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The Real Radiation Threat To The US And YOU

As the jet stream continues around the world some radioactive particles will fall with rain, snow or as dust particles, before it continues it's deadly circle.

 

The number of radioactive particles may diminish but the STRENGTH of each particle does not diminish.

 

That means that the STRENGTH of radiation that leaves Fukushima is the same strength that reaches California or the East coast etc. There may be fewer particles with distance, but when you're dealing with low levels of radiation it doesn't matter how few there are.

 

By April 1 2011 the Fukushima radiation will have passed over all of North America leaving many areas with very low levels of radiation depending on jet stream distribution.

 

Once you ingest or inhale even very low levels of radioactive particles the Petkau Effect immediately starts potentially lethal tissue ionization.

 

The phenomenon of the Petkau Effect basically means that you are ionizing or irradiating yourself continuously from the inside out. This insidious burning at your molecular level will impair your body long before there is a diagnosable disease.

Free radicals are generated during long term exposure to extremely low levels of radiation. which will exhaust our defenses unless our body has an abundant reserve of antioxidants.

 

Free radicals, or radicals, are atoms, molecules or ions with unpaired electrons. These highly reactive, molecules are unstable and contribute to the weakening of the body by destroying our cellular structure and making us more vulnerable to disease.

 

When molecules in the body oxidize they become free radicals.

 

Without sufficient antioxidants to combat the extreme low levels of radiation you will suffer from gene mutation, birth defects, infertility and increased risk for immune related disease and cancers.

 

Damage Attributed To Free Radicals

 

* degenerative disease

* memory loss

* neurological diseases

* atherosclerosis

* Alzheimers

* Parkinsons

* arthritis or other joint disorders

* heart disease or stroke

* diabetes

* HIV

* cataracts

* cancer

* aging

 

Isn't it easy to see how the above diseases would never be associated with low levels of radiation?

 

Here in Washington state, we've been taking aggressive steps to protect ourselves, our animals & our soils since March 18, what are you waiting for, permission from the "authorities?"

EPA: New Radiation Highs in Little Rock Milk, Philadelphia Drinking Water

By JEFF MCMAHON

Image via Wikipedia

[UPDATED 4/11 with comment from FDA, in italics]

Milk from Little Rock and drinking water from Philadelphia contained the highest levels of Iodine-131 from Japan yet detected by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to data released by EPA Saturday.

The Philadelphia sample is below the EPA’s maximum contaminant level (MCL) for iodine-131 in water, but the Little Rock sample is almost three times higher. However, the Food and Drug Administration observes a much higher standard for milk, and all milk samples collected so far are well below that level.

Nonetheless, the EPA does not consider the milk dangerous because the MCL is set for long-term exposure, and the iodine-131 from Japan’s Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident is expected to be temporary and deteriorate rapidly.

 

The FDA’s Derived Intervention Level for iodine-131 in milk is 4700 picoCuries per liter. The EPA’s MCL for iodine-131 is 3 picoCuries per liter.

“There are a few reasons that EPA’s MCL for I-131 drinking water is different than FDA’s DIL for I-131 in any given food,” said FDA spokesman Siobhan Delancy by email. “One of them is that EPA assumes a 70 year time period for exposure, so the MCLs are basically for continual, ongoing intake. They are meant to be as low as reasonably achievable while the DILs are meant to assure that no one will reach a specific dose that would warrant protective actions as a result of an event.”

The Little Rock milk sample contained 8.9 picoCuries per liter. It was collected on March 30. On Sunday, EPA released data showing milk in Hilo, Hawaii with 24 pCi/L of cesium-134, 19 of cesium-137, and 18 of Iodine-131.

Three drinking water samples collected in Philadelphia on April 4 contained Iodine-131, according to Saturday’s data release:

• A sample from the city’s Queen Lane Treatment Plant showed 2.2 picoCuries per liter—the highest concentration in EPA’s drinking water data so far.
• Water collected at the Belmont Treatment Plant contained 1.3 picocuries, and
• Water collected at the Baxter Treatment Plant contained 0.46 picocuries.

Philadelphia sampling sites

Philaphelphia becomes the 14th US city with radioactive fallout detected in its drinking water.

Iodine-131 has a half life of eight days: every eight days, half of its mass decays into a non-radioactive isotope of xenon.

There is much more detailed information about this weekend’s data releases from EPA in the previous post: “Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities.”

Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk

By JEFF MCMAHON

Radiation has reached the EPA's maximum contaminant level in some milk samples (Royalty-free image collection via flickr)

• Unusual Reading At Chatanooga Nuclear Plant

• Milk Contamination At EPA Maximum

• Highest Levels Yet In Boise Rainwater

Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.

Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat.

The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month. The sample contained 1.9 picoCuries per liter of cesium-137, which falls under the same 3.0 standard.

Radioactive isotopes accumulate in milk after they spread through the atmosphere, fall to earth in rain or dust, and settle on vegetation, where they are ingested by grazing cattle. Iodine-131 is known to accumulate in the thyroid gland, where it can cause cancer and other thyroid diseases. Cesium-137 accumulates in the body’s soft tissues, where it increases risk of cancer, according to EPA.

Airborne contamination continues to cross the western states, the new data shows, and Boise has seen the highest concentrations of radioactive isotopes in rain so far.

A rainwater sample collected in Boise on March 27 contained 390 picocures per liter of iodine-131, plus 41 of cesium-134 and 36 of cesium-137. EPA released this result for the first time yesterday. Typically several days pass between sample collection and data release because of the time required to collect, transport and analyze the samples.

In most of the data released Friday the levels of contaminants detected are far below the standards observed by EPA and other U.S. agencies.

But the EPA drinking-water data includes one outlier—an unusually, but not dangerously, high reading in a drinking water sample from Chatanooga, Tennessee.

The sample was collected at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Sequoyah nuclear plant. A Tennessee official told the Chatanooga Times last week that radiation from Japan had been detected at Sequoyah but is “1,000 to 10,000 times below any levels of concern.” The 1.6 picocures per liter reported by the EPA on Friday is slightly more than half the maximum contaminant level permitted in drinking water, but more uniquely, it is many times higher than all the other drinking water samples collected in the U.S.

[UPDATE: EPA released new data Saturday revealing higher levels than reported here in Little Rock milk and Philadelphia drinking water]

The EPA released this new data through a new interactive open-data system it quietly launched on the EPA website Wednesday. The new interface is to be regularly updated, replacing EPA’s periodic news releases and pdf data charts. Here are more details of the data released Friday:

Drinking Water

Radioactive Iodine-131 was found in drinking water samples from 13 cities. Those cities are listed below, with the amount of Iodine-131 in picocuries per liter. The EPA’s maximum contaminant level for Iodine-131 in drinking water is 3 picocuries per liter.

• Oak Ridge, TN collected 3/28: 0.63
• Oak Ridge, TN collected at three sites 3/29: 0.28, 0.20, 0.18
• Chatanooga, TN collected 3/28: 1.6
• Helena, MT collected 3/28: 0.18
• Columbia, PA collected 3/29: 0.20
• Cincinatti, OH collected 3/28: 0.13
• Pittsburgh, PA collected 3/28: 0.36
• East Liverpool, OH collected 3/30: 0.42
• Painesville, OH collected 3/29: 0.43
• Denver, CO  collected 3/30: 0.17
• Detroit, MI collected 3/31: 0.28
• Trenton, NJ collected 3/31: 0.38
• Waretown, NJ collected 3/31: 0.38
• Muscle Shoals, AL collected 3/31: 0.16

Precipitation

In the data released Friday, iodine-131 was found in rainwater samples from the following locations:

• Salt Lake City, UT collected 3/17: 8.1
• Boston, MA collected 3/22: 92
• Montgomery, Alabama collected 3/30: 3.7
• Boise, ID collected 3/27: 390

As reported above, the Boise sample also contained 42 pC/m3 of Cesium-134, and 36 of Cesium-137.

Air

In the most recent data, iodine-131 was found in air filters in the following locations. In the case of air samples, the radiation is measured in picoCuries per cubic meter.

• Montgomery, AL collected 3/31: 0.055
• Nome AK collected 3/30: 0.17
• Nome AK collected 3/29: 0.36
• Nome AK collected 3/27: 0.36
• Nome AK collected 3/26: 0.46
• Nome AK collected 3/25: 0.26
• Juneau AKcollected 3/26: 0.43
• Juneau AK collected 3/27: 0.38
• Juneau AK collected 3/30: 0.28
• Dutch Harbor AK collected 3/30: 0.14
• Dutch Harbor AK collected 3/29: 0.11
• Dutch Harbor AK colleccted 3/26: 0.21
• Boise, ID collected 3/27: 0.22
• Boise, ID collected 3/29: 0.27
• Boise, ID collected 3/28: 0.32
• Las Vegas NV collected 3/28: 0.30
• Las Vegas, NV collected 3/30:: 0.088
• Las Vegas, NV collected 3/29: 0.044

No other types of isotopes were found in the most recent data from air samples, even though EPA is also on the lookout for barium-140, cobalt-60, cesium-134, cesium-136, cesium-137, iodine-132, iodine-133, tellurium-129, and tellurium-132.

