Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?

[TheRevelator]

Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?
By Christina Consolo

Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of Nuked Radio


Investigators visiting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in May 2011 Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.

What he saw was horrific.

And now he is saying that we are in big trouble.

But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011. March 17th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California.

And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between.

Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since.

The scientists most upset are those who have studied the effects of radiation on health. I’ll say it again, so its really clear: we are in big trouble.

The most preliminary reports of soil contamination are starting to come in from the USGS, who has seemed reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado, so far have the highest radioactive particle contamination out of the entire US.

That being said, every single city tested across the country showed contamination from Fukushima. What is even more alarming, however, about the numbers coming in, is that they are from samples taken April 5th, of last year.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has only recently confirmed that there were three meltdowns, and they have been ongoing, unabated, for thirteen months, and no effort has been made to contain them.

Technology has to be developed/invented to deal with the melted out corium under the reactors. Until then, they will keep doing what they have been doing.

TEPCO just keeps dumping water on them, after which they let it pour into the ocean, and steam up through the ground, every second of every day. The jet stream, and a highly dynamic portion of our atmosphere called the troposphere, have been swirling around massive amounts of radioactive particles and settling them out, mostly in rain, over the entire northern hemisphere, especially the west coast of North America, from Alaska down to Baja and even further.

Iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium, and a host of other fission products have been coming directly from Japan to the west coast for thirteen months.

Maybe you have heard about sick seals, polar bears, tainted fish, mutations in dandelions and fruits and vegetables, possibly even animals already, and seaweed. In fact the kelp from Corona del Mar contained 40,000,000 bcq/kg of radioactive iodine, as reported in Scientific American several weeks ago.

If you don’t know your becquerels, its a lot. That’s what your pacific fish feed on. And that was only ONE isotope reported. There were up to 1600 different isotopes that have been floating around in our air, pouring out of the reactors, and steaming out of the ground, every second of every day, for 13 months.

And there has been silence from our mainstream media, for which the depths of depravity are so severe I will devote an entire article just to the “why” at a future time.

But back to the research: reports in the past week indicate the pollen in southern California is radioactive now too, and it is flying around, and if you live there and go outside, you are breathing it in. And so are your children.

Along with fission products blowing over from Japan. And radiation in your drinking water. And in your rain. And in the fish you are eating. And your vegetables. And the milk supply. And its happening every second, of every day. For 13 months. Are you starting to see a problem here?

Problem is, that’s not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is what Senator Wyden is all bent out of shape about, even though independent researchers and nuke experts have been warning about this for a year.

And that is that the Reactor #4 building is on the verge of collapsing. Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them “fresh fuel” that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11th when the earthquake and tsunami hit.

If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods.

That is, if we aren’t in one already. Nuke experts like Arnie Gundersen and Helen Caldicott are prepared to evacuate their families to the southern hemisphere if that happens. It is that serious.

So now you know, if you didn’t before. We are in big trouble.

Get informed. Start paying attention to this. Every single statement in this article is verifiable, and I will continue to verify and validate the seriousness of this situation at every opportunity I have.

This may be the most important thing you ever pay attention to, for the sake of your family, friends, your neighbors, every one you know and meet, all of humanity.

It’s been thirteen months, you have some catching up to do.

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Minor editing by Madison Ruppert

Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing; a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors, Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society; A peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography; She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmogy for the past 24 years; She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12-1:00 pm EST on the Orion Talk Radio Network.

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[grower]

The senator's report is not good news for the West Coast. He points out that one more big earthquake could cause a radioactive disaster for that part of the United States.

[nvscanman]

This exact article/report was posted and discussed in another thread a couple weeks ago.

And as I pointed out in that thread 40,000,000 Bq is equal to about 1.08 mCi.
That is not a lot of radiation. It's about 2% of the typical dose for a cardiac imaging
study. To be avoided if possible but certainly not enough to cause any health issues
other than the theoretical/statistical increased risk of future cancer.

