Radiation in Japan: Nosebleed, Diarrhea, Lack of Energy in Children in Koriyama City, Fukushima
Once a malicious "baseless rumor" on the net, now it is written up in a regional newspaper with readership in Tokyo and Kanto area.
Tokyo Shinbun (paper edition only, 6/16/2011) reports that many children in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, 50 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, are suffering inexplicable nosebleed, diarrhea, and lack of energy since the nuke plant accident.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-nosebleed-diarrhea...
same effects at Three Mile Island
Dear non-believer - your cynicism is frightening and with seeming lack of compassion. It is fine to say you would just leave - if you had the resources and capability and what if you didnt - then what.
If you read the transcripts on public record from the mothers attending public meetings with govt officials after Three Mile Island. Their children were suffering from nose bleeds, throwing up and everything else described above. It is an outrage - this lack of truth and lack of information - usually tied to protecting someone's economic interests.
I doubt you are a parent.So imagine that if you have something that you loved the most in the world, even more than yourself, that you would gladly give your life so that they could have theirs is harmed in such a way to cause a tremendous amount of pain and suffering and that you have to sit there and watch that suffering and watch what you love die.
That is what is happening to all - that is what we are witnessing. This is what we say can never happen here. Bulls---.
The article only mentions
The article only mentions two kids having nosebleeds in the town of Koriyama, though. No mention of diarrhea or lack of energy within the article itself (though the newspaper included it in the headline for some reason). And no throwing up mentioned anywhere.
this is a translation
I have seen a couple of translations with roughly the same stuff but mentions the other symptoms.
Do you have a link to those
Do you have a link to those translations?
Additional points about Koriyama
Again, I'm not trying to down play the story. But, I do hope the story isn't true. And I've been trying to get some idea of just how serious this issue is. But, I haven't been able to find anything that gives me a better idea of what's going on over there.
I'm trying to determine at least 3 things:
1. If there is an increase in any of the symptoms mentioned in the article.
2. If there is some other potential cause for these symptoms.
3. If there is an increase, how wide spread geographically these symptoms being seen.
A few things to keep in mind about Koriyama and the situation in general that complicate determining what's going on there:
1. Koriyama proper has a population of approx. 340,000. I don't know about the surrounding area. So, 50 families going into the clinic (let's just assume 4 members in each family) , is 0.06% of the population. That's including the parents, which were not mentioned in the article as having these symptoms. And, of all the children brought to the clinic, we still don't know if all had any of the symptoms mentioned. As mentioned above, all the article covered is one mother saying her two children had nose bleeds.
2. Koriyama has a evacuation center. So, some of the families going to the clinic may not have been from Koriyama. They could have been from areas much closer to the nuclear plant.
3. The health conditions in the evacuation centers has been reported as poor. At least initially. It was also reported that there was a dramatic increase in the percentage of the evacuation center residents seeking medical attention. So, some children exhibiting the symptoms may be due to their living conditions. Here is a WHO article discussing the potential for this.
Just some things to keep in mind before automatically attributing these symptoms to radiation sickness or radiation sickness of the actual Koriyama residents. The article simply doesn't give enough information for us to come to any conclusions. Even the physician from "The Bridge to Chernobyl" wouldn't attribute their symptoms to radiation sickness.
Yes
Yes, I agree, please do not listen to VB and original poster.
It seems they just want to downplay, this is a serious issue. Ho hum, perhaps they need to join the TEPCO anti-slander brigade. Or wake up and review some of the pictures of the children of Chenobyl.
BTW how would they feel if it were their children in that Japanese prefecture ?
Don't listen?
I honestly don't know what I said that you would recommend not listening to. You shouldn't confuse validating information and putting it into perspective as downplaying it. If you read all of my posts on this thread, you'll see that all I'm doing is asking questions and comparing it with the data available. I prefer to not believe everything I read and panic. That's a recipe for bad decisions.
