I DID AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF READING AFTER SEEING THAT MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS BLAMING ALGAE BLOOM ON ALL THE BILLIONS OF DEAD SEA CREATURES IN THE PACIFIC, AND AFTER SEEING THE STUDIES WHICH I WILL SHARE POINT OUT THAT ALGAE CAN, HAS AND DOES FAIRLY EXPLODE IN GROWTH IN HIGHLY RADIATED WATERS.
A COLLEGE FRESHMAN SCIENCE STUDENT IS AWARE THAT RADIATION ENHANCES GROWTH RATE IN MANY (MOST?) ALGAE AND BACTERIA.
THAT THESE STUDIES SHOW THAT SHOULD BE PART OF THESE RECENT "CALMING" MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARTICLES THAT HOPE TO PUT ALL THE BLAME FOR MASSIVE DIE-OFFS OF AT LEAST 140 SPECIES ON THAT "HUGE, TOXIC ALGAE BLOOM".
IT'S TOXIC ALRIGHT...RADIOACTIVELY SO!
THIS WILL BE LENGTHY AND PROBABLY QUITE BORING TO MANY, BUT IF YOU VALUE HUMAN LIFE, MAYBE YOU CAN VALUE WHAT THESE STUDIES SHOW US ARE THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGERS TO HUMAN LIFE BY MEANS OF "LOW LEVELS" OF IONIZING RADIATION.
I WAS SURPRISED, AT SOME OF WHAT I LEARNED.
FIRST, THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE REPORT...
REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF IONIZING RADIATIONS, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, WASHINGTON DC, NOVEMBER 1972.
[NOTE: The report in book form is titled "Effects on Populations of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation" and is available for about $3 on most sites that sell such, like Amazon.]
FOREWORD
PREFACE
"IT HAS BECOME APPARENT THAT THESE CURRENT CONCEPTS OF RADIATION PROTECTION MAY NOT BE ADEQUATE IN A FUTURE AGE OF LARGE-SCALE USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.
IN THIS REPORT IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE FOR US TO DEAL WITH CRITICAL INTERACTING FACTORS SUCH AS SOCIO-ECONOMICS, ENERGY NEEDS, AND COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF OTHER TOXICOLOGICAL AGENTS; NOR HAVE WE ATTEMPTED TO EXPLORE IN DETAIL TECHNOLOGICAL MATTERS SUCH AS SUSTAINED ENGINEERING PERFORMANCE OF POWER REACTORS, LARGE-SCALE WASTE DISPOSAL, OR THE PROBLEM OF CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENTS."
[PLEASE BE AWARE: THIS REPORT CAME FROM A REQUEST IN 1970 BY THE FEDERAL RADIATION COUNCIL (NOW THE RADIATION OFFICE OF THE EPA) FOR AN EVALUATION OF RADIATION PROTECTION GUIDES OF THAT DAY.
IN THE NOTICE BEFORE THE PREFACE, IT IS CLEARLY STATED THAT THE NRC (NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, NOT THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY BUNCH) HAD TO APPROVE THIS REPORT. ]
CHAPTER IV, ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT AND EFFECTS OF RADIONUCLIDES
PAGE 22
"... (c) INTERACTIONS MAY BE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE AND PRACTICALLY NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT THEM: (d) WITH A FEW NOTABLE EXCEPTIONS, THERE ARE FEW DATA ON RADIATION EFFECTS ON VARIOUS SPECIES, ESPECIALLY ON GENETIC EFFECTS. "
[THE AUTHORS GO ON TO BEMOAN THE FACT THAT SAMPLING PROCEDURES ARE INADEQUATE, NEED TO BE IMPROVED.
THEY SPECIFICALLY MENTION THAT MEASUREMENTS OF RADIATION IN THE TROPOSPHERE AND STRATOSPHERE ON A GLOBAL SCALE ARE LACKING.]
ON PAGE 25, THE AUTHORS DISCUSS 'VERY LOW-LEVEL' RADIATION EFFECTS ON SALMON REPRODUCTION AND NOTE THAT
"ABNORMALITIES IN YOUNG FISH WAS INCREASED".
IT FAILS TO LIST THOSE ABNORMALITIES, WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT USE TO US TODAY, AFTER FUKUSHIMA.
EFFECTS ON FISH EGGS WAS NOTICED BY WORKERS AT COMPARATIVELY "LOW LEVELS".
STRONTIUM90 LEVELS WERE HIGHEST.
THEY MENTION THAT USING CURRENT LEVELS, AS OPPOSED TO USING A "TIME CURVE" IS A MISTAKE, AND SUGGEST USING A TIME CURVE INSTEAD, AS RADIATION BIO-ACCUMULATES OVER TIME, SOMETHING WE ALL KNOW NOW.
THEY ALSO ADDRESS THE FACT THAT EACH BIOLOGICAL ORGANISM RESPONDS TO RADIATION DIFFERENTLY, SOMETHING MOST FAIL TO MENTION WHEN WRITING ABOUT HOW "SAFE" THE "SMALL DOSES" OF RADIATION ARE.
"LETHAL RESPONSE TO ACUTE RADIATION VARIES AMONG ORGANISMS BECAUSE OF PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES..."
THE SAME IS TRUE OF VARIATION WITHIN THE HUMAN POPULATION!
