13-08-2011, 05:35 AM
CounterPunch [ http://www.counterpunch.org/ ] has established that in the eight weeks after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima complex in Japan on March 11, infant mortality in 19 U.S. cities increased by 35 per cent.
In the course of this review, conducted by CounterPunch's statistical consultant, Pierre Sprey, it also became clear that the Environmental Protection Agency's monitoring system, known as RadNet, is hopelessly inadequate to assess the effect on U.S. public health of a nuclear accident either overseas or here in the Homeland. EPA's routine sampling is laughable, with sampling frequency and geographic coverage that are hopeless for tracking radiation exposures of concern to public health. EPA's extra sampling following disasters like Three Mile Island or Fukushima can, at best, identify only a tiny fraction of the significant touchdowns of the concentrated radiation plumes from an accident site.
Sprey selected 19 cities showing evidence of being near a plume touchdown within 20 days of the Fukushima disaster: Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Boise, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver and, surprisingly, three cities in Florida - St. Petersburg, Tampa and Jacksonville.
Sprey found that, when compared to 2010, infant mortality in the 19-city sample increased by a statistically significant 35 per cent. He also notes that the EPA RadNet samples are so sparse in time and space - days or weeks apart and often hundreds and hundreds of miles between monitoring sites - that the vast majority of actual plume touchdowns across the country almost certainly remained undetected.
Read Sprey's full and deeply disturbing survey. (Requires subscription)
http://www.easycartsecure.com/CounterPun...tions.html
In the course of this review, conducted by CounterPunch's statistical consultant, Pierre Sprey, it also became clear that the Environmental Protection Agency's monitoring system, known as RadNet, is hopelessly inadequate to assess the effect on U.S. public health of a nuclear accident either overseas or here in the Homeland. EPA's routine sampling is laughable, with sampling frequency and geographic coverage that are hopeless for tracking radiation exposures of concern to public health. EPA's extra sampling following disasters like Three Mile Island or Fukushima can, at best, identify only a tiny fraction of the significant touchdowns of the concentrated radiation plumes from an accident site.
Sprey selected 19 cities showing evidence of being near a plume touchdown within 20 days of the Fukushima disaster: Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Boise, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, Long Beach, Las Vegas, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver and, surprisingly, three cities in Florida - St. Petersburg, Tampa and Jacksonville.
Sprey found that, when compared to 2010, infant mortality in the 19-city sample increased by a statistically significant 35 per cent. He also notes that the EPA RadNet samples are so sparse in time and space - days or weeks apart and often hundreds and hundreds of miles between monitoring sites - that the vast majority of actual plume touchdowns across the country almost certainly remained undetected.
Read Sprey's full and deeply disturbing survey. (Requires subscription)
http://www.easycartsecure.com/CounterPun...tions.html
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