11/10/2013 What You Should Be Doing NOW to Protect Yourself from Radiation

Source:

Washington's Blog

[Editor's Note: Great financial blog with many insightful Fukushima articles as well.]
Date: 11/10/2013

Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Help Protect Your Family from Radiation

It is well-known that potassium iodide works to protect against damage from radioactive iodine by saturating our body (the thyroid gland, specifically) with harmless iodine, so that our bodies are unable to absorb radioactive iodine from nuclear accidents.
For example, the World Health Organization notes:

The thyroid gland is at particular risk from irradiation from radioactive iodine because the thyroid uses iodine to produce hormones that regulate the body’s metabolism.  The thyroid gland does not differentiate between non-radioactive and radioactive iodine.
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When taken at the appropriate dosage and within the correct time interval around exposure to radioactive iodine, KI [i.e. potassium iodide] saturates the thyroid gland with stable (non-radioactive) iodine. As a result, radioactive iodine will not be taken up and stored by the thyroid gland.

6/9/2012 Fukushima Update by Conrad Miller, MD

Source: conradmillermd via ENENews
Date: 6/9/2012
by: Dr. Conrad Miller, MD

Video Description
June 9 2012 - as the Fukushima radiation/debris carries west across the Pacific Ocean, radionuclide-intensely-contaminated Fukushima rivers daily rushing into the ocean, the media sleeps on the danger of the radiation. Fish contaminated with cesium are now being caught off of San Diego. Maps re currents help U understand what is going on: Danger California, Oregon, all points west of Fukushima especially!! Check the oceanic 'gyres' or currents.

11/25/2011 Radioactive strontium found in 3 locations in Tokyo

Source: Japan Today
Date: Nov. 25, 2011 - 05:09PM JST

TOKYO — A citizens’ group has discovered radioactive strontium in soil in three locations in Tokyo, peaking at 51 becquerels per kilogram.

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10/15/2011 How to protect oneself from radiation if evacuation is not possible

Source: drdrwoland YouTube channel
Date: 10/15/2011
by: Professor Christopher Busby

Chris Busby updates Japan on what to do to reduce the risk of radiation damage from the contamination from the Strontium-90, Uranium and Plutonium dispersed widely over northern Japan.First of all, evacuate the children and evacuate yourselves. The contamination of the ground and the food is a serious health hazard. Car air filter analysis shows the material on the ground becomes airborne and can be inhaled.

Get away If you can; but if not not then you can reduce the access of these radionuclides to the DNA. It is basic Physical Chemistry that increasing the Calcium concentration, (Calcium which stabilises the DNA phosphate backbone), will inhibit the equilibrium binding of radionuclides like Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium and other high DNAP affinity elements and complex ions. The Iodine thyroid blocking method is based on the same thermodynamic chemical equilibrium idea.

A number of websites have been selling pills based on his ideas and more are being set up but it is straightforward, he says, to buy Calcium/ Magnesium tablets from health food shops where they are not expensive. The adult dose is about 800mg Calcium and 350mg Magnesium. Reduce the dose for children in proportion to their relative weight, so for a 10-year old, about 400mg Calcium and 175mg Magnesium. This is a critical issue: it will save lives and it is so simple and is absolutely harmless.

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10/13/2011 Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles

Source: Reuters via Scientific American
Date: October 13, 2011
by: Yoko Kubota

A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, struck by a devastating quake and tsunami in March, has released radiation into the atmosphere that has been carried by winds, rain and snow across eastern Japan.
Officials in Setagaya, a major residential area in Tokyo about 235 km (150 miles) southwest of the plant, said this week it found a radioactive hotspot on a sidewalk near schools, prompting concerns in the country's most populated area far from the damaged nuclear plant.

The radiation measured as much as 3.35 microsieverts per hour on Thursday, higher than some areas in the evacuation zone near the Fukushima plant, the center of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years ago.

But the local government found several bottles under the floor of a nearby house emitting high levels of radiation.

"A measuring device, when pointed at them, showed very high readings. Radiation levels were even exceeding the upper limit for the device," Setagaya Mayor Nobuto Hosaka told a news conference.
Officials from the Education Ministry are now looking into the matter, including the contents of the bottles.
Public broadcaster NHK said no one had been living in the house in question.
The city of Funabashi, near Tokyo, said that a citizens' group had measured a radiation level of 5.8 microsieverts per hour at a park, but that the city's own survey showed the highest reading at the park was a quarter of that level.

Radiation levels in the 20 km radius evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant ranged from 0.5 to 64.8 microsieverts per hour, government data showed this week.

About 80,000 residents have evacuated this zone. A microsievert quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissue.

In Yokohama, also near Tokyo, radioactive strontium-90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia, was detected in soil taken from an apartment rooftop, media reported.

Strontium has been detected within an 80 km zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant, but this is the first time it has been found in an area so far away, local media added.

Radiation exposure from natural sources in a year is about 2,400 microsieverts on average, the U.N. atomic watchdog says.

Japan's education ministry has set a standard allowing up to 1 microsievert per hour of radiation in schools while aiming to bring it down to about 0.11 microsievert per hour.

(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa and Nick Macfie)

10/14/2011 Tokyo Hit With Fukushima Radiation

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 10/14/2011

Fukushima Radiation Hits Tokyo

CNN reports today:

An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.
Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.
“We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told reporters.
But the tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.
Officials searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK.
“We suspect these bottles in basement could be the cause of the high radiation reading and we are hastily working to confirm it,” he said.
Radiation experts are now checking what contaminated the bottles, a Setagaya ward official told CNN, declining to be named in line with policy.