And yes, I've seen the horrible pictures of the Chernobyl children. But, before assuming every child within 100 miles of the Fukushima plant (or farther) will suffer the same fate, a little analysis is needed.
A simple example of keeping things in perspective. I was recently at Lake Champlain in Vermont. The area has experienced flooding due to snow melt and heavy rains. The lake level rose a number of feet above "full". If I didn't give it any thought and just ran with the word "flood", I could easily believe that it was as bad as the Pakistan flood in 2010. Which left hundreds of thousands homeless and killed an estimated 1600 people. In reality, it's obviously not anywhere near that bad. But, I sure could have paniced and made bad decisions without sufficient information.
And how would I feel if it were my children in that Japanese prefecture? I'd leave if at all possible. Just to be safe. Just as apparently 10% of that one schools pupils have done. But, that has nothing to do with the accuracy of the article.
don't listen VB
Okay VB. So then how much more information do you need to validate the children's symptoms ? Nose bleeds were common from the start with Fukushima. Busby states on his website, (llrc.org) that people were emailing him from Japan about nose bleeds and sores in their noses. I am not aware of nosebleeds being a symptom of allergies, but common sense tells me that radioactive particles can do serious damage to the mucous membranes of a human being, especially a baby or young child whose body mass is smaller and whose immune systems are still developing, and children's noses are only a few feet from the ground.
Personally, and sadly enough I trust these reports are accurate and more like these will emerge. Frankly if a full grown woman has radioactive breast milk, then I don't see how a small child would not have radioactivity in their bodies as well and the beautiful thing we call the "NOSE" is where it all comes in, the lovely Fukushima air that is.
I understand what you are saying
But, I'd really like more than emails to Busby and an article from a publication that I can't read and have never heard of. Is that asking too much?
And I do fear that false information does a lot of damage. When a real situation actually does happen (and I'm NOT saying this situation isn't real), any prior false information helps delay and minimize the response.
And I did say that, if I were there, I'd leave. That's how seriously I consider the situation.
You know what, we would all
You know what, we would all like more than that too. But the media refuses to cover this issue and the government of Japan is intimidating journalists who try to cover it. Unfortunately, reports like these may be all we have. I too WISH WISH WISH that we had a government and a media that was truly interested in feretting out the truth and doing some investigative work here. Everyone seems to want to look the other way.
I just love how the naysayers and the corporate shills always say "this just isn't believable because it's not in the mainstream press" Do you know how many important things going on in the world are NOT in the mainstream press? Do you also notice how many useless and unimportant things are obsessively covered by said press?
Please note
I did not say "this just isn't believable because it's not in the mainstream press". I just said that there isn't enough information for me to know if it's true or not. And yes, I too am disgusted with the mainstream press. But, in the end, I have two choices. Believe everything I read, or try to find out more. I prefer the latter. And, with what little information I do have, I've at least begun some investigation to determine the reality of the situation. Have you? Or are you just going to run with it?
Thinking for yourself does not make you a naysayer or corporate shill.
Do keep in mind that Lake
Do keep in mind that Lake Champlain itself is grossly polluted.
I'll keep that in mind
Good thing I didn't go for a swim or drink the water :-)
But, seriously, just about all the large US lakes have some serious pollution issues. And don't even get me started on the SF bay.
Such a shame. The natives
Such a shame. The natives before us were much better evolved.
I am the original poster and
I am the original poster and I think you are missing the sarcasm of the first line (which came from the blog, not me). I hate what TEPCO and this corrupt industry are doing to all the children of the world, even the increase in unnecessary CT scans in children is terrible! Downplaying the risks, especially in Japan is criminal.
I have never made excuses for them and (to quote Samuel L Jackson) "I hope they burn in hell".
What's happeing to chidren
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The photo of the page from this blog site, in Japanese.
http://c3plamo.slyip.com/blog/archives/2011/06/post_2102.html
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-nosebleed-diarrhea...
