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U.S. INFANT DEATHS SOAR 35 PERCENT SINCE MELTDOWN AT FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is reporting an alarming 35 percent spike in newborn deaths in the northwest portion of the United States – the geographic area most likely to be affected by fallout from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. www.stuarthsmith.com

@MaryW, it sounds like the same cherry picking we saw in the earlier version of the study: "The 2010-2011 increase for infant deaths in the spring was 1.8 percent, compared to a decrease of 8.37 percent in the preceding 14 weeks."
Why only include 14 prior weeks? That's just 3.5 months for the control sample! You can't even detect an annual season variation in infant mortality with such a narrow frame of reference. If this study is just a rerun of the earlier press release, I'll be flabbergasted that it got published.

Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima." www.prnewswire.com

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@Edano Actually, South Korea the most and Japan second in line.

@MaryW They surely didn't mean decommissioned. Maybe shut down?

@MaryW Indeed... it's only a bad translation.

"100,000 cables found on a computer used by Bradley Manning, investigator says" (Larry Shaughnessy) edition.cnn.com

It is becoming apparent that the evidence against Manning is merely circumstantial. I doubt he will stand any trial.

@MaryW no subscription necessary where I live (Holland)

@all Still on the MOX thread (no surprises, right?)...Interesting find here in that according to the graphed performance analysis it doesn't appear as though Kashiwazaki Kariwa 3 was on line for 3 consecutive years www.iaea.org In comparison they offer this for Fukushima I-3 in reguard to operating history www.iaea.org

12/19/2011 'Paving the Way for a New Fukushima' Is Berlin Still in the Nuclear Power Busines? m.spiegel.de

@lillymunster Well, if you read through those articles on the "14,000 excess death estimates" it contradicts itself. Along the text you can read that there is no scientifically proven direct link between those death rates and the releases from Fukushima. There can also be found serious misinterpretations of what really happened in Fukushima with the meltdowns. Although the meltdowns were only reported later on, we know from computer simulations that they must have occurred in the first two weeks of the disaster, which contradicts the time-frame of part of the data used for the studies. All this on top of what you've stated, doesn't leave much credibility left for such "peer-reviewed" publications.

@lillymunster You can also easily find out that the credibility of the afore mentioned studies is compromised by scientific bias. The two scientists, Mangano and Sherman, have their own agenda and reading through their websites can make this claim of mine very evident.

Epidemiological studies cannot provide direct links between cause and effect. They only provide associations which need affirmation through the discovery of the underlying (molecular) mechanisms.