IF ONE IS VERY YOUNG OR ELDERLY, IF ONE ALREADY HAS A COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEM, IF ONE CONSUMES MORE POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED OR MORE HIGHLY CONTAMINATED FOODS, WHAT'S "OUT THERE" CAN PROVE LETHAL IN EXTREMELY VARIABLE WAYS AND IN VARYING AMOUNTS OF TIME!
SAYING THERE IS "X AMOUNT" OF RADIATION IN A POND, FOR EXAMPLE, DOES NOT TELL US MUCH FOR THE LONG TERM, NOR DOES IT ADDRESS AMOUNTS OF HUMAN-CONSUMED FISH FROM THAT POND OVER TIME.
PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THIS STATEMENT THE SCIENTISTS MADE:
"BACTERIA AND ALGAE MAY TOLERATE THOUSANDS OF ROENTGENS."
[The roentgen is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays up to several MeV.
It is a measure of the ionization produced in air by X-rays or gamma radiation and it is used because air ionization can be measured directly. ]
THEY THEN GO ON TO SAY THAT LEVELS AS LOW AS 16R SHOWED TO BE A LETHAL DOSE TO RAINBOW TROUT EGGS.
THEY THEN MENTION HOW FEW MARINE SPECIES THERE WERE ON WHICH RADIATION DATA EXISTED, SAYING IT WAS MAINLY ONLY SIX SPECIES OF FISH THAT HAD BEEN STUDIED.
THE AUTHORS THEN MAKE THE SURPRISING STATEMENT THAT
THERE WAS CURRENTLY NO DATA AVAILABLE TO THEM ON LOW-LEVEL RADIATION EFFECTS ON HUMANS, ONLY HIGH-LEVEL EFFECTS! (PAGE 26).
ON PAGE 27, WE'RE GIVEN A FEW OF THE MOST RADIOACTIVE SITES IN AMERICA AT THAT TIME, THE OLD NEVADA 'PROVING GROUNDS', AND THEN, NOT SURPRISING TO ME, AN AREA IN WASHINGTON STATE...WHERE THE HANFORD FACILITY CONTINUALLY LEAKS AND WAS ALREADY LEAKING BACK THEN (BOTH INTENTIONALLY AND UNINTENTIONALLY).
THE REPORT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT NEAR EVERY NUCLEAR FACILITY, AIR, SOIL AND WATER CONTAMINATION ARE A GIVEN.
THEY KNEW THAT THEN, AND THEY KNOW THAT NOW.
ON PAGE 28 THEY EVEN MENTION SOME OF THE LEVELS FOUND IN RIVERS AND SOIL NEAR HANFORD.
THEY ADMIT THAT GROUNDWATER UNDER THE HANFORD SITE HAD MOVED INTO AND CONTAMINATED THE COLUMBIA RIVER ALREADY, IN 1972.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THE STUDY MENTIONS CONTAMINANTS OTHER THAN CESIUM AND STRONTIUM, THE TWO WHICH OUR MEDIA FIXATE ON.
MAINSTREAM TALKING HEADS RARELY MENTION OTHER RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES.
TRITIUM, BARIUM, TECHNETIUM, RUTHENIUM, IODIDE, AMERICIUM, ETC, DO GET MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE 1972 STUDY.
ALSO, UNLIKE TODAY'S "STUDIES" AND MEDIA REPORTS, THE 1972 STUDY KEEPS MENTIONING HOW ALL THIS CHANGES WHERE THERE IS HIGH LEVEL WASTE WATER DISPOSAL, OR WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN ACCIDENTS INVOLVING RELEASE OF RADIOACTIVITY INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.
WHY DON'T WE HEAR ABOUT THAT WHEN WE SEE ARTICLES ON THE CURRENT CRISIS FROM FUKUSHIMA, WHERE THERE IS BOTH HIGH LEVELS OF WASTE WATER BEING DUMPED INTO THE PACIFIC EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS, AND AN ONGOING, NEVER-ENDING ACCIDENT?
ONGOING, CONSTANT CONTAMINATION OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS, IN HIGH QUANTITIES WAS NEVER EXPECTED NOR "STUDIED" BECAUSE NO ONE EVER IMAGINED WE'D SEE THE LIKES OF THAT DAIICHI FACILITY!
THEY SUGGEST USING BRAZIL NUTS TO MONITOR FOR ALPHA EMITTING NUCLIDES, AS WELL AS LICHENS IN THE ARCTIC/SUB-ARCTIC AREAS.
HAS OUR GOVERNMENT OR JAPAN'S TESTED ANY BRAZIL NUTS OR LICHENS?
THE STUDY SUMMARIZES THAT THE MAJOR CONTAMINANT PATHWAY N HUMANS IS THROUGH WHAT WE INGEST, STATING THAT RESIDENTS IN FLORIDA, AT THAT TIME, HAD CESIUM137 LEVELS 2 TO 3 TIMES HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY FROM BOTH MEAT AND MILK, THAT COLORADO'S MULE DEER HAD MANY RADIONUCLIDES IN THEIR LIVERS THAT WERE AT 5 TO 13 TIMES HIGHER THAN LEVELS FOUND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE NATION.
ARCTIC REGIONS REPORTED LEVELS OF RADIATION 5 TO 10 TIMES HIGHER IN ANIMALS THAT FED MOSTLY ON LICHENS THAN FOOD ANIMALS ANYWHERE ELSE AT THAT TIME.
