Fukushima fallout hits farmers

[AsahinaKimi]

By Suvendrini Kakuchi


TOKYO - Life for Yoshihiro Watanabe and his wife Mutsuko, mushroom and rice farmers from Fukushima, has changed drastically since the disastrous meltdowns in the Dai Ichi nuclear plant that was hit by a massive tsunami after a 9.0 strong earthquake struck on March 11, 2011.

"Dangerous levels of radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors have effectively forced us to stop our mushroom cultivation and reduced our farming income almost 80%," Watanabe told IPS.

He added that the family is also taking extreme care to protect



their health by choosing only "safe" food, resulting in "a nerve-wracking lifestyle". Exposure of food to radiation increases cancer risks.

Under limits set by the Japanese government, food products that report contamination exceeding 100 becquerels per kilogram cannot be sold. Becquerels are a measure of food radiation.

more..http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JAP-01-310713.html

[Berlum]

1. Meanwhile, massive crop-killing drought in China

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/07/27/Drought-in-China-affecting-837-million-people/UPI-28441374938366/

[reusrename]

2. It's much worse than the authorities are saying.

http://now.msn.com/fukushima-vegetables-mutated-in-viral-photos-possibly-due-to-radiation?ocid=fbmsn

There are some really freakish mutations over there.

[madokie]

4. I found this at your link

Its sad that there are those who will fall all over themselves trying to explain how this that is reported in this story isn't true. http://now.msn.com/fukushima-meltdown-sickened-us-children-study-says

Fukushima meltdown is harming children born in the US, study says
4/2/2013

Did you think being 5,000 miles away from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was far enough to be safe? Results of a new study say that for small children, probably not. Radioactive isotopes blasted from the reactors in March 2011 are now being linked to serious illnesses in Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. According to the report, kids who were between 1 and 16 weeks old when the reactors blew have a 28 percent greater chance of having congenital hyperthyroidism, which can stunt body and brain development, than kids born in those states one year earlier. And sadly, they say congenital hypothyroidism might be just the beginning of potential health impacts to come.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Study published by disreputable researchers and a disreputable publisher

Late last year, an organization called Scientific Research Publishing reproduced the papers in what its website (www.scirp.org) billed as the first issues of the new journals Journal of Modern Physics and Psychology. Huai-Bei Zhou, a physicist from Wuhan University in China who says he helps to run Scientific Research's journals in a volunteer capacity, says that the reproductions were a mistake caused by posting sample content for the new journals; links to the content have since been removed. And since Nature began its enquiries, the web pages of other journals published by Scientific Research have removed from lists of editorial boards the names of researchers who say they did not agree to such positions. Many of these people thought they had agreed to serve on the board for a different journal with a similar name.

Scientific Research recently e-mailed many academics to solicit articles for some of its 34 journals, including some that publish original research. However, what Scientific Research's website labelled as the first issue of the Journal of Modern Physics completely reproduced papers published in 2000 by Britain's Institute of Physics in the open-access New Journal of Physics1–3.
...
Scientific Research's website is registered in China, although Zhou says that the organization is based in the United States and is run from there and China. He says it was set up "three or four years ago" by a group of friends and colleagues from these countries to promote exchange between scholars. He declined to tell Nature who these people were or whether he was one of them, although in an e-mail to Abrahams he describes himself as president of Scientific Research.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100113/full/463148a.html

Scientific Research Publishing has been included in a list of 243 "predatory" open access publishers,[4] according to criteria that may also be used to evaluate journals for themselves.[5] Jeffrey Beall states that "This publisher exists for two reasons. First, it exists to exploit the author-pays Open Access model to generate revenue, and second, it serves as an easy place for foreign (chiefly Chinese) authors to publish overseas and increase their academic status." He acknowledges that its fees are relatively low, describing this as "a strategy that increases article submissions," and that "it has attracted some quality article submissions. Nevertheless, it is really a vanity press."[1]

The company generated controversy in 2010 when it was found that its journals duplicated papers which had already been published elsewhere, without notification of or permission from the original author.[6] Several of these publications have subsequently been retracted.[7] Some of the journals had listed academics on their editorial boards without their permission or even knowledge, sometimes in fields very different from their own.[8] In 2012, one of its journals, Advances in Pure Mathematics, accepted a paper written by a random text generator. However, the paper was not published, due to its author's unwillingness to pay the publication fee.[9] The company has also been noted for the many unsolicited bulk emails it sends to academics about its journals.[1][8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Research_Publishing

Mangano and Sherman have be caught claiming misleading information about Fukushima before - the worst kind of cherry-picking of data, effectively lying. Just look for their names on DU.

[Octafish]

7. That's just what you say. Others take their work very seriously.

Cancer Rates Drop After Nuclear Reactor Closes

by Roxanne Nelson
Medscape Medical News, Apr 03, 2013

The closure of a nuclear reactor could be linked to a long-term decrease in the incidence of cancer.

Since the Rancho Seco nuclear reactor, located in Sacramento County, California, closed in 1989, there have been several thousand fewer cancer deaths in the region.

Results from the first long-term study to examine the impact of the closure of a nuclear reactor on health were published online March 27 in Biomedicine International.

The research was conducted by Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA, an epidemiologist and executive director of the radiation and public health project in New York City, and Janette Sherman, MD, adjunct professor of environmental studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

"We believe that further research is now warranted to see if there is a cause and effect relation between the elimination of nuclear emissions from power plants and a significant long-term decline of cancers," Mangano said during a press briefing.

Read more: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/781880

[madokie]

3. Nuclear

The mistake that keeps on keeping on giving.
Man should never have started using it for producing our electric to begin with. It's false promise of cheap, clean and safe never was true.
By accepting that lie as truth we never spent the time and effort in developing other more benign forms of producing our electricity. We were sold a pig in a poke and its coming back to bite us in the ass in so many ways. It did not have to be this way and wouldn't have been this way if not for the Manhattan Project that developed the use of splitting atoms for energy. The bombs were bad enough but when they took it to the next level of using the technology as its used today, to me that was the real mistake.

[Civilization2]

6. Nuke-power is a money-pit and a unnecessary danger to the future, our children inherit the mess!

Nuke-power is always a money pit; every construction, every operation, every cleanup = stolen money from the future.

The 'operators' are never made financially responsible for all the future problems with the mess they are making today. It is foisted on future generations. Those who had no say in what mess is left for them.

Nuke energy is stealing from our children so some 1% arsehole can make a quick buck today!

There is more than enough energy coming just from the sun every day to safely run the planet, only corporate tools say otherwise,. and some ignorant people believe the lies.

[Myrina]

8. Those would be some seriously trippy shrooms ...