[ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 1575, Issue 1

[Perle, Sandy]

Eric,


I expect that Shane¹s E-Mail was spammed and that he did NOT send this out
to the list. The amount of information in just the few words of the E-Mail
should have made anyone reading it that this is SPAM, starting with ³Hi
there² and just look at the link, ³plumbingsewerand drain². Sorry that you
opened it but caution to all, be careful what you open, especially when
the blatant issue is right there on the screen.

Good luck,

Sand Perle

On 5/5/14, 6:25 AM, "Daxon, Eric G" <daxone at battelle.org> wrote:

>This link led me to a site that was not related to health physics and was
>very difficult to turn off.  I am scanning my computer for viruses.  I
>would recommend that the sender of the message be taken off the list.
>
>v/r
>
>Eric Daxon
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 22:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
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>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fw: [1]
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>   1. Fw: [1] (Shane Brightwell)
>   2. Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts	on
>      radiation (Roger Helbig)
>   3. Fwd: [New post] The permanent hazard of nuclear	radiation to
>      global health (Roger Helbig)
>   4. Re: Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts	on
>      radiation (Brennan, Mike  (DOH))
>   5. Re: Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on
>      radiation (Jake Hecla)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 22:12:12 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Shane Brightwell <proradcon at aol.com>
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fw: [1]
>To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
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>Hi there! 
>http://santarosaplumbingseweranddrain.com/-important.email?jpjnjbod=234212
>3&uvadyh=654940
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 01:58:26 -0700
>From: Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com>
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the
>	facts	on radiation
>To: RADSAFE <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
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>This probably is miseducating a lot of young impressionable people who
>will grow in importance as they season through the years !  Perhaps, it
>should have a reply from genuine experts in the same forum.
>
>Roger Helbig
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
>Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM
>Subject: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>
>
>Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on global
>health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4,
>Issue 2 2014  ".......Types of ionizing radiation  X-rays are
>electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass through the
>bod"
>Respond to this post by replying above this line
>
>New post on nuclear-news
>
>Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>
>by Christina MacPherson
>
>The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
>Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014
>".......Types of ionizing radiation
>
>X-rays are electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass
>through the body.
>Similarly, gamma radiation is also electromagnetic, being emitted by
>radioactive materials generated in nuclear reactors and from some
>naturally occurring radioactive elements in the soil.
>Alpha radiation is particulate and is composed of two protons and two
>neutrons emitted from uranium atoms and other dangerous elements
>generated in reactors (such as plutonium, americium, curium, einsteinium,
>etc - all which are known as alpha emitters and have an atomic weight
>greater than uranium). Alpha particles travel a very short distance in
>the human body. They cannot penetrate the layers of dead skin in the
>epidermis to damage living skin cells. But when these radioactive
>elements enter the lung, liver, bone or other organs, they transfer a
>large dose of radiation over a long period of time to a very small volume
>of cells. Most of these cells are killed; however, some on the edge of
>the radiation field remain viable to be mutated, and cancer may later
>develop. Alpha emitters are among the most carcinogenic materials known.
>Beta radiation, like alpha radiation, is also particulate. It is a
>charged electron emitted from radioactive elements such as strontium 90,
>cesium 137 and iodine 131. The beta particle is light in mass, travels
>further than an alpha particle and is also mutagenic.
>Neutron radiation is released during the fission process in a reactor or
>a bomb. Reactor 1 at Fukushima has been periodically emitting neutron
>radiation as sections of the molten core become intermittently critical.
>Neutrons are large radioactive particles that travel many kilometers, and
>they pass through everything including concrete and steel. There is no
>way to hide from them and they are extremely mutagenic.
>
>So, let's describe just five of the radioactive elements that are
>continually being released into the air and water at Fukushima.
>Remember, though, there are over 200 such elements each with its own
>half-life, biological characteristic and pathway in the food chain and
>the human body. Most have never had their biological pathways examined.
>They are invisible, tasteless and odourless. When the cancer manifests it
>is impossible to determine its aetiology, but there is a large body of
>literature proving that radiation causes cancer, including the data from
>Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>
>Tritium is radioactive hydrogen H3 and there is no way to separate
>tritium from contaminated water as it combines with oxygen to form H3O.
