Hillary colludes with Japan PM to block radiation monitoring "rumors and reputation" damage

[flamingdem]

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/05/04/epa-halts-extra-radiation-monitoring-focus-shifts-to-seafood/

Thanks a lot Hillary for blocking our access to data in an ongoing catastrophe for the sake of our "friend$$$" in Japan.

--- snip from article:
The joint statement follows an April 29 meeting between Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto. The two agreed to fight “rumors and reputation damage” that might harm Japan’s place in the supply chain, Matsumoto said.


EPA Halts Extra Radiation Monitoring; Focus Shifts To Seafood
May. 4 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency has halted accelerated testing of precipitation, drinking water, and milk for radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the agency announced yesterday.

“After a thorough data review showing declining radiation levels related to the Japanese nuclear incident, EPA has returned to the routine RadNet sampling and analysis process for precipitation, drinking water and milk,” according to yesterday’s Daily Data Summary.

Milk and drinking water will return to a regular quarterly schedule and will next be tested in three months. Preciptation will be tested monthly.

---snip

But the situation at Fukushima remains unstable, with plumes of white smoke continuing to escape from two reactors.

Radioactive emissions continue at the plant, Virgilio said, and they are difficult to monitor accurately:

---- snip

[flamingdem]

1. Cesium-137 levels continue to rise in San Francisco Bay Area topsoil

* Cesium is of concern because it has a half-life of 30 years as opposed to Iodine-133. It causes leukemia, liver cancer etc.

UCB Food Chain Sampling Results, University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering, May 2, 2011 at 8:20 pm EDT:

[flamingdem]

2. Scientist: Radiation in food going to be a nationwide problem in US

Fairewinds' founder Maggie Gundersen interviews environmental scientist and professional engineer Marco Kaltofen about his ongoing analysis of radioactive fallout from Fukushima.

http://www.fairewinds.com/updates

[DainBramaged]

3. Another deja 'vu Christie Whitman moment?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdttHY59b4

[flamingdem]

4. Thanks, now I remember that!

We're on our own apparently since our health is of very little importance to the authorities if it disrupts the capital flow or causes "panic".

[flamingdem]

5. Radiation levels in seabed near Japan plant jump*

* And this is what Japan ADMITS to - and you can thus assume it's much higher. Greenpeace is currently conducting independent radioactivity tests but Japan will not allow them more than 12 miles from the coast.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110504/wl_afp/japandisasteraccidentnuclear

Wed May 4, 2:23 am ET

TOKYO (AFP) – Levels of radioactive substances have jumped in the Pacific seabed off Japan near the nuclear power plant crippled by a massive tsunami in March, according to the plant operator.
Seabed samples collected some 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant contained 1,400 becquerels of radioactive caesium-137 per kilogramme, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said.

The level is more than 600 times higher than a maximum 2.3 becquerels per kilogramme detected in the past off the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima.

The samples, taken on Friday, also contained 1,300 becquerels of caesium-134 and 190 becquerels of iodine-131, according to a TEPCO statement issued late Tuesday after the first analysis of seabed soil since the March 11 disaster.

Levels of the two materials were too low to be gauged in the past, a TEPCO spokeswoman said. The company did not say whether the levels were considered harmful. MORE AT LINK

[flamingdem]

6. EPA ends Fukushima monitoring, Activists concerned about Strontium in Milk, Plutonium in Air

http://www.idealist.ws

MAY 4, 2011

On the evening of May 3, the EPA posted on its Daily Data Summary page that the agency has unilaterally decided that due to the "consistent decrease in radiation levels across the country" it will begin transitioning to the normal "routine RadNet sampling and analysis process for precipitation, drinking water and milk," which is a protocol that calls for testing "milk and drinking water samples on a quarterly basis and precipitation samples as part of a monthly composite." The EPA is also considering removing from Hawaii, Alaska and other Pacific locations the "additional air monitors deployed in response to the Japan nuclear incident."

