The Medical Implications of Fukushima

Conference on The Nuclear Danger: Nuclear War & Nuclear Power

Montreal, March 18, 2011, Dr Helen Caldicott

"Plutonium has a half life of 24,400 years so it lasts about a half a million years. … Plutonium, you only need 5 kilos to make a bomb and each reactor makes 500, no, 250 KG a year. It's so toxic that a microgram is carcinogenic, that's a millionth of a gram. Hypothetically, if you could take a pound of plutonium and distribute that in every person's lung on earth, that's enough to kill every person on earth. Each of those six reactors (Fukushima, Japan) contain more than 250 KG of plutonium."

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Nuclear special Links between childhood leukaemia and nuclear power plant radiation

15th February, 2012 By Matilda Lee

The UK government's scientific advisory group found no link between childhood leukaemia and proximity to nuclear power plants, but German and French research has found an alarming doubling of risk

In the latest development in the debate over to what extent there is a link between childhood leukaemia and radiation from nuclear power plants, a French study has found a doubling in the incidence of the disease among children under 5 living within 5-kilometre radius of a nuclear plant.

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Fish Caught off San Diego Coast Radioactive: Researchers

15 tuna captured contained levels of two radioactive substances

Monday, May 28, 2012  |  Updated 9:43 PM PDT

Copyright Associated Press / NBC 7 San Diego

Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of San Diego 6,000 miles away -- the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

Five months after the Fukushima disaster, Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York and a team decided to test Pacific bluefin that were caught off the coast of San Diego.

To their surprise, tissue samples from all 15 tuna captured contained levels of two radioactive substances -- ceisum-134 and cesium-137 -- that were higher than in previous catches.

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Plutonium and Uranium Detected in the US

The Highest Density in the Last 20 Years! California, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam

Oni Oni Dialogue, Friday, April 29, 2011 By Chu-Oni

Plutonium and Uranium have been detected in abnormal density measuring from the end of March to the beginning of April in Guam, Hawaii, and the US west coast, according to my close examination on the RadNet database of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This proves that Plutonium and Uranium, some of the most toxic materials, had dispersed from the Fukushima Diichi Nuclear Plant (and it also means that these materials have contaminated the ocean). While the government, mainstream media, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company), and biased academia in Japan have closed their mouth tight about this fact (By the way, the US government also provides very limited information of radioactive substance in the main pages of the website that most of the people visit), it has already been spreading among net users, both ordinary people and specialists, by making it impossible to conceal the truth from us any more.

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National Geographic News

Published April 1, 2011 by Christine Dell'Amore

If radioactive material from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—disabled by the March11 Japan earthquake and tsunami—continues to enter the ocean, marine life could be threatened, experts say.

In the past week, seawater samples taken near the nuclear power plant, on Japan's eastern coast, have shown elevated levels of radioactive isotopes, including cesium 137 and iodine 131, according to the New York Times. (See "Japan Tries to Avert Nuclear Disaster.")

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MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched uranium

Thursday, March 17, 2011 by Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) Largely absent from most mainstream media reports on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is the fact that a highly-dangerous "mixed-oxide" (MOX) fuel in present in six percent of the fuel rods at the plant's Unit 3 reactor. Why is MOX a big deal? According to the Nuclear Information Resource Center (NIRS), this plutonium-uranium fuel mixture is far more dangerous than typical enriched uranium -- a single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched uranium.

On March 14, Unit 3 of the Fukushima reactor exploded, sending a huge smoke plume into the air. This particular reactor, of course, contains the rods fueled with MOX.

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