>There is no material that can prevent the escape of tritium except gold,
>so all reactors continuously emit tritium into the air and cooling water
>as they operate. It concentrates in aquatic organisms, including algae,
>seaweed, crustaceans and fish, and also in terrestrial food.  Like all
>radioactive elements, it is tasteless, odorless and invisible, and will
>therefore inevitably be ingested in food, including seafood, for many
>decades. It passes unhindered through the skin if a person is immersed in
>fog containing tritiated water near a reactor, and also enters the body
>via inhalation and ingestion. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities
>and cancers of many organs.
>Cesium 137 is a beta and gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years.
>That means in 30 years only half of its radioactive energy has decayed,
>so it is detectable as a radioactive hazard for over 300 years. Cesium,
>like all radioactive elements, bio-concentrates at each level of the food
>chain. The human body stands atop the food chain. As an analogue of
>potassium, cesium becomes ubiquitous in all cells. It concentrates in the
>myocardium where it induces cardiac irregularities, and in the endocrine
>organs where it can cause diabetes, hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer. It
>can also induce brain cancer, rhabdomyosarcomas, ovarian or testicular
>cancer and genetic disease.
>Strontium 90 is a high-energy beta emitter with a half-life of 28 years.
>As a calcium analogue, it is a bone-seeker. It concentrates in the food
>chain, specifically milk (including breast milk), and is laid down in
>bones and teeth in the human body. It can lead to carcinomas of the bone
>and leukaemia.
>Radioactive iodine 131 is a beta and gamma emitter. It has a half-life of
>eight days and is hazardous for ten weeks. It bio-concentrates in the
>food chain, in vegetables and milk, then in the the human thyroid gland
>where it is a potent carcinogen, inducing thyroid disease and/or thyroid
>cancer. It is important to note that of 174,376 children under the age of
>18 that have been examined by thyroid ultrasound in the Fukushima
>Prefecture, 12 have been definitively diagnosed with thyroid cancer and
>15 more are suspected to have the disease. Almost 200,000 more children
>are yet to be examined. Of these 174,367 children, 43.2% have either
>thyroid cysts and/or nodules.
>In Chernobyl, thyroid cancers were not diagnosed until four years
>post-accident. This early presentation indicates that these Japanese
>children almost certainly received a high dose of radioactive iodine.
>High doses of other radioactive elements released during the meltdowns
>were received by the exposed population so the rate of cancer is almost
>certain to rise.
>Plutonium, one of the most deadly radioactive substances, is an alpha
>emitter. It is highly toxic, and one millionth of a gram will induce
>cancer if inhaled into the lung. As an iron analogue, it combines with
>transferrin. It causes liver cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, or multiple
>myeloma. It concentrates in the testicles and ovaries where it can induce
>testicular or ovarian cancer, or genetic diseases in future generations.
>It also crosses the placenta where it is teratogenic, like thalidomide.
>There are medical homes near Chernobyl full of grossly deformed children,
>the deformities of which have never before been seen in the history of
>medicine.
>The half-life of plutonium is 24,400 years, and thus it is radioactive
>for 250,000 years. It will induce cancers, congenital deformities, and
>genetic diseases for virtually the rest of time.
>Plutonium is also fuel for atomic bombs. Five kilos is fuel for a weapon
>which would vaporize a city. Each reactor makes 250 kg of plutonium a
>year. It is postulated that less than one kilo of plutonium, if
>adequately distributed, could induce lung cancer in every person on
>earth...........http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
>
>Christina MacPherson | May 2, 2014 at 4:06 am | Categories: 2 WORLD,
>radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-he2
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>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 02:55:53 -0700
>From: Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com>
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] The permanent hazard of nuclear
>	radiation to global health
>To: RADSAFE <radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
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>More from the anti-nuke MD who has forgotten her Hippocratic Oath -
>deserves well researched and written replies -
>
>Roger Helbig
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
>Date: Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:32 AM
>Subject: [New post] The permanent hazard of nuclear radiation to global
>health
>To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>
>
>Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on global
>health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4,
>Issue 2 2014 ".........Conclusion In summary, the radioactive
>contamination and fallout from nuclear power plant accidents will have me"
>Respond to this post by replying above this line
>
>New post on nuclear-news
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>The permanent hazard of nuclear radiation to global health
>
>by Christina MacPherson
>
>The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
>Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014
>
>".........Conclusion In summary, the radioactive contamination and
>fallout from nuclear power plant accidents will have medical
>ramifications that will never cease, because the food will continue to
>concentrate the radioactive elements for hundreds to thousands of years.