THE SCIENTISTS IN 1972 WARNED THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED WHEN ANY RADIATION IS RELEASED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT:
(a) HOW MUCH, WHERE, AND WHAT TYPE.
(b) HOW EACH TYPE MOVES THROUGH THE ENVIRONMENT.
(C) WHERE NATURAL CONCENTRATIONS OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS ARE.
(d) HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ANY OF THESE TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH HUMANS.
(e) HOW DOES EACH AFFECT THE ENVIRONMENT
(f) HOW CAN SUCH INFORMATION HELP BUILD AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM.
CHAPTER V DISCUSSES GENETIC EFFECTS AND I WON'T STRESS YOU WITH THAT VERY BAD NEWS, BUT DO READ IT SOMETIMES?
SO LITTLE RADIATION IS REQUIRED TO START A HORRIFIC CHAIN REACTION IN HUMAN DNA THAT I WONDER WHY THEY DIDN'T JUST SAY, "ONCE IT'S INSIDE YOU, YOU ARE SO SCREWED!"
ONE GOOD THING COMES OUT OF CHAPTER V AND THAT IS THE SUGGESTION THAT HUMANS SHOULD NOT PLAN ON HAVING CHILDREN AFTER EXPOSURE TO RADIATION UNTIL BOTH THE FEMALE OVA AND MALE SPERM HAVE HAD TIME TO RECOVER FROM THE INITIAL DAMAGE, AND THAT WAITING MEANS FEWER BIRTH DEFECTS OR RISKS OF THYROID DAMAGE OR STERILITY TO A DEVELOPING FETUS.
I WISH OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA WOULD PUT THAT OUT THERE TO THE PUBLIC!
MUCH SUFFERING OF BOTH PARENTS AND OFFSPRING MIGHT BE AVOIDED IF PEOPLE ONLY KNEW THIS!
THE SAME CHAPTER POINTS TO THE FACT THAT WE THEN KNEW THAT NUMEROUS "SMALL" GENETIC DEFECTS OCCURRED FROM VERY LOW DOSES OF RADIATION, WHICH WERE OFTEN OVERLOOKED IN SOME REPORTS.
IT DOES STATE THAT SOME OF THESE "SMALL" CHANGES AND ABERRATIONS ARE ALMOST INVISIBLE, BUT DO OCCUR 10 TIMES MORE FREQUENTLY THAN LETHAL ONES AND MUST BE ADDRESSED.
AT THE TIME THIS WAS PUBLISHED THERE WERE ALMOST 1000 SUCH 'ABNORMALITIES' KNOWN TO SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, 415 OF WHICH WERE VIEWED AS "COMMON"!
THEY ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 1% OF AMERICA'S POPULATION WERE BEING BORN WITH SUCH ABNORMALITIES AND DEFECTS!
CAN WE TELL OURSELVES THAT EVEN 1% IS ACCEPTABLE?
IF WE GO BY THAT, THOSE OLD NUMBERS, THEN WE MIGHT SURMISE THAT 1% OF TODAY'S POPULATION, 3 MILLION HUMAN BEINGS, HAVE BEEN AFFECTED AND THAT'S JUST FINE?
3 MILLION!
HOW ABOUT 1 MILLION?
HOW ABOUT ONE, IF THAT ONE IS YOUR CHILD OR GRANDCHILD?
GENE MUTATIONS AND CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS THAT COULD BE PREVENTED CAN NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO A SANE SOCIETY!
BACK IN 1972, THERE WERE ALREADY 365 RECESSIVE MUTATIONS ON THE X CHROMOSOME, ALL OF WHICH CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
REMEMBER, THIS WAS BEFORE FUKUSHIMA AND EVEN BEFORE ALL OUR AMERICAN NUCLEAR PLANTS HAD COME ONLINE!
ON PAGE 48 OF CHAPTER V, WE CAN SEE THIS:
"THE LOW-DOSE SOMATIC EFFECTS [OF RADIATION] THAT ARE MOST FEARED ARE CANCER AND LEUKEMIA.
IN CONTRAST TO SOMATIC EFFECTS, WHERE THE CONCERN IS CONCENTRATED MAINLY ON MALIGNANT DISEASE, THE GENETIC EFFECTS ARE ON ALL KINDS OF CONDITIONS -- FOR THE SPECTRUM OF RADIATION-CAUSED GENETIC DISEASE IS ALMOST AS WIDE AS THE SPECTRUM FROM ALL OTHER CAUSES....
THE GENETICALLY SIGNIFICANT DOSE IS PROBABLY CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN THE 0.8 MREM IN THE [CURRENT] TABLE BECAUSE OF THE AGE DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE WHO ARE OCCUPATIONALLY EXPOSED."
" BY 1970, THE EXPOSURE WAS REDUCED TO 36 MREM PER YEAR, [BUT ] THE GENETICALLY SIGNIFICANT EXPOSURE FROM THERAPEUTIC RADIATION IS MUCH LESS, BEING ABOUT 5 MREM PER YEAR....
WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS FEASIBLE TO LOWER THIS EXPOSURE STILL MORE..."
WHY IS THAT SIGNIFICANT FOR US TODAY?