Quick translation of the article:
What's happening to children in Koriyama City in Fukushima right now? Nosebleed, diarrhea, lack of energy - "Effect of radiation unknown" says the doctor
Report by Ao Ideta, Tokyo Shinbun, June 16, 2011
On June 12, a non-profit organization called "The Bridge to Chernobyl" (?????????????) held a free clinic in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, 50 kilometers [west] from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
Worried about the effect of radiation exposure, 50 families brought their children to see the doctor.
A 39-year-old mother of two told the doctor that her 6-year-old daughter had nosebleed everyday for 3 weeks in April. For 1 week, the daughter bled copiously from both nostrils. The mother said their doctor told her it was just a seasonal allergy from pollen. Her other child, 2-year-old son, had nosebleed from end of April to May.
The pediatrician from The Bridge to Chernobyl, Yurika Hashimoto, told the mother it was hard to determine whether the nosebleed was the result of radiation exposure, but they should have the blood test done for white blood cells. It was important to keep record, the doctor advised.
The family move out temporarily from Koriyama City to Saitama Prefecture after the March 11 earthquake, but came back to Koriyama at the end of March.
The mother said about 10% of pupils at the elementary school have left Koriyama. Each school in Koriyama decides whether to have the pupils drink local milk that the school provide, which tends to concentrate radioactive materials. In her daughter's school, it is up to the parents to decide. But the mother said she let the daughter drink milk with other children because the daughter didn't want to get excluded by other children for not drinking milk with them.
A 40-year-old father of a 4-month-old baby daughter was so worried that he never let the daughter go outside, even though she didn't exhibit any ill effect of radiation so far. He said, "I'm so worried. I don't know how to defend ourselves."
I [the reporter of the story] used the radiation monitoring device over the low bush near the place where this event was being held. It measured 2.33 microsieverts/hour. As I raised the device higher, the radiation level went down to 1 microsievert/hour. The highest air radiation measured in Koriyama City was 8.26 microsieverts/hour on March 15. Since middle of May, it has been about 1.3 microsievert/hour.
If you live one year in a place with 1.3 microsievert/hour radiation, the cumulative radiation will exceed 11 millisieverts. [And that's only the external exposure.]
A 40-year-old mother with a 6-year-old son was angry, and said "Doctors, researchers, they all say different things. I don't understand how the evacuation areas are determined. Take Iitate-mura, for example. They just let the villagers get exposed to high radiation for a month, and when the air radiation level got lower they told them to move out. We can't trust the national government, we can't trust Fukushima prefectural government." Her family just built a new house, and she was not sure how they could survive economically if they moved. If they moved, when would they be able to come back? What about cost of moving, or the psychological effect on her child? She just couldn't decide what to do.
Now that all the nasty ARS info is out there
I'm trying to put this into perspective to see if these children should even be capable of having ARS symptoms.
1 Gy = 1 Sv
It was big news when two workers at Fukushima that were exposed to 226.6 -240.8 millisieverts. The stated maximum for the Fukushima workers is 250 millisieverts. Now it's been reported that 6 workers have exceeded that maximum limit. According to the ARS info posted here, you would need 4 times the maximum to get beyond the subclinical phase (<1Gy) and into the sub-syndromes, which start at 1Gy. Does it seem possible that children at any distance from the plant are getting a high enough dose to exceed 1Gy?
Clever Lad
As a mathematical exercise, let us:
ASSUME that half the children in the village HAVE ARS,
ASSUME, the exposures have occurred,
and work the calculations backwards to the environmental conditions
You know, like PRE-Algebra
Commutative, Associative, Distributive, Density & Identity properties
That should not be too difficult for a clever lad that can handle quantum physics. Perhaps the inverse square law will be helpful as we move a radiation source from 1 meter away to 1 micron from a target human cell in bone, blood or thyroid. That is 6 ORDERS of magnitude. The cellular dosage to the cell is multiplied by 12 ORDERS of magnitude (1 million X 1 million). The result is a multipication factor of 1 Trillion for internal exposures versus external exposures.
