pro-nuclear scientist, belonging to the pro-nuclear institution, Tokyo University.
At this point, it is safe to assume that anybody trying to keep people in contaminated areas in Fukushima has different interests than people's well-beings.
http://www.par-anoia.net/innodata/fd/Takashi_Imai_As_March_11_nears.pdf
“Without recovery of Fukushima, there is no future for nuclear power in
Japan” – this is the commitment of the nuclear industry. We will devote
ourselves entirely to restoration of municipalities around the station and to
decommissioning the reactors.
Hayano's report
Hi. I'm the one who wrote this report. You mischaracterize Dr Hayano by calling him "pro-nuclear," or characterizing Tokyo University itself as "pro-nuclear." The efforts of Dr Hayano, Dr Tsubokura, and others from Tokyo Univ. who have been helping volunteer groups measure radiation and provide health services to people in need have been heroic. Dr Hayano himself paid from his own pocket to measure school lunches in Minamisoma. His work has brought him into conflict with the gov't and also with the university. In addition, he is an excellent scientist.
Before jumping to conclusions and accusation please reflect on what Dr Hayano and his colleagues have done: they have measured the internal contamination of 25,000 people from highly contaminated areas. They've done it carefully and consistently, and remeasured people more than once. Others here have suggested we prefer the opinions of Helen Caldicott or Chris Busby, but they have had minimal contact with affected populations, if any, and certainly have not gathered their own data. Dr Hayano's data, which was done in close collaboration with Dr Masaharu Tsubokura, is good. So what should we conclude from it?
--In 1964 the average Japanese adult had 10-15Bq/kg internal contamination from nuclear testing. Based on careful measurements done between Sept 2011 and April of this year, less than 5% of the people of Minamisoma have more than this. Put another way, 95% of the people measured in Fukushima have less internal radiation than EVERYONE in Japan did in 1964. The average now is about 7Bq/kg, or roughly half of what everyone in Japan had in the 1960's (and most of the northern hemisphere for that matter). Was that good for the people of the 1960's? Not necessarily, but we have not witnessed a big jump in cancer rates or other diseases since then, and nothing we can attribute directly to this fallout. But I applaud the efforts of researchers who are still combing that data to see if any health effects from that period have been overlooked.
---In Belarus, between 2001-2006 (15-20 years after the Chernobyl) the LOWEST average internal contamination was 50Bq/kg and above. In Fukushima so far, only 0.2% of the people measured have more than 50Bq/kg, and the highest is only slightly above 50Bq/kg. So the worst we have found in Fukushima 1 year later is roughly equal to the best in Belarus 20 years later. While the worst ground contamination in Fukushima is as bad as the worst in Chernobyl, the population has so far escaped serious internal contamination. Dr Hayano points out that we have been lucky. We have been. It could have been much worse.
We cannot be so certain about what people breathed and ingested last year, especially in March and April 2011. We can try to estimate, but 1 year later the contrast with people affected by Chernobyl is striking.
The internal doses of these people will be very slight. This is only because the food monitoring efforts have actually been effective. People's doses will stay small only if food monitoring continues to be effective in coming decades. Part of the reason the food monitoring efforts have become effective is because so many independent groups --CRMS included-- have arisen to provide alternative sources of information. At this point, the gov't cannot hide contamination in the air or on the ground, nor in food. Too many of us are conducting our own measurement programs.
Last year we would have been justified in expecting the population of Fukushima to suffer high levels of internal contamination. We didn't have data to show otherwise, and there were too many scenarios of exposure that could lead to very bad consequences. Now we have extremely reliable data that shows what is actually in people's bodies. Don't take anything on faith, look at the data yourself. Dr Hayano's slides are here; a paper will be released soon:
http://www.slideshare.net/safecast/temple-u-20120703
Dr Tsubokura is interviewed here:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/opinion/AJ201205160066
and quoted here:
http://www.fukushima311watchdogs.org/share.php?partager=1370
These guys are white hats. They deserve massive kudos. If what they have found contradicts anyone's received wisdom, it's the received wisdom that needs to be re-evaluated.
Azby Brown
Nuclear University's have a stake in the industry.true or false?