The EPA's startling move comes at a time when activists are criticizing the agency for not ramping up analysis of milk samples for radio-strontiums - strontium-89 was detected by the agency in early April in milk in Hawaii and strontium isotopes were detected in Moscow's air by a company named Radon in March - thus, there is a good chance that most food products in the U.S. contain trace amounts of radioactive strontium, but there is no data on this.

One recent article titled 'LIMITED TESTING OF MILK FOR RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM PROMPTS NEW CONCERNS' by Risk Policy Report on May 3rd discusses this disturbing fact.
The article notes that the EPA is only "testing for the presence of radioactive strontium in milk in instances where it has already detected radioactive cesium, meaning that since the nuclear crisis began in March, EPA would have conducted only three tests for strontium in milk for the entire country. This is because, according to publicly available data, the agency has only detected cesium in milk samples in Hilo, Oakland, CA, and Montpelier, VT."

The article quotes one activist who said "It's hard to believe we're running that blind," - the activist noted that 'given that other radionuclides have been detected at much greater levels in milk, air and rainwater throughout the country, it is alarming that EPA is not testing for strontium more regularly...'MORE AT LINK

[robdogbucky]

7. SOS Clinton colludes while

Japanese Workers and Children Overexposed to Radiation
Alexia Parks
Posted: 05/ 2/11 08:42 PM ET

"...To understand the health risk to both the workers and school children, I asked expert Dr. Joel Rauch M.D. (Rauchwerger) his opinion. Years ago, soon after the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, in 1979, medical doctor, Joel Rauch M.D. (Rauchwerger) was contacted in Houston, Texas, by those investigating health risks, because of his expertise in bone marrow transplantation. He explains the radiation risk to Japanese workers and children this way:

Depending upon the distance from the site, and the amount of radiation exposure, there are three levels of health risk. From the highest to the lowest levels of severity, they include:

1.) A lethal, high dose of radiation, similar to the atomic radiation over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That dose of radiation totally destroys the bone marrow (aplastic anemia); hence, a bone marrow transplant is the usual therapy for this individual. The bone marrow, which is the soft gelatinous substance inside most of the bones of the body, but especially in the long bones and pelvis, is the body's factory for two major systems. The first is the hemopoitic (blood) and the second is the lymphatic (immune) system. When the bone marrow is wiped out by high doses of radiation, the production is immediately stopped for three major elements: red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leucocytes; cancer of the leucocytes is called leukemia), and thrombocytes (platelets). We need these three elements, especially the red blood cells, because they are the only cells of the body that carry oxygen to the tissues. The reason why this dose is fatal is because the person will die from hypoxia, meaning not enough oxygen, or oxygen starvation. And secondarily, from infection, due to the loss of the immune system.

2.) The second health risk is gross chromosomal breaks in the somatic (body) cells. These can be observed at any hospital by a technician doing a standard karyotype. That is, taking a sample of cells and looking for a gross break in the chromosomes. This is more of a diagnostic tool for determining whether a person received enough exposure to create health risks.

3.) And finally, chronic, very low level radiation is known to mutate bone marrow cells and cause leukemia. This health risk must be followed for years, says Dr. Rauch, to see if the incidence, especially in children (as in childhood leukemia) exists. For this reason, especially, it is important for the region to be cordoned off to the public, perhaps for many decades...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexia-parks/japanese-radiation-overexposure_b_856698.html

[flamingdem]

8. The US and Japan have massive financial stakes in the Nuke Industry

with the US wanting to export the technology world wide.

The hubris is so huge to continue thinking this way when there ARE alternatives that need to be pushed more.

IMAGINE THIS:

Countries like India, Thailand, etc. where the US is pushing their nukes, having a massive melt down, who will bail them out?

The total costs to Japan of the Fukushima disaster will be a trillion - Tepco already said they will be wiped out - 300 billion just for the accident and then costs to the Japanese economy.

