Monday, July 29, 2019

A CAT'S PAIN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN A BABY'S?



VERSUS 


"New York Legislature Passes Bill That Makes Declawing Cats Illegal"

Denver and 10 California cities have already banned the practice that many veterinarians and animal welfare advocates deride as inhumane
Published Jun 4, 2019.

GREAT NEWS FOR CATS, BUT NEW YORK ALLOWS UP-TO-BIRTH ABORTION.

FOR MANY, THIS SEEMS TO SAY THAT A CAT'S PAIN TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER A FULL-TERM BABY'S RIGHT TO LIFE OR A FETUS/BABY'S PAIN.

THAT A CAT SUFFERS PAIN FROM DECLAWING IS A GIVEN, BUT THE SAME STATE LEGISLATURE DOESN'T SEEM TO GIVE THE SMALLEST DAMN WHAT PAIN A HUMAN FETUS AT 20 WEEKS OR A FULLY FORMED BABY AT 9 MONTHS SUFFERS AS IT IS KILLED.


WE'VE KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS THAT A BABY FEELS PAIN INSIDE THE UTERUS. 
In May of 2013, Dr. Maureen Condic, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah, testified before Congress when the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, prohibiting abortion after 20 weeks gestation, was under consideration. She stated:

“There is universal agreement in the scientific community that an unborn child experiences fetal pain by at least 20 weeks old.”

That being said, she attests that a baby at just 8 weeks gestation can be seen moving in response to stimuli.

By 20 weeks gestation, the baby will respond to sound and move, wince, and recoil from sharp objects and incisions. For instance, when sampling blood from the liver, the baby in utero will move away from the needle.

Studies are showing that pain may be felt even earlier … and more intensely than in adults.

In her testimony before Congress in May of 2012, Dr. Colleen Malloy, MD, a board certified Neonatologist and Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, described the following developmental milestones of an unborn child, indicating very early perception of pain:

At 8 weeks gestation, facial sensory receptors appear.

At 14 weeks gestation, sensory fibers grow into the spinal cord and connections are made with the thalamus (part of the brain).

Between 13 and 16 weeks gestation, monoamine fibers (nerve cells or fibers) reach the cerebral cortex (another part of the brain).

Between 17 and 20 weeks gestation, thalamo-cortical relays (pathways to the brain for sensory information) penetrate the cortex.

No later than 20 weeks gestation, pain receptors are present and linked.

In fact, when a needle is used to draw blood in utero from a baby at 18 weeks gestation, a stress hormone (B-endorphin) is released in massive amounts, increasing by 500 %. Cortisol, another stress hormone, rises by 183%. In addition, Substance P, a neurotransmitter involved in transmitting pain, is found at 11 weeks gestation, and at 13 weeks, Enkephalin, involved in perceiving pain, is also detected.

So does the unborn child feel the pain of being dismembered in an abortion?
YES!
YES THEY DO!


Dr. Malloy attests:

“These are the patients that I perform procedures on every day, and I can guarantee you that when I put a chest tube in, or I intubate a patient, or put an IV in, they feel it.”

Higher concentrations of anesthesia are needed for unborn babies.

In a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, Dr. Kanwalkeet Anand, an anesthesiologist and leading expert in the field of fetal pain, wrote:

“It is my opinion that the human fetus possesses the ability to experience pain from 20 weeks of gestation, if not earlier, and the pain perceived by a fetus is possibly more intense than that perceived by term newborns or older children.”

Pain transmitters in the spine are abundant during the first part of pregnancy, but pain inhibiting transmitters are sparse until later. In fact, when babies in utero undergo surgery, their stress hormone response is 3 to 5 times higher than in adults.

And so, it makes sense why increased concentrations of anesthetic drugs would be required for premature infants than for adults. 

[FACT: 
U.S. ABORTIONS SINCE 1973: ROE vs WADE?
OVER 60 MILLION.

WORLDWIDE ABORTIONS? 

ALMOST ONE AND A HALF BILLION, BILLION, WITH A "B".]


DOES NEW YORK'S LEGISLATURE CARE ABOUT A BABY'S PAIN IN THE SAME WAY THEY CARE ABOUT A CAT'S?
OBVIOUSLY NOT.


