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Nuclear mishaps, A short list of some of the known OOPSES that are not supposed to happen… Or we’re not supposed to know about:
February 16, 2009
A cross-channel investigation has been launched after two submarines carrying nuclear weapons – from the Royal and French navies – collided in the Atlantic.
HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant crashed on February 3 or 4, despite both vessels being equipped with sonar.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5744071.ece
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Russian nuclear submarine accidents
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian and Soviet nuclear submarines have been involved in numerous accidents during the past four decades. Poor maintenance and economic troubles since the 1991 Soviet collapse have further aggravated the problem.
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Here is a look at some of the more serious incidents:
Jan. 26, 1998. An accident aboard a nuclear-powered submarine at an Arctic base in Listafjord, on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, released toxic fumes that killed a Russian naval officer and injured four sailors. There was no radiation leak.
Oct. 17, 1996. A nuclear submarine on patrol in the Pacific took on water after one of its propellers broke. No one was reported injured and the sub returned safely to base.
September 1995. A power cutoff to nuclear submarines on the coast of northern Russia caused a cooling system on one boat to break down, forcing emergency measures to stop its reactor from overheating.
March 23, 1994. Two Russian submarines with nuclear weapons on board grazed each other during an exercise in the Barents Sea.
Summer 1993. An accident in a nuclear submarine killed 21 sailors and injured two more, but navy commanders tried to cover it up.
November 1992. A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire while under repair in the Arctic port of Murmansk.
June, 1992. An explosion aboard a nuclear submarine killed an officer and injured four crewmen while the ship was being repaired on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia.
April 1989. A Soviet nuclear submarine, the Komsomolets, sank in the Barents Sea, killing 42 of the 69 sailors aboard.
October 1986. A nuclear-armed submarine caught fire and sank 600 miles east of Bermuda. A top Russian scientist said much later that nuclear warheads on the sub broke open, spewing plutonium-239 into the Atlantic.
Between 1956 and 1991, there were at least 121 incidents or accidents in the Soviet nuclear submarine fleet, according to a 1992 study by the environmental group Greenpeace.
At least 10 accidents involved serious damage and danger to nuclear reactors, and actual reactor meltdowns occurred twice, in 1979 and 1985, another Greenpeace study said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nds25.htm
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Gradual Acceptance Leads to Dangerous Complacency with Radioactivity and EMR (anthropogenic Electro-Magnetic Radiation)
New sources of highly radioactive pollution have been infiltrating the biosphere since the 1940s and added to that is the exponential explosion of so called EMR (electromagnetic radiation) which really kicked in, in the past 20-some years.
Little by little, more forms, and ever elevating degrees of these invisible pollutants have been pushed, sneaked and welcomed into our lives. The devices, utilities technologies and toys have often been presented as absolutely necessary. Whether or how necessary is another story. The point is that all of these modern invisible pollution sources have been added at a steady pace making it easy to be unaware of the mounting stressors or to be thoughtful of the likely compounding negative effects. While some benefits and convenience may be realized overall, the net negative side effects far, far outweigh any real good.
The concern is that the population is like the frog placed into a pot of temperate water, the heat is raised slowly and steadily, this way the frog (the population) doesn’t realize that it’s about to boil till it’s too late.
In this society populated with people who are complacent and consciously comfortable with chronic exposure to harmful, ionizing radiation, leaky nukes may not seem as counterproductive as they truly are, especially for those who believe that some government agency ‘has their backs’. The fact that it is common to carry a cell phone or home cordless phone on the person and even hold it right up against the head for hours daily doesn’t make the practice safe…far from it.
In the case of such wireless devices we know that the government/industry looked until they found one form of radiation that they could measure to rate the relative safety/risk equation which could be presented in such a way as to keep our attention off more obvious forms of biologically disruptive radiation. How convenient for the ‘overseers’ to base regulations only on the SAR (specific absorption ratio), which can be made to look like the exposure level might be worth the damage incurred if one loves his handy toy enough, while they totally ignore the much more clearly damaging ICF (information carrying frequencies)(the known profoundly harmful aspects/frequencies are never considered or quantified by the industry or authorities) . They are basically saying that if you keep the device a certain (unrealistic) distance from the body and the tissue that is your physical self doesn’t ‘heat up’ beyond an arbitrary amount, all is well.
It’s as honest as testing water only for the presence of lead in samples KNOWN TO BE loaded with arsenic.
That’s an example of the shams that the ‘corporate/government marriage’ uses all the time, and most people buy it. People buy it so enthusiastically that:
Millions of loving parents place ‘baby-monitors’ inches away from the youngster’s body… a radio transmitter right there close to the baby for many hours every day.
People are running around with implanted radioactive pellets and undergoing regularly scheduled radioactive therapies.
It’s the law that homes must be outfitted with a minimum number of smoke detectors, the kind easiest to find, in fact the only type offered at most retailers is the kind containing radioactive ‘Americium-241’. There is a safe alternative, but most folks don’t even know there is a choice or consider that their bedrooms have radioactive appliances… And when was the last time you noticed that someone bothered to dispose of a radioactive smoke detector ‘responsibly’?
And:
It’s now a ‘wireless’ (profoundly EMR polluted) world.
Clerks in many (most large chain) retail stores are outfitted with headsets on their skulls and transmitters at the waist 8-9 hours a day.
Millions of ‘intelligent’ people run around all day every day donning ‘blue-teeth’ (radio receiver-transmitters) planted one inch from their brains… I know brilliant doctors who participate in this self-destructive practice.
Many or most homes and schools are now self-polluted by wireless routers.
Almost everyone spends hours daily with a cordless phone pressed against his head as if these convenient devices are less poisonous then cell phones.
And of course, well we should not even have to mention the ubiquitous invasiveness and pervasiveness of cell phones and related personal wireless devices.
There are wireless audio/video systems in many homes.
Schools are very hot with lots of these sources of invisible pollution.
Coming soon to every home throughout the U.S. and much of the developed world are ‘Smart Meters’ at the electric service box on the side of the house. These will have microwave transmitters imbedded which will further electro-magnetically pollute the home environment and can’t be turned off.
Many more poisonous ‘smart devices’ will be pushed onto and snuck into our lives, unless and until we say, NO!
Why would anyone question it? After all we have been assured for decades that microwave ovens are perfectly safe. The fact that microwave ovens (affectionately called Zappers) are so inexpensive (cheap) is not a service which ultimately benefits our health… But they must be safe or they wouldn’t be legal, and they save energy right? Well, no and no, but that’s another [disappointing] story.
Some of these examples may seem a bit far out, but the important points to remember are that:
~ We don’t have to HAVE, or DO, everything that poison technology offers. In fact, I would propose that when we see that a technology’s advances are outpacing relevant responsibility, we must interrupt the runaway process, bring all components into alignment such that we have a completely ‘sustainable’ system which, most fundamentally DOES NO HARM. (The way that the ‘nuclear-industrial-complex’ has been set up and now operates is analogous to setting sail in deep waters in an ark constructed on a water-soluble hull, this ark carries everyone and they’re looking forward to a fun cruise but don’t see the inevitable disaster ahead because they failed to look at the system as a whole.