[Cyclonemom]

This exact article/report was posted and discussed in another thread a couple weeks ago.

And as I pointed out in that thread 40,000,000 Bq is equal to about 1.08 mCi.
That is not a lot of radiation. It's about 2% of the typical dose for a cardiac imaging
study. To be avoided if possible but certainly not enough to cause any health issues
other than the theoretical/statistical increased risk of future cancer.

NV, if this radiation continued at this rate unabated, at what timeframe does the cumulative effect start to affect human health? 40 years? 80 years? Even more than that?

Thanks,
cyclonemom (worried about her DS and future kids. . . . )

[nvscanman]

NV, if this radiation continued at this rate unabated, at what timeframe does the cumulative effect start to affect human health? 40 years? 80 years? Even more than that?

Thanks,
cyclonemom (worried about her DS and future kids. . . . )

To be quite honest we really can't predict with any accuracy what the
long term effects will be for certain. Most people with an understanding
of nuclear power had figured that Japan would have done SOMETHING by
now to at least effectively contain the materials affected. And if this
piss poor response they have continues then yes....people will suffer
health related diseases and death from this incident. Problem is the
amount of radioactive material entering the environement is not the
determining factor on the health issues. The amount of radioactive material
that people ingest/are exposed to is the issue. To date that amount
is essentially the same as pre EQ. The longer this goes on the more
of this material will find it's way into the biosphere that our foods originate in.

No body can give you hard and fast answers about what the future holds....not
for this or any of the other issues we face.

All I can say is that the current situation is serious for Japan and a concern for
the rest of the world. Even if Japan walks away from this, quarantines the
area and does nothing humanity will survive. More people will die, more disease will occur but this incident will not cause a massive die off.

The real questions people should be asking is why isn't Japan doing more,
why aren't they asking for help.

[Doc1]

This exact article/report was posted and discussed in another thread a couple weeks ago.

And as I pointed out in that thread 40,000,000 Bq is equal to about 1.08 mCi.
That is not a lot of radiation. It's about 2% of the typical dose for a cardiac imaging
study. To be avoided if possible but certainly not enough to cause any health issues
other than the theoretical/statistical increased risk of future cancer.

nvscanman,

I *believe* I'm in disagreement here, but wish for you to clarify your terms. A mCi is an empirical quantity of energy, like a Roentgen. To draw a weight comparison, a mCi or Roentgen is analogous to a grain, gram or pound, which are defined units of mass. A Becquerel in the other hand is only defined as one disintegration-per-second. It is a measure of time and event, somewhat similar to a speedometer's reading of miles-per-hour, which is a measure of time and unit of measurement.

I would describe something producing 40,000,000 Bq per kilogram as being fairly hot, though admittedly there is no scientific definition of "fairly hot" By comparison, the "average" human body is said to produce roughly 4000 Bq from its load of K-40 (radio potassium). Of course the total Bq is higher, as all human bodies contain other isotopes besides K-40, but it will not be dramatically so in the absence of contamination.

If we assume the average human body weighs 60 kilograms, the K-40 load would represent 66.6 Bq-per-kilogram. Quite a bit less than 40,000,000 Bq-per-kilogram, though even this probably doesn't tell us enough as we would have to know how long something was exposed to these levels before we could begin to quantify total energy/dose, right?

Best regards
Doc

[nvscanman]

nvscanman,

I *believe* I'm in disagreement here, but wish for you to clarify your terms. A mCi is an empirical quantity of energy, like a Roentgen. To draw a weight comparison, a mCi or Roentgen is analogous to a grain, gram or pound, which are defined units of mass. A Becquerel in the other hand is only defined as one disintegration-per-second. It is a measure of time and event, somewhat similar to a speedometer's reading of miles-per-hour, which is a measure of time and unit of measurement.