NEUTRONS
If memory serves the Fukushima core meltdowns created quite a significant airburst radiation storm on or about March 15.
Those flying neutrons can INDUCE radioactivity in the trace elements in a human body.
Cover a lie, with a lie
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Say, didn't the residents try to evacuate NW?
And didn't the wind shift from the prevailing direction, toward the NW?
Koriyama is WNW of the nuclear plant
Don't know which lies you are referring to.
From the deposition maps provided by MEXT/US DOE, Koriyama was in the lowest range (<300,000 Bq/M2). Which at least gives the impression that they are not even concerned about levels below that.
The MEXT/US DOE air does rate map has Koriyama at 1.0-1.9 ?Sv/hr, which is the next to lowest range.
Both are as of 4/29.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/05/10...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koriyama_in_Fukushima_Prefecture_Ja.svg
The heavy deposition and air was E to NNE of Koriyama. Which was MUCH higher levels. I would expect reports from those areas way before hearing this type of news coming from Koriyama.
Wiring around the Gate Keepers
:)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/16/985938/-eSci:-Unsafe-Radiation-...
Science Magazine reports that Japanese scientists have become so concerned about the health of their children that they have initiated their own radiation monitoring program and made their own maps. The results are shocking.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/332/6036/1368
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1368.full.pdf
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1368.full
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6036/1368.summary
Parents in Tokyo's Koto Ward enlisted the help of Tomoya Yamauchi, a radiation physicist at Kobe University, to measure radiation in their neighborhood. Local government officials later joined the act, ordering radiation checks of schoolyards and other public places and posting the results on their Web sites. An anonymous volunteer recently plotted the available 6300 data points on a map. And Yukio Hayakawa, a volcanologist at Gunma University, turned that plot into a radiation contour map.
It shows one wide belt of radiation reaching 225 kilometers south from the stricken reactors to Tokyo and another extending to the southwest. Within those belts are localized hot spots, including an oval that encloses northeast Tokyo and Kashiwa and neighboring cities in Chiba Prefecture.
Radiation in this zone is 0.4 microsieverts per hour, or about 3.5 millisieverts per year. That is a fraction of the radiation found throughout much of Fukushima Prefecture, which surrounds the nuclear power plant. But it is still 10 times background levels and even above the 1-millisievert-per-year limit for ordinary citizens set by Japanese law. The health effects of such low doses are not clear and are passionately debated. But it is known that children are more susceptible to radiation than adults, and few parents want to take chances with a child's health. Besides, “The law should be observed,” Yamauchi says. Kyo Kageura, an information scientist at the University of Tokyo, says there should be a public discussion of the issue, “based on a scrupulous presentation of the data, including to what extent the 1-millisievert limit can be achieved.”
A map of citizen measured radiation levels shows radioactivity is distributed in a complex pattern reflecting the mountainous terrain and the shifting winds across a broad area of Japan north of Tokyo which is in the center of the of bottom of the map.
http://www.nnistar.com/gmap/fukushima.html
Radiation limits begin to be exceeded at just above 0.1 microsieverts/ hour blue. Red is about fifty times the civilian radiation limit at 5.0 microsieverts/hour. Because children are much more sensitive than adults, these results are a great concern for parents of young children in potentially affected areas.
:)
Good information!!!
Thanks for providing the link to the map of citizen measured radiation levels. It provides more detail than the MEXT/US DOE maps.
I do realize we are talking about children here. And, belive me, I don't take that lightly at all. But, I'm just trying to make some sense of the numbers. It's the only way we will learn from this horrible experience.
So, looking at the area immediately around Koriyama, it looks like the highest measurement was at one spot at in the 2.5-3.0 uSv/h range. Around half a dozen are 1.5-2.0 uSv/h and the majority are <1.0uSv/h (hard to distinguish the different shades of green). If someone else sees it differently, feel free to point it out.
