Secret Squirrel On The Massive Benefits Of Nuclear Disasters.

Secret Squirrel was discussing things with a colleague from Japan, who had
legged it over for the duration as it were, of the Fukushima fallout.In
the course of our discussions the course of conversation turned to
Fukushima and he remarked that no good come ever come out of Fukushima
for Japan and the Japanese. However I,ever known as The Master Debater
since my Secondary School days(that’s Comprehensive High school to
Americans),also Head Prefect in my final year, which may have had to do
with the accolade so awarded to me, but in either case, what with the
massive global release of nuclear radiation by the Fukushima meltdowns,I
naturally took to the positive side of things in the nuclear accident
debate.

Previously I have been said to be anti-nuclear in my debates and
writings, but do point out that I am not,that those making such
statements have missed the point, that I am merely pointing out the
reality of things as they were and are, and indeed shall be in the light
of,in glowing terms, nuclear accidents and explosions and other
occurrences which are so very common with the nuclear industry as it
were,was is, and used to be.So to the good side of Fukushima and similar
events, the Chernobyls,the Three Mile Islands etc etc etc ad nauseum ad
infinitum,nuclear reactors ad perfidiosus…..
  
1) Cures cancer, or at least treats it, for those who already have it,
hence,unknowingly they are and have been cured and are being cured of it
and so will be spared the horrible expense of hospital treatment for
their cancers.There’s just no arguing that hospitals do not use radiation
to treat cancers formed, no indeed, they most certainly do.Radiation
therapy is proveably responsible for extending the life of many people,
and the application of radiation and radiopharmaceuticals has led to
greatly improved medical diagnoses and subsequent treatment of injuries
and diseases. More indirectly, applications of radiation and
radionuclides in industry have led to economic benefits that have
improved living standards and, consequently, better health.

2) Now for, those who have cancers generated due to the radiation, well,
they must enter the hospital stream, where they most certainly provide
the need for, and the employment of hospital staff, and the necessary
production of various large and expensive medical equipments and drugs
used to treat that cancer. That’s a huge boost to the economy of any
nation without a doubt.
  
3) Causes the body to generate more vitamin D,a proven fact, a vitamin
most necessary to the body and so those so exposed would not have to
purchase said vitamin, a cost removed from their budgets,and a
beneficial humanitarian plus on the side of radiation!!

3)    Reduces lifespan, and demand for pension and Social Security
pension benefits.Indeed it does, by killing off a large portion of the
population effectively exposed to high levels of radiations which
generate the cancer which will kill them quite early in life long
before they reach such pensionable ages.(Recall also the plus seen and
mentioned in 2) directly above.

4) With special night vision goggles, provides additional
illumination.Indeed cancers and radiations can cause that certain glow
you know and hence improve the night lighting in areas where they can
still live in concentrated fashion.

5)    Helps kill germs on food and kitchen surfaces.Most certainly the
sterilization effects of radiations are well known, and their ability to
kill living cells and organisms which are in fact germs.

6)    Reduces body odor for the living and the dead.Indeed yet another
positive effect, and reduces the need to purchase deoderents, both
personal hygene ones and also the air freshener types you know.

5)   Simplifies funeral arrangements since no embalming is required –
Indeed radiation at certain levels purifies and mummifies.No doubt funeral
homes saving on embalming fluids usually necessary can pass on these
savings to the next of kin of those funeral customers they receive,and so
survivors benefit from lowered funeral costs.
 
6)    Kills human parasites – such as the Malaria parasite.Indeed you
wouldn’t even yet know it. Imagine this hidden effect,going on in you
now, if you have been irradiated, or even yet are being irradiated by the
consumption of foods of whatever kind grown in areas of such places as
Chernobyl and Fukushima,and suffering from vast sprays of radioactive
particles and dusts as are present in such events as Fukushima and
Chernobyl,events which are spread over vast areas,be they spinach or fish
and whatever in between.
 
7)    Kills aliens from outer space – these are mostly nasty
anyway.Indeed we have many Hollywood movies proving out and using such a
scientific principle.

8) Reduces the homeless population.Indeed it does remove the homeless
population as they are mostly killed off as they tend to congregate in
certain areas, in flocks or groups or whatever their masses are called,
and so, they not being prone to evacuate such areas as being near nuclear
accidents, they die out,or off,and whatever.

9) Consumption of such things as higher level radioactive fish for
example, will result in a mild internal general radioactive medical
treatment helping to erradicate any hidden cancers developing much as
expensive cancer treatments hospitals offer do, a great saving for
you,and most beneficial. Most governments have realized this and so have
actually more than doubled the level of acceptable radiations in foods so
consumed, especially fish, as used here in the example, for just such
reasons you know.

10) Radiation actually has effects which are similar to the body’s immune
system, indeed activate and boost the body’s immune system, it’s abilities
to fight disease.Radiation hormesis (also called radiation homeostasis)
scientifcally states that low doses of ionizing radiation (within the
region and just above natural background levels) are beneficial,
stimulating the activation of repair mechanisms that protect against
disease, that are not activated in absence of ionizing radiation. The
reserve repair mechanisms are hypothesized to be sufficiently effective
when stimulated as to not only cancel the detrimental effects of ionizing
radiation but also inhibit disease not related to radiation exposure This
seemingly counter-intuitive hypothesis has captured the attention of
scientists and public alike in recent years.

11) Mutations.Indeed a tippy subject to say the least, but consider,there
are beneficial sides to things.Longer arms for examples would and do cause
the abilities to reach things in much better fashion.Long legs, would
enable the average, or used to be, citizen to say run in the Olympics and
so beat those African runners(they had to learn to run, and so passed
this gene on to their sons etc, they had to learn to run from
slavers).Now a third eye, well, all the better to see with.Could we argue
against a case for massive webbed feet, why just look at the
Australian,Thrope, those massive feet easily allowed him to win Olympic
medals with their massive flipper like natures, unquestionably the result
of beneficial radiation mutations…And who could argue the case against
a third breast,errr in females, indeed a highly desired and muchly looked
forwards to form of mutation, long looked forwards to.Indeed there is yet
more in support of radiation mutation, here as reported by NBCNews……………

“Somewhere in Germany is a baby Superman, born in Berlin with bulging arm
and leg muscles. Not yet 5, he can hold seven-pound weights with arms
extended, something many adults cannot do. He has muscles twice the size
of other kids his age and half their body fat.DNA testing showed why: The
boy has a genetic mutation that boosts muscle growth.
The discovery, reported in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine,
represents the first documented human case of such a mutation.”

Indeed this is a great step forwards for mankind,indeed this German
SuperBoy would have driven Adolf Hitler wild!

12) Sterility.Well now….is sterility caused by nuclear radiation all that bad.Not really. Imagine, all the sex one could have and no worries about having children,having to go through childbirth, having to pay for children?No indeed, none of it. No necessity for abortion, no problems for the unborn being bullied by such terms as “You should have been an abortion.” And none of that from their fathers either. Jolly good all round I’d say, and do say, no worries there then,none at all, no expense of children in any numbers,great nor small, reduced necessity for welfare amongst those less endowed financially what with having children.A Jolly good thing.

So, given all these arguments, are they really debateble? No most
definitely not, a most definite undebateable supporting the beneficial
massive releases of radiations from what were formerly known as
disasters, the Chernobyls,the Three Mile Islands, the Fukushimas. Indeed
we should look forwards to many more such events as will without a doubt
occur, and revel in the massive releases of radiation that they cause.
Without a doubt a great boon to mankind brought to us curtesy of our
governments,nuclear scientists, and nuclear industry workers.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL,
MP,(Dunny On The Wold),
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

Secret Squirrel On The Banana As A Measure Of Radiation Levels.

