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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Alerts: Including Fukushima, Obama’s Civilian Army,Water Securitization, A21 and Right to Life

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Steve Quayle’s Alert page:

Program Note: Steve guests on Doug and Joe Hagmann's The Hagmann & Hagmann Report Tues. July 10, 9-12 p.m. EDT, Listen. Topic: Famine & The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

Fukushima Radiation/Listeners Field Report On West Coast Radiation: I live on the West Coast of CALIFORNIA. Each day, I check three Internet sites: Drudge, your site and Stan Deyo. I find many articles and stories the main stream media doesn't bring up. Let me give my background: I am a semi-retired ATC controller (24 years) who spent 10 years in the Army, traveled all over the world on assignments and have been exposed to lots of stuff. In the Army, we were all trained in NBC warfare and each year we had to attend classes to remain qualified. During my FAA career, I attended a one week course in Radiological warfare and was assigned to test and maintain the various Geiger counters we had at our facility. I do not consider myself an expert but I do know how to work, read and use radiological equipment. more

Closure Of Border Patrol Stations Across Four States Triggers Alarm: The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves. Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity -- one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles. more SQ NOTE: Can it be any more in your face that southern invasion is imminent!

Obama Gets Civilian Army In Healthcare Bill: Barack Obama has apparently fulfilled his campaign wish of establishing a civilian army along with setting up Universal Healthcare in America. Details of the civilian army were hidden in the voluminous Obamacare bill, which our Congressmen and Senators voted on but did not read. See the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, page 1312: more

Water Securitization, Agenda 21 and the Right to Life: There is an estimated 366 million, trillion gallons of water on planet Earth. That number appears to be fixed, according to UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Program (HIP). The alarmist threat of man-made climate change states that where and how this water manifests itself in hydraulic flux across our biosphere is questionable. The HIP are a UN program system devoted to researching and finding natural water resources and managing those resources found. While the UN is well aware that the necessity of water as a vital source for life means the retention of power over all life, they are well into their schemes to develop global governance over all sources of fresh, clean water. more


Fukushima Radiation/Listeners Field Report On West Coast Radiation

July 11, 2012

Hi steve,

I live on the West Coast of CALIFORNIA. Each day, I check three Internet sites: Drudge, your site and Stan Deyo. I find many articles and stories the main stream media doesn't bring up. Let me give my background: I am a semi-retired ATC controller (24 years) who spent 10 years in the Army, traveled all over the world on assignments and have been exposed to lots of stuff. In the Army, we were all trained in NBC warfare and each year we had to attend classes to remain qualified. During my FAA career, I attended a one week course in Radiological warfare and was assigned to test and maintain the various Geiger counters we had at our facility. I do not consider myself an expert but I do know how to work, read and use radiological equipment.

Since April 2011, I have been testing and keeping track of radiation in my local area. I use three sites to do my sampling: a public park, a public trail head and a private truck parking area. I am also in contact with several folks doing the same in L.A., Oregon, Seattle and Vancouver Canada. Starting in April 2011, after the Fukushima accident, I began to test and keep track of radiation in my area. It has been very interesting. At first, I had problem with my Geiger counter ( Model 727), it turned out that I had to clean up the battery terminals ( they had not been used for years and had some corrosion). After I got the unit going, I started to measure the background radiation in my area. For my area it varied between 26 mR to 32 mR. As time went on, the reading I was getting started to grow pretty fast and every time it rains, I always have a spike.

As of today, my reading are 3-3.5 times background (90mR) . Corresponding with other folks such as LA, Seattle and Vancouver, their readings are much higher than mine. We have a supervisor at work who resides in Eastern Washington and had her bring me a dirt sample. The reading were 7 times the background of what am getting here. Something is very wrong. I contacted my county and state EPA and ask them questions and they all agreed that I am probably right but they do not do any of this type of testing and is the responsibility of the federal government. I called the Federal EPA ( San Francisco, I think) and at first they were very polite and responsive. However toward the end of the conversation, they were no longer helpful, refuse to answer ANY questions and eventually hung up on me. All I can think of, is that someone overheard the conversation and told the gentlemen I was talking to shut up, say nothing and hang up.