>This will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic disease.
>Already we are seeing such pathology and abnormalities in birds and
>insects, and because they reproduce very fast it is possible to observe
>disease caused by radiation over many generations within a relatively
>short space of time.
>
>Pioneering research conducted by Dr Tim Mousseau, an evolutionary
>biologist, has demonstrated high rates of tumors, cataracts, genetic
>mutations, sterility and reduced brain size amongst birds in the
>exclusion zones of both Chernobyl and Fukushima. What happens to animals
>will happen to human beings. [7]
>
>The Japanese government is desperately trying to "clean up"
>radioactive contamination. But in reality all that can be done is collect
>it, place it in containers and transfer it to another location. It cannot
>be made neutral and it cannot be prevented from spreading in the future.
>Some contractors have allowed their workers to empty radioactive debris,
>soil and leaves into streams and other illegal places. The main question
>becomes: Where can they place the contaminated material to be stored
>safely away from the environment for thousands of years? There is no safe
>place in Japan for this to happen, let alone to store thousands of tons
>of high level radioactive waste which rests precariously at the 54
>Japanese nuclear reactors.
>
>Last but not least, Australian uranium fuelled the Fukushima reactors.
>Australia exports uranium for use in nuclear power plants to 12
>countries, including the US, Japan, France, Britain, Finland, Sweden,
>South Korea, China, Belgium, Spain, Canada and Taiwan. 270,000 metric
>tons of deadly radioactive waste exists in the world today, with
>12,000 metric tons being added yearly. (Each reactor manufactures 30 tons
>per year and there are over 400 reactors globally.)
>
>This high-level waste must be isolated from the environment for one
>million years - but no container lasts longer than 100 years. The
>isotopes will inevitably leak, contaminating the food chain, inducing
>epidemics of cancer, leukemia, congenital deformities and genetic
>diseases for the rest of time.
>
>This, then, is the legacy we leave to future generations so that we can
>turn on our lights and computers or make nuclear weapons. It was Einstein
>who said "the splitting of the atom changed everything save mans' mode of
>thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe."
>
>The question now is: Have we, the human species, the ability to mature
>psychologically in time to avert these catastrophes, or, is it in fact,
>too late? http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
>
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>radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-hem
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>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 16:45:15 +0000
>From: "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains
>	the facts	on radiation
>To: "The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing
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>It is a hoot that under alpha emitters einsteinium is worth mentioning,
>but radon is not.  Using the well-established metric of people like
>Caldicott, radon is a google times greater health risk than einsteinium
>is to the average person.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
>Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:58 AM
>To: RADSAFE
>Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the
>facts on radiation
>
>This probably is miseducating a lot of young impressionable people who
>will grow in importance as they season through the years !  Perhaps, it
>should have a reply from genuine experts in the same forum.
>
>Roger Helbig
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
>Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM
>Subject: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>
>
>Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on global
>health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4,
>Issue 2 2014  ".......Types of ionizing radiation  X-rays are
>electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass through the
>bod"
>Respond to this post by replying above this line
>
>New post on nuclear-news
>
>Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>
>by Christina MacPherson
>
>The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
>Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014
>".......Types of ionizing radiation
>
>X-rays are electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass
>through the body.
>Similarly, gamma radiation is also electromagnetic, being emitted by
>radioactive materials generated in nuclear reactors and from some
>naturally occurring radioactive elements in the soil.
