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The Brave New Radioactive Normal
Government data shows U.S. being bombarded with Fukushima radiation 1,000 times higher than normal
by David Gutierrez
Government data shows that the U.S. is being bombarded with Fukushima radiation 1,000 times higher than normal.
In the months following the 2011 meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, residents of Los Angeles were being exposed to levels of dangerous alpha radiation nearly 1,000 times above normal levels, a government study found.The data came from a July 2012 presentation at the National Conference on Radiation Control. The presentation was given by Joji Ortego, Principal Radiation Protection Specialist for Los Angeles County Radiation Management.
Following the Fukushima meltdowns, Los Angeles county heard many concerns from residents about the potential health impacts of radiation crossing the Pacific Ocean from the disaster. So they commissioned a study of radiation levels in the area. The report notes that federal agencies delayed in providing information to the county, and that the state Radiologic Health Branch was unable to provide inspectors due to budget constraints. The state lab was unable to provide a reasonable turnaround time for sample analysis, so the county instead hired a local radiation monitor manufacturer for the analysis.
Radiation levels exceed federal thresholds
Samples were taken between April 29 and May 2, 2011, approximately seven weeks after the radioactive releases from Fukushima. The county found that gross alpha radiation levels at a location in Los Angeles were 300 femtocuries per cubic meter (fCi/m3), and levels at a Hacienda Heights location were 200 fCi/m3.
For context, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reports the average (annual median) level of gross alpha activity for the state of California as just 0.38 fCi/m3 – that is, 790 times lower.
The levels detected in Los Angeles County were a full 100 times higher than the level that requires an investigation at a U.S. nuclear laboratory, according to the Environmental Monitoring Plan at Brookhaven National Laboratory: "If the gross alpha activity in the [air] filters is greater than 3 fCi/m3, then collect more samples in the vicinity, and project manager will review all detections above the limits ... All values greater than the above-stated gross alpha/beta concentration shall trigger an investigation."
Finally, the Los Angeles County levels were almost 15 times higher than the federal regulatory limit for alpha radiation, which is 21 fCi/m3, according to a 2010 document from Idaho National Laboratory.
Even worse than it sounds
What do all these numbers mean for human and environmental health? Alpha radiation is one of four major types of radiation emitted by radioactive atoms. It is also referred to as "alpha particles," or a "Helium nucleus." Other types of radiation are beta radiation, gamma radiation and neutrons.
Of alpha, beta and gamma radiation, alpha radiation is by far the most dangerous if found inside the human body. That's because unlike beta or gamma radiation, alpha radiation is easily absorbed by cells, where it can cause serious damage, including to DNA. Alpha particles can enter the body if they contaminate food or water, or if they are breathed in – hence the concern among both nuclear laboratories and Los Angeles county about airborne levels of alpha radiation.
The alpha radiation detected from the Fukushima disaster most likely comes from plutonium 239, which is produced as a byproduct in many nuclear reactors. No alpha radiation, however, is emitted by cesium-137, which is probably the most prolific isotope emitted by Fukushima that is still circulating in the environment (iodine-131, also emitted in large quantities, has a very short half life and has probably mostly vanished from the environment by now).
But whereas the beta and gamma radiation emitted by radioactive cesium may not be as dangerous from within the body, it is actually far more dangerous if found outside the body – for example, in the contaminated water and soil around the Fukushima plant, or the contaminated water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean. That's because beta and gamma radiation is far more able to penetrate the body's external defenses, and tear apart cells and DNA as it passes through.
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From Natural News @ http://www.naturalnews.com/052291_Fukushima_California_radiation.html#ixzz3uCY6RmQp
[size=37]Your Radiation This Week [/size]
No 34 - December 5 to December 12, 2015
INDEPENDENT Radiation Monitoring
By Bob Nichols
Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week.” These are the recorded Radiation Highs that affected people this week around the United States. You should compare the Rad numbers directly with the Rad numbers in with my articles listed on the VT Author’s Page here: http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/bobnichols/ or below. It is also linked to my name at the top on every article.
