Chernobyl, Fukushima, Pennsylvania, etc. By Ray Wallace

Here are some Chernobyl facts that have not received enough widespread news coverage: Over one million (1,000,000) people have already died from Chernobyl’s fallout....

     How many more will die? Approximately seven million (7,000,000) people in the Chernobyl vicinity were hit with one of the most potent exposures to radiation in the history of the Atomic Age.

     The exclusion zone around Chernobyl is known as “Death Valley.” It has been increased from 30 to 70 square kilometres. No humans will ever be able to live in the zone again. It is a permanent “dead zone.”...

     Following the [Fukushima] meltdown, the Japanese government did not inform people of the ambient levels of radiation that blew back onto the island. Unfortunately and mistakenly, people fled away from the reactors to the highest radiation levels on the island at the time.

     As the disaster happened, enormous levels of radiation hit Tokyo. The highest radiation detected in the Tokyo Metro area was in Saitama with cesium radiation levels detected at 919,000 becquerel (Bq) per square meter, a level almost twice as high as Chernobyl’s “permanent dead zone evacuation limit of 500,000 Bq” (source: Radiation Defense Project)....

     After the Fukushima blow up, ambient levels of radiation in Washington State went up 40,000 times above normal, but according to Dr. [Helen] Caldicott, the U.S. media does not cover the “ongoing Fukushima mess.” So, who would really know?

     Dr. Caldicott ended her speech on Sept. 2014 by saying: “In Fukushima, it is not over. Everyday, four hundred tons of highly radioactive water pours into the Pacific and heads towards the U.S. Because the radiation accumulates in fish, we get that too. The U.S. government is not testing the water, not testing the fish, and not testing the ambient air. Also, people in Japan are eating radiation every day.”

     Furthermore, according to Dr. Caldicott: “Rainwater washes over the nuclear cores into the Pacific. There is no way they can get to those cores, men die, robots get fried. Fukushima will never be solved. Meanwhile, people are still living in highly radioactive areas.”...

     A UN (UNSCEAR) report on April 2, 2014 on health impacts of the Fukushima accident concluded that any radiation-induced effects would be too small to identify. People were well protected and received “low or very low” radiation doses. UNSCEAR gave an all-clear report....

     Fukushima is a veritable destruction machine that consumes everything in its path, and beyond, and its path is likely to grow. For certain, it is not going away....

     Maybe, just maybe, Greater Tokyo’s 38 million residents will eventually be evacuated. Who knows for sure?

     -- From “What’s Really Going on at Fukushima?” by Robert Hunziker, at this June 15, 2015 Counterpunch site:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/15/whats-really-going-on-at-fukushima/

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Along the Susquehanna River in southern Pennsylvania, the

Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station has the same design as

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant:

‘No danger’ from decades of Pa. nuclear leaks?” is at this June 20, 2015 Salisbury News site:

http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-danger-from-decades-of-pa-nuclear.html

“More taxpayer billions for another nuclear power plant on the Susquehanna River?” is at this June 10, 2015 EFMR Monitoring Group site:

http://efmr.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-taxpayer-billions-for-another.html