In older samples, isotopes of cesium and tellurium were found in Boise; Las Vegas; Nome and Dutch Harbor; Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii; Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, California; Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Salt Lake City, Utah; Guam, and Saipan on the Marina Islands.

Some of these locations had not been previously reported in EPA news releases.

The EPA has said it will continue to monitor radiation levels in air, precipitation, drinking water, and milk even if the budget impasse shuts down the government next week.

There is more discussion of maximum contaminant levels and health concerns in the related links below and their associated comments:

Related Posts:

How To Remove Iodine-131 From Drinking Water

Three Sites Where You Can Monitor U.S. Radiation Levels

First US Drinking Water Samples Show Radiation from Japan

Beware the Ill Winds - Something Very Wicked This Way Comes

Shades of William Shakespeare, channeled right down through the centuries. For dramatic counterpoint nothing beats the dark imprecation cast by the three evil witches in Macbeth, as they boil up a foul decoction of eye of newt, forked snake's tongue and wool of bat, ensconced in the shadowy recesses of an unnamed cavern.

Double, double toil and trouble
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
…..........
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
(Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I)

Doesn't that succinctly describe what is happening at Fukushima, Japan where the hellish troika of General Electric (GE), the Tokyo Electric and Power Company (TEPCO), and the Japanese government have whipped up a radioactive, boiling hot nuclear cauldron of Whup Ass Hell-Broth Trouble for the whole of humanity?

And now they have commenced pouring their vile, radioactive brew into the ocean by unknown millions of gallons, flushing into the Pacific the radioactive run-off from the tens of thousands of tons of water that have been dumped on the melted-down reactors to cool them, there to be carried to the soon-to-be-radioactively-poisoned-waters of the Seven Seas by the incessantly circulating currents of the open ocean. (1) The government in Japan has said that the radioactive water would not be a threat to humans (1), but what gullible fool believes that lie? I certainly don't. Do you?

And then there is the matter of all of that radioactive steam and smoke that has been issuing on and off for weeks now, in varying amounts, from the melted-down reactors and the ruined hulks of the containment structures and demolished spent-fuel-rod-cooling-pools. As the weeks go by and more and more radioactive steam and smoke has escaped, the mainstream news media have said less and less about the ongoing crisis at Fukushima.

I guess that's because the West Coast of North America is directly downwind from Japan. Prevailing winds are right now carrying radioactive contamination from Japan across the Pacific to British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California and Mexico. Here you can see a very good model of the prevailing winds and how they disperse the radioactive plume across the Pacific Ocean to North America, before going on to the rest of the northern hemisphere.

University of Maryland Plume Trajectory Modeling
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~tcanty/hysplit

But not to worry, says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the USA. Even though radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear reactors has been found at a growing number of locations across the USA, "These detections in air, precipitation, and milk were expected, and the levels detected have been far below levels of public-health concern." (2)

Others have been doing their own analyses, however, and based on a century of scientific research have drawn the rather different conclusion that even low levels of ionizing radiation are carcinogenic, and there is likely not a threshold level below which this is not true. (3) In other words, the EPA is simply lying about the menace to public well-being. The radiation from Fuskushima, like all other ionizing radiation, is absolutely hazardous to human health.

An additional problem is that in recent weeks there have been numerous reports that many EPA radiation monitoring devices across the country do not even work, are in need of repair, or yield results that need "review." (4)(5)(6) This obviously further compromises the EPA's blandishments to the public to not be concerned about radiation levels.

And make no mistake about it: Something very wicked this way comes.

Here's how wicked it is. This is what the radioactivity released from the destroyed nuclear reactor at Chernobyl has done to the children in Belarus and the Ukraine.

