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Times
Fukushima Is Continually Blasting All Of Us With High Levels
Of Cesium �.Strontium And Plutonium And Will Slowly Kill
Millions For Years To Come
August 31, 2011
Source: The American Dream
�.Strontium And Plutonium And Will Slowly Kill Millions For Years
To Come
Fukushima is now far and away the worst nuclear disaster in all of
human history.� Chernobyl was a Sunday picnic compared to
Fukushima and the amount of cesium-137 released at Fukushima this
year so far is equivalent to 168 Hiroshima bombs.� The crisis at
Fukushima is far, far worse than you have been told.� We are
talking about multiple self-sustaining nuclear meltdowns that will
not be fully contained for years.� In an attempt to keep people
calm, authorities in Japan (and around the rest of the world as
well) have lied and lied and lied.� Over the months that have
passed since the disaster began, small bits of the truth have
slowly started to come out.� Authorities are finally admitting
that the area immediately surrounding Fukushima will be
uninhabitable indefinitely, and they are finally admitting that
the amount of radioactive material that has been released is far
higher than initially reported.� It is going to take the Japanese
years to fully contain this problem.� Meanwhile, Fukushima will
continue to blast all of us with high levels of cesium, strontium
and plutonium and will slowly kill millions of people around the
globe for years to come.
These days, the mainstream media does not talk about Fukushima
much.� The reality is that there have been a whole lot of other
disasters for them to talk about.
But just because Fukushima is a nightmare that is playing out in
very slow motion does not mean that it does not deserve our full
attention.
To get an idea of just how nightmarish Fukushima has turned out to
be, just consider the words of nuclear expert Steven C. Jones�.
��� By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that
occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst
nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively
killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima,
Japan nuclear disaster has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in
partial meltdown and 3 in full meltdown- and they�ve ALL been
uncontrollably burning since March 11th. Its been over 3 months
and this nuclear disaster remains completely out of control. In
fact, some industry estimates cite the possibility that these
meltdowns will be contained (optimistically) in 1-3 years, at the
very earliest.
��� The amount and intensity of the radioactive fallout from this
particular nuclear disaster will assuredly kill hundreds of
millions of people worldwide over time. Japan itself is, of
course, the epicenter of this radioactive contamination that has
spread out from these reactors.
Keep in mind that radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster deeply
contaminated77,000 square miles.
So if Fukushima is many times worse, what does that mean for us?
Just recently, authorities in Japan confessed that the amount of
cesium-137 released by Fukushima is equivalent to 168 of the
nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima.� The following is a
brief excerpt from a recent article inthe Telegraph�.
��� Japan�s government estimates the amount of radioactive
caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is
equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs.
I am no nuclear expert, but shortly after the Fukushima disaster
began I postulated that much of northern Japan would be rendered
uninhabitable by all of this radiation.
Well, it turns out that authorities in Japan have finally reached
the same conclusion.� According to the New York Times, the
Japanese government is acknowledging that large areas around the
Fukushima nuclear facility may be uninhabitable for decades�.
��� Broad areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
plant could soon be declared uninhabitable, perhaps for decades,
after a government survey found radioactive contamination that far
exceeded safe levels, several major media outlets said Monday.
So what is the big deal?
Unfortunately, most people do not have any concept of just how
dangerous nuclear contamination can be.
At this point, the vast majority of people living in the northern
hemisphere have been exposed to radioactive material from
Fukushima.
We can�t see them, but radioactive particles can do an insane
amount of damage.� We can breathe them in, we can eat them in our
food and we can even absorb them through our skin.� Once trapped
inside our bodies, these particles can slowly �bake� us for years
and years.� The following is from an opinion piece by Helen
Caldicott in the Guardian�.
��� 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). [2] 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.
One of the most dangerous radioactive elements being released at
Fukushima is strontium.� Strontium accumulates in the bones and in
the teeth.� It is also known to cause cancer in humans.
It has been estimated that approximately 80 percent of the
strontium that was released during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
entered the food cycle.
Considering the vast amount of strontium that has been released at
Fukushima, that is a very frightening statistic.
The following is what NHK World recently had to say about the
levels of strontium that are being found around Fukushima�.
��� The utility detected up to 480 becquerels of radioactive
strontium 90 per kilogram of soil. That�s about 100 times higher
than the maximum reading recorded in Fukushima Prefecture
following atmospheric nuclear tests carried out by foreign
countries during the Cold War era.
��� TEPCO reported detecting 2,800 becquerels of strontium 89 per
kilogram of soil at the same location.
Once you absorb strontium, it will stay in your bones for the rest
of your life.� Just consider what Dr. Russell Blaylock recently
told Newsmax�.
��� When we look at Chernobyl, most of West Germany was heavily
contaminated. Norway, Sweden. Hungary was terribly contaminated.
The radiation was taken up into the plants. The food was
radioactive. They took the milk and turned it into cheese. The
cheese was radioactive.
��� That�s the big danger, the crops in this country being
contaminated, the milk in particular, with Strontium 90. That
radiation is incorporated into the bones and stays for a lifetime.
So would you like to have radioactive material in your bones that
affects your health for the rest of your life?
It may have already happened to you and you wouldn�t even know it.
Other deadly radioactive elements that are being released at high
levels at Fukushima include iodine, cesium, uranium and
plutonium.� Large amounts of these radioactive particles have
already been absorbed in the soil and in the water in the United
States.
Large amounts of these radioactive particles have also entered our
food chain.
As the years go by, a whole lot of Americans are going to get sick
and die and they will never even know that it was Fukushima that
caused it.