RADIATION CPM* COMPARISON CITY STATE
*Listed in Counts per Minute, a Count is One Radioactive Decay Registered by the Instrument.
St. Louis Arch in Winter – National Park Service
All Radiation Counts reported are partial Counts. Uncounted types of radiation include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Neutron and X-Ray radiation. Uncounted radiation, if added, makes the actual Count higher and more dangerous.
The highest radiation reporting city is listed first, the least radioactive city reporting is listed last. Still, all reporting cities are above normal. These are the American cities that exceeded 1,000 CPM this week.
I just could not overlook Washington, DC at 268 CPM subtotal Gamma and Beta for a low; and 492 CPM subtotal Gamma and Beta for a High Rad reading. This is not even a low for the District. The low Beta only reading was 0nly 49 CPM.
The benefits of living in Washington, DC are never ending and far surpass those of Normal men and women living in other cities, towns and metropolitan areas – even New York. NY City recorded a 853 CPM Radioactive High this week.
Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [6]
1,767 | CPM, | 353.4 | Times Normal, | Yuma, AZ. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,585 | CPM, | 317 | Times Normal, | Spokane, WA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,547 | CPM, | 309.4 | Times Normal, | Colorado Springs, CO. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,490 | CPM, | 298 | Times Normal, | Miami, FL. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,484 | CPM, | 296.8 | Times Normal, | San Diego, CA. | Gamma. Beta. |
| 1,387 | CPM, | 277.4 | Times Normal, | El Paso, TX. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,359 | CPM, | 271.8 | Times Normal, | Bakersfield, CA | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,345 | CPM, | 269.2 | Times Normal, | Portland, ME | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,337 | CPM, | 267.4 | Times Normal, | Navajo Lake, NM | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,323 | CPM, | 264.6 | Times Normal, | Phoenix, AZ | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,307 | CPM, | 261.4 | Times Normal, | Raleigh, NC. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,298 | CPM, | 259.6 | Times Normal, | Anaheim, CA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,292 | CPM, | 258.4 | Times Normal, | Pittsburgh, PA, | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,277 | CPM, | 255.4 | Times Normal, | Idaho Falls, ID | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,287 | CPM, | 254.4 | Times Normal, | Fresno, CA | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,257 | CPM, | 254.4 | Times Normal, | Reno, NV | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,250 | CPM, | 250 | Times Normal, | Louisville, KY | Gamma, Beta |
| 1,244 | CPM, | 248.8 | Times Normal, | Charleston, WV. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,241 | CPM, | 248.2 | Times Normal, | Worcester, MA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,238 | CPM, | 247.6 | Times Normal, | Pierre, SD | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,237 | CPM, | 247.4 | Times Normal, | Rapid City, SD. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,236 | CPM, | 247.2 | Times Normal, | Little Rock, AR | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,225 | CPM, | 245 | Times Normal, | Tucson, AZ | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,208 | CPM, | 241.6 | Times Normal, | Amarillo, TX. | Totally Gone. |
| 1,200 | CPM, | 240 | Times Normal, | Riverside, CA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,186 | CPM, | 237.2 | Times Normal, | Bismark, ND. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,165 | CPM, | 233 | Times Normal, | Madison, WI. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,148 | CPM, | 229.6 | Times Normal, | Billings, MT | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,128 | CPM, | 225.6 | Times Normal, | Los Angeles, CA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,124 | CPM, | 224.8 | Times Normal, | Rochester, NY. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,091 | CPM, | 218.2 | Times Normal, | Wichita, KS. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,061 | CPM, | 212.2 | Times Normal, | San Bernardino Cty | Gamma, Beta |
| 1,058 | CPM, | 211.6 | Times Normal, | Mason City, IA | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,053 | CPM, | 210.6 | Times Normal, | Harrisonburg, VA. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,044 | CPM, | 208.8 | Times Normal, | Laredo, TX. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,039 | CPM, | 207.8 | Times Normal, | Hartford, CT | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,020 | CPM, | 204 | Times Normal, | Denver, CO. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,019 | CPM, | 203.8 | Times Normal, | St George, UT. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 1,016 | CPM, | 203.2 | Times Normal, | Kearney, NE. | Gamma, Beta. |
| 492 | CPM, | 98.4 | Times Normal, | Washungton DC High | Gamma, Beta. |
| 268 | CPM, | 53.6 | Times Normal, | Washington DC Low | Gamma, Beta. |
Normal Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. [6]
Highest Recorded Radioactive City in America this week
Welcome a newcomer to the Most Radioactive List. I am pleased to welcome Yuma, Arizona to radioactive Fame on YRTW! Spokane, Washington and Colorado Springs are close behind in the CPM race to the end.
