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seemslikeadream wrote:Japan Tsunami Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 1/2 - Leuren Moret - PDX 9/11 Truth
Philadelphia has the highest levels of radioactive iodine found in the country. Can anyone tell me why that is?
http://online.wsj.com/video/radioactive ... 3BFBF.html
And I drink tap water, all day every day. I guess I'm not getting anyone pregnant any time soon so what do I care.
Luther Blissett wrote:Philadelphia has the highest levels of radioactive iodine found in the country. Can anyone tell me why that is?
http://online.wsj.com/video/radioactive ... 3BFBF.html
And I drink tap water, all day every day. I guess I'm not getting anyone pregnant any time soon so what do I care.
American Dream wrote:Luther Blissett wrote:Philadelphia has the highest levels of radioactive iodine found in the country. Can anyone tell me why that is?
http://online.wsj.com/video/radioactive ... 3BFBF.html
And I drink tap water, all day every day. I guess I'm not getting anyone pregnant any time soon so what do I care.
The iodine isotopes in the Philadelphia water supply may or may not come from Fukushima.
Unfortunately, the area is blessed by a business-friendly regime which says that industrial waste is ok to dump into the Delaware River and its tributaries, just so long as it is upstream some from the water intakes and the toxins are diluted to some degree.
If you want more info on regular old dietary iodine, which will protect you from the radioactive type, see here.
Radioactive iodine may increase the risk of thyroid cancer, so this is important for all of us.
Maybe a good time to drink some pure spring water?
Nordic wrote:The more I've learned, just lately, about the effects of low level and chronic radiation, the more I'm growing to believe that my mother died from it. At age 54. The question is where? And how? And why wasn't my father affected, unless my mother was exposed on her own, or before meeting him. I've always suspected that where my mother grew up has some serious toxic waste problems, simply based on the health histories of not only her, but several of her relatives. My Uncle, too, (her brother), died not long after she did, of a rare form of Alzheimer's. He was actually younger than she was by a few years.
She had tumors on the thyroid at around 40 years of age, had to have it removed, just like that Chernobyl lady on that other thread. Then she developed ovarian cancer while still in her 40's, died of that at 54. Other stuff, too, but those were the main hits.
wikipedia wrote:Sodium reactor experiment
Main article: Sodium Reactor Experiment
The Sodium Reactor Experiment-SRE was an experimental nuclear reactor which operated from 1957 to 1964 and was the first commercial power plant in the world to experience a core meltdown[17]. There was a decades-long cover-up by the US Department of Energy[18]. The operation predated environmental regulation, so early disposal techniques are not recorded in detail.[18]. Thousands of pounds of sodium coolant from the time of the meltdown are not yet accounted for.[19]
The reactor and support systems were removed in 1981 and the building torn down in 1999.
Carcinogens in microwaved food
In Dr. Lita Lee’s book, Health Effects of Microwave Radiation – Microwave Ovens, and in the March and September 1991 issues of Earthletter, she stated that every microwave oven leaks electro-magnetic radiation, harms food, and converts substances cooked in it to dangerous organ-toxic and carcinogenic products. Further research summarized in this article reveal that microwave ovens are far more harmful than previously imagined.
The following is a summary of the Russian investigations published by the Atlantis Raising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon. Carcinogens were formed in virtually all foods tested. No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to insure sanitary ingestion. Here’s a summary of some of the results:
* Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
* Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
* Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
* Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
* Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
* Decrease in nutritional value
Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. Among the changes observed were:
Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested. Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides.The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.
Industry’s action to hide the truth
As soon as Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their results, the authorities reacted. A powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known as FEA, struck swiftly in 1992. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to issue a "gag order" against Drs. Hertel and Blanc. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for "interfering with commerce" and prohibited from further publishing his results. However, Dr. Hertel stood his ground and fought this decision over the years.
Not long ago, this decision was reversed in a judgment delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel’s rights in the 1993 decision. The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that the "gag order" issued by the Swiss court in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to human health, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. In addition, Switzerland was ordered to pay Dr. Hertel compensation.
Who invented microwave ovens?
The Nazis, for use in their mobile support operations, originally developed microwave "radiomissor" cooking ovens to be used for the invasion of Russia. By being able to utilize electronic equipment for preparation of meals on a mass scale, the logistical problem of cooking fuels would have been eliminated, as well as the convenience of producing edible products in a greatly reduced time-factor.