>Alpha radiation is particulate and is composed of two protons and two
>neutrons emitted from uranium atoms and other dangerous elements
>generated in reactors (such as plutonium, americium, curium, einsteinium,
>etc - all which are known as alpha emitters and have an atomic weight
>greater than uranium). Alpha particles travel a very short distance in
>the human body. They cannot penetrate the layers of dead skin in the
>epidermis to damage living skin cells. But when these radioactive
>elements enter the lung, liver, bone or other organs, they transfer a
>large dose of radiation over a long period of time to a very small volume
>of cells. Most of these cells are killed; however, some on the edge of
>the radiation field remain viable to be mutated, and cancer may later
>develop. Alpha emitters are among the most carcinogenic materials known.
>Beta radiation, like alpha radiation, is also particulate. It is a
>charged electron emitted from radioactive elements such as strontium 90,
>cesium 137 and iodine 131. The beta particle is light in mass, travels
>further than an alpha particle and is also mutagenic.
>Neutron radiation is released during the fission process in a reactor or
>a bomb. Reactor 1 at Fukushima has been periodically emitting neutron
>radiation as sections of the molten core become intermittently critical.
>Neutrons are large radioactive particles that travel many kilometers, and
>they pass through everything including concrete and steel. There is no
>way to hide from them and they are extremely mutagenic.
>
>So, let's describe just five of the radioactive elements that are
>continually being released into the air and water at Fukushima.
>Remember, though, there are over 200 such elements each with its own
>half-life, biological characteristic and pathway in the food chain and
>the human body. Most have never had their biological pathways examined.
>They are invisible, tasteless and odourless. When the cancer manifests it
>is impossible to determine its aetiology, but there is a large body of
>literature proving that radiation causes cancer, including the data from
>Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>
>Tritium is radioactive hydrogen H3 and there is no way to separate
>tritium from contaminated water as it combines with oxygen to form H3O.
>There is no material that can prevent the escape of tritium except gold,
>so all reactors continuously emit tritium into the air and cooling water
>as they operate. It concentrates in aquatic organisms, including algae,
>seaweed, crustaceans and fish, and also in terrestrial food.  Like all
>radioactive elements, it is tasteless, odorless and invisible, and will
>therefore inevitably be ingested in food, including seafood, for many
>decades. It passes unhindered through the skin if a person is immersed in
>fog containing tritiated water near a reactor, and also enters the body
>via inhalation and ingestion. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities
>and cancers of many organs.
>Cesium 137 is a beta and gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years.
>That means in 30 years only half of its radioactive energy has decayed,
>so it is detectable as a radioactive hazard for over 300 years. Cesium,
>like all radioactive elements, bio-concentrates at each level of the food
>chain. The human body stands atop the food chain. As an analogue of
>potassium, cesium becomes ubiquitous in all cells. It concentrates in the
>myocardium where it induces cardiac irregularities, and in the endocrine
>organs where it can cause diabetes, hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer. It
>can also induce brain cancer, rhabdomyosarcomas, ovarian or testicular
>cancer and genetic disease.
>Strontium 90 is a high-energy beta emitter with a half-life of 28 years.
>As a calcium analogue, it is a bone-seeker. It concentrates in the food
>chain, specifically milk (including breast milk), and is laid down in
>bones and teeth in the human body. It can lead to carcinomas of the bone
>and leukaemia.
>Radioactive iodine 131 is a beta and gamma emitter. It has a half-life of
>eight days and is hazardous for ten weeks. It bio-concentrates in the
>food chain, in vegetables and milk, then in the the human thyroid gland
>where it is a potent carcinogen, inducing thyroid disease and/or thyroid
>cancer. It is important to note that of 174,376 children under the age of
>18 that have been examined by thyroid ultrasound in the Fukushima
>Prefecture, 12 have been definitively diagnosed with thyroid cancer and
>15 more are suspected to have the disease. Almost 200,000 more children
>are yet to be examined. Of these 174,367 children, 43.2% have either
>thyroid cysts and/or nodules.
>In Chernobyl, thyroid cancers were not diagnosed until four years
>post-accident. This early presentation indicates that these Japanese
>children almost certainly received a high dose of radioactive iodine.
>High doses of other radioactive elements released during the meltdowns
>were received by the exposed population so the rate of cancer is almost
>certain to rise.
