36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Growths From Radiation Exposure

[a kennedy]

Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.

The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the "Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey," published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice.

Shunichi Yamashita, M.D., president of the Japan Thyroid Association, sent a letter to members in January with guidelines for treating thyroid abnormalities. In 2001 Yamashita co-authored a study that found normal children in Nagasaki to have 0 percent nodules and 0.8 percent cysts.

The introduction of the letter, written by Fukushima Voice, states that the results in Fukushima show a "much faster progression compared to Chernobyl" as research done around Chernobyl showed the rate of thyroid nodules in children 5 to 10 years after the accident to be 1.74 percent.


http://www.businessinsider.com/a-stunning-36-percent-of-fukushima-children-have-abnormal-growths-from-radiation-exposure-2012-7

[Scuba]

1. Words fail.

[malaise]

28. Ditto

in just over a year

[nc4bo]

2. Thanks for posting this. I saw the info online but it was all in Japanese....

No one seemed to be able to translate.

Horrific.....

[Arugula Latte]

3. I'm waiting for DU's band of nuke apologists to show up to say this isn't so.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. That would be me.

This is unexpected. There will need to be more study on WHY, but my money is on the plan to shelter in place, or an artificially small evacuation zone would be the cause behind this.

Whatever my opinion on nuclear power, what is done is done, and we need to make sure we learn from this, so it is not repeated. We owe at LEAST that much to those kids. If that means shutting down reactors too close to population zones, increased costs born by nuclear plant operators to provide for more emergency response equipment like standby busses, etc, so be it.

If the costs are too high, these plants will go away regardless.

[MsPithy]

17. You are wrong.

"If the costs are too high, these plants will go away regardless."

Nope. When the costs are too high, the nuclear plant operators bribe the politicians to divert costs to the taxpayer.

[AtheistCrusader]

27. At some point the costs become so high

and the plants so unreliable that even that is untenable.

Look at San Onofre. That thing is totally screwed financially. I don't anticipate it will be coming back online.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Eat your bananas.

[a kennedy]

4. It is just so sad......

[Harmony Blue]

5. This is stunning to those

that don't understand the science behind nuclear power.

In other words, it isn't something we should try to be harnessing in the public or private sector. It is risky even in military applications.

So sad.

[RainDog]

6. so sad n/t

[Odin2005]

7. What about the kids who live near blown-up mountain-tops full of coal?

Oh, they are a bunch of redneck hicks and so don't matter.

[PDJane]

8. What does pain for one variety of victim

have to do with pain for the other variety of victim? It's past time to make a concerted push to renewables, before our entire habitat becomes completely uninhabitable.

That includes coal, nukes and tar sands, all of which are creating child victims.

[nilram]

11. That would be a different post. This is a board with many posts.

And anyone can make a new one.

[closeupready]

22. Yes but that would diminish the hijack potential to deflect discussion

away from the hazards of nuclear power.

[Zoeisright]

14. Ever hear of a non sequitur?

You just posted one.

[chknltl]

16. ALL children matter eom

[marmar]

24. WTF?

Just make up some assinine shit and post it.

[ryan_cats]

9. This is horrible news.

This is horrible news, didn't they give people iodine tablets to stop this from happening? I thought if they took the iodine, it bonded where the radioactivity affects (I don't know exactly how it works) so this is disturbing.

We heard that even though the radiation levels were high, it was supposed to be safe? If it happened to my children, I would be furious. This isn't a bump in statistics, 36%, crap that's bad.

[Duer 157099]

15. I remember the iodine discussions

but can't recall the outcome, whether they decided to not distribute it to everyone, or they didn't have enough, or what.

[Coexist]

10. so incredibly sad

[lovuian]

13. So sad and more Fukishima fallout possibly to come

Fukishima is a tinking time bomb

[chknltl]

19. ticking timebomb indeed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/operator-of-japans-crippled-fukushima-plant-disaster-removes-2-fuel-rods-prelude-to-cleanup/2012/07/18/gJQA71bdsW_story.html

Optimistic assesment that the fuel rods will be removed by the end of NEXT year? If that sucker spills its contents....

Imo, like the German citizens who were marched through the deathcamps after the war, those who openly promote nuke power should be made to witness the real life nightmare consequences of what they have promoted.

[flamingdem]

25. At least they got out of denial enough to start removing the fuel rods

the problem is when they discover they're too damaged to remove.. this will go on for a decade increasing the chances of toppling via earthquake or typhoon

[ryan_cats]

20. I agree!

I agree! This first problem hit the group I would consider to be the easiest to hit. But this isn't over. I read somewhere where the local crops were considered safe so more an more groups will be affected as the poison reaches a level that is bad and that level is higher on a bigger adult.

I have a feeling they will be dealing with the political and health fallout for a long time.

They downplayed the risks so people didn't have enough info on radiation's short and long term effects. Since they didn't know, they didn't move. I wonder what the daily exposure rate its?

The only upside is it might create Gojira.

One final thing, if whoever was responsible really accepts that they were impossible, they might kill themselves like the folks that repaired the 747 that crashed in Japan because of faulty repairs.

[FedUpWithIt All]

18. Really sad to read this.

It is likely just a matter of time before we begin to see consequences much further out.

My heart goes out to those families who will have to pay the costs.

[FedUpWithIt All]

23. Officials in Japan have opened Fukushima state's first beach to swimmers

Officials in Japan have opened Fukushima state's first beach to swimmers since last year's nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe.

About 1,000 people yesterday descended on Nakoso beach, about 40miles south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2175259/Families-flock-Fukushima-beach-officials-declare-safe-swim-sea-16-months-nuclear-disaster.html

[hlthe2b]

26. I am guilty of needing to step away from this for a little while...

Feeling so powerless to do anything is really wrenching. I knew this had to be the outcome, but I desperately hoped it would not.

Words fail.....

[uppityperson]

29. Sad and not unexpected. It will be interesting to watch and see how the numbers develop

Thyroids are very suspectible to radiation and I expected there to be a lot of thyroid issues there. It will be interesting to see what develops next, what the 5, 10, 20, etc yr numbers show. More data is needed after nuke events to better prepare for the future since as long as we have nuke plants, there will be "events".

This is very sad and I wish the best for them all. It sucks.