All 2014 Fukushima rice cleared radiation tests, thanks to fertilizer Comments from Marushka France STEP BACK AND READ, ANALYZE and CONSIDER: 1) Agricultural practices such as these, adding lime, potassium, phosphorus and/or organic materials to contaminated soils is... I repeat IS.... appropriate kind of measure to take!! 2) Testing rice with the appropriate equiment is very important. Measuring the rice from outside a bag does not tell us the alpha and beta IN THE FOOD, very important that HOW food is tested and with what equipment... Very important 3) because Internal exposure - food and water -- is 1,000X worse than external, according to WHO 4) Testing agricultural lands , treating with organic soils amendments after assessing the level of radioisotope contamination and the needs of the soils – and making that public information - is critical... for saving our planet, our food and water supplies and our lives. It is the only way to restore confidence - in government and in media.... We have been lied to our entire lives. Only honest and full disclosure can restore and repair relationships. Government . People . Journalism... Reassess ourselves, reassess for one major reason Environmental problems.... contamination from multiple human activities like oil, gas, nuclear, petrochemicals, petroleum based agriculture Poison, unbalanced, unsus-ainable, all of them Incorporating an application of organic and mineral fertilizers reduces the levels of Cs: 137 and Sr-90 accumulation three- to fivefold in herbage grown in mineral soils. Such radical treatment of hayfields on peat soils sharply reduces Cs-137, but is less effective for Sr-90. Owing to degradation of cultivated hayfields, repeated grassland renovation with an application of fertilizers is needed every 3 to 6 years. 5. As noted above, radiation protection measures are effectively applied in large stateowned and collective farms. In small privatesector households and farms, which in Belarus account for more than 50% of agricultural production, these measures are incidental. Generally for each cow on a private Belarus farm there is about 1 hectare of hayfield and improved pasture. This is not sufficient to sustain the animal so the farmers have to get hay from grassy forest glades and unarable lands that are contaminated with higher levels of radioactivity than cultivated hayfields. Thus a significant number of settlements, even 23 years since the catastrophe, had inadequate radiation protection for agricultural production. There are more than 300 such settlements each in Belarus and Ukraine, and more than 150 in Russia (Kashparov et al., 2005). page 312 “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment by Alexey Yablokov, Vasily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko NY Academy of Sciences, Volume 1181, 2009. 5,000 Slavic language studies reviews, over 1,400 cited. strahlentelex.de/Yablokov_Chernobyl_book.pdf Hard copy now available at Greko Printing P:734.453.0341; email:orders@grekoprinting Japanese version available at Amazon.jp – Chapter 4 (parts12-15) have not been included, too long. japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/18/national/all-2014-fukushima-rice-cleared-radiation-tests-thanks-to-fertilizer/#.VLxYLS4bKKE
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:12:31 +0000