A Japanese government official has reported, “I was overwhelmed by the amount of contaminated water coming from the reactors, we must dump it in the ocean.” This isn’t such great news for the US since President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently gave their approval for “dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs.”
The Nuclear Industry calls this their “new normal,” according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
The EPA has issued radiation guides called Protective Action Guides or PAGs which allows more radiation than any American has ever been exposed to. Within the guides, are instructions for evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.”
Wouldn’t the massive break down of reactor number one at Fukushima be considered a ‘radiological emergency?”
Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, made the comment Dec. 12 about dumping radioactive waste into the ocean.
The US governments PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems. This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period. Many experts are expecting elevated cancer rates due to these “allowable” levels of radiation exposure.
Read: Anonymous US Gov’t Expert Admits Astronomical Radiation Levels from Fukushima
The PAGs are the work of Gina McCarthy, the assistant administrator for air and radiation whose nomination to serve as EPA Administrator was only approved by the Senate a few months ago.
It is suggested that these PAGs have been in the works for over two years and are just recently available for public view.
PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said:
“This is a public health policy only Dr. Strangelove could embrace. If this typifies the environmental leadership we can expect from Ms. McCarthy, then [the] EPA is in for a long, dirty slog.”
“No compelling justification is offered for increasing the cancer deaths of Americans innocently exposed to corporate miscalculations several hundred-fold.”
…Thorium
They, the government, supports all kinds of poisons in our drinking water, so this is no surprise. When it comes to health, the president had sold us out long ago.
The support is for the drug companies, and the people, well we are just sheep to be fleeced.
It use to be, “power of, by and for the people”, now it is Welcome to corporate America!
Sadly, not surprising at all :
The public is totally uninformed about the ongoing, accelerating, and irreversible effects happening as we speak, from the planetary Fukushima catastrophe. The media is just following orders to maintain a total blackout, and the Internet-based information and data you can still get from Independent Scientist-Journalists is next. Get ready people: the Internet as we know is is about to end. The Internet is our last hope for being informed citizens and for protecting ourselves from our corrupt, immoral government. There is no way the Fukushima damage that is right now happening and will continue to be inflicted on every living thing on the planet can be whitewashed. Pay attention – do what you can in your little corner of influence. Learn to grow your own food, take iodine, stop paying for more dangerously managed nuclear power construction. The same types of faulty nuclear plant designs, location and engineering mistakes by these exact same GE nuclear power plant systems are in the process of proliferation all over the world including in your neighborhood. It won’t be long now and we will not have a choice. The human race is self-annihilating.
….iodine is naturally radioactive. And you’re complaining about radiation.
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Nascent Iodine is what he is speaking of, which is a molecule of iodine in it’s natural state—ie, I2—suspended in a solution. What people typically ingest are individual iodide atoms or ions which are significantly less beneficial to one’s health. A high level of nascent iodine in your system decalcifies the pineal gland, removes flouride, bromide, and all heavy metals from the system and prevents the absorption of those ions and heavy metals.
The most likely way for your body to be flooded with these toxic, mentally- and psychically-pacifying materials? Drinking a glass of water. Now the water is going to be radioactive too.
#distilledwaterisn’tdangerous #it’stheonlysafethingtodrink #revolution
PS-pretty much everything is radioactive. Bananas are far more radioactive than the single very rare and VERY mildly unstable iodide ion (there are 3 iodide ions).
What happened to 129Iodine? Did you forget that?
“the single very rare and VERY unstable iodide isotope (half life of 8 minutes, compare to Cesium’s 2 years)”
The half-life of 131Iodine is 8 days, not 8 minutes. 131I is not the only radioactive isotope, either. 129Iodine has a long half-life.
While you’ re worried about radioactive drinking water, consider this:
you’ve heard of Finland’s epidemic of cancer? I mean, the whole of Finland has died, already…
”A nationwide survey of the natural radioactivity in drinking water was conducted in Finland … 1970s … 1980s with the emphasis on drinking water originating from drilled wells, which may be rich in natural radionuclides (mean 222Rn 1020 Bq.l-1, maximum 77,000 Bq.l-1).”