I would describe something producing 40,000,000 Bq per kilogram as being fairly hot, though admittedly there is no scientific definition of "fairly hot" By comparison, the "average" human body is said to produce roughly 4000 Bq from its load of K-40 (radio potassium). Of course the total Bq is higher, as all human bodies contain other isotopes besides K-40, but it will not be dramatically so in the absence of contamination.

If we assume the average human body weighs 60 kilograms, the K-40 load would represent 66.6 Bq-per-kilogram. Quite a bit less than 40,000,000 Bq-per-kilogram, though even this probably doesn't tell us enough as we would have to know how long something was exposed to these levels before we could begin to quantify total energy/dose, right?

Best regards
Doc

A curie is a unit of radioactivity, corresponding to 3.7 × 10 to the 10th disintegrations per second. A millicurie is 1/1000 of a curie. A Bq is 1
disintegration per second. The two terms are describing the same thing
just on different scales of amount. The curie is the old school term I learned
at university along with REM/RAD etc. The Bq is part of the new international
terminology that includes GRAY/SIEVERT. They define the same thing just
on different scales. I convert Bq to mCi because that is what I know and am used to.

1.08 mCi is not a microscopic amount of radioactivity as it is roughly equivalent to the amount of radioactivity contained in 1 milligram of
Radium 226. Of course besides the actual amount of radioactivity the
half life is another factor. 1 mCi of Iodine decays a lot quicker than 1 mCi of
Cesium and thus poses less of a threat.

The health risk to people from Fukushima was, is and will continue to be mainly in the form
of ingested material via the food chain. That is why I consistently state to avoid products from
the sea and endeavor to monitor your foods if possible. The risk from the open environment is
minimal to the point of ludicrous.....the risk from the food is small but real.

[Lenno]

I'll send Iron Man over there and reverse history, one could wish that DC was on the west coast
In the mean time I'll be concentrating on Obobo and the 2012 election

[forever blessed]

1 mCi of Iodine decays a lot quicker than 1 mCi of
Cesium and thus poses less of a threat.

Ooooops ....

While the effects of different isotopes decaying at the same rate may differ considerably — and Bequerels only quantify decay events per second, not decay energies — the rates of decay of any two isotope amounts yielding the same Bequerel numbers are the same. When those numbers are converted to milliCuries, the decay rates remain equivalent.

The comparative threats, of course, will depend as much on the decay energies as on the decay rates. But its incorrect to state that 1 mCi of Cs-134 will decay faster than 1 mCi of Cs-137; to have approximately equal decay activity readings, you would only need 15 times more Cs-137 than Cs-134 in your samples.

[Yoda]

The senator's report is not good news for the West Coast. He points out that one more big earthquake could cause a radioactive disaster for that part of the United States.

per se....just everything downwind of that. The west coast is already being irradiated .... by Fukushima. Obviously, if you got Santa Anna winds, that would take the radiation out to sea. If you got normal winds, then the radiation from damaged California reactors would take it eastward, and possibly northward.

The comic stupidity of self annihilation by playing nuclear non-Russian roulette after the Russians demonstrated the danger of nuclear Russian roulette is mind boggling. Gee, I will build a nuclear power plant near a fault, which is ready to release any time, and I will build that plant in such a way that if a massive earthquake occurs, then the result will be a measurable chance of long term contamination of much of my country. That sounds smart, doesn't it?

Meanwhile, FEMA is off doing things that don't need to be done (and things that probably shouldn't be done). But making sure that our nuclear power plants are not the most serious threat we face, why that is just not worth its time and energy, don't ya' know.....I just wish that DC (Warshington, that is) were getting the high readings from Fukushima radiation. Then, by golly, things would have to get done, and boy like right now. Perhaps someone could get the POTUS to enjoy the skiing at Vail. Once those Secret Service Nuke Alerts started chirping, then we'd have some action on this. Until then, it's headline news about box office sales of a comic strip movie, bread and circuses to busy us minions with.