Both the Japanese government and the nuclear plant owner/operator have been desperately spinning and lying since this disaster happened. Either they knew and hid the dangers, or they were too technically incompetent and unprepared to accurately measure the dangers. How can they possibly and so VERY quickly claim "no abnormalities reported" when they don't even have access to many already damaged pools/areas? The tricky part of their statement is that nothing has been reported, not that a thorough investigation/inspection has been carried out.
Do you all remember immediately after 9/11 when the EPA report on air/ground/water quality at Ground Zero, was re-written at the direction of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, to claim that, Hey! no danger here. Everyone get in there to clean things up and get Wall Street up and running again ASAP? The “C” word has been every World Trade Center responder’s nightmare — and for good reason.
Cancer has become a reality for more than 1,000 men and women who sacrificed their health at Ground Zero — and the number is expected to grow.
“You get a lump in your throat when you first have to tell your wife,” said NYPD Detective Amadeo Pulley, 47, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer in May. “But I told my family and two kids I’m gonna be fine. We will get through this.”
As New York and the nation approach the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attack, a Mount Sinai Medical Center study found a 15% higher cancer rate among 9/11 responders than among people not exposed to the Ground Zero toxins.
“There are more cases out there, because we just know of the people in our government-funded medical programs, not those who have been treated by their private doctors,” said Dr. Jim Melius, who is chairman of the steering committee for the WTC Responder Medical Program and a 9/11 Health Watch board member.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-140-wtc-9-11-responders-cancer-article-1.1449499#ixzz2kFAcCd00
As many as 65,000 people, including first responders, who got sick from 9/11 exposure are part of a WTC medical monitoring and treatment program in the New York metro area and in clinics around the country. To enroll or find out if you are eligible for free medical and mental health care, call 888-982-4748 or visit www.cdc.gov/wtc
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