Japan Nuke meltdown
UPDATE: March 14, 2011
Is Hawaii at risk from Japan’s nuclear accidents?
FYI Just sent to Russ Takata, press, state and county officials
Russ Takata, (State of Hawaii DOH Radiation chief)
The silence of the State is irresponsible. There should be some type of advisory, especially for the health of children –eat kelp to counteract radioactive iodine. Radiation watch. Radiation warning. Some type of level alert.
Something!
All three reactors at Fukushima have now had explosions. The #2 (middle) reactor appears to be the most serious.
This just in. See below. This would seem to confirm the worst fears that 1 or more reactors is headed for complete meltdown and there will be widespread contamination, not only in Japan but across the Pacific, possibly Hawaii and the U.S., etc. contaminating people, food crops, fish, etc.
Jim
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Japanese equities crashed Tuesday on panic selling after Prime Minister Naoto Kan said a “substantial amount” of radiation was leaking from a nuclear power plant affected by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said there was high risk of radiation leak from the facility, and asked residents near the facility to stay indoors, saying “substantial amounts of radiation are leaking in the area.”
The sell-off was made worse by reports citing readings from the Tokyo metropolitan government that radiation levels in the Japanese capital surged to 23 times the normal level Tuesday.
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Jim Albertini
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Press Release: Is Hawaii at risk from Japan’s nuclear accidents? March 13, 2011
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Our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Japan and we want to be part of a Hawaii relief effort for Japan’s suffering. That said, we need to ask hard questions of government officials in Japan and Hawaii and demand straightforward facts and information about Japan’s nuclear power reactors –the nuclear meltdowns that can affect millions in Japan and across the world, as well as the Pacific ocean.
Hawaii was spared injury and loss of life from the recent Tsunami, but are we in Hawaii at risk of a possible invisible radiation “Tsunami” carried by the wind and rain?
What, if any, contingency plans are in place by Civil Defense in the event of meltdowns/explosions at nuclear plants in Japan possibly bringing radiation in the wind and in the rain to Hawaii?
Upper winds travel west to east –from Japan to Hawaii. We know from atmospheric testing days that radiation was brought down in rain.
Is radiation monitoring currently being conducted? Is Hawaii at risk of Japan’s nuclear accidents? How many hours would it take for radiation from Japan to reach Hawaii?
See the statement below by Dr. Ira Helfland, MD, of Physicians for Social Responsibility noting that “After one year of operation, a commercial nuclear reactor contains 1000 times as much radioactivity as was released by the Hiroshima bomb.”
Ira Helfand, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility:
“It is not known how much radiation has been or will ultimately be released from the damaged Daiichi nuclear reactor in Japan, but as found by the National Academy Sciences, any exposure to radiation increases a person’s risk of cancer. No one, including the plants operators, can say what is going to happen, and potentially millions of people are in harm’s way. The Japanese government should be preparing for the worst-case scenario. After one year of operation, a commercial nuclear reactor contains 1000 times as much radioactivity as was released by the Hiroshima bomb. From a public health perspective, the most important isotopes are short-lived isotopes of iodine (like Iodine-131), Cesium-137, Strontium-90, and possibly Plutonium-239. Radioactive iodine caused thousands of cases of thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident. Cesium and strontium cause a number of different kinds of cancer and remain dangerous for hundreds of years; plutonium causes lung cancer as well as other types of cancer and remains deadly for hundreds of thousands of years.”
For additional background information, please refer to
http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/japan-earthquakenuclear.pdf
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