Chris Carrington
Globally there has been a high increase in cancers of all types since 1945.
On Monday July 16th 1945 in Alamogordo, Mexico the first ever atomic bomb was examined. The bomb was known as Trinity, which by meaning indicates three factors that are carefully conjoined to form one new unit. It’s also the name given to the Christian Godhead: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, but there was nothing holy about this alliance.
The success of the Trinity test allowed progression to the main event, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
16 hours after the Hiroshima bomb run, President Truman addressed the people of the United States, you can read his full speech here.
From July 16th 1945 to February 12th 2013, 530 nuclear devices have been air detonated, 528 tests and the two bombs dropped on Japan. 1525 underground tests have taken place during the same period.
The Basics
Nuclear explosions of any kind involve the conversion of atomic mass into energy by one of two processes, nuclear fission, or nuclear fusion.
Fission releases energy by splitting uranium or plutonium atoms which creates radioactive elements.
Fusion is triggered by a fission explosion that then forces tritium or deuterium atoms to combine into larger atoms. This creates more powerful explosions than fission.
Both of these reactions create three types of radioactive debris.
- Fission products
- Activation products
- Leftover products used in constructing the bomb that are radioactive but did not react during the process.
By 1960 there wasn’t a single place on Earth left untouched by these tests. Every soil sample, every water sample and even every polar ice cap sample, arctic and antarctic, were contaminated…and there was still 50 years more testing to go to bring us to the present day, and the last test conducted by North Korea in 2013.
Research
Simon, Bouville and Land have found that:
…both direct and indirect evidence that radioactive debris dispersed in the atmosphere from testing has adversely affected public health.
Studies have demonstrated radiation-related risks of leukemia and thyroid cancer within a decade after exposure, followed by increased risks of other solid tumors in later years. Studies of populations exposed to radioactive fallout also point to increased cancer risk as the primary late health effect of exposure. As studies of biological samples (including bone, thyroid glands and other tissues) have been undertaken, it has become increasingly clear that specific radionuclides in fallout are implicated in fallout-related cancers and other late effects.
You can read the rest of their research here.
New research published in the journal Nature Communications has found that radioactive particles from these tests are still in the stratosphere, but volcanic reactions can cause them to move lower, into the troposphere. Their findings were confirmed after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010. Plutonium levels in the lower atmosphere increased.
Fukushima
At 14:46 on March 11 2011 a massive magnitude 9 earthquake shook the Honshu region of Japan. 40 minutes later a huge tsunami devastated the northeastern coast of Japan. The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, managed by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was for the most part destroyed.
Three of the six reactors on the site were off-line and undergoing routine maintenance, the remaining three were operational. All of the operational reactors were shut down at the time of the earthquake but external power lines were cut. The reactors need to be cooled even after shutdown, and to cool them you need power. Back-up power was started and was working until the tsunami hit. The waves reached a height of 12 meters, wiping out the ten-meter-high sea wall in front of the plant. The plant itself was designed with a maximum safety factor of 5.7 meters, well under the height of the wave.
All back-up power, and therefore cooling capacity, was wiped out an hour after the earthquake. Without any cooling, the reactors went critical, and all three suffered core meltdowns within 72 hours of the earthquake. Hydrogen released during the meltdown exploded, blowing out walls and demolishing the roofs of the buildings housing the reactors.
Estimates vary as to how much cesium was released during these explosions, but the general consensus is that at least 168 times more was emitted than was produced when Hiroshima was bombed. The event was given an International Nuclear Event Score of 7, the same as Chernobyl.
Sea water was pumped in to cool the reactors and used fuel ponds, which created over 100,000 tons of contaminated water of which 10,000 tons was released into the Pacific Ocean over the course of the first week.
In the 34 months since the Fukushima disaster there have been literally hundreds of radiation leaks and contamination issues at the plant. Radioactive debris is washing up on the West Coast of the United States, and there are reports of high radiation readings on beaches, and American sailors who assisted in the days following the quake and tsunami are finding out they have cancer.
Radioactive iodine 131 has been detected in France and radiation contamination has been detected in the southwest of the UK.
Fish die-offs are increasing, and many have been tested and proved to have ingested high amounts of radioactive isotopes. Some scientists are also linking the recent spate of animal die-offs to the radiation from Fukushima.
Just a few days ago, ‘steam’ was escaping from one of the shattered buildings; TEPCO has not commented so far.
Considering that Fukushima has released more radiation than 528 air detonation nuclear tests combined, and remembering that radiation from those tests is still affecting people around the globe to this day, the problems caused by Fukushima are going to be with us for generations.
There are 437 operative nuclear power plants worldwide, and another 68 under construction. A dozen more are at the planning stage. Are we really so hungry for electricity that we are willing to risk annihilation to get it? What’s the point if generation after generation will suffer increased cancer rates?
There has to be a better way to live…and to die.
Sources:
- http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/1-2.php
- http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia….
- http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23762….
- http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014….
- http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic….
- http://www.americanscientist.org/issues….
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Effects of Nuclear Testing Since 1945 Shows Us What We Can Expect From Fukushima | Pakalert Press.
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Interesting, however have you considered the OTHER factors regarding Cancer as well.
What else has declined since 1945? Nutritional value within the foods we eat.
Over farming of our crop lands resulting in foods with higher acidic content that has caused the human body to become more acidic resulting in maladies like GERD (heartburn) acidosis.
You see cancer cannot live in an alkaline environment, foods used to produce that alkalinity in the past. They do not today. Today one has to eat more foods that are alkaline like collards, asparagus, spinach, seaweed and more simply to keep the body PH up in order to prevent the fungus of cancer taking hold. YES cancer is a fungus.
Cancer can be cured by effectively raising the body PH, and there are many avenues to doing so. At one time HEMP was a significant source of food and it raises the PH.
So while radiation does create an environment for cancers to take hold by damaging the immune system, just remember so does chemotherapy. YES chemotherapy can and does promote opportunistic diseases like certain cancer (fungus) strains to take hold, So the cure quite often is also what kills you.
Do your research, do not simply “trust” doctors, remember the med student that graduated LOWEST in the class is still called “Doctor”. If you are worried about radiation (and you should be) then take precautions. Use iodized salt, learn to love miso soup, enjoy seaweed and pay attention to those items that remove radiation from your system as well as keep your thyroid safe.
Anyone in business or government can have problems. It’s how problems are handled that is most important. The Japanese government is depending on TEPCO to handle the radioactive containment at the Fukushima complex. The magnitude and complexity of the task is beyond the ability of TEPCO and the Japanese government to resolve on their own. As toxic levels of radiation continue to seep and be deliberately discharged into the Pacific Ocean, the US government has been silent and its participation in remediation has been woefully inadequate. Consider that Japan is one of the strongest and most dependable allies of the US and Japan is also the second largest creditor the US has. Informed Americans expect and demand that our government do more to assist TEPCO and the government of Japan protect us from and inform us of the fallout from Fukushima.Consider how silent the US is on Fukushima and how vocal the US is about Iran some day maybe building a nuclear weapon. So far we are told that the US government has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodine
( enough to handle slightly more than half of the illegal alien population in the US ) and the Japanese government has hired homeless ( disposable ) people to clean up the site around Fukushima.
I was raised on a ranch close to this area, family of 8 children, which 7 have cancer starting in childhood. I am the only one who hasn’t developed cancer in my family. Many around us died after a few years.. You don’t want to go there, but looks like it came here the West coast is infected!