After the war, the Allies discovered medical research done by the Germans on microwave ovens. These documents, along with some working microwave ovens, were transferred to the United States War Department and classified for reference and "further scientific investigation." The Russians had also retrieved some microwave ovens and now have thorough research on their biological effects. As a result, their use was outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Soviets issued an international warning on the health hazards, both biological and environmental, of microwave ovens and similar frequency electronic devices.
Other Eastern European scientists also reported the harmful effects of microwave radiation and set up strict environmental limits for their usage. The United States has not accepted the European reports of harmful effects, even though the EPA estimates that radio frequency and microwave radiation sources in America are increasing at 15% per year.
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Bill Kingsbury
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This article received on 1/14/99 from John Thomas, author
of "Young Again! - How To REVERSE The Aging Process,"
1-800-231-1776.
THE EFFECTS OF MICROWAVE APPARATUS ON FOOD AND HUMANS
Microwave cooking ovens were originally researched and
developed by German scientists to support mobile operations
during the invasion of the Soviet Union. Had they perfected
electronic equipment to prepare meals on a mass scale, the
Nazis could have eliminated the logistical problems
connected with cooking fuels while producing edible products
in far less time than they could using traditional
campfires.
After the war, the Allies discovered the medical research
and documentation concerning these apparatuses. The papers
and experimental microwave equipment were transferred to the
U.S. War Department and classified for reference and
scientific investigation. The Soviet Union also retrieved
some of the devices and began to experiment on them
separately.
The Russians - who have done the most diligent research into
the biological effects of microwave ovens - have OUTLAWED
THEIR USE and issued an international warning about the
biological and environmental damage that can result from the
use of this and similar-frequency electronic apparatus.
MEDICAL RESEARCH SUMMARY
The most significant German research concerned with the
biological effects of microwaves was done at the Humboldt
Universitat zu Berlin in 1942-43, during the Barbarossa
military campaign. Beginning in 1957 and continuing up to
the present, Russian studies in the field have been
conducted at the Institute of Radio Technology.
In most research, the foods were exposed to microwave
propagation at an energy potential of 100 kilowatts per
cubic centimetre per second to the point considered
acceptable for sanitary normal ingestion.
The observations made by the German and Russian microwave
researchers will be presented here in three categories:
cancer-causing effects, destruction of nutritive value and
biological effects of direct exposure of humans to microwave
emissions.
1. MICROWAVED FOODS CAUSE TUMORS
The following effects have been observed when foods are
subjected to microwave emissions.
Effects on the foods themselves
Meats: Heating prepared meats sufficiently to insure
sanitary ingestion creates d-nitrosodiethanolamine, a
well-known cancer-causing agent.
Proteins: Active-protein, biomolecular compounds are
destabilized.
Increase In Radioactivity: A "binding effect" between
the microwaved food and any atmospheric radioactivity is
created, causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha
and beta particle saturation in the food.
Milk and Cereals: Cancer-causing agents are created in the
protein-hydrolysate compounds in milk and cereal grains.
Frozen Foods: Microwaves used to thaw frozen foods alter
the catabolism (breakdown) of the glucoside and galactoside
elements (see Note 1).
Vegetables: Even extremely brief exposure of raw, cooked or
frozen vegetables to microwaves alter alkaloid (see Note 2)
catabolism.
Resulting effects on the human body
Digestive System: The unstable catabolism of microwaved
foods alters their elemental food substances, causing
disorders in the digestive system.
Lymphatic Systems: Due to chemical alterations within food
substances, malfunctions occur in the lymphatic system,
causing a degeneration of the body’s ability to protect
itself against certain forms of neoplastics (cancerous
growths).
Blood: A higher-than-normal percentage of cancerous cells
in blood serum (cytomas) can be seen in subjects ingesting
microwaved foods.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural-
receptor components of the brain more subject to influence
by artificially induced, microwave-radio-frequency fields
from transmission stations and TV relay networks.
Free Radicals: Certain trace-mineral molecular formations
in plant substances - in particular, raw-root vegetables -
form cancer-causing free radicals.
Increased Incidence of Stomach and Intestinal Cancers:
A statistically higher percentage of cancerous growths
result in these organs, plus a generalized breakdown of the
peripheral cellular tissues and a gradual degeneration of
digestive and excretory functions.
2. MICROWAVES REDUCE FOOD VALUE
Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the
nutritive value of all foods studied. The following are
the most important findings to date.
Vitamins And Minerals Made Useless: In every food tested,
the bioavailability (see Note 3) of the following vital
nutrients decreased: Vitamin B complex, vitamins C and E,
essential minerals and lipotropics.