New York State Senate Passes Bill Permitting Abortions up to Birth, January 22, 2019

"Current New York law doesn’t appear to discourage women from abortion at all. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent Abortion Surveillance report, for the year 2015, New York City performed 544 abortions for every 1,000 live births. That means roughly one in three unborn babies are aborted. As a whole, New York performed 93,096 abortions total, with 23.1 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. It counted 392 abortions per 1,000 live births.

YES, LEGALLY/TECHNICALLY, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO SAY IT, A WOMAN CAN DEMAND AN ABORTION EVEN AFTER HER LABOR CONTRACTIONS BEGIN, EVEN MINUTES BEFORE BIRTH.
BUT THAT SAME WOMAN CAN NO LONGER DECLAW HER CAT.

THIS IS NOT THE MOST BRUTAL, HURTFUL THING WOMEN AND PHYSICIANS MAY SOON BE ALLOWED TO DO TO UNWANTED/'UNPLANNED' BABIES.
THERE IS A PUSH TO ALLOW THE KILLING OF A CHILD IMMEDIATELY AFTER BIRTH, UP TO AGE 4 OR 5.


In 2014, a reporter, Joe Biggs, got a number of students at the University of Texas in Austin to sign a petition for “post-birth abortion” that would allow killing children up to five years old. His efforts were captured on video.

All told, the video shows Biggs talking to 16 students about the petition; 12 sign, it appears, three decline and it’s unclear what one man decides.

An unsigned copy of the petition they signed appears onscreen, stating:
"Please support the Post-Birth Abortion Act of 2014. This is to emphasize that the moral status of the newborn baby is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. This post-birth abortion can take place until a newborn is self aware or reaches 5 years old. This act is supported by numerous scientists and medical doctors as a safe and effective way to preserve the quality of life."

The video also flashes part of a student-written story posted online Oct. 29, 2014, headlined "Trending: More college students support post-birth abortion," a very real article which states, in part...

“We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit,” said Mark Harrington, director of Created Equal. “While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular.”

Campuses where the high school, college students, local activists and staff members of Created Equal have encountered this opinion include Purdue, University of Minnesota, and University of Central Florida. And at Ohio State earlier this year, the group captured a debate on video between one of its members and an older woman on campus who defended infanticide.

As for the trend, Garza said there’s an explanation for it. For one, the arguments put forth by Peter Singer and other philosophers who support infanticide are given as reading assignments to college students.

Singer wrote in 1979 that “human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons … [therefore] the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”

“He has been saying things like this since the 70s."

RELATED: More proof more college students support post-birth abortion

THESE ARE COLLEGE-AGED ADULTS, BUT DON'T THEY READ, RESEARCH, ANYTHING BEFORE THEY BLINDLY AGREE TO SUCH A THING?

PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES, ULTRASONOGRAPHY, SURGERIES CONDUCTED ON BABIES IN UTERO HAVE ALL SHOWN THAT THEY FEEL PAIN, THAT THEY REACT TO STIMULI, THAT THEY ARE NOT JUST A CLUMP OF CELLS. 


SLATE magazine did an article on this "trend" in 2012, titled  
"After-Birth Abortion: The pro-choice case for infanticide".

SLATE WAS PREDICTABLY ALL FOR IT.   


"Two philosophers, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, propose:

[W]hen circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible. … [W]e propose to call this practice ‘after-birth abortion’, rather than ‘infanticide,’ to emphasize that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable with that of a fetus … rather than to that of a child. Therefore, we claim that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in all the circumstances where abortion would be. Such circumstances include cases where the newborn has the potential to have an (at least) acceptable life, but the well-being of the family is at risk."


What Does The Baby Do Inside The Womb?


BABY, NOT MASS OF CELLS, NOT GARBAGE TO BE DUMPED OR FLUSHED , NOT AN UNFEELING LUMP, BUT A BABY.

The following have all been captured by ultrasound imaging, documented, REAL.

1- THEY CRY. Experts have shown that when an ultrasound is taken, some babies tend to be crying inside the womb.

