(Organic Slant) “Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any immediate health effects. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers,” concluded the 60 th session of the Vienna-based United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effect of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). THEY MUST BE SMOKING CRACK FOR THAT CONCLUSION.

Be careful out there-some folks do not have your best interests at heart is the sad fact of the matter. So get geiger counters folks-keep your children out of the rain and be aware and awake. This fallout is happening all over the planet. It is being measured all over the globe.

PRESS RELEASE

The effects of radiation exposure on humans and the environment following the accident at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 is one of the major issues being discussed at the Committee’s annual session which started on Monday, 27 May. The second important issue is related to the short and long term effects of exposure to radiation on children. This covers medical as well as other kinds of exposure (not specifically related to the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi).

The report that is finally adopted by the Committee will be presented to the United Nations General Assembly when it meets later this year, and the scientific data and evaluation underpinning that report will be published separately.

1. Radiological impact of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident:

More than 80 leading international scientists have worked on analysing the information available on the levels and effects of exposure following the events of 11 March 2011 in Japan. Material they prepared was scrutinized by the 27 countries on the Scientific Committee at their annual session. When the Committee’s report is published, it will be the most comprehensive international scientific analysis of the information available to date.

“The experience from the 1986 Chernobyl accident has shown us that apart from any direct impact on physical health, the social and societal effects, and their associated health consequences in  the affected population  will need special attention in the coming years,” said Carl-Magnus Larsson, Chair, UNSCEAR. “Families are suffering, and people have been uprooted and are concerned about their livelihoods and futures, the health of their children…it is these issues that will be the long-lasting fallout of the accident. At the same time, it is important to maintain a long-term medical follow-up for the exposed population, and in relation to certain diseases to provide a clear picture of their health status development.”

The draft report was deliberated at length by the Committee, including more recent data received from Japan. Methodologies, assessments and doses were scrutinized in detail, and the Committee has made some recommendations that will be incorporated into the draft, which is now in the process of being finalized for presentation to the General Assembly. “The Report has the full confidence of the Committee,” said Larsson.

On the whole, the exposure of the Japanese population was low, or very low, leading to correspondingly low risks of health effects later in life. The actions taken to protect the public (evacuation and sheltering) significantly reduced the radiation exposures that would have otherwise been received, concluded the Committee “These measures reduced the potential exposure by up to a factor of 10. If that had not been the case, we might have seen the cancer rates rising and other health problems emerging over the next several decades,” said Wolfgang Weiss, Chair, UNSCEAR report on radiological Impact of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident.

The doses delivered for the two most significant radionuclides were quite different: doses to the thyroid mainly from iodine-131 ranged up to several tens of milligray and were received within a few weeks after the accident; the whole-body (or effective) doses mainly from caesium-134 and caesium-137 ranged up to ten or so millisieverts (mSv) and will be received over the lifetime of those exposed. The additional exposures received by most Japanese people in the first year and subsequent years due to the radioactive releases from the accident are less than the doses received from natural background radiation (which is about 2.1 mSv per year). This is particularly the case for Japanese people living away from Fukushima, where annual doses of around 0.2 mSv from the accident are estimated, arising primarily through ingestion of radionuclides in food.

No radiation-related deaths or acute effects have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers (including TEPCO employees and contractors) involved at the accident site.

Given the small number of highly exposed workers, it is unlikely that excess cases of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure would be detectable. Special health examinations will be given to workers with exposures above 100 mSv including annual monitoring of the thyroid, stomach, large intestine and lung for cancer as a means to monitor for potential late radiation-related health effects at the individual level.

The assessment also concluded that although the rate of exposures may have exceeded the levels for the onset of effects on plants and animals several times in the first few months following the accident, any effects are expected to be transient in nature, given their short duration. In general, the exposures on both marine and terrestrial non-human biota were too low for observable acute effects. Potential exceptions are water plants, especially located in the area where radioactive water was discharged into the ocean. “At this point, we can say that there is a potential risk to some organisms in the areas of highest exposure, but it is difficult to quantify it in detail with the available information,” said Malcolm Crick, Secretary, UNSCEAR (The UNSCEAR secretariat is administered by the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP). “The exposures of organisms in the environment are unlikely to cause anything more than transient harm to their populations,” he added.