Vital-Energy Fields Devastated: The vital-energy-field
content of all tested foods dropped 60 to 90 percent.
Digestibility of Fruits and Vegetables Reduced: Microwaving
lowers the metabolic behaviour and integration-process
capability of alkaloids, glucosides, alactosides and
nitrilosides (see Note 4).
Meat Proteins Worthless: It destroys the nutritive value of
nucleoproteins (see Note 5) in meats.
All Foods Damaged: It greatly accelerates the structural
disintegration of all foods tested.
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MICROWAVES
Exposure to microwave emissions also has a negative effect
upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was
not discovered until the Russians experimented with highly
sophisticated equipment and discovered that humans can be
adversely affected without even ingesting the foods that
have been subjected to microwave radiation.
MERELY ENTERING THE ENERGY FIELD OF THE FOOD causes such
harmful side effects that the Soviets outlawed all such
microwave apparatus in 1976.
Here are the effects observed in humans having "direct"
exposure to microwaves, that is, without their having
consumed the irradiated food substances --
Life-energy Field Breakdown: Persons near microwave ovens
in operation experience a breakdown in their life-energy
fields which increases relative to the length of exposure.
Cellular Energy Decreases: The cellular-voltage parallels
of individuals using the apparatus degenerate - especially
in their blood and lymphatic serums.
Destabilized Metabolism: The external-energy activated
potentials of food utilization are both destabilized and
degenerated.
Cell Damage: Internal cellular-membrane potentials during
catabolic processes into the blood serum from the digestive
process degenerate and destabilize.
Brain Circuitry Destruction: Electrical impulses in the
junction potentials of the cerebrum degenerate and break
down.
Nervous System: Nerve/electrical circuits degenerate and
break down while energy-field symmetry is lost in the neuro-
plexuses (nerve centers) in both the front and rear of the
central and autonomic nervous systems.
Loss Of Bioelectric Strength: The bioelectric strengths
within the ascending reticular (see Note 6) activating
system (the system which controls the function of waking
consciousness) go out of balance and lose their proper
circuiting.
Loss of Vital Energies: Humans, animals and plants located
within a 500-meter radius of the equipment in operation
suffer a long-term, cumulative loss of vital energies.
Nervous and Lymphatic System Damage: Long-lasting residual
magnetic "deposits" become located through-out the nervous
system and lymphatic system.
Hormone Imbalances: The production of hormones and the
maintenance of hormonal balance in both males and females
becomes destabilized and interrupted.
Brainwave Disruption: Levels of disturbance in alpha-,
delta- and theta-wave signal patterns are markedly higher
than normal.
Psychological Disorders: Because of the disarranged brain
waves, negative psychological effects also result. These
include loss of memory and the ability to concentrate,
suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective
processes and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically
higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual
range- emission field effects of microwave apparatus, from
either cooking apparatus or transmission stations.
POTENTIAL USE IN MIND CONTROL
Due to the creation of random, residual magnetic deposits
and binding within the biological systems of the body
(nervous and lymphatic systems damage) which can ultimately
affect the neurological systems (primarily the brain and
nerve centers), longer-term depolarization of tissue
neuroelectronic circuits can result.
Because these effects can cause virtually irremissible
damage to the neuroelectrical integrity of the various
components of the nervous system (see Note 7), ingestion of
microwaved foods is clearly contraindicated in all respects.
Their residual magnetism effect can render the psychoneural-
receptor components of the brain more subject to influence
by artificially induced, microwave-radio-frequency fields
from transmission stations and TV relay networks.
Soviet neuropsychologists at Uralyera and Novosibirsk (see
Notehave theorized the possibility of psychotelemetric
influence (i.e., affecting human behaviour by transmitting
radio signals at controlled frequencies), causing subjects
to comply - involuntarily and subliminally - with commands
received through microwave transmissions acting upon their
psychological energy fields.
For this reason, and due to the 28 other contradictions
listed above, the use of microwave apparatus in any form is
definitely ill-advised. Present scientific opinion in many
countries clearly opposes them, as exemplified by the
mentioned Soviet Ban.
Published on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 by The Guardian/UK
Japan Radiation Fears Grip Town on Edge of Destruction
Minamisoma straddles the 20km perimeter from Fukushima plant, and residents are divided on whether to stay or go
by Justin McCurry in Minamisoma
The debris strewn along the coastal neighborhoods of Minamisoma should be proof enough of the devastation wrought by the tsunami that hit Japan's north-east coast on 11 March. But for the past month this sprawling town in Fukushima prefecture has been confronted by a second, more insidious threat: radiation.