Doing some research, I am convinced that the radiation is escaping Fukushima, going up in the air, picked up by the jet stream and making its way East. Normally the jet stream would come directly toward San Francisco and go east. In the last few years, it turns north before reaching California, goes north then eastbound over Seattle/Vancouver, hence all the rain/flooding in the Dakotas. On occasions, it will come toward LA(Pineapple Express) then Northeast bound which would explain how they've had such high reading. In L.A., they check A/C filters in large buildings to collect the radiation samples. It may very well explain why my reading will peak during raining days, as the water droplets bring the radiation down to ground level.

There have been reports by experts that maintain that the entire Northern hemisphere is totally contaminated, hence it would explain the finding of Cs134, 137 in cows milk in Vermont. Based of the study that was done 10 years after Chernobyl, we are going to have the same results in Japan and on the West coast in 2020. There are reports coming from Alaska that talk about seals losing their hair, a possible sign of radiation sickness. It is truly scary that our government has NOT said one word about this. At least, NO eating fish from the Pacific ocean (remember the blue tuna whose radiation was 7 times normal) or to at least wash all our vegetables and fruits before eating. Frankly, I think they do not know what to do, cause it is very likely too late now.

My question to you is this: Do you know of any other folks (amateurs) or groups who may be doing the same as I am? Does anyone care?

Please withhold my name/location since I am still working for the government. You know how spiteful they can be.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Nebraska Alert: Nuclear Plant in Nebraska with Arnie Gundersen - Updated

Video: Nebraska Nuke Plant goes to level 4

http://youtu.be/mSvvmrB7qEg 

Additional information that you won’t hear on mainstream news…

The video (1:41 min) below describes a discussion with power plant employee who shared info about this.

Power Plants To Shut Down For Solar Flares & Civil Unrest & Possibly Martial Law

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdXvr1VTxY&feature=uploademail

(from Oct 2010)

Solar Flares Mitch Battros Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFw6L9Vzl8M

Satellites would go out first - communications & digital - working it's way from north to south

Recent article

GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS; TWO VOLCANOES EXPLODE;

http://globalrumblings.blogspot.com/2011/06/geomagnetic-storm-in-progress-two.html

Today from the Intel Hub

U.S And United Kingdom To Cut Power In Preparation of Massive Solar Storm

http://theintelhub.com/2011/06/13/u-s-and-united-kingdom-to-cut-power-in-preparation-of-massive-solar-storm/

Excerpt:

The solar flare on June 7th, 2011 was luckily pointed away from Earth but caused many to wonder if another solar flare is imminent, this one aimed directly at earth.

Now, due to the possibility of a large scale solar flare, officials in Europe and the United Kingdom are preparing what they call, “controlled” power cuts. What this actually means remains to be seen.

Snip

“Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013,” The Daily Telegraph reported in 2010.

Scientific America also is also running a compelling article on the subject. The article covers the fact that last weeks solar flare has “illuminated” the power grids vulnerabilities and reflects on the outcome of a massive solar storm.

“If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one-in-100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,” Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

Be Prepared:  Taking Iodine regularly and during and after radiation exposure could save you life!

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Reminder:  Just last weekend intercepted agenda of discussions from the Bilderberg Conference: 

UPDATED TOPICS: 6-10-2011 Bilderberg Meeting:  Comet Elenin (or ELEnin Brown Dwarf Star), Solar Flares, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Underground Cities, and related topics

Also:  NASA Head Issues Agency-Wide Preparedness Alert: "I Became Aware of Some Things..."  See Video:  NASA Head Issues Agency-Wide Preparedness Alert: "I Became Aware of Some Things..."

With the announcement yesterday that the White House Is Cutting Access to Half of the Government Websites (Their HAARP website has been shut down for quit some time now), the new Ministry of Information Czar scouring the Internet and the mainstream media in the bag for the administration, awareness and access to info like this and the truth in general will become harder and harder to come, especially if you don’t look for it!

h/t to Jean Stoner

Updates 6.15.11: on FT Calhoun, Nebraska Nuclear Alert from yesterday… original message from yesterday below

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80 miles from Nebraska nuclear plant: “Sandbags provide no protection from water coming from underground”

June 15th, 2011 at 03:00 AM

Ground saturation deepens concerns, Argus Leader, June 11, 2011:

[In] portions …Read More

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Containment building flooded at Nebraska nuke plant in order to cool fuel rods

June 15th, 2011 at 02:21 AM

Ft. Calhoun Flood Defenses, WOWT, June 14, 2011:

