Radioactive Japanese green tea - already in a store near you

[cj2828]

Thanks for info...you are doing a great job!

[my12steptruth]

Thanks so much for your careful reporting. It is true unfortunately that corporate greed distorts "news" in most every country in the world including America. I really recommend taking iodine and magnesium supplements at the very least because I have read (and it makes sense) that vitamin deficient people absorb more radiation and MOST Americans are INDEED vitamin and trace mineral deficient at many different levels. FACT: taking vitamins and minerals prevents cancer. Lies keep people sick.

[LUCIANOALANARANJO]

what about matcha from china or other countries? any advice?

[AluminumStudios]

@LUCIANOALANARANJO I've never heard of or see matcha from other countries to be honest. The Japanese have a lot of pride and would never import something that they consider to be "Japanese" However, simulations I've seen of the radioactive plume indicate that it swept across and went out to the Pacific, so I wouldn't worry so much about things from China and Korea other than seafood. The waters are too close and connected for my comfort when it comes to seafood.

[FLYESTBIRD]

Thanks for this video, i was just looking into buying matcha green tea, now i guess i will not

[AluminumStudios]

@FLYESTBIRD Thanks for your comment. It really sucks because I love green tea and matcha, but have lost all trust in it. Ureshino green tea from Saga Prefecture and tea from Kagoshima Prefecture are grown in Kyushu which is quite far away. If you can find products from those places they are likely safe (although I can't quite bring myself to trust them despite living in Kyushu and knowing we didn't get fallout here ...)

[L2design]

omgggggggggg

[galimir]

i think we are done with Japanese tea! I dont drink it anyway,so no big deal...

[granathkelly]

Thanks for the video.. NO more sencha tea och nori :(

freaky that japan is screw

[maritschie]

Radiation exam shows that there is a little radiation. but in nature, everything has natural radiation even to our body and all the nature.

[Kuessemir]

Thank you for sharing your findings and deductions with the public. Though I am not in Japan, I do purchase Japanese products and will be investigative and scrupulous of my choices. I cannot imagine how people can conscionably allow potentially unsafe products, or products which could pose a risk through cumulative doses of radiation to make it into peoples carts. Thank you!

[RealBulldust]

those radiation limits are just a minor problem for producers...they can reach them by mixing clean stuff with too contaminated stuff... and after all consumers eat or drink all too contaminated tea, milk, rice etc and Tepco don't need to pay compensations ...btw they still mix milk in Ukraine to reach radiation limits

[Soulcommander]

Good video, thank you for taking the time to do it. Now if main stream media would also ask the same questions Americans could be better informed if products from Japan are flowing inside USA borders.

[mynameisnobodyz]

thankyou for this important info

[AluminumStudios]

@killzawestLTD Given the CLEAR Japanese position that radiation in food is OK if it is below their arbitrary & high "safety" standards, I would be cautious of ALL Japanese foods and avoid them for the time being. Pocky almost certainly has flour, vegetable oil, and other ingredients that go into making it. If ANY of those ingredients have contamination, then the Pocky will as well. The Japanese are compromising ALL of the food in their country with their attitude.

[Spacerboy]

dont worry, as the radioactivity in green tea can cause cancer...the polyphenols and catechins in green tea may prevent cancer :-)

[squeezing1234]

This destroys the economy, tea export, the base of existence of several countrymen.

[AluminumStudios]

@squeezing1234 I know, it is a tragedy however those responsible (TEPCO) should be held accountable for compensating the farmers and people affected. It is insane to expect the public to support those in agriculture by consuming contaminated products. This mentality will risk the health of everyone living in the nation of Japan, not just those living in the affected region. People can find new livelihoods and ways of life, you can't find a new body if you get cancer or leukemia.

[NuclearExitNow]

Our future survival is dependent upon how well we can deal with the risks of the nuclear industry against the general silence and policy of the belittlement of the IAEA!?

Lots of Million people can not meet this requirement and carry additionally a very high risk!

[xaphoo1971]

Thank you for your work!

[MultiAlpha111]

ban those fuckin japs

[MaNGoMaTTe90]

Your the best videomaker that I know!!

[dave777blaster]

Depopulation 

[ctwatcher]

Some radiation along with fluoride poison in our water, airborne bacteria floating around that's attracted to moisture (mouth), wi-fi, towers, cellphones etc. being projected thru our bodies, gmo foods being forced on us, now the tea. So glad I don't like green tea!

[InnerQi]

Very sensible and well thought out presentation. Recently, while in the Philippines, I asked about the origins of the green tea while in restaurants. The atmosphere there seems to be that the Japanese are well in control. It seems that at least the popular Lipton brand is from Indonesia. Yerba Mate from Brasil, anyone?

[donnyab]

@InnerQi

would not most tea be from India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia anyway.

[MrFoxGuitar]

great...i drink green tea everyday

[misterbig290]

many other countries changed there radiation safe levels in food too.

