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Fukushima Highly Radiated United States Water, Food Cover-Up
By Feds Continues
http://www.emfnews.org
By Deborah
Dupre
JULY 13, 2011
In KING
5 TV's report Tuesday on high
levels of radiation detected in Northwest rainwater,
the United States government is accused of continuing
to fail to tell the public about Fukushima dangerous
radiation blanketing parts of the United States, a
coverup that led grassroots projects and independent
reporters to gather and present data for public well-being. University
of California Nuclear Engineering Department Forum began
asking on Tuesday for people in the Los Angles area to come
forward with any dangerous radiation readings that may have
been detected after local peaches were highly radioactive.
"Our government said no
health levels, no health levels were exceeded, when in fact,
the rain water in the Northwest is reaching levels 130 times
the drinking water standards," said Gerry
Pollet from a non-government organization watchdog, Heart of
America Northwest.
A call from the
University of California Nuclear Engineering Department
Forum for public radiation readings in Los Angeles came
after a finding on Friday, July 8th, 2011 was reported that
two peaches from the popular Santa Monica local market were
confirmed to have sustained radiation levels of 81 CPMs, or
greater.
"The market's background
radiation was said to be about 39 CPMs. The two peaches,
thus, had significantly high radiation contamination
equaling over two times site background levels," stated reported EnviroReporter,
the independent news source created by Michael Collins and
Denise Anne Duffield in May 2006 featuring work of Collins,
a multi-award-winning investigative journalist who
specializes in environmental issues and served sic years as
a Director of the Los Angeles Press Club and five years as
its Judging Chair.
The University
website notes that a blogger commented about the radiated
peaches:
"What makes this
discovery especially significant is that the 2X background
radioactivity detected in these peaches was likely
significantly attenuated by their water content; when eaten
the exposure rate may be significantly higher. Even worse,
it is likely that the detected radioactivity is from a
longer half life radionuclide; which when eaten, would
irradiate a person from the inside out for potential years
to come." (@Potrblog, July 10th, 2011, at 8:05 pm,
www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/)
According to the report, "the
Greater Los Angeles Basin is continuing to get intermittent
low level elevated radiation readings. That is, radiation
levels less than 100 CPMs, but elevated relative to normal
background levels for the geiger counter testing station." http://www.enviroreporter.com/radiation-station-stats/
Pollet reviewed
Iodine 131 numbers released by the Environmental Protection
Agency last spring and reported to KING5 TV, "The level that
was detected on March 24 was 41 times the drinking water
standard."
The watchdog group
says watering plants with water exposed only briefly to the
high levels is "unlikely to cause health problems," reported
KING 5. "But they say it's information the public deserves
to know about."
EPA says this was a
brief period of elevated radiation in rainwater, and safe
drinking water standards are based on chronic exposure to
radiation over a lifetime, contrary to what independent
radiation experts say, including persons such as Dr. Helen
Caldicott, the international leading preventionist of
nuclear injury, Joseph Mangano, Cindy Folkers, a radiation
and health specialist at Beyond Nuclear, Erich Pica,
president of Friends of the Earth, and Dr. Alexey Yablokov.
In light of the ongoing
failure of government to provide critically important
Fukushima radiation news, each above named experts have
recommended that to survive Fukushima, the public needs to seek
information being provided by activists and by
websites such as Beyond Nuclear and EnvrioReporter.
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