>Plutonium, one of the most deadly radioactive substances, is an alpha
>emitter. It is highly toxic, and one millionth of a gram will induce
>cancer if inhaled into the lung. As an iron analogue, it combines with
>transferrin. It causes liver cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, or multiple
>myeloma. It concentrates in the testicles and ovaries where it can induce
>testicular or ovarian cancer, or genetic diseases in future generations.
>It also crosses the placenta where it is teratogenic, like thalidomide.
>There are medical homes near Chernobyl full of grossly deformed children,
>the deformities of which have never before been seen in the history of
>medicine.
>The half-life of plutonium is 24,400 years, and thus it is radioactive
>for 250,000 years. It will induce cancers, congenital deformities, and
>genetic diseases for virtually the rest of time.
>Plutonium is also fuel for atomic bombs. Five kilos is fuel for a weapon
>which would vaporize a city. Each reactor makes 250 kg of plutonium a
>year. It is postulated that less than one kilo of plutonium, if
>adequately distributed, could induce lung cancer in every person on
>earth...........http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
>
>Christina MacPherson | May 2, 2014 at 4:06 am | Categories: 2 WORLD,
>radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-he2
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>Message: 5
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:51:59 -0400
>From: Jake Hecla <jakehecla at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains
>	the facts on radiation
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>Not to mention her inclusion of "rubinium" as a dangerous reactor
>emission.
>
>
>On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Brennan, Mike (DOH) <
>Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:
>
>> It is a hoot that under alpha emitters einsteinium is worth
>> mentioning, but radon is not.  Using the well-established metric of
>> people like Caldicott, radon is a google times greater health risk
>> than einsteinium is to the average person.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
>> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:58 AM
>> To: RADSAFE
>> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the
>> facts on radiation
>>
>> This probably is miseducating a lot of young impressionable people who
>> will grow in importance as they season through the years !  Perhaps,
>> it should have a reply from genuine experts in the same forum.
>>
>> Roger Helbig
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
>> Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM
>> Subject: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>> To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on
>> global health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in
>> Volume 4, Issue 2 2014  ".......Types of ionizing radiation  X-rays
>> are electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass through
>>the bod"
>> Respond to this post by replying above this line
>>
>> New post on nuclear-news
>>
>> Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>>
>> by Christina MacPherson
>>
>> The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
>> Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014
>> ".......Types of ionizing radiation
>>
>> X-rays are electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass
>> through the body.
>> Similarly, gamma radiation is also electromagnetic, being emitted by
>> radioactive materials generated in nuclear reactors and from some
>> naturally occurring radioactive elements in the soil.
>> Alpha radiation is particulate and is composed of two protons and two
>> neutrons emitted from uranium atoms and other dangerous elements
>> generated in reactors (such as plutonium, americium, curium,
>> einsteinium, etc - all which are known as alpha emitters and have an
>> atomic weight greater than uranium). Alpha particles travel a very
>>short distance in the human body.
>> They cannot penetrate the layers of dead skin in the epidermis to
>> damage living skin cells. But when these radioactive elements enter
>> the lung, liver, bone or other organs, they transfer a large dose of
>> radiation over a long period of time to a very small volume of cells.
>> Most of these cells are killed; however, some on the edge of the
>> radiation field remain viable to be mutated, and cancer may later
>> develop. Alpha emitters are among the most carcinogenic materials known.
>> Beta radiation, like alpha radiation, is also particulate. It is a
>> charged electron emitted from radioactive elements such as strontium
>> 90, cesium 137 and iodine 131. The beta particle is light in mass,
>> travels further than an alpha particle and is also mutagenic.
>> Neutron radiation is released during the fission process in a reactor
>> or a bomb. Reactor 1 at Fukushima has been periodically emitting
>> neutron radiation as sections of the molten core become intermittently
>>critical.
>> Neutrons are large radioactive particles that travel many kilometers,
>> and they pass through everything including concrete and steel. There
>> is no way to hide from them and they are extremely mutagenic.
>>
>> So, let's describe just five of the radioactive elements that are
>> continually being released into the air and water at Fukushima.