Remember, just because you cannot see these radioactive particles
does not mean that they aren�t incredibly deadly.� Just check out
what nuclear expertSteven C. Jones recently had to say about
plutonium�.
��� To give one an example of how lethal radiation is, one pound
of plutonium evenly distributed into everyone�s lungs would kill
every man, woman and child on Earth. There are literally �tons� of
radioactive plutonium (among other radioactive elements) that have
been released into the air and ocean environments since March
11th. Another critical fact to remember is that radioactive
plutonium, for example, remains lethal (killing life) for
thousands years as it has a half-life of 24,000 years. Some other
radioactive elements such as uranium have a half-life of 4.47
billion years.
That is the scary thing with many of these radioactive elements.�
Now that they have been released, many of them will be with us for
as long as we live, for as long as our children live and for as
long as our grandchildren live.
Yes, things are much worse than you have been told.
Up until now, the Japanese government has insisted that those
living outside the 20 kilometer exclusion zone are safe.
But is that really the case?
According to Reuters, Greenpeace has found incredibly high levels
of radiation at schools up to 60 km away�..
��� Greenpeace said on Monday that schools and surrounding areas
located 60 km (38 miles) from Japan�s tsunami-hit nuclear power
plant were unsafe for children, showing radiation readings as much
as 70 times internationally accepted levels.
In addition, a recent Japan Times article noted that high levels
of cesium have been discovered at 42 incineration plants in seven
different prefectures in Japan�.
��� High levels of cesium isotopes are cropping up in dust at 42
incineration plants in seven prefectures, including Chiba and
Iwate, an Environment Ministry survey of the Kanto and Tohoku
regions shows.
Also, a recent article in the Wall Street Journal stated that
incredibly high levels of cesium-137 have been found up to 100 km
away from the Fukushima nuclear facility�.
��� The first comprehensive survey of soil contamination from the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant showed that 33 locations spread
over a wide area have been contaminated with long-lasting
radioactive cesium, the government said Tuesday.
��� The survey of 2,200 locations within a 100-kilometer (62-mile)
radius of the crippled plant found that those locations had
cesium-137 in excess of 1.48 million becquerels per square meter,
the level set by the Soviet Union for forced resettlement after
the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Japanese authorities said.
Remember that Tokyo is only about 250 km away from the Fukushima
nuclear facility.
So what happens if high levels of cesium start showing up in
Tokyo?
According to some sources, things have already gotten very serious
in Tokyo.
Dr. Chris Busby recently traveled to Japan with some very
sophisticated testing equipment and found one sample in Tokyo that
had levels of radioactivity that were higher than the exclusion
zone surrounding Chernobyl during that nuclear disaster.
But things are much worse for those living much closer to
Fukushima.� High levels of cesium have been detected in the urine
and in the breast milk of those living in the region surrounding
the facility.� All over the area there are reports of people
coming down with the symptoms of radiation sickness.
The truth is that the �evacuation area� should be far, far larger
than it is now.� Just consider what Mike Adams of Natural News
recently had to say about what recent tests have shown�.
��� One soil sample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima
showed Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter.
This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both
the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to downplay the whole
event, assuring their sheeple that there�s nothing to worry about.
By their logic, since all the people are sheeple anyway, as long
as the area is safe enough for sheep, it�s also safe enough for
the human population.
A lot of people in Japan are going to die, and frustrations are
rising.� According to an article in The Independent, a lot of
Japanese feel totally abandoned by their government at this
point�.
��� It is the fate of people outside the evacuation zones,
however, that causes the most bitter controversy. Parents in
Fukushima City, 63km from the plant, have banded together to
demand that the government do more to protect about 100,000
children. Schools have banned soccer and other outdoor sports.
Windows are kept closed. �We�ve just been left to fend for
ourselves,� says Machiko Sato, a grandmother who lives in the
city. �It makes me so angry.�
But just because you don�t live in Japan does not mean that you
are not in danger.� The Fukushima nuclear facility sits right on
the Pacific Ocean.� When nuclear material gets released into the
air at Fukushima, the first time much of it will encounter land is
when it reaches the United States.
Also, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of tons of highly
radioactive water has been released into the Pacific Ocean at
Fukushima.
What this is going to do to our oceans nobody knows for sure.� But
according to the Los Angeles Times, the seawater near Fukushima
has been found to be incredibly radioactive�.
��� Tokyo Electric Power Co. had said Tuesday that it had found
iodine-131 at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater
sample taken near the facility, and government officials
instituted a health limit for radioactivity in fish. Other samples
were found to contain radioactive cesium at 1.1 million times the
legal limit.
All of this radioactive water is going to circulate all over the
globe.� It is going to be a nightmare that is never going to end.
Just because the mainstream media is not talking much about all of
this radiation does not mean that it is not affecting the United
States�.
*Radiation from Fukushima has been detected in seaweed in Puget
Sound.
*Radiation from Fukushima has been detected in the drinking water
in numerous states.
*Radiation from Fukushima has been discovered in milk in numerous
states.
*Very high levels of radiation continue to be detected in
rainwater in the northwest United States.
This is a slow motion nightmare that is going to play out for
years and years.
Some nuclear experts claim that it could be up to 50 or 100 years
before any of the nuclear material at the Fukushima complex will
cool down enough to be removed from the facility.
Right now there is no viable solution to what is going on at
Fukushima, so it will continue to blast all of us with high levels
of radiation and will slowly kill millions of people around the
globe for years to come.
Former nuclear industry insider Arnold Gundersen recently put it
this way�.
��� �With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima,
you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,� he said,
�But they never end.�
This is a nightmare that will be with us for the rest of our
lives.� Millions are going to get sick and untold numbers of
people are going to slowly die.