~ The ‘corporate-government amalgam’ does indeed intentionally mislead us. The corporate-government amalgam does disseminate huge, lethal lies as a regular practice. The nuclear push is a crystal-clear example.
~ This comment is in no way meant to reflect a narrow minded anti-government/anti-business sentiment, but to remind us to:
~ Assume that we are rarely fed the truth or offered the whole story.
~ And that we can have as trustworthy a government and as responsible a corporate climate as we insist on it.
Please join us and insist that our government and its plutonium pillager pals bring us sane ideas or get out of the way.
By the way, as an example of the pervasive, invasiveness of these times:
By early 2010, 6,000 of the 8,000 private campgrounds in the U.S. were blanketing all their patrons in Wi-Fi electro-pollution. This is the ‘extra’ you get, like it or not, and some of these locations are way out in the wilderness and offer ‘otherwise’ primitive accommodations…
Happy (connected) camping!
Love
Billy
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Tell President Obama not to risk our future with loan guarantees for the nuclear industry:
How to help everyone,
How to help The President,
How to save the grandkids:
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Tell President Obama:
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Stop Nuclear Power Expansion—Call Your Senator
Please phone your U.S. Senator as soon as possible on Monday and urge her/him to vote against a “Sense of the Senate” resolution that would build support for expanding nuclear power, especially if your Senator serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Particular attention is being paid to Sen. Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire.
Urge support for an expansion of energy efficiency and renewable sources of electricity, such as wind, solar, and geothermal.
Call the central Congressional office office at (202) 224-3121.
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Help the “Nuclear Renaissance” Crumble
Dear Friends,
Here’s a quick, handy action help the “nuclear renaissance” crumble!
BACKGROUND
Though Bush’s fantasy “nuclear renaissance” appears to meltdown before our eyes as 19 of 27 announced new nuclear reactors are cancelled or tabled in favor of efficiency and alternatives, a few reactors are unfortunately still rockin’ along in the second year of the new administration.
Notably, Southern Co.’s Vogtle reactors in Georgia and SCG&E’s Summer reactors in South Carolina are first in line with hands out for TAXPAYER-FUNDED loan guarantees which are reported to be rolling out from U.S. Department of Energy very soon. Besides the obvious socialism involved with bailing out the faltering nuclear industry, the reactors proposed for both projects are the ill-fated Westinghouse AP1000 design, just sent back to the drawing board for at least one year for serious safety concerns by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION!
E-mail U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu at: The.Secretary@hq.doe.gov
Title your e-mail: NO LOAN GUARANTEES FOR AP1000 PROJECTS
Copy and paste the sample letter below, or write your own, but DO IT TODAY!!! Stop the Speeding Nuclear Bailout!!
SAMPLE LETTER:
Dear Energy Secretary Chu,
I am writing you to ask that you stop immediate payouts from the ill-advised taxpayer-funded nuclear loan guarantee program, an out-of-step legacy from the Bush administration’s fantasy “nuclear renaissance.”
Two Westinghouse AP1000 reactor proposals, in Georgia and in South Carolina, are the only remaining hold-outs of the rush to announce new reactors in recent years. Most of the new reactors have been cancelled or tabled in the face of better alternatives and escalating financial risks for nuclear reactors.
The ongoing interest of South Carolina Gas & Electric to add reactors at Summer in South Carolina and of Southern Company to build reactors at Vogtle in Georgia is maintained solely by the unwholesome enticement of taxpayer-funded loan guarantees promised by the U.S. Department of Energy.
SCG&E and Southern Co. have both testified before their respective Public Service Commissions that they persist in pursuing nuclear power because they “don’t want to lose their place in line at the DOE.”
The unfinished and unlicensed AP1000 reactor design has been, as you are aware, sent back to the drawing board for deep revisions by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dr. Chu, your work with renewable energy at DOE speaks for itself. Non-poisonous renewable energy sources are ready to free us from the security risks and environmental degradation of nuclear and coal.
I beg you to use the power of your office to protect U.S. taxpayers from bad investments in drawing-board nuclear reactors.
Respectfully, e your name and address … you may receive a reply)
Send your letter
PEACE!
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Letter of apology to the RADIOACTIVE FUTURE…
Dear Aquarians,
Well, we got through that sensationalized 2012 thing and the Earth is still spinning, but I sense that things could be a lot more comfortable for you had we never fooled around with atom splitting, or at least, if after Hiroshima and Chernobyl we would have cut our losses. We could not have made the mountains and oceans of radioactive waste go away, as you know, (now many centuries after my generation and the one before us tried to ‘fool Mother Nature’) there is still no solution, but conditions on our beloved Earth might well be much more conducive to good health, happiness, economic stability and broad cooperation of her nations if we had stopped that Nuclear Renaissance early in the 21st century.
Many of my peers knew better than to support that backwards movement, and some worked feverishly to ‘stop the insanity’, but [I fear] it wasn’t enough. I know now, that many of the thoughtful anti-nuke/pro-life activists did not even fully understand the technology, but did understand that everything made by man fails and that failures and even small glitches with systems using highly radioactive materials would injure all life-forms for all time, and it was easy for them to understand that such a sentence delivered to everyone for all time, whatever the claimed need, was simply not acceptable.
From my ‘freer perspective’ (if we allow an imagined ’knowing’ from beyond the veil imposed on physicality) I too now clearly see that we, back at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries never did really ‘gamble with nuclear folly’ (gamble with your welfare) as some clamed, because in fact, we had a sure-thing. Everyone at the time, save a miniscule percentage of the population suffering from profound mental handicaps, had the intellect to grasp the blindingly obvious facts about nuclear games which are so graphically illustrated in what is left of the world around you and the bodies of the people in your suffering society. Long before that primitive time early in the 21st century, when the fateful Nuclear Renaissance was proposed there were mountains of irrefutable evidence/proof regarding the negative aspects of ‘radioactive experimentation’. All humans had measurable levels of radioactive contamination in their bodies, mothers passed it along in breast milk and fathers, through their sperm. Simple lab tests could accurately pinpoint the age of a person by measuring the percentage and calibrating the placement of radioactive markers in teeth and bones.
There really wasn’t an argument… The corporate government invented one.
We could all understand the connection, yet some of us used everything at our disposal to put reality out of our minds. In our (my) defense, it was a scary and confusing time. It was the infancy of the age of hyper-information and there were ten counters to every story. Everything that our fathers had counted on for stability was changing, for a while there, it seemed like the whole of society was crumbling… I’m surprised that the race survived at all, though not in very good condition I see.
It may be hard for people of your time (when neuro-empathetic communication is the norm, and ‘privacy’ is only an historic artifact) to imagine, but, back then many people did not think for themselves. Many of us relied on mainstream news for information and to feed us opinion. Back then, what was called ‘the news’ was (for the most part) actually a twisted form of low class entertainment authored and programmed by ruthless, selfish, money-worshiping corporate enterprises, the same forces that controlled the governments. As things became extremely confusing and our ability to reason diminished, in large part because of the compounding stressors, including pollutions of many (new to the species) kinds, and not the least of which was propagandized, implanted fear and frankly, measurable levels of radiological contamination from the very sloppy technology at the heart of this matter… some of us fell into apathy and too many others relinquished any remaining hint of critical thinking ability, ‘donned the sheep skin’ so to speak and followed the herd in any direction that the political faces pushed. As what is now history to you demonstrates, that was a big mistake since the political faces were (could only be) the puppets of the most gratuitously greedy among us.