BRAWM team (or anyone), help me out with my numbers here:
If I'm calculating it correctly, 3.0 uSv/h is a 26.3 mSv/year rate. Or 26.3 times the stated annual legal limit. At that rate, you would reach the legal limit of 1 mSv in approx. 14 days. At approx. 90 days at that highest rate, exposure would be at approx. 6.48 mSv. Which is appox 39 times below the 1Gy/1Sv level where apparently symptoms should start showing up. At least in adults. I have no idea where we should expect symtoms in children.
At this highest rate, it would take approx. 4 years to reach the old maximum exposure for nuclear plant workers of 100 mSv . And approx. 10 years to reach the increased maximum level of 250 mSv.
All but one measurement shown in the map are well below that 3.0 uSv/hr rate. So, the majority of the accumulated dosages would also be well below what I've calculated. Of course, THESE ARE THE MEASUREMENTS ON THAT DAY. I don't know what the peak measurements in the area were over the last 90 days. And I also don't know the accuracy of the "citizen measurements".
Debunker fail.
Debunker fail.
Differential diagnosis
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I do NOT know that ARS is a proper diagnosis for these kids. I can PROMISE that ARS belongs in the differential diagnosis, to be 'ruled out' or 'ruled in' as the evidence may lead.
I simply hold the opinion that the doomed are owed an explanation.
That allows them time to 'make peace with their maker'.
Or prepare to meet their ancesters, as the case may be.
Yeah ... RIGHT
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Those dosage figures would be from TEPCO?
TEPCO has not been very forthcoming, to date.
The TEPCO dosage info is actually irrelevant
I only mentioned the TEPCO worker reports in light of the stated figures being alarming. If they are alarming for exceeding the limit for the plant workers *in the plant*, I'm wondering how children 50km (31 miles) away exceeded that limit.
You are wondering that
You are wondering that because you are clearly dense and obviously can not figure out the most likely scenario. The Fukushima 50 are long gone and you will never hear a report in the interest of National Security. Are you REALLY this stupid/naive?
How many children working at
How many children working at the plant?
Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
ARS and Dose
The Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) is an acute illness that varies in onset from a few hours to weeks. The illness typically follows a pattern of prodromal signs/symptoms, a latent period, and a period of manifest illness, followed by recovery or death. Each phase varies in length relative to the radiation dose received. Organ/tissue involvement is related to various radiation dose thresholds as described in Table 3.
Prodromal signs and symptoms of high-level radiation exposure include anorexia, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, and mild fever. Conjunctivitis, if the radiation dose is near the eyes, and possible skin erythema may also be encountered due to the skin entrance dose that oftentimes accompanies large acute whole body exposures.
The ARS includes a subclinical phase (< 1 Gy) and three sub-syndromes resulting from whole-body irradiation or irradiation to a significant fraction of the body. The clinical syndromes that result from radiation exposure occur within a predictable range of doses after whole-body or significant partial-body exposure. These thresholds can be used to approximate the radiation dose based on the patient’s signs/symptoms. Below are general thresholds associated with various radiation dose thresholds.
• Hematopoietic syndrome (> 1 Gy),
• GI syndrome (> 6-8 Gy), and
• Cardiovascular/CNS syndrome (> 20 Gy).
Hematopoietic Syndrome
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Hematopoietic Syndrome
Because of their rapid cell turnover, the progenitor cells in the bone marrow are among the most radiation-sensitive cells in people. The mature lymphocytes are also very sensitive to the effects of ionizing radiation due to their large nuclei. The threshold for hematopoietic syndrome is considered to be > 1 Gy, but it is not until greater than 2 Gy that clinically significant hematologic-related illness likely develops.
The clinical manifestations will typically occur over the next few weeks following the event. This is because the mitotically active hematopoietic progenitors are unable to divide after a whole-body exposure > 2-3 Gy. At doses beyond the 2-3 Gy range, involvement of various organs can significantly complicate patient management. Lymphopenia, followed by diminution of other blood elements, allows bleeding and infection, thus leading to increased morbidity and mortality.
