Japan & US Radiation Help
The most important to to realize that will help you and your family is to not fear and worry. Trust that everything will be ok and it will. There is nothing that can happen that cannot be reversed in the body. Do not try to figure it out because if you do, you will surely make the healing and fears worse.
**Official***Message from the Hopi Nation about Japan, Amazing and Historic
Update March 19th
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Nuclear-plant-chief-weeps-Japanese-finally-admit-radiation-leak-kill-people.html#ixzz1GzaovWvo.
"The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people
"The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people
Update March 18th
To: Robert Stevens
Subject: Fwd: Why The Nuclear Disaster Will Not Happen.......a different point of view.....so you read and u decide.....
Hope you are open to potentially good news, yeah I know we are trained like Pavlov's dogs to prefer dire clap trap over anything possibly real. I've read and think (but don't really know) that the system is much better designed then I was willing to credit them. Sorry for the earlier alarm stuff . . . but all of us have been to the Pavlov obedience school of disinformation. Robert
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Lipinski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:56 AM
Subject: Why The Nuclear Disaster Will Not Happen.......a different point of view.....so you read and u decide.....
To: John Lipinski <[email protected]>
http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-reactors-pose-no-risk-2011-3
You Can Stop Worrying About A Radiation Disaster In Japan -- Here's WhyAttributed To: Dr. Josef Oehmen, MIT | Mar. 13, 2011, 4:54 PM
Subject: Fwd: Why The Nuclear Disaster Will Not Happen.......a different point of view.....so you read and u decide.....
Hope you are open to potentially good news, yeah I know we are trained like Pavlov's dogs to prefer dire clap trap over anything possibly real. I've read and think (but don't really know) that the system is much better designed then I was willing to credit them. Sorry for the earlier alarm stuff . . . but all of us have been to the Pavlov obedience school of disinformation. Robert
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: John Lipinski <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:56 AM
Subject: Why The Nuclear Disaster Will Not Happen.......a different point of view.....so you read and u decide.....
To: John Lipinski <[email protected]>
http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-reactors-pose-no-risk-2011-3
You Can Stop Worrying About A Radiation Disaster In Japan -- Here's WhyAttributed To: Dr. Josef Oehmen, MIT | Mar. 13, 2011, 4:54 PM
This was originally posted as a comment on Japan Death Toll Climbs Astronomically As Nuclear Crisis Spreads.
UPDATE: Since posting this, readers have told us it was written by Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT. It was originally posted here.
I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.
By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.
I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.
We will have to cover some fundamentals, before we get into what is going on.The plants at Fukushima are so called Boiling Water Reactors, or BWR for short. Boiling Water Reactors are similar to a pressure cooker. The nuclear fuel heats water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines that create the electricity, and the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water send back to be heated by the nuclear fuel. The pressure cooker operates at about 250 °C.
The nuclear fuel is uranium oxide. Uranium oxide is a ceramic with a very high melting point of about 3000 °C. The fuel is manufactured in pellets (think little cylinders the size of Lego bricks). Those pieces are then put into a long tube made of Zircaloy with a melting point of 2200 °C, and sealed tight. The assembly is called a fuel rod. These fuel rods are then put together to form larger packages, and a number of these packages are then put into the reactor. All these packages together are referred to as “the core”.
The Zircaloy casing is the first containment. It separates the radioactive fuel from the rest of the world. The core is then placed in the “pressure vessels”. That is the pressure cooker we talked about before.
The pressure vessels is the second containment. This is one sturdy piece of a pot, designed to safely contain the core for temperatures several hundred °C. That covers the scenarios where cooling can be restored at some point.
The entire “hardware” of the nuclear reactor – the pressure vessel and all pipes, pumps, coolant (water) reserves, are then encased in the third containment. The third containment is a hermetically (air tight) sealed, very thick bubble of the strongest steel. The third containment is designed, built and tested for one single purpose: To contain, indefinitely, a complete core meltdown. For that purpose, a large and thick concrete basin is cast under the pressure vessel (the second containment), which is filled with graphite, all inside the third containment. This is the so-called "core catcher". If the core melts and the pressure vessel bursts (and eventually melts), it will catch the molten fuel and everything else. It is built in such a way that the nuclear fuel will be spread out, so it can cool down.This third containment is then surrounded by the reactor building. The reactor building is an outer shell that is supposed to keep the weather out, but nothing in. (this is the part that was damaged in the explosion, but more to that later).
Fundamentals of nuclear reactions: The uranium fuel generates heat by nuclear fission. Big uranium atoms are split into smaller atoms. That generates heat plus neutrons (one of the particles that forms an atom). When the neutron hits another uranium atom, that splits, generating more neutrons and so on. That is called the nuclear chain reaction.
Now, just packing a lot of fuel rods next to each other would quickly lead to overheating and after about 45 minutes to a melting of the fuel rods. It is worth mentioning at this point that the nuclear fuel in a reactor can *never* cause a nuclear explosion the type of a nuclear bomb. Building a nuclear bomb is actually quite difficult (ask Iran).
In Chernobyl, the explosion was caused by excessive pressure buildup, hydrogen explosion and rupture of all containments, propelling molten core material into the environment (a “dirty bomb”). Why that did not and will not happen in Japan, further below.
In order to control the nuclear chain reaction, the reactor operators use so-called “moderator rods”. The moderator rods absorb the neutrons and kill the chain reaction instantaneously. A nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods. The coolant water then takes away the heat (and converts it into steam and electricity) at the same rate as the core produces it. And you have a lot of leeway around the standard operating point of 250°C. The challenge is that after inserting the rods and stopping the chain reaction, the core still keeps producing heat. The uranium “stopped” the chain reaction. But a number of intermediate radioactive elements are created by the uranium during its fission process, most notably Cesium and Iodine isotopes, i.e. radioactive versions of these elements that will eventually split up into smaller atoms and not be radioactive anymore. Those elements keep decaying and producing heat. Because they are not regenerated any longer from the uranium (the uranium stopped decaying after the moderator rods were put in), they get less and less, and so the core cools down over a matter of days, until those intermediate radioactive elements are used up. This residual heat is causing the headaches right now.So the first “type” of radioactive material is the uranium in the fuel rods, plus the intermediate radioactive elements that the uranium splits into, also inside the fuel rod (Cesium and Iodine). There is a second type of radioactive material created, outside the fuel rods.The big main difference up front: Those radioactive materials have a very short half-life, that means that they decay very fast and split into non-radioactive materials. By fast I mean seconds. So if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all. Why? By the time you spelled “R-A-D-I-O-N-U-C-L-I-D-E”, they will be harmless, because they will have split up into non radioactive elements. Those radioactive elements are N-16, the radioactive isotope (or version) of nitrogen (air). The others are noble gases such as Xenon. But where do they come from? When the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above). Most of these neutrons will hit other uranium atoms and keep the nuclear chain reaction going. But some will leave the fuel rod and hit the water molecules, or the air that is in the water. Then, a non-radioactive element can “capture” the neutron. It becomes radioactive. As described above, it will quickly (seconds) get rid again of the neutron to return to its former beautiful self.