Azby,
Easy question does this report take into account the iodine 131 thyroid exposure?
Thanks tdm
I-131
tdm: Easy answer: No, it doesn't.
I-131 has a half life of 8 days, and so any contamination was gone from people's bodies by around May. It took until late last summer to get these WBC surveys started. So unfortunately these surveys can tell us nothing about people's I-131. However, there are many efforts underway to extrapolate and estimate the doses. In particular, teams of doctors from Nagasaki arrived in the area around March 13 and stayed several days during the peak I-131 exposure. On their return to Nagasaki they were measured with WBC. By reconstructing their movements etc it will be possible to get a better idea of people's I-131 doses, but it will never be more than an estimate.
However, Sir Dillwyn Williams, who along with Keith Baverstock uncovered the thyroid excesses after Chernobyl (major white hats, both of them) after examining the available data pointed out that in Chernobyl children were iodine-deficient to begin with, and the gov't took no measures to prevent them drinking iodine-contaminated milk. The result was the thousands of thyroid cancers Williams and Baverstock found. By contrast in Japan the diet is very rich in iodine (from seaweed, etc), and Fukushima milk was banned on March 21. We should not expect to see large numbers of thyroid illnesses like we did in Chernobyl.
Azby
Abby,Thanks for reply.
I am sure you have read this story as it seems directly related to the "internal contamination ".I would venture these researchers need to try a bit harder to find the evacuees that this article refers to the public got the short end of the pertanent data and were evacuating to hot areas .
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/world/asia/japan-did-not-use-us-radiat...
"TOKYO — The United States shared detailed radiation measurements with Japan in the early days of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that the Japanese government did not make public or use in conducting evacuations, officials acknowledged on Tuesday.
Lacking information about the direction of airborne particles, some evacuees fled, unknowingly, into the path of the radioactive plume. Others stayed for more than a month in areas with high radiation, because they lay beyond the government-imposed 12-mile evacuation zone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/world/asia/japan-did-not-use-us-radiat...
I-131 dose estimates
Yes, this is a big story and one of the most egregious examples of how incompetence and lack of preparation on the part of the gov't and TEPCO -- the fact that they believed their own propaganda -- put people in greater risk. There have been quite a few extensive surveys done in which people were asked to reconstruct their movements, but the fact is that so many people evacuated and are now so far-flung that it is hard to locate them. If someone is concerned about their doses, however, it is not hard to find testing.
That said, it will still only be possible to estimate these people's I-131 doses. It's too late to measure them directly. WHO released a report in May in which doses of all types were estimated for various populations (this is the one Dr. Hayano and others have criticized for intentionally over-estimating people's doses). There's quite a lot in it about reconstructing I-131 doses from known data:
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/fukushima_dose_assessment...
Azby
Study finds lifetime thyroid doses of radiation in Children
Azby there was some measurment of thyroid doses early on .intresting independent study . At this point no one should trust any data the Japanese goverment or tepco releases . ..tdm
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207110058
"Children in Fukushima Prefecture likely received thyroid gland doses of internal radiation, despite earlier government assurances that the levels of such doses were zero, according to an independent study.
The estimated lifetime radiation doses among the children are still low, but they do exist, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) said at an international symposium in Chiba Prefecture on July 10.
The findings run counter to the government’s assertion that they effectively received zero thyroid gland doses.
However, the government has no plans to notify the children’s parents of the latest analysis results, citing their large error margins and the fear of causing anxiety.
"Researchers derived them for scientific purposes," a government source said. "We have no plan, now or in the future, to notify individuals of their doses."
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207110058
Thyroid dose estimates
(Cross posted)
The data you refer to comes from a paper Toshikazu Suzuki presented at the NIRS symposium held on July 10. I wish I could have attended:
http://www.nirs.go.jp/information/event/2012/07_10/HP_0704-2.pdf
There were several related papers presented, the first solid estimates we have of thyroid doses, and I am keeping my eyes open for the actual papers or powerpoints to be released. If anyone spots them please post links.
