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

Fri Feb 20 09:06:15 CST 2015

Here's a good summary from UNSCEAR that is "fact based", not fear-sensationalism based:
http://www.unscear.org/docs/Factsheet_E_V1406112_ebook.pdf

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Khalid Aleissa [mailto:kaleissa at kacst.edu.sa] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Der Spiegel - Fukushima nuclear catastrophe changed the world...

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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> -----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-atmospher
> ic-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-chang
> ed-the
> -world/
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