This second “type” of radiation is very important when we talk about the radioactivity being released into the environment later on.
What happened at Fukushima I will try to summarize the main facts.The earthquake that hit Japan was 7 times more powerful than the worst earthquake the nuclear power plant was built for (the Richter scale works logarithmically; the difference between the 8.2 that the plants were built for and the 8.9 that happened is 7 times, not 0.7). So the first hooray for Japanese engineering, everything held up.
When the earthquake hit with 8.9, the nuclear reactors all went into automatic shutdown. Within seconds after the earthquake started, the moderator rods had been inserted into the core and nuclear chain reaction of the uranium stopped. Now, the cooling system has to carry away the residual heat. The residual heat load is about 3% of the heat load under normal operating conditions. The earthquake destroyed the external power supply of the nuclear reactor. That is one of the most serious accidents for a nuclear power plant, and accordingly, a “plant black out” receives a lot of attention when designing backup systems. The power is needed to keep the coolant pumps working. Since the power plant had been shut down, it cannot produce any electricity by itself any more.
Things were going well for an hour. One set of multiple sets of emergency Diesel power generators kicked in and provided the electricity that was needed. Then the Tsunami came, much bigger than people had expected when building the power plant (see above, factor 7). The tsunami took out all multiple sets of backup Diesel generators.When designing a nuclear power plant, engineers follow a philosophy called “Defense of Depth”. That means that you first build everything to withstand the worst catastrophe you can imagine, and then design the plant in such a way that it can still handle one system failure (that you thought could never happen) after the other. A tsunami taking out all backup power in one swift strike is such a scenario.
The last line of defense is putting everything into the third containment (see above), that will keep everything, whatever the mess, moderator rods in our out, core molten or not, inside the reactor. When the diesel generators were gone, the reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did. Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake.
The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in. This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
At this point the plant operators begin to follow emergency procedures that are in place for a “loss of cooling event”. It is again a step along the “Depth of Defense” lines. The power to the cooling systems should never have failed completely, but it did, so they “retreat” to the next line of defense. All of this, however shocking it seems to us, is part of the day-to-day training you go through as an operator, right through to managing a core meltdown. It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.
But the goal at this stage was to manage the core while it was heating up, and ensure that the first containment (the Zircaloy tubes that contains the nuclear fuel), as well as the second containment (our pressure cooker) remain intact and operational for as long as possible, to give the engineers time to fix the cooling systems. Because cooling the core is such a big deal, the reactor has a number of cooling systems, each in multiple versions (the reactor water cleanup system, the decay heat removal, the reactor core isolating cooling, the standby liquid cooling system, and the emergency core cooling system). Which one failed when or did not fail is not clear at this point in time.
So imagine our pressure cooker on the stove, heat on low, but on. The operators use whatever cooling system capacity they have to get rid of as much heat as possible, but the pressure starts building up. The priority now is to maintain integrity of the first containment (keep temperature of the fuel rods below 2200°C), as well as the second containment, the pressure cooker. In order to maintain integrity of the pressure cooker (the second containment), the pressure has to be released from time to time. Because the ability to do that in an emergency is so important, the reactor has 11 pressure release valves. The operators now started venting steam from time to time to control the pressure. The temperature at this stage was about 550°C. This is when the reports about “radiation leakage” starting coming in.
I believe I explained above why venting the steam is theoretically the same as releasing radiation into the environment, but why it was and is not dangerous. The radioactive nitrogen as well as the noble gases do not pose a threat to human health. At some stage during this venting, the explosion occurred. The explosion took place outside of the third containment (our “last line of defense”), and the reactor building. Remember that the reactor building has no function in keeping the radioactivity contained.
It is not entirely clear yet what has happened, but this is the likely scenario: The operators decided to vent the steam from the pressure vessel not directly into the environment, but into the space between the third containment and the reactor building (to give the radioactivity in the steam more time to subside). The problem is that at the high temperatures that the core had reached at this stage, water molecules can “disassociate” into oxygen and hydrogen – an explosive mixture. And it did explode, outside the third containment, damaging the reactor building around. It was that sort of explosion, but inside the pressure vessel (because it was badly designed and not managed properly by the operators) that lead to the explosion of Chernobyl. This was never a risk at Fukushima.
The problem of hydrogen-oxygen formation is one of the biggies when you design a power plant (if you are not Soviet, that is), so the reactor is build and operated in a way it cannot happen inside the containment. It happened outside, which was not intended but a possible scenario and OK, because it did not pose a risk for the containment. So the pressure was under control, as steam was vented.
Now, if you keep boiling your pot, the problem is that the water level will keep falling and falling. The core is covered by several meters of water in order to allow for some time to pass (hours, days) before it gets exposed. Once the rods start to be exposed at the top, the exposed parts will reach the critical temperature of 2200 °C after about 45 minutes. This is when the first containment, the Zircaloy tube, would fail. And this started to happen. The cooling could not be restored before there was some (very limited, but still) damage to the casing of some of the fuel. The nuclear material itself was still intact, but the surrounding Zircaloy shell had started melting.
