Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
"Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed," he said, "You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively."
..."The data I'm seeing shows that we are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man's-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor. You can't clean all this up. We still have radioactive wild boar in Germany, 30 years after Chernobyl."
"We are discovering hot particles everywhere in Japan, even in Tokyo," he said. "Scientists are finding these everywhere. Over the last 90 days these hot particles have continued to fall and are being deposited in high concentrations. A lot of people are picking these up in car engine air filters."
Radioactive air filters from cars in Fukushima prefecture and Tokyo are now common, and Gundersen says his sources are finding radioactive air filters in the greater Seattle area of the US as well.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638...
Questions in the air
Have any car air filters from Seattle been submitted to a known lab for analysis? They are now apparently common. So, shouldn't be hard to get one. And it would be good to get this officially recorded.
Gundersen has also said that he's received email about people with a metal taste in their mouth. Has he recommended they see a doctor? If not to help them, at least to get this on record and quiet any critics. He's apparently well connected. So, I assume he could recommend a doctor knowledgable in this area.
Yes, things are bad.
Yes, generally true from what has been reported. But, since Arnie has not set foot in Japan since the crisis, guess what, he can't know more than the rest of us long-time BRAWM readers do.
And every single one of us breathes in hot particles of radon every day. Bonus points if you have granite countertops in your kitchen.
Sorry to be cranky.
Radon and granite are
Radon and granite are natural in the human environment, stressors for which the human body is adapted. This is not the case with radioactive fission products.
Good luck.
Nonsense
If we are so adapted, why is this:
"How many people develop lung cancer because of exposure to radon?
Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of lung cancer. Radon represents a far smaller risk for this disease, but it is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Scientists estimate that approximately 15,000 to 22,000 lung cancer deaths per year are related to radon."
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/radon