Secret Squirrel recalls the ever changing levels of radioactivity at Fukushima,
and the also ever changing go around concerning what levels of what were measured in whatever and what were the safe levels then and the ever increasing upwards safe levels the government of Japan announced as things got ever worse.Well Secret Squirrel has pondered things and has considered that perhaps the Japanese government and others, were not actually lying to the people but just confused not only at the rising levels of radiation in the midst of the finally admitted three nuclear meltdowns,but to the actual ways and means of measuring things in a proper light so all things seemed to be pretty good all round. Well let’s first start with the actual definitions and measurements of radioactivity.

Now…

1) The amount of radioactivity emitted by a source is measured in Becquerels or
Curies. The SI unit the becquerel (Bq), one decay per second. The traditional unit
Curie (Ci) is 3.7 × 1010 Bq and is about the radioactivity of a gram of radium.

2) The amount of radiation received by a source is measured in grays or rads. The
SI unit Gray (Gy) corresponds to one joule of energy absorbed by one kilogram of
matter. The traditional unit rad is 0.01 Gy.

3)The biological effect of radiation is measured in Sieverts or rems. Biologically
effective dose is the amount of radiation received multiplied by the relative
biological effectiveness (RBE) of the type of radiation source. For x-rays, the
RBE is 1. For alpha rays, the RBE is 20. The SI unit of effective dose is the
Sievert (Sv), which corresponds to one Gy of x-rays. A rem is 0.01 Sv.

In short it’s coming at us every which way at the same time,and going in each and
every direction as well,so for some reason unbeknownst to us all, we have
Becquerels,Curies,Grays, Rads,Sieverts and Rems.Things have to be made much more simple, easier, we must simplify,and we can simplify things in such a manner that everybody can understand what’s going on concerning emitted, received and
radiation absorbed biologically. Of course this has been beyond the ken and
abilities of nuclear scientists and politicians, it’s rocket science it seems to
them all.Well, not so to Squirrel,nay, Squirrel has a solution. We must come up
with a suitably acceptable name and measure of radiation acceptable and easily
understood by all.and we have it, the Banana is proposed, the banana equivalent
dose, abbreviated BED to put it in simple terms that the lay men can understand
quite easily, as well as scientists and politicians as well. Besides bananas,
other foods that are rich in potassium (and therefore in 40K) are potatoes, kidney
beans, sunflower seeds, and nuts; especially brazil nuts, which may have up to 444
Bq/kg (12 nCi/kg) — four times the radioactivity of bananas.But I have selected
the banana since it is therefor a much finer form of measurement,much more
sensitive and therefor meaningful in a scientific measurement sort of way.

A banana equivalent dose (abbreviated BED) is a unit of radiation exposure,
informally defined as the dose a person will absorb from eating one banana,one
(1,and not more than one at any given time) Banana Equivalent Dose, 1 (One)
BED.The concept is based on the fact that bananas, like most organic material,
naturally contain a certain amount of radioactive isotopes—even in the absence of
any artificial pollution or contamination. The banana equivalent dose was meant to
express the severity of exposure to radiation, such as resulting from nuclear
power, nuclear weapons or medical procedures, in terms that would make sense to
most people,even politicians.

Specifically the BED is based on the banana itself, internally,having radioactive
potassium 40.The banana equivalent dose is the radiation exposure received by
eating a single banana. Radiation leaks from nuclear plants are often measured in
extraordinarily small units (the picocurie, a millionth of a millionth of a curie,
is typical). By comparing the exposure from these events to a banana equivalent
dose, a more realistic assessment of the actual risk can sometimes be obtained.

But why bother converting this to bananas? Partly because it’s hoped BED is
friendlier than sieverts and grays and rads and rems, and all the other
paraphernalia.But  the BED is useful for several reasons.

First, it reminds us that radiation is commonplace. You can’t get much more
ordinary than a banana.

Second, we know eating one banana won’t kill us.

Third, think about eating 20 million bananas, equal to a dose causing severe,
sometimes fatal, radiation poisoning. You’d probably die from something other than
the radiation well before you were anywhere near 20 million. Please do not attempt
this at home. Even over an 80-year lifetime it’s nearly 700 a day.At low doses the
bananas come in bunches, then rise through the thousands to the millions,
corresponding to micro-sieverts, milli-sieverts and sieverts, the SI
unit.Generally 1 banana equates to .1usv.(The standard measure of the biological
effect of radiation is the sievert. One sievert is a heck of a big dose, but one
tenth of a millionth of a sievert, or 0.1 micro sieverts, is roughly the dose from
eating one banana.)

Imagine newscasts and public information bulletins using the BED
unit…………let’s have a look say at a Japanese broadcast of say the Fukushima
situation…..

Here is a report from Japanese newsanchor of a government annoucement by Japanese Politician, I Fook Yew
    “Monitoring of radiation levels on the spot is ongoing. At point MP4, where a
reading of 1,015µSv was detected yesterday, a radiation level of 44.6µSv was
recorded at 00:30 this morning, and a level of 36.7µSv at 6:00am. After the start
of venting around 9:20, a reading of 76.9µSv was recorded at 9:20 and of 70.3µSv
at 9:30.”

Now imagine the say, equivalent, but rather expressed in the much simpler and
easier to understand, Banana Equivalent Units….

“The radiation spiked up to 30 bananas a day (2 days ago) and then fell back down
to 1 to 2 bananas per day.”

Now isn’t that much more sane,simpler and easier to understand.Politicians and
government officals should love it, they could still lie by using incorrect BED
unit statements.

Now,what is it’s relationship with standard units of radiation?Well the BED is a
radiation dose equivalent unit; that is, a unit for measuring potentially damaging
radiation absorbed by body tissue, rather than the total radiation (of any kind)
emitted by a source or absorbed by matter. The corresponding SI unit is the
sievert (Sv), defined as a radiation dose biologically equivalent to one joule of
absorbed gamma-ray energy per kilogram of tissue. In the U.S, an older unit, the
roentgen equivalent man (rem), equal to 0.01 sieverts, is sometimes used.
The absorbed radiation dose depends on the type and energy of the emitted
particles, as well as on the location of the source in the body (external,
inhaled, ingested, etc.). According to the US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the conversion factor (CEDE) is 5.02 nanosieverts over 50 years for each
becquerel of isotopically pure potassium-40 ingested by an average adult.[7] Using
this factor, one banana equivalent dose comes out as about 5.02 nSv/Bq × 31 Bq/g × 0.5 g ˜ 78 nanosieverts = 0.078 µSv. In informal publications one often sees this estimate rounded up to 0.1 µSv.After the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the NRC detected radioactive iodine in local milk at levels of 20 picocuries/liter, a dose much less than one would receive from ingesting a single banana. Thus a 12 fl oz glass of the slightly radioactive milk would have about 1/75th BED (banana equivalent dose).

Here is a table of the number of bananas exposure, and the event that it results
from

500 million Bananas
Ten minutes next to Chernobyl reactor core after explosion and meltdown

80 million  Bananas
Fatal dose even with treatment

20 million Bananas
Severe radiation poisoning, fatal in some cases

500,000 Bananas
Maximum legal yearly dose for a US radiation worker

70,000 Bananas
Chest CT scan

40,000 Bananas
Ten years of normal background dose, 85% of which is from natural sources

4000 Bananas
Mammogram

1000 Bananas
Approximate total dose received at Fukushima Town Hall in two weeks following

accident

400 Bananas
Flight from London to New York

300 Bananas
Yearly release target for a nuclear power plant

200 Bananas
Chest X-ray

50 Bananas
Dental X-ray

1 Bananas
Eating a banana

0.5 Bananas
Sleeping with someone

Ah but what if politicians sense that we’ve gone bananas and all we understand and convert everything to is the singularity of the banana?

The answer is obvious; they’ll say bananas should be banned.

Secret Squirrel,
MRL
MP,Dunny On The Wold,
Minister For Re-Deranged Re-Engineering.

