My slow and agonizing death seems to be related to the wife, kids and job. Radiation from Japan? Not so much. Go Blazers
Bumped http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/wor...79c76-bf9a-575f-9529-f08490a88003.html?photo= Though another worker died, bringing the total to three. However, it wasn't slow, and only he can say if it was agonizing:
The Japanese government says the problem hasn't spread to the big city of Tokyo, so it must be true. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/w...t-spots-in-tokyo-point-to-wider-problems.html
I clicked on Seattle (closest they have to Portland) and got these articles. http://enenews.com/category/u-s-canada/west-coast/seattle
In case some of you have gotten the idea that anything has been done to stop this disaster from continuing... http://www.terradaily.com/reports/J...ll_Leaking_Recovery_Still_Years_Away_999.html Over six months have passed since the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. What progress if any has been made to deal with what is surely one the worst industrial accidents in history? The situation at the Fukushima No.1 power station site is far from being resolved. Although Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) has said a "cold shutdown" of some of the reactors may be "within reach". Although a drastic reduction from the trillions of becquerals of radiation that were released during the darkest days of March, retired nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson who has supplied us with a steady source of reliable analyses, roughly estimates that the damaged reactors are still emitting a billion becquerals per day. Recently Professor Hiroaki Koide, a radiation metrology and nuclear safety expert at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute, relayed the frightening assessment that: "The nuclear disaster is ongoing....Without accurate information about what's happening inside the reactors, there's a need to consider various scenarios. At present, I believe that there is a possibility that massive amounts of radioactive materials will be released into the environment again. At the No. 1 reactor, there's a chance that melted fuel has burned through the...floor of the reactor building, and has sunk into the ground. From there, radioactive materials may be seeping into the ocean and groundwater....Recovering the melted nuclear fuel is another huge challenge. I can't even imagine how that could be done....there is a possibility that nuclear fuel has fallen into the ground, in which case it will take 10 or 20 years to recover it. We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before". Could Professor Koide be worried that the corium (melted fuel) may reach the ground water, resulting in the classic China Syndrome? ... North Americans are also worried about unwelcome radiation traveling by wind and ocean currents as a Swiss map based on computer modeling clearly illustrates (23). In a recent video Arnold Gunderson points out that a "tent" is being built over reactor no. 1 "to reduce the amount of radiation on site." However, "[t]he radiation inside that tent is still going to have to go somewhere, or else it is going to build up and become lethal. So what is going to have to happen to that radiation, is it is going to be exhausted up the stack" (24). This means radiation will be guided upwards into the wind where it may travel near or great distances: out of sight is out of mind. Since the winds generally blow to the west, a steady stream (for how many months or years?) is going to land in the ocean or in North America.
Japan's new form of birth control. http://bionicbong.com/japan/only-in...demand-protection-children-exposed-radiation/ http://www.teatronaturale.com/article/3090.html http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/04/07/japans-pregnant-women-new-moms-get-mixed-signals/ http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/05/24/japan-save-the-children/
The hits keep coming. http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/05/15/cesium-in-tea-at-kanagawa-prefecture/ http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/07/11/radioactive-cesium-detected-in-fukushima-cows/ http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/09/30/radioactive-hotspots-found-in-prefectures-neighboring-tokyo/
Japan continues to lie about radiation. http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/10/...han-government-claims-says-french-government/
For those who don't have time to read articles, and just want to skim headlines, take a gander at these headlines. Wow.
Not me personally, but scores (so far) of NW babies have died in the womb just as they did when Chernobyl radiation circled the globe. http://www.progressiveradionetwork....-and-joseph-mangano-is-the-dramatic-incr.html
From another progressive site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/23/is-fukushima-causing-baby_n_882313.html However, this analysis is deeply flawed, wrote Michael Moyer in Scientific American. Moyer conducted his own analysis of the CDC statistics. While true that the four weeks before the incident saw fewer infant deaths than after, the researchers didn't look even further back to see if there was an actual trend, he wrote. But if the researchers had token January and February statistics into account, and not just the four weeks in March before the nuclear incident, they would've found that there actually is no overall increase in baby deaths -- and, if anything, there has been a slight decrease, Moyer said. "A check [of the data] reveals that the authors’ statistical claims are critically flawed -- if not deliberate mistruths," Moyer wrote in Scientific American. He added, that doesn't mean there aren't any health repercussions from the Fukushima incident.
And the Scientific American article: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...hwest-due-to-fukushima-a-look-at-the-numbers/
