Fuku-food and -health [updated collection]

3 New Reports from Canada: Radiation in Fish and Rainwater; “Safe” Levels of Radiation? (January 2012)

Fukushima: nuclear pollution in Japan and America [sub-collection of current articles, Summer 2013]

Fishing ban reinstated as Fukushima nuclear leaks affect marine life

Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans

[…] Why is there so much dispute about the number of deaths which Fukushima could cause on the West Coast? Because radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside of the body.
However – in the real world – radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults. And small particles of radiation – called “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this.
In addition, American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborn radiation, and are not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising “acceptable” radiation levels.)
So – as in Japan – radiation is usually discovered by citizens and the handful of research scientists with funding to check, and not the government. See this, this, this, this, this and this.
The Japanese government’s entire strategy from day one has been to cover up the severity of the Fukushima accident. This has likely led to unnecessary, additional deaths.
Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world’s nuclear agencies are wholly captured by the nuclear industry … as are virtually all of the supposedly independent health agencies.
So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about what is happening.

• An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima
• Anaheim, CA has highest amount of radioactive fallout of any EPA air monitoring station in Continental U.S. for iodine-131
• Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago
• USGS: Los Angeles area had highest cesium deposition in US after Fukushima
• “Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima
• Unprecedented Spike: 1501 atoms of radioactive sulfur per meter³ was detected in California air
• Radioactive sulfur in California spiked to highest levels ever detected: University researchers
• Controversy after US gov’t estimate showed 40,000 microsievert thyroid dose for California infants from Fukushima — Data not released to public — “Very high doses to children”
• Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? “Abnormal” readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington — Devices now “undergoing quality review”
• Nuclear policy expert: “Striking” that radioactive iodine-131 in California rainwater is so far above level permitted in drinking water
• Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern California, and Seattle

The festering radioactive sore could contaminate the food chain

Radioactive substances released by the reactor core meltdowns at the aging plant following the huge quake and tsunami of March 2011 have been leaking from damaged buildings and mingling with the ground water, which usually flows out to sea.

Environmental experts warn that the festering radioactive sore could contaminate the food chain by tainting marine life and ultimately, the humans who eat it.

Fukushima nuclear plant operator Tepco on Monday admitted for the first time that radioactive groundwater is flowing into the sea, fueling fears that marine life is being poisoned. […] the spokesman insisted the impact of the radioactive water on the ocean would be limited. “Seawater data have shown no abnormal rise in the levels of radioactivity.”

Tetsu Nozaki, chairman of Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations, voiced deep concern. “It was quite shocking,” he told NHK. “(Tepco’s) explanation is totally different from the one in the past.”

Fishing around the Fukushima plant was halted shortly after the crisis, and production of beef, milk, mushrooms and vegetables was banned in surrounding areas, crippling the prefecture’s thriving fishing and agriculture industries. […]

Environmental experts warn that the festering radioactive sore could contaminate the food chain by tainting marine life and ultimately, the humans who eat it.

Tepco said earlier this year that a fish found with radiation more than 2,500 times the legal limit had been caught in a port on Fukushima No. 1′s premises. It also said last week that around 2,000 people who worked at the plant now face a heightened risk of thyroid cancer.

This is 10 times more than Tepco’s previous estimate for potential thyroid cancer victims and came after the beleaguered utility was told its figures were too conservative.

Radioactive Rain-Outs Will Continue For a Year – Even In Western U.S. and Canada – Because Japanese Are Burning Radioactive Materials

‘Japan’s Gov’t Forces Radiated Milk on School Children’

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• Radioactive Fish, Pacific Ocean, Fukushima Leaking MORE

• Test shows S. Korean fisheries safe from radiation: gov’t

• Calls for seafood tests due to radiation leak in Japan

• Post-Fukushima, Japan’s irradiated fish worry B.C. experts

• American Medical Association to US gov’t: “continue to monitor and fully report the radioactivity levels of edible Pacific Ocean species”

• Hillary Clinton imports Japan’s nuked food to America

• Fukushima hot cod stopped from entering U.S.

• Scientist, FDA: Don’t worry about radioactive fish

“WHY does the USA government REFUSE to RELEASE seafood radiation test RESULTS conducted with taxpayer funds?

WHY did the USA EPA dramatically INCREASE the allowed radiation contamination levels to food, water, runoff and nuclear disasters?

WHY does Barack Obama have the WORST environmental record in USA history?

WHY does Barack Obama have the WORST consumer protection record in recent USA history?”

Because the USA and it’s politicians are owned and run by big business.

“WHY does Barack Obama have the WORST employment record since Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt and the GREAT depression?”

Because the systems put in place to prevent the Great Depression from happening again were dismantled in the name of “free markets” and “financial innovation” by politicians owned by big business. So the financial system went wild creating debt that could never be paid back. Generating an enormous skim for the FIRE economy and guaranteeing that we would go through the second Great Depression. — Diemos

Nearly 36% of Fukushima children diagnosed with abnormal thyroid growths July 2012

Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight attendants, causes rashes and hair loss May 2012

Fukushima woman eats high radiation diet because she can’t say no to her mother May 2012

Dying for TEPCO May 2011