BECAUSE OUR "PROTECTORS" HERE AND IN JAPAN HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY RAISED THE LEVEL CONSIDERED "SAFE" ABOVE THAT 1972 KNOWN LEVEL THAT CREATED SUCH WIDESPREAD GENETIC DAMAGE IN A HUMAN BODY!
AND THERE IS TALK OF RAISING IT EVEN HIGHER!
COULD THE FACTS BE STATED MORE SIMPLY?
THEY KNEW OVER 40 YEARS AGO HOW DANGEROUS NUCLEAR POWER WOULD BE, HOW RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT EVEN AT THOSE 1972 LEVELS WAS ALREADY AFFECTING US, OTHER LIVING THINGS AND OUR ENVIRONMENT IN MANY DEADLY WAYS.
THE COLDEST, MOST CHILLING PART OF THIS DOCUMENT, FOR ME, WAS THE DISCUSSION OF 'ECONOMIC IMPACT' OF THE MUTATION RATE, OF HOW GENETIC AND OTHER RADIATION-CAUSED DISEASE WOULD AFFECT THE ECONOMY.
I HAD TO TAKE A BREAK THERE AND WALK AWAY FROM IT FOR AWHILE.
WHEN ANYONE PLACES A DOLLAR VALUE ON A HUMAN LIFE, I TEND TO GET EXTREMELY 'OVERWROUGHT'.
ALL THE MONEY FOUND ACROSS THIS PLANET WOULD NOT BEGIN TO REPLACE ONE HUMAN LIFE, NOT FOR ME!
WE KNOW THAT MANY DID DIE AND WILL DIE FROM THE DAIICHI FAILURE.
IF WE ASKED THOSE WHO MOURN THE LOST HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD MAKE THEIR DEATHS "OKAY", WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE WOULD BE THEIR ANSWER?
A TRILLION DOLLARS?
A BILLION TIMES THAT?
NO!
WE CAN'T PLACE DOLLAR VALUE ON HUMAN LIFE!
HOW ABSOLUTELY INSANE IS IT THEN TO SAY THAT THERE IS ANY BENEFIT TO NUCLEAR POWER, SINCE WE KNOW, AND HAVE KNOWN THAT PEOPLE WILL PERISH BECAUSE OF IT?
DAMNABLE NUCLEAR ENERGY ACCOUNTS FOR LESS THAN 10% OF OUR TOTAL ENERGY NEEDS WORLDWIDE, LESS THAN 20% HERE IN THE U.S., AND IS NO LONGER THE "CHEAP" ENERGY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE!
COULDN'T WE DO WITHOUT SUCH A HIGH-RISK SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY?
COULDN'T WE FIND CHEAPER AND SAFER WAYS TO POWER THE PLANET?
OF COURSE WE CAN!
GERMANY AND MANY SMALLER NATIONS ARE SHOWING US HOW EASY THAT WOULD BE!
SO WHY HOLD ON TO THIS LIFE-TAKING SOURCE OF ENERGY?
WHY KEEP USING SUCH A THING?
I CAN'T VAGUELY IMAGINE ONE VALID REASON WHY WE DO SO!
THE COST TO DECOMMISSION ALL OUR NUCLEAR FACILITIES MIGHT SEEM ENORMOUS TO THOSE WHO OWN THEM, BUT THOSE ARE THE VERY PEOPLE WHO PUT A DOLLAR VALUE ON HUMAN LIVES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
IF IT BANKRUPTS THEM TO CEASE AND DESIST, I DON'T GIVE A PERSONAL DAMN!
I JUST WANT TO SEE THAT SOURCE OF DEATH AND DISEASE GONE IN MY LIFETIME!
I DON'T WANT FUTURE GENERATIONS TO HAVE TO BE CONCERNED WITH YET ANOTHER "POSSIBLE EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT"!
THE NEXT BIT OF EXTENSIVE READING I DID WAS THIS:
Radioactivity and Pollution in the Nordic Seas and Arctic: Observations ...
By Olaf M. Johannessen, Vladimir A. Volkov, Lasse H. Pettersson, Helge Drange, Yongqi Gao, Vladimir S. Maderich, Ivan A. Neelov, Sven P. Nielsen, Leonid P. Bobylev, Andrey V. Stepanov, Mark J. Zheleznyak, Victor Tishkov
The rate of movement of the oceanic gyres determine how long radioactive pollutants affect sea life.
This book, near the end in its summation (Afterword, page 374), tells us that the slowing/weakening of the Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean was keeping radioactive readings higher.
This was expounded upon in Chapter 4 of the book.
Changes in temperature and the rate of ocean/atmospheric exchange also affects the radiation levels in specific bodies of water.
The book describes the far-reaching and LONG-LASTING effects of the radioactive pollution of rivers, even DECADES after reduction of nuclear wastewater dumping into them.
It also describes the ongoing effects on the Arctic Ocean of Russia's nuclear submarines and nuclear-powered out-of-commission icebreakers in the Russian fleet.
IF A FLEET OF SHIPS MEASURABLY AFFECTS RADIATION LEVELS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN, DOESN'T FUKUSHIMA'S MASSIVE DUMPING AND LEAKING AFFECT THE PACIFIC?
It tells us how the nuclear fuel reprocessing discharges from Sellafield in the U.K. and from Cap de la Hague in France have polluted the Arctic and that their effects continue to be MAJOR sources of radioactive contamination in the Arctic, how they follow the Atlantic Current to the Norwegian Sea and from there into the Barents Sea.