The mean figure above, 1020, is in whole Bq per litre… So the mean drinking water from wells is 1,020,000 mBq/litre. Compare that to 10 mBq/litre, Fukushima’s contribution to seawater off the left coast of N. America.
“Between 1981 and 1987, 3000 ground water samples were analysed for [totally natural radionuclides] 222Rn, some of them for gross alpha and beta, 226Ra, 210Pb, 210Po and U. In recent years the occurrence of [totally natural] 210Pb and 210Po in ground water has been studied. Preliminary results suggest that the contribution of [totally natural] 210Pb and 210Po to the total annual effective dose equivalent is higher than the contribution of 226Ra or U in that water.”
Salonen, L. 1988 “Natural radionuclides in ground water in Finland.” Radiation Protection Dosimetry
http://rpd oxfordjournals org/content/24/1-4/163.short
It is not the same type of iodine! Radiation in water mcl should be lowered not higher. I am a water treatment expert and this EPA change in Primary Drinking standard MCL’s should be complaints in Litigations.
Well said . Its are world , There is no other place to go ,, Why we let a worthless paper control are world . Look it up Google it money has no value .
We give it value , hence we give up are planet to a few crazy people ,, WE lay down so they can become Gods .
We should all stand up and end this before there is nothing left ….
Love is truth ,light is the way to truth .
The US Government has gone ROGUE !!
This clinches it. Obummer is leading his people right off a cliff. Their treatments for radiation caused cancers will come out of the general fund. Stupid.
He has no people just puppet masters.
The highly recommended website ENENEWS deserves credit for reporting on Fukushima from the beginning.
This is not spam for ENENEWS, it’s just that it is the number 1 website covering Fukushima, which I believe is the most important story of our generation and deserves everyone’s attention.
Latest ENENEWS headline:
“Report: Massive release of Fukushima radioactive waste being planned — Gov’t Official: I was overwhelmed by amount of contaminated water from reactors, we must dump it into ocean — Experts: Most of melted nuclear fuel is now particles which are inside the water (VIDEO)”
ENENEWS is an antinuclear echochamber. Its really not that balanced. It is a harbinger for fear porn, and whacko science. The great majority there do not understand nuclear science. They are making it up as they go along.
You are a biased pro-nuclear spokesperson.
You’re wasting your time because no one believes pro-nuclear lies anymore.
Thank you to ENENEWS for being —>
** An excellent source for unbiased studies on the dangers of nuclear radiation and nuclear energy.
** ENENEWS contains thousands of links to peer-reviewed studies, media reports, and an excellent community of intelligent commenters who openly discuss the dangers of nuclear energy and nuclear radiation.
That’s why the pro-nuclear community attacks ENENEWS and feels so threatened by ENENEWS.
Highly recommend everyone go to ENENEWS to earn the truth about the dangers to the environment and human health from nuclear energy and nuclear radiation.
Well, living at beach in a northwest coastal town, I monitor the rads and so far nothing besides low background… Enenews would have people believe otherwise.
Really? Tell that to the Star Fish………if there are any left.
