Saturday, April 23, 2011
Updates on Fukushima: | Fairewinds Associates, Inc
Video with Dr Wing and discusses radiation exposure with Mr Gundersen
Arnold Gundersen, Fairewinds.com Video Reports on Japan’s Current Situation | Alternative News Report
Arnold Gundersen, Fairewinds.com Video Reports on Japan’s Current Situation | Alternative News Report: "Arnold Gundersen, Fairewinds.com Video Reports on Japan’s Current Situation"
radioactive material is circling the world on jet streams in the stratosphere
The radioactive material is circling the world on jet streams in the stratosphere, which extends about 30 miles above the earth’s surface, and it can be dragged back down to earth by storms, especially after becoming attached to dust or other heavier materials. In response to the elevated levels of the material in rainwater, the EPA and U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they are increasing monitoring for the material in drinking water and dairy products. The material accumulates in milk after being ingested by cows. The Dairy Council of California referred questions to the federal government. “Our testing is in very preliminary stages and isn’t complete yet,” FDA spokeswoman Siobhan DeLancey said in an email. “Test results that we have received from states have not indicated any uptick or hazards.” Hirsh criticized the federal government for taking several weeks to determine iodine-131 levels in rainwater, drinking water and milk on the West Coast. “Instead we get assurances before we get data, and the data takes weeks — if it comes out at all,” Hirsh said. Jet streams carry material from Japan to the West Coast; the Japanese government used them to carry bombs attached to balloons to the U.S. during World War II. If drinking water and dairy testing had been conducted earlier, and if the results had showed dangerous levels of iodine-131, residents would have known to take potassium iodide pills and stop drinking milk, Hirsh said. Dairy farmers would have known to switch to stored grain as a feedstock instead of allowing their cattle to graze on contaminated grass. As the nuclear crisis unfolded in Japan, U.S. health officials urged the public not to take potassium iodide. Spokesmen for the East Bay Municipal Utility District and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which provide much of the drinking water in the Bay Area, said Tuesday that they had not been advised by the federal or state governments to conduct testing for iodine-131 in their reservoirs. EPA air monitoring stations, meanwhile, continue to detect radioactive material that has blown across the Pacific from Japan. “There is no health concern from the radiation readings” detected by air monitors, Bandrowski said. Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/12bQI
Radiation levels at Japan nuclear plant reach new highs as conditions worsen for workers - The Washington Post
Leaked water sampled from one unit Sunday had 100,000 times the radioactivity of normal background levels
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Radiation Alerts in Japan | Stories from Japan Earthquake
Radiation Alerts in Japan | Stories from Japan Earthquake: "Japan now has to wrestle with containing dangerous levels of radiation that are leaking from a nuclear plant which suffered an explosion and a fire"
TOP ALERTS: Japan Radiation | Japan Nuclear Update
TOP ALERTS: Japan Radiation | Japan Nuclear Update
Japan RadiationWorkers used a milky bathwater dye Monday as they frantically tried to trace the path of radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s tsunami-damaged nuclear plant.
Newspaper Issues Alert: Stay Indoors To Avoid Japan Nuclear Radiation | Dprogram.net
A local California newspaper has broken stride with the corporate media and had the sense to issue a radiation alert warning people to stay indoors while a moderately concentrated plume of Japan nuclear radiation blows over the US west coast.
California's radiation warning system suffers problems - Physics Today News Picks
The US government's crucial radiation alert network in California is not fully functional; that leaves the stretch of coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco unprotected in the event of a nuclear emergency, according to Jack Dolan and Ron-Gong Lin II in the Los Angeles Times. Half of the 12 Environmental Protection Agency detectors in California have problems that could delay alerts by several hours. The system is critical for warning the public of a sudden radiation danger from foreign or domestic sources. That weakness has not caused problems during the Japanese nuclear crisis because radiation reaching US shores has been minuscule, but critics say the lack of consistent alerts could pose a public health concern.