What happened now is that some of the byproducts of the uranium decay - radioactive Cesium and Iodine - started to mix with the steam. The big problem, uranium, was still under control, because the uranium oxide rods were good until 3000 °C. It is confirmed that a very small amount of Cesium and Iodine was measured in the steam that was released into the atmosphere. It seems this was the “go signal” for a major plan B. The small amounts of Cesium that were measured told the operators that the first containment on one of the rods somewhere was about to give.
The Plan A had been to restore one of the regular cooling systems to the core. Why that failed is unclear. One plausible explanation is that the tsunami also took away / polluted all the clean water needed for the regular cooling systems. The water used in the cooling system is very clean, demineralized (like distilled) water. The reason to use pure water is the above mentioned activation by the neutrons from the Uranium: Pure water does not get activated much, so stays practically radioactive-free. Dirt or salt in the water will absorb the neutrons quicker, becoming more radioactive. This has no effect whatsoever on the core - it does not care what it is cooled by. But it makes life more difficult for the operators and mechanics when they have to deal with activated (i.e. slightly radioactive) water.
But Plan A had failed - cooling systems down or additional clean water unavailable - so Plan B came into effect. This is what it looks like happened: In order to prevent a core meltdown, the operators started to use sea
The large amount of cooling water that has been used is sufficient to take up that heat. Because it is a lot of water, the core does not produce sufficient heat any more to produce any significant pressure. Also, boric acid has been added to the seawater. Boric acid is "liquid control rod". Whatever decay is still going on, the Boron will capture the neutrons and further speed up the cooling down of the core.
The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid pressure buildup. The third containment would then have been completely sealed to allow the core meltdown to happen without releasing radioactive material. After the meltdown, there would have been a waiting period for the intermediate radioactive materials to decay inside the reactor, and all radioactive particles to settle on a surface inside the containment. The cooling system would have been restored eventually, and the molten core cooled to a manageable temperature. The containment would have been cleaned up on the inside. Then a messy job of removing the molten core from the containment would have begun, packing the (now solid again) fuel bit by bit into transportation containers to be shipped to processing plants. Depending on the damage, the block of the plant would then either be repaired or dismantled.
UPDATE: Since posting this, readers have told us it was written by Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT. It was originally posted here.
I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.
By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.
I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.
We will have to cover some fundamentals, before we get into what is going on.The plants at Fukushima are so called Boiling Water Reactors, or BWR for short. Boiling Water Reactors are similar to a pressure cooker. The nuclear fuel heats water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines that create the electricity, and the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water send back to be heated by the nuclear fuel. The pressure cooker operates at about 250 °C.
The nuclear fuel is uranium oxide. Uranium oxide is a ceramic with a very high melting point of about 3000 °C. The fuel is manufactured in pellets (think little cylinders the size of Lego bricks). Those pieces are then put into a long tube made of Zircaloy with a melting point of 2200 °C, and sealed tight. The assembly is called a fuel rod. These fuel rods are then put together to form larger packages, and a number of these packages are then put into the reactor. All these packages together are referred to as “the core”.
The Zircaloy casing is the first containment. It separates the radioactive fuel from the rest of the world. The core is then placed in the “pressure vessels”. That is the pressure cooker we talked about before.
The pressure vessels is the second containment. This is one sturdy piece of a pot, designed to safely contain the core for temperatures several hundred °C. That covers the scenarios where cooling can be restored at some point.
The entire “hardware” of the nuclear reactor – the pressure vessel and all pipes, pumps, coolant (water) reserves, are then encased in the third containment. The third containment is a hermetically (air tight) sealed, very thick bubble of the strongest steel. The third containment is designed, built and tested for one single purpose: To contain, indefinitely, a complete core meltdown. For that purpose, a large and thick concrete basin is cast under the pressure vessel (the second containment), which is filled with graphite, all inside the third containment. This is the so-called "core catcher". If the core melts and the pressure vessel bursts (and eventually melts), it will catch the molten fuel and everything else. It is built in such a way that the nuclear fuel will be spread out, so it can cool down.This third containment is then surrounded by the reactor building. The reactor building is an outer shell that is supposed to keep the weather out, but nothing in. (this is the part that was damaged in the explosion, but more to that later).
Fundamentals of nuclear reactions: The uranium fuel generates heat by nuclear fission. Big uranium atoms are split into smaller atoms. That generates heat plus neutrons (one of the particles that forms an atom). When the neutron hits another uranium atom, that splits, generating more neutrons and so on. That is called the nuclear chain reaction.
Now, just packing a lot of fuel rods next to each other would quickly lead to overheating and after about 45 minutes to a melting of the fuel rods. It is worth mentioning at this point that the nuclear fuel in a reactor can *never* cause a nuclear explosion the type of a nuclear bomb. Building a nuclear bomb is actually quite difficult (ask Iran).
In Chernobyl, the explosion was caused by excessive pressure buildup, hydrogen explosion and rupture of all containments, propelling molten core material into the environment (a “dirty bomb”). Why that did not and will not happen in Japan, further below.
In order to control the nuclear chain reaction, the reactor operators use so-called “moderator rods”. The moderator rods absorb the neutrons and kill the chain reaction instantaneously. A nuclear reactor is built in such a way, that when operating normally, you take out all the moderator rods. The coolant water then takes away the heat (and converts it into steam and electricity) at the same rate as the core produces it. And you have a lot of leeway around the standard operating point of 250°C. The challenge is that after inserting the rods and stopping the chain reaction, the core still keeps producing heat. The uranium “stopped” the chain reaction. But a number of intermediate radioactive elements are created by the uranium during its fission process, most notably Cesium and Iodine isotopes, i.e. radioactive versions of these elements that will eventually split up into smaller atoms and not be radioactive anymore. Those elements keep decaying and producing heat. Because they are not regenerated any longer from the uranium (the uranium stopped decaying after the moderator rods were put in), they get less and less, and so the core cools down over a matter of days, until those intermediate radioactive elements are used up. This residual heat is causing the headaches right now.So the first “type” of radioactive material is the uranium in the fuel rods, plus the intermediate radioactive elements that the uranium splits into, also inside the fuel rod (Cesium and Iodine). There is a second type of radioactive material created, outside the fuel rods.The big main difference up front: Those radioactive materials have a very short half-life, that means that they decay very fast and split into non-radioactive materials. By fast I mean seconds. So if these radioactive materials are released into the environment, yes, radioactivity was released, but no, it is not dangerous, at all. Why? By the time you spelled “R-A-D-I-O-N-U-C-L-I-D-E”, they will be harmless, because they will have split up into non radioactive elements. Those radioactive elements are N-16, the radioactive isotope (or version) of nitrogen (air). The others are noble gases such as Xenon. But where do they come from? When the uranium splits, it generates a neutron (see above). Most of these neutrons will hit other uranium atoms and keep the nuclear chain reaction going. But some will leave the fuel rod and hit the water molecules, or the air that is in the water. Then, a non-radioactive element can “capture” the neutron. It becomes radioactive. As described above, it will quickly (seconds) get rid again of the neutron to return to its former beautiful self.