2- THEY HEAR THINGS OUTSIDE THE WOMB AND REACT TO VOICES.

During the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, babies have been found to actively listen to their mothers' voices.

3- THEY HICCUP. Hiccups can start as early as the first trimester, though you might not be able to feel them until much later in the pregnancy phase. At times, if you closely pay attention, you will be able to feel the little one hiccuping

4- MULTIPLE FETUSES HUG EACH OTHER. If you are expecting twins, you will find that the babies tend to bond a lot in utero. Ultrasound images of this are quite common.

5- THEY SMILE AND YAWN. Around the 26th week of pregnancy the baby will react to many things from inside the womb. It is during this time that the baby will also show signs of smiling and yawning that have been caught on ultrasound images.

6-THEY REACT TO LIGHT OUTSIDE THE WOMB. Some merely turn over. Others seem agitated.

BABIES IN UTERO HAVE ALSO BEEN IMAGED SUCKING THEIR THUMBS, REACTING TO OBVIOUS DREAMS, REACTING TO FOODS/DRINKS.MEDICATIONS THE MOTHER INGESTS, FLIPPING AND TURNING TO GET COMFORTABLE.

AND, YES, THEY DO REACT TO PAIN AND TO INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCED INTO THE UTERUS, FOR EXAMPLE TO SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS WHEN AN INTRAUTERINE SURGERY IS REQUIRED TO SAVE THEM.


HOW CAN THEY SEE A BABY AS HAVING LESS VALUE OR RIGHT THAN A CAT? 
In an article titled "I can't believe I have to say it: a human life is worth more than a gorilla's",
Dave Bry of the Guardian, UK, wrote:

"As much as I love animals – and I love them very much – the idea that the life of a cat or a dog or a lion or a gorilla is as important as the life of a human is a terrible one, a wrong one, an insulting one.

A 2013 study conducted by researchers at Regents University and Cape Fear Community College found that, when faced with a hypothetical situation in which they could save only their pet or a human “foreign tourist” from being hit by a bus, 40% of participants chose their pet.
“All animals are equal,” said the foreboding sign on the barn at the end of Animal Farm, “but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell wrote that, mockingly, as an attack on fascism. Taken literally, though, he had a point."

FLUSH THEM AWAY? 

Associated Press
Tues., Aug. 4, 2015

 "A Beijing policeman rescued a newborn baby who was stuck face-down in a public toilet, reaching his arm down into the pipe to gently pull out the infant, police and reports said Tuesday.
On Sunday, police spotted the child’s feet in the toilet pipe and called for help from firefighters, but before they could arrive, officer Qian Feng got down on the ground to pull the baby out.
Unmarried mothers in China sometimes abandon newborns because of social stigma associated with out-of-wedlock births. Sometimes parents also discard children born with defects."
[FEMALE BABIES ARE MORE OFTEN DISCARDED THAN MALES.]

LET ME CLARIFY MY STANCE. 
IN CASES IN WHICH DILIGENT CONTRACEPTION, METHODS OF BIRTH CONTROL FAILED, i.e, TO BECOME PREGNANT WHILE RELYING ON BIRTH CONTROL, IS IN NO WAY, THE WOMAN'S FAULT.

I ALSO REALIZE THAT SOME RELIGIONS FORBID BIRTH CONTROL, WHICH CAN TAX A WOMAN INTO AN EARLY GRAVE AND PRODUCE FETUSES WITH SEVERE MEDICAL PROBLEMS AS THE WOMAN HAS "A CHILD A YEAR" AS LONG AS SHE IS FERTILE/OVULATING.

I DO INDEED SEE A FEW MEDICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONS THAT MIGHT SUGGEST ABORTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HAVING A CHILD. 
HOWEVER, I ALSO KNOW OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDLESS COUPLES WHO WOULD GRATEFULLY AND HAPPILY ADOPT UNWANTED BABIES, PAY ALL EXPENSES FOR THE MOTHER.