Snapshot: Japan's nuclear crisis | Reuters
The World Health Organization says the detection of radiation in food is a more serious problem than first expected, and food contamination is not a localized problem
Nuclear crisis could last 2 to 3 more months, expert says - CNN.com
Nuclear crisis could last 2 to 3 more months, expert says
oldreactors: It is going to kill us all wake up your dead!!!!!
oldreactors: It is going to kill us all wake up your dead!!!!!
It is going to kill us all wake up your dead!!!!!
Infowars.com
April 20, 2011
The hereditary communist dictatorship in North Korea reports on the spread of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant, but it has all but fallen off the corporate media radar screen here. Monitoring stations across North Korea from April 11 to 17 detected iodine-131 and cesium-137 in the air above Wonsan in the southeast and Chongjin in the southeast, according to the country’s state-run media.
Here is a recent map showing the spread of cesium-137. Note the increased concentration over the United States.
Cesium-137 has been detected in drinking water and milk here in the United States. Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City, Guam, and Saipan while Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.
The EPA ha radiation monitoring sites situated artound the country.
Radioactive isotopes spread through the atmosphere accumulate in milk after they fall to earth in rain or dust and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues and bone marrow where it increases risk of cancer.
While the North Koreans warn about the spread of radiation, the corporate media in the West is downplaying and basically ignoring the threat. On the one hand, the EPA tells us cesium-137 is appearing in milk and water around the country, while on the other telling us not to worry.
The EPA said in March that “while they were above the historical and background norm, the levels weren’t considered harmful to human health.”
The agency sounds the alarm about radioactivity in cigarette smoke while minimizing the risk from an out of control nuclear plant that continues to spew radioactivity.
Something is seriously amiss when the most repressive dictatorship in the world reports on the danger of radioactivity while a supposedly free media and government agencies in the U.S. downplay the threat.
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April 20, 2011
The hereditary communist dictatorship in North Korea reports on the spread of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant, but it has all but fallen off the corporate media radar screen here. Monitoring stations across North Korea from April 11 to 17 detected iodine-131 and cesium-137 in the air above Wonsan in the southeast and Chongjin in the southeast, according to the country’s state-run media.
Here is a recent map showing the spread of cesium-137. Note the increased concentration over the United States.
Cesium-137 has been detected in drinking water and milk here in the United States. Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City, Guam, and Saipan while Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.
The EPA ha radiation monitoring sites situated artound the country.
Radioactive isotopes spread through the atmosphere accumulate in milk after they fall to earth in rain or dust and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues and bone marrow where it increases risk of cancer.
While the North Koreans warn about the spread of radiation, the corporate media in the West is downplaying and basically ignoring the threat. On the one hand, the EPA tells us cesium-137 is appearing in milk and water around the country, while on the other telling us not to worry.
The EPA said in March that “while they were above the historical and background norm, the levels weren’t considered harmful to human health.”
The agency sounds the alarm about radioactivity in cigarette smoke while minimizing the risk from an out of control nuclear plant that continues to spew radioactivity.
Something is seriously amiss when the most repressive dictatorship in the world reports on the danger of radioactivity while a supposedly free media and government agencies in the U.S. downplay the threat.
[7:34:40 AM] David: Jeff McMahon
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We are in gtrouble come on here look at your future!!!
We are in trouble. Come on here look at your future!!!
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
YouTube - I WANT TO ESCAPE JAPAN! Japanese Protesters Take To The Streets In Tokyo
People in Japan who have never protested before are now growing in arms, and they also want to leave Japan
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
YouTube - Toxic Rain -- Nuclear "rain out" across the USA
YouTube - Toxic Rain -- Nuclear "rain out" across the USA: "Toxic"
A toxic rain video and catching song. worth watching
YouTube - Japan is SINKING into the ocean liquefaction of ground continues!
Japan is SINKING into the ocean liquefaction of ground continues! This was shot near Tokyo!!!
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