JAPAN´S RADIOACTIVE FOREST

Japan´s radioactive forest. Uploaded by Dinco422.

GENETIC MUTATIONS: THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER

Mutated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Source: Fukushima Mutations.

By Gundhramns Hammer
August 20, 2015

If you are one of the those people who were born without any expressed biological defects, with a wholesome set of five fingers and five toes, for example, consider yourself lucky.

Lucky because the developmental cascade that lead to you in your mother´s uterus was genetically well-balanced, so much so that this unique biological event - one in the history of the Multiverse - did not take any routes which could have lead to a monster popping out into this world to scare the heck out of your parents or anyone who might have happened to be there upon your arrival to planet Earth/Oceana.

Yes, well-balanced, for when we talk about inherinting DNA here, we are talking of inheriting a well-balanced physico-chemical system. 

So, you were lucky to have inherited a well-balanced physico-chemical system to become you otherwise you might have ended up as a Halloween alien or be dead before you even took off.

But the children of your children and the children of these children might not be so lucky like you were. 

They could very well be homegrown aliens in the future, if there is such a thing, for the way Man is going, he may soon join the labyrinthodonts.

Why?

Because our DNA is being subjected not only to all kinds of man-made xenobiotics in our daily lives but also to global radioactive fallout coming from nukes or nuclear reactor accidents.

Let us face it, we humans have nuked the planet.

And it is well known that radioactivity can damage the genetic material in living cells. It causes genetic mutations.

Biological data gathered after the Fukushima disaster in Japan support this fact. 

A scientific team lead by Dr. Atsuki Hikaya (2012), from the University of Ryukyus in Okinawa, has shown evidence that "the accident caused physiological and genetic damage to the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a common lycaenid butterfly in Japan".

This is just an example.

Should you be interested in knowing more on this matter, you should go to a library. There are truckloads of scientific literature attesting this problem: The danger that radioactivity from nukes or radioactive fallout from nuclear catastrophes has upon living creatures.

Our references below can be used as a starting point too.

What follows is a radio special with Leuren Moret, discussing the biological impact of nuclear accidents (Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island) (Videos 1-4):

Video 1. Nuked: 2 yrs of Fukushima with Leuren Moret (1/4). Uploaded by Rad Chick.

Video 2. Nuked: 2 yrs of Fukushima with Leuren Moret (2/4). Uploaded by Rad Chick. 

Video 3. Nuked: 2 yrs of Fukushima with Leuren Moret (3/4). Uploaded by Rad Chick.

Video 4. Nuked: 2 yrs of Fukushima with Leuren Moret (4/4). Uploaded by Rad Chick.

So, mon Capitaine, is it Homo sapiens or Homo insapiens?

Mon ami, so far the way we have fucked up this planet, it is Homo insapiens.

That business of Homo sapiens remains to be seen!

Quite!


References

Caldicott H. (Ed.) (2014). Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe. The New Press, New York, USA. 243 p.

Hiyama A., Nohara C., Kinjo S., Taira W., Gima S., Tanahara A. & Otaki J.M. (2012). The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly. Nature, Scientific Reports 2 (570). 1-10.

Lelieveld J., Kunkel J. & Lawrence M.G. (2012). Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12: 4245-4258.

Williams A. (2013). Revenge of the mutant vegetables? Pictures of crops 'deformed by fall-out of Fukushima nuclear disaster' sweep Asia. . . but is it all just a hoax? MailOnline, 17 July 2013. 9 p.

World Technology Senate (2013a). Fukushima Mutations. World Technology Senate Info Portals Documents: 1-21.

World Technology Senate (2013b). Future-Scope Project: Planet Earth at the Tipping Point: Emergency Funding Request. World Technology Senate Info Portals Documents: 1-92.

World Technology Senate (2015). FutureScope Project: Fukushima Review. World Technology Senate Info Portals Documents: 1-46.

NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE NOT BUILT TO LAST FOREVER: REACTOR HAZARDS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Source: Greepeace.

By Gundhramns Hammer
September 15, 2014
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No nuclear plant can be made to last forever. They are really short-lived structures. The average age of the world's reactors is 21 years (Hirsch et al. (2005).

Thus, sooner or later a nuclear plant becomes not only a potential but a real danger to any human population (Video 1). 

Video 1. The Fukushima nuclear accident.

  

No matter what they tell us that is safe in order to sell it, for it is a business like any other done for profit, this technology is within the bounds of human error and as such it will always contain, according to Hirsch et al. (2005), inherent safety flaws which cannot be eliminated by performing safety upgrading when needed. 