 

Secret Squirrel Comments On Massive Radiation Increases In Food.

Secret Squirrel has considered that it is time to remark on radiation,
radiation  which has found it’s way in to food,food you may eat, due to such
events as Chernobyl,and Fukushima, the levels of radiation that the government,
in ever changing fashion,considers acceptable for YOU,and the measurement of
the self same said and stated radiations. Well, consider this, what with
Fukushima, as it developed, and develops, radiation levels have been detected
in such things, in Japan as tea,and various other foods, foods exported to
other countries,and fish, every and all fish, fish such as tuna.Well, the
governments had studied things and all things considered, they do actually
monitor imported foods for radiations,and have released guidelines,based on
scientific studies of what is termed to be, or were termed to be, safe levels of
radiation. Well lo and behold, what with Fukushima, they have,strangely,
upwardly raised levels of what they term to be acceptable levels of radiation
in YOUR foods, food YOU eat, everywhere and particularly from there, Japan in
these times. Europe has reacted so, America has reacted so. Well let us snicker
and look at their strangely termed and explained reasonings of the day.

PAGs (Protective Action Guides) being proposed by the EPA (Environmental
Protection Agency),specifically, deal with how the EPA should enforce laws such
as the Clean Air and Water Act in relation to disasters, and particularly now,
with respect to Fukushima,the present massive nuclear disaster. Although PAGs
had already been established by the EPA in 1992, the agency now plans to amend
these guidelines to much higher levels of acceptable radiation,that would raise
the acceptable levels of radiation allowed in the environment, food, and even
the general public themselves in the event of a nuclear emergency,though based
on what is anybody’s guess you know, take one yourself,why not……like
inflation, as the number of nuclear accidents increase, so too will,and do,
acceptable levels of radiations in foods,and people for that matter,in the eyes
and minds of governments, of politicians.So much for all the studies that
originally medically and scientifically,based on their studies at the time, their
actual realistic findings,set the safe limits lower than the ones the
government now wishes, on the basis of…..well,what really, their thoughts on
things…..?

No congressional approval is legally needed to makes such changes, because the
EPA is a regulatory agency that sets “policy” and, although these types of
agencies can be directed by congress or the president, they often form their
own policies. All that is required when agencies such as the EPA wish to change
their policy is that they first publish the proposed changes in the Federal
Register for a designated period of “public comment.”So it seems scientifically
gathered evidence on which the earlier lower guidelines were based, are now as
nothing, as nothing as and as valued as, public opinion.according to PEER
(Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the new standards would
result in a “nearly 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90, a 3000 to
100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and an almost 25,000 rise for
exposure to radioactive nickel-63” in drinking water.

Now in Europe,the new EU mirror of EPA policy,actually set as far back as 1989
(by amending standards set in 1987)EU ordinance 297/2011 raises the Maximum
Levels of radiation and radioactive isotopes for food and feed to rather
serious levels. In some cases, such as the case of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137,
the levels are actually twice the amount of previously acceptable levels. Many
of these increases are allowed in products such as infant formula and baby
foods.

It should be noted that the new EU changes only apply to food imported from
Japan. The justification behind this is that in the event of a nuclear
emergency the traditional levels of acceptable radiation should be ignored so
as not to cause a food shortage as a result of legal constraints.The European
Union has authorized radioactive load in foods in Japan has increased
substantially. Until now, a maximum of 600 becquerels of radioactivity (cesium
134 and cesium 137) per kilogram allowed, but since last weekend for example
oil or herbal suddenly 12,500 becquerels per kilogram, more than 20 times as
high. The increase was recorded in Emergency Ordinance 297/2011 on March 27 and was in force.

While politicians talk about “enhanced control measures” and “special
protection standards” they are universally silent on explaining,rationally,if at all, the huge increase in the allowable limits of radiation in food in,and FROM, Japan. Nevertheless we are reassured with the assurance that we have no worry about radioactive products from Japan,or the presence of elevated levels of radiation in food,especially coming from Japan.Curious,an increase, then increase the allowable(err “allowable”?) level of radiation in food.Much similar in fashion to rape as a crime, decriminalize it and then there’s no problem.

Explain why a 20 times as high value allowable of radiations in food would make no difference for the consumer safety.

(EU-Verordnung 733/2008) applies to food and food imports
for cesium-134 and 137 and typically limits of 370 becquerels per kilogram for
infant formula and milk products and 600 Bq / kg for other foods (EU regulation
733/2008). The Emergency Ordinance 297/2011, which entered into force on March
2011, has increased the European Commission of these borders to products from
the affected regions Japanese clear: to 400 becquerels per kilogram for infant
formula, to 1000 Bq / kg for milk products and to 1250 Bq / kg for other foods.
Certain products such as fish oil or spices may even exceed this value by ten
times, ie up to 12,500 becquerels per kilogram to be charged – a 20-times the
previous limit.

Now,that you understand what’s going on, and who’s doing what to YOU and the
food YOU eat,or rather, must eat,very much similiar to forced to eat.

 I’ve saved the very best,for last……..

Background for the increase is about the Chernobyl disaster in 1987 adopted EU
Regulation 3954/1987. Accordingly, in the event of a “nuclear emergency” to be
raised the ceiling on allowable radioactive contamination of foods to prevent
food shortages. ‘These rules now to bring into force is absurd, because in
Europe there are no nuclear emergency, and certainly no shortage of food’.
Imports from Japan to play for the security of European citizens not matter,
“said Thilo Bode and Chris Hacker.Fascinating isn’t it, the reasoning. In the
event of a nuclear disatser,there is an emergency,even with no food
shortages,what with food being available worldwide, procureable,purchasable,
importable,and so you just have to eat food with higher levels of radiation,
from any particular place where and said stated nuclear explosive event
occurred.

Wonderful?No.Reasonable?No.Justifiable?No.Intelligent?No.Logical?No.
Scientific?No.Are politicians sane and intelligent? No.Vote for insanity,you
know it makes sense.

Secret Squirrel Discovers Spent Nuclear Fuel Extremely Dangerous.

Secret Squirrel has discovered and even worse condition at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant,more serious than the melted down reactors,and that is the method of, and storage of, the spent fuel rods in the reactor plant,being above the reactors,and has learned Fukushima’s spent nuclear fuel rods are critically dangerous,in short where there’s smoke there’s fire.

Where there’s no containment, there’s radiation,and Fukushima has buildings virtually entirely blown away, all vastly open to the atmos.Buildings,which when they blew,due to the ignition of escaped hydrogen gas emitted by the damaged reactors,damaged,if not destroyed the fuel rod containment pools, and even yet having blown some,or many, of said rods entirely out of the building, and out of their pools where they lie strewn about,emitting ever increasing radiation, in the forms of gas,metals,oxides, and solid particles, highly radioactive ones, ever increasing as the uncooled rods now go to self re-criticality.Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and such a fire is vastly worse,in terms of radiation, than the melted down reactors can produce,due to the enormous quantity of said fuel rods that were, and are,stored there.It all commences as any pool looses integrity due to various cause, the fuel bundles are exposed and then it starts,the zirconium cladding on the fuel rods bursts into flames if exposed to air for hours when a storage pool looses its water and also as heat rise internally in the rod of the nuclear materials,re-criticallity commences to chain,vast amounts of assorted radiation is released in various forms,all undesirable.Also as water in a given pool reduces, the temperature of the rods rises,the water boils, steams off, less water, and goes cyclical to dry and ever increasing re-criticality. Now study the situation as Squirrel sees it.Figures provided by the Tokyo Electric Power Company on Thursday show that most of the dangerous uranium at the powerplant is in the spent fuel rods, not the reactor cores.Here we ponder the words of TEPCO…The company said that a total of 11,195 spent fuel rod assemblies were stored at the site. That is about four times as much radioactive material as in the reactor cores combined…….the zirconium cladding on the fuel rods could burst into flames if exposed to air for hours when a storage pool lost its water Spent rods the biggest hazard, says Sydney Morning Herald, Keith Bradsher and Hiroko Tabuchi, March 19, 2011 YEARS of procrastination in deciding on long-term disposal of highly radioactive fuel rods from nuclear reactors are coming back to haunt Japanese authorities as they try to control fires and explosions at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