BUT THE INTENTIONAL FAILURE TO APPLY BIRTH CONTROL METHODS, TO KNOWINGLY AVOID THEM, TO TAKE NO PRECAUTIONS, IF NOTHING BUT TOTAL ABSTINENCE, SO NO UNWANTED CHILD IS CONCEIVED, DOES NOT JUSTIFY SEEKING AN ABORTION BECAUSE OF AN "UH-OH" MOMENT.

NO OTHER HUMAN BEING SHOULD LOSE LIFE BECAUSE ANYONE WAS LAZY OR NEGLECTFUL OF ADULT RESPONSIBILITIES.


BOTH PARTNERS IN ANY SEXUAL ENCOUNTER SHOULD BE 100% CONCERNED WITH PREVENTING AN UNWANTED PREGNANCY.

HOWEVER, SINCE IT IS THE WOMAN WHO WILL SUFFER MOST FROM THE STRESS
OF AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY, IT IS THE WOMAN WHO SHOULD UNFAILINGLY ASCERTAIN EVEN A REMOTE POSSIBILITY THAT A SEXUAL ENCOUNTER COULD LEAD TO JUST THAT.

FROM "JUST SAY NO", 
TO 'THE PILL', IMPLANTS (IUDs OR CONTRACEPTIVE IMPLANTS BENEATH THE SKIN), TO REVERSIBLE TUBAL LIGATION, OR, IN CASES WHERE A WOMAN HAS DECIDED SHE NEVER WANTS CHILDREN, STERILIZATION, THE CHOICES TODAY ARE MANY AND AFFORDABLE.

LOOKING AT THE STATS FOR WHO USES CONTRACEPTION IN THE U.S. AND WHO IS "AT RISK FOR UNWANTED PREGNANCY", CAN IT BE THAT PERHAPS ONLY 10% OF AMERICAN WOMEN ( THE 10% WHO USED NO FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL) HAD ALMOST 58 MILLION ABORTIONS IN THE PAST 30+ YEARS? 

DID ABORTION TAKE THE PLACE OF CONTRACEPTION HERE? 
HAS IT SIMPLY BECOME A "QUICK FIX" FOR SOME WHO DON'T USE CONTRACEPTION? 

DID THE COURTS VOTE FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE JUST SO ANYONE CAN BE LAX ON BIRTH CONTROL AND THEN JUST GO HAVE AN ABORTION?   

I CAN'T ACCEPT THAT AS ETHICAL. 


WHILE A WOMAN MAY INDEED HAVE A RIGHT TO DECISIONS REGARDING HER OWN BODY, WHEN THAT SAME WOMAN WAS A GROWING FETUS, CHANCES ARE SLIM TO NONE THAT SHE WOULD HAVE AGREED TO BE TERMINATED BY ABORTION.
GOOD THING THEIR MOTHERS DID NOT THINK OF THEM AS DISPOSABLE OR AS 'JUST A CLUMP OF CELLS', RIGHT? 


JUST THE WAY I AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS IN AMERICA SEE IT.

According to Gallop, 33 percent of Americans were pro-life in 1996.
In 2014, 46 percent said they are pro-life.

JULY 2, 2019, "Gallup released its annual public-opinion poll on abortion policy, and its results contain some good news for abortion opponents. According to the survey, a plurality of Americans now identify as pro-life, with 49 percent of respondents calling themselves “pro-life,” and 46 percent calling themselves “pro-choice.”

EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO THEIR OPINIONS AND THEIR BELIEFS; NOT JUST SOME, BUT ALL.

HOW CAN WE ASK UNBORN CHILDREN WHAT THEIR OPINIONS ARE? 
WHAT WOULD THEY SAY IF THEY COULD?
IMAGINE...













//WW

Sunday, July 28, 2019

100 MILLION TIMES MORE RADIOACTIVE: JAPAN TODAY

JULY 28, 2019 

"The water level did not fall as planned in an area of a basement floor at the No. 3 reactor building for two months. Asked why the level did not drop, TEPCO officials offered only vague explanations in the meeting.
The concentration of radioactive substances in the highly contaminated water is about 100 million times that of the contaminated water that has been processed and stored in tanks.