I think this is one of them:
Thyroid doses for evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear accident (Hosoda et al)
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120712/srep00507/full/srep00507.html#/f2
The numbers reported in the Asahi and elsewhere for Suzuki's study of 1080 children 16 and under (12mSv average, 42mSv maximum) fit fairly well with those reported in Hosoda's, which measured 62 people aged 0 to 83; they estimated a median thyroid equivalent dose of 4.2 mSv for children and 3.5 mSv for adults, and maximums of 23 mSv for children and 33 mSv for adults. They contrast this with the mean thyroid dose for Chernobyl evacuees of 490 mSv.
In Belarus, according to this OECD report (which is backed up by most of the independent studies I've seen), " ...children in the Gomel region of Belarus appear to have received the highest thyroid doses with a range from negligible levels up to 40 Gy and an average close to 1 Gy for children aged 0 to 7. "
In other words, 0 to 40 sieverts (40,000 mSv) range and 1000 mSv average. So the maximum thyroid dose for Fukushima children as indicated by Suzuki's study is about 1/100th Gomel's, and the average is about 1/80th.
Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impact 2002 Update of Chernobyl: Ten Years On
http://www.oecd-nea.org/rp/chernobyl/c04.html
The gov't deserves to be hammered for how they handled the initial data and botched the KI distribution, and I am extremely annoyed that it's taken this long for these studies to see the light. But assuming this data is reliable, and taking into account the stoppage of Fukushima milk sales from March 21-June 8 and the iodine-rich diet, we should see far fewer thyroid diseases than we did after Chernnobyl. It would be a miracle if there were none at all, of course, and it's important to continue monitoring these children for thyroid issues. But I think this gives us a realistic indication of the scale of the problem.
Some other helpful Chernobyl thyroid studies for comparison:
Chernobyl Accident: Revision of individual thyroid dose estimates for the children included in the cohort of the Belarusian-American Study
http://www.irpa.net/irpa10/cdrom/00697.pdf
Chernobyl Accident: Assessment of the collective thyroid dose for the Belarusian population
http://www.irpa.net/irpa10/cdrom/00700.pdf
Azby
Aerial Gamma & Neutron Storm
How about the aerial radiation storm Gamma & Neutron exposures?
There were reportedly some VERY NASTY radioisotopes over Honshu Island for several days.
Very nasty indeed!
Part of the reason the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Group beat a hasty retreat, if memory serves.
Know when to Run!
The New Normal
Nasty
The Japanese population on Honshu Island has been force-fed a crappie-sandwich. Their bodies, wind, air, rain, farmland, oceans, groundwater, homes, schools, temples, shrines, genome, cars ... etc ... are contaminated with some of the vilest poisons and toxins known to man.
Then these lying POS(s) periodically pop-up, to further add to their misery, by telling them:
"There is nothing wrong "
"It is all in their head"
OR (my favorite ghoulish lie)
"It is MUCH BETTER now
Well: There is a LOT wrong, It is not psychological or attitudinal, and it won't be much better in 150 years.
The Japanese people were deliberately endangered, evacuated into harm's way, denied decontamination, denied life-saving drugs, denied dosage evaluation, denied clean shelter, clean food, clean air and clean water. They are consequently 'hot', 'dirty' and diseased.
Japan, welcome to the 'New Normal'!
That was an excellent report.
That was an excellent report. I appreciate it a lot.
It really pulls the rug out from under the hysterics!
I am concerned about the contamination, however as it
will inevitably be taken in by food crops. work needs to be
done on finding effective ways to sequester the contamination.
I had already heard about his finding the CRMS reading error.
I am glad it is finally becoming public. Unfortunately the lunatics
will not accept truth that runs counter to their paranoid fantasies.
Laughable
Hah Hah Hah
No, STOP, you are killing me ...
Well to be more accurate, it is the Japanese and their Ancestral home that have been and are being killed.
The Japanese may not see the humor in your little jokes and these pseudo-scientific frauds. Perhaps they will express their displeasure in a fitting Japanese fashion.
Now, that retribution WILL be funny, IMHO. I shall be ROTFLMAO. But hey, I have a great capacity to see the humor in a wide variety of circumstances. I even enjoy some of the more humorous episodes of the Spanish Inquisition. Bring it on!