From the air …Read More

28 comments

Radioactive whales caught 650 km from Fukushima plant

June 15th, 2011 at 01:39 AM

Report: Radiation found in whales in Japan, Japan Today, June 15, …Read More

8 comments

Nebraska nuke plant totally surrounded by floodwaters: How can Omaha levees hold? Dykes designed for a few weeks of water — 3-4 months expected, with 5+ foot rise

June 14th, 2011 at 08:07 PM

WOWT, June 13: Nuclear plant “almost like a castle surrounded by …Read More

119 comments

“Experts don’t know” how radioactive cesium from Fukushima ended up so far southwest of Tokyo, says radiation monitoring specialist

June 14th, 2011 at 02:26 PM

Radiation ‘hotspots’ hinder Japan response to nuclear crisis, Reuters, June 14, …Read More

96 comments

No-fly zone remains over troubled nuclear plant near Omaha — “In effect for flood relief efforts”

June 14th, 2011 at 12:50 PM

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FAA NOTAM text:

FDC 1/6523 ZMP FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS FORT CALHOUN …Read More

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Curium-244 detected for first time outside Fukushima plant – Requires lead shield 20 times thicker than Plutonium-238

June 14th, 2011 at 10:32 AM

Curium: As compared to a competing thermoelectric generator isotope such as …Read More

103 comments

Osaka detects radioactive substances in sewage sludge

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Group Warns EPA ready to increase radioactive release guidelines - As Nuclear Alert for Fukushima Reveals a Meltdown Has Started

The EPA is preparing to dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents,” according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

What is termed a guidance that EPA is considering - as opposed to a regulation - does not require public airing before it’s decided upon.

EPA officials contacted today in the Atlanta and D.C. offices had no response on the issue as of 6 p.m.

The radiation guides called Protective Action Guides or PAGs are protocols for responding to radiological events ranging from nuclear power-plant accidents to dirty bombs.

Drinking water, for example, would have a huge increase in allowable public exposure to radioactivity, the group says, that would include:

A nearly 1000-fold increase in strontium-90

A 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for iodine-131

An almost 25,000 rise for nickel-63

The new radiation guidance would also allow long-term cleanup standards thousands of times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted, permitting doses to the public that EPA itself estimates would cause a cancer in as much as every fourth person exposed, the group says.

These relaxed standards are opposed by public health professionals inside EPA, according to documents PEER said it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

PEER is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals

Source:  The Tennessean

NUCLEAR ALERT FUKUSHIMA...MELTDOWN STARTED - PLUTONIUM LEAK OF RADIATION OFFICIALS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JV09rHS1JY&feature=feedf

The contradictory reports are confusing the public.
Expert on ABC News Admits Slow Meltdown is Already Happening


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfegXmTRZdM&feature=feedf

This is a copy - the original was pulled from the Internet. This is heartbreaking!

Radiation in Massachusetts Rainwater Likely From Japan

I found this posted late yesterday on Free Republic.
Full text:

A text message from my nephew in Japan. He works for a contractor that services news organizations worldwide.

MARK - ARRIVED HERE ONE WEEK AFTER QUAKE. 145 MILES FROM REACTORS. AREA IS INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE COMPOUND. WE HAVE TRUCKS FOOD WATER FUEL GENERATORS BATTERIES BEDDING HYGIENE CAMERAS DISH AND RADIOS DROPPED HERE 8 DAYS BEFORE QUAKE. 2 - 6.0+ QUAKES HERE SINCE. BUILDINGS OK. 3 NEWS TEAMS USING OUR STUFF. BUSY. NRC AND DOD HAS WAREHOUSES IN HERE. DOD JUST SET UP SECURITY. NRC GUYS HERE ARE PISSED. THEY WANTED MILES OF TRASH BURNED BEFORE IT COULD BLOW AND FLOAT INTO THE NORTH PACIFIC GYRE. NOW IT IS CONTAMINATED AND BURNING MAY BE BAD. US STATE DEPARTMENT AND JAPANESE GOVERNMENT STOPPED THE BURN. RESUPPLY HERE SLOW. BE HOME MAY 15-20. BACK HERE IF CONTRACTS SIGNED BY JUNE. GITD GARY-

Source: TEXT FROM JAPAN

Monday, March 28, 2011

Radiation In Massachusetts Rainwater Likely From Japan

Radiation Rain Massachusetts

BOSTON -- Health officials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has registered very low concentrations of radiation, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged earlier this month by an earthquake and tsunami.