WHAT IS SHOWN ABOVE IS THE EFFECT A SMALL AMOUNT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL THE SIZE OF A GRAPEFRUIT HAS ON SOLID, REINFORCED CONCRETE. THERE IS NO SHIELDING BETWEEN THIS HIGHLY CONTAMINATED WATER AND THE ENVIRONMENT. 



INCREDIBLY HIGH LEVELS OF RADIOACTIVE WATER FROM INSIDE AND BENEATH BUILDINGS AT THE CRIPPLED NUCLEAR FACILITY IS FLOWING INTO THE GROUND, INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AND INTO THE PACIFIC EACH DAY. 

FUKUSHIMA IS NOT OVER. 




[LARGER IMAGE OF THE ABOVE <HERE>]

NOTICE THAT "Structural materials of pressure vessel and reactor internals are damaged especially by fast neutrons. Fast neutrons create structural defects, which in result lead to embrittlement of material of pressure vessel."  

THERE WAS NO LEAD, NO CONCRETE TO INTERCEPT RADIATION ABOVE THAT No.3 REACTOR FOR 7 YEARS. IT WAS WIDE OPEN TO THE ELEMENTS.



SHIELDING? WHAT SHIELDING AT FUKUSHIMA REACTOR BUILDING #3 OR #4?
[LARGER IMAGE OF THE ABOVE <HERE>]


THE TEA ROOM STANDS AND SALUTES THE BRAVE ASAHI SHIMBUN JOURNALISTS FOR THE FOLLOWING TRUTHS:


~Abe lied to the Olympic committee. HE LIED.
HE AND TEPCO AND THE NUKE 'REGULATORS' HAVE LIED FOR 8 LONG YEARS.


"Abe made the declaration in September 2013 while Tokyo was bidding to win the 2020 Summer Games.  
In reality, however, the situation is not under control even now."

Three former Japanese prime ministers have said so publicly and begged him to not host the Olympics so that the health of visitors and athletes are not adversely affected by high radiation levels that many say Abe, TEPCO and the nuclear regulatory commissions there and here in the U.S. are hiding and/or manipulating to seem harmless.
TEPCO has been busted several times concealing high readings by shielding the monitors and simple, intentional failures to report.

JULY 28, 2019 

"The water level did not fall as planned in an area of a basement floor at the No. 3 reactor building for two months. Asked why the level did not drop, TEPCO officials offered only vague explanations in the meeting.

In a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in June, one of its members, Nobuhiko Ban, told TEPCO officials, “I want you to show whether you have a prospect (for the reduction of contaminated water) or you have given up.”

The water level did not fall as planned in an area of a basement floor at the No. 3 reactor building for two months. Asked why the level did not drop, TEPCO officials offered only vague explanations in the meeting. Ban made the remark out of irritation.

Highly contaminated water that has accumulated in reactor buildings and turbine buildings is a major concern at the Fukushima plant. In addition to water that was used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, groundwater also has flowed into those buildings through cracks.

Ban made the remark out of irritation.

Highly contaminated water that has accumulated in reactor buildings and turbine buildings is a major concern at the Fukushima plant. In addition to water that was used to cool melted nuclear fuel at the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, groundwater also has flowed into those buildings through cracks. 

The concentration of radioactive substances in the highly contaminated water is about 100 million times that of the contaminated water that has been processed and stored in tanks.
Immediately after the nuclear accident at the Fukushima plant in March 2011, highly contaminated water leaked into the sea through underground tunnels. As a result, radioactive substances whose concentrations were higher than allowable standards were detected in fish and other seafood.

After the nuclear accident, about 100,000 tons of water initially accumulated in the basement portions of buildings that housed the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 reactors and buildings that accommodated turbines."


From CSM, in the early days, when most journalists were concerned enough to print 'mostly' the truth but were still trying to curtail "panic among the masses":

"The pools at the Fukushima complex are just that – open basins resembling swimming pools. Six are perched on a sort of mezzanine above and adjacent to reactor containment vessels. They’re about 40 feet long by 30 feet wide by 36 feet deep, though they vary in size.
If heat in the pool continues to build and water boils down and fuel rods stored in the pool are exposed, more radiation might escape into the atmosphere.
The sides of the pools have doors, which open to allow cranes to move fuel-rod assemblies from the reactor to the pool. These doors have inflatable seals that guard against leakage.

