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Jeremy Roenick:
Remember Fukushima???? You know, that massive nuclear accident (that now eclipses Chernobyl many times over) that happened in Japan that gets no play in the media because the Bachelor, Casey Anthony, Big Brother, and the Governator's divorce are much more important!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-19/thyroid-radiation-exposure-found-in-children-near-tepco-plant.html

Thyroid radiation exposure found in children near Tepco plant

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TOKYO - Medical tests on children living in three towns near the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant found 45 percent of those surveyed suffered low-level thyroid radiation exposure, Japan’s government said in a statement. While the statement didn’t comment on the source of the contamination, the announcement follows reports of radioactive material found in food after radiation leaks from the meltdown of three reactors at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Fukushima safety fears

The down-playing and cover up of this is almost criminal. Just how bad is it, how bad is it going to continue to get? I hear stories that radioactive steam is escaping from the site right now. Japan has suffered several major aftershocks of 6.0 mag or greater in the weeks and months after the big one, that some think underground pipes have been ruptured by the aftershocks. This steam is spewing all kinds of deadly isotopes into the atmosphere. The radioactive iodine is a major concern for the locals, but because it has a relatively short half-life, folks in the US west coast can let that concern go. However, its the Cesium, Plutonium and other components associated with MOX reactors that have half-lives in the thousands of years that are of most concern. Breathing just one particle of these elements is a death sentence.

Remember how Japan and the US government insisted in the weeks following the initial explosions that no reactors had melted down. And only in the several months following did TEPCO finally admit that the reactors melted down in the hours after the hydrogen explosions.

How much are the people purposely not being told, and just how big of an environmental disaster is this?

NCVol:
I heard a piece yesterday on that on Thom Hartmann's show. The stories are frightening with a worst case, that is increasingly not at all a remote possibility, just by any measure catastrophic for Japan and the entire area. China is raising alarms about the contaminated seawater in fishing grounds that could threaten their food supply if trends keep worsening.

It is surreal that we've sort of buried that story in the "cannot talk about" file.

I've had to completely rethink my views on nuclear power. I'm increasingly convinced that the skeptics of nuclear power, those deranged hippies, environmentalist whackos, were right all along.

Jeremy Roenick:
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I've had to completely rethink my views on nuclear power. I'm increasingly convinced that the skeptics of nuclear power, those deranged hippies, environmentalist whackos, were right all along.

Agreed. I used to be of that camp too. When nations build reactors in seismic zones and store backup generators in the basement, you have wonder about the safety with such obvious design flaws.

I keep hearing from folks inside the industry here that US reactors are much safer. I hope they are right. I hope we never have to find out, but I'm now a skeptic. So much so that I store Potassium Iodide and Potassium Iodate on hand just in case. Don't hope to find this stuff if one of the TVA reactors takes a swan dive. You better have it on hand, or get out of the downwind zone as fast as you can...

Jeremy Roenick:
Fukushima update. Only with time will the truth be known, and the devastating consequences of man's folly....

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/medical-journal-article-14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-2011-12-19

Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout

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This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.Authors Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman note that their estimate of 14,000 excess U.S. deaths in the 14 weeks after the Fukushima meltdowns is comparable to the 16,500 excess deaths in the 17 weeks after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.

and yet Tepco and the Japanese government insisted for weeks that the reactors had not melted down. The scope of the disaster in Japan must be gargantuan given that we are beginning to actually tie US DEATHS to Fukushima fallout.

The One Man Gang:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/medical-journal-article-14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-2011-12-19

If you actually read the article you'll find the "14,000" is based on no real data whatsoever. They linked supposed increases in death rates over a random period of time to the Japanese reactor.

Using their techniques one could just as easily link those "deaths" to the Jerry Sandusky scandal or the rise of Newt Gingrich in the polls.

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