08 February 2014 (23:11 UTC-07 Tango 07 February 2014)/07 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/19 Bahman 1392/09 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712
Fukushima Prefectural health officials announced eight more children have thyroid cancer. The number of confirmed thyroid cases have been steadily rising. Back in August it was reported that 25 children had thyroid cancer, that number is now up to 33, with another 75 suspected as having cancer! So far 270-thousand people have been examined. Surprisingly, the prefectural health officials are not willing to blame the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi slow burn melt down!
Fukushima Governor, Sato Yuhei, has flipped the bird at the national government’s nuke waste disposal plan, saying the Prefecture will handle its own nuclear waste storage. Sato has repeatedly made statements indicating the national government, and Tokyo Electric, are incompetent. The governor is meeting with mayors from eight municipalities to come up with their own storage plan.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has revealed that they been dumbing down reported radiation levels for the past three years! They blame it on “malfunctions of analytical equipment” that they kept using up until October 2013!
The first correction they’ve made is to readings they took from a test well (near reactor Unit 2’s Pacific Ocean water intake), back in July 2013. Back then TEPCo said there was 900-thousand becquerels per liter of strontium-90. Now, supposedly using properly working equipment on the water sample they saved from July, that level has jumped to a record 5-million Bq per liter of strontium-90!
TEPCo also admitted that because they knew their equipment was “malfunctioning” they kept secret the results from 140 radiation water samples taken between June and November 2013!
The national government of Japan (Nippon) is now considering establishing an official Fukushima Daiichi public relations office, to “properly” disseminate updates about the ongoing disaster.
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have been studying the use of algae on radiation. They say microalgae can absorb 90% of cesium. Yeah, then what do you do with the radioactive algae?
German scientists say radiation levels outside Fukushima Daiichi perimeter exceed safe levels by 700%! They blame the contaminated water storage tank farms, saying the strontium-90 in the water is reacting with the metal tanks, actually creating X radiation (X-rays) that easily pass through the metal tanks into the air!
By the way, Japan does not require any of the the “throwaway” contracted nuclear industry workers to be tested for contamination on a regular basis. It also does not require the contractor and subcontractor companies to do their own radiation monitoring. Recently a group of Japanese scientist visited Chernobyl, to see how the disaster there is being handled. They admitted to Japanese news media that they were amazed at the high level of health care that is mandatory for Ukrainians working at the disaster site, because Japan does not even come close to that level of concern for its own people!
Russian officials have already estimated that at least two thousand Japanese “throwaway” workers have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation: “If they received the total dose in the course of a year, those people definitely were exposed to excessive radiation above the established norm. They are to remain under the doctor’s observation for the rest of their lives. The mere fact that such levels of radiation energy are registered means that inside a person certain processes have already been set off. And it is impossible to predict when and in what form of disease this will show.”-Maksim Shingarkin, Russian natural resources committee
Canada’s National Institute of Public Health of Quebec, and the Department of Public Health Agency of Health and Social Services of the Gaspésie-Îles -de-la-Madeleine, are monitoring radiation levels in 145 public housing units. Officially they claim it’s to measure radon.
In the U.S. state of California, UC San Diego researchers have been sending ocean water samples to Timothy Jull, a professor of geosciences and physics at the University of Arizona. Jull says “What we’ve seen so far is a slow increase directly after the Fukushima accident. Now we’re looking for a larger reading, which should happen soon……….all part of building a picture of the disposal of this material over time and how long it takes to get over here.”
Jull added that the info will be of use for “future” nuclear accidents! He also revealed that nuclear power plants around the world have been dumping radioactive iodine into the oceans for decades, and your government officials know about it: “I guess if we continue to dump large amounts of radioactivity into the ocean that’s not a good thing, but in the short term it’s not. People have known this for a long time and are sort of tracking it.”