“If a seal is deflated, that is fairly significant damage,” said Lochbaum."

MIGHT escape? NO, it WILL, it HAS, it IS now.

HOW LONG WAS THE REACTOR BUILDING ROOF OFF AND RADIATION FREE TO FLOW UP INTO THE ATMOSPHERE?
"ONLY" FOR 7 YEARS!  7 YEARS!  


THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, February 21, 2018:
"Work was completed Feb. 21 on a half-cylinder roof designed to trap radioactive substances emitted when spent fuel rods are removed from the No. 3 reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant...The 566 fuel assemblies in the storage pool pose a serious risk in the event of another disaster striking the plant."

BUT JAPAN DIDN'T START WORK ON THIS IMPORTANT STRUCTURE UNTIL...2017!

"Construction work on the roof--23 meters wide and 57 meters long--started in July 2017."

TEPCO DID NOT BEGIN REMOVING FUEL RODS FROM #3 REACTOR UNTIL APRIL OF THIS YEAR, 2019.

ACCORDING TO THE GUARDIAN, UK, THEY SAY THE REMOVAL WILL TAKE TWO YEARS. 


IF IT WILL TAKE TWO YEARS TO REMOVE 566 RODS, HOW THE HELL DID THEY REMOVE "1,331 used fuel assemblies and 202 unused assemblies" IN ONE YEAR , OR DID THEY REMOVE THEM ALL? HAS ANY INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR AGENCY CONFIRMED THE REMOVAL, AND, IF SO, WHERE ARE THE RODS STORED?

"The removal of the fuel rods was delayed by more than four years due to equipment malfunctions, high radiation levels in the reactor building and radioactive debris from a hydrogen explosion that occurred in the immediate aftermath of the triple meltdown.

THE JAPAN TIMES ANNOUNCED MISSION COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER, 2014.

"The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant removed 400 tons of spent uranium fuel from a damaged reactor building, the first of four sets of used rods to be removed in a cleanup expected to last decades."

[SINCE THAT LINK SEEMS TO LEAD TO A SMALL REMNANT OF THE ARTICLE, SEE ALSO THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORT AT  
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/fuel-rods-are-removed-from-japans-damaged-fukushima-reactor.html .]

CONTINUING FROM ASAHI SHIMBUN
"Eight years since the nuclear accident occurred, the volume of highly contaminated water in the buildings has fallen to 18,000 tons.

However, work to decrease the water has not progressed as expected.
As for the area in the basement of the No. 3 reactor building, it is known that water used to cool melted nuclear fuel is flowing into the area. But why the water level does not drop only in that area is not known.

If the water level in the building remains high, highly contaminated water there could leak into the ground through cracks when the groundwater level outside the building drops. If the leaks occur, the entire effort to decrease the amount of highly contaminated water will be stalled.

The NRA is also requiring TEPCO to take anti-tsunami measures because if a huge tsunami engulfs the buildings again, it could send highly contaminated water pouring into the sea

However, anti-tsunami measures are also delayed.


The work to close openings that could become locations for leakage of highly contaminated water during a tsunami is expected to continue until the end of fiscal 2021.
Such openings exist at 50 locations at present."

THE HIGH RADIATION WATER LEVEL HAS DROPPED, ACCORDING TO THE KNOWN, PROVEN LIARS AT TEPCO? HAS ANY NON-JAPANESE AGENCY CONFIRMED THIS? NO.

"A
nti-tsunami measures are also delayed." WHY? HOW CAN THEY BE ALLOWED TO DELAY THAT? THAT'S WHAT CAUSED THIS MESS TO BEGIN WITH!50 OPENINGS ALLOWING THIS EXTREMELY HIGH RADIOACTIVE WATER TO ESCAPE? ARE WE SURE THERE'S ONLY 50?

WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ALLOWING THIS? WHY WOULD THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE ALLOW JAPAN TO HOST ATHLETES WITHIN A FEW MILES OF THIS DISASTER?  


