A new study in April of 2013 suggests that nuclear fallout from Fukushima in March of 2011 has led to significant elevated rates of congenital thyroid illness among infants born on the West Coast and Hawaii ~ keeping in mind that President Obama not only denied this threat but ordered the EPA to stop weekly & monthly testing for radiation in April of 2011: Allen L Roland
A
creeping and never ending deadly fog of radiation, invisible to the eye but not
to the immune system, continues to blanket the West Coast while its human cost
is just beginning to be perceived.
The
threat and ongoing cover up of the nuclear fallout of the Fukushima melt down
in 2011 continues unabated and now, two years later, the human cost of this
catastrophe and cover up are now being published ~
especially with infants.
For example, a peer-reviewed
research paper, published in the Open Journal of Pediatrics, found
increased rates of congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in West Coast babies born
within nine months of the Fukushima meltdowns beginning March 11, 2011 ~ "
Newborns in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington showed
up to 28 percent higher rates of CH than in 36 control states. If left
untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can impede physical and mental development."
See
report
http://www.alternet.org/environment/american-babies-born-right-after-fukushima-show-elevated-rate-abnormalities
It also appears
that radiation has already killed over 14,000 Americans as Thom Hartman
shockingly discovered during his 7 minute video interview
with Dr. Janette Sherman, M.D., Internist and Toxicologist. These are
apparently the same levels of death that were found at Chernobyl and the
radiation effects could easily last over 300 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bdow_6pN6jY
WHAT ABOUT THE ONGOING THREAT OF FUKUSHIMA
FALLOUT ?
The Washington Blog posed that same question on April 13,
2013 ~ Is Fukushima Leaking … Or Are the Reactors Wholly Uncontained?
"You may have heard that Tepco ~ the
operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants ~ announced
a large leak
of radioactive water….. You may have heard that the cooling system in
the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month.
This is newsworthy stuff … but completely
misses the big picture. Associated Press notes:
"
Experts suspect a continuous leak into the ocean through an underground water
system, citing high levels of contamination in fish caught in waters just off
the plant. (Tepco graphics of the Fukushima plants even appear to show water directly
flowing from the plant to the ocean. And see this.)
In fact, Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to
93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium
into the ocean each day. "
How much radiation is that?
"A quick calculation shows that
Chernobyl released around ten thousand times more radioactive cesium each day during the reactor
fire. But the Chernobyl fire only lasted 10 days … and
the Fukushima release has been ongoing for more than 2 years so far.
Indeed, Fukushima has already spewed much more radioactive cesium
and iodine 131
than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was
some 20-30
times higher than initially admitted.
Fukushima also pumped out huge amounts of
radioactive iodine 129
~ which has a half-life of 15.7 million years.
Fukushima has also dumped up to 900 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium-90
~ which is a powerful internal emitter which mimics
calcium and collects in our bones
~ into the ocean. And the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl
… and so could keep leaking for decades, centuries or millennia."
" The bottom line is that the reactors
have lost containment.
There are not “some leaks” at Fukushima. “Leaks” imply that
the reactor cores are safely in their containment buildings, and there is a
small hole or two which need to be plugged. But scientists don’t even know where the cores of the reactors are.
That’s not leaking. That’s even worse
than a total meltdown."
So what are the consequences for people
living outside of Fukushima itself ? They
could be quite severe,
indeed."
See
full report: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/is-fukushima-leaking-or-is-the-the-reactor-wholly-uncontained.html
Let's use tuna as a radiation example ~ The ocean currents
head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.~ For example, the Telegraph notes
that scientists tagged a Bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan
and the West Coast three times in 600 days ~ The Bluefin spawn off Japan,
and many migrate across the Pacific Ocean. Tissue samples taken from 15
Bluefin caught in August, five months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi,
all contained reactor byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels
that produced radiation about 3% higher than natural background sources
… The bad news is that it is only going to get worse."
As Reuters points out: "
Unlike
some other compounds, radioactive cesium does not quickly sink to the sea
bottom but remains dispersed in the water column, from the surface to the
ocean floor. Fish can swim right through
it, ingesting it through their gills, by taking in seawater or by eating
organisms.. "
As CNN notes: "
Neither (of the scientists who tested the fish) thought they were likely to find cesium at all, they
said. And since the fish tested were born about a year before the disaster, “This
year’s fish are going to be really interesting,” Madigan said.
“There were fish born around the time of the accident, and those
are the ones showing up in California right now,” he said. “Those have been,
for the most part, swimming around in those contaminated waters their whole
lives.”
In other words, the 15 fish tested were
only exposed to radiation for a short time. But Bluefin arriving in
California now will have been exposed to the Fukushima radiation for much
longer.
So what has the American
government done to protect us? (According to the
Washington Post)
" It has pressured
the Japanese government to
re-start its nuclear program, and is allowing Fukushima seafood to be sold in
the U.S. And U.S. nuclear regulators actually weakened
safety standards for U.S. nuclear reactors
after the Fukushima disaster. And as
we noted 6
months after Fukushima melted down: American and Canadian authorities
have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation, and are not testing fish
for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising
“acceptable” radiation levels.)" See report ~ http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/government-reacts-to-fukushima-radiation-crisis-by-raising-acceptable-radiation-standards-instead-of-fixing-anything.html
In other words, there is currently a concerted worldwide propaganda campaign to cover up the
severity of the major nuclear fallout of Fukushima by raising acceptable
levels of radiation and, in essence, saying that a little more radiation in your system is nothing
to be concerned about.
The cover up regarding exposure to radiation
especially applies to Japan itself. On December 20, 2012,
a multi-professional symposium was held in Tokyo, and organized by Free Press
Association of Japan, a non-profit organization. The symposium clearly
illustrates that the issues of radioactive exposure are considered taboo
on the Japanese media ~ as
they most certainly are on the American main stream media. 7 minute video ~ http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2013/02/14/japanese-journalists-expose-fukushima-radiation-coverup-video/
In
yet another example of growing corporate totalitarianism, 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) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAqiGSp29c
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 this petition
~ http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors
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.
Allen L Roland
Allen
L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and
lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a
monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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