The greed was so extreme that they knowingly sold the well-being of their very own children and grandchildren for bigger yachts. The country called the United States enjoyed the greatest opportunity to move things in a healthy direction, the powers controlling its government effectively did just the opposite. I know now that it was lazy of me to choose my temporal comfort and to render whole huge tracts of the only Earth uninhabitable, at the price of your health and happiness. Please know that the news and the leaders assured us that the juice required to fire up TV screens and operate the ski-lifts and casinos flowed necessarily from nuclear generating facilities.
Many among us at the time knew that wasn’t so, indeed, there had been, since at least the mid-20th century, numerous proven technologies which were relatively clean, green and renewable, they were ruthlessly blacklisted, slandered and suppressed. Actually, we could have lived very comfortably without any nukes and even without burning much more coal, but the situation was not portrayed that way. Even if nukes would have been essential to the provision of our creature-comforts, clearly it would not have been worth the price that you and the bleeding world you have inherited now pay.
For the apathy, the carelessness and the selfish decisions of myself and many of my 21st century brothers and sisters I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart. The way I understand it… we can’t go back, we cannot undo the assaults of our mistakes, I wish we could, or at least I wish I had been among those who resisted the nuclear invasion, then it would be much easier to face you now. And you know, we could have stopped it if more of us had just gotten up off our pastry-stuffed butts and said NO!
My generation inherited a world that needed some work, but the planet was still relatively healthy, and a darn nice place to live. Some of the folks of those few generations changed all that with unprecedented speed. Now I can see that the Human race does indeed qualify as intelligent life, yet is not nearly smart enough to fool around with radioactivity without hurting someone, everyone.
Back in the day we did a lot of stuff ‘just because we could’. What a shame.
Please Aquarians, if you can find it in your hearts, forgive me, and if you can’t, well I don’t blame you, but please, don’t do something ‘just because you can’ without knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that the consequences are completely benign.
Sincerely,
– Your Name Here -, One of those who just let it happen.
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Stop Nuclear Insanity, The President Needs Your Help!
Tell President Obama not to risk our future with loan guarantees for the nuclear industry:
How to help everyone,
How to help The President,
How to save the grandkids:
Easy email form, just click to email the President: Easy email form, just click to email the President:
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Tell President Obama:
“Stop nuclear loan guarantees!”
Click here: Your letter will be sent to The President
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Please sign the Petition to Stop the Nuclear Bailout:
Go to:
Just type your name, click send and you’re done. Thanks!
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We may still have a chance to rewrite the future for the better.
If enough of us stand up for the rights of our grandchildren and ‘JUST SAY NO’ to nuclear insanity, we can stop the insanity from progressing. We can concentrate on the important business of dealing with the nuclear mess already poisoning our bodies, our minds and our home-planet.
We can turn this mess around and direct our human-genius in a direction which gives the future a chance.
Right now an army of radioactive lobbyists is ‘all aglow’, delivering a constant stream of unforgettable favors and arm-twisting threats to our representatives. In return, Washington is overflowing with subsidies, incentives, bale-outs, guarantees and giveaways of the peoples’ money designed to satisfy the insatiable appetite the Nuke-Corps.
Support for this nuclear insanity will stop WHEN WE STOP IT.
You are only a few clicks away from lending your helping hand. It won’t cost a penny. You can save the future for free.
What’s it going to be? How will the great-grandkids receive your legacy?
How will you experience life in the near future?
Will you be beaten down by effects of increasing systemic radiation or live healthfully as you (we all) deserve?
Will you fear terrorist attacks at the reactor near you or feel relatively safe as you tuck the kids in at night?
Will you be forced to pay ever-escalating utility rates (because of this goofy technology which costs more that it delivers) and your share of guarding, monitoring and futilely trying to contain uncontainable nuclear waste, or will you feel some of the burden begin to ease as we move in a sensible direction?
Please consider taking a moment help get us off of this imminent radioactive train wreck.
The burdens imposed on the near and far future by today’s nuclear apathy or empty assurances won’t be lessened one iota because someone in Washington tells us it’s all OK. It’s not OK.
I know your time is valuable and appreciate your kind attention.
You can help our nation do what is right and the world will follow.
When you click the links below you’ll be doing ‘a world of good’.
Thanks!
Billy
Easy email form, just click to email the President: Easy email form, just click to email the President:
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Tell President Obama:
“Stop nuclear loan guarantees!”
Click here: Your letter will be sent to The President
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Please sign the Petition to Stop the Nuclear Bailout:
Go to:
Just type your name, click send and you’re done. Thanks!
Stop Nuclear Power Expansion—Call Your Senator
Please phone your U.S. Senator as soon as possible on Monday and urge her/him to vote against a “Sense of the Senate” resolution that would build support for expanding nuclear power, especially if your Senator serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Particular attention is being paid to Sen. Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire.
Urge support for an expansion of energy efficiency and renewable sources of electricity, such as wind, solar, and geothermal.
Call the central Congressional office office at (202) 224-3121.
StopNuclearPowerExpansionCallYourSenator
Oh yeah, one more easy way to help:
Help the “Nuclear Renaissance” Crumble
Dear Friends,
Here’s a quick, handy action help the “nuclear renaissance” crumble!
BACKGROUND
Though Bush’s fantasy “nuclear renaissance” appears to meltdown before our eyes as 19 of 27 announced new nuclear reactors are cancelled or tabled in favor of efficiency and alternatives, a few reactors are unfortunately still rockin’ along in the second year of the new administration.
Notably, Southern Co.’s Vogtle reactors in Georgia and SCG&E’s Summer reactors in South Carolina are first in line with hands out for TAXPAYER-FUNDED loan guarantees which are reported to be rolling out from U.S. Department of Energy very soon. Besides the obvious socialism involved with bailing out the faltering nuclear industry, the reactors proposed for both projects are the ill-fated Westinghouse AP1000 design, just sent back to the drawing board for at least one year for serious safety concerns by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION!
E-mail U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu at: The.Secretary@hq.doe.gov
Title your e-mail: NO LOAN GUARANTEES FOR AP1000 PROJECTS
Copy and paste the sample letter below, or write your own, but DO IT TODAY!!! Stop the Speeding Nuclear Bailout!!
SAMPLE LETTER:
Dear Energy Secretary Chu,
I am writing you to ask that you stop immediate payouts from the ill-advised taxpayer-funded nuclear loan guarantee program, an out-of-step legacy from the Bush administration’s fantasy “nuclear renaissance.”
Two Westinghouse AP1000 reactor proposals, in Georgia and in South Carolina, are the only remaining hold-outs of the rush to announce new reactors in recent years. Most of the new reactors have been cancelled or tabled in the face of better alternatives and escalating financial risks for nuclear reactors.
The ongoing interest of South Carolina Gas & Electric to add reactors at Summer in South Carolina and of Southern Company to build reactors at Vogtle in Georgia is maintained solely by the unwholesome enticement of taxpayer-funded loan guarantees promised by the U.S. Department of Energy.
SCG&E and Southern Co. have both testified before their respective Public Service Commissions that they persist in pursuing nuclear power because they “don’t want to lose their place in line at the DOE.”