This second “type” of radiation is very important when we talk about the radioactivity being released into the environment later on.
What happened at Fukushima I will try to summarize the main facts.The earthquake that hit Japan was 7 times more powerful than the worst earthquake the nuclear power plant was built for (the Richter scale works logarithmically; the difference between the 8.2 that the plants were built for and the 8.9 that happened is 7 times, not 0.7). So the first hooray for Japanese engineering, everything held up.
When the earthquake hit with 8.9, the nuclear reactors all went into automatic shutdown. Within seconds after the earthquake started, the moderator rods had been inserted into the core and nuclear chain reaction of the uranium stopped. Now, the cooling system has to carry away the residual heat. The residual heat load is about 3% of the heat load under normal operating conditions. The earthquake destroyed the external power supply of the nuclear reactor. That is one of the most serious accidents for a nuclear power plant, and accordingly, a “plant black out” receives a lot of attention when designing backup systems. The power is needed to keep the coolant pumps working. Since the power plant had been shut down, it cannot produce any electricity by itself any more.
Things were going well for an hour. One set of multiple sets of emergency Diesel power generators kicked in and provided the electricity that was needed. Then the Tsunami came, much bigger than people had expected when building the power plant (see above, factor 7). The tsunami took out all multiple sets of backup Diesel generators.When designing a nuclear power plant, engineers follow a philosophy called “Defense of Depth”. That means that you first build everything to withstand the worst catastrophe you can imagine, and then design the plant in such a way that it can still handle one system failure (that you thought could never happen) after the other. A tsunami taking out all backup power in one swift strike is such a scenario.
The last line of defense is putting everything into the third containment (see above), that will keep everything, whatever the mess, moderator rods in our out, core molten or not, inside the reactor. When the diesel generators were gone, the reactor operators switched to emergency battery power. The batteries were designed as one of the backups to the backups, to provide power for cooling the core for 8 hours. And they did. Within the 8 hours, another power source had to be found and connected to the power plant. The power grid was down due to the earthquake.
The diesel generators were destroyed by the tsunami. So mobile diesel generators were trucked in. This is where things started to go seriously wrong. The external power generators could not be connected to the power plant (the plugs did not fit). So after the batteries ran out, the residual heat could not be carried away any more.
At this point the plant operators begin to follow emergency procedures that are in place for a “loss of cooling event”. It is again a step along the “Depth of Defense” lines. The power to the cooling systems should never have failed completely, but it did, so they “retreat” to the next line of defense. All of this, however shocking it seems to us, is part of the day-to-day training you go through as an operator, right through to managing a core meltdown. It was at this stage that people started to talk about core meltdown. Because at the end of the day, if cooling cannot be restored, the core will eventually melt (after hours or days), and the last line of defense, the core catcher and third containment, would come into play.
But the goal at this stage was to manage the core while it was heating up, and ensure that the first containment (the Zircaloy tubes that contains the nuclear fuel), as well as the second containment (our pressure cooker) remain intact and operational for as long as possible, to give the engineers time to fix the cooling systems. Because cooling the core is such a big deal, the reactor has a number of cooling systems, each in multiple versions (the reactor water cleanup system, the decay heat removal, the reactor core isolating cooling, the standby liquid cooling system, and the emergency core cooling system). Which one failed when or did not fail is not clear at this point in time.
So imagine our pressure cooker on the stove, heat on low, but on. The operators use whatever cooling system capacity they have to get rid of as much heat as possible, but the pressure starts building up. The priority now is to maintain integrity of the first containment (keep temperature of the fuel rods below 2200°C), as well as the second containment, the pressure cooker. In order to maintain integrity of the pressure cooker (the second containment), the pressure has to be released from time to time. Because the ability to do that in an emergency is so important, the reactor has 11 pressure release valves. The operators now started venting steam from time to time to control the pressure. The temperature at this stage was about 550°C. This is when the reports about “radiation leakage” starting coming in.
I believe I explained above why venting the steam is theoretically the same as releasing radiation into the environment, but why it was and is not dangerous. The radioactive nitrogen as well as the noble gases do not pose a threat to human health. At some stage during this venting, the explosion occurred. The explosion took place outside of the third containment (our “last line of defense”), and the reactor building. Remember that the reactor building has no function in keeping the radioactivity contained.
It is not entirely clear yet what has happened, but this is the likely scenario: The operators decided to vent the steam from the pressure vessel not directly into the environment, but into the space between the third containment and the reactor building (to give the radioactivity in the steam more time to subside). The problem is that at the high temperatures that the core had reached at this stage, water molecules can “disassociate” into oxygen and hydrogen – an explosive mixture. And it did explode, outside the third containment, damaging the reactor building around. It was that sort of explosion, but inside the pressure vessel (because it was badly designed and not managed properly by the operators) that lead to the explosion of Chernobyl. This was never a risk at Fukushima.
The problem of hydrogen-oxygen formation is one of the biggies when you design a power plant (if you are not Soviet, that is), so the reactor is build and operated in a way it cannot happen inside the containment. It happened outside, which was not intended but a possible scenario and OK, because it did not pose a risk for the containment. So the pressure was under control, as steam was vented.
Now, if you keep boiling your pot, the problem is that the water level will keep falling and falling. The core is covered by several meters of water in order to allow for some time to pass (hours, days) before it gets exposed. Once the rods start to be exposed at the top, the exposed parts will reach the critical temperature of 2200 °C after about 45 minutes. This is when the first containment, the Zircaloy tube, would fail. And this started to happen. The cooling could not be restored before there was some (very limited, but still) damage to the casing of some of the fuel. The nuclear material itself was still intact, but the surrounding Zircaloy shell had started melting.