Some countries have tried to limit the number of spent fuel rods that accumulate at nuclear power plants: Germany stores them in costly casks, for example, and China sends them to a desert storage compound in the western province of Gansu.America has at one time also done this,but strangely abandonned this safer method of storage, if nuclear can be safe at all,or at least in a tiny bit. But Japan, like the United States, has kept ever-larger numbers of spent fuel rods in temporary storage pools at the powerplants, where they can be guarded with the same security provided for the plants.Obama even yet ordered,on achieving office,ordered the shutdown of an underground storage facility at Yucca Flats(Mountain),deep in the earth, troubled by greens dismayed at the thought of that,however Obama has angered Ganesha,The Elephant God, and others,and Obama may have lacked authority to have closed Yucca Mountain. And so, the US now stores the rods in the same fashion the Japanese do, mostly.Is he likely to reverse himself,at risk of irritating the greens and ordering it now reopened, by his command?Well magine,Vermont Yankee has a staggering 690 tons of spent fuel rods on site,you can imagine how much others have. All cooling water is gone from the spent-fuel pool at one of the crippled nuclear reactors in Japan, causing the release of high levels of radiation, Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told members of Congress. Radioactivity has been heating the pools at three of the plant’s reactors since the plant’s cooling systems were disabled by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami, officials said.

Exposed, the spent fuel rods can catch fire and melt, spewing radiation into the atmosphere, said Robert Kelley, an engineer in Vienna who used to lead the Nuclear Emergency Response at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Unlike the plant’s reactors, the pools aren’t encased by steel and concrete. The pool water also shields workers. With the top of the fuel rods exposed, a worker at the pool lip would receive a fatal radiation dose in 16 seconds, David Lochbaum, a nuclear physicist for the Union of Concerned Scientists and a former NRC safety instructor, said in a conference call. Water in the spent fuel pool at the No. 4 reactor may be boiling, Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said on March 15. Temperatures in the rod-cooling pools of the shuttered No. 5 and No. 6 reactors rose as high as 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit) at 2 p.m. yesterday from 60 degrees Celsius at 7 a.m., a Tokyo Electric official said. Reactor pool No. 4 contains 142 tons of fuel that could burn on exposure to the atmosphere, Marvin Resnikoff, a nuclear physicist for Washington-based Physicians for Social Responsibility, said in a telephone press conference arranged by the group. He cited Tokyo Electric statements.

Japanese authorities are concerned about the condition of the pools of units 3 and 4, the International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday. Military helicopters may be used to drop water on reactor No. 3 and workers are planning to spray water into unit 4, according to the IAEA. “This is going to be a problem for months,” Resnikoff said. “Water serves as both cooling and radiation shielding and workers can’t get close to it when the water is gone.” The pools contain enough radioactive cesium to make areas around the plant uninhabitable should it spread by fire and wind, Ira Helfand, a past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Whether contamination occurs remains to be seen, he said. The risk of the fuel ponds getting hot enough to start a nuclear reaction remains remote, said Geoff Parks, a nuclear engineer, also at the University of Cambridge. The pond would need to reach about 2,200 degrees Celsius, he said.

Science Insider noted yesterday: The Daiichi complex in Fukushima, Japan … had a total of 1760 metric tons of fresh and used nuclear fuel on site last year, according to a presentation by its owners, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco). The most damaged Daiichi reactor, number 3, contains about 90 tons of fuel, and the storage pool above reactor 4, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) Gregory Jaczko reported yesterday had lost its cooling water, contains 135 tons of spent fuel. The amount of fuel lost in the core melt at Three Mile Island in 1979 was about 30 tons; the Chernobyl reactors had about 180 tons when the accident occurred in 1986.According to Associated Press, there were – at the time of the earthquake and tsunami – 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools plus 877 tons of active fuel in the cores of the reactors.That totals 4,277 tons of nuclear fuel at Fukushima. Which means that there is almost 24 times more nuclear fuel at Fukushima than Chernobyl.If any of the spent fuel rods in the pools did indeed catch fire, nuclear experts say, the high heat would loft the radiation in clouds that would spread the radioactivity.

Here we see the worsening situation through

http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/15/a-new-threat-in-japan-radioactive-spent-fuel/#ixzz1LLjvCdQC

Excerpts start………….

“It’s worse than a meltdown,” said David A. Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists who worked as an instructor on the kinds of General Electric reactors used in Japan. “The reactor is inside thick walls, and the spent fuel of Reactors 1 and 3 is out in the open.” Mr. Lochbaum, who formerly taught reactor operation for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the pools measured about 40 feet long, 40 feet wide and 45 feet deep. The spent fuel, he added, rested at the pool’s bottom and rose no higher than 15 feet from the bottom.That means that in normal operations, the spent fuel is covered by about 30 feet of cooling water.Depending on the freshness of the spent fuel, Mr. Lochbaum said, the water in an uncooled pool would start to boil in anywhere from days to a week.

The water would boil off to a dangerous level in another week or two.Once most of the fuel is exposed, he said, it can catch fire.If the spent fuel is a few months old, most of the iodine 131 — one of the most dangerous radioactive byproducts in spent fuel — will have decayed into harmless forms.But the cesium 137 in the spent fuel has a half-life of 30 years, meaning it would take about two centuries to diminish its levels of radioactivity down to 1 percent.It is cesium 137 that still contaminates much land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor, which suffered a meltdown in 1986. What happens to exposed spent fuel rods? The rods get so hot that the zirconium cladding catches fire. As the zirconium turns into zirconium oxide — another exothermic reaction — all the fission by-products inside the rods as well as any leftover uranium oxide and plutonium oxide will be exposed to the atmosphere. Given that the heat of the fire will cause convection, these by-products easily become an aerosol, enter the atmosphere, and disperse in the prevailing winds. What’s the immediate impact? The spent fuel releases a lot of radiation in the vicinity of the plant. What’s the impact over a broader area? The scenario of a high volume of airborne radioactive compounds entering the atmosphere is daunting.

Some emit gamma or beta radiation that the human body receives from outside. Some emit alpha particles, so they are dangerous if inhaled or ingested. Some like iodine are biologically absorbed (this is why potassium iodide tablets saturate your body with iodine and prevent uptake of the radioactive iodine isotope)Some like plutonium are chemically toxic in addition to being highly radioactive. Is this similar to Chernobyl? It’s not, in terms of how it began. But it could be, in terms of impact.Spent fuel is taken out of the reactor and replaced by new fuel. Nuclear power plants do this periodically—in some cases, every year. Once they are removed, however, spent nuclear fuel is very “hot and dirty”–it’s physically hot, but it also emits lots of nasty radiation. So you have to cool it in a special pool for 5 to 10 years to let the radioactivity fade. Pick your poison. Fresh fuel is hotter and more radioactive, but is only one fuel assembly. A pool of spent fuel will have dozens of assemblies. One report from Sankei News said that there are over 700 fuel assemblies stored in one pool at Fukushima. If they all caught fire, radioactive particles—including those lasting for as long as a decade—would be released into the air and eventually contaminate the land or, worse, be inhaled by people. “To me, the spent fuel is scarier. All those spent fuel assemblies are still extremely radioactive,” Dalnoki-Veress says. If the water that boils away cannot be replaced, the water level will drop, exposing the rods. The rods will begin to heat, which can lead to damage of the rod, or possibly a partial or complete meltdown . All of those consequences would lead to a release of radiation from the damaged rods. The amount released would depend on the severity of damage to the rods, the amount of spent fuel in the pool, and the length of time the rods have been in the pool.