Thirty-nine (39) American cities topped 1,000 CPM this week; that’s up 5 more cities since last week. Another ten (10) cities are clustered between 900 and 999 CPM; two of them in California. Stay Alert and take all appropriate precautions. The most prevalent isotope, Cesium 137, takes a daunting 600 years to decay to infinitesimal levels and it is not even particularly long-lived radiation. The Cesium will remain for 600 years.
Changes
St. Louis and the Rad problem
St. Louis, now and forever more, will be remembered as a Manhattan Project nuclear garbage dump. It was for the most poisonous, flammable elements in the universe that just happen to also be radioactive. What will happen to the pieces of the rocks that incinerated Hiroshima, Japan and turned former people into mere shadows on the concrete? Nagasaki was blown away by Plutonium, manufactured by all reactors.
What is going on at the St. Louis City/Federal Nuclear garbage dump is the two have more or less run together 100 to 200 feet below the ground. This is out by the Airport in a poor section of town in a flood plain. As garbage dumps frequently do, it caught on fire. Now that is not very unusual, however hundreds of tons, if not thousands of tons of highly radioactive, flammable rocks mixed with or next to the garbage dump is not solvable in this lifetime; or ever. There is no fix.
As YRTW readers and commentators have pointed out, this nuke fire in St. Louis could be the result of many different things or nothing at all. That is real “plausible deniability” for you; an old term fired President Nixon popularized. The real criminals are the long dead people who thought of digging a plain hole in the ground for the Uranium bomb making left overs from the Manhattan Project in the first place and those workers who buried it many years ago. Their atomic legacy just keeps on killing.
St Louis is certainly not alone in experiencing the reckless disregard for life and health of the powerful federal/private Manhattan Project. The same highly radioactive throw-aways from building the Bomb are used as an under-pavement for roads in Niagara Falls, New York and West Chicago, Illinois. There are no doubt more cities with such a curse from WWII days and the 1950’s.
The St. Louis dump grounds now make up a giant nuclear powered cooking pot because the Uranium brings it’s own heat with it as a free built-in Property. This stuff burns really hot – up to 10,832 D. F. A real devils brew of explosive and poisonous stuff is cooking up in St. Louis. Worse, it is probably already on fire up to 200 feet below ground. The garbage fire is called a “smouldering fire” and is starved for oxygen. Digging it up is not a good idea since that just exposes the burning garbage fire to more oxygen.
The Uranium products don’t require oxygen to burn. Uranium products can burn without oxygen and underwater – it makes no difference. Plus, the fine Uranium particles can catch on fire at room temperature all by themselves. No ignition sources are required. When people use the old expression “It was bound to happen,” this is one of those things.
Now – 70 years later – it is kind of a Perfect Crime. The original Perps are long dead and buried or almost dead. The Feds are using a standard cover story that emphasizes that it was an illegal dumping operation of radioactive waste. Ha! That’s preposterous! The hundreds or thousands of workers, ranging from engineers to laborers digging a huge hole out by the Airport did exactly what they were told to do by the Manhattan Project. The Feds are just trying to escape liability by these idiotic lies. The Feds broke it; they have to pay to fix the impossible situation the folks are in now – It’s theirs! Now – Not 50 years from now.
