Do Citizens of Earth Have the Right to a Radiation-free Environment?

[Fruitbat]

fruitbat

while most here probably agree with you and may have personally protested a bit or not
you have to know
that the masses aren't looking up..they have to keep their noses to the old grindstone so they can watch mtv and have some new gadgets to keep up with the other nose to the grindstone folk and that is their only discussion
except
for maybe noticing the nutzo complaining about where their eletricity , that-they-couldn't-live-without comes from

if they are the meek (for not doing anything) and they will inherit the earth..
i guess they will be welcome to it
sad..ain't it

   

Thing is we could actually do it.
I'm fairly advanced in my plan to leave the electricity grid.
The trick is to reduce your power consumption, whilst keeping your living standards up.
Managing heat is crucial because most of the hardcore power eaters tend to be heaters (or coolers)
Most of the time I now draw around 250-400watts, wheras it used to be 400-700watts.
This means that if eberyone made similar changes to me, we could switch off the nuclear tomorrow.
Whne I have it complete (if I ever do) I'll see if I can do a small business, selling off the grid stuff, like LED bulbs, efficient appliances and solar cells, together with the UPS, batteries, and self starting diesel generator running of surplus jet fuel Etc. Maybe I can use ther normal guy's consumer instinct to SELL a solution..

Dunno if it is the same in the US but here in the UK when a maintainance is done requiring the fuel tanks to be drained from a civil jet, the fuel is not allowed to be returned to the aircraft. Apparently they pay a small fee to have it taken away!

My fellow engineers tell me it runs diesel cars just fine... IF I can solve the problems of secure bunded storage, then I would consider installing a oil fired boiler as well.

I just don't want to be a part of that problem any more.

Fruitbat!

[thorfourwinds]

A "Long-lasting" Job at Fukushima Dai-ichi One: Women 18-62 Wanted

A job opening at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant:  women accepted!

By company "Authentic" in Okuma-cho, Futaba-gun, Fukushima Prefecture

Job starts in May.
You can make money!  We will let you make money!  It's a job even women can do.
This job will last a very long time.  
Urgently looking for someone with physical and mental strength.
Job location is Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP (1F) with low dose radiation (10-20 ?Sv)/day.
Job description is clean-up activity.
Protective suits and masks to be worn.
Lodging in Iwaki-city being arranged.
Daily wage 16,000 yen (about $150) for an 8-hour day, no extra pay for danger
Actual work hours per day = about 4 hours (short hours in summer)
Wage payment will be deposited into your bank account by the end of the following month.
Car commuting is allowed, staying in Hirono-cho on your own and taking a bus from there.
No meals provided, but under negotiation now.
Job period is 5 to 10 years, or until the reactors are decommissioned.
Other decontamination jobs also available for the same wage.
Many other jobs available.

How to apply for the job:
Please e-mail your name, age, and your contact address.
Limit 100 applicants
After checking your e-mail, we will notify you as to if you are hired.
Eligibility: No membership in yakuza or anti-social organization.  We will check into this when reviewing your application.  No tattoo or missing finger.  Your own health insurance required.
Age limit: under consideration, but will most likely be between age 18 and 62.
Applicant limit: 100

We look forward to receiving your application.

Original information, as copied below, can be found here:
http://jp.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=cdd3b79212a35070

[zorgon]

$150.00 a day? for a four hour day?   only 100 applicants?   Hmmmm

"Job period is 5 to 10 years, or until the reactors are decommissioned."

I dunno... sounds FISHY... because when the Russians cleaned up Chernobyl they used 500,000 people and only allowed them in for MINUTES at a time....


Not buying this one    It's a Kamakasi Mission

[zorgon]

Whne I have it complete (if I ever do) I'll see if I can do a small business, selling off the grid stuff, like LED bulbs, efficient appliances and solar cells,

I am not fond of LED light but regular light bulbs come in 12 volt format... same bulb.  These would run directly of solar panels and a couple car batteries. This system is easy to find TODAY at any marina or RV parts seller.

Simple to run 12 volt wires in your house, they even make self adhesive wire mold to run them surface and still be in code, without needing an electrician

My fellow engineers tell me it runs diesel cars just fine... IF I can solve the problems of secure bunded storage, then I would consider installing a oil fired boiler as well.