The unfinished and unlicensed AP1000 reactor design has been, as you are aware, sent back to the drawing board for deep revisions by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dr. Chu, your work with renewable energy at DOE speaks for itself. Non-poisonous renewable energy sources are ready to free us from the security risks and environmental degradation of nuclear and coal.
I beg you to use the power of your office to protect U.S. taxpayers from bad investments in drawing-board nuclear reactors.
Respectfully, e your name and address … you may receive a reply)
Send your letter
PEACE!
Billy EarthRising.org!
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RADIOACTIVE FUTURE, Letter of apology…
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Chernobyl Secrets Revealed
Chernobyl Killed Nearly One Million People:
Revealing and sobering information comes from a methodically well documented new book.
NEW YORK – Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor. This is among the findings laid out in a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published recently on the 24th anniversary of the famous meltdown at the Soviet facility.
The book, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” was compiled by authors Alexey Yablokov of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko of the Institute of Radiation Safety, in Minsk, Belarus.
The authors examined more than 5,000 published articles and studies, most written in Slavic languages and never before available in English.
The authors said, “For the past 23 years, it has been clear that there is a danger greater than nuclear weapons concealed within nuclear power. Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
“No citizen of any country can be assured that he or she can be protected from radioactive contamination. One nuclear reactor can pollute half the globe,” they said. “Chernobyl fallout covers the entire Northern Hemisphere.”
Their revealing findings are in sharp contrast to estimates by the World Health Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency that initially said only 31 people had died among the “liquidators.” The selfless (sacrificed) liquidators were those approximately 830,000 people who were in charge of extinguishing the fire at the Chernobyl reactor and deactivation and cleanup of the site. The liquidators were almost exclusively young people and among the most fit of the population.
By 2005, between 112,000 and 125,000 liquidators had died.
“On this 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, we now realize that the consequences were far worse than many researchers had believed,” says Janette Sherman, MD, the physician and toxicologist who edited the book.
Drawing upon extensive data and using the best science available, the authors estimate the number of deaths worldwide due to Chernobyl fallout from 1986 through 2004 was 985,000, a number that has since increased.
On April 26, 1986, two explosions occurred at reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant which tore the top from the reactor and its building and exposed the reactor core. The resulting fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over large parts of the western Soviet Union, Europe and across the Northern Hemisphere. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia had to be evacuated, many others should have.
Yablokov and his co-authors find that radioactive emissions from the stricken reactor, once believed to be 50 million curies, may have been as great as 10 billion curies, or 200 times greater than the initial estimate, and hundreds of times larger than the fallout from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Nations outside the former Soviet Union received high doses of radioactive fallout as well, most notably Norway, Sweden, Finland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Greece, and parts of the United Kingdom and Germany.
About 550 million Europeans and 150 to 230 million others in the Northern Hemisphere received notable contamination. Fallout reached the United States and Canada nine days after the disaster. My kids ate Miso generously for some time starting immediately after the meltdown.
The proportion of children considered healthy born to irradiated parents in Belarus, the Ukraine, and European Russia considered healthy fell from about 80 percent to less than 20 percent since 1986.
Numerous reports reviewed for this book document elevated disease rates in the Chernobyl area. These include increased fetal and infant deaths, birth defects, and diseases of the respiratory, digestive, musculoskeletal, nervous, endocrine, reproductive, hematological, urological, cardiovascular, genetic, immune, and other systems, as well as cancers and non-cancerous tumors.
Not surprisingly, in addition to adverse effects in humans, numerous other species have been contaminated, based upon studies of livestock, voles, birds, fish, plants, trees, bacteria, viruses, and other species. Obviously the entire surface of our planet, her water bodies and atmosphere were contaminated.
Foods produced in highly contaminated areas in the former Soviet Union were shipped, and consumed worldwide, affecting people and pets in all corners of the world. And people ate foods grown in the ‘secondarily contaminated’ European countries.
The authors state that the soil, foliage, and water in highly contaminated areas still contain substantial levels of radioactive chemicals, and will continue to harm humans for decades to come. ‘Decades’ is a gross understatement.
The book explores effects of Chernobyl fallout that arrived above the United States nine days after the disaster. Fallout entered the U.S. environment and food chain through rainfall. Levels of iodine-131 in milk, for example, were seven to 28 times above normal in May and June 1986. The authors found that the highest U.S. radiation levels were recorded in the Pacific Northwest.
Americans also consumed contaminated food imported from nations affected by the disaster.
Four years later, 25 percent of imported food was found to still be contaminated.
Almost no research on Chernobyl health effects in the United States has been conducted, the authors found, but one study by the Radiation and Public Health Project found that in the early 1990s, a few years after the meltdown, thyroid cancer in Connecticut children had nearly doubled.
This occurred at the same time that childhood thyroid cancer rates in the former Soviet Union were surging, as the thyroid gland is highly sensitive to radioactive iodine exposures.
The world now has 435 nuclear reactors and of these, 103 -104 are in the United States.
The New York Academy of Sciences says not enough attention has been paid to Eastern European research studies on the effects of Chernobyl at a time when corporations in several nations, including the United States, are attempting to build more nuclear reactors and to extend the years of operation of aging reactors.
In a statement, the academy said “Official discussions from the International Atomic Energy Agency and associated United Nations’ agencies (e.g. the Chernobyl Forum reports) have largely downplayed or ignored many of the findings reported in the Eastern European scientific literature and consequently have erred by not including these assessments.”
The vast majority killed and sickened by Chernobyl were not even born at the time of the accident.
The preface ‘Chernobyl’ has entered the lexicon as part of new compound words denoting clinically recognized serious ill conditions, such as: “Chernobyl AIDS.” One of the main ways that radiation damages the body is that it weakens the immune system, leading to death from infectious diseases that the person might have otherwise survived.
“Chernobyl babies” are children who have serious malformations such as organs outside their bodies, shortened limbs, or no brain (only a brain stem, so they breathe, but can never think). Some have essentially no bones — they are called “Chernobyl jellyfish children”. The only other place on Earth kids with this condition have been documented so far is on the Marshall Islands after nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s.
“Chernobyl limbs” are deformities of the arms and/or legs, more common in the more contaminated zones
The “Chern Forest, Red Forest” or jokingly, The Nobyl Woods, the area immediately surrounding Chernobyl, hundreds of square miles where the trees have turned color.
The “Chernobyl effect” is an increased thyroid cancer rate.
“Children of Chernobyl,” “Physicians of Chernobyl,” “Widows of Chernobyl” and “Liquidators Unions” are large groups of people who have been adversely affected by the tragedy.
In a similar way, some physicians, care givers, researchers and afflicted individuals have come to use the preface TMI to describe health and environmental issues resulting from the Three Mile Island disaster in the U.S. A myriad of complications continue to show up in and around the TMI site in Pennsylvania and for hundreds of miles in a broad swath mostly to the east.
We all are negatively affected by Chernobyl. Chernobyl’s radioactive isotopes continue to invade us all.
I respectfully remind us all that if we support nuclear power, if we do nothing, heck, if we fail to loudly and strongly resist such nonsense in every reasonable way, the ‘Chernobyl-izing’ of the world for time immortal, but to a greater degree than we can imagine, will be the shameful legacy left to all who come after.
