{"id":7633,"date":"2015-04-27T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2015-04-27T06:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:17:00","slug":"50-reasons-we-should-fear-the-worst-from-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7633","title":{"rendered":"50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/02\/02\/50-reasons-fear-fukushima\/\" target=\"_blank\">50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?s=fukushima\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima<\/a>\u2019s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nukefree.org\/ralph-nader-japans-fukushima-secrets-syndrome\" target=\"_blank\">global corporate media blackout<\/a>\u00a0aimed\u2014successfully\u2014at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets \u2026 or our bodies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?s=fukushima\"><span class=\"image-container alignnone size-full wp-image-319975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319975\" src=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/japanfukushima.jpg\" alt=\"japanfukushima\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speculation on the ultimate impact ranges from the utterly harmless to the intensely\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2013\/12\/11\/japans-new-fukushima-fascism\/\" target=\"_blank\">apocalyptic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the basic reality is simple: for seven decades, government Bomb factories and privately-owned reactors have spewed massive quantities of unmonitored radiation into the biosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The impacts of these emissions on human and ecological health are unknown primarily because the nuclear industry has resolutely refused to study them.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the official presumption has always been that showing proof of damage from nuclear Bomb tests and commercial reactors falls to the victims, not the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>And that in any case, the industry will be held virtually harmless.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201csee no evil, pay no damages\u201d mindset dates from the Bombing of Hiroshima to Fukushima to the disaster coming next \u2026 which could be happening as you read this.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 50 preliminary reasons why this radioactive legacy demands we prepare for the worst for our oceans, our planet, our economy \u2026 ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0<\/strong>At Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945), the U.S. military\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/japanfocus.org\/-Greg-Mitchell\/3581\" target=\"_blank\">initially denied<\/a>\u00a0that there was any radioactive fallout, or that it could do any damage. Despite an absence of meaningful data, the victims (including a group of U.S. prisoners of war) and their supporters were officially \u201cdiscredited\u201d and scorned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong>\u00a0Likewise, when Nobel-winners Linus Pauling and Andre Sakharov\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paulingblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/30\/talking-about-the-limited-test-ban-treaty\/\" target=\"_blank\">correctly warned<\/a>\u00a0of a massive global death toll from atmospheric Bomb testing, they were dismissed with official contempt \u2026 until they won in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Reasons We Should Fear the Worst from Fukushima Fukushima\u2019s missing melted cores and radioactive gushers continue to fester in secret. Japan\u2019s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a\u00a0global corporate media blackout\u00a0aimed\u2014successfully\u2014at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye. But that doesn\u2019t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets \u2026 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[169,340,452,4983,578,580,2142],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-corporate-media","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-media-blackout","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-radiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}