Wiring around the Gate Keepers
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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.”
Bill Duff
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Radiation Map Fukushima
Hi, dear acientists from Berkley University!
Surely I respect your site, it's one which did not join in the deadly silence and downplaying Fukushima of the global nuclear want-to-build-more-power-plants scientific community. But I surely would like some of you to give me your take on the first new radiation Fukushima map http://www.nnistar.com/gmap/fukushima
that deserves the name. Oh you are shoulder clapping that japanese scientists who had to do the job against the declared policy of their own government (not to publish disturbing i.e.true figures)privately financed and unpaid, which is off course a great thing. But sorry, why did not one of you guys with all that resources and access to the thousands of collected DOE data now after three months even think to do the job? If I don't get an answer, is it you all went quiet out off SHAME?
here here!
here here!
thanks, but wipe the smiley off!
it isn't funny :[
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really appreciate you posting this
http://www.nippon-sekai.com/m
http://www.nippon-sekai.com/main/articles/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-powe...
Excellent reading and links thank you Bill Duff
Thank you for posting this
Citizen RAD-MAP
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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.
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2 ORDERS of Magnitude
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
Declassified documents of that time issued by Soviet Union/Ukraine governmental commissions in regard to the first decade after 1986 contain data on a number of people who were hospitalized with acute radiation sickness. The number is greater by two orders of magnitude than was recently quoted in official documents. How can we understand this difference in calculating the numbers of individuals who are ill as a result of irradiation? It is groundless to think that the doctors’ diagnoses were universally wrong. Many knew in the first 10-day period after the meltdown that diseases of the nasopharynx were widespread. We do not know the quantity or dose of hot particles that settled in the nasopharyngeal epithelium to cause this syndrome. They were probably higher than the accepted figures.
http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d...
NEW YORK—“Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” Volume 1181 of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, published online in November 2009, was authored by Alexey V. Yablokov, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexey V. Nesterenko, of the Institute of Radiation Safety (Belarus), and the late Prof. Vassily B. Nesterenko, former director of the Belarussian Nuclear Center. With a foreword by the Chairman of the Ukranian National Commission on Radiation Protection, Dimitro M. Grodzinsky, the 327-page volume is an English translation of a 2007 publication by the same authors. The earlier volume, “Chernobyl,” published in Russian, presented an analysis of the scientific literature, including more than 1,000 titles and more than 5,000 printed and Internet publications mainly in Slavic languages, on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
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Sounds familiar
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2.1. Difficulties in Obtaining Objective Data on the Catastrophe’s Impact
1. The official secrecy that the USSR imposed on Chernobyl’s public health data in the first days after the meltdown, which continued for more than 3 years—until May 23, 1989, when the ban was lifted. During those 3 years an unknown number of people died from early leukosis. Secrecy was the norm not only in the USSR, but in other countries as well, including France, Great Britain, and even the United States. After the explosion, France’s official Service Central de Protection Contre les Radiations Ionisantes (SCPRI) denied that the radioactive cloud had passed over France (CRIIRAD, 2002) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture failed to disclose that dangerous levels of Chernobyl radionuclides had been found in imported foods in 1987 and 1988. The first public announcement of these contaminations was not made until 8 years later (RADNET, 2008, Sect. 6 and Sect. 9, part 4).
2. The USSR’s official irreversible and intentional falsification of medical statistics for the first 3.5 years after the catastrophe.
3. The lack of authentic medical statistics in the USSR and after its disintegration in 1991, as well as in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, including health data for hundreds of thousands of people who left the contaminated territories.
4. The expressed desire of national and international official organizations and the nuclear industry to minimize the consequences of the catastrophe.
The more things change...
The more things change...
Interesting
Interesting