Please don’t let that happen.
Sources include:
http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/26
Environmental News Service
Helen Caldicott, MD
http://www.helencaldicott.com/articles.htm
http://www.helencaldicott.com/books.htm#nm
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Green America
3 MILE ISLAND COVER-UP:
DR. ROSALIE BERTELL’S SIGNED, NOTARIZED STATEMENT
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/NucEne/cherno2.html
Microwave Ovens
People still occasionally ask me if microwave ovens are safe.
Exposure to the energetic influences emitted by microwave ovens in typical ‘normal use’ situations (almost all of which are elective and unnecessary) present opportunity for harm to humans and other animals DIRECTLY, that is, the operation of microwave ovens is a known (proven) metabolic stressor which is significantly, sometimes profoundly damaging to animals in ‘casual’ proximity to the unit.
It is strongly recommended that people never consume anything that has been subjected to microwave treatment, but harmful effects will result just from placing one’s self close enough to an operating unit to read the brand name, even if no microwaved food is ingested.
Like the herbicides and fungicides fashioned from WW1 nerve gas (made from oil) which is dumped on food crops, and poison phosphate fertilizer (faulty name, it does not make the soil fertile) spun-off from WW2 munitions (made from natural gas and oil), another common food-related ‘bad idea’, the microwave oven, was also born of war. Interesting.
Inventions often sprout simultaneously from unrelated developers. Back in the mid-1940s the two versions of the microwave oven were conceived on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Hitler’s Nazis invented the first experimental microwave-cooking units to heat food without fire for their troops on the move.
In 1945 an inventor working for a U.S. defense contractor (war profiteer) noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted while standing in front of an operating magnetron (a magnetron is the heart of radar units and microwave ovens). The creative guy then placed popcorn in the beam and cranked it up… Popped popcorn danced around the room. The pocket fondue observation and popcorn experiment led to the modern microwave oven now standard issue in 95% of U.S. homes and restaurants.
In 1947 Raytheon started selling commercial microwave ovens. It took a while, but 25 years later everybody had to have one. As I recall, the 70s were boom years for ‘radiation ovens’, some homes that did not even have indoor privies, did have a microwave.
A microwave oven works by passing microwave radiation, usually at a frequency of 2450 MHz through the food. Water, fat and sugar molecules in the food absorb electro-magnetic energy from the microwave beam in a process called ‘dielectric heating’. Most molecules are electric dipoles, meaning that they have a positive charge at one end and a negative charge at the other, the food molecules are tossed about violently as they try to align with the alternating electric field induced by the microwave beam (this is very different from conventional cooking). This molecular movement creates heat. Microwave heating is most efficient on liquid water, and much less so on embedded/incorporated water, fats, sugars, and frozen water.
In fact Zappers are not nearly as efficient as the promoters claim.
A microwave oven does not convert all the electrical energy into microwaves. A typical consumer microwave oven could consume 1100 Watts, and deliver 700 Watts or less of microwave power. The remaining 400 or more Watts are dissipated as heat in the magnetron tube, which will not end up in the food but rather in the surrounding cabinetry and the air in the kitchen, just as with a conventional (safe) oven. The less water in the food and/or the less volume of the food in the oven, the more energy is wasted. A microwave oven is anything but a ‘Green’ appliance, it fails on various grounds, some much more serious than the energy inefficiency issue, but the simple math above illustrates that the zapper is not even a particularly energy-efficient tool either.
Close range exposure to powerful microwave radiation is of course harmful to biological organisms (humans, pets etc.) and detrimental to food treated with the radiation.
At the molecular level, the stuff that food is made of is beat-up, torn apart, energetically altered and forcefully deformed. This method is very different than conventional cooking. Microwaving creates un-natural compounds (radiolytic compounds) which no known naturally occurring process would create in food or animals [humans]. Microwave beams have been used as weapons for decades and are now used by genetic engineers to intentionally break the integrity of targeted cells’ walls to allow for the implantation of infectious agents carrying foreign gene bits for gene splicing. The intensity of the radiant energy and its penetrating ability is such that much damage occurs to animal bodies within ‘effective range’, and since the cook does not operate the device from the next room, and certainly not from behind a lead shield, people using zappers are indeed within the ‘effective range’.
I don’t know about you, but I would not like the integrity of my cells damaged, allowing for a compromised defense against harmful invaders, and I don’t want to confuse my DNA, Thank You!
If there were a way to microwave your meals remotely then you would only be degrading the food (converting it into something that can’t normally happen in nature and is not fit for consumption), and adding a bit to our overall invisible ‘sea-of-electro-pollution’, and then feeding the family some weird deranged version of food, but at least you would not be dosing yourself, and others in proximity, to anti-therapeutic radiation treatments.
As it is, placing yourself near an operating zapper invites serious assaults on the body and the ‘mind’.
Consider the well established and now common condition known as ‘microwave cataracts‘. This is a particular lens opacification for which EMFs (electro-magnetic fields) are the primary etiological factor. In contrast to other types of cataracts (heredity, metabolic, and senile) which originate in the lens, the microwave cataract originates in the elastic membrane that surrounds the lens (the capsule). Microwave cataracts occur following exposure to either thermal or non-thermal EMFs, both of which are emitted by microwave ovens. Microwave cataracts and have a latency period of months to years, so it may take a while for vision to cloud up after cooking in a microwave-appointed kitchen.
The human body is made of some 65 to 90% electrically conductive water (depending mostly on age).
Think about it, typical household microwave ovens emit electromagnetic energy at a frequency of 2,450 Megahertz (MHz = one million cycles per second).
Materials with high moisture content, like most foods (and mom and the baby and the cat on top of the fridge), absorb microwave energy.
As the electromagnetic waves at a frequency of 2450 million cycles per second enter the water-rich body, the molecules tend to align themselves with the cycling energy. Since the microwaves are changing polarity with every half cycle, the water molecules and associated cellular stuff follow these alternations and thus move rapidly back and forth.
In effect, molecules are changing direction every half cycle, so they are oscillating back and forth 4,900,000,000 times each second (almost five billion times per second).
This high-speed oscillation causes the friction which heats the food, but besides the heat, the aggressive agitation degrades and/or destroys nutrients and other aspects of the food. That’s bad enough, but just imagine how insulting such treatment is to the cells of your body. In particular, for a person situated near the operating zapper, all the watery fluid (which is in intimate contact with every one of your one hundred trillion cells, the sugar-based molecules, the fat and particles of most metallic elements are forced to dance a maddening jig… forced to instantly shake around at a frequency and intensity proven harmful to the body and a frequency which is way out of sync with the healthy, life supporting frequency natural to the cells.
The report ‘Comparative Study of Food Prepared Conventionally and in the Microwave Oven’, published by Raum & Zelt in 1992, at 3(2): 43, states:
“A basic hypothesis of natural medicine states that the introduction into the human body of molecules and energies, to which it is not accustomed, is much more likely to cause harm than good. [Accommodation at the evolutionary level takes millions of years to make a healthful leap].
Microwaved food contains both molecules and energies not present in food cooked in the way humans have been cooking since the discovery of fire.