Lights, Camera ... Action
Agenda Based 'Science'
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Yeah, Um Hum, you-betcha
Clean as a whistle
Right
ignorance, arrogance, collusion & concealment
This 'report' appears to be more of the same: ignorance, arrogance, collusion & concealment; IMHO. It is merely one more betrayal of "the nation's right to be safe from nuclear accidents.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/07/panel-slams-tokyo-gove...
Japan leaders, utility slammed for 'man-made' nuclear disaster
July 5, 2012 | 11:45 am
An independent parliamentary commission accused the Japanese government and the nation's leading utility of "collusion" in avoiding vital nuclear safety improvements that would have prevented the reactor meltdowns last year at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima complex.
In its report based on 900 hours of testimony, the Japanese Diet's 10-member investigative panel accused government and industry leaders of having “betrayed the nation's right to be safe from nuclear accidents.”
...
Japanese nuclear regulators with the Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency colluded with Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. in willfully ignoring necessary safety upgrades, the report stated.
“Across the board, the commission found ignorance and arrogance unforgivable for anyone or any organization that deals with nuclear power,” the report said.
Medical Implications of Fukushima
Do NOT eat Japanese food!
The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age
Posted on April 21, 2012 by Helen Caldicott On 19 April, Dr. Caldicott gave a presentation at the University of Wisconsin.
The presentation is now live and available for viewing online in the university’s Video Library.
The video runs for 57 minutes.
http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=39682
Another recent radio interview ...
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2012/07/RIR-120703.php
Perjury among 'scientists'
Regarding pseudoscientific lying
Japan Fukushima: Dr Chris Busby クリスバズビー at Matsudo Chamber of Commerce, Chiba on July 18, 2011クリスバズビー博士講演会 ○ 松戸商工会館
http://www.wat.tv/video/japan-fukushima-dr-chris-busby-3wtpt_31wod_.html
Seriously, Busby is suspect
Seriously, Busby is suspect himself. This is an old story, but worth noting-
http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/11/24/christopher-busby-sells-useless-ove...
I am anti-nuke, but I reckon Busby to be a real charlatan.
sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure you are 'anti-nuke'
Oh, right ... yeah that
Every grocery store in town has an aisle or two filled with all those products.
So, are Safeway, A&P, Walgreens also ... 'SUSPECT'.
I don't go for that herbal remedy garbage, but it is no big deal.
The Russian Chernobyl literature had some suggestions; which may have some benefits to the contaminated Honshu Island population.
Very little of that herbal junk and 'special food' will cause any actual harm, beyond to the pocketbook.
Oh, yeah ... that Busby dude is ... really suspect ... NOT!
So it's OK to price-gouge
So it's OK to price-gouge terrified people? He is selling supplements and services for very high prices to folks who are scared as hell. That's wrong in my book.
BC 7/8/12
Girl Scout Cookies sell 'Over Market'
Fund Raisers
Some charitable foundations RAISE MONEY by selling 'over-priced' stuff. So what?
People pay a lot of cash for a calf, lamb, pig, chicken raised by FFA kids. So what? Wouild you like to put the kids and/or sponsors in jail? Are you mortified?
People will sometimes pay big bucks to dine at the White House or with some movie star; or even local talent.
The Girl Scouts sell cookies at ‘Over Market’ pricing. Oh my, are you offended?
Some people, (including me), pay full price for movies and music, when we could get them for little or nothing. But ethics +/- morality are NOT defined by copyright law; so I don't personally care who robs Hollywood/Nashville/Disney. I am not 'offended' either way; are you?
It is NOT a tax, like the $2T in 'ObamaCare' or the involuntary robbing of the US Treasury/Federal Reserve/Taxpayer by all those Wall Street Bailouts.
But YOU, snicker are 'outraged' that some RICH Japanese are buying at the 'Busby Store'. I could care less, if they do or don't. The Japanese are a particularly well educated and wealthy society. But YOU are 'mortified'. My, how pious (priggish) you are.
Actually, YOU are quite the joke, in My Book!
Tell us MORE
Do tell!
Tell us MORE about how anti-nuke you are. Give us some detail. Who, what, where, when & how?
Amen, SISTER ... TESTIFY!
Waiting on pins and needles
You have our undivided, rapt ... attention