John Auerbach, the Massachusetts commissioner of public health, said that radioiodine-131 found in the sample – one of more than 100 that have been taken around the country – has a short life of only eight days. He said the drinking water supply in the state was unaffected and officials do not expect any health concerns.

Nevada and other Western states also have reported minuscule amounts of radiation, but scientists say those presented no health risks.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health said the in-state sample was taken in the past week, but they did not say where. The testing is part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency network that monitors for radioactivity.

State officials said similar testing was done in California, Pennsylvania, Washington and other states, and showed comparable levels of I-131 in rain.

Massachusetts testing last week of samples from the Quabbin and Wachusett reservoirs showed no detectable levels of I-131, health officials said.

Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard K. Sullivan Jr. directed the Department of Environmental Protection to collect additional samples for testing from several water bodies across Massachusetts. Results will be available over the next several days.

In Japan, mounting problems, including miscalculated radiation figures and inadequate storage tanks for huge amounts of contaminated water, stymied emergency workers Sunday as they struggled to bring the country's nuclear complex back from the edge of disaster. Workers were trying to remove radioactive water from the nuclear compound and restart the regular cooling systems for the dangerously hot fuel.

Source:  HuffPost Green

Video:  Radioactive iodine-131 DETECTED in rain water - Massachusetts - March 27, 2011

Video:  URGENT - USA / Europe - Radiation and Jet stream FORECAST UPDATE - march 27, 2011

Also, Congressman Ed Markey is suggesting people within a 20 mile radius from a Nuclear plant take potassium iodide as a precaution.  Isn’t that peculiar, just as the EPA is upping the allowable levels?!?  See Here: Group Warns EPA Ready to increase Radioactive Release Guidelines.

I’m with him!!  Better to err on the side of caution!

Related:

Dr. Mercola:  Why 95% of Japanese May Not Suffer from Radioactive Iodine Exposure

Potassium Iodide Runs Low As Americans Seek It Out

Thursday, March 17, 2011

JAPAN BEING EVACUATED ! Confirmed THIS IS REAL! Women and children first! March 17, 2011

Send to anyone you know in japan! Assuming Youtube isn't 100% banned there. The US military is going to start evacuating the COUNTRY of Japan!

This should settle the debate as to WHETHER or not there was a meltdown... confirmed ... MELTDOWN has occurred... otherwise no evacuations would be needed.

Today.. march 17, 2011 .. the biggest evacuation ever attempted begins by the United States and Japan! women and children first...  As U.S. President plays golf and spend day talking about basketball “to calm fears”

New Link for one of the best videos on what is really happening in Tokyo that had already  been removed from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmEaSaoJ6H0

Go to www:DOTblackcatsystemsDOTcom/Ra­dMap/map.html radiation map on Google and you will find that the levels are shown as **** NORMAL**** for Tokyo and the US right now... Here are the levels last time I checked the map: 20 Tokyo 20 Portland 10 San Francisco 15 Los Angeles 27 Denver 10 Austin 15 New York. Normal background radiation is between 5 and 28!!!  Everyone should be taking iodide potassium pills ‘now’ as a precution, wherever you live in Japan or the U.S.  Radiation in the food supply will be the next problem! Potassium Iodide Runs Low as Americans Seek it Out

clayvessel 6 minutes ago
Hello randcorp, I have potassium iodide pills I started last Friday, on the back of the box per the nuclear regulatory commission, it states that radioactivity goes airborne and waterborne and will spread up to 200 miles. Now that was last Friday with the first venting which is radioactive steam. Japan moved people 12 miles then 20 miles, radiation got to the coast of Ca. yesterday and spiked to 234, in japan, the readings got to 8,200, please keep commenting and lets us know

hurchel 16 minutes ago

U.S. Military Begins Evacuating Japan

Video:  Military EVACUATION ! Confirmed THIS IS REAL! Women and children first! March 17, 2011

Military Begins Voluntary Evacuation of Families in Japan

Raw video:  U.S. authorizes Japan Evacuations

This has been verified on the NavyTimes and links to MSNBC:  U.S. to evacuate Americans out of Japan

WASHINGTON — The United States has authorized the first evacuations of Americans out of Japan, taking a tougher stand on the deepening nuclear crisis and warning U.S. citizens to defer all non-essential travel to any part of the country as unpredictable weather and wind conditions risked spreading radioactive contamination.