What happened now is that some of the byproducts of the uranium decay - radioactive Cesium and Iodine - started to mix with the steam. The big problem, uranium, was still under control, because the uranium oxide rods were good until 3000 °C. It is confirmed that a very small amount of Cesium and Iodine was measured in the steam that was released into the atmosphere. It seems this was the “go signal” for a major plan B. The small amounts of Cesium that were measured told the operators that the first containment on one of the rods somewhere was about to give.
The Plan A had been to restore one of the regular cooling systems to the core. Why that failed is unclear. One plausible explanation is that the tsunami also took away / polluted all the clean water needed for the regular cooling systems. The water used in the cooling system is very clean, demineralized (like distilled) water. The reason to use pure water is the above mentioned activation by the neutrons from the Uranium: Pure water does not get activated much, so stays practically radioactive-free. Dirt or salt in the water will absorb the neutrons quicker, becoming more radioactive. This has no effect whatsoever on the core - it does not care what it is cooled by. But it makes life more difficult for the operators and mechanics when they have to deal with activated (i.e. slightly radioactive) water.
But Plan A had failed - cooling systems down or additional clean water unavailable - so Plan B came into effect. This is what it looks like happened: In order to prevent a core meltdown, the operators started to use sea
The large amount of cooling water that has been used is sufficient to take up that heat. Because it is a lot of water, the core does not produce sufficient heat any more to produce any significant pressure. Also, boric acid has been added to the seawater. Boric acid is "liquid control rod". Whatever decay is still going on, the Boron will capture the neutrons and further speed up the cooling down of the core.
The plant came close to a core meltdown. Here is the worst-case scenario that was avoided: If the seawater could not have been used for treatment, the operators would have continued to vent the water steam to avoid pressure buildup. The third containment would then have been completely sealed to allow the core meltdown to happen without releasing radioactive material. After the meltdown, there would have been a waiting period for the intermediate radioactive materials to decay inside the reactor, and all radioactive particles to settle on a surface inside the containment. The cooling system would have been restored eventually, and the molten core cooled to a manageable temperature. The containment would have been cleaned up on the inside. Then a messy job of removing the molten core from the containment would have begun, packing the (now solid again) fuel bit by bit into transportation containers to be shipped to processing plants. Depending on the damage, the block of the plant would then either be repaired or dismantled.
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Subject: FW: Potassium Iodide (what form and amount)
This was given in Paycheck Piracy:
From: "Roger DeHaan" <[email protected]>
Date: March 16, 2011 21:01:30 PM PDT
Subject: Potassium Iodide #3 roger update
Living as you do in California, I thought you might be interested
in the following information for prevention and treatment for
radiation exposure. Note most of these are practical home treatment
suggestions. This may seem like an overload but if events unfold
this could also save many lives. This is all based on good science.
Note the unfolding conversational letters below based on a set of
websites and information at the bottom. Also then an attachment
with a supporting view and more in depth analysis with answers by
Dr. Sicus.
Hope this helps. Please be well and stay well! roger
-------------
From: Roger DeHaan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:52 PM
Subject: : Potassium Iodide (what form and amount) #3 roger update
Reuben: Following is more info on Lugol's iodine for radiation, taken
in this case internally, a reply from Dr. Phelps. The attachment
should interest you also, and contains far more information
than I have seen elsewhere, this by Dr. Sircus. Conclusion: We
already know a lot but must connect the dots as to what is most
specific. Obviously Arm & Hammer baking soda both internal and
external seem to be another key according to Dr. Sircus, and he
explains the mechanism.
So a quick conclusion: 1. Iodine. 2. Baking soda. 3. Various
herbs, spices with a nutrient dense diet, mostly vegetarian. 4. Sea
Salt or Willard's Water or Dead Sea salt, 5. Magnesium Chloride or
Epson salts.
--------------
From: Trudy P.
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:19 PM
To: 'Roger D.
Subject: [SPAM] RE: Potassium Iodide (what form and amount)
Hi, Roger - thanks for this, I am keeping my eye on the situation,
especially since our daughter lives in Las Vegas. I have been reading
the information also from IMVA (Dr Sircus), who has interviewed
Dr Brownstein (a specialist in treating people with iodine). I am
attaching his latest information FYI.
I thought the solution normally called 'Lugol's' is usually
provided in a 2% solution (or near that). Lugol's traditionally
is 7% solution, in my practice experience. I have been taking this
for some time, if other supplies are running low, it may still be
available from the source I use, which is Alpha Omega Labs (also
called 'Herb Healers'), link is here. I ordered some yesterday at
the usual price, they said it is in stock. They are not widely
known since they are based in Brazil. Their CEO was kidnapped by
the FDA who went to Brazil, hauled him out illegally, took him to
the USA and put him into prison. I believe it is a Christian group,
I am very burdened by the fact that he is in prison for his work
to try to heal people of cancer and other things using natural
means. In addition to the 2% solution, they also do 7% and 15%.
According to Dr Brownstein, the normal doses he uses on patients
(who, he claims, 95% of are deficient in iodine anyway) is an average
of 12.5 mg/day, up to 50 mg/day for some people, and as low as 6
mg/day for others. In the event of a radiation scare, however, he
is suggesting 100 mg as a single dose (assuming that most people will
be deficient), followed by 12.5 to 50 mg/day as an ongoing thing.
According to the calculations shown on the Alpha Omega site for their
Lugol's, the 2% solution would be about 7 drops/day to achieve 12.5
mg/day. The dose you mention would be definitely on the low side,
based on Dr Brownstein's recommendation. I believe your calculation
is based on 2% rather than the 7% solution? My recommendation
was based on information supplied by the compounding pharmacy where
purchase Lugol's. So it appears that recommendation is approximately
double that of Dr. Brownstein? http://www.herbhealers.com/store/
Trudy
Bill: here is the site and basic info I mentioned I would forward
regarding radiation fallout. Note websites you can click on for
more info. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Lugol's is 5% Iodine and 10% Potassium Iodine which is useful,
3 drops daily or 3 x daily in an emergency for 10 days. Standard
Process has suggested Prolomine Iodine for the same thing, 1
daily. I hear Japan is handing out iodine to its people. Can one
buy potassium iodide or get it at a drug store? OK I Googled it
and it is readily available! (Or did I hear there is a run on it
and prices are skyrocketing.)
