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Fukushima Update: Radiation Danger Continues
http://www.emfnews.org
August 13, 2011 by: Mark
Sircus., AC, OMD
(NaturalNews) Five months ago today,
the nuclear crisis began in Fukushima, and the government
began lying about the threat and the dangers to its people.
Now they are beginning to build a gigantic tent over reactor
number one. We do not have any information from Japan about
people dying but the plants are dying in the middle of
central Tokyo and it could be because of the increase in
radiation. One irony of the radioactive fallout from
Fukushima is that people in Japan are starting to pay more
attention to nature.
The picture above was taken on the sidewalk of Hakusan Dori
in Bunkyo-ku in Tokyo, and was uploaded on July 30. The air
radiation in Bunkyo-ku has been higher than the official
Tokyo number (measured in Shinjuku-ku, western central
Tokyo), along with several other eastern "ku" (special wards
of Tokyo). The person who took the picture says, "About 30%
of azaleas on the sidewalk are completely dead. Ginkgo
leaves are browning."
Japan is considering the possibility of
creating a back-up capital city in case they need to abandon
Tokyo. A new panel from Japan's Ministry of Land and
Infrastructure will consider the possibility of moving some
of Tokyo's capital functions to another big city, like
Osaka. They talk about earthquake threats, which are quite
real but mention nothing about the persistent radiation
driving parts of the government out of the city.
The story only gets worse and this one could eventually
bring down the Japanese government, which withheld important
information from residents of Tsushima. ?Tamotsu Baba, the
mayor of Namie, said that the withholding of information was
akin to "murder." Japan's system to forecast radiation
threats was working from the beginning but they did not warn
the people when a radiation plume hit the Karino Elementary
School.? The school, just over six miles from the plant, was
not cleared out. Instead it was turned into a temporary
evacuation center.
For three nights, while hydrogen explosions at four of the
reactors spewed radiation into the air many Japanese stayed
in Tsushima district where the children played outside and
some parents used water from a mountain stream to prepare
rice. The radioactive "winds, in fact, had been blowing
directly toward Tsushima but this vital information was left
unpublicized by bureaucrats in Tokyo, operating in a culture
that sought to avoid responsibility and, above all,
criticism," published the New York Times.
Three men in charge of nuclear power safety and policy have
been sacked. Trade and Industry Minister, Banri Kaieda, said
the three senior officials would be held responsible for
mishandling the plant and its problems. Japanese officials
have withheld information and denied the facts of the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster to its own citizens and
they are doing that in coordination with other governments
around the world who are also withholding and hiding
information.
Not a Good Time for Rice and other
Crops
Japan started trading rice futures this past Monday but
suspended the market after the price of the staple grain
soared on fears that radioactive contamination from the
Fukushima disaster will restrict supply. Rice, Japan's
staple crop has not been spared exposure from Fukushima's
radiation. Rice planting has been banned in areas close to
Fukushima and tests will be done on the crops before being
sold. Questions remain over how much is being revealed to
the public, as radiation seeps deeper into the food chain.
Fallout from the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi power plant has
spread to crops -- We learned that after it was found that
cattle had been fed cesium-tainted rice straw.
The Problem that is Not Going Away
Meanwhile radioactive material is still leaking from the
plant nearly five months later, and last week workers at the
plant discovered the hottest radioactive spot seen since the
disaster began, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, July
28, 2011. The ultra-high levels of radiation were measured
on the grounds of the facility, between reactors No. 1 and
2. The lethal radiation was found at the bottom of a
ventilation tower. The power company immediately cordoned
off the area and is currently investigating the cause of the
high radiation and how it will affect the recovery work at
the plant, Tsunoda said. The radiation levels -- 10,000
millisieverts per hour -- are high enough that a single
60-minute dose would be fatal to humans within weeks.
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant might
have suffered a second nuclear meltdown, Kyodo news agency
reported. According to the study, which was conducted by
nuclear safety expert Fumiya Tanabe, fuel inside one of the
plant's nuclear reactors might have breached the bottom of a
pressure vessel after melting again.
The current guidelines for workers' compensation due to
radiation exposure only certify leukemia among the various
types of cancer that will be covered. In these cases
compensation is granted only when an applicant is exposed to
more than 5 millisieverts of radiation a year and develops
leukemia more than one year after being exposed to nuclear
radiation.
The operator of Japan's damaged nuclear power plant says the
area where potentially lethal levels of radiation were
detected has been sealed.
Iodine Truth or Consequences
Health Canada's radiation webpage offers some striking data
from the five stations monitoring specific radioactive
substances. This data shows the air at the five stations
contained an average of 33.3 millibecquerels of radioactive
iodine per cubic metre during 30.4 days of elevated
radiation.
That works out to double the 16.7 millibecquerels per cubic
metre of iodine-131 that would be permitted over those 30.4
days, according to the maximum limit set by the Canadian
Nuclear Safety Commission. (The commission's ceiling is 200
millibecquerels per cubic metre of exposure in the air on a
daily basis for an entire year. That equates to 16.7
millibecquerels per cubic metre over 30.4 days.)
The station in Sidney, B.C. detected 19.4 millibecquerels
per cubic metre of iodine-131 in the air during a
22-day-long spike in radiation. That was 61 percent higher
than the maximum dose of 12.1 millibecquerels per cubic
metre permitted for 22 days.
At the end of April I cautioned all my readers that there is
nothing more important in the entire world now than taking
our daily iodine supplements. An appropriate public health
response to the nuclear disaster in Japan starts with iodine
because any lack of the nutritional type of iodine will
attract the radioactive type like honey attracts bees.
The last thing anyone wants to be walking around with is a
thyroid so starving for iodine that it will readily take on
the nasty radioactive isotope of iodine when exposed to it.
Dr. David Brownstein has tested 5,000 of his patients and
has found out that 95 percent of them are iodine
deficient and other iodine researchers he has talked to
found similar trends in their patients as well.
If you have any doubt about the importance of iodine please
read my book on iodine, which also presents the views of Dr.
David Brownstein who has more experience with iodine with
patients than just about any other doctor in the world. The
original publication of my iodine book was dedicated to him
and a short list of doctors who have championed the recent
renaissance of iodine supplementation. Iodine also helps
against infections and is an important asset for all cancer
sufferers. So take your iodine and take it at appropriate
doses to supply your body's needs.
Please be aware that there are many different kinds of
iodine on the market, and some are not appropriate for oral
ingestion and others are available at varying strengths. For
radiation protection I recommend all forms of iodine, even
the tinctures that can only be applied topically. For
children and thyroid-sensitive people I recommend Nascent
iodine, which is in the I1 atomic form, or Lugol's, which is
more affordable for heavy topical treatments and the
different tablets that are out there. Even topical iodine
tincture may be used but cannot be taken orally.
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