Two of the radioactive gases released from fuel rods are iodine-131 and cesium-137. Because radioactive iodine-131 has a short half-life (eight days), it begins to decay quickly once the fuel is removed from the reactor core—so radiation releases from spent fuel will have much lower levels of iodine-131 than releases from the reactor core. However, cesium-137, which has a longer half-life (30 years), decays much more slowly, so levels will remain high in the spent fuel. Cesium-137 contamination from the Chernobyl accident was the main reason authorities had to establish an exclusion zone around that reactor. It is important to note that spent fuel pools are not as isolated from the environment as the reactor core, because the pools are located outside the primary containment structure. So even if the total amount of radiation released by damaged fuel rods in a spent fuel pool is less than that released by similarly damaged fuel rods in the reactor core, the fraction of that radiation that escapes into the atmosphere from the spent fuel pools is likely to be much higher. Since the net release into the air will be determined by the combination of these two factors—how much radiation is released by the fuel rods, and how much of that escapes into the environment— greater levels of radiation could result from the loss of cooling to a spent fuel pool than the loss of cooling to a reactor.

From images, 1 and 3 no longer have intact pools, in fact the rods are somewhere in the building wreckage, and also scattered round and about, merrily spewing radiation such as caesium etc…………… spent fuel rods pose grave danger, literally, as bad as and yet worse than, that of reactor core meldown,explosion………you see while they are less, there are enormously more,and they are much more dangerously volotile, in that simply exposing them causes then to catch fire, and melt……emitting enormous amounts of radiation gases and particles, particles including the Caesium, which is tremendously radiactive, remaining so for many many yet years……caesium has a half life of 30 years, meaning it’s radiation values decrease by half,but in terms of amounts.There are four kinds of isotopes that are likeliest to be emitted by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, as well as the other three that have been taken offline: iodine-131, cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239. Iodine-131 is, in many ways, the most dangerous of the four, because it can lead to cancer — specifically thyroid cancer — in people exposed to it in the shortest time. Strontium and cesium are the next up the danger scale. While iodine tends to concentrate its damage to the thyroid, those two are not nearly so selective. “Strontium is chemicaly similar to calcium,” says Dr. Ira Helfand, a board member for Physicians for Social Responsibility. “So it gets incorporated into bones and teeth and can stay there, irradiating the body, for a long time.” Strontium is most commonly linked to leukemia.

More troubling, cesium and strontium linger not just in the body, but in the environment. Strontium has a half-life of 29 years; cesium’s is 30. A radioactive isotope is generally considered dangerous for 10 to 20 times its half life, which in these cases tops out at about 600 years. Most worrisome of all is plutonium-239 — for a number of reasons. First of all, the vast majority of a fuel rod is made of plutonium, which means there’s just more of it in play. What’s more, says Helfand, “It’s extraordinarily toxic.” Plutonium exposure usually comes from inhalation rather than ingestion, so it’s mostly associated with lung cancer. What’s more, plutonium’s half life is 24,000 years, which means anything released in Fukushima today could be around at dangerous levels for up to half a millon years.

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As to the less subtle effects, the much more immediate effects result when there is ………People exposed to 100 full rems begin to experience nausea, one of the first signs of radiation sickness. At 200 rems and up you suffer loss of hair, suppression of the immune system, vomiting and bleeding. A dose of 300 rems is fatal to about 50% of people exposed. At 600 rems, nobody survives. In some cases, the timing of the dosing matters. It’s much worse, for example, to absorb 300 rems in an hour than over the course of a year.Chernobyl cancers occurred in children because of the childhood growth process and dietary iodine deficienciesJapan has already, according to some estimates, released 50% of the amount of caesium-137 released by Chernobyl, and many experts say that the Fukushima plants will keep on leaking for months.And New Scientist reports that huge quantities of iodine-131 are being released in Japan: Six of the spent fuel rod pools are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings. One “common pool” is at ground level in a separate building.

Each “reactor top” pool holds up to 3450 fuel rod assemblies. The common pool holds up to 6291 fuel rod assemblies. [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.] Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods. The fuel rods once stored atop reactor 3 may no longer be there: one of the several explosions at the Fukushima reactors may have damaged that pool.These pools are designed to store the intensively radioactive fuel rods that were already used in nuclear reactors. These “used” fuel rods still contain uranium (or in the case of fuel rods from reactor 3, they contain both uranium and plutonium from the MOX fuel used in that reactor).

In addition to the uranium and plutonium, the rods also contain other radioactive elements. These radioactive elements are created in the rods by the intense radiation around the rods when they are in the reactor core (before they are moved to the spent fuel pools).On average, spent fuel ponds hold five-to-ten times more long-lived radioactivity than a reactor core. Particularly worrisome is the large amount of cesium-137 in fuel ponds, which contain anywhere from 20 to 50 million curies of this dangerous radioactive isotope. With a half-life of 30 years, cesium-137 gives off highly penetrating radiation and is absorbed in the food chain as if it were potassium.These “used” fuel rods still contain uranium (or in the case of fuel rods from reactor 3, they contain both uranium and plutonium from the MOX fuel used in that reactor).

In addition to the uranium and plutonium, the rods also contain other radioactive elements.A single spent fuel pond holds more cesium-137 than was deposited by all atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the Northern Hemisphere combined. These radioactive elements are created in the rods by the intense radiation around the rods when they are in the reactor core (before they are moved to the spent fuel pools),and are created when the spent fuel rises in temperature,or again takes part in a generated chain,in short,’re-criticality’ occurs- a nuclear chain reaction starts among fuel rods in the ever drying pool..Without enough water to cover the, the fuel rods will keep on igniting, just like trick birthday candles keep re-igniting after we blow them out. Just like trick birthday candles, the only way to put out the fuel rods is to put them under water. Unlike trick birthday candles, the spent fuel rods burn hot (3300 degrees F) enough so that the radioactive material in the rods is aerosolized,and particularized: carried into the atmosphere in clouds of hot smoke,strontium,uranium,plutonium,caesium and yet more. And unlike our trick birthday candles, the spent fuel rods in reactor building 4 are four stories off the ground – just like the other five reactor spent fuel pools at Fukushima. And unlike our trick birthday candles, the radioactivity around the spent fuel rods is so high that no one can approach them to put out the fire.

When the reactors blew, the pools were obviously disturbed, and in at least two instances, spent fuel was ejected from the pools,if not the pool entirely compromised, and lie round and about the area of the explosion, and in the explosion debris in the former reactor housing, Also the buildings are entirely compromised and hence the radioactive result from fuel rods not being cooled,is spreading round and about and in to the atmos.The Genie is out of the bottle and there is just no stuffing it back in.Radiation readings? Of course of stunning magnitude,else the workers could go in there, and we all know they simply can’t. As to the readings themselves, they,TEPCO,GE,the Japanese government, cannot in any way shape nor form be trusted to reveal the true readings and data on where the nuclear radiation is spreading or seeping in to.

As a metter of fact, strangely, on the other hand perhaps not, the Canadian government cannot be trusted, even with readings of the Japanese radiation cloud affecting and spreading to and into and through, Canada, as the Canadian Government has, incredibly,shut down their radiation monitoring system which is supposed to warn,inforn, and reveal the event. In short, the system specifically created for that use,has been shut down on orders of the Canadian Prime Minister, and government..useless thing to have isn’t it, all round.If it isn’t used, then without a doubt the equipment should be dismantled, and the people so employed in their evidently useless monitoring task,rendered redundant and unemployed. Buy a trustworthy geiger counter, and be your own monitor,your government is,in it’s greatest majority,utterly and completely useless to you.