IF THOSE TWO MUCH SMALLER LEAKS THAN FUKUSHIMA'S MAKES ARE MAJOR SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION IN THE ARCTIC, WHAT MAY WE IMAGINE THE DAIICHI PLANT IS CAUSING?
The book reminds us that there is ALWAYS atmospheric contamination over radioactive bodies of water, something we seldom read inour mainstream media "news".
The accumulation in river and ocean sediment is addressed, explaining how radioactive decay is ongoing in the depths of any contaminated area of rivers or oceans.
Stirred up, the process merely changes, but does NOT go away, ESPECIALLY IF THE CONTAMINATION IS ONGOING.
We could call it a "vicious cycle".
In the tables provided in this book, several things stand out.
The most troubling, to me, was how much higher radiation levels were in fish, green and root vegetables, meats and grains than one might imagine.
I can understand the long-term buildup in the tissues of fish, but the fairly fast-growing, seed-to-harvest time of vegetables and grains would NOT, one would think, lead to higher levels of contamination by Cesium137 than even that found in fish.
But it does!
I was also surprised to see how much greater the levels of Strontium90 were in fish than in anything else, but strontium levels in MILK came close.
(SEE Appendix B, Table B.35 on page 370)
That radiation levels in SOIL were greater than in WATER also surprised me.
This applied to BOTH Cs137 AND Sr90!
We must keep in mind that bioaccumulation is a major factor in HOW contaminated any organism is IN ITS LIFETIME.
Each fish, each grain, and each HUMAN bioaccumulates toxins of all kinds, any kind, that is found in the food chain.
We must also keep in mind that humans live longer than fish or food animals or vegetables!
What we consume daily determines our bioaccumulation.
I hasten to point out that the Atomic Energy Commission INITIALLY admitted that NOT ONE radioactive particle INSIDE a HUMAN body is safe.
Once radiation enters an organism, it affects the DNA.
It also puts that organism on a path to diseases caused by radiation.
Mainstream media, again, keeps failing to address this.
Given a choice of produce grown on our WEST COAST (OR NEAR A NUCLEAR FACILITY) and produce grown where there is lesser chance of radiation being a factor, who would NOT choose the "safer levels"?
But, we seem to keep forgetting, THERE IS NO SAFE LEVEL OF RADIATION INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY, OR INSIDE THE LIVING TISSUE OF ANY ORGANISM!
WHAT ANYONE MAY GATHER FROM ALL THIS DATA IS THAT, SHOULD THE PUBLIC BE AWARE OF THESE LEVELS, ALL OF WHICH WERE MEASURED BEFORE THE GREATEST CONTAMINATION OF OUR BIOSPHERE IN HISTORY BY THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI FACILITY, THEN THE PUBLIC MIGHT
(A) NOT WANT FOODS RAISED IN HIGHER RADIATION LEVELS, CREATING ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE FOR FARMS AND RANCHES WHERE HIGHER EVELS OF RADIATION DO EXIST, AND
(B) SET UP A HOWL FOR CLOSING ALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES, ENDING "ATOMIC POWER", DECOMMISSIONING ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS, AND ENDING THE POSSIBILITY OF DEATH/DISEASE BY RADIATION ACROSS THE GLOBE.
IT WOULD ALSO SEEM THAT ALL PEOPLE OF EARTH WOULD DEMAND INDEPENDENT TESTING OF OUR DRINKING WATER, FOOD PRODUCTS, SOIL, AIR, RIVERS AND OCEANS.
THAT COULD CREATE ECONOMIC DISASTER FOR ALL FOOD PRODUCERS AND FISHERIES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IF WE TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO PROVE TO US WHAT LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES ARE IN ALL THAT WE CONSUME, WHAT THE DAY'S LEVELS ARE FOR RADIONUCLIDES IN SOIL, WATER, AIR, THEY WOULD SIMPLY REFUSE.
THEY ARE REFUSING TO TEST ANYTHING MUCH AT ALL RIGHT NOW!
AS CONSUMERS, WE ARE IGNORANT OF WHAT IS IN THE FOODS AND DRINKS WE BUY EVERY DAY.
WE HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED TO CONSUME WITHOUT QUESTION.
WE HAVE BEEN TOLD WE CAN TRUST THE PRODUCERS AND OUR GOVERNMENT.
THEY LIED!
MANY KNEW THEY WERE LYING DECADES AGO, BUT THEIR VOICES WERE DROWNED OUT BY CRIES OF "FEAR MONGERS!" AND "TINFOIL HAT-WEARERS!"
THE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND HIGHLY AWARE WHO HAVE PUBLISHED ANY/ALL FINDINGS THAT DISAGREE WITH THE LIES WE'RE TOLD BY THOSE WHO PROFIT FROM NUCLEAR ENERGY ARE DISCREDITED, CRUCIFIED IN THE MEDIA AND ALSO IN THOSE QUITE WORTHLESS "PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS", AND WE, THE 'SHEEPLE', ARE LULLED BACK INTO A FALSE SECURITY THAT HAS SEEN US FALL VICTIM TO HIGH RATES OF CANCERS, CATARACTS, THYROID ISSUES, CARDIOVASCULAR PROBLEMS, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND A HOST OF OTHER "MYSTERIOUS ILLNESSES" THAT HAVE COME FROM HOW AND WHERE OUR FOOD AND WATER IS PRODUCED AND DELIVERED TO US FOR MINDLESS, UNQUESTIONING CONSUMPTION.
