Why is it that Fukushima and fallout risk/data is not on any nationatal news on TV?

http://www.vancourier.com/news/Japan+nightmare+progress+overshadowed+med...

Most of the USA fluoridates its citizenry. What do you think that does to critical thinking capabilities?

There is no need to be so judgmental and insensitive about it. We all wake up at different points in time. The older and more indoctrinated you are, the more it takes to wake you up. But we are all in this together and we are all vulnerable and fallible.

Arnie called this mess from the beginning. He told everyone that this was Chernobyl on steroids. The science doesn't lie. The science has been there this whole time. Two months for Tepco to admit it, and I suspect only because an outside 18-person I.A.E.A. team, which includes experts from the United States, China, Britain and Russia, where to inspect the site today. Of Course, no worrying about what the US, China, and Britain might say, but no controlling those Russians that might just spill the beans... so, we better confess... bet there is so much more to come...

>R1 is about to go out of control as well

What's the data you are using to reach that conclusion?

RIGHT ON!!! I needed to read this today. Your comment reminds me that I am not alone in this. I was feeling down especially about the state of the fourth estate. The Soviet style media system we live under today in the United States of America is dangerous and keeps me up at night. It's like living under a dam with no electricity.

Think cumulatively. Japan's officials first say they'll be working on sealing up the radioactive leaks for the next nine months, but came back a few days later saying they couldn't say for sure if they could do it in that timespan. Then somehow they must have gotten enlightening info as they say that it will be cleaned up by July. Maybe they meant 2012? How long will this go on? How many other incidents will it take to reduce the length and quality of our lives. I'm almost 60 years old and have lived most of my life already, so if I only live twenty more years that would be acceptable, but my kids are only in their twenties. For them and all the next generation to only get twenty more years then face painful sickness and possible poverty from being bilked by our medical system would be tragic. In that time we could get deadly sunflares or other natural disasters to create leaks and explosion and fires that send more of this toxic invisible stuff deep into our environment and shorten the lives of us all. If the American natives thought seven generations ahead, what would they be thinking now?

Many of us have been fighting it for decades trying to tell people we can do it differently by conservation and sustainable fuels. But oil interests have had the most resistance to it so it keeps the value up on their prize that keeps making them richer. No end to it in sight. Too much corruption and too many uneducated and disinterested people.
So much potential bottled up in distraction.

Virtually everything justifies scientific concern, especially that which does harm to the lifeforms on this planet. The fallout from the Fukushima disaster falls firmly in the later category, as it is currently and will for many years to come do harm to humans (both inside and outside of Japan, including here in the United States) and other forms of life. Even if ZERO fallout blew over to the US, US citizens would be exposed to it due to the global supply chain.

In order to understand the risk posed by exposure to radionuclides, one must know exactly which radionuclides are present and in what quantities/forms and exactly where the concentrations are and how exposures will manifest themselves. Spot testing of just a few radionuclides and the disregarding of others is not adequate. Much of the actual exposures will occur well after the event due to the time it takes to grow crops on the contaminated soil and use those crop products in food stuffs. Thus there is a very significant amount of analysis that SHOULD be done by the scientific community. There are dozens of radionuclides that should be tested for and not tens or hundreds but THOUSANDS of samples that should be taken across the country and in very many places and of very many things. This has not been done. This is not being done. This will not be done. Not because it is unwarranted but because of fundamental shortcomings in our government, industry, scientific community, news media, and citizenry.

If one considers the threat from radionuclides (in general, or even in general plus those from Fukushima) to be minimal than I strongly encourage them to disregard the issue and if they so desire try to maximize their exposure in pursuit of the mythical hormesis effect. Those that recognize that there is a threat that is not receiving proper attention have hopefully taken appropriate steps and will recognize that those they have been programmed to turn to for information and help are in fact their greatest enemy.

Jeff is doing an exceptional job reporting on these complex issues on his Forbes Magazine Blog and he has called out UCBerkeley info in particular as very worthwhile ( a few of us from here post in the comments there where there is some lively deabte and some exceptional info)

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/14/why-does-fda-tolerate-mor...

check out his other blog entries on this subject: it rocks!

The reality is that people who are intelligent and who care are following this in the alternative media and are getting more and more informed.

But I have to say this forum has been one of the very best things on the internet in terms of access to data and information and intelligent analysis and debate.

I heartily agree that it is the internet which must be the primary source of news and as long as the folks at BRAWM are willing to tolerate all the abuse they take at times and the off the wall commenters etc, they will REMAIN as the go to site for info which will be invaluable to researchers, epidemiologists and the general public for as long as they keep this site going. Not only that but I believe it will encourage people to learn more and actually try to get into programs like this at UCBerkeley so that the tests the public needs done will get done (when the government either fails to do it or is unwilling to do it).

Thanks are due the BRAWM team for BEING the most reliable media most of us can find for hard data, if perhaps the only current and relevent data.

Oh BS. You know thats BS.

Its because there is nothing we can do to stop it and they don't want everyone freaking out. So instead of telling us what we could have done to at least minimally protect ourselves, our families they assed us out period to avoid a "panic".

Also as a "courtesy" to Japan and the nuclear community.

More?

I know, the silence in mainstream media is deafening! The Internet and my own local observations are the most telling (ie:shelves overloaded with milk and dairy products with more frequent raids on non-dairy milk substitutes such as almond milk, seafood not selling and raids on frozen and canned foods!)

Sometimes thoughtful discussion occurs as in the example here with physicist Michio Kaku whose relatives have already evacuated from Tokyo by choice since they most certainly have received his professional evaluation of the reality of the situation. Radionuclide contamination has been found in Japan's tap water too so their leaving makes an indicting statement on the situation. If I knew how I would coordinate an airlift with willing families throughout the US to relocate the Japanese people most affected.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/no-japans-nuclear-reactors-are-not-stable (once you get to the site, scroll down to see the actual interview on Democracy Now.)

No, Japan's Nuclear Reactors Are Not "Stable"
Submitted by George Washington on 04/13/2011 15:33 -0400

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The Japanese government and Tepco claim that the nuclear reactors are "stable" and that radiation releases have subsided to low levels.

But world renowned physicist Michio Kaku - who studied under atom bomb developer Edward Teller - told Democracy Now today:

Tokyo Electric has been in denial, trying to downplay the full impact of this nuclear accident. However, there’s a formula, a mathematical formula, by which you can determine what level this accident is. This accident has already released something on the order of 50,000 trillion becquerels of radiation. You do the math. That puts it right smack in the middle of a level 7 nuclear accident. Still, less than Chernobyl. However, radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors. The situation is not stable at all. So, you’re looking at basically a ticking time bomb. It appears stable, but the slightest disturbance—a secondary earthquake, a pipe break, evacuation of the crew at Fukushima—could set off a full-scale meltdown at three nuclear power stations, far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl.

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When the utility says that things are stable, it’s only stable in the sense that you’re dangling from a cliff hanging by your fingernails. And as the time goes by, each fingernail starts to crack. That’s the situation now.

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TEPCO is like the little Dutch boy. All of a sudden we have cracks in the dike. You put a finger here, you put a finger there. And all of a sudden, new leaks start to occur, and they’re overwhelmed.

I suggest that they be removed from leadership entirely and be put as consultants. An international team of top physicists and engineers should take over

-Off my menu: All Seafood! Why? because the oceans have become the prime military and industrial sewer and the last thing I want is to inadvertently ingest enough nuclear material to invite some horrific terminal disease such as leukemia, lymphoma,lung,breast or other cancers known to be more common since 1946...