Why There Is No "Safe" Level Of Radiation from Fukushima. | GreenMedInfo | Page | Natural Medicine | Alternative Medicine | Integrative Medicine | Consumer Advocacy. "There is no safe dose of radiation" ~ Prof. Edward P. Radford, Physician and Epidemiologist While a highly coordinated effort is underway by the nuclear industry, mainstream media, medical establishment and world governments to define, justify and reinforce a "safe level of radioactivity" pertaining to the air, the water, the food, and our bodies, the unspoken truth contained within the precautionary principle that there is no safe dose of radiation, nor a safe level of exposure to the 200+ radioisotopes released by the Fukushima reactor complex meltdown, is but an inaudible whisper in the cacophony of a world dominated by universal deception. Regardless of whether we chose to pay attention or not, over the past month a massive number of radiotoxic and genotoxic particles have been released into the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere, and due to the continuous westerly circular flow of the Jet stream no one in the Northern latitudes will be spared some degree of exposure as time proceeds.
SPEEDI information provided to United States Military But Not Japanese Citizens. Representatives of the Japanese Ministry of Education were called as witnesses by the Accident Investigation Board in charge of discovering the true nature of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. During questioning it was determined that the predictive data from SPEEDI, which forecasts and predicts spread of radioactive material after a nuclear disaster, had been provided to the U.S.Military. According to NHK, the data had been compiled immediately after the accident, and provided to the US through the Foreign Ministry. The Ministry of Education decided that the published data did not accurately predict the actual situation, and may have lead to unnecessary confusion if released to the public. For these reasons the data was not published immediately, and evacuees were abandoned to make decisions with the government only telling part of the story. Source: NHK.
Messages show conflict within NRC after Japan earthquake and tsunami. FROM THE ARCHIVES: Japan quake puts spotlight on aging U.S. nuclear reactors “THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” said an e-mail from the NRC operations center early on March 11, hours after the quake. “This may get really ugly in the next few days,” said one NRC official later in the day after a report that Tokyo Electric Power Co. was venting gas from a containment building. Three days later, another official said, “It’s frustrating, but we have very little factual info as an agency.” Now, as the first anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe approaches, the initial response by regulators still holds lessons for the nuclear industry and policymakers.
The NRC e-mails reveal disagreement about how to advise the Japanese. The NRC staff chafed at some unorthodox advice coming from an ad hoc group of scientists assembled by Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The NRC also found itself in a sensitive spot on the state of pools for spent nuclear reactor fuel. “Let’s send some of the DOE Sci. Eric J. Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide. Three earthquakes strike nuclear plant region of Fukushima district. Japan losing hope for its pricey “dream reactor” But a move to shut down the fast-breeder reactor project would deliver yet another blow to Japan’s nuclear program — already reeling from a major accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant — because it would all but eliminate the long-held Japanese vision of using its nuclear fuel on a near-endless cycle.
In theory, the fast-breeder reactor can run on the reprocessed uranium and plutonium that conventional light-water reactors give off as a byproduct. The fast-breeders also produce more fuel than they use, allowing for a cycle in which fuel is created by the reactor, harvested from the reactor, and then reprocessed and used anew. With its fast-breeders, Japan could solve its costly resource-scarcity problem, which necessitates fuel imports from across the world. “It was supposed to be the dream reactor, powering Japan for 100 or 200 years,” Satoru Kondo, director general of Japan’s fast breeder program at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview this week. Wasteful spending. Major Tokyo quake more likely than government says: academics.