Something most people forget... the Diesel was invented to run off OTHER oils because Germany had no oild supply. A diesel will run off the waste oil from McDonalds

Have you noticed that vegetable oil in the grocery store jumped in price? That is because some news anchors on TV were showing people that your diesel will run cleaner using vegetable oil

But you can buy up the oil from fast food places cheap... and simply strain it...


Oh and BOYCOTT EXXON

Buy gas from anyone else  and spread the word

[thorfourwinds]

[andolin]

$150.00 a day? for a four hour day?   only 100 applicants?   Hmmmm

"Job period is 5 to 10 years, or until the reactors are decommissioned."

I dunno... sounds FISHY... because when the Russians cleaned up Chernobyl they used 500,000 people and only allowed them in for MINUTES at a time....


Not buying this one    It's a Kamakasi Mission

I hear the Medical Plan and death benefits are awesome...

[thorfourwinds]

Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten - YouTube


Published on May 25, 2013
This documentary was shown on German and French TV but not in England.

For obvious reasons. the English don't want anyone to see it.

This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to.

It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world.

The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney. Alderney is also subject to releases to the sea from the French Nuclear Reprocessing Plant at Cap de la La Hague 12 miles East of the small island.

Prof Chris Busby who was consulted on the health effects of this marine radioactive pollution visits the island with the producers and makes measurements of contamination on the beach. Busby originally visited the island in 1998 with Jersey MP Stuart Syvret and found an excess of brain tumours and also general cancer mortality which was written up as a Green Audit paper and became part of a BBC news story at the time.

They were both chased off the island. Manfred Ladwig manages to get Dr John Cooper, head of the UK radiological protection organisation, the HPA, to admit that they balance childhood cancer cases against the advantages of cheaply disposing of nuclear waste.

Cooper also agrees that his position involves a conflict of interest since he is head of HPA which takes advice on radiation protection from ICRP. Cooper is on the ICRP committee. He therefore takes advice from himself.

We also hear from Prof Richard Wakeford, ex-head of research for Sellafield, but now an "independent" expert, also on ICRP, who tells us the coastal child leukemias were caused by "population mixing".

How long do we have to be subject to advice from these clowns?

Prof Busby asks the youtube to kindly leave this alone since he was part of the production and has the right to upload it.

[thorfourwinds]

One has to appreciate the humor in this.   

Earth Aid has a new follower on Twitter.

From a friend: "anon coward from Japan"


It is very hard to explain to an outsider how corrupt Japan is. In fact, it is hard to imagine that any more corrupt society can even exist.

For a long, long time the corruption was tolerated becuse it served a lot of purposes. It began long before WWII but the US tolerated it because they wanted an anti-communist bulwark in the Far East.

But everything in Japan is about scams and ripoffs.

First of all, everything is controlled by a mere handful of banks and big industrialists. This used to be called "Zaibatsu" but the Americans supposedly ended the Zaibatsu system after the war.

Untrue.

What happened is big companies got broken into smaller ones with different names, but the same handful of big dogs at the top still control all these supposedly separate little companies.

It is bascule straight-up cartel-ism. They all he together and fix the prices for everything. If the government had bidding on some huge mega-project, all the big construction companies sit down and they all quietly fix what price they will bid at.

Everyone is cool with it because they all take turns and share. If mega-corp A gets the bid this time, nobody complains because they know mega-corp B will get the next one. And everyone gets some bribe/kickback money to tide them over in the mean time.

The politicians and regulators get fat stacks of kickback money for letting this go on, plus they get "amakudari" which means after a few years in the govt they get a nice Job at one of the mega-corps doing frig-all but playing golf and getting fat salaries.

The middle class gets jobs for life so they don't complain (although this facade is crumbling, the cash is running out so we will see how long people stay orderly and well behaved).

Nobody in the press "blows the whistle" because there are only a handful of newspapers and magazines and TV stations and they all politely ignore the corruption because they get their fat envelopes with cash too.

If some crusading moralist or journalist tries to speak out, he finds nobody will publish his books or give him air-time o TV. Then the Yakuza shows up to crack his skull if he still has not gotten the message.

