[ RadSafe ] Der Spiegel - Fukushima nuclear catastrophe changed the world...

Wed Feb 18 20:21:33 CST 2015

That is really a good precise assessment of radiation phobia. Just because
we are too good radiation is too bad

Best regards
Khalid A. Aleissa, PhD.
Saudi Arabia

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:57 PM, KARAM, PHILIP <PHILIP.KARAM at nypd.org>
wrote:

> Obviously, there's a difference between being "detectable" and being
> environmentally significant. It's almost too bad we are so good at
> detecting such low levels of radioactivity - it's hard to convince people
> who don't know the science (or who refuse to learn the science) that just
> because we can detect something doesn't mean that it's dangerous.
>
>
> P. Andrew Karam, PhD, CHP
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of JPreisig at aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:19 AM
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Der Spiegel - Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
> changed the world...
>
> Roger,
>
>      More Christina MacPherson.  Germany does not  appear to be very
> pro-nuclear.  The Green party is in place.
>
>      Joe Preisig
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 2/18/2015 2:35:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> rwhelbig at gmail.com writes:
>
> Is Der  Spiegel known for campaigning against nuclear power?    This
> article certainly does not appear to be based on sound journalism  or
> reporting.
>
> Roger Helbig
>
> Fukushima nuclear catastrophe  changed the world
>
> by Christina MacPherson
>
> Magazine: 'Fukushima  catastrophe changed the world'; Worst nuclear
> accident in history, like two  Chernobyls; 'Poisoned entire landscapes for
> centuries' -- Study: Fukushima  'overwhelms' the peak radioactivity from
> nuclear bomb testing in ice core  samples; 'Affected the  global
> environment'
> http://enenews.com/magazine-fukushima-catastrophe-changed-world-
>
> worst-nuclear-accident-history-like-having-chernobyls-poisoned-entire-landsc
>
> apes-centuries-study-fukushima-overwhelms-peak-radioactivity-atmospheric-bom
> ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_camp
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>
> Spiegel  Online International (Der Spiegel, German news magazine), Feb.
> 5, 2015  (emphasis added): [It's] the worst accident in the history of
> civilian  atomic power... The Fukushima catastrophe changed the world.
> Nuclear  reactors melted down on live television and twice as much
> radioactive  material was released as during the Chernobyl accident in
> 1986. The  disaster... poisoned entire landscapes for centuries and killed
> hundreds of  thousands of farm animals... Fukushima is more than just a
> place-name, it  is an historical event...
>
> Scientists from the Chinese Academy of  Sciences, University of Venice,
> and Nanjing University, Feb 6, 2015: The â  radioactivity of snow-pit
> samples collected in the spring of 2011 on four  Tibetan Plateau glaciers
> demonstrate a remarkable peak in each snow pit  profile, with peaks about
> ten to tens of times higher than background  levels. The timing of these
> peaks suggests that the high radioactivity  resulted from the Fukushima
> nuclear... The released radioactive  nuclear substances not only polluted
> Japan... but also spread to other  areas of the Northern Hemisphere via
> atmospheric circulation and  ocean currents, affecting the hemispheric and
> even global environment. As  an overdose of nuclear radiation may seriously
> threaten human health  and wildlife survival, this nuclear accident has
> caught the attention  of the world. The radioactive fallout [was] detected
> in the  atmosphere, soil, surface water, and pastures in the low-altitude
> regions  of North America... Much of the radioactive material was
> transported by  the westerlies, resulting in the fallout over North
> America... [T]o  reach the Tibetan Plateau, material transported by the
> westerlies has  to first circle much of the globe... In May 2011, snow-pit
> samples  were collected on the Gurenhekou Glacier... Dongkemadi Glacier...
> Muztag Glacier and Yuzhufeng Glacier... In 2005 and 2007, we drilled ice
> cores...
> Tanggula ice core [and] Yuzhufeng ice core... Clearly, the peak  â
> radioactivities in the snow pits... are much higher than that in  the
> corresponding local ice cores, and even overwhelm the peak  â
> radioactivities caused by past atmospheric thermonuclear tests in  the
> early 1960s... The peak â radioactivities... are 11.0 and 92.4  times
> larger than their local average background levels... attributed to  the
> Fukushima radioactive fallout... The Fukushima nuclear accident...  created
> a radioactive horizon that can be used as independent age markers  in snow
> and ice cores in the Northern Hemisphere... providing a  direct record of
> the impacts of human activities on the Earth's  environment...
>
> See also: VIDEO: New data shows Fukushima radiation  release exceeds
> Chernobyl
>
> Christina MacPherson | February 18, 2015 at  6:50 am | Categories:
> Fukushima 2015 | URL:  http://wp.me/phgse-iTy
>
>
> http://nuclear-news.net/2015/02/18/fukushima-nuclear-catastrophe-changed-the
> -world/
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