ALSO FROM CSM, A FEW MONTHS AFTER THEIR PREVIOUSLY CITED ARTICLE: 

"Recent tests also indicate higher-than-normal levels of radiation in the AIR well beyond the Fukushima plant’s grounds.

"Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today that the government has no plans to widen the current 12-mile evacuation zone, however.
A testing team dispatched by the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Association Monday reported radiation levels 1,600 times above normal 12 miles from the Fukushima plant. Constant exposure to those levels for 26 days would lead to a cumulative exposure of 100,000 microsieverts, the level at which Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences says there is an increased risk of cancer."


FROM THE NUCLEAR POWER WEBSITE: SHIELDING OF IONIZING RADIATION:
[I]n some cases an inappropriate shielding may even worsen the radiation situation instead of protecting people from the ionizing radiation.  
Structural materials of pressure vessel and reactor internals are damaged especially by fast neutrons. Structural materials of pressure vessel and reactor internals are damaged especially by fast neutrons. Fast neutrons create structural defects, which in result lead to embrittlement of material of pressure vessel., which in result lead to embrittlement of material of pressure vessel.

  WHY DID THE U.S. AND JAPAN STOP MONITORING THE RADIATION LEVELS HERE AS THEY DID INITIALLY? 

  JAPAN REMOVED ROADSIDE RADIATION MONITORS AND OUR EPA CLAIMS THEY HAD FAILED/BROKEN MONITORS THAT WOULD NOT BE REPLACED, REMEMBER?
WHY?

"One in Five RadNet Monitors Out of Service an Average of 130 Days Before/During Fukushima Accident"


In the recent -- and strongly worded -- report, EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr. lays out numerous problems with EPA's Radiation Network Program, or RadNet. The program monitors the level of radiation in air, precipitation, drinking water and milk through a national network of monitoring stations.

EPA has not made the program a priority, according to the report. When the agency increased radiation monitoring in the aftermath of the Fukushima meltdown, it discovered that 25 of 124 monitors had been out of service for an average of 130 days. EPA's solution for needed spare parts: "cannibalizing" new monitors under construction.

Such last-minute management of the system means that the program remains "vulnerable," according to the report.

"If RadNet is not managed as a high-priority program, EPA may not have the needed data before, during, and after a critical event such as the Japan nuclear incident," IG investigators wrote. "Such data are crucial to determine levels of airborne radioactivity that may negatively affect public health and the environment."

The report also criticizes EPA for not following through with recommendations from the IG's January 2009 report that found that the full implementation of the RadNet system was behind schedule."

JUST ONE OF THE MANY TIMES TEPCO GOT CAUGHT LYING

"After admitting earlier this month that up to 300 tons of radioactive water were leaking every day into the Pacific Ocean, a new leak problem has been upgraded by Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Agency from a level one “anomaly” to a level three “serious incident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
[A] separate 300 ton “serious” leak is the latest of a myriad of problems at Fukushima. It came from a tank put together in a slapdash manner by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) soon after the disaster. The tank, held together by bolts and resin, was not sealed through welding, according to local media reports.

The leak from the storage tank is particularly worrisome for two reasons. First, it emits high levels of radiation — 100 millisieverts an hour, the maximum exposure that a nuclear worker is allowed to receive in one year. Second, there are around 350 tanks containing such contaminated water that were assembled in the same slapdash manner.

News of the leak was met with a shrug in Japan, where an estimated 94 percent of the population said it believes the disaster has not been resolved, according to a March survey by Hirotada Hirose of Tokyo Woman’s University. 

   “Water problems will persist for four to eight years at least,” said Jeff Kingston, a Temple University professor of Asian studies who has written extensively on the disaster. “Fuel rod moving? Four years, and hopefully with no accident. [An accident moving the rods] would be catastrophic.

Public sentiment remains firmly against nuclear energy, despite the economic implications of moving away from the energy source. Hirose’s March survey found 85 percent of the 1,200 respondents want the nation to phase out nuclear energy. Of those, 31 percent wanted to see it brought to an end as soon as possible.”