“Instead, the study said the mass mortality was likely caused by a harmful algal bloom… “
From University of California at Davis, June 3, 2015
“There has been substantial speculation in the media that the disease could be a result of increased radiation from the nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. We have no evidence to suggest that radiation is a likely culprit.” (Jan. 21, 2014) From University of California at Santa Cruz
“The recently published paper by Hewson et al. “Densovirus associated with sea-star wasting disease and mass mortality” provides evidence for a link between a densovirus (SSaDV) and sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS).” (November 20, 2014) From University of California at Santa Cruz
“As noted in the previous update, disease has also been seen in urchins in some locations along the coast. It is still unknown whether this is related to sea star wasting syndrome. Warmer than usual water temperatures may be playing a role, as has been the case in past events. In the last few months urchin disease symptoms have been reported in southern California and Baja California.” (March 13, 2015) From University of California at Santa Cruz
“Researchers have found no evidence of a link between the ongoing Fukushima disaster and the starfish die-off, Raimondi said—“very massive sampling” indicates that the outbreak began before waterborne radiation reached the coast.” From The New Yorker, April 21, 2015, quoting UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Pete Raimondi
hat tip: Potatoe
never mind
Doc, evidence that it wasn’t the rads…
”… a rapid and severe mass mortality of rocky shore invertebrates along the north-central California coast … In late August 2011, … populations of the purple sea urchin …, and the predatory six-armed sea star (Leptasterias sp.) were functionally extirpated from ~100 km of coastline. Other invertebrates, including the gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri) the ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus), and subtidal populations of purple sea urchins also exhibited elevated mortality. ”
“Elevated mortality first became apparent when thousands of invertebrates held in well-aerated, flow-through seawater tanks died precipitously, at the Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML; Bodega Bay, California, USA) between August 28 and 30, 2011. More than 99% of captive purple sea urchins … six-armed sea stars … and several ochre sea stars… died … Concurrently, tens of thousands of purple urchins also disappeared … in Sea Ranch, California, … Carcasses of heavy-bodied invertebrates, including large adult P. ochraceus, gumboot chitons (Cryptochiton stelleri) and red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) washed up on beaches…”
”An unexplained localized die-off of Leptasterias sp. and S. purpuratus [urchin ]… occurred in 2010 at Bodega Marine Reserve …”
”There were no obvious physical stressors (e.g., a storm, heavy rainfall event, or heat wave) that occurred during late August and early September 2011, when the onset of mortality was observed. … We accessed salinity, air temperature, water temperature, and seawater chlorophyll-a … We also scanned offshore swell data … for any indicators of potentially anomalous wave disturbance. ”… “We observed strongly discoloured seawater indicating high near-shore plankton concentrations beginning August 24, 2011 … suggest a phytoplankton bloom early in the month, and a second bloom … During the event, dissolved oxygen remained near saturation…
”Although localized mass mortalities are not uncommon … no previously documented mortality event has been so severe over such a large region … Even in comparison with high-severity events, an apparently uniform lack of survivors in certain taxa… is uncommon.”
”The most likely cause of this mortality … appears to be a toxin produced by phytoplankton that bloomed concurrently with the die-off. … The toxicity hypothesis is supported by genetic analyses that show surviving H. rufescens [red abalone] had disproportionately up-regulated genes that respond to yessotoxin [75]. Yessotoxins are produced by the dinoflagellate genus Gonyaulax [94, 95], a species of which (G. membranacea) was isolated from water samples as the most abundant species during initial phases of the bloom … Although yessotoxin-producing species have been identified as an emerging concern in northeast Pacific ecosystems [46], yessotoxins have not previously been known as lethal. That said, the dynamics of microalgal toxicity are still poorly understood, even for better-known HAB species (e.g., [96]), and the possibility remains that unidentified species and/or toxin(s) were responsible. …”
Jurgens, Laura J., et al. 2015 “Patterns of Mass Mortality among Rocky Shore Invertebrates across 100 km of Northeastern Pacific Coastline.” PloS one
“Tell that to the Star Fish………if there are any left.”
They aren’t fish at all. Call them “sea stars”. Fukushima didn’t cause the sea star wasting disease. It occurred before Fukushima, and also is found in the Atlantic,
http //www earthtouchnews com/wtf/myths-and-legends/starfish-wasting-syndrome-5-myths-busted
I agree, I have two βγ detectors – when I have pulled them out and monitored, they never showed anything interesting (about 10-50 cpm) … except that I found my ceramic tiles read 70-150 cpm on contact.
“ENENEWS contains thousands of links to peer-reviewed studies”
… and often reports them as saying BS that the peer-reviewed studies did not say…
Headline: ”Gov’t experts warn about mass of corium melting deeper than Japan, Tepco claim — …” ENENEWS
http://enenews.com/govt-experts-warn-about-mass-of-corium-melting-deeper-than-claimed-by-japan-govt-and-tepco-could-be-eroded-more-extensively-than-announced-very-significant-differences
Quoting ENENEWS headline: ””Gov’t experts warn about…”
Nothing in the article quotes any “Gov’t experts”.