Police officers man a checkpoint in Minamisoma, Japan. (Photograph: AP) Minamisoma is a town living in a state of nuclear limbo. Its southern reaches lie just inside the 20km (12 mile) radius from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that has been declared an evacuation zone. Farther north, residents have been told to remain indoors or consider leaving. Thenon Tuesday the government announced that five additional communities, possibly including more neighborhoods inside Minamisoma, are to be included in an expanded evacuation zone amid fears over the long-term effects of radiation seeping from the Fukushima plant.
Even before that advice was issued, the majority of Minamisoma's 71,000 people had voted with their feet. The first hydrogen explosion at the plant prompted an exodus that saw the population plummet to just 10,000.
Petrified residents barely had time to mourn the 1,470 local people listed as dead or missing before abandoning their homes.
Shops and restaurants closed, suppliers refused to enter the town, and for a few chaotic days the only vehicles on the streets were self-defense force trucks and dozens of buses laid on to take evacuees to hundreds of temporary shelters across Japan.
The government's chief spokesman, Yukio Edano, said the crisis had not caused any direct damage to the health of people living near the plant. "The accident itself is very serious, but we have set our priorities so as to avoid damage to people's health."
His claim is backed by a recent radiation reading in Minamisoma that measured 0.9 microsieverts per hour - or 7,884 microsieverts per year - which is little more than that received in a chest CT scan and, say experts, poses no immediate threat to health.
But the new evacuation plans have added a layer of uncertainty to a community already gripped by fear.
Some residents who initially evacuated are now returning to the area, reassured by data showing that radiation is well below dangerous levels.
At a local health center medical workers in protective clothing offer free radiation checks for residents and visitors.
"People here are already traumatized by memories of the tsunami and the struggle to survive the nuclear crisis," said Kyohei Takahashi, a gynecologist who initially left Minamisoma but returned a few days later.
He came back to find patients deprived of essential care and hospitals emptied of staff. "At the start we had no food or medicine – we couldn't even administer intravenous drips," said Takahashi, 72.
"At first the streets were dead. But now there are a few cars on the road and some shops have reopened. Radiation levels are very low, but people are still anxious about the future.
"It could be months before things settle down. Until then, all I can do is my job. If we all work together we can make something of this town, even if it takes years. But it will never be the same again."
The emergency at Fukushima Daiichi, now rated on a par with the Chernobyl disaster in its severity, has split the community he serves.
Yoshitaka Okawa, who has worked for a subcontractor at the plant for 19 years, is one of the few residents who have remained in the city throughout the crisis. He loses sleep not over radiation, but over the friendships that he fears may have been irreparably damaged by his pleas to neighbors not to abandon the town of his birth.
"I've been working at Fukushima Daiichi for almost two decades. I know all about millisieverts and microsieverts [of radiation], and I have never considered leaving," says the 60-year-old, an employee of a firm that decontaminates nuclear plant workers.
Okawa has not been back to the plant since 11 March, when he fled the No 5 reactor building following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake. "I'm due to retire, so I won't be going back. As things are, I couldn't even if I wanted to.
"But other people in the town don't think rationally. When the media report that radiation is several thousand times above legal limits, they panic.
"The people I feel sorry for are farmers whose lives have been ruined by radiation scares, and the old people who have been unable to leave. When I see people in Tokyo panic-buying water or choosing not to buy certain produce, I wonder if they have any feelings for fellow Japanese who are genuinely in need of help."
Minamisoma's plight drew worldwide attention last week after its mayor, Katsunobu Sakurai, pleaded for help in an 11-minute YouTube video with English subtitles.
"We are left isolated," said a clearly exhausted Sakurai, dressed in his familiar crisis uniform. "I beg you, as the mayor of Minamisoma, to help us."
The town's commercial infrastructure, he said, lies in tatters. "The only places open are local banks and credit unions," he said in an interview with the Mainichi Daily News. "The supermarkets are still not running. There are no daily supplies that people living here desperately need.
"If the city doesn't maintain its essential services, evacuated residents won't know which way to turn. The government must do all it can to address the nuclear accident and give us an idea of when it will be resolved."
But as Japan's prime minister Naoto Kan has acknowledged, it is a question to which no one knows the answer.
And for all his optimism over the radiation threat, Okawa concedes that the unease it has generated has changed Minamisoma beyond recognition.
"As long as the power plant is in trouble, this town might as well be dead. You walk to the station and everything is shuttered. At night the streets are dark and empty. This used to be a fun, lively place to live. But not any more."
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