[misterbig290]

@misterbig290 has it ever come out in the media ablout what happened to the workers thatwere trying to fix the nuclear planrs after the distater?

[AluminumStudios]

@misterbig290 Good question. There isn't much news about it. It was reported that TEPCO lost track of over 100 employees and can't find their whereabouts now because they hire day-laborers randomly to do the really dangerous stuff. This is a longstanding problem in the Japanese nuke industry which has been discussed in documentaries. The only other news was a few short stories about employees not being told more than they needed and being told not to discuss work with the media :-\

[misterbig290]

@AluminumStudios well im sure something happened to them but u probably wont hear anything about it.

[AluminumStudios]

@misterbig290 No doubt. I ran out of space in my last comment, but to clarify, TEPCO was asked to give detailed physicals to all workers, but they found that they either had bad records or no records for over 100 people who had worked at the plant ... probably because they were day laborers (possibly homeless), picked off the street for super-dangerous work. I just hope no terrorists were among them and decided to pocket a piece of plutonium while walking around the plant ...

[misterbig290]

@AluminumStudios i have read that there were explosives put in the nuclear plants there to really cause trouble but thechances of proving that are not good

[AluminumStudios]

@misterbig290 I've heard of a lot of far-fetched theories theories put forward and I think such things are rather ridiculous. What happened at Fukushima is a textbook case of what happens when you wipe out a nuclear plant's external and backup power sources. It's completely explained by physics and the nature of reactors without the need for any additional conspiracy-type theories.

[misterbig290]

@AluminumStudios did u hear the one about the men coming in with supposed video security equipment that was actually explosives.supposedly some of the explosions could not be cause and do the same damage as what was seen.but im not saying its correct.its just something out there.its not smart to keep all the spent rods on sight nor be on the ocean side.thats asking for trouble.i hope japan uses some new high technology for enery like zero point energy or cold fusion.the technology is out there

[AluminumStudios]

@misterbig290 I've heard and this disturbs me because it makes it harder to pressure Japan and hold it more accountable for healthier standards.

[misterbig290]

@AluminumStudios so do u think the devastation in japan was totally naturally caused by the intial earthquakes and aftershokes or somwthingunatural caused the earthquakes?

[squeezing1234]

@AluminumStudios

I'm just understanding now. It's only about YOUR health.

"Pressure" Japan? I'm calling this double moral standards.

[picturestreams]

In doing so we don't create safety but we widespread the anticipated cases of cancer among the whole japanese and world population. 

[picturestreams]

Safety levels have nothing to do with safety at all. Safety levels are a regulatory tool to keep the markets going sound. Lets take a look how it works. Assumed that I am a tee farmer and found out that my tee is contaminated with 5000 Bq/kg but the "safety" level is 500 Bq/kg. What does it mean? It means that in order to sell my harvest I need to mix my leafs 1:10 with non contaminated tee and everything is fine. In doing so I can sell my whole contamined tee as though nothing had happened

[AluminumStudios]

@picturestreams Excellent point. Some sewage treatment plants in Japan wound up with radioactive sludge beyond the government allowable limit for burying, so they did just that - they mixed it with some non-radioactive sludge so that it was below the limit and buried it.

[BjornPalmen]

@picturestreams That is correct. The customer can now safely drink 10x more tea.

[picturestreams]

@BjornPalmen You are looking from the wrong perspektive and thats the reason why you don't understand. In this case the things behave more like a lottery. If we assume that at 5000 Bq/kg we would get the first price (which is in our fictive case would lead to cancer) and we mix the first price 1:10 with blanks and share out this lottery lots to e.g. our familiy (of ten) than one of the ten members would hit the jackpot and develop cancer.

[picturestreams]

@BjornPalmen The same thing happens when we share out our lottery lots to ten unknown people... just in this case the things are hiding from our view and some people like to think it is safe. No it isn't.

[picturestreams]

@BjornPalmen In other words if the propability of one for a fatal radiation strike would lie at 5000 disintegrations (Bq) then it does not matter in whos body this fatal strike happens. It just happens.

[picturestreams]

I think the question is a different one. Why the japanese proceed with their agricultural activities in the contaminated areas? A responsible and trust worthy government would stop the farming in the whole area at least for one season and compensate the farmers losses. This the price of of using nuclear power and now after so many years of prosperity through nuclear energy it came the time for japan to pay some money back.

[albert6014]

@picturestreams ''A responsible and trustworthy government''?

Never met that one in my life. Sorry, not gonna happen in near future either.

In fact, this statement itself is 100% paradoxial.

[squeezing1234]

@picturestreams

if you would have an own business - could you stop it right now?

You'll find some footage on my channel.

[picturestreams]

@squeezing1234 It is the task of the whole society to take and shoulder such a decision, strap the consequences and benefit afterwards from the actions taken. You can't ask such a question to an unsupported individual and expect to find the right answer.