>> Remember, though, there are over 200 such elements each with its own
>> half-life, biological characteristic and pathway in the food chain and
>> the human body. Most have never had their biological pathways
>> examined. They are invisible, tasteless and odourless. When the cancer
>> manifests it is impossible to determine its aetiology, but there is a
>> large body of literature proving that radiation causes cancer,
>> including the data from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>>
>> Tritium is radioactive hydrogen H3 and there is no way to separate
>> tritium from contaminated water as it combines with oxygen to form
>> H3O. There is no material that can prevent the escape of tritium
>> except gold, so all reactors continuously emit tritium into the air
>> and cooling water as they operate. It concentrates in aquatic
>> organisms, including algae, seaweed, crustaceans and fish, and also in
>> terrestrial food.  Like all radioactive elements, it is tasteless,
>> odorless and invisible, and will therefore inevitably be ingested in
>> food, including seafood, for many decades. It passes unhindered
>> through the skin if a person is immersed in fog containing tritiated
>> water near a reactor, and also enters the body via inhalation and
>> ingestion. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities and cancers of
>>many organs.
>> Cesium 137 is a beta and gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years.
>> That means in 30 years only half of its radioactive energy has
>> decayed, so it is detectable as a radioactive hazard for over 300
>> years. Cesium, like all radioactive elements, bio-concentrates at each
>>level of the food chain.
>> The human body stands atop the food chain. As an analogue of 
>> potassium, cesium becomes ubiquitous in all cells. It concentrates in 
>> the myocardium where it induces cardiac irregularities, and in the 
>> endocrine organs where it can cause diabetes, hypothyroidism and 
>> thyroid cancer. It can also induce brain cancer, rhabdomyosarcomas, 
>> ovarian or testicular cancer and genetic disease.
>> Strontium 90 is a high-energy beta emitter with a half-life of 28 years.
>> As a calcium analogue, it is a bone-seeker. It concentrates in the 
>> food chain, specifically milk (including breast milk), and is laid 
>> down in bones and teeth in the human body. It can lead to carcinomas 
>> of the bone and leukaemia.
>> Radioactive iodine 131 is a beta and gamma emitter. It has a half-life 
>> of eight days and is hazardous for ten weeks. It bio-concentrates in 
>> the food chain, in vegetables and milk, then in the the human thyroid 
>> gland where it is a potent carcinogen, inducing thyroid disease and/or 
>> thyroid cancer. It is important to note that of 174,376 children under 
>> the age of 18 that have been examined by thyroid ultrasound in the 
>> Fukushima Prefecture, 12 have been definitively diagnosed with thyroid 
>> cancer and 15 more are suspected to have the disease. Almost 200,000 
>>more children are yet to be examined.
>> Of these 174,367 children, 43.2% have either thyroid cysts and/or 
>>nodules.
>> In Chernobyl, thyroid cancers were not diagnosed until four years 
>> post-accident. This early presentation indicates that these Japanese 
>> children almost certainly received a high dose of radioactive iodine.
>> High doses of other radioactive elements released during the meltdowns 
>> were received by the exposed population so the rate of cancer is 
>> almost certain to rise.
>> Plutonium, one of the most deadly radioactive substances, is an alpha 
>> emitter. It is highly toxic, and one millionth of a gram will induce 
>> cancer if inhaled into the lung. As an iron analogue, it combines with 
>> transferrin. It causes liver cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, or 
>> multiple myeloma. It concentrates in the testicles and ovaries where 
>> it can induce testicular or ovarian cancer, or genetic diseases in 
>> future generations. It also crosses the placenta where it is 
>> teratogenic, like thalidomide. There are medical homes near Chernobyl 
>> full of grossly deformed children, the deformities of which have never 
>>before been seen in the history of medicine.
>> The half-life of plutonium is 24,400 years, and thus it is radioactive 
>> for
>> 250,000 years. It will induce cancers, congenital deformities, and 
>> genetic diseases for virtually the rest of time.
>> Plutonium is also fuel for atomic bombs. Five kilos is fuel for a 
>> weapon which would vaporize a city. Each reactor makes 250 kg of 
>>plutonium a year.
>> It is postulated that less than one kilo of plutonium, if adequately 
>> distributed, could induce lung cancer in every person on 
>>earth...........
>> http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
>>
>> Christina MacPherson | May 2, 2014 at 4:06 am | Categories: 2 WORLD, 
>> radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-he2
>>
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