Centre for Research on Globalization Cancer Risk From Fukushima Found in Japanese Infants <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy Infants who were in the Japanese region most affected by radiation after the 2011 tsunami have a slightly elevated lifetime risk of some cancers, according to the World Health Organization. Baby girls in the region have the greatest relative risk increase – 70 percent for thyroid cancer – the agency said in a 168-page health risk assessment. But the agency cautioned that's on top a small baseline lifetime risk of 0.75 percent, so that the absolute increase in cases of thyroid cancer is expected to be small. Read this story on www.medpagetoday.com. The assessment also says that male infants exposed at the highest level – between 12 and 25 millisieverts – have about a 7 percent relative risk increase in the lifetime risk of leukemia and that female infants have about a 6 percent increase in the lifetime risk of breast cancer.
Amateur Riot « Download VideoDownload Audio Dispatch #2 of Stop the Flows focuses on the burgeoning anti-nuke movement in Japan, following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Truth be told I had larger plans for this dispatch. But with time and resources lacking, I could only scratch the surface of not just the anti-nuke movement, but of the anarchist and activist scene in Japan. This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 9:01 am and is poested under Stop the Flows, the fuckin show category. A history of the black bloc – Part 1 This week: 1. Food Fight! This week: 1. Organizing Revolt This Week: 1. The War on Christmas Trees This week: 1. Front End Loader Dreams This Week: 1. 19 COPs won’t do 2.
ASR ltd - Fukushima Radioactive Seawater Plume dispersal simulation We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton...) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not know exactly how much contaminated water and at what concentration was released into the ocean, it is impossible to estimate the extent and dilution of the plume. However, field monitoring by TEPCO showed concentration of radioactive Iodine and Cesium higher than the legal limit during the next two months following the event (with a peak at more than 100 Bq/cm3 early April 2011 for I-131 as shown by the following picture). Source: TEPCO Assuming that a part of the passive biomass could have been contaminated in the area, we are trying to track where the radionuclides are spreading as it will eventually climb up the food chain.
Public Intelligence Report: Fukushima's radiation damaged more souls than bodies March 11 is the second anniversary of the great quake and tsunamiThe cancer risk rose only slightly in very small areas near the reactors, the WHO saysYoung men, who battled the plant disaster, may see a rise in thyroid cancerPeople exposed as children have a slightly elevated risk of certain cancers in their lifetimes (CNN) -- Two years ago, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami of historic proportions that waylaid Japan's northeast coastline, including a nuclear power plant. As Fukushima Daiichi unraveled in global public view with fire, explosions and radioactive emissions for weeks, people living nearby were exposed to radiation and trauma. The trauma was worse, the World Health Organization said in a report released Thursday on the health effects of the "Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami." New video shows Japan nuclear disaster How to prevent another Fukushima What caused the Fukushima disaster The woman powering Japan's nuclear hopes post-Fukushima Stories of hardship
What Fukushima accident did to the ocean A huge Buddha statue looks over the bay in 2011 in the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Japan. Fukushima disaster led to largest accidental release of radioactivity into oceanKen Buesseler says the levels detected in the ocean water are not of concern to human healthHe says there is concern that levels of radioactivity in fish are not decreasingBuesseler: Levels that will reach U.S. West Coast in 2013-14 are not high enough to harm humans Editor's note: Ken Buesseler is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has studied marine radioactivity since Chernobyl in 1986 and led an international research cruise off Japan in June 2011. (CNN) -- One year ago, a series of events began with an earthquake off the cost of Japan that culminated in the largest accidental release of radioactivity into the ocean in history. One year later, we have to ask, what do we know about Fukushima's impact on the ocean and levels of radioactive contaminants in water and fish?
Should future generations be forced to deal with our nuclear legacy? The first post-human structure, is what they call it. Onkalo, a vast underground storage facility 300 km northwest of Helsinki, will take Finland's most radioactive nuclear waste and quite literally lock it away forever. Once it is full, rather than covering it in warning signs the engineers behind its construction plan to remove every surface trace of the underground facility. It will be left looking no different from its surroundings - a mostly tree-laden wilderness. A forgotten site. Yet it will be designed to last indefinitely. Beyond the significance of our legacy, there is also a question about whether this is safe. 'What will human societies be doing in hundreds of thousands of years and will they be stable enough to care for this generation's toxic nuclear legacy?' At least Finland has attempted to find an answer, with Onkalo likely to be the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository when it is opened in 2020.