MORE INFORMATION ON FUKUSHIME POWER PLANT

Submitted by: Phil Bulfinch

With the Japanese organized crime doing the repairs on Fukushima and unstable folks in the U.S. like Hillary Clinton making back door deals that US citizens don’t know about, it seems the possibility of a greater disaster in Japan as contractors and TEPCO removing fuel rods is simply waiting to happen.

 

I’m as pissed or more so, than you are…imagine if the call to evacuate the west coast really does occur?

Fuel and food would be the first to disappear. Roadways would be jammed solid, causing further panic. I imagine air travel would devolve into something only the richest people could afford, assuming there was a place to land easterly and pilots that would return to the west and incur higher doses of as cesium-137 radiation.

And then one has to ask if the Jetstream would just dose the east of the US anyway?

Unlike many, I have pack animals and a ton of protective devices and could try to get to family in the east and avoid roads in general, but this time of year (if a Japanese blowout happened tomorrow) the only reasonable passage to travel 3000 miles east is the southern route. And I imagine many, many stranded refugees would be walking parallel with my wife and I. Shooting people trying to steal my stuff sounds like something right out of Sci-Fi…what a FUBAR.

 

Your link http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/ notes

“ 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.)”

               

Forbes reported last week: According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) [a government whistleblower support group], that means agencies responding to radiation emergencies may permit many more civilian fatalities.

“In soil, the PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems,” PEER advocacy director Kirsten Stade said in a press release. “This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period.”

Medical doctor Helen Caldicott notes:

 

The radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.” The Obama administration blocked a version of these PAGs from going into effect during its first days in office. The version given approval late last Friday is substantially similar to those proposed under Bush but duck some of the most controversial aspects

 

“This is a public health policy only Dr. Strangelove could embrace. If this typifies the environmental leadership we can expect from Ms. McCarthy, then EPA is in for a long, dirty slog,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that the EPA package lacks a cogent rationale, is largely impenetrable and hinges on a series of euphemistic “weasel words.”

“No compelling justification is offered for increasing the cancer deaths of Americans innocently exposed to corporate miscalculations several hundred-fold.”

 

 

Your next link http://sfist.com/2013/12/30/is_there_a_lot_to_fear_with_fukushi.php noted:

Meanwhile, Dr. Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole, speaking to the Cape Cod Times, cautions that no organized testing of Pacific ocean water or marine life has been happening, and it should be. The government has so far poo-pooed the need for such testing, perhaps because of that brief study commissioned by Congress, but, Buesseler says:

We don’t have a U.S. agency responsible for radiation in the ocean. It’s really bizarre... I’d very much like to see study on our side of the ocean just to confirm these values and build some confidence with the public that’s been concerned about this. They’re right to be concerned — as scientists we’re telling them they shouldn’t be, but it’d be nice to have a few more data points to fill that gap.