Iodine-131 from Fukushima detected in milk in Washington State
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10282/
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Beta spike in California. BBC recklessly endangers life
From Radnet data
https://cdx.epa.gov/SSL/cdx/EPA_Home.asp
It appears that there has been a sudden increase in beta radiation in California today (30th March 2011). We are not able to say what has caused it. We hope to do some analysis tomorrow, Thursday 31st, and see what Radnet data show then. See the LLRC site http://www.llrc.org for the graph. We bring you this information so people on the western seaboard of the Americas can take the elementary precaution of staying indoors.We hope this is a false alarm but it is prudent to assume it is not.
Earlier we posted that the BBC is recklessly endangering people by ridiculing people for taking Iodine tablets as a precaution against radioactive pollution. On Monday 28th March Material World - a regular Radio 4 science programme - featured Professor Robin Grimes, Director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College, London. He sneered at Californians for taking stable Iodine (the stable Iodine fills up the thyroid gland so it can't absorb Iodine 131). He added that it was not necessary even for people in Tokyo. He said: I believe people in California are buying Iodine tablets and things like that which is completely, completely crazy. However there will be people close to the [Fukushima] plant who should be taking that [Iodine] as a precaution and they are being told to do so; that's being dealt with in a sensible manner but [for] people in - say - as far away as Tokyo that would not be necessary at this point in time - not even close.
Mindful that after Chernobyl increased thyroid cancer was observed in Britain as well as Russia, LLRC's current advice is that people in Japan definitely ought to be taking stable Iodine; California is borderline (or it was borderline when we uploaded) In the UK it's probably unnecessary at present. However, as the UK Health Protection Agency agrees, there are no risks associated with Iodine tablets so long as the dose is not grossly exceeded. There is no argument against taking them as a precaution. Grimes' remarks can only be seen either as ignorant or as just one more attempt to play down the hazard of nuclear power.
US Attorney Stuart Smith of environmental and personal injury specialists Smith Stag told LLRC Grimes' advice would, if followed, increase risks with possibly fatal conseqences, especially for children. People would be justified in prosecuting him, his employers and the BBC for recklessly endangering life. Stuart Smith's law firm is a pioneer in the field of Technologically Enhanced Radioactive Materials and oilfield waste litigation. The UK has no law of reckless endangerment but in USA and Scotland among other countries it is a criminal offence to put lives at risk through an action or by failing to act.
LLRC's Secretary Richard Bramhall said: BBC producers seem to have forgotten that they are required to balance the expression of opinions on controversial issues. On radiation and health the BBC is institutionally unbalanced, routinely allowing 'experts' like Professor Grimes to claim that only 50 deaths are attributable to Chernobyl without reference to the countervailing evidence. The 'Horizon' documentary 'Nuclear Nightmares' in 2006 was an outstanding example. My complaint eventually led the BBC Trust to rule 'Nuclear Nightmares' was biased. I hope the threat of a class action in California or Japan will concentrate minds a bit. The Material World broadcast is the first item on this listen again link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00zm31w/Material_World_24_03_2011 , which is scheduled to be on the BBC web site until Friday.
LLRC supports the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Grassroots Platform for Nuclear Safety and Security http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6195 . It calls for the radiation risk model of the European Committee on Radiation Risk http://www.euradcom.org to replace the International Commission on Radiological Protection - as LLRC has long recommended. Go to http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6195 to sign up online or email nirsnet@nirs.org
Japan Nuclear Plant Crisis and Chernobyl Anniversary
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Chernob
Chernobyl: consequences of the catastrophe for people and the environment
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/141/1/97.short
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chernobyl
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=LLRC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Bramhall
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Beta spike in California. BBC recklessly endangers life
From Radnet data
https://cdx.epa.gov/SSL/cdx/EPA_Home.asp
It appears that there has been a sudden increase in beta radiation in California today (30th March 2011). We are not able to say what has caused it. We hope to do some analysis tomorrow, Thursday 31st, and see what Radnet data show then. See the LLRC site http://www.llrc.org for the graph. We bring you this information so people on the western seaboard of the Americas can take the elementary precaution of staying indoors.We hope this is a false alarm but it is prudent to assume it is not.
Earlier we posted that the BBC is recklessly endangering people by ridiculing people for taking Iodine tablets as a precaution against radioactive pollution. On Monday 28th March Material World - a regular Radio 4 science programme - featured Professor Robin Grimes, Director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College, London. He sneered at Californians for taking stable Iodine (the stable Iodine fills up the thyroid gland so it can't absorb Iodine 131). He added that it was not necessary even for people in Tokyo. He said: I believe people in California are buying Iodine tablets and things like that which is completely, completely crazy. However there will be people close to the [Fukushima] plant who should be taking that [Iodine] as a precaution and they are being told to do so; that's being dealt with in a sensible manner but [for] people in - say - as far away as Tokyo that would not be necessary at this point in time - not even close.
Mindful that after Chernobyl increased thyroid cancer was observed in Britain as well as Russia, LLRC's current advice is that people in Japan definitely ought to be taking stable Iodine; California is borderline (or it was borderline when we uploaded) In the UK it's probably unnecessary at present. However, as the UK Health Protection Agency agrees, there are no risks associated with Iodine tablets so long as the dose is not grossly exceeded. There is no argument against taking them as a precaution. Grimes' remarks can only be seen either as ignorant or as just one more attempt to play down the hazard of nuclear power.
US Attorney Stuart Smith of environmental and personal injury specialists Smith Stag told LLRC Grimes' advice would, if followed, increase risks with possibly fatal conseqences, especially for children. People would be justified in prosecuting him, his employers and the BBC for recklessly endangering life. Stuart Smith's law firm is a pioneer in the field of Technologically Enhanced Radioactive Materials and oilfield waste litigation. The UK has no law of reckless endangerment but in USA and Scotland among other countries it is a criminal offence to put lives at risk through an action or by failing to act.
LLRC's Secretary Richard Bramhall said: BBC producers seem to have forgotten that they are required to balance the expression of opinions on controversial issues. On radiation and health the BBC is institutionally unbalanced, routinely allowing 'experts' like Professor Grimes to claim that only 50 deaths are attributable to Chernobyl without reference to the countervailing evidence. The 'Horizon' documentary 'Nuclear Nightmares' in 2006 was an outstanding example. My complaint eventually led the BBC Trust to rule 'Nuclear Nightmares' was biased. I hope the threat of a class action in California or Japan will concentrate minds a bit. The Material World broadcast is the first item on this listen again link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00zm31w/Material_World_24_03_2011 , which is scheduled to be on the BBC web site until Friday.
LLRC supports the Nuclear Information and Resource Service Grassroots Platform for Nuclear Safety and Security http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6195 . It calls for the radiation risk model of the European Committee on Radiation Risk http://www.euradcom.org to replace the International Commission on Radiological Protection - as LLRC has long recommended. Go to http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6195 to sign up online or email nirsnet@nirs.org
Japan Nuclear Plant Crisis and Chernobyl Anniversary
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Chernob
Chernobyl: consequences of the catastrophe for people and the environment
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/141/1/97.short
From Mast Sanity/Mast Network
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Fukushima
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Chernobyl
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=LLRC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+Bramhall
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