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

Wed Feb 18 21:28:47 CST 2015

A few days after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the Environmental Survey laboratories at each nuclear power station in India recorded the arrival of iodine 131. Goats' thyroid sampling is routinely done at very station.Samples collected at Rajasthan, Tarapur and later at Trombay in that order indicated the arrival of fallout. This news item created some anxiety in the public.
Some anti nuclear activists even claimed that scientists are examining the thyroids as they suspect that the goats are suffering from cancer.The accumulation of iodine in goats thyroid etc appeared to be difficult concepts!
It is all very easy for those who have the domain knowwledge. For others every thing will look weird!
RegardssParthasarathy

     On Thursday, 19 February 2015, 7:52, Khalid Aleissa <kaleissa at kacst.edu.sa> wrote:

 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.
>
>
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> 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
> aign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
>
> 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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