Chernobyl Legacy (on the right sidebar click on "Intro" and "Chernobyl Legacy" for the slideshow)
http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl

I am reminded of the words of Gopi krishna, the cosmically-realized, Indian kundalini yogi, who foresaw the horrific effects of nuclear radiation on humanity in the future, and prophetically warned of what has already begun to happen in our time, courtesy of Chernobyl, U.S. Military depleted uranium munitions use in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans, and now undoubtedly with more horrors to issue from the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima. In his poetic book, The Shape of Events To Come, Gopi Krishna speaks of the monstrous impact of radioactive contamination on human DNA:

"A genetic poison for a grisly crop
Of grinning monsters and grimacing freaks,
Whose language is a blend of horrid shrieks,
Fouling the outraged earth for many a year
With such abortions none their sight can bear.
And who can say with what revolting shape
It will the future stock of mankind drape?”

( source: http://www.gopikrishna.net )

And you had better know that this "genetic poison for a grisly crop of grinning monsters and grimacing freaks" is definitely on the way. Here is the latest EPA radionuclide monitoring release.

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/docs/rert/radnet-cart-filter-final.pdf

According to this EPA report, in the last month the dangerous radionuclides, cesium-137 and iodine-131, have been detected at low levels on the Pacific islands of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii, and on the North American mainland in Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Washington State, Alabama and Florida. Where uranium isotopes are concerned, uranium-234 is reported as being detected at low levels in the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii, California and Washington State, while uranium-238 was reportedly detected in the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Hawaii and California.

Sadly, this recent EPA report understates the scope of the problem. The EPA certainly knows that traces of radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear reactors also have turned up in rainwater in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and North and South Carolina. These facts have been widely reported in the news media in recent weeks, but those data do not appear in the EPA report linked above. In fact, it is hard to know how accurate the EPA reports are, because as mentioned above, there are many "gaps"in the coverage of the EPA's radiation monitoring system. (7) And the reports will keep coming, as thirteen American cities report traces of iodine-131 in the drinking water, Montpelier, Vermont reports cesium-137 in milk samples., and iodine-131 turns up in milk in Phoenix and Los Angeles. (8)

Courtesy of the good work of my helpful Brazilian connection, here are some websites in Europe and Japan with data on radiation levels.

European Radiological Data Exchange Platform
http://eurdep.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Basic/Pages/Public/Home/Default.aspx

Spain
http://www.csn.es/index.php?option=com_maps&view=mappoints&Itemid=32

The Netherlands
http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten

Switzerland
https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/zeitverlaeufe.html

France
http://sws.irsn.fr/sws/mesure/index

IRSN --French website with information in English and French on Fukushima radiation problems
http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Pages/home.aspx

MEXT-- Japanese radiation reports in English (with Chinese and Korean links)
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/index.htm

With rising mistrust generally of governments worldwide, and especially in the wake of the sporadic and weak flow of information from the Japanese government about the crisis at Fukushima, there is growing concern that everyday people must monitor ambient radiation levels themselves.

One such effort just getting off the ground is the Radiation Network, centered on the USA, but with limited coverage of Japan and Europe, as well.

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/index.htm

So far, the levels of radiation that have been reported by the Radiation Network are low, but no doubt as time goes on, and as the Fukushima crisis festers, we will see more monitoring of radiation by private individuals. Given the lies and misinformation coming from official agencies in Japan and the USA how could it be otherwise?

The more so, as the EPA's response to the Fukushima crisis has been to seek to greatly increase the permissible levels of radiation in food, water, and soil, (9) the better to transform radioactively ill winds into radioactively nil winds.

Clearly, we are dealing with vicious psychopathology hard at work in high places. The people (if that is what they are) running the current corporate-government system want to hurt us and the whole planet. They are oblivious to humanity's well being. They lie with impunity. They distort reality and the truth without regard for anyone's health, or future life prospects. That is the sober truth of the situation in which we find ourselves.

The Fukushima crisis is not over. Far from it. No, the Fukushima crisis is just beginning, and the radioactive, ill winds have but begun to blow.

Notes
1) http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fg-japan-nuclear-20110405,0,5272584.story?track=rss
2) http://epa.gov/japan2011/
3) http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/dont-be-fooled-by-the-spin-radiation-is-bad-20110407-1d63z.html
4) http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=14343830
5) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/some-radiation-tracking-air-monitors-may-not-be-working-properly-epa-says.html
6) http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/health/20-epa-radiation-detectors-don%E2%80%99t-work-mar-29-2011
7) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42284594/ns/world_news-asia-pacific
8) http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/09/radiation-detected-in-drinking-water-in-13-more-us-cities-cesium-137-in-vermont-milk/
9) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/305386