Uranium is also chemically active. It can and does provoke the creation of explosive and poisonous gases at the St. Louis Garbage/Nuke Dump that migrate through the upper layers of dirt to poison and harm people in St. Louis. That is the natural way of things when substances are exposed to Radiolysis. It is defined by the Free Dictionary as: “Radiolysis – Molecular decomposition of a substance as a result of radiation.” – http://www.thefreedictionary.com/radiolytic
Pissin’ On The Roses has a good piece on Radiolysis. It is here: http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.it/2015/11/radiolysis-explosive-danger-at-west.html
My recommendation remains the same for healthy, able-bodied people in St. Louis – Just Leave, get out of town.
I’ll keep you advised.
Amarillo
A word about Amarillo, Texas. Since we all know what was there, there no need to go into all that. The Rad report from EPA and all the historical Rad records are totally gone, totally blown away. There is nothing left to report the Rad numbers now or in the past; the EPA records vanished overnight. The town is fine, omitting the obvious, as far as I know.
Special Gift from the Insane Pro-Nukers
California perennially leads the nation in population. California also has Nine (9) Cities above the 900 CPM Level of Ionizing Radiation. Congrats, California, a real “Not In My Backyard” kind of Honor. The cities are listed here in CPM order: San Diego, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Fresno, Riverside, Los Angeles, San Bernardino County, Sacramento and San Francisco.
Analysis of Certain Isotopes after Meltdown in 1992
Hold on to your hat. In 1992 Germany calculated that in reactor meltdowns like Fukushima Daiichi the radioactive isotope Strontium 90 would aggressively poison the environment for 109.2 years and then decline slowly over the next 273 years. Of course, we will all be long dead by then. Other deadly Rad isotopes put Strontium 90’s generous life span to shame.
The German study is here for those brave enough to tackle it. Source: The IAEA: Dispersion of radionuclides and radiation exposure after leaching by groundwater of a solidified core-concrete melt by Bayer, A.; Tromm, W.; Al-Omari, I. (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany)) from 8. International congress of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA8)
Isotope Count reporting
These CPM numbers do not represent the real radiation counts in your radiation weather for the week. The Rad is actually much higher (worse) than these government certified partial reports say. Use these report numbers as your Starting Point in adding up your daily, monthly and annual exposure from your Rad Weather.
Most radiation monitors report on the radioactive presence of Cesium 137 and Cesium 134 at the detector. YRTW will report on the secrets the Pros use in estimating the actual Total radiation counts. It is not a pretty picture.
The Lethality from a specific release goes up for 35 years; then the Lethality declines slightly and hangs steady for thousands of years. Regrettably, for all Normal Humans that is many generations. The end result, of course, is extinction of our species and all others on the planet. Everybody is included; no one is left out. I know of no variety of Humans immune to radiation.
Day One out of the reactor use a Cesium 137/134 CPM multiplier of 150 Times to get an approximation of the Total Rad. After 15 days outside the reactor the multiplier is still about 100 times the two similarly named Cesium Isotopes – Cesium 137 and Cesium 134. After 10 years have passed from that release, the Multiplier is Five Times the common published Cesium 137 report.
The Lethality is still increasing though. Yes, the Radiation is going down and the Lethality is going up at the same time for 35 years after a big release. That is a really hard to understand point about Your Rad Weather This Week. Each new major Rad release starts the Cesium countdown clock all over again, too. It gets … complicated with all the overlapping and the daily releases.
Here’s how you can calculate an estimate of your Total Rad today: Use a reported account of your Cesium 137 CPM and Multiply Times 5. Another way to say it is Cs137CPM X 5.0 = Your Total Radiation Estimate. That’s it. No magic. Just the facts as close as you can calculate it. Good Luck.
However, provided Cesium 134 is present you are experiencing a recent radioactive release and all bets are off. Why is that? Because the two Rad Isotopes decay at greatly different rates. The relatively long lived Cs 137 is half gone in 30.1 years. The shorter lived Cesium 134 is half gone in only 2.06 years. In addition, the amount of deadly Plutonium 239 is steadily increasing, even out of the reactor or exploded bomb. As a result the Multiplier changes very rapidly.
