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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-11 06:48 PM
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Remember the Fukushima hot particles they were finding on the west coast? Some were found in Boston
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/10076-fukushima-meltdown-documents-released.html

Japan Update: New Fukushima Documents Warrant Public Attention

<snip>Now Mr. Kaltofen did not just look at Japan. He set up monitoring stations in the United States as well. Two of the three monitoring stations in the United States did show hot particles in the air in April. Since then, there have not been any hot particles. But in April, it is clear that, at the worst of the accident, hot particles were wafted across the Pacific and deposited in Seattle and in Boston at least. There is also data that indicates contamination on the ground in the Cascades, which are a mountain range right up against the Pacific Ocean.

So I think we have two problems here. In Japan, there is a personal health issue and what that means is that individuals have received enough radiation that there is going to be a statistically meaningful increase in cancers in Tokyo and especially in Fukushima Prefecture.

In the United States, it is a different story. It is a public health issue and not a personal health issue. What that means is that we will never know who is the individual who got cancer from Fukushima. But we can be sure that the radiation did reach here and that there will be an increase in cancers, especially on the West Coast where the Rocky Mountains stopped most of the radiation and deposited it on the ground.

So, this paper was given to the American Public Health Association. And here it is a public health issue. We cannot run and we cannot hide. But the radiation is up and down the West Coast and then also scattered about the rest of the United States.

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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-11 06:59 PM
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1. We cannot continue anymore in the mistaken belief that our actions occur in isolation.
Edited on Wed Nov-02-11 07:00 PM by Dover
We are one world, one biosphere.
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-11 08:20 PM
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3. So true!!!!!!!!
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-02-11 08:12 PM
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