‘A door that cannot be easily closed – if ever’! FUKUSHIMA DISASTER HAS OPENED THE DOOR TO HELL . . . March 22, 2014, 6:49 pm by Selvam Canagaratna It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (1878-1968) There are no health-related problems until now, nor will there be in the future. I make the statement to you in the most emphatic and unequivocal way. That was Japanese Primier Shinzo Abe’s explicit, and devastatingly misleading, promise to the International Olympic Committee last September. In doing so, he brusquely dismissed as baseless the fears repeatedly expressed by leading members of the medical and scientific community on the dangers from the still on-going discharge of nuclear radiation from the stricken, beyond-repair Fukushima nuclear plant for all the past three years. To be sure, Mr. Abe had a strictly limited objective in indulging in his dissembling exercise: to somehow win the bid for Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympic Games. He won, alas. Of course, Mr. Abe cannot claim the distinction of being the world’s first, or sole, dissembler about the life-threatening nature of nuclear radiation. Karl Grossman, author of the 1980 book Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power, wrote that deception was integral to the push by the then still nascent, and allegedly ‘peaceful’, nuclear-power industry in its effort to gain world acceptance. Wrote Grossman in Cover Up: You have not been informed about nuclear power. You have not been told. And that has been done on purpose. Keeping the public in the dark was deemed necessary by the promoters of nuclear power if it was to succeed. Those in government, science and private industry who have been pushing nuclear power realized that if people were given the facts, if they knew the consequences of nuclear power, they would not stand for it. Indeed, people begin to have misgivings about the allegedly ‘benign’ nature of nuclear power only when catastrophic accidents happen, making it impossible for them to ignore the deadliness of atomic energy to humanity’s very existence. Well, massive nuclear accidents have occurred, wrote Grossman: the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima catastrophe that began on March 11, 2011 and is ongoing with large discharges of radioactive poisons continuing to be discharged into the environment. But the world’s corporate-controlled mainstream media has chosen to give a silent pass to what is nothing short of an existential threat to all of humanity, says Grossman. Leading the Fukushima cover-up globally is the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), formed by the United Nations in 1957 with the mission to seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world. [In retrospect, its done everything but that – leading to a host disastrous, unintended consequences!] Indeed, in 2011 after the Fukushima disaster, the IAEA declared boldly: To date no health effects have been reported in any person as a result of radiation exposure from the accident, a claim it holds even today, wrote Grossman. The World Health Organization (WHO) was ‘captured’ by the IAEA early on on issues of radioactivity and nuclear power. In 1959, the IAEA and WHO [also established by the UN], entered into an agreement – which continues to this day – providing that IAEA and WHO act in close co-operation with each other and whenever either organization proposes to initiate a program or activity on a subject in which the other organization has or may have a substantial interest, the first party shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter by mutual agreement. The IAEA-WHO deal has meant that WHO cannot undertake any research, cannot disseminate any information, cannot come to the assistance of any population without the prior approval of the IAEA… wrote Grossman. [Explained Alison Katz who for 18 years worked for WHO: In practice, in reality, WHO is subservient to the IAEA within the United Nations family.] In the 1960s, Drs. John Gofman, Arthur Tamplin, Alice Stewart, Thomas Mancuso and Karl Morgan, all researchers working for the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) independently came to the conclusion that exposure to nuclear radiation was not safe at any level. The government terminated their services for coming up with what Dr. Gofman called the ‘wrong answer’ – that is, the opposite of what the AEC wanted to hear. The top Russian nuclear physicist in the 1960s, Andrei Sakharov, also a Nobel Prize winner, and Vladimir Chernousenko, whom the Soviet Union placed in charge of the Chernobyl cleanup, are among other international experts who drew similar conclusions. At Fukushima, we have opened a door to hell that cannot be easily closed – if ever, said Paul Gunter, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project at the US-based group Beyond Nuclear. Already an excessive number of cases of thyroid cancers have appeared in Japan, an early sign of the impacts of radioactivity.A study last year by Joseph Mangano and Dr. Janette Sherman of the Radiation and Public Health Project, and Dr. Chris Busby, determined that radioactive iodine fall-out from Fukushima damaged the thyroid glands of children in California. And the biggest wave of radioactivity in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is slated to hit the west coast of North America in the next several months. Meanwhile, every bluefin tuna caught in the waters off California in a Stanford University study was found to be contaminated with cesium-137, a radioactive poison emitted on a large scale by the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors. The tuna migrate from off Japan to California waters. Daniel Madigan, who led the study, commented: The tuna ‘packaged’ up the radiation and brought it across the world’s largest ocean. We were definitely surprised to see it at all, even more surprised to see it in every one we measured. Dr. Brian Moench, President of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an article titled Radioactive Human Embryos: Our Nuclear Legacy? wrote: We’re now entering a more disturbing chapter of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Radiation is being detected in the atmosphere, rain water and food chain in North America. The official refrain, boldly repeated, is, Not to worry, perfectly harmless, no health threat, even though the six Fukushima reactors contain thousands of times more radioactivity than the bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Some of our best scientists of the previous century would be rolling over in their graves. Hermann Muller, a Nobel Prize winner, in his Radiation and Heredity, clearly spelled out the genetic damage of ionizing radiation on humans. He predicted the gradual reduction of the survival of the human species as exposure to ionizing radiation steadily increased. Indeed, sperm counts, sperm viability and fertility rates worldwide have been dropping for decades. Fukushima is an eerie replay of the denial and controversy that began with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wrote Yale University Professor Emeritus Charles Perrow in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last year. This is the same nuclear denial that also greeted nuclear bomb tests, plutonium plant disasters at Windscale in northern England and Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains. Dr. Moench’s comment: These scientists and their warnings have never been refuted, but they are still widely ignored. Their message is very clear – virtually every human on earth carries within him/her the nuclear legacy, a genetic footprint contaminated by the cold war, the disasters of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the 400-plus operational nuclear power plants that have not melted down and, now, Fukushima. The risk to the future of humanity is unparalleled and so tragically unnecessary.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:59:22 +0000
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