On top of that, any nuclear power plant is really a cracking machine producing dangerous radioactive waste (Video 2). What the fuck do we do with it?

 Video 2. Underground storage of nuclear waste: A problem for future generations of earthlings.

Despite the fact that no nuclear plant can ever be 100% secured from any attack, nevertheless we must also take into consideration the security of this facility. 

And in today´s unstable political world, nuclear plants may become a target for a terrorist wanting to blow it up. 

Here are the big problems.

Read more:

Hirsch H., Becker O., Schneider M. & Froggatt A. (2005). Nuclear Reactor Hazards: Ongoing Dangers of Operating Nuclear Technology in the 21st Century. Greenpeace International. 128 p.

ONKALO: FINLAND´S UNDERGROUND MAZE TO STORE NUCLEAR WASTE

By Gundhramns Hammer

May 8, 2013

Entrance to Onkalo underground nuclear waste repository, Finland. Source: Google imágenes

The alarm clock goes off in the morning. Once... Twice... Thrice...  and finally you mean and mad scream to the top of your lungs fuck off!! but still managed to reach out and push the off button down so hard that you almost smashed the poor thing.

You are so upset and about to blow up because you must get up and go to work. You leave one reality and enter another one, except that in your dreams you can at least twist off the head of your boss.  

Work... A sophisticated way of saying hunting. Or why not call it modern slavery, after all that is what it is.

At the bathroom, behaving like a zombie, you pick up the electric toothbrush, turn it on and start cleaning up your set of teeth that keep the dentist around the corner rich.

You have been doing this for the last 25 years and have never given any thought as to where the power to run your gadget comes from. Besides you could care less where this juice came from.

In a city with a million inhabitants, imagine all of them using electric toothbrushes year round. And to this add up all of the other gadgets that need this type of juice to run, plus the cars, cellular phones, computers.... the list goes on and on and soon it becomes a net within a net of nets. 

Lots of powered wires in the city and one branches off and hooks up into the guts of your house.

If your city is one of those where electricity is generated by nuclear plants, you already or at least should know that they produce tonnes of radioactive waste. 

And what do they do with it? The nuclear waste could end up in Somalia´s coast or somewhere in Africa, trafficked by obscures routes usually in the hands of the mafia. Or it could be used for weapons.

Some nuclear plants take the waste and put it in special containers and hide it in underground facilities, with a few or lots of barrels dump in the ocean here and there.

Do you remember the Chernobyl disaster? How about the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster? Nuclear waste is nasty stuff and last for thousands of years.  

Radioactivity cannot be seen but it surely kills. It is deadly crap!

Now is it worth having electricity from nuclear plants to run our stupid gadgets at home meanwhile we shit all over with radioactivity the environment? 

I tell you we humans are really damned crazy. We are totally insane!!

And you do not believe me, let us watch the following documentary (Video 1) which shows what Finland is doing to put away all of its nuclear waste. Finland is building an underground nuclear waste repository so huge that the Egyptian pyramids could fit in more than 20 times. It is called Onkalo (Finnish, hidden) and is supposed to last 100.000 years! And keep in mind that Onkalo is just one of the many mazes of tunnels that the Finnish Government is planning to build to store this radioactive shit. 

Are we not damned crazy?

Now let us get to it:

  

Source: The Video Project

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The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more. Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste.

Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. 

Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo underground waste repository now under construction in Finland. Onkalo is a gigantic network of tunnels being carved out of bedrock that will start receiving Finland's nuclear waste in 2020. Once the repository is full, in about 100 years, it will be closed and hopefully remain sealed for at least 100,000 years.

Into Eternity takes viewers deep into the Onkalo facility as it is being constructed and asks Onkalo representatives, scientists, theologians and others to address fundamental but challenging questions.

How can our civilization know what the world will be like in 100,000 years? The first modern homo sapiens appeared about that long ago and no human structure has survived more than 5000 years. How can we anticipate climate and geologic changes that far in the future? What will life on our planet be like then? How do we warn distant generations of the deadly waste our civilization left behind? What languages or signs will they understand? How do we prevent them from thinking they have located the pyramids of our time or some other treasures?

With its stark, stylistic approach, Into Eternity not only raises questions about the possibility of long-term nuclear waste storage, but also invites reflection on the limits of science and human knowledge, along with our responsibility to future generations.

                                                        ENGLISH/BULGARIAN SUBTITLES

                                                                 Video 1.  Into Eternity.

References

Hamblin J. D. (2008). Poison the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. 311 p.

Ojovan M. I. & Lee W. E. (2005). An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 315 p.