Thursday, October 25, 2012

Really? Deconstructing Propaganda

Propaganda aimed at managing public perceptions of the Fukushima nuclear disaster never ceases to amaze me with its blatant untruths and distortions. Here is the latest example:

NRA simulates N-disasters / High radiation of 4 plants could spread beyond 30 km Oct 25, 2012 http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121024003544.htm

[Excerpted] Highly radioactive substances dispersed in a nuclear accident could spread beyond the 30-kilometer-radius zones used for disaster management planning, according to diffusion simulation results released Wednesday by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.

In worst-case scenarios at four of 16 nuclear plants in Japan, high levels of contamination would be found beyond the 30-kilometer zones set as priority areas in new disaster management guidelines drafted by the NRA....

On maps, the NRA showed points at which the accumulated exposure dose of radiation could reach 100 millisieverts in seven days. These points are on lines in 16 evenly divided directions from each nuclear plant. The International Commission on Radiological Protection has estimated that exposure to radiation of 100 millisieverts would increase the risk of death from cancer or other causes by 0.5 percent...

Majia here: This news report is rather outrageous for several reasons.

First, the news article implies that previously nuclear regulators presumed that radioactive substances would NOT spread beyond a 30 kilometer area.

Here is an image from Safecast taken in 2011. The colors represent radiation monitoring data.


 
I think it is pretty obvious to everyone that radiation does not stay within a 30 kilometer area of a disaster.

Here is another representation of spreading contamination from plutonium from Fukushima produced by Datapoke Datapoke http://www.datapoke.org/blog/89/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-p-239-and-np-239-atmospheric-dispersion/
 
 Majia here: I think it should be obvious to everyone that radiation contamination does not stay within a 30 kilometer area.

The other absurd assumption in the news article is that exposure to 100 millisieverts only increases cancer risk within a population by 0.5%.

Here are some studies that debunk that homogenized risk factor, which fails to differentiate between internal and external exposures, fails to examine the susceptibility of the population based on age and sex, and fails to account for continuous, cumulative exposure/body burdens.


For every 10 mSv of low-dose ionizing radiation, there was a 3% increase in the risk of age- and sex-adjusted cancer over a mean follow-up period of five years (hazard ratio 1.003 per milliSievert, 95% confidence interval 1.002–1.004). Cancer risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging in patients after acute myocardial infarction. By M J. Eisenberg, Jonathan A., P.  R. Lawler, M. Abrahamowicz , Hugues R., L. Pilote http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050947/?tool=pubmed

New Research on childhood leukemia and nuclear plants suggests significant health effects from low levels of ionizing radiation International Journal of Cancer study by C. Sermage-Faure, D. Laurier, S. Goujon-Bellec, M. Chartier, A. Guyot-Goubin, J. Rudant, D. Hemon and J. Clavel, “Childhood leukemia around French nuclear power plants – the Geocap study, 2002 – 2007,” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.27425/pdf.

Prof. Yuri Bandazhevsky found that children contaminated with cesium-137 producing 50 disintegrations per second (becquerels) per kilogram of body weight suffered irreversible heart damage  . (Starrr, S. 2012 Health Threat From Cesium 1-137. Japan Times Feb 16. Available: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/rc20120216a1.htm

Genomic Damage in Children Accidently Exposed to Ionizing Radiation: A  Review of the Literature. Fucic, A. et al. (2008). Mutation Research, 658, 111-123. “Overall, the evidence from the studies…reveals consistently increased chromosome aberration and micronuclei frequency in exposed than in referent children”
 


Video of Dr. Chris Busby explaining limitations of current ICRP model for measuring risk http://enenews.com/researcher-frightened-closer-100-km-meltdowns-after-radiation-levels-ive-quite-shocked-amount-video  

Propaganda must be deconstructed or humanity will destroy its genome within generations....




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