Quoting ENENEWS headline: ”…corium melting deeper…”
Nothing in the article suggests that anything is in a molten state.
”Different computer models have been used by Tepco and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency to analyse the positions of the cores, …”
”… results of simulations of the accident …” ”According to the analysis, …”
What follows, in the ENENEWS article, isn’t an analysis of reality, it is the output of computer models’ simulations.
The information that follows suggests that any “core material” that might have breached the primary containment vessel, might have corroded away a little bit (the simulation shows 0.70 metres into the 7.6 metres of concrete). If this material manages to get through another six-plus metres of concrete, then it would have to get past another ”metal wall of the containment”…
The computer simulation does not indicate that the material is molten – what little progress through the concrete was that it ”ate through the basemat (radial or axial erosion)”
The article states that ”For TEPCO, the injection of water is enough to cool the corium” i.e. it isn’t molten.
”See: Image published by embassy in Japan shows Fukushima melted fuel deep underground”
The image shows no such thing. It is a diagram of how somebody thinks that contaminated water leaks out of the reactor building.
Excuse me but can you name just one benefit of this life destroying technology? Not to forget that it is radiation that causes Cancer, just in case you were going there and no one needs this ridiculous form of boiling water for steam either! So?
If you do the math, the annual world wide deaths from war has drastically decreased over the past 70 years saving an estimated billion lives. The use of fossil based energy costs some 3 million lives annually alone. The use of nuclear has drastically cut pollution related deaths saving billions of lives as well. So contrary to your ideological beliefs, which you have not substantiated with any real scientific evidence, nuclear science and technology has saved human life and preserved the environment. Please do not reply with Gofman, Sternglass, Caldicott, Mangano, Sherman, Busby, Yablokov antinuclear pseudo science. The antinuclear playbook can not stand up to reason and logic, so people like you always pander to emotional outcries, outrageous accusations, and agrarian lifestyles.
Why?
Because its one sided and fear porn. We know that the effects of Fukushima are not what they say. They spout lies and the bloggers are just as dumb as a post on the science of the atom.
I guess it does not matter that ENENEWS is wrong, most of the time. I posted several times, showing (with cited research) how ENENEWS was wrong, so they banned me. Same thing with NATURALNEWS. All you have to do is post contrary news, and they ban you.
Headline: ”Gov’t experts warn about mass of corium melting deeper than Japan, Tepco claim — …” ENENEWS
Quoting ENENEWS headline: ””Gov’t experts warn about…”
Nothing in the article quotes any “Gov’t experts”.
Quoting ENENEWS headline: ”…corium melting deeper…”
Nothing in the article suggests that anything is in a molten state.
”Different computer models have been used by Tepco and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency to analyse the positions of the cores, …”
”… results of simulations of the accident …” ”According to the analysis, …”
What follows, in the ENENEWS article, isn’t an analysis of reality, it is the output of computer models’ simulations.
The information that follows suggests that any “core material” that might have breached the primary containment vessel, might have corroded away a little bit (the simulation shows 0.70 metres into the 7.6 metres of concrete). If this material manages to get through another six-plus metres of concrete, then it would have to get past another ”metal wall of the containment”…
The computer simulation does not indicate that the material is molten – what little progress through the concrete was that it ”ate through the basemat (radial or axial erosion)”
The article states that ”For TEPCO, the injection of water is enough to cool the corium” i.e. it isn’t molten.
”See: Image published by embassy in Japan shows Fukushima melted fuel deep underground”
The image shows no such thing. It is a diagram of how somebody thinks that contaminated water leaks out of the reactor building.
It doesn’t make much difference what the ‘allowable’ levels of radiation are when radiation is continually spewing into the Pacific Ocean on a daily basis. As long as there is no collective effort to control the situation at Fukushima, the radiation levels in this country will continue to rise. ‘Allowable’ means nothing, no level of radiation is considered safe.
