[Worlds 2011] Worlds in Tokyo will be postponed

Sport can wait. All our prayers out to Japan.

Takashi–readings of 400 millisieverts have been detected at Fukushima. The maximum allowable dosage per year is 50 millisieverts and even that’s dangerous. There’s a nuclear pond on fire at Fukushima from what I’ve read, which is releasing radiation directly into the atmosphere–if it blows toward Tokyo then that’s very dangerous. What’s this about Article 15 Emergency Law when your government won’t allow the truth about disastrous events to be published? Is that true? Here in America we know our government lies all the time, so we are always trying to uncover the truth. The life span of nuclear power plants is only 30 to 40 years and Fukushima was 40 years old. It should have been shut down already. Do you remember the Tokaimura nuclear catastrophe in 1999? Take care, do not believe your government. The situation could get worse. I am wondering what your government is telling you.

Just a clarification :mine was just a suggestion. I’m not a doctor and I suggested you to go to a hospital and ask information about what I’ve previusly wrote. I wrote that becouse I’ve read what and I know that is what they are doing at this time to patients who come from areas adjacent to central.

I went to UC Berkeley–nuclear power is very dangerous. It takes 5 generations for mutations from nuclear radiation to show up so we won’t know the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki until the year 2045. Nuclear power is also the most expensive kind of power and so shouldn’t be used, but these plants are built because of all the money from the nuclear lobbyists. Germany has now just shut down half a dozen of its older nuclear plants as a precaution. Take every precaution you can Takashi. If it was me I’d leave the country.

I’ve just read where Gangneung in Korea and Turin have been mentioned as possible alternative sites.

Feelers have been put out to hold Worlds elsewhere–Vancouver, Toronto, Gangneung, Turin, Switzerland. Maybe even postpone it until October. In the meantime the disaster continues to unfold in Japan. I am disgusted with American TV–they are showing sitcoms, soap operas and TV cop shows when they should be covering the disaster in Japan. We Americans are stupid, all we want is TV, potato chips and beer. Takashi, thousands of people in Russia got cancer after Chernobyl because cows ate grass that had radiation fall on it and then people drank the milk. So your food harvest may be affected. Earthquakes and tsunamis are bad but radiation is invidious. At least there’s no panic in Japan yet from what I’ve seen. In America people would be pushing and yelling and worse. Stay indoors. If necessary take your iodine pills, don’t worry Silvia they don’t cause complications unless you have pre-existing conditions that preclude their use.

Okay, here’s the bad news: in 1955 the John Wayne movie “The Conqueror” was filmed around St. George, Utah, which was downwind of Yucca Flats, Nevada, where the US detonated 11 A-bombs in 1953. Of the 220 people who worked on the movie, by the early 1980’s 91 had developed cancer and 46 had died. And half the citizens of St. George had developed cancer. So, yes, Takashi, do not trust your government.

Northeagle: my understanding is that Cinquanta wants Worlds moved to October so that they could still be held in Japan.

THe nuclear plume is expected to hit the Aleutians tomorrow and be here in California the next day, Friday.

More research on the iodide pills: they can only be taken for two weeks, then hypothyroidism may set in. So there’s only a two week window of opportunity to take them. And they don’t protect against radiation sickness, they only protect the thyroid by filling it up with iodine so that radioactive iodine cannot get into the thyroid and later cause thyroid cancer. A very few people who have taken the pills have complained about dizziness, racing heart and vomiting but they were probably allergic to them. And AlekseyNumberOne: our religion is figure skating.

Takashi, reports here in the US are that they’ve found radioactive milk and spinach up to 90 miles away from Fukushima. Your food supply has become contaminated. Take care.