2. UNSCEAR Report on Effects of Radiation Exposure of Children 

Because of anatomical and physiological differences, radiation exposure has a different impact on children compared with adults. The Committee had started a general review of these differences before the Fukushima-Daiichi accident; its conclusions on this subject are considered in this year’s report to the General Assembly.

There are differences in the doses received by children and adults from exposure to the same distribution of radioactive material in the environment, for example, when there are elevated levels of radionuclides on the ground. Children can also receive significantly higher doses than adults in situations such as medical exposure if the technical settings are not adapted appropriately.

If radionuclides are ingested or inhaled, the presence of radionuclides in one organ can give higher radiation doses to others because the organs of children are in closer proximity to one another than those of adults. In addition, both the metabolism and physiology depend on age, which also affects the concentrations of radionuclides in different organs and thus the dose to those organs for a given intake.

After radiation exposure, children are clearly more radiosensitive for about 30 per cent of tumour types when compared with adults. These types include leukaemia and thyroid, skin and brain cancer. They have the same sensitivity as adults when it comes to 25 per cent of tumour types such as kidney and bladder, and are less sensitive than adults when it comes to 10 per cent of tumour types including lung cancer.

For effects that are bound to occur after high doses, the Committee concluded that as seen with carcinogenesis, there are some instances in which childhood exposure poses more risk than adult exposure (e.g. for effects in the brain, cataracts, and thyroid nodules). There are other instances where the risk appears to be about the same (e.g. neuroendocrine system and effects in the kidneys) and there are a few instances where children’s tissues are more resistant (lung, immune system, marrow and ovaries).

“More research is needed to fully understand the risks and effects following childhood exposure to radiation. This is necessary (and possible) because there are many individuals who were exposed as children (such as the survivors of the atomic bombings) who are still alive. Their experiences must not be lost,” said Fred Mettler, Chair, UNSCEAR Report on Effects of Radiation Exposure on Children.

He added that the report was a valuable resource, as it is the first document that presents a comprehensive overview of the effect of radiation on children in totality.

Watch the webcast of the press briefing on 31 May at 13.30 pm at https://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/webcast.html

The mandate of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), established in 1955, is to undertake broad reviews of the sources of ionizing radiation and the effects on human health and the environment. Its assessments provide a scientific foundation for United Nations agencies and governments to formulate standards and programmes for protection against ionizing radiation.

UNSCEAR has conducted a scientific evaluation of the levels and effects due to radiation exposure resulting from the Fukushima accident. It does not deal with or assess nuclear safety or emergency planning issues.

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For further information, contact

Jaya Mohan

Communications, UNSCEAR

Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-4122

Mobile: (+43-699) 1459-4122

Email: [email protected]

WHY THEY ARE SMOKING CRACK

Has the U.N. calculated the extent of lies, and cover-up of data incorporated into the equation?

The three meltdowns have spewed trillions of becquerels of highly radioactive iodine-131, cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239 into the atmosphere and Pacific since March 11, 2011. The initial explosions and fires sent untold amounts of radiation high into the atmosphere.

No they haven’t. No,No, No.

Global Meltdown

A meltdown occurred which spewed massive amounts of radiation across 100s of thousands of square kilometers of Japan, resulting in no-go zones which are still in effect today and will be in effect for decades. 100s of thousands of Japanese still can’t return to their homes. The economies of these affected areas are of course still dead too. Any honest appraisal of what happened at Fukushima has to say it was and is an unmitigated catastrophe. I guess some people still confuse nuclear reactors with nuclear bombs: if they don’t explode in a beautiful mushroom cloud (wait a second, two of the four Fukushima reactors did!), then everyone thinks “the worst” was averted. No, it is the massive release of radioactive contamination that is the worst case scenario for a nuclear reactor. No dead bodies to count? Just wait a few years and decades.

Lies

Millions of tons of seawater and fresh water have been used to cool the melted cores and spent fuel rods, generating millions of tons of irradiated water. The Kuroshio Current is transporting a significant amount of this escaping radiation from Fukushima Daiichi across the Pacific toward the West Coast.

A Feb. 28 report by the Meteorological Research Institute, just released at a scientific symposium in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, says that 40,000 trillion becquerels, double the amount previously thought, have escaped Unit 1 reactor alone.

Approximately 70,000 American troops have been radiation poisoned for their humanitarian aid to Fukushima survivors after believing related nuclear industry and government lies, including that low-level radiation is not harmful to human health, according to an attorney last week who is representing the Navy in a lawsuit.