Subject: Potassium Iodide (what form and amount)
Per a friend of mine asking about Potassium Iodine because fallout
could head this way if/when Japan goes 'Y2K' on us J Sorry if you
are on this list and you don't want to be .. if you are on this
list it means I care about you J my comments below.
http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm info on radiation, best I have seen
http://www.ki4u.com/products1.php get some RAD stickers, potassium
iodine, I agree with the directions included.
RADIATION DIET
Barbara Brennan writes in her classic Light Emerging, "If you
are having any kind of radiation treatments, consider going
macrobiotic. According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, macrobiotics is
very effective in curing radiation sickness. In his book Macrobiotic
Diet, Michio Kushi states: "At the time of the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of
the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in
Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the
center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but
soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the
radioactivity that had been released. Dr. Akizuki fed his staff
and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and
tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables , Hokkaido
pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and
sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many
other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.'" *
miso: paste made from fermented soya beans and barley or rice malt,
used in Japanese/macrobiotic cookery
RADIATION DETOX BATH
This bath counteracts the effects of radiation, whether from
X-rays, cancer treatment radiation, fallout from the atmosphere,
or television radiation. 1 cup of baking soda and 1 to 2 cups
of ordinary coarse salt (or epsom salts or sea salt) to a tub of
water. You can soak for 20 minutes. SAM'S club has large bags of
baking soda cheap.
SUPPLEMENTS
Cypress oil - "Use lots of Cypress (Essential) Oil. It builds blood
corpuscles, especially the white cells. Apply it on the skin, breathe
it and take capsules of it. It will accelerate the rebuilding of
your immune system after chemo has destroyed it. The doctors will
be amazed at the speed of recovery from chemo when Cypress Oil is
used like this." Of course, you can get your Cypress Oil in a blend
from here
<http://bugoutbox.homestead.com/Essential-Oil-Benefits-Nuclear-Biological-Chemical-Vaccine.html>
your doc J
****
This was given in Paycheck Piracy:
From: "Roger DeHaan" <[email protected]>
Date: March 16, 2011 21:01:30 PM PDT
Subject: Potassium Iodide #3 roger update
Living as you do in California, I thought you might be interested
in the following information for prevention and treatment for
radiation exposure. Note most of these are practical home treatment
suggestions. This may seem like an overload but if events unfold
this could also save many lives. This is all based on good science.
Note the unfolding conversational letters below based on a set of
websites and information at the bottom. Also then an attachment
with a supporting view and more in depth analysis with answers by
Dr. Sicus.
Hope this helps. Please be well and stay well! roger
-------------
From: Roger DeHaan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:52 PM
Subject: : Potassium Iodide (what form and amount) #3 roger update
Reuben: Following is more info on Lugol's iodine for radiation, taken
in this case internally, a reply from Dr. Phelps. The attachment
should interest you also, and contains far more information
than I have seen elsewhere, this by Dr. Sircus. Conclusion: We
already know a lot but must connect the dots as to what is most
specific. Obviously Arm & Hammer baking soda both internal and
external seem to be another key according to Dr. Sircus, and he
explains the mechanism.
So a quick conclusion: 1. Iodine. 2. Baking soda. 3. Various
herbs, spices with a nutrient dense diet, mostly vegetarian. 4. Sea
Salt or Willard's Water or Dead Sea salt, 5. Magnesium Chloride or
Epson salts.
--------------
From: Trudy P.
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:19 PM
To: 'Roger D.
Subject: [SPAM] RE: Potassium Iodide (what form and amount)
Hi, Roger - thanks for this, I am keeping my eye on the situation,
especially since our daughter lives in Las Vegas. I have been reading
the information also from IMVA (Dr Sircus), who has interviewed
Dr Brownstein (a specialist in treating people with iodine). I am
attaching his latest information FYI.
I thought the solution normally called 'Lugol's' is usually
provided in a 2% solution (or near that). Lugol's traditionally
is 7% solution, in my practice experience. I have been taking this
for some time, if other supplies are running low, it may still be
available from the source I use, which is Alpha Omega Labs (also
called 'Herb Healers'), link is here. I ordered some yesterday at
the usual price, they said it is in stock. They are not widely
known since they are based in Brazil. Their CEO was kidnapped by
the FDA who went to Brazil, hauled him out illegally, took him to
the USA and put him into prison. I believe it is a Christian group,
I am very burdened by the fact that he is in prison for his work
to try to heal people of cancer and other things using natural
means. In addition to the 2% solution, they also do 7% and 15%.
According to Dr Brownstein, the normal doses he uses on patients
(who, he claims, 95% of are deficient in iodine anyway) is an average
of 12.5 mg/day, up to 50 mg/day for some people, and as low as 6
mg/day for others. In the event of a radiation scare, however, he
is suggesting 100 mg as a single dose (assuming that most people will
be deficient), followed by 12.5 to 50 mg/day as an ongoing thing.
According to the calculations shown on the Alpha Omega site for their
Lugol's, the 2% solution would be about 7 drops/day to achieve 12.5
mg/day. The dose you mention would be definitely on the low side,
based on Dr Brownstein's recommendation. I believe your calculation
is based on 2% rather than the 7% solution? My recommendation
was based on information supplied by the compounding pharmacy where
purchase Lugol's. So it appears that recommendation is approximately
double that of Dr. Brownstein? http://www.herbhealers.com/store/
Trudy
Bill: here is the site and basic info I mentioned I would forward
regarding radiation fallout. Note websites you can click on for
more info. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Lugol's is 5% Iodine and 10% Potassium Iodine which is useful,
3 drops daily or 3 x daily in an emergency for 10 days. Standard
Process has suggested Prolomine Iodine for the same thing, 1
daily. I hear Japan is handing out iodine to its people. Can one
buy potassium iodide or get it at a drug store? OK I Googled it
and it is readily available! (Or did I hear there is a run on it
and prices are skyrocketing.)
