{"id":185999,"date":"2014-06-17T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/17\/lovely-3\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T01:42:00","slug":"lovely-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/17\/lovely-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the children exposed to the fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown are <a href=\"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/2014\/06\/14\/fukushima-children-dying\/\">developing thyroid cancer at 40 times the normal rate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people\u2014nearly 200,000 kids\u2014tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The nuclear industry and its apologists continue to deny this public health tragedy. Some have actually asserted that \u201cnot one person\u201d has been affected by Fukushima\u2019s massive radiation releases, which for some isotopes exceed Hiroshima by a factor of nearly 30.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why are children still in the area, and why are they not receiving large doses of KI would displace radioactive iodine from their thyroids.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think Tokyo Electric Power Company strategy is to channel the Bobby McFerrin song, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry Be Happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japan, the children exposed to the fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown are developing thyroid cancer at 40 times the normal rate: Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people\u2014nearly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078,1188,1163,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster","category-japan","category-nuclear-power","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}