EVERYTHING THAT CURRENTLY GOES INTO ANY HUMAN BODY GOES IN ON TRUST.
BUT OUR TRUST IS MISPLACED!
MY MANY ARTICLES ON BIOTOXINS IN OUR FOOD AND WATER SHOWED HOW MUCH WE MUST ADJUST TO BEING INCESSANTLY 'POISONED' BY CHEMICALS, ADDITIVES, AND RADIATION.
SOME AREAS OF OUR NATION, UNFORTUNATELY, ARE JUST NOT FIT TO GROW PRODUCE ON, NOR TO RAISE FOOD ANIMALS ON.
BUT THEY ARE GROWN AND RAISED THERE!
AND WE DO CONSUME THEM!
AND WE DO PAY OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH PRICES FOR OUR BLIND ACCEPTANCE OF ALL WE'RE TOLD BY PRODUCERS AND AGENCIES THAT PRETEND TO REGULATE THEM.
WHEN WE COMPLAIN, WE ARE THREATENED.
WHEN WE ASK, WE ARE REBUFFED.
WHEN WE CONTINUE TO ASK, WE ARE LABELED AS TROUBLE-MAKERS, 'FOOD FREAKS', 'DAMNED FANATICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS', ETC.
WE ARE MALIGNED, REPUTED, RIDICULED, OSTRACIZED SIMPLY FOR WANTING THE FULL FACTS ON WHAT IS IN OUR FOOD AND DRINK AND AT WHAT LEVELS.
EVERY YEAR CONGRESS, THE FDA AND THE EPA, HAVE BANDED TOGETHER TO DECREASE, NOT INCREASE OVERSIGHT OF OUR FOOD PRODUCERS AND THOSE WHO MANAGE OUR WATER SUPPLIES.
THESE INDUSTRIES HAVE BEEN AFFORDED MORE AND MORE LATITUDE FOR CONTAMINANTS, GIVEN MORE AND MORE LEEWAY TO SELL US BAD PRODUCTS, MANY NOT REALLY FIT FOR HUMAN OR ANIMAL CONSUMPTION.
THOSE OF US WHO QUESTION WHY THE "LAWMAKERS" MAKE NEW LAWS EACH YEAR TO STOP LABELLING FOODS, TO STOP MONITORING OUR AIR, SOIL, AND WATER FOR CONTAMINANTS ARE BRANDED, SOMETIMES, EVEN AS "POSSIBLE TERRORISTS" MERELY BECAUSE WE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAFEGUARD OUR FOOD AND WATER SO THAT NEITHER WE NOR THOSE WE CARE FOR ARE KILLED OR INJURED BY WHAT WE PUT INTO OUR FRAGILE HUMAN BODIES.
WHEN WE PROTEST IN THE STREETS, WE ARE ARRESTED.
WHEN WE WRITE LETTERS TO CONGRESS AND THE BIG CORPORATIONS, WE ARE MARKED AS 'NUTCASES' AND IGNORED, OR, OFTEN, PLACED ON "LISTS" THAT BAR US FROM EVEN VISITING THE CORPORATE AND CONGRESSIONAL OFFICES TO DISCUSS SUCH THINGS FACE-TO-FACE WITH THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE TASK OF PROTECTING US.
WE ARE NOT BEING PROTECTED!
WE ARE NOT BEING PROPERLY ADVISED OF HOW CONTAMINATED AND DANGEROUS OUR CONSUMABLE PRODUCTS ARE!
I HAVE WRITTEN OFTEN AND MUCH ABOUT THE NEW BILLS AND LAWS THAT PROTECT BIG BUSINESS FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I HAVE SHOWN, OFTEN IN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, HOW LAX OUR "PROTECTORS" HAVE BEEN AND HOW SOLD-OUT THEY ARE TO CORPORATE AMERICA, TO THE POINT OF RISKING THE HEALTH OF EVERY CITIZEN IN THIS NATION SIMPLY TO "HELP THE ECONOMY".
STUDY AFTER STUDY HAS SHOWN THAT OUR FOODS AND OUR DRINKS ARE EITHER NOT SAFE AT ALL OR ARE "QUESTIONABLY SAFE".
THEN THE GOVERNMENT OFFERS US THEIR "STUDIES" THAT SHOW WE'RE ALL JUST FINE.
ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS LOOK AT THE DATA ON THE OVERALL HEALTH OF AMERICANS TO SEE WHO IS LYING.
LOOK AROUND YOU!
HOW MANY " MYSTERIOUS ILLNESSES" CAN YOU COUNT WHERE YOU LIVE?
HOW MANY NEW CASES OF CANCERS?
HOW MANY CASES OF "UNEXPLAINED SUDDEN DEATH"?
HOW MANY CASES OF "UNEXPLAINED ALLERGIES"?
HOW MANY PLANT AND ANIMAL AND EVEN HUMAN MUTATIONS CAN YOU COUNT WITHIN A 200-MILE RADIUS?
HOW MANY TIMES HAS SOMETHING YOU ATE OR DRANK "MADE YOU SICK"?