The U.S. is doing minute-by-minute analysis of the fast-moving situation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.

Passengers and cargo arriving from Japan are being screened for radiation “in an exercise of caution,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday. She said no harmful levels of radiation had been detected.

President Obama planned to make remarks on the crisis later in the day.

On Wednesday, Obama placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Wednesday to discuss Japan’s efforts to recover from last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Dai-chi plant. Obama promised Kan that the U.S. would offer constant support for its close friend and ally, and “expressed his extraordinary admiration for the character and resolve of the Japanese people,” the White House said.

But a hastily organized teleconference late Wednesday with officials from the State and Energy Departments underscored the administration’s concerns. The travel warning extends to U.S. citizens already in the country and urges them to consider leaving. The authorized departure offers voluntary evacuation to family members and dependents of U.S. personnel in Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya and affects some 600 people.

Senior State Department official Patrick Kennedy said chartered planes will be brought in to help private American citizens wishing to leave. People face less risk in southern Japan, but changing weather and wind conditions could raise radiation levels elsewhere in the coming days, he said.

“This is a very serious problem with widespread ramifications,” Clinton said during a visit to Tunisia. “There will be a continuing evaluation. This is ... a minute-by- minute analysis and we’re doing everything we can to support the Japanese and their heroic efforts in dealing with this unfolding disaster.”

Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said the military will coordinate departures for eligible Defense Department dependents.

The decision to begin evacuations mirrors moves by countries such as Australia and Germany, who also advised their citizens to consider leaving Tokyo and other earthquake-affected areas. Tokyo, which is about 170 miles from the stricken nuclear complex, has reported slightly elevated radiation levels, though Japanese officials have said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital.

Anxious to safeguard the U.S. relationship with its closest Asian ally, Obama told Kan Wednesday evening about the steps the U.S. was taking, shortly before the State Department announced the first evacuations.

But the alliance looked likely to be strained, with the U.S. taking more dramatic safety precautions than Japan and issuing dire warnings that contradicted Japan’s more upbeat assessments.

Earlier Wednesday, the Obama administration urged the evacuation of Americans from a 50-mile radius of the stricken nuclear plant, raising questions about U.S. confidence in Tokyo’s risk assessments. Japan’s government was urging people within 20 miles to stay indoors if they could not evacuate.

White House spokesman Jay Carney sought to minimize any rift between the two allies, saying U.S. officials were making their recommendations based on their independent analysis of the data coming out of the region following Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami.

“I will not from here judge the Japanese evaluation of the data,” Carney told reporters. “This is what we would do if this incident were happening in the United States.”

Until Wednesday, the U.S. had advised its citizens to follow the recommendations of the Japanese government. As late as Tuesday, Carney had said those recommendations were “the same that we would take in the situation.”

But conditions at the nuclear plant continued to deteriorate, with surging radiation forcing Japan to order workers to temporarily withdraw. Obama met at the White House with Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who recommended the wider evacuation zone.

During testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Jaczko said anyone who gets close to the plant could face potentially lethal doses of radiation.

“We believe radiation levels are extremely high,” he said.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. had consular personnel in the Miyagi and Ibaraki prefectures and was sending officials out to check on Americans.

“We have consular teams on the ground,” Toner said. “Where they can, they are going door to door. They are going to hospitals. They are trying everything in their power to reach out and find American citizens.”

The Pentagon said U.S. troops working on relief missions can get closer than 50 miles to the plant with approval. Lapan said the U.S. would review requests from the Japanese for assistance that would require troops to move within that radius, though no approval for such movement had been given since the stricter guidelines were enacted.

The Pentagon said troops are receiving anti-radiation pills before missions to areas where radiation exposure is likely.

“U.S. forces remain in Japan and the U.S. has full capability to fulfill our alliance commitments to defend Japan and maintain peace and security in the region,” Lapan said.

With the arrival of three more ships to the massive humanitarian mission, there were 17,000 sailors and Marines afloat on 14 vessels in waters off Japan. Several thousand Army and Air Force service members already stationed at U.S. bases in Japan have also been mobilized for the relief efforts.