The need for hematologic support may be prolonged and include blood products, hematopoietic growth factors, and antibiotics. Keep in mind that combined injuries – acute radiation illness in the presence of physical trauma such as burns and/or wounds – exhibit a synergistic relationship between the radiation dose and the trauma. Concomitant physical injuries complicate treatment of ARS and can lead to prolonged recovery time and increased mortality. Conversely, ARS patients with burns and/or wounds often suffer from poor wound healing, bleeding, and infection because of hematopoietic suppression.
Radiation GI Syndrome
http://orise.orau.gov/files/reacts/medical-aspects-of-radiation-incident...
THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF RADIATION INCIDENTS
Gastrointestinal Syndrome
Although relatively mild, GI symptoms may be experienced around 6 Gy. In the dose range beginning around 8 Gy the GI syndrome becomes more symptomatic with onset of severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The time to onset of signs/symptoms is dose related, with a more rapid onset indicating a higher dose.
Additional clinical issues with the gastro-intestinal syndrome can include significant fluid and electrolyte shifts, malabsorption of nutrients, GI bleeding, and sepsis from loss of integrity of the crypt cells of the intestinal villi. Once there is depletion of the epithelial cells lining the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract, bacteria can gain free access to the body, often serving as the impetus for gram-negative sepsis. In addition, there can be significant hemorrhage through the denuded areas. Although death from radiation illnesses in the 8 Gy range have historically occurred within several weeks of the incident, the survival period can be extended considerably with state-of-the-art intensive care.
Although not associated with the GI syndrome, it is worth noting that penetrating radiation doses to the torso in the 6-8 Gy range – and higher – will likely have adverse affects on the pulmonary system.
The Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site
REAC/TS
PO Box 117, MS-39
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
(865)576-3131
That would be bad ...
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High levels of exposure cause severe radiation sickness with symptoms including fatigue, nausea and vomiting, hair loss, hemorrhage and diarrhea.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/219034.php
Fetuses and children are the most vulnerable groups.
The severity of medical symptoms from radiation exposure depend on two things: the strength of the radiation, and the duration of the exposure.
High levels of exposure cause severe radiation sickness with symptoms including fatigue, nausea and vomiting, hair loss, hemorrhage and diarrhea.
Very high doses eventually lead to death, which can occur up to several weeks later. Brenner said this is usually as a result of the lining of the gut being depleted.
However, the most likely risk to the public from what is happening in Japan, according to the current view from experts, which is highly dependent on the information being released by the Japanese authorities, is that of low-level exposure.
This can increase the risk of cancer many years later, but it depends on what types of radioactive materials people are exposed to and for how long. Some materials, like tritium, pass quickly through the body, while others travel to a particular part of the body and linger.
Would like to know how many children
While it says "many" children, the article doesn't give any numbers. One mother that says her kids had nosebleeds and two others that are worried doesn't make an epidemic. The only number the article gives is "about 10% of pupils at the elementary school have left Koriyama". Which is not an indicatr of how many of them were suffering the symptoms mentioned. Even the doctors sited in the article are not saying that it was the radiation.
Including the pediatrician from "The Bridge to Chernobyl". I do agree with their recommendations to get a blood test though. Even if it is only to keep a record of it.
I really wish we could get some solid health information from that area.
"Worried about the effect of
"Worried about the effect of radiation exposure, 50 families brought their children to see the doctor."
At least 50?
They may be too late
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/archive/news/2011/06/20110616p2g00m0fe10...
(Mainichi Japan) June 16, 2011
Japanese mothers, many with little previous political involvement, have taken to the streets and urged the government to step up measures to protect their children from radiation since the March 11 disaster that crippled a Fukushima nuclear power plant. Frustrated by what they see as insufficient information from the government, Japanese mothers have formed groups via Facebook, Twitter and blogs to share knowledge and data about radiation.
Many women say the government-set radiation dose limit for children at schools in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 millisieverts a year, is too high. Having seen the designated limit draw controversy among experts, mothers urge that the government lower the maximum level and ensure a safer environment for children.