“They’ve got leukemia, they have growths, they’re undergoing surgery to remove lesions in their brains, a couple of them have had them and have lost the sight in their eye,” Attorney Paul C. Garner said in a Nuke Radio interview last week.

Garner is representing U.S. service members in Japan after March 11 during the humanitarian Operation Tomodachi.

Cover-up

We now have a worldwide conspiracy to suppress the radiation exposure of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear fallout. Led by Japan itself and reinforced by America’s plutocracy ~ much like the financial crisis, the gulf oil Spill, and all other major crises ~ we continue to cover up instead of address the real human problem, human cost and human consequences of these events, and that is the very definition of corporate totalitarianism.

In that regard, what did the leader of the free world, President Obama actually have to say regarding this disaster in 2011? Short true Video (with appropriate Photoshop allowance for hypocrisy)

Clearly, the situation regarding the Fukushima fallout is out of control ~ now that the fog of calculated deception is slowly lifting. As such,the US needs to be forced to lead the way in rallying international support for the crippled plant for it’s obviously more than Japan can handle itself.  A Senate investigation would be a first step in facing the reality of Fukushima fallout as well as its ongoing threat. Please continue to circulate thispetition ~

Only the united will of the people in action can block the gears of an out of control plutocracy along with the abuse of corporate totalitarianism but now, in regards to Fukushima, our very lives are at stake.

Crooked clean-up

Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste.

Decontamination is considered a crucial process in enabling thousands of evacuees to return to their homes around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant and resume their normal lives.

But the decontamination work witnessed by a team of Asahi Shimbun reporters shows that contractual rules with the Environment Ministry have been regularly and blatantly ignored, and in some cases, could violate environmental laws….

Dump it

Dozens of crabs, three small sharks and scores of fish thump on the slippery deck of the fishing boat True Prosperity as captain Shohei Yaoita lands his latest haul, another catch headed not for the dinner table but for radioactive testing.

The fishermen and Tepco are in dispute over the utility’s plans to dump 100 metric tonnes (110.23 tons) of groundwater a day from the devastated plant into the sea. The complicated clean-up plan for Fukushima could take 30 years or more.

Tepco’s challenge is what to do with the contaminated water that has been pooling at the plant at a rate of 400 tonnes a day – enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in a week.

So far it has been racing to build tanks to store the contaminated water on the grounds of the plant, in which all the water is kept at the moment.

It has also asked fishermen to support a plan to build a “by-pass” that would dump groundwater into the sea before it becomes contaminated by flowing under the reactor’s wreckage.

Fukushima 50

“The Fukushima 50 are as good as dead. They are walking dead”
This comment was made based on US NRC calculations on how much (or little) water remained in the spent fuel pool at the No.4 reactor building (that pool had double the fuel load because the reactor was undergoing annual maintenance and all spent fuel from within the No.4 reactor were moved to the pool just before the Earthquake). This calculation put the spent fuel rods in the No.4 pool only hours away from meltdown. By pure luck, the earthquake caused a breach in the partition between the No.4 reactor and its spent fuel pool, resulting in hundreds of tons of additional water pouring into the rapidly heating pool, buying extra 20-30 hours’ time, which proved to be enough to start pouring seawater into the pool using helicopters and concrete pumps.

The Children

A recent report into the Fukushima Nuclear disaster of 2011 has shown that more than forty percent of children have thyroid abnormalities.

The Tenth Report of the Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey, released earlier this week, with data up to January 21, 2013, revealed that 44.2 percent of 94,975 children sampled had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities. The number of abnormalities has also been increasing over time as well as the proportion of children with nodules equal to and larger than 5.1 mm and any size cysts have increased.
The report has also revealed that 10 of 186 eligible are suspected of having thyroid cancer as a result of the exposed radiation.

Researchers have discovered that the Fukushima nuclear disaster has had far-reaching health effects more drastic than previously thought: young children born on the US West Coast are 28 percent more likely to develop congenital hyperthyroidism.

In examining post-Fukushima conditions along the West Coast, researchers found American-born children to be developing similar conditions that some Europeans acquired after the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

“Fukushima fallout appeared to affect all areas of the US, and was especially large in some, mostly in the western part of the nation,” researchers from the New York-based Radiation and Health Project wrote in a study published by the Open Journal of Pediatrics.

