Fukushima Radioactive Contamination 4 Times Worse Already Than Chernobyl

In terms of ground contamination, Fukushima is already 4 times worse than Chernobyl, after what is (was?) the world's worst industrial accident back in April 1986. Yablokov et al's review of over 5000 studies not published in English, itself has been published in English by the NY Academy of Sciences, showing that 985,000 have died so far from radiation/contamination from the Chernobyl steam explosion and fire. Fukushima plants 1-3 have about 70% of their cores melting down, causing some leaks into water around the plant and into the ocean, which is now 3000 times more radioactive than normal outside the plant.

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[TofuUnion]

An awkward problem is that the most people who insist on the danger of radiation from Fukushima Daiichi, believe they are on the justice side. And the question whether they are based on the science or not, is sometimes controversial as well. For exampe, I think the radiation level of 10 or 20 mille Sivert per year is harmless for adults. But there are many people who don't think so.

[conradmillermd]

@TofuUnion Background radiation is about 200 millirem per year. 10-20 milisieverts=1-2 rems or 1000 to 2000 millirems per year >> 5-10 times background radiation for the year. These are all estimates. There are hot spots I am sure anywhere the radiation that has come out of the plants has landed. Plus, there are the individual radionuclides that can cause thyroid cancer (iodine-131), lung (plutonium- just one microgram or one millionth of a gram > 454 grams in a pound, lots of lung ca psble)

[TofuUnion]

Level 7 means nothing in the case of Fukushima as most of fallout have gone to the ocean. Also nobody died yet in Fukushima due to radiation damage. Therefore it's so ridiculous to compare Fukushima to Chernobyl.

[conradmillermd]

@TofuUnion This is a naive statement. The winds have blown from all different directions since March 11, sending the radiation a full 360 degrees all about Fukushima and the land and the poor unspoken-for ocean and its fish and plants and other animal forms. Most of the deaths from Chernobyl, ~985,000 so far came from contamination and cancers and birth defects and mutations that take a long time to be manifested. Typical lung cancer from plutonium takes 20-30 yrs to develop.

[TofuUnion]

I'm checking the radiation monitoring data of air/ground, rain and running water provided by Japan Meteorological Agency. There are no serious radioactive pollutions outside radius 30km or 19 miles of Fukushima plant, where people have already evacuated. It seems it won't cause any significant health problems to ordinary citizens.

[conradmillermd]

@TofuUnion Again, it's not only the hot spots where you can have the 500 rems per hour being emitted, as from the radioactive water at the plant. It's the particles of the radionuclides in teeny sizes that can cause cancer. You cannot see them grossly, but when your child gets leukemia or bone cancer from strontium, or you get lung cancer from that millionth of a gram of plutonium in 20 yrs, or your wife gets thyroid cancer from iodine, the accounting of the cause will not be obvious.

[unseenrecordings]

excellent channel thx

[ToxicDreamer]

this is most likely at least 15 times worse than chernobyl

[KymaticaHealth]

people need to see the numerous docs on Chernobyl.

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

First year I have built a half way sealed greenhouse and will be doing rain hit spinach and indoor city watered spinach. Good vid lets hope the planet helps out and sinks most of the heavies.