Subject: Potassium Iodide (what form and amount)
Per a friend of mine asking about Potassium Iodine because fallout
could head this way if/when Japan goes 'Y2K' on us J Sorry if you
are on this list and you don't want to be .. if you are on this
list it means I care about you J my comments below.
http://www.ki4u.com/guide.htm info on radiation, best I have seen
http://www.ki4u.com/products1.php get some RAD stickers, potassium
iodine, I agree with the directions included.
RADIATION DIET
Barbara Brennan writes in her classic Light Emerging, "If you
are having any kind of radiation treatments, consider going
macrobiotic. According to Michio and Aveline Kushi, macrobiotics is
very effective in curing radiation sickness. In his book Macrobiotic
Diet, Michio Kushi states: "At the time of the atomic bombing
of Nagasaki in 1945, Tatsuichiro Akizuki, M.D., was director of
the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in
Nagasaki. Most patients in the hospital, located one mile from the
center of the blast, survived the initial effects of the bomb, but
soon after came down with symptoms of radiation sickness from the
radioactivity that had been released. Dr. Akizuki fed his staff
and patients a strict macrobiotic diet of brown rice, miso* and
tamari soy sauce soup, wakame and other sea vegetables , Hokkaido
pumpkin, and sea salt and prohibited the consumption of sugar and
sweets. As a result, he saved everyone in his hospital, while many
other survivors in the city perished from radiation sickness.'" *
miso: paste made from fermented soya beans and barley or rice malt,
used in Japanese/macrobiotic cookery
RADIATION DETOX BATH
This bath counteracts the effects of radiation, whether from
X-rays, cancer treatment radiation, fallout from the atmosphere,
or television radiation. 1 cup of baking soda and 1 to 2 cups
of ordinary coarse salt (or epsom salts or sea salt) to a tub of
water. You can soak for 20 minutes. SAM'S club has large bags of
baking soda cheap.
SUPPLEMENTS
Cypress oil - "Use lots of Cypress (Essential) Oil. It builds blood
corpuscles, especially the white cells. Apply it on the skin, breathe
it and take capsules of it. It will accelerate the rebuilding of
your immune system after chemo has destroyed it. The doctors will
be amazed at the speed of recovery from chemo when Cypress Oil is
used like this." Of course, you can get your Cypress Oil in a blend
from here
<http://bugoutbox.homestead.com/Essential-Oil-Benefits-Nuclear-Biological-Chemical-Vaccine.html>
your doc J
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to protect your family from ALL radiation
I have included (at the end of this e-mail) information about potassium iodide I received from Kae Thompson, developer of Voicebio and an expert on iodine. You might want to consider some NSP alternatives listed in this article from Pat Adams.
Pertinent info from our NSP Friend, Pat Adams:
The biggest question on everyone's lips right now is,
"How do I protect my family from radiation?"
The devastation from the earthquake in Japan has caused damage to at least two and possibly up to five nuclear power plants. Our prayers go out to that country as they seek relief. There is some evidence, and a lot of concern, that radiation will come our way, with the West Coast being the first on the receiving end.
In truth, we should have been concerned about radiation all along considering the use of cell phones, cell phone towers, microwave ovens, radio waves, color television, air travel, x-rays and computer use, however this disaster has brought it home in a really big way.
There is a lot of "mis" information going around on the internet, so I thought I'd offer some professional advice about 'what to do'.
Step 1 = Clean out your biliary tree! Clear out the bile ducts of the liver where the toxins generally accumulate. Since the liver and gallbladder respond best to liquid therapy, open 4 capsules of Gallbladder Formula and add hot water and sip once per day on an empty stomach. (A little gritty, but not bad, the taste of the fennel and mint sort of come through) This should not cause a cleansing crisis, and can safely be used by anyone, with or without a gallbladder. Continue this for 30-90 days.
Step 2 = Make sure your bowel is moving!
As the liver and gallbladder dump toxin, they deliver it to the colon, which had better be moving! I use 1 Tablespoon of Psyllium Hulls Combination and 2-Cascara Sagrada to accomplish this, though some prefer Nature's Three, LOCLO or Everybodys Fiber to the Psyllium Hulls Combo. Cascara Sagrada is to make sure the gelatinous mass is moving along as it pulls toxin from the body, and can be replaced with LB extract or Liquid Cleanse, both in liquid form, or LBS II, which has Cascara Sagrada plus other bowel movers. I would use 1 Tablespoon of the fiber with as many bowel movers as needed to produce 2-3 bowel movements per day.
Step 3 = Iodine protects the body from radiation!
Good Nature's sunshine sources of iodine are Kelp, Heavy Metal Detox, Target TS II, Thyroid Activator, Spirulina and Energ-V. Though Chlorophyll and Super Algae are good chelators, they are not high in the iodine that sea vegetables have so they won't work here.
A common misconception about iodine is that we can be allergic to it. In truth we are so loaded with chlorine, bromine and bleach that iodine displaces these harmful toxins and causes a reaction. Therefore the reaction to iodine is a bromine detox and not a true allergy. If you have been told you're 'allergic to iodine' go cautiously with the iodine formulas and rely on Heavy Metal Detox instead!
God's Richest Blessings to you and your family,
Please add your prayers for the families in Japan!
Patricia Adams, BS, CNC, NHC, NE
Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition
"Your Health IS Your Wealth"
Thanks to Susan Lebovitz for sharing this information!
From Kae Thompson:
I have tossed and turned all night and still feel the need to send out one more email regarding the use of potassium iodide. So please take the time to read the following; and hopefully we will take the side of health as opposed to the side of panic. Each one of us ultimately has to make their own decision, but knowledge certainly will play a part in that decision too.
Potassium Iodide is a man-made CHEMICAL. (Just typing that word gives me the creeps). It is used to prevent only ONE type of radiation poisoning (for radioactive iodine isotopes). It is only effective for 24 hours so taking it now is not going to help but it may just hurt….
Basically it works because it closes the receptor sites to the thyroid so the nuclear fallout (heavy metals) which destroy the thyroid will not get to it.
They don’t allow pregnant or breastfeeding women to use it because it can cause fetal goiters or hypothyroidism!!! And you think it can’t do this in children and adults? What about people with low immune or that are already ill?