Airmen have been flying search and rescue missions and operating Global Hawk drones and U-2 reconnaissance planes to help the Japanese assess damage from the disasters. The operation is fraught with challenges — mainly, figuring out how to continue to provide help amid some low-level releases of radiation from the facility, which officials fear could be facing a meltdown.

Weather also temporarily hampered some relief plans Wednesday. Pilots couldn’t fly helicopters off the deck of aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan until late afternoon because of poor visibility. The 7th Fleet said 15 flights with relief supplies were launched from the eight-ship carrier group, about half as many as the 29 flights reported the previous day to deliver food, water, blankets and other supplies.

Several water pumps and hoses were being sent from U.S. bases around Japan to help at Fukushima, where technicians were dousing the overheating nuclear reactors with seawater in a frantic effort to cool them. The U.S. had already sent two fire trucks to the area to be operated by Japanese firefighters, said Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde, a Pentagon.

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More U.S. relief crews exposed to radiation (March 15)

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Book: Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines - page 167: The Truth About Chernobyl

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Potassium Iodide Runs Low As Americans Seek It Out

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Supplies of potassium iodide, a preventive against radiation poisoning of the thyroid gland, are running low at some manufacturers, as Americans seek protection amid fears that radiation from Japan could head to the U.S., according to the companies.

People keep warm by a stove at an evacuation center in Sendai Tuesday.

One leading supplier, Anbex Inc., quickly sold out of its supply of more than 10,000 14-tablet packages on Saturday, said Alan Morris, president of the Williamsburg, Va., company.

He said the closely held firm was getting about three orders a minute for $10 packages of its Iosat pills, up from as few as three a week normally.

"Those who don't get it are crying. They're terrified," said Mr. Morris. The company tells callers that the likelihood of dangerous levels of radiation reaching the U.S. is low, but some callers, particularly on the West Coast, remain afraid, Mr. Morris said.

Interest is also high at Fleming Pharmaceuticals, a St. Louis County company that makes potassium iodide in liquid form. "It actually has been insanity here," said Deborah Fleming Wurdack, a co-owner.

The company hasn't accounted for all the recent orders, but Ms. Wurdack estimates the firm is getting dozens of calls an hour, along with emails, requesting the 45-milliliter ThyroShield bottles, which sell for $13.25 each.

Fleming Pharmaceuticals still has supply, but it expects to run out this week, Ms. Wurdack said. It is already planning to make a new round of the bottles, and to order the eyedroppers needed to dispense the solution.

Radioactive iodine can be accidentally released from a nuclear reactor.

Infants are especially at risk of injury, as are young children and people with small amounts of iodine in their thyroid.

Yet the risk is thought to be low that radiation released in Japan will reach the U.S. at dangerous levels. California and Washington state, for instance, have been reassuring residents that monitoring hasn't detected any harmful levels of radiation, and they don't it expect to.

"Japan has an evacuation area of about 12 miles from the nuclear plants. Washington state is 5,000 to 6,000 miles away from Japan," said Tim Church, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health.

Likewise, California's Department of Public Health has been advising residents to resist taking precautionary measures like buying potassium iodide, said spokesman Mike Sicilia.

The drug could cause side effects in people who are allergic to shellfish or suffer from thyroid problems, Mr. Sicilia said.

But the public-health agencies said they had been fielding calls from people asking if they should buy potassium iodide.

The drug information center at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics has also been receiving inquiries today from people asking about potassium iodide, said Erin Fox, manager of the organization's drug information service.

Purchase of potassium iodide doesn't require a prescription, Ms. Fox said.

Potassium iodide is a salt that stops the body from taking in radioactive iodine that can be emitted during a nuclear emergency.

It fills up the thyroid gland, preventing it from collecting the radioactive material and reducing the risk of cancer, among other things.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says evacuation is the best protection, since it protects the entire body, but taking the medicine is helpful if that isn't possible.

The NRC has asked states with residents living within a 10-mile radius of a nuclear-power plant to consider potassium iodide, but hasn't ordered states to make the purchases.

Fleming has received orders from some states that are worried because their stockpiles of potassium iodide will expire in the near future, Ms. Wurdack said. Also making orders, she added, were hospitals and pharmacies.

Russians Rush For Iodine Pills

Source:  Nikkei.com

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