For your information from

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

Substances released by “burning” spent fuel (1 Japanese reactor has plutonium in it’s fuel,spent and otherwise,but not shown in table).

The chemical forms of fission products in uranium dioxide

Element Gas     Metal    Oxide      Solid solution

Br Kr       Yes          –           –               –

Rb             Yes         –         Yes           –

Sr                  –         –           Yes       Yes

Y                   –          –            –           Yes

Zr                  –           –          Yes       Yes

Nb                 –            –           Yes        –

Mo                 –         Yes        Yes        –

Tc Ru Rh Pd –         Yes        –            –

Ag Cd In Sb –          Yes         –             –

Te                 Yes         Yes     Yes      Yes

I Xe              Yes           –            –            –

Cs                   Yes          –          Yes          –

Ba                    –               –         Yes         Yes

La Ce Pr Nd –               –          –              Yes

Pm Sm Eu     –              –           –              Yes

Secret Squirrel On Fukushima,The Shape Of Things To Come.

Secret Squirrel noticed that they,TEPCO and The Government, said they were trying to save the Fukushima reactors, yes, save the reactors, ,save the reactors,that was what they said, they were trying to save to reactors…………not the people.Not the people, from the radiation spewing forth, contaminating,poisoning the earth, entering the water, inundating,invading, entering the very food they’d eat, the vegetables, and also the farm animals, the farm animals to be eaten for meat,cows,pigs and chickens et all, and the milk that they’d drink………..the reactor blew, we saw, the column, the white column, and…………the ring….the nuclear ring…….I imagine they’d prefer the heavenly term halo, for that is where the radiation so released, the caesium that comes from inside the reactors,comes from,that and when the meltdown,and so the Fukushima nuclear plant, turned Japan,and the life for the Japanese, in to a living Hell…..life under the Heavenly nuclear halo.There are claims that other reactors won’t do the same thing, as occurred in Japan, the reactor DID blow open, and spew radiation, and the dreaded poisonous, long lasting cesium in to the air and round and about, and it to the water and in to the soil, and in to the food,animal and vegetable,and on to the people.They say that other reactors won’t do that,they’re encased, but the Japanese ones haven’t been encased, and we have to ask why they weren’t, when encased ones were being built at the same time,by the same source designers, with safety in mind, as they were in Japan, as they are in Japan. They say the encased ones won’t blow open.Well, place a stick of dynamite on a stump,light it, it blows, but that’s about it, negligible damage to the stump. Place the same stick of dynamite on the stump, light it, cover it with a can, and it can and will obliterate the stump.The containment of an explosive release at the moment of explosion, concentrates, and magnifies many times the blast. The encased concrete reactor is safe?Chernobyl blew a 2000 TON metal lid, right off and up,enormously in to the air, releasing the radiation, and poisonous caesium in to the air, and in to the water, and in to the soil and in to the food, and on to the people,and it remains for many many years.

They released radioactive steams in to the air, with associated radioactive particles.They said they were containing the water they were pouring on to the reactors, which was becoming horrifically radioactive, and they found humungous amounts of radiation in the sea, where it was contaminating and entering,the fish, which as you know live beneath the surface of the water.Amazing! There it is, think now,ponder, assess.And where did that humungous amount come from?Well, they seemed to indicate thence, the small leaks? Or were they lying, TEPCO, AND The Government……….and just releasing it all willy nilly in to the sea.They DID show imagines of a leak, they said was the source,but notice it is a rather small crack, a very small crack……so.then the smallest crack can release a massive quantity of radiation in to the water to contaminate the sea,the fish,and render them, unsafe to eat,unless you wish to risk death,in the short term, and cancerous death in the long,slow term.

Well, you know the effects of radiation in the short term, the burns(recall the workers were burned by contact with radioactive water,they told you that much it was found out when the made it to hospital),you know the effects of radiation, the hair falling out,etc etc etc.But what is a cancerous death due to radiation, in the long slow term,the very slow term.Well, I know,you see when I was ten, they had these “phosporous” glow in the dark material on watches,and, what should happen, but one of these tiny balls fell off somebodies watch, the girl, in front of me, picked it up and swallowed it, just like candy.Well, I told her that wasn’t such a good idea.On it went, I encountered her in high school, she complained of frequent stomach aches,I knew what from, that radioactive tiny ball was stuck in there.I encountered her again, 30 years after, in hospital,she had stomach cancer, a mass
had grown over the years.She died, slowly,painfully.Yes, there it was, the tiny round glow in the center of the mass,I told them, they found it,there it was, the cause of death…………cancer of course, but a cancer induced by that radioactive tiny ball that had lodged in her stomach, triggered the cells to surround it and try protect the body, and then mutate to cancerous cells, and
cancer, due to the effects of the radiation,death forty years later,due to a tiny radioactive ball, and something not that massively radioactive, just trapped, within the body, sitting there,emitting it’s tiny level of radioactivity,to the cells it rested on,was lodged on.That’s what it does,that’s how it happens, and that’s what it will do, and is doing, to the Japanese, and anybody else, who ingests the materials, or inhales the materials.The nuclear particles from the nuclear plant, are higher levels
than that tiny ball, even yet they being so very much smaller,but so very much yet more,radioactive.

If TEPCO, and The Government,had THEY not lied to the people of Japan, if they had not tried to ridiculously save the reactors, far less Japanese would have suffered,and WILL suffer, the effects and fates similar, as expounded immediately preceding.What you have read above is the shape of things to come for a great many of the Japanese who lived close to the reactors,who will eat the food,animal and vegetable, who will eat the fish,who breathed in and swallowed and/or inhaled, the radioactive particles spewed forth by the reactor plant’s explosions and radioactive water leaks.We salute you, you who are about to die, slowly, you
who suffered the TEPCO,The Government,The Nuclear Lie.

Secret Squirrel On The Effects Of Radiation On Man In The Way Of It.

Secret Squirrel has found,on investigation,that while nuclear advocates tell us nuclear is safe, we obviously have ourselves learned that it isn’t,and will adversely affect the human bodies it lands on,or is inhaled by,burning,mutilating,mutating,killing,diseasing,quickly,or slowly,and similarly the farm animals in and after the same fashion, and thence also landing on farm soils,where it will and does and is, coating vegetables and farm animals which will be in contact with and ,eaten by humans, where it will cause yet more significant damage over a period of time after ingestion,even yet reaching in to the next generation.Many of us now look at what has been made public,specifically Chernobyl, and from Fukushima,ongoing, with obviously much of the reality hidden from the public by the nuclear agency involved and the Japanese government itself. Other disasters went before, and the radiation and its effects were hidden from the public by governments best described as draconian.So what are the general effects of radiation of a population, on the human body?Well….

(1) Hair

The losing of hair quickly and in clumps occurs with radiation exposure at 200 rems or higher.

(2) Brain

Since brain cells do not reproduce, they won’t be damaged directly unless the exposure is 5,000 rems(rems/rads equate) or greater. Like the heart, radiation kills nerve cells and small blood vessels, and can cause seizures and immediate death.

(3) Thyroid

The certain body parts are more specifically affected by exposure to different types of radiation sources. The thyroid gland is susceptible to radioactive iodine. In sufficient amounts, radioactive iodine can destroy all or part of the thyroid. By taking potassium iodide, one can reduce the effects of exposure.

(4) Blood System

When a person is exposed to around 100 rems, the blood’s lymphocyte cell count will be reduced, leaving the victim more susceptible to infection. This is often referred to as mild radiation sickness. Early symptoms of radiation sickness mimic those of flu and may go unnoticed unless a blood count is done.According to data from Hiroshima and Nagaski, show that symptoms may persist for up to 10
years and may also have an increased long-term risk for leukemia and lymphoma.

