Fukushima Spring: 50% Genetic Damage found at Trader Joe’s

[darkbeaver]

Fukushima Spring: 50% Genetic Damage found at Trader Joe’s

Posted on April 12, 2014 by horse237
This was written by an online friend best known to her followers as Rad Chick. I posted it here because she has written something you need to know.

Perusing the floral section in the supermarket is usually the first thing on my grocery list these days. For the past 3 years I have documented genetic damage not only plants growing locally in SE Michigan, but in domestic and imported plants, fruits, and produce being sold to the p

 

[mentalfloss]

We need a tinfoil hat sub forum.

 

[petros]

We need a tinfoil hat sub forum.

A great place to put you Global Warming threads.

And it's brass mesh hats. Foil is useless.

 

[bill barilko]

We need a tinfoil hat sub forum.

X2!!

 

[darkbeaver]

We need a tinfoil hat sub forum.

That' a great idea,as long as we have a rose coloured glasses counterpoint. Have some sushi.

X2!!

It's good to have you sampling the seafood Bill, I wish you good luck. Please continue to post as long as you can.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

Some fun facts about radiation.

1. There's no evidence that exposure to radiation with atomic bomb survivors resulted in even minimal chromosomal damage.

Genetic effects of radiation in the offspring of the atomic-bomb survivors - Radiation Effects Research Foundation

Detection of human germ cell mutations is difficult, especially at low doses. While high doses in experimental animals can cause various disorders in offspring (birth defects, chromosome aberrations, etc.), no evidence of clinical or subclinical effects has yet been seen in children of A-bomb survivors. Given the relatively low average dose to survivors (median doses of about 0.14 Gy for both the fathers and mothers), this result is not surprising. It is consistent, in fact, with the predictions of mouse experiments and suggests that humans are not more radiosensitive with respect to heritable changes.

2. The amount of radiation leaked during the Fukushima "disaster" is a fraction of that released by a typical coal fired power plant.

The Fukushima Radiation Leak Is Equal To 76 Million Bananas - Forbes

And why we really shouldn’t worry about it all that much. The radiation that fossil fuel plants spew into the environment each year is around 0.1 EBq. That’s ExaBecquerel, or 10 to the power of 18. Fukushima is pumping out 10 trillion becquerels a year at present. Or 10 TBq, or 10 of 10 to the power of 12. Or, if you prefer, one ten thousandth of the amount that the world’s coal plants are doing. Or even, given that there are only about 2,500 coal plants in the world, Fukushima is, in this disaster, pumping out around one quarter of the radiation that a coal plant does in normal operation.

3. Radiation in low doses slightly above background levels probably has a beneficial effect.

Radiation hormesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inderscience Publishers

Abstract: This paper is a summary of the 1991 Final Report of the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study (NSWS), a very comprehensive study of occupational radiation exposure in the US. The NSWS compared three cohorts: a high-dose cohort of 27,872 nuclear workers, a low dose cohort of 10,348 workers, and a control cohort of 32,510 unexposed shipyard workers. The cohorts were matched by ages and job categories. Although the NSWS was designed to search for adverse effects of occupational low dose-rate gamma radiation, few risks were found. The high-dose workers demonstrated significantly lower circulatory, respiratory, and all-cause mortality than did unexposed workers. Mortality from all cancers combined was also lower in the exposed cohort. The NSWS results are compared to a study of British radiologists. We recommend extension of NSWS data from 1981 to 2001 to get a more complete picture of the health effects of 60Co radiation to the high-dose cohort compared to the controls.

4. Everything is radioactive including the people who keep posting that any exposure to radiation is dangerous.

Are Our Bodies Radioactive?

Yes, our bodies are naturally radioactive, because we eat, drink, and breathe radioactive substances that are naturally present in the environment. These substances are absorbed by our bodies, into our tissues, organs, and bones, and are constantly replenished by ingestion and inhalation.

From the radionuclides that are present in our bodies, the average man in the United States receives an effective dose of about 0.3 mSv each year. This is about one-tenth (or 10 percent) of the 3.1-mSv dose that the average U.S. man who weighs 70 kg receives each year from all sources of natural background radiation (not including medical sources). For women and children, the dose is less, in rough proportion to their smaller bodies.

 

[captain morgan]

I'm sure that the Japanese folks living with the fallout would state otherwise

 

[petros]

I'm sure that the Japanese folks living with the fallout would state otherwise

Not to mentions the sq km upon sq km of land they'll never access until the next generation is middle aged.

 

[Cobalt_Kid]

I'm sure that the Japanese folks living with the fallout would state otherwise

And how does that change the physical facts?

Probably under 100mSv/year radiation has a beneficial effect, did you even look at the Nuclear Shipyard Workers Study.

The workers in the highest cohort had the best health, as much as a 25% reduction in mortality as compared to the non-nuclear shipyard workers. That's puts an entirely different light on the effects of gamma radiation and it's health effects.

Not to mentions the sq km upon sq km of land they'll never access until the next generation is middle aged.

If you believe that then don't go into buildings made of granite, sit too close to cinder blocks, or eat Brazil nuts.

Everything is radioactive, and Fukushima put out only a tiny amount of radioactivity relative to what coal power does every year, about 1/10,000.

 

[darkbeaver]

When did a meltdown occur at a shipyard?

 

[bill barilko]

That' a great idea,as long as we have a rose coloured glasses counterpoint. Have some sushi.
It's good to have you sampling the seafood Bill, I wish you good luck. Please continue to post as long as you can

Home smoked Salmon last night and tonight-probably have the rest tomorrow.

Loads & loads of Halibut in the freezer so I'll be feasting for month-enjoy your usual canned cream spinach.

 

[darkbeaver]

Home smoked Salmon last night and tonight-probably have the rest tomorrow.

Loads & loads of Halibut in the freezer so I'll be feasting for month-enjoy your usual canned cream spinach.

Sea food was invented in Nova Scotia, we invented fishing, Atlantic salmon is the best of course and our tuna is so expensive we have to sell it to the Japanese. Our mussels are world famous, and our ocean is cleaner too, soon as the ice leaves I may go fishing. Lobsters of course refuse to live in the Pacific.