Children born after the 2011 meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant are at high risk of acquiring congenital hyperthyroidism if they were in the line of fire for radioactive isotopes. Researchers studied concentration levels of radioiodine isotopes (I-131) and congenital hypothyroid cases to make the association.

The WHO estimated a 70 percent increase in the risk that girls residing within 12 miles radius of the epicenter will develop thyroid cancer. An increase in child cancer rates was discovered in the most contaminated areas of Fukushima Prefecture, with young girls in the area at a 70 percent increased risk of contracting thyroid cancer. The standard risk is 0.75 percent, rising to 1.25 in the plant area.

There was a 4 percent increased chance of all solid cancers in females exposed as infants, a 6 percent increased risk of breast cancer in the same group, and around a 7 percent increased risk of leukemia in males exposed as infants. In these areas, a radiation dose of approximately 50 milli-sieverts was measured.

An ongoing study on the impact of radiation on Fukushima residents from the crippled atomic power plant has found 12 minors with confirmed thyroid cancer diagnoses, up from three in a report in February, with 15 others suspected to have cancer, up from seven, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Researchers at Fukushima Medical University, which has been taking the leading role in the study, have so far said they do not believe that the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis. They point out that thyroid cancer cases were not found among children hit by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident until four to five years later.

Yes, because Fukushima is FAR, FAR worse!!!

According to Helen Caldicott, “It took 5 years for the children around Chernobyl to develop cancer. These children are showing symptoms and signs that they may well develop cancer in the future, indicating that they got a really high dose of radiation, higher than at Chernobyl.”

Abnormalities found

Scientist demonstrated that the Z. maha population in the Fukushima area is deteriorating physiologically and genetically. Most likely, this deterioration is due to artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP, as suggested by our field work and laboratory experiments. We observed abnormalities of the F1 generation that were not necessarily seen in the first-voltine parents, and these F1 abnormalities were inherited by the F2 generation, suggesting that genetic damage was introduced in germ-line cells of this butterfly. We also observed a higher abnormality rate in the field-collected samples in September than in May. Moreover, we successfully reproduced the results of the field work and breeding experiments with artificial external and internal exposures. All of these results suggest that radiation caused adverse effects at the physiological and genetic levels.

No other long-term effects!!!?!!

Except all the long-term effects that are occurring from Chernobyl. Everything is very, very, very far from fine. How on Earth can you dare suggest that the following is in any way ok.

Professor Keith Baverstock, who led the World Health Organisation’s radiation protection programme for more than 10 years, thinks European deaths to Chernobyl at are probably between thirty and sixty thousand. He believes the health effects will continue for generations. Many young children in Ukraine are ill. These include children who were not even born when Chernobyl happened but teachers and doctors are reporting high levels of illnesses like heart disease and cancers, diseases that should be extremely rare in children. For example, in one school of 900 children in a village 50 miles from Chernobyl, almost 90% of the children are ill, including with fragile bones. They look alright but the teachers say how they easily break their bones when doing simple exercise or have heart problems etc. They said they now increasingly see babies being born with problems. Source: “Fallout”, BBC documentary, 9 October 2011.

In 2006, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, “At least three million children in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation require physical treatment due to the Chernobyl accident.”

The 2009 report, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment”, published by the New York Academy of Sciences, estimated the number of deaths attributable to the Chernobyl meltdown at about 980,000.

“The Chernobyl Forum”, which includes the IAEA, WHO, World Bank and government organisations from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, issued a report in September 2005, “Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programs,” that concluded that 4000-9000 people have or will die from radiogenic cancer due to Chernobyl, on top of the cataracts and other illnesses that effect living people in the contaminated area.

Unchartered territory

Renowned oceanographer Ken Buesseler spoke about the effects of Fukushima radiation, from the initial blasts, to the continuing liquid leakage from the damaged Fukushima site. Although much of the radiation has now sunk to the ocean floor, there is a wall of radiation that is washing its way via ocean currents toward the US Pacific coast. The flux and flow of radiation in the ocean is a complex process, much of which is still uncharted and therefore not yet clearly understood.

The Numbers

Numbers and statistics can be fiddled, many corruption scandals have been exposed among politicians. It’s now up to the Japanese population to speak up and to change the course of history! Pressure your politicians to speak the truth! Get out of your comfort zone and demand their honesty! Leave behind your pachinko parlours, your video games, your hostess bars, your detachment and trigger a transformation of attitudes, of denial and lies!