(5) Heart

Intense exposure to radioactive material at 1,000 to 5,000 rems would do immediate damage to small blood vessels and probably cause heart failure and death directly.

(6) Gastrointestinal Tract

Radiation damage to the intestinal tract lining will cause nausea, bloody vomiting and diarrhea. This is occurs when the victim’s exposure is 200 rems or more. The radiation will begin to destroy the cells in the body that divide rapidly. These including blood, GI tract, reproductive and hair cells, and harms their DNA and RNA of surviving cells.

(7) Reproductive Tract

Because reproductive tract cells divide rapidly, these areas of the body can be damaged at rem levels as low as 200. Long-term, some radiation sickness victims will become sterile.

So Fukushima presents a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear industry’s campaign about the “minimal” health effects of so-called low-level radiation. That billions of its dollars are at stake if the Fukushima event causes the “nuclear renaissance” to slow down appears to be evident from the industry’s attacks on its critics, even in the face of an unresolved and escalating disaster at the reactor complex at Fukushima.

There are differences between external and internal radiation,the former being what populations were exposed to when the atomic bombs were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945; their profound and on-going medical effects are well documented.

Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish,
then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans).  After they enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and genetic diseases over time.

The US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual’s risk of developing cancer.Chernobyl,1986, a 2009 report, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment”, published by the New York Academy of Sciences, three scientist authors – Alexey V Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V Nesterenko  They
estimate the number of deaths attributable to the Chernobyl meltdown at about 980,000.

In the early days of nuclear power, WHO (World Health Organization) issued forthright statements on radiation risks such as its 1956 warning: “As experts, we affirm that the health of future generations is threatened by increasing development of the atomic industry and sources of radiation … We also believe that new mutations that occur in humans are harmful to them and their offspring.”Genetic, or heritable effects appear in the future generations of the exposed person as a result of radiation damage to the reproductive cells. Genetic effects are abnormalities that may occur in the future generations of exposed individuals. They have been extensively studied in plants and animals, but risks for genetic effects in humans are seen to be considerably smaller than the risks for somatic effects.Delayed somatic effects are those that may occur years after radiation doses are received. Among the delayed effects thus far observed have been an increased potential for the development of cancer and cataracts. Since some
forms of cancer are among the most probable delayed effects, the established dose limits were formulated with this risk in mind.Prompt somatic effects are those that occur soon after an acute dose (typically 10 rad or greater to the whole body in a short period of time). One example of a prompt effect is the temporary hair loss which occurs about three weeks after a dose of 400 rad to the scalp. New hair is expected to grow within two months after the dose, although the color and texture may be different.This
we’ve learned from benevolent anticancer therapies,however in the cases of nuclear reactors,those close to the plant and it’s accident who’ve suffered these effects, have died.Even the lower doses of radiation, can and do result in, cataracts.Subtle doses have effects,over generations, and also, in the rather emmidate, pre-natla for example, the effects on the child pregnant females carry……..effects associated with prenatal radiation doses include:

Growth retardation,

Small head/brain size

Mental retardation

Childhood cancer

Larger doses,do more,faster,and are not very subtle in changes and effects on the humans,the human body that is,An acute radiation dose is defined as a large dose (10 rad or greater, to the whole body) delivered during a short period of time (on the order of a few days at the most). If large enough, it may result in effects which are observable within a period of hours to weeks.

Acute doses can cause a pattern of clearly identifiable symptoms (syndromes). These conditions are referred to in general as Acute Radiation Syndrome. Radiation sickness symptoms are apparent following acute doses >100 rad.

Acute whole body doses of >450 rad may result in a statistical expectation that 50% of the population exposed will die within 60 days without medical attention.

As in most illnesses, the specific symptoms, the therapy that a doctor might prescribe, and the prospects for recovery vary from one person to another and are generally dependent on the age and general health of the individual.

Blood-forming organ (Bone marrow) syndrome (>100 rad) is characterized by damage to cells that divide at the most rapid pace (such as bone marrow, the spleen and lymphatic tissue). Symptoms include internal bleeding, fatigue, bacterial infections, and fever.

Gastrointestinal tract syndrome (>1000 rad) is characterized by damage to cells that divide less rapidly (such as the linings of the stomach and intestines). Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, electrolytic imbalance, loss of digestion ability, bleeding ulcers, and the symptoms of blood-forming organ syndrome.

Central nervous system syndrome (>5000 rad) is characterized by damage to cells that do not reproduce such as nerve cells. Symptoms include loss of coordination, confusion, coma, convulsions, shock, and the symptoms of the blood forming organ and gastrointestinal tract syndromes. Scientists now have evidence that death under these conditions is not caused by actual radiation damage to the
nervous system, but rather from complications caused by internal bleeding, and fluid and pressure build-up on the brain

Other effects from an acute dose include:

200 to 300 rad to the skin can result in the reddening of the skin (erythema), similar to a mild sunburn and may result in hair loss due to damage to hair follicles.

125 to 200 rad to the ovaries can result in prolonged or permanent suppression of menstruation in about fifty percent (50%) of women.

600 rad to the ovaries or testicles can result in permanent sterilization.

50 rad to the thyroid gland can result in benign (non cancerous) tumors.

Well now, let’s go on to a more appetizing aspect of nuclear radiation……..the WHO says the impact of radiation on food depends on the type of food and exposed soil type, and amount of exposure and the amount of food consumed.The food experts from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture,on of whom is Dr. Ir Nuri Andarwulan, MSI states, the food is exposed to radioactive nuclear can loose all required nutrients, can even become toxic to the body such that it endangers health.Nuri explained, nuclear radiation can

produce two parts, namely radioactive rays and radioactive compounds. “If food is exposed to radioactive rays, can damage the

existing compounds in food. For example, the compound of vitamins in foods can be whole, or even that there are other compounds in

foods can be toxic to the body,” he said when contacted VIVAnews, Wednesday, March 30, 2011.While the food is exposed to

radioactive compounds, Nuri added that its effects can be deadly if consumed. “It also depends on which body part is exposed. For

example, iodine, is one radioactive compound can attack the thyroid and can cause thyroid cancer.”

Radiation in particular affects the unborn also, and extremely.This can occur when the mother’s abdomen is exposed to radiation

from outside her body. Also, a pregnant woman who accidentally swallows or breathes in radioactive materials may absorb that

substance into her bloodstream. From the mother’s blood, radioactive materials may pass through the umbilical cord to the baby or

concentrate in areas of the mother’s body near the womb (such as the urinary bladder) and expose the fetus to radiation.Fetuses are

particularly sensitive to radiation during their early development, between weeks 2 and 18 of pregnancy. The health consequences
can be severe, even at radiation doses too low to make the mother sick. Such consequences can include stunted growth, deformities,

abnormal brain function, or cancer that may develop sometime later in life.Unborn babies are especially sensitive to the

cancer-causing effects of radiation.Such damaging exposure can be directly,or else through ingestion of radiation through food and

or water by the mother,affecting both her, and the child,much more so,the child.

Radioactive fallout comes from radioactive materials accidentally released into the atmosphere, such as from nuclear power plant

accidents,explosions, release of gases,release of cooling and or other waters. Prevailing winds and water fall can contain radioactive waste and isotopes, leading to the deposit of these materials in places far from the accident,on persons,on soil,on vegetation,on food vegetables,on cattle and barnyard animals. The radiation is then deposited and absorbed by vegetation and grains used to feed animals for human consumption, as well as on fruits, vegetables and grain products used to feed humans, according.