NEITHER ABE NOR BIG NUKE GIVE A TINKER'S TINY DAM ABOUT WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. THEIR MAIN CONCERN IS MONEY. MONEY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HUMAN LIVES.


WHY NOT TELL US THE WHOLE TRUTH? WE CAN TAKE IT.
THOSE WHO TRY TO REPORT HONESTLY ON THIS ONGOING NUCLEAR BOMB ARE LABELLED CONSPIRACY THEORISTS OR WORSE, "FAKE NEWS". THERE IS NOTHING FAKE ABOUT FACTS. 


"Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, reactors have sprayed immeasurable amounts of radioactive material into the air, most of which settles into the Pacific Ocean.

A study by the American Geophysical Union has found that radiation levels from Alaska to California have increased and continue to increase since they were last taken.

Instead of presenting the findings as an alarming sign of growing radiation, however, Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole emphasizes that the Cesium-134 levels detected are still 500 times lower than the drinking water limits set by the U.S. government. The news site 'The Big Wobble' questions whether Buesseler's and Woods Hole’s heavy financial reliance on the U.S. government – Woods Hole has received nearly $8 million in research funding from several government agencies – plays any role in this emphasis.

The reality, however, is that radiation along the West Coast is expected to keep getting worse. According to a 2013 study by the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway, the oceanic radiation plume released by Fukushima is likely to hit the North American West Coast in force in 2017, with levels peaking in 2018. Most of the radioactive material from the disaster is likely to stay concentrated on the western coast through at least 2026.

According to professor Michio Aoyama of Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, the amount of radiation from Fukushima that has now reached North America is probably nearly as much as was spread over Japan during the initial disaster.

The recent Woods Hole study also confirmed that radioactive material is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima plant. Cesium-134 levels off the Japanese coast are between 10 and 100 times higher than those detected off the coast of California.

Without directly challenging the U.S. government’s “safe” radiation limits, Buesseler obliquely references the fact that any radioactive contamination of the ocean is cause for concern.

“Despite the fact that the levels of contamination off our shores remain well below government-established safety limits for human health or to marine life,” he said, “the changing values underscore the need to more closely monitor contamination levels across the Pacific.

Don't worry though Olympians, everything will be fine in a few billion or so years."



WHEN I THINK OF HOW MANY UNSUSPECTING ATHLETES AND GULLIBLE, MISINFORMED PEOPLE WILL VISIT JAPAN AND BE EXPOSED TO RADIATION LEVELS THEY WOULD NEVER HAVE ENCOUNTERED HAD THEY STAYED HOME, HAD ABE AND TEPCO NOT LIED AND COVERED UP THE TRUE FACTS, I CAN'T HELP BUT BE BOTH ENRAGED AND SORROWFUL.

I STAND ACCUSED OF BEING AN "ALARMIST", OF TRYING TO INSTILL FEAR. OF NOT HAVING MY FACTS STRAIGHT, BUT MY MAIN CONCERN, AS A RETIRED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, IS FOR HUMAN WELFARE, FOR THE HEALTH OF HUMAN BEINGS, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN.
I MAKE SURE MY FACTS ARE STRAIGHT.
THE TRUTH DOESN'T SCARE ME...LIES DO.

IF ANYONE READING HERE DOESN'T FEEL THE SAME, GO READ ELSEWHERE, BUT REMEMBER THE WARNINGS YOU'VE READ HERE IN THE DAYS AHEAD. 







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NOTES: 

The ANSI/ANS-6.4.3-1991 Gamma-Ray Attenuation Coefficients and Buildup Factors for Engineering Materials Standard, contains derived gamma-ray attenuation coefficients and buildup factors for selected engineering materials and elements for use in shielding calculations (ANSI/ANS-6.1.1, 1991).

FUKUSHIMA LEGACY; UNDERSTANDING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NUCLEAR RADIATION AND CONTAMINATION. 


TEPCO CONTINUALLY LIES -- https://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2018/10/fukushima-treated-water-still-highly.html


 IN A PIG'S EYE THEY FOUND THE CORIUM!
 
https://havacuppahemlock1.blogspot.com/2016/02/fukushima-corium-has-spread-all-over.html







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