CAN YOUR PHYSICIANS TELL YOU WHY YOU ALWAYS FEEL SO TIRED, SO GENERALLY "NOT WELL"?
AND WHY DO COMPANIES LIKE MONSANTO SPEND HUGE FORTUNES TO PREVENT THEIR PRODUCTS FROM BEING LABELLED AS "GMOs", AS BIOENGINEERED, AS CONTAINING GROWTH HORMONES, OR HAVING ADDITIVES THAT COME FROM HUMAN FETAL TISSUE?
IF ALL IS WELL, WHY WOULDN'T THEY BE PROUD FOR YOU TO KNOW YOU CAN BUY THEIR NEW "WONDER PRODUCTS", THEIR LAB-CREATED "FRANKENFOODS"?
IF NOTHING IS WRONG, WHY DOES CONGRESS NEED TO KEEP PASSING MORE AND MORE LAWS TO KEEP CONSUMERS FROM SUING THE HELL OUT OF FOOD PRODUCERS, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ITS AGENCIES?
WHY DIDN'T OUR "PROTECTION AGENCIES" DEMAND LONG-TERM HUMAN STUDIES ON THE EFFECTS OF GMOs, NANOPARTICLES, GROWTH HORMONES IN MEAT, AND IRRADIATED FOODS, JUST TO NAME A FEW, BEFORE THEY WERE ALLOWED TO BE SOLD TO US?
WHY HAVE SO MANY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES KEPT OUT OF PUBLIC SCRUTINY THEIR OWN SINISTER TORTURE LABS WHERE ANIMALS ARE SUBJECTED TO THESE PRODUCTS AND THE RESULTS OF THAT?
THEY'VE BEEN CAUGHT FALSIFYING OR MAKING UP DATA MORE TIMES THAN I CAN COUNT THESE PAST 40-50 YEARS!
WHEN FARMERS OR RANCHERS SEE THE HORRIBLE EFFECTS OF SOME FEEDS, VACCINES AND INJECTIONS TO ENHANCE GROWTH OR FERTILITY OR TO GAIN BIGGER YIELDS, AND GO SCREAMING TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO PRODUCED SUCH THINGS, DEMANDING COMPENSATION, WHY DO THOSE HUGE CORPORATIONS HIRE POWERFUL ATTORNEYS TO FIGHT THEM IN EVERY COURT IN THE LAND UNTIL THE FARMERS AND RANCHERS JUST GIVE UP OR ARE BANKRUPTED?
WHY ARE SUCH COURT BATTLES SO OFTEN SEALED SO THE PUBLIC CAN'T SEE WHAT WENT ON?
FUKUSHIMA, ACCORDING TO SO MANY LEARNED SCIENTISTS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, WILL BECOME AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT.
SOME SAY IT IS ALREADY TOO LATE TO REVERSE THE EFFECTS AS SO MUCH RADIATION IS ALREADY OVERWHELMING OUR AIR, SOIL AND WATER.
BUT SOME SAY WE CAN STILL SAVE THE DAY!
IT WOULD REQUIRE TAKING THE MANAGEMENT OF THAT PLANET-KILLER OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT ENTIRELY AND FINDING PRIVATE COMPANIES WHO KNOW HOW TO AND CAN AND WILL STOP WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
IT WOULD REQUIRE AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF MONEY AND RESOURCES, BUT THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNTHINKABLE.
WHEN TWO GOVERNMENTS, OURS AND JAPAN'S, PUT THEIR ECONOMY AND THE PROFITS OF THEIR NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANIES OVER HUMAN SAFETY, THEN SURELY ALL OF US CAN SEE THERE MUST BE CHANGES IN THOSE GOVERNMENTS!
WE ARE THE CHANGE, EACH OF US, AND THEN ALL OF US BANDED TOGETHER TO FORCE THIS ISSUE, TO SCREAM LOUDER THAN THEY DO, TO SATURATE THE INTERNET, AT LEAST, AND PERHAPS EDITORIAL PAGES HERE AND THERE, WITH OUR DEMANDS FOR SOLUTION, FOR TRANSPARENCY, AND FOR LIFE!
WHILE OTHERS CHOOSE PROFITS AND ECONOMIC 'STABILITY' OVER HUMAN LIVES, WE WHO ARE THOSE HUMAN LIVES MUST BE THE ONES TO HELP OURSELVES.
IF WE DON'T, NO ONE WILL.
IF WE LEAVE THIS TO THOSE WE HAVE ELECTED OR APPOINTED OR SUPPORTED IN THE PAST, WE ARE IRREVOCABLY SCREWED!
WE WILL BECOME STATISTICS, FALL PREY TO ONE OF THOSE "MYSTERIOUS, UNFORTUNATE" DEATHS OR CHRONIC ILLNESSES NO ONE SEEMS TO WANT TO BLAME ON OUR FOOD AND WATER AND AIR QUALITY.
WE HAVE KNOWN WITHOUT DOUBT, SINCE THE 1940s, THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SAFE LEVEL OF RADIATION ONCE IT ENTERS THE HUMAN BODY.
EVERY PARTICLE HARMS US.
ENOUGH OF THOSE PARTICLES KILL US.
WE CAN AND WE MUST MAKE IT STOP!
TECUMSEH, AS WELL AS OTHERS IN HISTORY, TRIED TO TEACH US THE POWER OF BANDING TOGETHER.
