Atomic Facts the Media Hides from You.

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There is a pretty good case for non coverage of several scientific facts. 

 Back in the 1960's, the Atomic Energy Commission hired physicist and MD, Dr. John Gofman, to design and carry out experiments to determine safe levels of radiation. His basic setup was a radiation source, contained in a well shielded cylinder, in the center of evenly spaced plants, extending outwards about 50 to 100 feet. The cylinder had a narrow slit that could be opened, to douse any given sector with a fixed amount of radiation over time. The cylinder could also be rotated. The findings were simple and straight forward: The closer to the radioactive source, and the longer the exposure, the more damage occurred. Even on the periphery, any exposure at all resulted in damage. 

After years of research, and an 11 man crew, the AEC shut him down, and sent all his papers to his house. Two months later, on a clear summer's day, the garage where the papers were stored, suddenly and ferociously caught fire. 

 I learned this from him, in his living room, as he was a close friend of my ex father-in-law. He later wrote books on the topic, you may want to read them. This is Fact #1.

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Fact #2 A great deal in the press is made of the notion that the emission from a microscopic particle of radioactive matter, is no more than "normal background radiation." This is true, and thus makes detecting radioactive particles in your food difficult, without purchasing very sensitive and directional equipment.

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Fact #3 While the detected amounts of radioactive emission may be the same, the medical effects of background radiation vs being irradiated by one tiny radioactive particle lodged in your thyroid or bone marrow, are very, very different. 

That tiny particle consists of millions and millions of radioactive isotopes, each one, in turn, going "sprong," and emitting a radioactive sub-atomic particle (these vary from isotope to isotope), and that sub-particle goes "whang" against the other atoms closest to it, and may cause a variety of effects. If it was just one random "whang" occurring at entirely different locations in you body, no big deal, that's the same as background radiation. 

But it is NOT random. It is happening over and over again at the same micropoint in your body, and, eventually, enough hits to the same cells, and one will go to cancer. This is the knowledge you need to understand, and it is not what corporate and governmental controlled media are willing to admit, for financial, and for panic reasons, AFAIK.  

Propaganda Piece on CNN, White Washing Nuke Power, a Review of Pandora's Promise

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Tune in on CNN right now,for a propaganda film that will rank with the best of Hitler's as they attempt to show co-opting of liberals and scientists in favor of nuclear power plants. Watch for the "background radiation" red herring. They will claim that the radioactive particles released are barely measurable against the background radiation we receive from space and out environment. This is the BIG LIE.

On a Geiger counter, yes, barely different. BUT, how the radiation is applied to your body, aye, there's the rub. Background radiation hits random parts of your body, one zinger through the nose, the next through your big toe. Overall, lots of hits but they are hitting a different set of molecules (you have three trillion in your body) with every passing cosmic ray. The odds of the same cell being hit over and over, just about nil.

Now consider a particle that lodges in your bone marrow or thyroid. It sits in one place, often for the rest of your life, what there is of it. The radioactive particle itself consists of millions of radioactive atoms. It will continue emitting damaging energy, which affects the nearby cells over and over, until one or more of them goes cancerous.

Same reading on the Geiger counter, very different outcomes, but I will bet that this docu-propaganda piece will never mention these facts. I learned this from John Gofman, the MD and physicist. that the original Atomic Energy Commission hired to research the effects of radiation on living matter, and to determine safe levels for exposure. When he found out there were no level that were safe, not even background radiation, they terminated his research, and burned his papers in a fire that mysterious broke out in his garage in San Francisco above Bret Hart Park. My then father-in-law was good friends with him, I was all of 30. Read his writings, and inform yourself.

It's totally ironic that they lined up Cancer Centers of America as a sponsor. Plowing ahead with this dangerous course will provide them with many more patients.

I further submit that the powers that be have very strong interests in not causing world wide panic over the real consequences of Fukishima, and are terrified about how to handle those fuel rods. Not only would a collapse totally spread radiation, it will also solidify the push for decentralized consumer owned power generation, which greatly reduces profits and gives the common man much more control over their own destinies. Or, in the really worse case scenario, there is so much stuff in that pool of fuel rods, that when it collapses, enough radiation is running so hot and close together that a chain reaction of epic proportions occurs, most commonly know as the detonation of a very dirty nuclear bomb, and a gigantic one at that.