[squeezing1234]

@picturestreams

wow, ok, very polite. What's an unsupported individual? And what's wrong with this question?

Ok - you want me to shut up - bye. But I hear a lot of unsupported individuals talking about my people.

[donnyab]

Great video, thanks a lot, really top notch info not available elsewhere.

[antiprotons]

I posted a video response, but you have them blocked. My video response is avilable at: watch?v=kFF0MNfqt9w

[antiprotons]

Wonderful job showing this information!!! Thanks!!!

Firstly, they are targeting specific isotophs when they test, normally, such as Cs137, using a Scintillator crystal. They will often perform a "gross beta" test where they test all beta emission reguardless of energy level.

Remember, all food contains tiny amounts of radiation, so you really cannot escape radiation. Your body was designed for this... but not for hundreds of Bg/kg of radaition.

[AustralianCannonball]

Good point about SPEEDI. That was a real mess as far as evacuation goes. There was a hospital in Futaba and 45 of 445 patients died. It is in a NISA report the patients suffered contamination. I cannot work out if 10 percent of the patients died as a result of the complications of the nuclear disaster or actual radioactive contamination. Maybe William you could look into it. Not speaking Japanese I have hit a road block. Its definitely an indirect death toll. 

[AluminumStudios]

@AustralianCannonball Thanks. I saw in a documentary somewhere (I'm foolish for not keeping notes), that a number of surviving patients from a hospital in that area (maybe that one?) died after the tsunami. However the reason was that some could not get their medication and some where extremely old, frail, and ill and the shock of the cold and lack of any infrastructure/medical care in the days after was too much for their conditions.

[AluminumStudios]

@AustralianCannonball I ran out of space but also wanted to mention, that even severe radiation exposure often takes days to weeks to kill you. There is a latency period of up to a few days before radiation symptoms beyond the initial vomiting show up. So I would be skeptical of calling any deaths in the first few days radiation related. Although with the lack of official information I can't rule it out completely.

[AustralianCannonball]

Thanks again William. I linked you to my website as you produce quality work.

[MsUsernameification]

William, you have quickly become the best English-language commentator on YouTube (aside from official experts, such as Gunderson and Busby). Hats off to you!

[astrotometry]

Thank you.

[MsMilkytheclown]

Great info... added to my fav's.

[GoddardsJournal]

Levels of nuclear fallout are allowed in food because the public must contribute to the disposal of nuclear waste by eating it. There's no other way to safeguard the long-term health of the nuclear industry. So let's all do our part and drink more tea!!

[BjornPalmen]

Plants cannot absorb cesium "from the air". That is total bullshit.

[AluminumStudios]

@BjornPalmen Prof. Yasuyuki Muramatsu made that claim in an NHK special entitled "Japan's Nuclear Crisis" (in the official NHK English translation.) The documentary was surprisingly frank and critical of the situation. I think this is only a theory, but possibly a reasonable one because I don't believe ground contamination is high enough in Shizuoka to account for the cesium in the tea leaves. Skepticism is clearly warranted though.

[GoddardsJournal]

@BjornPalmen, it seems plants can absorb cesium by way of the air. According to the U.S. Department of Energy:

"If cesium is not held in the soils, it can relocate through the root system of plants or through the leaves and stems by atmospheric deposition. Cesium-137 deposited on leaves is likely to penetrate into the plant more rapidly than cesium absorbed from the ground."

Google : LOW-LEVEL WASTE DISPOSAL CAPACITY REPORT, REVISION 1 - APPENDIX C. KEY RADIONUCLIDES AND GENERATION PROCESSES

[BjornPalmen]

@GoddardsJournal "is likely to penetrate into the plant" This use of the word "likely" is very nebulous. There are no known processes in a plant which lets cesium deposited on the leaves somehow "penetrate" into the plant. The cesium will be washed off in the next rain.

[iamgoddard]

@BjornPalmen, actually the qualifier "likely" applies to leaf penetration occurring "more rapidly than cesium absorbed from the ground." And the sentence before that says cesium "can" enter a plant "through the leaves and stems by atmospheric deposition." So the uncertainly that you claim applies to cesium-leaf absorption per se does not exist in the quoted source.

[iamgoddard]

@BjornPalmen, seems that foliar (leaf) uptake of cesium is well established in the literature, for example:

"Foliar uptake of Cs by radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv. Redchim) was studied by applying droplets of Cs solution (CsCl or CsNO3) on an upper leaf surface. [...] Approximately 80% of Cs was absorbed for CsCl solution, while only 20% was absorbed for CsNO3."

See: pubmed com /19042062 and also 19019504 , 15001295, 15936122 , etc ...

[DangerousDan77777]

@GoddardsJournal So true, depleted uranium comes to mind.

[MrsPredNZ]

@GoddardsJournal that I am i got one just brewed.