Microwave energy from the sun and other stars is direct current (DC) based. Artificially produced microwaves, including those in ovens, are produced from alternating current and force a billion or more [about five billion] polarity reversals per second in every food [and body] molecule they hit. Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring amino acids have been observed to undergo isomeric changes (changes in shape) as well as transformation into toxic forms, under the impact of microwaves produced in ovens”.
Numerous studies have found significant and disturbing changes in the blood of individuals consuming microwaved milk, fruit, meat and vegetables. In published studies, all foods that were processed through the microwave ovens caused changes in the blood of the volunteers. Hemoglobin levels decreased and overall white blood cell levels and cholesterol levels increased. Lymphocytes decreased. Increased activity of pathogenic bacteria is typically demonstrated in the blood of individuals after consuming zapped food.
Cover-ups, lying, gagging and cheating:
In 1991, Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel, a food scientist and Dr. Bernard H. Blanc, a Lausanne University professor and member of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University Institute for Biochemistry published a research paper indicating that food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health than food cooked by conventional means. An article also appeared in issue 19 of the Journal Franz Weber in which it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens had cancerous effects on the blood.
The well controlled, study showed the degenerative force produced in microwave ovens and the food processed in them. The scientific conclusion showed that microwave cooking changed the nutrients in the food; and that changes took place in the participants’ blood that could cause deterioration in the human system.
As soon as Doctors Hertel and Blanc published their results, the authorities reacted. A powerful trade organization, the Swiss Association of Dealers for Electro-apparatuses for Households and Industry, known as FEA, took control. They forced the President of the Court of Seftigen, Canton of Bern, to issue a “gag order” against the two researchers. In March 1993, Dr. Hertel was convicted for “interfering with commerce” and prohibited from further publishing his results.
The guy was sharing his well documented information about how unsuspecting people might be killing themselves, and he gets convicted for ‘interfering with commerce‘… ‘Interfering with commerce’. The corporate priorities seem a little backwards. Dr. Hertel fought this decision. He fought for his rights and ours.
This bought-and-paid-for decision was eventually reversed in a judgment delivered in Strasbourg, Austria, on August 25, 1998. The European Court of Human Rights held that there had been a violation of Hertel’s rights in the 1993 decision. The European Court of Human Rights also ruled that the “gag order” issued by the Swiss court in 1992 against Dr. Hertel, prohibiting him from declaring that microwave ovens are dangerous to human health, was contrary to the right to freedom of expression. But for those 6-7 years you were not allowed to see the information and the researchers were not allowed to talk about something so critical to the well-being of the people… Microwave sales continued to soar. People, some of whom would have stuck with time-tested fire instead of RADIATON, continued to zap their families.
Besides the obvious problems associated with; uneven heating (In which well hydrated portions of a food may cook thoroughly but drier portions never reach the critical temperature necessary to kill bacteria and parasites in meat and milk), heating contents more than the container (as in the numerous instances in which a baby’s mouth and esophagus have been scalded drinking milk from a bottle which felt comfortably warm), the leaching of plastics into the food (as I understand, most zap-ready convenience foods come in plastic containers, ready to go, and people frequently zap homemade meals in plastic vessels… because they can), and the failure to inactivate bacteria in re-heated leftovers, records are replete with examples of injury and illness resulting from ingesting microwaved stuff, a very small sampling from a huge body of evidence follows;
~ Dr. Lita Lee of Hawaii reported in the December 9, 1989 Lancet:
“Microwaving baby formulas converted certain trans-amino acids into their synthetic cis-isomers. Synthetic isomers, whether cis-amino acids or trans-fatty acids, are not biologically active. Further, one of the amino acids, L-proline, was converted to its d-isomer, which is known to be neurotoxic (poisonous to the nervous system) and nephrotoxic (poisonous to the kidneys). It’s bad enough that many babies are not nursed, but now they are given fake milk (baby formula) made even more toxic via microwaving.”
~ In 1991, Norma Levitt, a hip surgery patient in an Oklahoma hospital died from a simple blood transfusion. The nurse had warmed the blood in a microwave oven. This tragedy makes it very apparent that there’s much more to “heating” with microwaves than we’ve been led to believe. Blood for transfusions is still routinely warmed, though not in microwaves. In this case, the microwaving altered the blood and it killed her.
My own experience, testing and just plain common sense leaves me in complete agreement with the following statement from Dr. Lita Lee’s ‘Health Effects of Microwave Radiation – Microwave Ovens’: “Every microwave oven leaks electro-magnetic radiation, harms food, and converts substances cooked in it to dangerous organ-toxic and carcinogenic products”. Her further research reveals that microwave ovens are far more harmful than previously imagined.
Microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976
Certain infectious/disruptive agents only need access to cell interiors to make trouble. Known examples are viruses and prions.
These are not living things in the traditional sense.
A prion is best described as an infectious protein; it is a deranged protein, with no DNA or RNA component. Not living. The ‘Zombie-like’ prion is the microscopic proteinaceous particle implicated in Mad Cow Disease (BSE), and several other lethal neurodegenerative diseases.
A virus is little more than a strand of DNA or RNA covered by a protein coating.
They lack some important characteristics which many biologists consider the requirements of life. Basically, they are not living … And therefore cannot be killed, and may not be deactivated by microwave exposure.
You don’t want such entities becoming too intimate with healthy cells, and such opportunistic entities (viruses etc.) are everywhere, so it seems wise to keep the cells that make up our bodies intact, and not unnecessarily expose ourselves to influences which tear-up cell walls.
Microwave radiation (at the frequency and intensity generated by the standard household appliance) is proven to break the barrier of cell walls allowing for invasion by opportunistic pathogenic agents.
This scenario plays out when zapping meat (pathogens already present in the flesh can invade microwave-damaged cells and proliferate as the food is cooking), and in the living bodies of people in the vicinity of a zapper when the exposure is of sufficient intensity and duration.
And aside from inviting already present infectious agents into microwave-damaged cells, consider that: As prions are deformed proteins, and microwave radiation represents a deranging (deforming) influence, protein molecules and microwaves may be a counter-productive combination… Indeed it has been postulated that deadly prions may be created from ‘normal’ protein structures under the influence of microwave radiation.
We know this:
We know that infectious invaders are all around – all the time, looking for access to living cells.
We know that microwave exposure damages (opens) cell walls… This provides the access.
Why would anyone choose to invite disease into his cells?
Regulating the dangerous weapon instead of outlawing it (for casual use) is insulting to our intelligence and will not prevent or cure the harm to its users. Also, regulating the device (establishing false safety guidelines) is to suggest that it even can be used responsibly. To illustrate the insanity consider that, over the past few decades, allowable radiation leakage maximums have been adjusted, so radiation intensities that our government claimed were perfectly safe some years ago are no longer on the safe side of the cusp, and the last time I checked, the requirements for ‘door seal radiation leakage’ were 1,000 times more strict in Sweden than in the U.S. This by no means suggests that a Swedish zapper is safe; it only exposes the ‘emptiness’ of the arbitrary numbers set by industry and enforced (so to speak) by the regulators.
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* Note. An expanded report on the Russian work can be found after this article.
Exposure to the energetic influences emitted by microwave ovens in typical ‘normal use’ situations (almost all of which are elective and unnecessary) present opportunity for harm to humans and other animals DIRECTLY, that is, the operation of microwave ovens is a known (proven) metabolic stressor which is significantly, sometimes profoundly damaging to animals in ‘casual’ proximity to the unit.
