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originally posted by: FreshAirGirl
When Radiation Hit in that great of a concentration and numbers there was no where to hid for anybody.The entire Northern Hemisphere was hit with it and continues to be hit with it. Nothing could of been done because of the speed in which it hit the atmosphere and spread. The only thing that can be done is to move everybody to Antartica. Southern Hemisphere is the only place where a person would avoid the Radiation. That being said how do the World Governments move over 8 Billion people to Antartica. Antartica's temperatures fall to -60 in the Winter. They still can't move everybody to Antartica. I guess you could voluntarily move there. Good luck to you. There's no way of avoiding this problem and its too late for the blame game.Its just like everything else that can potentially destroy us. If there's nothing that can be done why tell everybody. There would be anarchy and I myself would rather not know than have anarchy. It happened so take your Lugol's Iodine and make the best of it. Live each day like its your last and enjoy it.
TEPCO has announced that they estimate some 1.1 trillion becquerels of radiation was released during debris cleanup operations at the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reactor.
According to TEPCO’s estimates the removal work generated 280 billion becquerel per hour releases.
Some of the radioactive cesium which was released during the debris removal operations was found over 12 miles away in Minami Soma rice fields.
The Fukushima Daiichi plant is still estimated to be releasing 10 million becquerels per hour of radioactive materials.
The debris cleanup operations at the Unit 3 reactor released more radiation into the environment then will be released from the plant in the next 12.5 years at the estimated 10,000,000 becquerel per hour leak rate.
TEPCO officials stressed that the precise amount of radioactive materials that had escaped during the debris removal operations is still unknown.
NY Daily News, Feb 11, 2016 (emphasis added): Cuomo to launch probe into troubled Indian Point power plant as radioactive leak gets worse — The amount of radioactive tritium leaking from the Indian Point nuclear power plant is growing, officials said…
New samples from groundwater monitoring wells show 80% higher concentrations of tritium compared with when the leak was first reported Saturday…
Wednesday, [Cuomo] ordered a more sweeping investigation…
“Last week the company reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000%,” Cuomo said…
“The news just keeps getting worse,” said Paul Gallay, president of the watchdog group Riverkeeper.
“Last week the company reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well's radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000%,” Cuomo said.
“The trends of unexpected outages and environmental incidents like these are extremely disconcerting.”
AP, Feb. 10, 2016: New testing has shown that the amount of tritium in the groundwater below the Indian Point power plant in Buchanan, New York, is about 740 times the amount allowed in drinking water…
Entergy Corp., which operates the plant at the edge of the Hudson River, said Wednesday that the latest samples from monitoring wells found tritium at a level of 14.8 million picocuries per liter up from 12,300 pCi/L, a 120,000% increase.
The [EPA] has set a limit of no more than 20,000 picocuries per liter in drinking water…
[C]ritics of nuclear plants said the mere fact of the leak’s occurrence is cause for concern, partly because investigators had yet to pinpoint how it happened.
“There a leak somewhere, and I don’t think they know where it is,” said Arnold Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and former industry executive…
Gundersen said he was concerned that other, potentially more problematic elements could also have leaked out…
[Indian Point spokesman Jerry Nappi] said testing had also found elevated levels of antimony, at about 5,500 picocuries per liter… “It’s like an old car ready to fall apart“… said Assemblyman Tom Abinanti…
Additional testing has turned up higher levels of radioactive tritium in groundwater than what was reported last week at the Indian Point nuclear power plant…
One reading showed an 80 percent increase in tritium levels over the 65,000 percent increase initially reported… [An NRC spokesman said]
“So given the migration of that water, we would expect those to continue to go up for a period of time…
Our specialist inspector will be there… tasked with trying to better understand exactly what happened”…
A new University of California, Los Angeles study has found that in parts of California the rate of thyroid cancer patients with an advanced stage of the disease is well above the national average, prompting research into possible links to farming or radiation.
According to the study, 35 percent of Californians with thyroid cancer were not diagnosed until the disease had already spread to lymph nodes or other parts of the body, compared with 29 percent of people nationwide. Dr. Avital Harari, a member of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead researcher on the study, said there was no geographic pattern to the California counties with the highest percentage of people with advanced thyroid cancer, prompting her to consider possible environmental factors.
"There's definitely something going on here, but we're not sure what explains it," Harari said. "To find the etiology of why its happening we need more research."Harari said she was just beginning a second study that would examine potential links to farming, pesticides or radiation. Other studies have previously found some pesticides to be endocrine disruptors, she said, but none have established a link to cancer. Read the rest at reuters.
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“prompting research into possible links to farming or radiation.”
“prompting her to consider possible environmental factors.”
“Harari said she was just beginning a second study that would examine potential links to farming, pesticides or radiation” “A new University of California, Los Angeles study has found that in parts of California the rate of thyroid cancer patients with an advanced stage of the disease is well above the national average, prompting research into possible links to farming or radiation.”