Dear friends:
It was announced on CNN this early evening that radioactive fallout has been detected up and down the State of California from the hydrogen explosion, waste pod fires, and nuclear meltdown in Japan.
I urge all of you to Practice the Following
Precautions:
1) Limited exposure to the external environment;
2) Wear facial masks when you go outside;
3) It will rain tomorrow. Do not go out in the radioactive rains coming from Japan. If you cannot avoid doing so, wear masks, take umbrellas, and wear old clothes, so you can discard them when you come home. If you are
outside for a prolonged time, shower with mask in tact, and dispose of clothes, using gloves.
4) When you are driving, do not drive with windows down. Do not use circulatory air.
5) When you are at home, close all windows, especially those facing the coast.
6) If you had radiation treatment for cancer, or you know of those who have, please warn them of a radioactive environment.
7) If you have young children, the following precautions are even more essential, as young people are particularly susceptible to higher radiation levels. This is a Radioactive Alert. This is no joke/exaggeration. One particle of inhaled fallout will cause an eventual lung cancer, thyroid cancer, organ, brain, and bone cancers. Cessium137, iodine131, and strontium90 along with 200 nucleotides have been released, some of those detected along with plutonium up and down the California coast. Use upmost precautions if you value your life, and the lives of your children.
MELTDOWN IN JAPAN: Japan raised the radiation alert level from
4-5 today. Stephen King on CNN revealed new photographs today showing that all cooling pond storeage areas, positioned above the reactor, have been exposed to air. In reactor's 3 and 4 at Dachine show cracks in the containment vessel. This fact means meltdown.
King also announced radioactive fallout has been detected throughout our state. Briefly, I will explain. The core of the reactor is cladded in zirchonium. When there is no water to cool the core, and the core is exposed to air, the "pressure vessel" surrounding the core melts down. However, though radiation is released, the "containment vessel," that concrete dome visible to us, will keep the fallout from being released. Pressure, will build, and under a "controlled event," that pressure can be released as radioactive hydrogen steam, the hydrogen caused by the zirchonium. The fuel core is cooled by electrical power, that allows a pump to expose fuel rods for heating the core, and to cover fuel rods for controlling the heat. The circulatory pumps, with condensors, circulate the water to keep the core cool. If these fail, a backup cooling system is in place that slows down the damage, prevents further damage, or stops a meltdown. In Japan, there is no control. The plant lost all electrical power, so the cooling systems were shut down. The back up generators lost power during the tsunami. Therefore, all cooling ability was lost, and all cores were exposed to air, as water was dissipated. There are 9 reactors at the Fukushima site. There are 6 spent fuel storeage ponds. The total amount of radioactive materials at the plant is known, and equals 1000 hiroshima bombs (Physicians for Social Responsibility, Citizens for Nuclear Information, Helen Caldicott, Rachael Maddow, Ralph Nader). We saw this lost control with our own eyes, the spent fuel fires burning in the night, the hydrogen explosion, with so much radioactive debris thrown into the air, hellicopters could not fly overhead to drop needed water, and finally the cracked containment vessels, and new photos that show a skeletal power plant system left after the 9.0 quake followed by the tsunami.
If there is a windshift in Japan, all Tokyo could be exposed. The wind is currently blowing our way.
Please pass this message onto others to insure they too avoid catastrophic illness. Protect your kids. "Above all else, do no harm."
-- Grant Marcus, RN