Consuming radioactive materials can cause damage to your body. The European Food Safety Authority, or EFSA, states that the more soluble uranium is, the greater danger to the body upon exposure from food and water. Half-life of uranium in the body can last as long as 360 days, which means you still have uranium in your body long after your exposure to it.The World Health Organization states that absorption of uranium from foods is low, with 98 percent being excreted from your body unabsorbed and eliminated through feces. Uranium may accumulate in your nervous system, but according to WHO, firm conclusions can’t be drawn as the results are conflicting on the damage done to nerves from radiation exposure. The United States Environmental Protection Agency,however,states that ingested uranium from food and water can lead to kidney damage and cancer. This isn’t due to the radioactivity of uranium but rather the toxic nature of the metal itself. Also, uranium found in your urine can still be traced inside your body for months after ingestion or exposure.

Face it, whether you’re holding it,breathing it,or ingesting it, radiation is just not safe for you.It WILL cause you damage,and in fact, through you, your as yet unborn children, or yet those who are in the process of getting there if you’re a pregnant female.It damages,mutate, and kills, and you have no choice in the matter, the course of events for you will be determined by the exposure you receive from the nuclear accident,no matter what you local nuclear authority, or government tell you,their words are most often neither truth, and most definitely not a ridiculous shield for you from radiation’s effects,the effects of radiations spewing,exploding, leaking out of, their nuclear plants, plants they want there,as they say, for your won good.Such is their benevolence,such is their malevolence.Radioactivity, is a maiming,mutilating,killer, slow killer due to the cancers it induces, a painful,ever torturing killer,brought to you by your government.They’ll be the death of you, eventually,the horrible,horrific
death, nuclear death,a long slow painful death,and if you don’t die, you’ll wish you had, or perhaps, you’ll wish you’d never have been born. The Russian suffered,the Japanese suffer, soon too you will suffer……….it’s coming for you, it’s going to happen,your happening.

Secret Squirrel Ponders The Effects Of Nuclear Radiation.

Secret Squirrel has pondered the ever increasing nuclear radiation dilemma, as we’ve been made terribly aware by the Russian openness concerning Chernobyl,the greatest known atomic radiation accident, versus the virtual,by comparison, quiet of the Japanese concerning their Fukushima.

Ah yes, one recalls the expression of nuclear plants variously exploding and spewing out vast qautities of mutating radiation,as nuclear authorities and governments liked to tell us,would occur,using the term,”When pigs fly!” Well, flying pigs have been seen,throughout the history of nuclear, at Chalk River,Calder Hall,Chernobyl, Three Mile Isand,Fukushima (and believe you me you and I are also getting Fuked),and ,of course, many other places, at other dates and times,carefully ignored,and hidden from public view generally.Yes, no doubt the pigs were flying to market having been made more intelligent by the radiation effects,unquestionably given the ability to fly due to the massive radiation levels and accompanying genetic mutational effects.Unterestingly, a team of scientists has tracked down the genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. The mutation occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago,due to the effects of higher radiation levels, so before then, there were no blue eyes. Those who have green eyes,are continuations of the mutation, or in other words second generation retards.
Indeed,yes, imagine the increased development of,and occurrence of, hump backs,no doubt generated by nature,as it were,Mother Nature, a place to store more water so we can, and could, go longer distances without the necessity for water.Indeed there is massive mutation occurring in the children of Chernobyl,,9 times higher than those not exposed, and it’s not JUST cancer,cancerous growths,either, it’s bodily mutations, similar to the effects of thalidomide, and also other major bodilydeformities.The Japanese are terribly aware of this having been the victims of the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Imagine, the radiation mutating our veggies, one recalls,as I do,the experimental paper, The Effects of Radiation On Man In

The Moon Marigolds,indeed,yes, imagine the veggies becoming more……….err……mutated,altered, than the presently genetically engineered are…….yes,imagine feet,for example, the radiation could mutate them and eventually they would have feet.We could call our tomatoes in for supper,or whatever! Indeed, yes, but I think perhaps we’d best avoid the cucumbers and zucchinis. Bending over in the garden could put on at hazard,rather like a child bending over in front of Roman Polanski.

Imagine yet also people commencing to glow from it.They could stand at street corners at night,glowing, t’is all so very terribly green,you know ,save on electricity, eh whot!They could be waiters in the ever popular Glow In The Dark Restaurants. We could take some home, keep’em in the closet till needed,closeted as it were, then out’em,and have a useable workable light, won’t burn out………….Everready, oh dear that name’s in use, oh well we’ll think of another.Imagine, if pigs glow green it’s easier for farmers to find them at night.Fish with three eyes?Well now, much easier to escape larger predator fish! Win!Win!Win!All round.

In Hollywood what with such bad acting, Kevlar lined suits are the rage but,you, not being actors, if I offer you only one tip for the future, radiation suits, would be it.The long-term benefits of heavy, lead-laden radiation suits have been proved in nuclear power plants everywhere,for the time they do protect.Of course, the suits do have a vision visor, which is the Chink in it’s armour(that, and they’re mostly made in China,Okally Dokeally).But trust me on the radiation suits.But,indeed,yes,mutations could in fact be a good thing, after all the mutations would be,and are, alive you know, that would be ,and is,life, as they know it.They constantly look for life out in space and imagine that as life not as we know it,but as it is.

Who knows too, perhaps women will develop three breasts,what the heck!Now that’s another good point to radiation mutation! And so, what with nuclear plants, nuclear explosions, escape of nuclear radiation,nuclear clouds spreading across nations,oceans, infesting land, sea, air, water,food……….why it’s an all rounder then,a  Jolly Good Show.

Secret Squirrel Comments On The Simpsons Nuclear Ban

Secret Squirrel has discovered that the fat controllers at several Germanic speaking European nations TV channels have banned episodes of The Simpsons that contain jokes about atomic energy,about  nuclear meltdown,and radiation and it’s effects. They want to stop the hit cartoon poking fun at nuclear danger during the battle to save the earthquake and tsunami-hit Fukushima plant, reports the Daily Star,an yet other papers round and about the world.

The bungling Homer Simpson works at disaster-prone Springfield Nuclear Power Plant,where safety regulations are notoriously slack,he works as a Nuclear Safety Inspector, and constantly falls asleep and neglects his duties, run by money-grabbing Mr Burns, in the hit show. It is a running joke about safety at the plant, that has blown up or come close to meltdown several times.The Beer-swilling Homer,the Nuclear Safety Inspector, repeatedly puts the town at risk by neglecting his duties and
falling asleep. He even casually tosses away a radioactive rod he finds in his clothes during the hit show’s title sequence.

Episodes of The Simpsons which feature jokes about nuclear meltdowns have been banned in a number of countries – as a reaction to the disaster currently unfolding in Japan.German channel Pro7 was the first to act, vowing to screen footage from the popular cartoon series to make sure episodes which make light of nuclear crisis’ are not aired for the time being.

Austria’s ORF and Switzerland’s SF networks have also done the same.ORF has used the most extreme censorship so far, banning a total of eight episodes until a review at the end of April, according to the Hollywood Reporter.They’ve even banned an episode which features scientists Marie and Pierre Curie dying of radiation poisoning and another which has jokes about a nuclear meltdown are among those that have been cut.

It mirrors  Germanic governmental megalomanic styles of attempts at indoctrination,in efforts to protect government supplied views that nuclear is safe.Yes – that will fix the toxic,  radioactive clouds emanating from Fukushima,clouds that spread not only over Japan, but round and about the world,clouds that poison and mutate people,and future generations of people, the children, the babies,yes,that will fix the radioactivity in the soil, in the food, in the water, in the fish, and that too will prevent recurrence,prevent nuclear plant explosions, meltdowns,yes that will prevent the Three Mile Islands, that will prevent the Chernobyls,the public will feel safe and will believe the government lie, the government lie that nuclear is safe,their Nuclear no-d’oh.

Merkel:Look in to my eyes,have I ever lied or hidden the truth from you before! You know you cannot see nuclear radiation, it does not exist, there is no such thing as a nuclear plant meltdown,you do not know about such things.Nuclear is good for you.Trust me….and you may not watch The Simpsons.