Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

It just gets 'better and better'. The plant is obviously out of control and has not been stabilized! One can expect that additional reactors will further overheat, suffer partial or full meltdowns and leak more radiation. It is a literal ticking timebomb, but treated as if it is A-OK and under control. It is not....as they have just partially admitted, some years late. Tokyo is only a four hour drive away...and Japan is a very densely populated country. An unknown [or at least undisclosed] amount of the radiation released has traveled [and continues to be released] Worldwide, carried by water currents, wind and weather patterns [as with Chernobyl, higher radiation levels will be found on the ground based on winds and rainfall.]

There was a great two day conference of top experts on nuclear power and nuclear environmental consequences. It was organized by Helen Caldecott. Here is the program and one can download the powerpoint slides from the speakers and watch all of the conference at the url below.

The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Day 2
March 12, 2013

A unique, two-day symposium at which an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will make presentations on and discuss the bio-medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima disaster, will be held at The New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013, the second anniversary of the accident.

A project of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, the symposium is being co-sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Click on a bolded link below to jump to that section of the program.

Session Three:
THE MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BOTH THE CHERNOBYL AND FUKUSHIMA CRISES AS THEY RELATE TO NORTH AMERICA
Session Chair: Andrew Kanter, Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Alexey Yablokov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Lessons from Chernobyl

Wladimir Wertelecki, Former Chair of the Department of Medical Genetics University South Alabama
Congenital Malformations in Rivne Polossia and the Chernobyl Accident

Ian Fairlie, Radiation Biologist and Independent Consultant
The Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima: Nuclear Source Terms, Initial Health Effects

Steve Wing, Gillings School of Public Health, University North Carolina
Epidemiological Studies of Radiation Releases from Nuclear Facilities: Lessons Past and Present

Joe Mangano, Radiation and Public Health Project
Post Fukushima Increases in Newborn Hypothyroidism on the West Coast of USA

Robert Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies
Management of Spent Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste

Questions and Answers

Cindy Folkers, Beyond Nuclear
Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring in the US

Mary Olson
Nuclear Information and Resource Services, Gender Matters in the Atomic Age

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in Japan and America

David Freeman, Former Chair. Tennessee Valley Authority
My Experience with Nuclear Power

Herbert Abrams, Stanford University School of Medicine
The Hazards of Low Level Ionizing Radiation: Controversy and Evidence

Questions and Answers
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To view the entire two day symposium go the the url directly below:

http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#