Posted on 07/16/2011 5:59:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Radioactive cesium detected in Fukushima shiitake
Radioactive cesium exceeding the government standard has been detected in shiitake mushrooms grown indoors in 2 cities in Fukushima Prefecture, about 60 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This is the first detection of radioactive cesium exceeding the standard in produce grown in greenhouses in the prefecture since the nuclear accident.
The Fukushima prefectural government says 1,770 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in mushrooms grown in Date City. The level is more than 3 times the provisional government limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.
560 becquerels of radioactive cesium was detected in mushrooms from Motomiya City.
At least 157 kilograms of shiitake mushrooms from the 2 cities were shipped from early July through Friday to Tokyo, a supermarket in Fukushima City, and a local farmers' market.
Fukushima officials are to ask the farmers to recall their produce and refrain from making new shipments while determining the cause.
Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:26 +0900 (JST)
I'm going out on a limb here, presuming that our Beloved Leader ordered installation of those detectors at least back in March. They aren't expensive, after all... you can get a thousand of them for the price of one Rape-Scan machine.
Is that really how to spell shiitake? No wonder I don’t like them.
Can a real scientist come forward and explain anything about that “government standard”? Is it really good for anything other than creating anti-nuclear headlines? Are there any proven cases where anyone has actually gotten sick?
For anyone interested, you can grow shitake mushrooms for yourself.
You can buy treated plugs. You need:
1) the shitaku plugs.
2) oak branches or trees about 4 to 6 inches diameter and about 4-feet long.
3) a shady, cool spot.
Now drill 5/16 inch holes in your logs. Drill a diamond pattern. Pound the shitaki plugs into the holes. Seal each plug with wax. Soak your logs in a stream or waterbarrel for a few days.
Now wait. Wait. Wait. Wait some more. Be sure to soak your logs from time to time to maintain the necessary moisture. In about 18 months, you’ll see a beautiful flush of delicious shitake mushrooms growing on your oak logs.
Get the grill out, buy your steaks and enjoy.
Don’t know what the cost is now, but I paid $35 for enough plugs to seed about 20 4-foot logs. And I had so many shitake mushroom that I had to give them away.
Look up the keywords “growing shitake mushrooms” to find a supply house.
How do you say in Japanese, “How are you glowing today?”.
Medical physician, nuclear researcher and discover of plutonium, John Gofman performed research that demonstrated that there is no ‘safe’ threshhold - all exposure to ionizing radiation increases risk of cancer and other illnesses. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/nwJWG.html
The latest National Academy of Sciences The BEIR VII report:
“Contrary to the beliefs of many in the nuclear industry, the BEIR VII report reaffirmed the conclusion of the prior report that every exposure to radiation produces a corresponding increase in cancer risk. “
http://www.ieer.org/comments/beir/beir7pressrel.html
And the World Health Organization affirms that there is no safe threshold for exposure to ionizing radiation.
I learned something new just now when I looked up that BEIR VII report:
“”In BEIR VII, the cancer mortality risks for females are 37.5 percent higher. The risks for all solid tumors, like lung, breast, and kidney, liver, and other solid tumors added together are almost 50 percent greater for women than men, though there are a few specific cancers, including leukemia, for which the risk estimates for men are higher.”
and
“The BEIR VII report estimates that the differential risk for children is even greater. For instance, the same radiation in the first year of life for boys produces three to four times the cancer risk as exposure between the ages of 20 and 50. Female infants have almost double the risk as male infants.”
“How do you say in Japanese, “How are you glowing today?”
Anata-wa takusan nuclear glowing duh kawaii!
That’s my Marine bar talk. I’m sure you can find better. :-)
I have to wonder if their plan is to turn the future generation of Japan into mini-Godzilla’s./sarc
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Sometimes you gotta wonder. I read an article about some parents carefully preparing box lunches and bottled water to send to school with their children because the school was serving Fukushima produce etc. The schools PROHIBITED the children from consuming their lunches from home. The school told the parents that they cannot send water or lunches to school with their children because sharing meals is ‘part of the students’ education’ so the children must eat the same foods all other children eat. Yup, sometimes it really does seem like there’s a Godzilla Initiative working it’s way through their bureaucracy.
Thanks, sergeantdave. I really appreciate your taking the time to put together some tidy directions to grow the ‘shrooms.
That's when my kids would be transfered to a school near Auntie Lu in the US. But then it also sounds like a larger than suspected area has been contaminated so the food from home probably isn't any safer than the school food.
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