Cesium-137 contaminated fish in Japan.
Radioactive tuna have already reached California shores.
Cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years.
It emits only beta particles.
Meanwhile, dust from uranium tailings in the U.S. blows all over the countryside and is in the agricultural food chain.
The decay products of uranium tailings have a half-life of thousands of years.
Two of them are …
(1) thorium-230, having a half-life of 75,000 years,
(2) radium-226, having a half-life of 1,600 years. and
(3) radon-222, having a very short half-life but being continually created from radium-226.
Uranium mining in the U.S. produced 4.1 million metric pounds of uranium oxide concentrate in 2012 alone.
Even worse, do you live downwind from an artillery range in the U.S.?
Aerosolized particles of uranium-238 – depleted uranium – less than five microns in diameter are blowing in the wind.
Dust particles are blown from country to country, traveling thousands of miles around the world.
Dust kicked up by cars and trucks traveling on roads makes up as much as 33 percent of U.S. pollution.
Uranium-238 has a half-life of 4 1/2 BILLION YEARS. (Excuse me for shouting.)
Uranium-238 emits alpha, beta, and gamma particles.
Alpha particles are the most dangerous – contrary to what many mainline scientists tell us.
Uranium-238 alpha particles enter our body through …
(1) inhalation (air),
(2) ingestion (water and food), and
(3) open wounds.
The chemical binding energy in the molecules of the human cell is less than 10 electron volts.
A single uranium-238 alpha particle attacks our DNA with over 4 MILLION ELECTRON VOLTS. (I’m shouting again.)
Uranium radioactivity is not the only problem …
(1) Uranium is a toxic metal – like cadmium, lead, and mercury – and is especially chemically toxic to the kidneys.
(2) Uranium particles are insoluble, and a cause of cancer when uranium dust is breathed into the lungs.
Trees, bushes, vines, and plants detoxify heavy metals mainly in the ROOTS.
Roots are vegetation’s primary defense against toxic metals.
They transform them into insoluble safer forms, using phytochemicals such as …
(1) citrate,
(2) malate,
(3) malonate,
(4) histidine,
(5) phytochelatins,
(6) metallothioneins, etc.
These phytochemicals protect herbivores from the chemical effects of uranium-238.
They don’t protect against uranium-238’s radioactive alpha particles.
Uranium-238 is in our air.
It’s in our water.
It’s in our food.
Uranium-238 has extensively contaminated our corn, soybeans, and wheat.
The Brassica family of vegetables, for whatever reason, loves to gobble up uranium-238.
The Brassica genus includes arugula, bok choy, broccoli, broccoflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, canola, cauliflower, Chinese cabbage, collard greens, daikon, garden cress, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, maca, mizuna, mustard seeds, radish, rutabaga, turnip root and greens, wasabi, watercress, etc.
Sunflowers also love to gobble up uranium.
The Middle East, Central Asia, and Yugoslavia are heavily contaminated with depleted uranium.
The U.S. shot up Iraq with 2,400 tons of depleted uranium in 2003 during the Second Bush Oil War compared to only 340 tons used during the entire First Bush Oil War.
Walter and Lao Russell warned us about the consequences of atomic power and atomic weapons decades ago.
They wrote in Atomic Suicide?, 1957 …
“These killer metals which are soon to multiply to uncountable millions, will await you in your drinking water, which will be polluted from underground over the whole region of atomic activities, from buried atomic waste. They will await you in your food, for every grass blade will take it into the beef you eat and the milk you drink. They will also await you in every breath you take, for miles of it will accumulate in the upper atmosphere to fall upon the earth increasingly, year by year.”
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'Fukushima Is a Minor Problem Compared to What?' have 11 comments
June 13, 2013 @ 6:54 pm atomb
Maybe George Herbert Walker Bush refuses to eat broccoli for a more sinister reason?
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June 13, 2013 @ 8:42 pm Gene Holrod
I have a question to ask you that does not pertain to this post, I researched everywhere and I cannot figure something out. I have a rash underneath my left eye that comes and goes ad feels like acid is burning my skin. Its not on my nose or my cheek or my forehead just underneath my left eye. It’s been going on for over a month. It’s pretty painful and I hope you’ll have the answer, thank you for everything you truly are the amazing atom
June 14, 2013 @ 2:44 pm atomb
Left side = male trauma.