Side effects can be hives, nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal distress, swelling and iodism.
So, in my opinion, you are taking a CHEMICAL to close off the thyroid – and quite frankly, that chemical does not make choices. It can’t look at a item and say, well, you are safe so you can pass…..oops, you aren’t so I’m blocking you….. etc. And what are the residual effects?
HOWEVER……. Our body is smarter than any pharmacist or chemist!
When heavy metals enter the body, it will produce FREE T3 and T4 which guess what? Blocks the receptor sites to the thyroid so the heavy metals do not enter! (Side note: unfortunately, the medical community doesn’t do full thyroid panels and test for FREE T3 and T4 as part of a normal thyroid test or they would find that many times people have been exposed to heavy metals which is why their thyroid is not fully functioning!).
Instead of taking something that can leave you with a low or non-functioning thyroid for how long??? Why not take a natural substance that supports and strengthens your thyroid so it can do what it does WHEN it needs to? Even the CDC is saying: It is important to stress that high-strength potassium iodide of the 130 mg or above variety should only be taken in a nuclear fallout emergency and not under any other circumstances. So please don’t panic and take something that could cause other problems!
With blessings, Kae
****
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to protect your family from ALL radiation
I have included (at the end of this e-mail) information about potassium iodide I received from Kae Thompson, developer of Voicebio and an expert on iodine. You might want to consider some NSP alternatives listed in this article from Pat Adams.
Pertinent info from our NSP Friend, Pat Adams:
The biggest question on everyone's lips right now is,
"How do I protect my family from radiation?"
The devastation from the earthquake in Japan has caused damage to at least two and possibly up to five nuclear power plants. Our prayers go out to that country as they seek relief. There is some evidence, and a lot of concern, that radiation will come our way, with the West Coast being the first on the receiving end.
In truth, we should have been concerned about radiation all along considering the use of cell phones, cell phone towers, microwave ovens, radio waves, color television, air travel, x-rays and computer use, however this disaster has brought it home in a really big way.
There is a lot of "mis" information going around on the internet, so I thought I'd offer some professional advice about 'what to do'.
Step 1 = Clean out your biliary tree! Clear out the bile ducts of the liver where the toxins generally accumulate. Since the liver and gallbladder respond best to liquid therapy, open 4 capsules of Gallbladder Formula and add hot water and sip once per day on an empty stomach. (A little gritty, but not bad, the taste of the fennel and mint sort of come through) This should not cause a cleansing crisis, and can safely be used by anyone, with or without a gallbladder. Continue this for 30-90 days.
Step 2 = Make sure your bowel is moving!
As the liver and gallbladder dump toxin, they deliver it to the colon, which had better be moving! I use 1 Tablespoon of Psyllium Hulls Combination and 2-Cascara Sagrada to accomplish this, though some prefer Nature's Three, LOCLO or Everybodys Fiber to the Psyllium Hulls Combo. Cascara Sagrada is to make sure the gelatinous mass is moving along as it pulls toxin from the body, and can be replaced with LB extract or Liquid Cleanse, both in liquid form, or LBS II, which has Cascara Sagrada plus other bowel movers. I would use 1 Tablespoon of the fiber with as many bowel movers as needed to produce 2-3 bowel movements per day.
Step 3 = Iodine protects the body from radiation!
Good Nature's sunshine sources of iodine are Kelp, Heavy Metal Detox, Target TS II, Thyroid Activator, Spirulina and Energ-V. Though Chlorophyll and Super Algae are good chelators, they are not high in the iodine that sea vegetables have so they won't work here.
A common misconception about iodine is that we can be allergic to it. In truth we are so loaded with chlorine, bromine and bleach that iodine displaces these harmful toxins and causes a reaction. Therefore the reaction to iodine is a bromine detox and not a true allergy. If you have been told you're 'allergic to iodine' go cautiously with the iodine formulas and rely on Heavy Metal Detox instead!
God's Richest Blessings to you and your family,
Please add your prayers for the families in Japan!
Patricia Adams, BS, CNC, NHC, NE
Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition
"Your Health IS Your Wealth"
Thanks to Susan Lebovitz for sharing this information!
From Kae Thompson:
I have tossed and turned all night and still feel the need to send out one more email regarding the use of potassium iodide. So please take the time to read the following; and hopefully we will take the side of health as opposed to the side of panic. Each one of us ultimately has to make their own decision, but knowledge certainly will play a part in that decision too.
Potassium Iodide is a man-made CHEMICAL. (Just typing that word gives me the creeps). It is used to prevent only ONE type of radiation poisoning (for radioactive iodine isotopes). It is only effective for 24 hours so taking it now is not going to help but it may just hurt….
Basically it works because it closes the receptor sites to the thyroid so the nuclear fallout (heavy metals) which destroy the thyroid will not get to it.
They don’t allow pregnant or breastfeeding women to use it because it can cause fetal goiters or hypothyroidism!!! And you think it can’t do this in children and adults? What about people with low immune or that are already ill?
Side effects can be hives, nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal distress, swelling and iodism.
So, in my opinion, you are taking a CHEMICAL to close off the thyroid – and quite frankly, that chemical does not make choices. It can’t look at a item and say, well, you are safe so you can pass…..oops, you aren’t so I’m blocking you….. etc. And what are the residual effects?
HOWEVER……. Our body is smarter than any pharmacist or chemist!
When heavy metals enter the body, it will produce FREE T3 and T4 which guess what? Blocks the receptor sites to the thyroid so the heavy metals do not enter! (Side note: unfortunately, the medical community doesn’t do full thyroid panels and test for FREE T3 and T4 as part of a normal thyroid test or they would find that many times people have been exposed to heavy metals which is why their thyroid is not fully functioning!).
Instead of taking something that can leave you with a low or non-functioning thyroid for how long??? Why not take a natural substance that supports and strengthens your thyroid so it can do what it does WHEN it needs to? Even the CDC is saying: It is important to stress that high-strength potassium iodide of the 130 mg or above variety should only be taken in a nuclear fallout emergency and not under any other circumstances. So please don’t panic and take something that could cause other problems!
With blessings, Kae
****