HE TAUGHT IT BY THE EXAMPLE OF BUNDLING ARROWS.
ONE CAN BE BROKEN, EVEN TWO OR THREE, BUT KEEP ADDING AND SOON THAT BUNDLED GROUP CANNOT BE BROKEN.
PEOPLE KNOW THIS, BUT TOO MANY KEEP REJECTING IT.
YES, WE CAN "FIGHT CITY HALL" AND WIN!
MANY HAVE DONE SO IN THE PAST!
NOW IT MUST BE OUR TURN!
FINALLY, AND VERY HARD TO GET EVEN EXCERPTS FROM ...
Environmental Contamination and Assessment of Doses from
Radiation Releases in the Southern Urals.
Kryshev, I. I.; Romanov, G. N.; Sazykina,
T. G.; Isaeva, L. N.; Trabalka, J. R.; Blaylock, B. G.
Abstract
The Southern Urals in Russia was contaminated by radioactive discharges
into the Techa River (1949-1956), the Kyshtym accident (1957), and the
current releases and discharges from the Mayak Nuclear Materials
Production Complex.
In this paper, the consequences of radioactive contamination of the Ural
region are analyzed.
The current content of 90Sr in the components of food chains is as follows
(Bq kg-1 wet weight):
potatoes, 0.2-6.7; grain, 0.5-12.6; milk, 0.2-6.3;
beef, 0.2-1.7; lake water, 0.12-1.0; river water, 0.2-8.5;
fish, 7480; mushrooms, 400-1,100; and berries, 700-16,000.
The content of 137Cs is as follows:
potatoes, 0.5-3.8; grain, 0.3-2.91. milk, 0.2-4.5; beef, 0.3-2.6;
lake and river water, 0.002-0.019; fish, 2-32;
mushrooms, 110-1,600; and berries, 150.
A major fraction of the dose to humans comes from the consumption
of local food products, including natural ones, which have higher
contamination levels than agricultural products.
The average annual dose rates in contaminated areas are
(0.5-4) x 10-4 SV y-1, which is lower by a factor of 102_104
than in the periods of "acute" exposure (1950-1951 and 1957-1958).
Natural organisms received very high doses up to 200-800 Gy resulting
from radioactive discharges into the Techa River and the radiation accident
in 1957.
In all cases, including the "acute" exposure followed by the chronic irradiation,
the doses to biota were by a factor of 10_103 higher than those to humans.
Contamination of local agricultural and natural products.
The needs of the rural population living in the Techa River basin
with respect to staple food products (potatoes, milk, meat and vegetables)
are
met almost completely by local products.
At present, the consumption of local food products is one of the
main sources of additional exposure to the population.
For 1991-1994, the specific activity of 90Sr in milk, beef and potatoes was,
on the average, 1.5, 0.3 and 0.8 Bq kg-1, respectively, whereas that of 137Cs was somewhat higher
(5.3, 34 and 4.1 Bq kg-1, respectively)
[Sources, 1997; Kryshev et al., 1998a; 1998b]
Note that the contamination levels of milk and potatoes
in private farms are, as a rule, higher than in collective farms (Burkart et al., 1997).
Maximum contamination levels exceed average levels by
approximately an order of magnitude.
In addition, increased radioactive contamination levels are
typical of some natural products (waterfowl and fish).
WHAT MORE EVIDENCE DO WE NEED THAT LOW-LEVEL RADIATION IS LETHAL?
WHY AREN'T THE WORLD'S GOVERMENTS RUSHING TO STOP THE FUKUSHIMA LEAKS AND DUMPINGS?
WHY ARE ALL WHO QUESTION SUCH THINGS SO MALIGNED AND RIDICULED?
TOO MANY ARE AWARE OF FACTS NOW FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES, CONGRESS AND WORLD LEADERS TO CONTINUE TO HAVE LICENSE TO IGNORE THIS!
IF THEY DO, IF THEY CONTINUE TO LIE TO US, TO COVER UP, TO SHIRK RESPONSIBILITY, THEN MAY WE NOT ASSUME THE REASON IS TO SEE MANY OF US DEAD?
RADIATION, JUST LIKE FIRE, CONSUMES.
THOSE WHO FAN THE FLAMES RATHER THAN DOUSING THE FIRE MUST WANT THE BUILDING TO BURN!
THINK ABOUT THAT, PLEASE.
WHY AREN'T THE WORLD'S GOVERMENTS RUSHING TO STOP THE FUKUSHIMA LEAKS AND DUMPINGS?
WHY ARE ALL WHO QUESTION SUCH THINGS SO MALIGNED AND RIDICULED?
TOO MANY ARE AWARE OF FACTS NOW FOR FEDERAL AGENCIES, CONGRESS AND WORLD LEADERS TO CONTINUE TO HAVE LICENSE TO IGNORE THIS!
IF THEY DO, IF THEY CONTINUE TO LIE TO US, TO COVER UP, TO SHIRK RESPONSIBILITY, THEN MAY WE NOT ASSUME THE REASON IS TO SEE MANY OF US DEAD?
RADIATION, JUST LIKE FIRE, CONSUMES.
THOSE WHO FAN THE FLAMES RATHER THAN DOUSING THE FIRE MUST WANT THE BUILDING TO BURN!
THINK ABOUT THAT, PLEASE.
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