Rashes and skin problems have the most documentation to illustrate their relationship to emotions.
Hypnotists used to routinely program folks to spell out messages on their own chests with rashes.
June 14, 2013 @ 1:58 am lydia
Hi Atom
You mentioned Mandala’s The art of geometry in one of your recent blogs and I wondered if you could recommend a book or website that show there uses
Many Thanks
June 14, 2013 @ 6:38 am The S.E.E.D.
(Radioactive) uranium and other radioactive particles are heavy and don’t bother most people (far from radioactive sources). However, people ONE KILOMETER from Hiroshima grond zero survived when eating miso. The only downside to (most) miso is the soy. (It’s the lesser of 2 evils.)
Radioactive iodine gets everywhere, though. Get your sulfur, get your good iodine and you’ll be fine. Get some miso. People commonly believe/assume that there’s no surviving an atomic war but if you can survive 1 km from Hiroshima, where’s the problem?
As always, knowledge (and assumed knowledge…) is everything.
June 14, 2013 @ 8:39 am jean
Just adding a tidbit of possible interest…:
“Officials discovered that one farm produced crops free from radiation even though they were grown in soil contaminated with Cesium. Unlike the other farms in the vicinity which used artificial fertilizers, this farmer had planted a green manure crop, then dug it into the soil together with beneficial microbes and mycorrhezae. It was found that the resultant living biomass enabled the crops to selectively uptake beneficial nutrients, but selectively blocked the uptake of radioactive Cesium.”
http://www.briansbetterworld.com/articles/survivalgardening.htm
June 14, 2013 @ 2:38 pm atomb
Re: (Radioactive) uranium and other radioactive particles are heavy and don’t bother most people (far from radioactive sources). However, people ONE KILOMETER from Hiroshima ground zero survived when eating miso. The only downside to (most) miso is the soy. (It’s the lesser of 2 evils.) Radioactive iodine gets everywhere, though. Get your sulfur, get your good iodine and you’ll be fine. Get some miso. People commonly believe/assume that there’s no surviving an atomic war but if you can survive 1 km from Hiroshima, where’s the problem? As always, knowledge (and assumed knowledge…) is everything.
Uranium particles of 2.5 microns and less penetrate deep into the lungs.
They don’t “fall to the ground” as claimed by the military-industrial complex.
Uranium oxide and its aerosol form are insoluble in water.
As to their ability to stay airborne, huge clouds of African dust regularly fill the skies of Miami.
Half of these dust particles measure 2.5 microns (PM2.5) or less.
An epidemic of Iraqi birth defects followed on the heels of the First Bush Oil War.
In the 1990s, a Canadian broadsheet newspaper displayed four full pages of photos every Sunday of these Iraqi birth defects for many months.
None of these photos appeared in U.S. newspapers or magazines.
Let’s pretend depleted uranium isn’t toxic.
If that’s true, why are U.S. taxpayers paying millions of dollars to store thousands of metric tons of it as nuclear toxic waste at secure facilities?
Many other foods besides miso protect against radiation.
Swami Nitty-Gritty told us that miso won’t protect people who have had an appendectomy. (I haven’t been able to verify this.)
Feel free to reply, because in our Age of Media Distortion, my “facts” are possibly distorted. :)
June 14, 2013 @ 3:20 pm atomb
Just adding a tidbit of possible interest…:
“Officials discovered that one farm produced crops free from radiation even though they were grown in soil contaminated with Cesium. Unlike the other farms in the vicinity which used artificial fertilizers, this farmer had planted a green manure crop, then dug it into the soil together with beneficial microbes and mycorrhezae. It was found that the resultant living biomass enabled the crops to selectively uptake beneficial nutrients, but selectively blocked the uptake of radioactive Cesium.”
http://www.briansbetterworld.com/articles/survivalgardening.htm
June 14, 2013 @ 3:21 pm atomb
Interesting. :)
June 14, 2013 @ 4:36 pm atomb
Lydia wrote: You mentioned Mandala’s The art of geometry in one of your recent blogs and I wondered if you could recommend a book or website that show there uses
Many Thanks
Carl Jung’s 1972 book Mandala Symbolism is probably a good place to start. :)
June 14, 2013 @ 4:41 pm atomb
PS: Most of the Sacred Geometry books on the market today are misinformation at best and disinformation at worst.