Radiation types commonly measured by radiation monitors include Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Neutron and X-Ray radiation. Only Beta and Gamma are reported by the EPA and here on YRTW. The only thing they have in common is that they all kill you. There are also 1,944 more known individual Rad elements, only a few are ever mentioned in articles.
In short, the newer disaster’s Cesium 137/134 immediate radiation readings so conveniently echoed by official news outlets tell you right away by simple Multiplication how big the disaster really is. Think of it as the insider’s secret code. Multiply away!
How often do radioactive releases occur? The answer is: Radioactive releases occur daily in most reactors. This almost daily reactor Venting does complicate your health decisions and your estimated Rad readings. May you always have better Rad Weather; but, that’s not likely.
Isotope detectors
If you have a lot of money you can buy an Isotope detector that will tell you the name of isotopes it is tuned to detect. They are excellent tools for determining specific Rad elements. More power to you if you can afford one, or a group of you can pony up the Bucks to buy one. In this case knowledge is power. That kind of power can only be bought.
Without it, you have what the Pro-Nukers laughingly refer to in our lives as “A shortened life span.” That means the Pro-nukers are joyfully killing people these 70 years now since Hiroshima got Nuked by the United States; and, have no intention of stopping. I mean, after all, they get rich slaughtering us.
Public Domain Master-Sergeant Woods readies the Gallows at Nuremberg in 1946
Jeeeez, where is Master Sergeant Woods, 3rd Army Hangman in WWII? We need him to hang these stainless steel Psychopaths and their political hirelings, all legal like.
From Veterans Today @ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/12/your-radiation-this-week-no-34/
[size=32]WHITE HOUSE APPROVES RADICAL RADIATION CLEANUP ROLLBACK[/size]
Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to Skyrocket Following Radiological Incidents
The White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and soil following “radiological incidents,” such as nuclear power-plant accidents and dirty bombs. The final version, slated for Federal Register publication as soon as today, is a win for the nuclear industry which seeks what its proponents call a “new normal” for radiation exposure among the U.S population, according Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.” The Obama administration blocked a version of these PAGs from going into effect during its first days in office. The version given approval late last Friday is substantially similar to those proposed under Bush but duck some of the most controversial aspects:
In soil, the PAGs allow long-term public exposure to radiation in amounts as high as 2,000 millirems. This would, in effect, increase a longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period;
- In water, the PAGs punt on an exact new standard and EPA “continues to seek input on this.” But the thrust of the PAGs is to give on-site authorities much greater “flexibility” in setting aside established limits; and
- Resolves an internal fight inside EPA between nuclear versus public health specialists in favor of the former. The PAGs are the product of Gina McCarthy, the assistant administrator for air and radiation whose nomination to serve as EPA Administrator is taken up this week by the Senate.
- Despite the years-long internal fight, this is the first public official display of these guides. This takes place as Japan grapples with these same issues in the two years following its Fukushima nuclear disaster.
“This is a public health policy only Dr. Strangelove could embrace. If this typifies the environmental leadership we can expect from Ms. McCarthy, then EPA is in for a long, dirty slog,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that the EPA package lacks a cogent rationale, is largely impenetrable and hinges on a series of euphemistic “weasel words.” “No compelling justification is offered for increasing the cancer deaths of Americans innocently exposed to corporate miscalculations several hundred-fold.”
Reportedly, the PAGs had been approved last fall but their publication was held until after the presidential election. The rationale for timing their release right before McCarthy’s confirmation hearing is unclear.
Since the PAGs guide agency decision-making and do not formally set standards or repeal statutory requirements, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act and Superfund, they will go into full effect following a short public comment period. Nonetheless, the PAGs will likely determine what actions take place on the ground in the days, weeks, months and, in some cases, years following a radiological emergency.
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See the EPA PAG posting
View some of the internal controversy
From Peer @ http://www.peer.org/news/news-releases/2013/04/08/white-house-approves-radical-radiation-cleanup-rollback/ (2013)
Thanks to: http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com