It is strongly recommended that people never consume anything that has been subjected to microwave treatment, BUT harmful effects will result just from placing one’s self close enough to an operating unit to read the brand name, even if no microwaved food is ingested. Please use the zapper for storage, or for some function which it can satisfy UNPLUGED. Please do not donate it, as that will only place a deadly device in someone else’s home. Do not toss it in the trash as it demands proper recycling and careful dismantling.
You can call your local trash disposal company to find out if they recycle microwave ovens. If they don’t, ask if they know a place that does. If your local trash disposal company can’t help, go to Earth911.com. Earth911.com has a search engine that allows you to search for microwave recycling centers in your area. But by all means, unplug the monster immediately. The space that the zapper occupied may be filled to good advantage with a high quality toaster oven, maybe a convection toaster oven. Mini countertop ovens utilizing penetrating infrared radiant heat will likely be showing up at retailers and in the kitchens of health conscious cooks soon… This may be a very healthy trade.
Remember (in simple terms):
~ Continually eating food processed in a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by disrupting and ‘confusing’ electrical impulses in the brain [de-polarizing or de-magnetizing the brain tissue]. This goes not only for the ‘brain’, located in the scull, but also for the ‘mind’ which is ‘everywhere’ in (and on) the body
~ The human body cannot metabolize (break down) or healthfully process many of the unnatural by-products created in microwaved food.
~ The very complicated (and not well understood) hormonal system is disrupted, and in particular, gender specific hormone production is altered by frequent ingestion of microwaved foods.
~ At least some of the effects of microwaved food by-products and direct microwave exposure are residual (long term, permanent) within the human body.
~ Enzymes, minerals, vitamins, fatty acids, protein configurations and carbohydrate compounds of all tested microwaved foods are reduced and/or altered so that the human body gets fractionated and reduced nutritional benefit, and the body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down healthfully, leading to systemic inflammation which likely predisposes the body to numerous different disease conditions.
~ The profoundly foreign nature of compounds bred of the interaction of food components and microwave radiation can certainly act as the prelude to auto-immune diseases. This is a well proven FACT.
~ Microwaved foods have been linked to stomach and intestinal irritations, and that’s just the tip….
~ The frequent, regular ingestion of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
~ Habitual ingestion of microwaved food causes immune system malfunctions.
~ Eating microwaved food negatively affects cognitive function, concentration, emotional stability.
~ Without a doubt, one manifestation (in the human body) of microwave exposure is the initiation of the inflammatory response. Being in visual proximity of a working zapper regularly, keeps the body in a state of chronic inflammation. Microwave ‘exposure-es’ show chronically elevated levels of Pro-inflammatory hormones.
…Systemic and/or chronic inflammation feeds a domino effect which undermines health in many ways and manifests in various areas and systems of the body. More and more, inflammation is being recognized by the scientific community as the common contributory factor in many serious ill conditions.
Keep in mind that:
Electro-magnetic pollution broadly, and microwave exposure specifically, is a new stressor in our environment (very new relatively speaking, as we now live in an invisible soup of stealthy electromagnetic pollution estimated to be 100 to 200 MILLION times greater than it was just one hundred years ago).
Over 90% of U.S. households now have a device whose specific engineered purpose is to generate and transmit an unquestionably insidious form of electro-magnetic pollution. It’s not a device which keeps the roof from falling in or keeps burglars out; it is in no way necessary for the safety of the structure or the inhabitants. And if that’s not weird enough, designers and homeowners place the device right in the kitchen, the heart of the home, where the health impact of everything within, should be carefully considered, the room from which life-giving nutrition flows. And it is generally situated right there,.. glaring at us somewhere between the brain and belly level. People who operate the device are often only inches from it, and others in the room (or on the other side of the wall) sit comfortably nearby, oblivious to the harm they invite.
Why are they oblivious to the realities of the dark side of Microwave Culinaria?
Because business interests told (tell) the government to release only the spun version of the story, which portrays something deadly (an invention of war) as something ‘convenient’ and ‘modern’ and even ‘indispensible’ to busy people everywhere, people who are told (and come to believe) that they are too busy to prepare a decent meal for the kids. Many parents encourage children to use the device themselves.
There is a whole generation of first-world humans who have not learned the [critical to life] art of cooking (food preparation), a whole generation (or two) of people who cannot conceive of how to eat, without first opening some kind of package or driving up to a greasy window after reciting an order to a clown face outfitted with speakers and a microphone.
In the kitchens of finest of upscale homes there often is no space afforded for the installation of a simple towel bar, yet in the most modest of tiny starter homes or conservative apartments there is always a prominent space dedicated specifically for the weapon marketed as the microwave oven.
Do the family a favor, Remove the zapper. Give the greatest gift, or at least the first installment, give the gift a better health. Remember that people who eat, should know how to cook. That’s not what a microwave does, unless we count frying brains, other vital organs, and electro-poisoning popcorn and pot pies as cooking.
Unplug the zapper put it in a box and mail it to your representative in Washington with a note asking him/her to “think about it”.
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Love!
Billy
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If you are a sucker for more details keep reading. It may be boring, it may be infuriating.
Microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976, just look at a small sampling of what the Russian research revealed;
* Below is a summary of the Russian investigations published by the Atlantis Raising Educational Center in Portland, Oregon. Carcinogens were formed in virtually all foods tested. No test food was subjected to more microwaving than necessary to accomplish the purpose, i.e., cooking, thawing, or heating to insure sanitary ingestion. A summary of some of the results are as follows:
Microwaving prepared meats sufficiently to insure sanitary ingestion caused formation of d-Nitrosodienthanolamines, a well-known carcinogen.
Microwaving milk and cereal grains converted some of their amino acids into carcinogens.
Thawing frozen fruits converted their glucoside and galactoside containing fractions into carcinogenic substances.
Extremely short exposure of raw, cooked or frozen vegetables converted their plant alkaloids into carcinogens.
Carcinogenic free radicals were formed in microwaved plants, especially root vegetables.
Decrease in nutritional value
Russian researchers also reported a marked acceleration of structural degradation leading to a decreased food value of 60 to 90% in all foods tested. Among the changes observed were:
Deceased bio-availability of vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics factors in all food tested.
Various kinds of damaged to many plant substances, such as alkaloids, glucosides, galactosides and nitrilosides.
The degradation of nucleo-proteins in meats.
Microwave sickness
The Russians did research on thousands of workers who had been exposed to microwaves during the development of radar in the 1950’s. Their research showed health problems so serious that the Russians set strict limits of 10 microwatts exposure for workers and one microwatt for civilians.
In Robert O. Becker’s book, The Body Electric, he described Russian research on the health effects of microwave radiation, which they called “microwave sickness.” On page 314, Becker states:
“It’s [Microwave sickness] first signs are low blood pressure and slow pulse. The later and most common manifestations are chronic excitation of the sympathetic nervous system [stress syndrome] and high blood pressure. This phase also often includes headache, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension, inability to concentrate, hair loss, plus an increased incidence of appendicitis, cataracts, reproductive problems, and cancer. The chronic symptoms are eventually succeeded by crisis of adrenal exhaustion and ischemic heart disease [the blockage of coronary arteries and heart attacks].”