THAT is what Hillary is trying to manage, the US and Japan's economy, at the expense of our HEALTH and our RIGHT TO KNOW.

[marions ghost]

10. Right

meanwhile do we drink milk at our own risk? Guess so. "Buyer Beware" rules in Murka.

[marions ghost]

9. The EPA is a sham

:banghead:

What a betrayal of public trust. And that includes our collusion with Japanese authorities in controlling access to information over there.

[asjr]

11. How can "fighting rumors and reputation" be

construed as letting radiation continue? There are enough rumors in this thread.

[flamingdem]

12. Enought for all the unrecs?

This is information we're not getting, add some more to the thread, there's plenty of info we need since mainstream news has fully ignored this story and you can draw your own conclusions.

[asjr]

14. I do not rec or unrec. I state what I feel

just as everyone else here does. If this is information we're not getting how do you know it is information. Look, I don't care how you feel about Hillary Clinton. You can say what you like. It's just that there are always two sides to anything.

[flamingdem]

15. I did not say

you unrecced, my point is that this information is being suppressed.

Sorry if the way I put it out there is imperfect, but Hillary is implicated in this, she's good on some things and not on others, imo, but it's not so much about her as it is about the willingness of governments to put capital before people.

It's shameful, and the ignorance about low level radiation is shameful. There is an entire crew of gray personalities here that swoop in to unrec anything that is not pro-nuke, just so you know. Imagine the kind of money they have to influence public opinion. Their billions in subsidies are out of our pockets.

[flamingdem]

13. It's pretty much stated in the article

and it was immediately followed by a cessation of active monitoring by the EPA. The problem is that this is a very controversial issue and scientists are on both sides of the issue regarding low level radiation.

Also, it takes very careful sampling to get results so I highly doubt the FDA is doing that on fish from Japan REMEMBER! They used the SNIFF TEST for the Gulf of Mexico fish!!


The threat of radioactive contamination reaching American waters is so low that the Food and Drug Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration do not plan to test American seafood for it, those agencies said in the joint statement with EPA:

FDA and NOAA do not anticipate contamination of living marine resources in U.S. waters at this time. For this reason, sampling of U.S. harvested seafood is not currently planned.

via U.S. Seafood Safe… (pdf)

The joint statement follows an April 29 meeting between Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto. The two agreed to fight “rumors and reputation damage” that might harm Japan’s place in the supply chain, Matsumoto said.

[flamingdem]

16. Cesium-137 in milk has increased 5/2 2011 - UC Berkeley

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2174



04/28/2011 0.49±0.05
(5.57E+03) less than MDA
0.37±0.04
(6.53E+03) 0.44±0.04 -------------- Cesium 137
(6.16E+03) less than MDA
data


05/02/2011 0.49±0.05
(5.53E+03) less than MDA
0.27±0.03
(8.84E+03) 0.49±0.05 ---------------- Cesium 137
(5.54E+03) less than MDA

[robdogbucky]

17. There is still lots of good information gathered at EURAD

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=en&VAR=euradsfc


Check out the boxes on the right with new information regarding absorbed dose rate. What I like about this modeling is that it covers all the radioactive elements released, not just one or not just some.

[flamingdem]

18. I wonder how they get those figures

I guess it's from a Japan site? The animated maps are potential contamination so I'm not sure how useful they are for knowing contamination levels in our food, soil and water.

For the last few days there all three reactors have been letting off steam and No. 4 smoke and who knows what else. There is no one translating what that means in terms of fall out. There is every reason to believe there will be incidents before this is over in 6-12 months. Regardless that is a LONG TIME for radioactgive dust particles to be flowing this way.

[Gravel Democrat]

19. just another example of why the clintons and their scummy cling-ons

should be kept as far away from power as possible

add coverup artist to warmonger

can we ever get rid of any of these despicable authoritarians?

and why the eff not. Jesus.