You are absolutely correct. This move is for the “sheeple”. Now the government can say that the levels aren’t ‘dangerous’ and all of the ignorant, unthinking masses which lack one iota of common sense will say “Oh, thank God, that Japan problem isn’t harming us!”
So, how much radioactivity is in normal, uncontaminated seawater? The stuff that is there, naturally? Like, 200 years ago, before the ‘Atomic Age’? …
Fukushima has proven that it is not the human health hazard that fear porners like ENENEWS and their toadies would like the rational world to believe. People lament over a 50 year Generation 1 technology at the mercy of the largest earthquake+tsunami on record. They have no clue.
Nice to see you still trolling around, Atoms! For all you Fukushima fear-porners (aka realists), links to the best nuke info on the planet found on the links of side 2 here
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Day 1387 of Fukushima.
Move along all friends of Atoms4Peace1. All is well. Nothing to see here.
Perhaps you’d like to be first in line to start drinking the water?
That asshat already drank the koolaid!
Forgot that we all are on the same boat? You can be a fan of this technology, but you die as we do , if its radioactivity or something else, being pro, wont help you or anyone simply by pretending the opposite.
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The change in PAGs was begun by Geo W Bush, right before he left office. Obama not doing better
“The EPA PAGs that the outgoing Bush Administration tried to publish in its last days in office also would have adopted the deeply troubling DHS “optimization” process for long-term cleanup. Furthermore, the applicability of the PAGs would have been extended to all radioactive releases.
Recognizing the highly problematic aspects of these proposals by the outgoing Administration, the Obama Administration withdrew them and promised a full and careful review. We were thus hopeful that when new PAGs were released, they would be truly protective. We have been deeply disappointed.”
http://committeetobridgethegap.org/GroupPAGltr9-16-13.pdf
They’re trying to murder us all; under the guise of law, Executive Orders, and WH Memorandums.
Could it be population control? There are too many people in this country and the population is growing exponentially. Time to cull the herd?
No it is just corruption, they need as many slaves as they can have their way with.
Dear Mr. President and The Environmental Protection Agency, I do not support this . Please reconsider as Lead in our drinking water is unacceptable already and uranium is another toxin that families do not need !
“Why is Uranium Harmful to Humans?
Minerals make up the earth. They each have a purpose that makes them useful to earth’s system. But, not all of them are human friendly. One example is the uranium, because it is not advised for human contact. …
Uranium is harmful to humans because it is an essential nuclear element. As far as human knowledge knows anything that has a nuclear composition is not good to humans. Uranium exposure can affect the human body system. It can depreciate the functions of vital organs such as the heart, brain, liver and kidney. Uranium can be retained in many different ways. It has smaller components known as radon. This can be exhaled through contaminated food or water. But, such exposure is only minor. Major exposures include working in factories or government facilities that uses uranium.
Uranium is used in nuclear power plants and there are many of that around the world. It is especially common in countries that are in war to other countries. It becomes a weapon of mass destruction. Based on history, such effect has not done anything good to humans. It stunts the psychological make-up and even the growth o those affected.”
from Knows Why Online See More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEmms6vn-p8
No one is listening.
Alright, the maximum allowable radiation is 20 micro-sieverts per year (thanks article, for only using rems). http://xkcd.com/radiation/ This chart gives approximate values of the amount of radiation for various problems. So yes, it’s something to pay attention to, but it’s really more panic-inducing than anything else.
Let them eat radioactive isotopes!
(Neo-Antoinette Colter)
Duh, let then eat yellow cake! way better
Everyone stop calling it, ‘radiation.’ It’s radioactivity and there is a big difference, because radiation is temporary, but radioactivity sticks around. Radioactivity is much more harmful.
Silly ass statement, its the same thing.
The real question here is simply, “WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?” Although being informed is certainly the first step where do we go from here?
GOOD ‘OL OBUMMER, A USELESS HUMAN BEING.