According to Dr. Lee, changes are observed in the blood chemistries and the rates of certain diseases among consumers of microwaved foods. The symptoms above can easily be caused by the observations shown below. The following is a sample of these changes:
Lymphatic disorders were observed, leading to decreased ability to prevent certain types of cancers.
An increased rate of cancer cell formation was observed in the blood.
Increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers were observed.
Higher rates of digestive disorders and a gradual breakdown of the systems of elimination were observed.
Microwave research conclusions:
The following were the most significant German and Russian research operations facilities concerning the biological effects of microwaves:
The initial research conducted by the Germans during the Barbarossa military campaign, at the Humbolt-Universitat zu Berlin (1942-1943); and,
From 1957 till the 90s the Russian research operations were conducted at: the Institute of Radio Technology at Kinsk, Byelorussian Autonomous Region; and, at the Institute of Radio Technology at Rajasthan in the Rossiskaja Autonomous Region, both in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
In most cases, the foods used for research analysis were exposed to microwave propagation at an energy potential of 100 kilowatts/cm3/second, to the point considered acceptable for sanitary, normal ingestion. The effects noted by both German and Russian researchers are presented in three categories:
Category I, Cancer-Causing Effects
Category II, Nutritive Destruction of Foods
Category III, Biological Effects of Exposure
CATEGORY I
CANCER-CAUSING EFFECTS [in part]
1. Creation of a “binding effect” to radioactivity in the atmosphere, thus causing a marked increase in the amount of alpha and beta particle saturation in foods;
2. Creation of cancer causing agents within protein hydrolysate compounds* in milk and cereal grains [*these are natural proteins that are split into unnatural fragments by the addition of water];
3. Alteration of elemental food-substances, causing disorders in the digestive system by unstable catabolism* of foods subjected to microwaves [*the metabolic breakdown process];
4. Due to chemical alterations within food substances, malfunctions were observed within the lymphatic systems [absorbent vessels], causing a degeneration of the immune potentials of the body to protect against certain forms of neoplastics [abnormal growths of tissue];
5. Ingestion of microwaved foods caused a higher percentage of cancerous cells within the blood serum [cytomas – cell tumors such as sarcoma];
6. Microwave emissions caused alteration in the catabolic [metabolic breakdown] behavior of glucoside [hydrolyzed dextrose] and galactoside [oxidized alcohol] elements within frozen fruits when thawed in this manner;
7. Microwave emission caused alteration of the catabolic [metabolic breakdown] behavior of plant alkaloids [organic nitrogen based elements] when raw, cooked, or frozen vegetables were exposed for even extremely short durations;
8. Cancer causing free radicals [highly reactive incomplete molecules] were formed within certain trace mineral molecular formations in plant substances, and in particular, raw root-vegetables; and,
9. In a statistically high percentage of persons, microwaved foods caused stomach and intestinal cancerous growths, as well as a general degeneration of peripheral cellular tissues, with a gradual breakdown of the function of the digestive and execrative systems.
CATEGORY II
DECREASE IN FOOD VALUE
Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods researched. The following are the most important findings:
1. A decrease in the bioavailability [capability of the body to utilize the nutriment] of B-complex vitamins, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, essential minerals and lipotropics in all foods;
2. A loss of 60-90% of the vital energy field content of all tested foods;
3. A reduction in the metabolic behavior and integration process capability of alkaloids [organic nitrogen based elements], glucosides and galactosides, and nitrilosides;
4. A destruction of the nutritive value of nucleoproteins in meats;
5. A marked acceleration of structural disintegration in all foods.
CATEGORY III
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE
Exposure to microwave emissions also had an unpredictably negative effect upon the general biological welfare of humans. This was not discovered until the Russians experimented with highly sophisticated equipment and discovered that a human did not even need to ingest the material substance of the microwaved food substances: that even exposure to the energy-field itself was sufficient to cause such adverse side effects that the use of any such microwave apparatus was forbidden in 1976 by Soviet state law.
Microwave ovens were in fact, banned in Russia in 1976; the ban was lifted after Perestroika. Perestroika translates to “restructuring” (westernizing, Americanizing… power-shifting towards corporate control).
The following are the enumerated effects:
1. A breakdown of the human “life-energy field” in those who were exposed to microwave ovens while in operation, with side-effects to the human energy field of increasingly longer duration;
2. A degeneration of the cellular voltage parallels during the process of using the apparatus, especially in the blood and lymphatic areas;
3. A degeneration and destabilization of the external energy activated potentials of food utilization within the processes of human metabolism;
4. A degeneration and destabilization of internal cellular membrane potentials while transferring catabolic [metabolic breakdown] processes into the blood serum from the digestive process;
5. Degeneration and circuit breakdowns of electrical nerve impulses within the junction potentials of the cerebrum [the front portion of the brain where thought and higher functions reside];
6. A degeneration and breakdown of nerve electrical circuits and loss of energy field symmetry in the neuroplexuses [nerve centers] both in the front and the rear of the central and autonomic nervous systems;
7. Loss of balance and circuiting of the bioelectric strengths within the ascending reticular activating system [the system which controls the function of consciousness];
8. A long term cumulative loss of vital energies within humans, animals and plants that were located within a 500-meter radius of the operational equipment;
9. Long lasting residual effects of magnetic “deposits” were located throughout the nervous system and lymphatic system;
10. A destabilization and interruption in the production of hormones and maintenance of hormonal balance in males and females;
11. Markedly higher levels of brainwave disturbance in the alpha, theta, and delta wave signal patterns of persons exposed to microwave emission fields, and;
12. Because of this brainwave disturbance, negative psychological effects were noted, including loss of memory, loss of ability to concentrate, suppressed emotional threshold, deceleration of intellective processes, and interruptive sleep episodes in a statistically higher percentage of individuals subjected to continual range emissive field effects of microwave apparatus, either in cooking apparatus or in transmission stations.
Forensic Research Conclusions
From the above enumerated indications, the use of microwave apparatus is definitely not advisable; and, with the decision of the Soviet government in 1976, present scientific opinion in many countries concerning the use of such apparatus is clearly in evidence.
Due to the problem of random magnetic residulation and binding within the biological systems of the body (Category III:9), which can ultimately effect the neurological systems, primarily the brain and neuroplexuses (nerve centers), long term depolarization of tissue neuroelectric circuits can result. Because these effects can cause virtually irreversible damage to the neuroelectrical integrity of the various components of the nervous system (I. R. Luria, Novosibirsk 1975a), ingestion of microwaved foods is clearly contraindicated in all respects. Their magnetic residual effect can render the pyschoneural receptor components of the brain more subject to influence psychologically by artificially induced microwave radio frequency fields from transmission stations and TV relay-networks.
The theoretical possibility of psycho telemetric influence (the capability of affecting human behavior by transmitted radio signals at controlled frequencies) has been suggested by Soviet neuropsychological investigations at Uralyera and Novosibirsk (Luria and Perov, 1974a, 1975c, 1976a), which can cause involuntary subliminal psychological energy field compliance to operative microwave apparatus.
FORENSIC RESEARCH DOCUMENT
Prepared By: William P. Kopp
A. R. E. C. Research Operations
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