Then overlaying this huge stinking pile of corruption is the media, the educational system, which simply pretend none of this happens. The "Traditonal Japan" industry is also part of the process....the Shinto and Busdhist temples and shrines get their stack of "donations" (great money laundering system for organized crime), and the image of quaint giggling geishas in kimonos and this ultra-clean sharp aesthetic of tradiional crafts adds to the "purity" image.

Ask yourself why there is such an obsession with "cleanliness" and "purity" in Japan: the answer is that the reality is so filthy and impure they need to whitewash it all the more.

[thorfourwinds]

In this handout photo, last month, a diver alerted Vancouver Aquarium staff that he had found a number of dead and decaying sunflower sea stars in the cold Pacific waters of a popular dive spot just off the shore of West Vancouver.
(THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Vancouver Aquarium)


Vancouver Aquarium 'alarmed' at mass die-off of starfish on B.C. ocean floor??

VANCOUVER - Last month, a diver alerted Vancouver Aquarium staff that he had found a number of dead and decaying sunflower sea stars in the cold Pacific waters of a popular dive spot just off the shore of West Vancouver.

Within weeks, the tentacled orange sea stars had all but disappeared in Howe Sound and Vancouver Harbour, disintegrating where they sat on the ocean floor.

And aquarium staff don't know just how far-reaching the "alarming" epidemic has been, and whether this and other sea star species will recover.

"They're gone. It's amazing," said Donna Gibbs, a research diver and taxonomist on the aquarium's Howe Sound Research and Conservation group.

"Whatever hit them,
it was like wildfire and just wiped them out."

The sunflower sea star population had inexplicably exploded in recent years. In some areas they were stacked several stars deep, and those conditions may have been ripe for disease, she said.

"We are seeing some babies, so we're wondering if they will survive," Gibbs said. "We're hoping we get the natural abundance back without this overabundance."

Other species of sea star — commonly called starfish — are also affected.

Jeff Marliave, the aquarium's vice-president of marine science, said the collapse has been confirmed around the Defence Islands, north of Vancouver, and off the south shore of Bowen Island, where there is no longer any evidence of what was a huge overpopulation of the voracious cousins of the sea urchin.

"Where the population density had been highest in summer of 2012, on the western shore of Hutt Island, all the sunflower sea stars are gone from that area, with rivers of ossicles (a hard body part) filling ledges and crevices," Marliave wrote in his blog.

The aquarium has dubbed the epidemic Sea Star Wasting Syndrome.

Aquarium staff don't know the cause because they have had trouble gathering specimens for testing, as starfish that looked healthy in the ocean turned up as goo at the lab.

The epidemic has killed thousands of the marine invertebrates, which can weigh up to five kilograms and live up to 35 years.

The Howe Sound research team have heard from veterinarians and other marine experts that similar die-offs have taken place in Florida and California.

"We're just not sure yet if it's all the same thing," Gibbs said. "They're dying so fast."

In July, researchers at the University of Rhode Island reported that sea stars were dying in a similar way from New Jersey to Maine, and the university was working with colleagues at Brown and Roger Williams universities to figure out the cause.

The collaboration came about after a graduate student collected starfish for a research project and then watched as they "appeared to melt" in her tank.

Like Howe Sound, the Narragansett Bay area where those starfish were collected had seen an explosion in the population in the previous few years.

"Often when you have a population explosion of any species you end up with a disease outbreak," Rhode Island Prof. Marta Gomez-Chiarri said in a statement at the time.

"When there's not enough food for them all it causes stress, and the density of the animals leads to increase disease transmission."

Unfortunately, once that disease is in the environment, it can be difficult to get the population back, she said.

"Diseases don't just completely disappear after a massive die-off."

Vancouver Aquarium staff are asking divers and other members of the public to help monitor the spread of the disease, and report any similar sun star deaths to fishlab@vanaqua.org.

[spacemaverick]

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Radiation-and-Health/Radiation-and-Life/

From World Nuclear Association

Radiation and Life

The above link deals with radiation and everyday life, the origins of both terrestrial radiation and other sources.  Whatever you want to know is here.  I found this to be an all-in-one type of information for learning about radiation.  I shall study this further.

