Posted on 10/09/2011 10:14:19 PM PDT by ransomnote
Details in the mail magazine by the independent journalist Yasumi Iwakami (paid subscription). I'm asking if I could translate and post it here.
The number is more than 150 times more than the background (1.2 becquerels/kg).
As far as the Ministry of Education is concerned, the southern most detection of strontium-90 was in Shirakawa City, 79 kilometers from the plant. The Ministry doesn't have a plan to test for strontium or plutonium outside the 80 kilometer radius.
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It’s not going to do much harm unless ingested.
Was the sample taken from milk or something?
Probably soil. And from soil- hay and other animal feeds and from meat/dairy products - ingestion.
From Wikipedia:
Together with caesium isotopes 134Cs, 137Cs, and iodine isotope 131I it was among the most important isotopes regarding health impacts after the Chernobyl disaster.
Strontium-90 is a “bone seeker” that exhibits biochemical behavior similar to calcium, the next lighter Group 2 element. After entering the organism, most often by ingestion with contaminated food or water, about 70–80% of the dose gets excreted. Virtually all remaining strontium-90 is deposited in bones and bone marrow, with the remaining 1% remaining in blood and soft tissues. Its presence in bones can cause bone cancer, cancer of nearby tissues, and leukemia.
OK, you should be aware that there isn’t good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!
This is why many people think danger from Strontium 90 is badly overrated, while perhaps danger radioactive iodine was underestimated.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18049227
The accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in 1986 led to a substantial increase of thyroid cancer among those exposed as children. The other cancer that is the most sensitive to the effects of ionizing radiation is leukemia, and this paper evaluates the evidence relating exposure to Chernobyl radioactivity and leukemia risk. Two types of objectives are identified, namely, scientific evidence and public health, and two approaches to addressing such objectives are discussed. Empirical studies in affected populations are summarized, and it is concluded that, possibly apart from Russian cleanup workers, no meaningful evidence of any statistical association between exposure and leukemia risk as yet exists.
Yeah, kids are closer to the ground, any stirred up dust and they are the first ones to inhale the fallout contamination.
OK, you should be aware that there isn’t good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!
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Mount Athos
Actually, there is good evidence linking Chernobyl with Leukemia increase!
Soviets made it illegal to report deaths as having been caused by radiation for the first three years following the disaster. Here’s a quote from the comprehensive report on the Chernobyl effected regions
(http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf)
NOTE: EXCERPT TAKEN FROM PAGE 198 of the 349 page PDF
“Owing to the secrecy and the
falsification of data that continued for 3
years after the catastrophe (see Chapter 3 for
details), unknown numbers of leukemia cases
in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were not in-
cluded in any registry. These distortions should
be kept in mind when analyzing the following data.”
Then the data shown in the tables of the PDF (page 177-181 by internal page numbering or page 198-202 of PDF file) indicate significant increases in leukemia, and that is in spite of inherent suppression of data following the disaster.
Note that increases in leukemia occurred in neighboring regions as a result of Chernobyl:
Here are a few of the countries (Page 180 internal numbering)mentioned in the document:
“6.3.4.Other Countries
1.GERMANY. There was 1.5-fold increase in
the incidence of leukemia among infants born
in West Germany between July 1,1986, and
December 31,1987(Pugbeil etal.,2006).
2.GREAT BRITAIN. In 1987 in Scotland
leukemia in children under the age of 4 years
rose by 37% (Gibson etal.,1988;Busbyand
ScotCato,2000;Busby,2006).
3.GREECE.Infants born between July 1,
1986, and December 31,1987,and exposed
to Chernobyl fallout in utero had 2.6 times the
incidence of leukemia compared to children
born between January 1,1980, and December
31,1985, and between January 1,1988,
and December 31,1990. Elevated rates were
also reported for children born in regions of
Greece with higher levels of radioactive fallout
(Petridou etal.,1996).
Note that the National Academy of Sciences document I cited was published in 2009 and the document you cited was from 2007
Given the increases of human suffering and genetic mutation encountered thus far - it’s crushing to think of that 200 year half life - or the thousands of years that Plutonium lasts.
There’s actually evidence that recriticality is still occurring in at least one of the reactors and this is believed to explain why some areas in japan have increased levels of radiation in September compared with readings taking in June. It’s not over yet.
A Becquerel is 1 atomic disintegration per second.
1.5 Bq/kg means that 3 atoms of the ~10^24 (1 with 24 zeroes after it) in a kilogram of material disintegrates every 2 seconds.
This is utterly insignificant.
They have a serious problem in Reactor 1. A pipe that normally contains cooling water, was 60 % filled with Hydrogen gas. They pumped Nitrogen Gas into the pipe and removed the Hydrogen, but the Hydrogen reentered the sealed water pipe again. So some where there is Hydrogen gas being created with pressure enough to possibly break the water pipe seals. They do not know where the Hydrogen gas is coming from.
A nuclear bomb sends most of the fallout high into the atmosphere were it disperses and is held in circulation for centuries before finding its way back to the ground. This adds to higher background readings.
Fukushima keeps spewing fallout at ground level, into the groundwater and ocean and still is contaminating the surrounding area. The contamination never makes it to the higher atmosphere where the accumulative affect on the ground finds it way to food sources and water supplies.
Why you think going through all the trouble to clean up Fukushima is pointless and should be just left to sit there and be ignored is beyond me.
A nuclear bomb sends most of the fallout high into the atmosphere were it disperses and is held in circulation for centuries before finding its way back to the ground. This adds to higher background readings.
Fukushima keeps spewing fallout at ground level, into the groundwater and ocean and still is contaminating the surrounding area. The contamination never makes it to the higher atmosphere where the accumulative affect on the ground finds it way to food sources and water supplies.
Why you think going through all the trouble to clean up Fukushima is pointless and should be just left to sit there and be ignored is beyond me.
Sorry, I’m juggling a couple of threads and postings and am bound to make a mistake.
Disregard my recent post to you.
ok no worries
Study up, Mount Athos. If you do you’ll discover that Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined had a tiny fraction of the amount of radiation already released by Fukushima. If only Fukushima had as little radiation as those two nuclear bombs today - what an improvement that would be!
The national Academy of Science BEIR VII report as well as early research by John Gofman reveals that all increases of radiation result in increases in risks of cancer and other diseases. Low levels of radiation are hazardous. Raising levels of Strontium-90 is unhealthy for humans. And I think part of the issue here is that if Strontium-90 is present 245km from the plant- it’s present in even higher levels elsewhere in Japan.
“Why you think going through all the trouble to clean up Fukushima is pointless and should be just left to sit there and be ignored is beyond me.”
I’ll ignore the above pathetic distortion - it’s not worth my time.
Actually, I just read your post again and it’s not worth my time - doesn’t actually make much sense, and shows you haven’t been paying attention to the reports of heavily contaminated tea crops, rice hay, beef, milk etc. nor the computerized air modeling that shows the west coast of the US receiving radiation from Fukushima in March after explosions sent radioactive materials high into the atmosphere.
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