Posted on 12/20/2013 11:27:33 AM PST by FR_addict
When the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts.
But months later, while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse. And his fiance and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym, who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging. ...
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Not an unexpected reaction by one of today’s governments, is it?
Sadly, No.
It might be about right for a retirement home. But it is incredibly high for a crew of young, healthy people.
“If the water is distilled radioactive impurities would be removed with other precipitates.”
The sailors drink straight sea water. That is why they call them old salts.
I agree. Just another lawyer trying to cash in, counting on the public's sympathy for service members, distrust of governments, and ignorance of acute radiation exposure, to get a piece of the TEPCO settlement.
I have recently read about tritium - mass quantities associated with Fukushima and supposedly it’s the isotope for which no technology that can remove it from water exists.
1) Tritium readily forms water when exposed to oxygen.
2) As it undergoes radioactive decay, tritium emits a very low energy beta particle and transforms to stable, nonradioactive helium.
3) In a controlled environment, it can have a half life of 12+ years. In the open air or seawater would decay(oxidize) almost instantly.
When it does decay, it gives off a beta particle which is not ionizing ratiation.
1) Tritium readily forms water when exposed to oxygen.
2) As it undergoes radioactive decay, tritium emits a very low energy beta particle and transforms to stable, nonradioactive helium.
3) In a controlled environment, it can have a half life of 12+ years. In the open air or seawater would decay(oxidize) almost instantly.
They can’t sue the government but they can sue the corporation
HAHAHAHA....Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink
I find it remarkably hard to believe our own navy did not do our own monitoring of the radiation levels. Why would we trust a foreign government?
“I have recently read about tritium - mass quantities associated with Fukushima and supposedly it’s the isotope for which no technology that can remove it from water exists.”
Don’t believe everything you read.
Pfflier, how dare you introduce facts into this heartrending tragedy. True or not, it will certainly do some good for the well-meaning former ACLU attorney who must deal with the exorbitant rents on Bridgeway in Sausalito. Perhaps he is also dealing with supporting a sailboat as many of the environmentally sensitive in Sausalito - and maintaining a birth in Sausalito takes courage and money.
During my decades of nuclear detector work I was never without a dosimeter in my wallet. Navy ships are bristling with radiation detection and measurement devices, some of which do an amazing job of detecting ionizing radiation at remarkable distances (my experiments were usually up close and personal) using ship-based sensors, as well as satellites and airplanes. Of course the attorney will not be shaking down the Navy or confusing a jury with these data.. Attorney Bonner is certainly looking for a juicy settlement, so facts mean much less than publicity, which even Fox News is contributing to, perhaps related to its ownership by the Saudi Royal Family. One of the desirable attributes of nuclear power generation is that radiation measurement is so ubiquitous and so sensitive the natural background, radon or cosmic ray generated radiation must be accounted for.
This lawyer is probably getting donations from all the old lefty organizations, the superstitious, vegans, Alex Jones aficionados, and once could count on the communists and Saudis. Now that China and Russia are signing many more contracts to partner with countries who are learning the price of ignorance, and the cost of believing Al Gore, their antinuclear agitprop may not be as generously funded.
Our presidential science advisor, John Holdren, was one of them, both antinuclear and communist, as his students and readers at David Horowitz’ Marxist journal Ramparts, knew quite well, a doctrinaire Marxist, working for the inevitable socialist revolution. Holdren’s students at UC Berkeley, of which I was one, generally had no idea.
Notice such articles seldom offer numerical evidence, and this sick sailor claim will almost certainly be like the babies with leukemia resulting from Three Mile Island, from their drinking the milk from cows in Pennsylvania. Cows in Pennsylvania didn’t have a measurable increase in radiation in their milk, and Three Mile Island released less radiation than would be experienced by someone moving to Denver for six months.
There are long-lived populations living in towns in Brazil, India, and several other locations which names I have long forgotten with natural background radiation in the 5 Rem range, much more than even Fukushima exposed those in the town, and more than those living in Chernobyl were exposed to, except for some workers at the plant.
Three workers exposed during the initial critical radiation event died. Chernobyl had an increase in leukemia and other radiation associated diseases for a few years, the official reports claim about 60 citizens over 5 years, though that number is exceeded by leukemia statistics in many parts of the world, and even in The Ukraine. The average coal plant releases more ionizing radiation than a commercial nuclear plant, of which there have been two meltdowns in over sixty years of operation, Three Mile Island and Fukushima.
Chernobyl’s reactors were not commercial reactors, having no steel containment vessels nor reinforced concrete buildings. They were graphite core reactors designed to produce plutonium for weapons which happened to produce usable heat for use by civilians both for heating and electricity generation. The coal plants that replaced the reactor that melted have long been known (US EPA estimates) to kill an additional two hundred people each year from hydrocarbon emissions and the resulting premature cardiorespiratory illness. Scrubbers in coal plants do not remove radioisotopes - at least not by design.
Here’s the link. Sounds like there must be more than one isotope of Tritium in play because this is the statement saying they can’t remove it from water:
I don’t. Here’s a statement re tritium. It’s not the original I read but it sounds like the same info.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/jp-gov-there-is-no-technology-to-remove-tritium-from-contaminated-waterappeal-international-world-for-technology/
From wiki (it is hazardous if ingested in water)
Tritium is potentially dangerous if inhaled or ingested. It can combine with oxygen to form tritiated water molecules, and those can be absorbed through pores in the skin.
Since tritium is a low energy beta emitter, it is not dangerous externally (its beta particles are unable to penetrate the skin), but it is a radiation hazard when inhaled, ingested via food or water, or absorbed through the skin.[16][17][18][19] HTO has a short biological half-life in the human body of 7 to 14 days, which both reduces the total effects of single-incident ingestion and precludes long-term bioaccumulation of HTO from the environment.[18][20] Biological half life of tritiated water in human body, which is a measure of body water turn over, varies with season. Studies on biological half life of occupational radiation workers for free water tritium in the coastal region of Karnataka, India show that the biological half life in winter season is twice that of the summer season.[21]
According to the U.S. EPA “A recently documented source of tritium in the environment is tritium exit signs that have been illegally disposed of in municipal landfills. Water, which seeps through the landfill, is contaminated with tritium from broken signs and can pass into water ways, carrying the tritium with it.”[22]
Have not heard one word on television about this story,the gays can go jump,this is more of a story than duck callers
Hydrogen only has two isotopes, Tritium and Deuterium.
Sampling detected about 2000 picoCi/l of tritium in the harbor sea water. 20000 picoCi/l is considered safe to drink. By the time the harbor water got 100 miles at sea where the carrier was, it would be undetectable.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201309030050
Won’t happen because of the ‘stigma’ but here is the professional recommendation.
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