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@smoss, The spin will never end. A non-verbal response might be stronger. The meeting is in February. Occupy Vancouver could line the streets holding the images of the children of Chernobyl and the people of Japan who are now coming forth with pictures of their own.Radiation may be invisible, but some of the profound impacts on living things, are not.

@Edano, Trouble for over 24 hrs getting a link to work on the Long version connection. Could you see if you can link the Long version for this one please. Danke

Preliminary Earthquake Report 5.1
Mercalli scale: 5
Date-Time [UTC]: 05 January, 2012 at 16:47:09 UTC
Local Date/Time: Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 16:47 in the afternoon at epicenter
Location: 38° 43.200, 142° 13.800
Depth: 60 km (37.28 miles)
Region: Asia
Country: Japan
Distances: 51.16 km (31.79 miles) of Shirahama,
Source: EMSC Location NPP Distance
Japan Onagawa Npp 47.69 km

Cancer rates in U.S. keep falling: American Cancer Society www.reuters.com
I cite from the article what caught my eye: "Despite improvements in the most common cancers, a companion report found an increase in cases of several cancers over the past decade. These included cancers of the pancreas, liver, thyroid, and kidney and melanoma, as well as esophageal cancer and certain types of throat cancers associated with human papillomavirus or HPV infection."

@Ian , the headline is less than precise. In the summary, the article says:" Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society's annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday." I should have quoted that right away. We are not talking about rates of occurrence per se. Earlier detection and improved treatment also play a role in this effect. The article does not explain why death from thyroid cancer is on the rise.

@lillymunster, the chart here www.dmphp.org Figure 3, suggests that radiation-induced cancers are expected to peak at about 70 years post exposure, if I'm reading it right. So I take back my suggestion that weapons-testing cancers might be post peaked.

more info for the thyroid stats www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Found this factoid here (obviously not yet updated, :)) www.cancer.org
What are the key statistics about thyroid cancer?
The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for thyroid cancer in the United States are for 2011:

About 48,020 new cases of thyroid cancer (36,550 in women, and 11,470 in men)
About 1,740 deaths from thyroid cancer (980 women and 760 men)
Thyroid cancer is commonly diagnosed at a younger age than most other adult cancers. Nearly 2 of 3 cases are found in people between the ages of 20 and 55.

The chance of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer has risen in recent years and is now more than twice what it was in 1990. Some of this is the result of the increased use of thyroid ultrasound, which can detect small thyroid nodules that might not otherwise have been found in the past. Still, at least part of the increase is from finding more large tumors as well.

The death rate from thyroid cancer has been fairly stable for many years, and remains very low compared with most other cancers. Statistics on survival rates for thyroid cancer are discussed in the section, "Thyroid cancer survival by type and stage."

Last Medical Review: 06/29/2011
Last Revised: 06/29/2011

@lillymunster , seems like both!

The report concludes that there were three turning points in the events at Fukushima: inability to supply AC power to the station, inability to remove heat from the reactor, and leakage of hydrogen into the building and hydrogen explosions. It further breaks down the first problem - station blackout - into four subsidiary problems: inability to supply external power, inability to supply power from emergency diesel generators, inability to interchange power sources, and the impossibility of early power recovery. The document analyses each of these issues, lists the reasons why they could not be accomplished, and proposes particular resulting issues to be examined (see box for recommendations). The report concludes, "The essence of the problem is that preparations assuming a contingency brought about by tsunami strike were ineffectual." www.power-eng.com

History, March 17: publicola.com

Hanford lab director Jim Conca: "It's not that the reactor is a problem, it's that all this metal is very much heated up and hot, so you have to cool that down. … Yes, I'm adequately sure that the safety systems in place work."

Conca added: "I'm very happy that Japan has 26 percent nuclear because those will not be the problems. When you see the pictures things burning [in Japan], it won't be nuclear, it'll be the gas-fired power plants and things like that. Nuclear is no problem at all."