[spacemaverick]

Information from the World Nuclear Association

Radiation and Life


10,000 mSv (10 sieverts) as a short-term and whole-body dose would cause immediate illness, such as nausea and decreased white blood cell count, and subsequent death within a few weeks.
Between 2 and 10 sieverts in a short-term dose would cause severe radiation sickness with increasing likelihood that this would be fatal.

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1,000 mSv (1 sievert) in a short-term dose is about the threshold for causing immediate radiation sickness in a person of average physical attributes, but would be unlikely to cause death. Above 1000 mSv, severity of illness increases with dose.
If doses greater than 1000 mSv occur over a long period they are unlikely to have health effects, but they may create some risk that cancer will develop many years later.

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250 mSv as short-term dose was maximum allowable for workers controlling the Fukushima accident.

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Above about 100 mSv
, the probability of cancer (rather than the severity of illness) increases with dose.
The estimated risk of fatal cancer is 5 of every 100 persons exposed to a dose of 1000 mSv (ie. if the normal incidence of fatal cancer were 25%, a 1000 mSv dose would increase it to 30%).

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50 mSv is, conservatively, the lowest dose at which there is any evidence of cancer being caused in adults. It is also the highest dose which is allowed by regulation in any one year of occupational exposure. Dose rates greater than 50 mSv/yr arise from natural background levels in several parts of the world but do not cause any discernible harm to local populations.

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20 mSv/yr averaged over 5 years is the limit for radiological personnel such as employees in the nuclear industry, uranium or mineral sands miners and hospital workers (who are all closely monitored).

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10 mSv/yr is the maximum actual dose rate received by any Australian uranium miner.

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3-5 mSv/yr is the typical dose rate (above background) received by uranium miners in Australia and Canada.


3 mSv/yr (approx) is the typical background radiation from natural sources in North America, including an average of almost 2 mSv/yr from radon in air.

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2.5 mSv/yr (approx) is the typical background radiation from natural sources, including an average of 0.7 mSv/yr from radon in air. The minimum dose received by all humans anywhere on Earth is about 1.5 mSv/yr.

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0.3-0.6 mSv/yr is a typical range of dose rates from artificial sources of radiation, mostly medical.

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0.05 mSv/yr, a very small fraction of natural background radiation, is the design target for maximum radiation at the perimeter fence of a nuclear electricity generating station. In practice the actual dose is less.

[zorgon]

Colorado Rocky Mountain HIGH

11.8 mSv/yr  just for living there

Source   Annual Effective Dose Equivalent (mSv/yr)(1)   Annual Risk per million people (2) (cancer deaths attributable to these sources)   Lifetime Risk per million people (3) (cancer deaths attributable to these sources)
Natural           
Radon   10.4   310   22,000
Cosmic   0.50   40   2800
Terrestrial   0.46   37   2600
Internal   0.39   31   2200
sub-total   11.8   420
deaths per million   30,000
deaths per million
Artificial           
Medical           
a) x-ray diagnosis   0.39   31   2200
b) Nuclear medicine   0.14   11   770
Consumer products   0.1   8   560
sub-total   0.6   50
deaths per million   3500
deaths per million
TOTAL   12.4   470
deaths per million   33,000
deaths per million

[zorgon]

The trick is to reduce your power consumption, whilst keeping your living standards up.
Managing heat is crucial because most of the hardcore power eaters tend to be heaters

Breaking News!!!
Free Energy Device!!! No more heating costs!!!! 100% reduction!!!!

[spacemaverick]

Breaking News!!!
Free Energy Device!!! No more heating costs!!!! 100% reduction!!!!

Z, I think we have become spoiled with our central heating.  I remember the old radiators did a fine job.  Had one in each room we did and they worked fine.  Just spent a week in Ft. Worth where we had the fireplace going while we were there and it kept things toasty.  Besides the fire lightened our mood and made everything kind of cozy.  And it was not expensive.  Went out back and chopped some firewood, obtained some kindling and gotr' done!

[zorgon]

Also can cook on it   Put a pot of coffee on it or a pot of water to act as humidifier