Perhaps it is just some random contaminated bottles.

10/12/2011 The major news this week is the Strontium-90 found in Yokohama, which is even further from Fukushima I than Tokyo

There are many corroborating sources regarding deadly radionuclides or high levels of radiation being found far from the 20 km exclusion zone around Fukushima I. Bloggers, CNN, ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and Kyodo News (amongst others) have confirmed that Strontium-90 has indeed been found in Yokohama, which is South of Tokyo and even further away than the major city from the melted down Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The apartment rooftop where the Stontium-90 was found is 155 miles (250 km) away from Fukushima I. This indicates that dangerous radioactive contamination is more far reaching than originally thought.  Note that the testing was done by a private testing lab, not the government.

Here is a series of articles from this week concerning this topic:

Date	Source	Headline
10/12/2011	CNN	Radioactive sediment found miles from Japan nuclear crisis zone
10/13/2011	Fukushima Diary	News: This is where strontium is
10/12/2011	Fukushima Diary	News: NHK manipulates again
10/11/2011	EX-SKF Blog	Test Result on Strontium-90 Detection in Yokohama
10/12/2011	Enformable	Japanese Government has “always known” about concentrated radiation hot spots discovered In Tokyo, Yokohama
10/12/2011	ABC	Radioactive material found 250km from Fukushima
10/12/2011	Kyodo News	Radioactive strontium found in Yokohama, 250 km from Fukushima plant
10/13/2011	Kyodo News	High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo
10/13/2011	The Japan Times	Yokohama finds high strontium-90 levels

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8/18/2011 Vermont Yankee radioactive tritium found leaking in to Connecticut River

The Vermont health department says (Reuters published an article on 8/18/2011) they have been closely monitoring the radioactive tritium in groundwater originating from Vermont Yankee Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant as it has progressed in to the Connecticut River. Tritium levels tested by the state laboratory measured at 534 to 611 picocuries per liter. The EPA's maximum safe limit for drinking water is 20,000 picocuries per liter. Entergy stated that they found lower tritium levels from their own tests of river water, and that the levels registered below the official minimum detection limit. Entergy has also previously denied that strontium-90 found in a fish caught in the Connecticut river near Vermont Yankee originates from the nuclear power plant they run. [1]

The Vermont senate has voted to block the re-licensing of Vermont Yankee, whose current license to operate expires in March of 2012. The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) has already granted a federal license for Entergy to continue operation of the nuclear power plant through March 21, 2032. Entergy has filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn the state's veto law. [2]

RSOE EDIS event report.

Map of Vermont Yankee

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[1] Radioactive tritium found in river near Vermont Yankee plant, Jason McLure, Reuters
[2] Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Wikipedia

8/5/2011 How Did Those Vermont Fish Get Radioactive?

Source: Forbes
Date: Aug. 5 2011 - 8:40 am
by: Jeff McMahon

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant on the Connecticut River. Image via Wikipedia

“Hey, don’t look at us” has been Entergy Corporation’s response to the discovery of Strontium-90 in fish from the Connecticut River.

But the contamination, revealed this week by the Vermont Department of Health, promises to complicate the utility’s effort to extend the license of its aging Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant.
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8/2/2011 Bernie Sanders: Nuclear Safety Now

Source: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders via NuclearFreePlanet.org
Date: 8/2/2011

Uploaded by Bernie Sanders on Aug 2, 2011

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today pressed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to aggressively implement task force recommendations on reactor safety in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis.

Editor's Note: Here is a map of the controversial Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant run by Entergy which the Vermont Senate voted to block from being re-licensed for operation in February 2010 due to tritium leaks, lies by plant officials and other safety issues.

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Entergy has filed a Federal lawsuit against Vermont's veto law which allows the state to block the re-licensing of Vermont Yankee, so that the utility can continue operation of the nuclear power plant. The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission), a federal agency, has already approved a 20 year license renewal for the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant as of March, 2011. Recently there has been bad news about fish near the nuclear power plant being contaminated by strontium-90.  Vermont Yankee's current license to operate expires March of next year.

6/13/2011 | (VIDEO) RT in Fukushima: Radiation 1000 times over normal outside no-go zone

Source: RT News
Date: 6/13/2011 upload date

Radioactive material has been detected in seawater around Japan's Fukushima plant, with concentration levels 240 times higher than safety limits. Scientists warn that the element, strontium, is highly dangerous to humans as it can accumulate in bones and possibly cause cancer.

6/13/2011 JST | High concentration of radioactive strontium found at Fukushima plant

Source: Kyodo News via Japan Today
Date: Monday 13th June, 06:30 AM JST

TEPCO workers set up tanks to be used  as part of the radioactive water processing  facilities at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Sunday. AP/TEPCO

TOKYO — Radioactive strontium up to 240 times the legal concentration limit has been detected in seawater samples collected near an intake at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co said Sunday. TEPCO said the substance was also found in groundwater near the plant’s Nos. 1 and 2 reactors. The government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it is the first time that the substance has been found in groundwater. Read full article here

6/9/2011 | Radioactive strontium detected 62 km from Fukushima No. 1 plant

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011

Kyodo

WIDEN, Evac Zone: Greenpeace — Minute amounts of radioactive strontium have been detected in soil at 11 locations in Fukushima Prefecture, including the city of Fukushima 62 km from the crippled nuclear power plant, according to the science ministry.
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6/9/2011 JST | Survey: strontium widespread in Fukushima

Source: NHK World
Date: Thursday, June 09, 2011 06:02 +0900 (JST)

Soil samples from around Fukushima Prefecture have revealed concentrations of radioactive strontium.
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