EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors

[abqmufc]

"The mass radioactive contamination of our planet is now under way thanks to the astonishing actions taking place at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. As of last night, TEPCO announced it is releasing 10,000 tons of radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean. That 2.4 million gallons of planetary poison being dumped directly into the ocean.

This water is being released because they have run out of places to keep it on land. It's too deadly to transport anywhere else, and all the storage pools around Fukushima are already overflowing. So they're dumping it into the ocean, then calling it "safe" because they claim the ocean will "disperse" all the radiation and make it harmless.

But because there's more radioactive water being produced every day at Fukushima, this process of releasing radioactive water into the ocean could theoretically continue for years, easily making Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster in the history of our world."

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"So what to do? If you're the United States Environment Protection Agency, there's only one option: Declare radiation to be safe!

Yes indeed, friends, we have reached a moment of comedic insanity at the EPA, where those in charge of protecting the environment are hastily rewriting the definition of "radioactive contamination" in order to make sure that whatever fallout reaches the United States falls under the new limits of "safe" radiation.

The EPA maintains a set of so-called "Protective Action Guides" (PAGs). These PAGs are being quickly revised to radically increase the allowable levels of iodine-131 (a radioactive isotope) to anywhere from 3,000 to 100,000 times the currently allowable levels.

The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is all over this issue, having obtained internal emails from a FOIA requests that reveal some truly shocking revelations of the level of back-stabbing betrayal happening inside the EPA. For example, under the newly-revised PAGs, drinking just one glass of water considered "safe" by the EPA could subject you to the lifetime limit of radiation."

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Full Article at: http://www.naturalnews.com/031963_radiation_exposure.html

[howaboutme]

1. Between just BP and TEPCO Mother Nature is hurting

Wait until the Republicans and the corporatists get finished gutting regulations. But all is well as the stock market is still going up (thanks to the Fed and Bernanke pumping it) and banksters are replenishing their plundered riches.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Future restaurant orders

"I'd like the Cesium salad with the dressing on the side and the Strontium Stroganoff with a nice glass of plutonium Pinot Noir."

[damntexdem]

3. "Too deadly to transport anywhere else."

Sure a good thing seawater isn't transported around the planet, huh?

[TalkingDog]

4. But according to some people... we've got nothing to worry about...

Link to recent discussion: Radioprotective Potential of Plants and Herbs against the Effects of Ionizing Radiation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x775883