A group of four women in Tokyo launched a multilingual website -- Moms to Save Children from Radiation -- posting messages from the mothers in Fukushima and those evacuated from there, as well as a statement calling for a lower exposure threshold for children in Japanese, English and Korean.
Messages on the Moms to Save Children from Radiation have triggered reactions not just in Japan but overseas. A couple in Malaysia -- Belgian Marc Huysmans, 51, and Malaysian Kow Yoon Ching, 54 -- reacted to accounts on the website. They are offering their home for any Japanese family with children in need, free of charge.
Yumiko Iijima, one of the founders of the website, said, "The idea of protecting children is universal." She said the group has received responses every day from around seven countries since the website's launch in early May.
The US evacuations of
The US evacuations of military dependents and non-essential personnel
And the > 50 Mile evacuation radius
Still seems reasonable
That's how many brought their children
I'd like to know how many actually had those symptoms. There's a high probability that some children didn't have any symptoms. But, their parents just wanted their children checked out. I would.
I also don't know if the children that did have the symptoms had all three or some subset of those. "Lack of energy" is a very general symptom that could be caused by almost anything. As could be either of the other two individually. Now if all 50 (or a large percentage of them) had all 3 symptoms, that would be very worrisome.
Signs and Symptoms of ARS
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How many flights from San Francisco to Washington DC would it take for Japanese children to manefest the signs and symptoms of Acute Radiation Sickness?
Neutron Calculations
How many neutrons would it take to induce radiation in every trace element in each cell of a 50 pound child?
How many cross country flights would it take to 'catch' that many neutrons?
How fast, relativistically would these neutrons need to travel to 'heat up' the iron in human red blood cells?
Same question with respect to the calcium in human bones?
Assume a SPHERICAL child
Let us assume that the child's intake altitude for food, water and air is a constant 1 meter above ground level.
This assumption will provide ease of data correlation, and mathematical model simplicity, while ignoring Futon bed height is about 1/3 that height and that children play on the floor.
This is the so called 'Spherical Chicken Assumption'.
Lucky Dragon
:(
Perhaps the Koriyama City team mascot is ‘The Lucky Dragon’.
:(
VB doesn't know
That's right VB you don't know how many, do you, and your statement of 'high probability' is inconsequential because it's nothing but blind conjecture. You also don't know if all 3 were present, do you. You just don't know jack, do you. But you're still ready to try to debunk the article without knowing anything whatsoever just like the original poster; shameful!
Blundering Liars
“Newspapers and television shouldn’t say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s safe. You don’t need to run away,’ like Japan’s have.”
http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/tell-me-about-it/david-mcneill-whos-tell...
One of the more striking aspects of the local media coverage of Fukushima was the missing word -- “meltdown.” It seemed reasonable to speculate, from March 11-15, that this is precisely what happened. One reason was the repeated news of cesium dispersed in the atmosphere on March 12.
We might also cite the example of MOX fuel and plutonium, a substance so toxic “that a teaspoon-sized cube of it would suffice to kill 10 million people,” in Reactor 3 at Fukushima.
Newspaper and TV reports in Japan essentially banished the words from their reports. MOX is also used in the Hamaoka nuclear plant, which, until Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered it shut last month was largely unknown to ordinary Japanese citizens.
Japanese magazines, however, have been the most critical, unrestrained and informed publications in the world since March. “Shukan Shincho” calls the TEPCO management ‘war criminals’. “Shukan Gendai” dubbed professor Sekimura and pro-nuclear scientists “tonchinkan” -- roughly, “blundering.”
Haruki Madarame is now widely called “Detarame” Haruki, meaning he’s a liar or a bullshitter. But shouldn’t newspapers and TV news, the public’s watchdog, be timely and up to date?
How Many Sick Children?
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How many Japanese children are exhibiting signs and symptoms of acute radiation sickness?
How Many Children
How many Japanese children are suffering from ARS?