#radition

[disorentedfae]

If you haven’t noticed I’ve falling down my yearly hole of ‘binge watching science videos on radition, gama rays, Chernobyl, 3 mile island, nuclear bombs, atom splitting, etc.’

[1spiricallove]

When you have #radition during #cancertreatment you need to wear #floride guards. You need it two times a day during treatments. (at Tempe, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8j4SNh0JV/?igshid=1ibvh9g7kf6ep

[carstenwitt-blog]

Keep your tradition in Spain - Go Europe! #letsgoeurope #goeurope #manifestoproeurope #radition #identity #europe #eu #spain #castillayleón #segovia #graffiti #parole #camino (hier: Nava de la Asunción, Spain)

[mikeo56]

Japan's TEPCO Discovers "Living Creature" Inside Nuclear Reactor

After sending robots into the Fukushima nuclear reactor (and seeing them mysteriously die), perhaps this is the reason why Japanese officials have decided to re-start the building of a huge ice-wall for 'containment'. As Fukushima Diary reports, TEPCO’s camera caught a possible aquatic living creature in retained coolant water of Reactor 3.

The following images are from the inside of PCV 3 (Primary Containment Vessel of Reactor 3). In their previous investigation, 1 Sv/h was detected above the water surface. Yellow-ish sediment was observed accumulating in the water as well.

The possible living creature is recorded from approx. 0:19 of the video. It looks like aquatic microbe, which is independently swimming unlike other substances.

I guess climate change won’t kill all life on Earth.

[lorakasik]

April 9th, 2013

Today is day 9 of my chemotherapy days. The past week has been a very rough and tiresome span of time in my life, and I have been extremely bored. I’m not really supposed to be going anywhere due to the chemo lowering my white blood count, which in turn makes me more susceptible to infection.

I’ve decided that tomorrow is the day to shave my head. It’s been a really confusing decision on whether or not to cut my hair, because most people I’ve talked to have have recently gone through chemo said that their hair didn’t fall out. But then they continue to describe their treatment and it seems like mine might be more intense. I’d much rather just deal with cutting it all off rather than pulling out chunks of hair. I feel like that would be more traumatizing. Plus, I’ve already purchased some very cute wigs, and today I purchased some pretty awesome baseball caps and chemo hats (which I must add, are NOT cheap). I’m scared to shave it of course. But at least I can actually say that in my lifetime I’ve shaved my head and that I know what I look like bald.

Life is all about experiences for me lately. I feel like my life is very mundane and slow right now. And although I’m only twenty-one years old, I feel like it was yesterday that I was walking into high school. If that time of my life has gone by with such uneventful mundane-ness then I really need to step my game up. I’ve been staying up late at night contemplating what I need to plan after all this chemo is done with my life. None of it really includes college at the moment, but I’ve thought about this a lot. Do I really need to go to school when I have absolutely no idea what I want to do? I mean, I’ve watched people graduate from college with their degrees and come back only to work at the same run down, ghetto restaurant I work at. Where I’ve worked for almost 5 years. I’m thinking after chemo, screw school for now, get a second job, and GET OUT OF THIS TOWN. The only thing holding me back is my parents, well and my health for obvious reasons. My mom is ill with Lyme Disease and as of now things aren’t getting better. But there is hope! Should I let that hold me back though? I’m torn because my brother and I are the only children left to keep my parents company and help out. I don’t do too much to help out but I do know that I enjoy my time with my mom every day, and that if she were to not wake up tomorrow I would be happy that I was able to see her face and hear her laughter the day before. It’s a tricky topic.

The main reason I started writing is to describe chemo for people who want to know, because I’ve always wanted to know before this. I go five days a week from 7:30 AM until about 2:00 PM. Then I have 2 weeks off. Between each cycle I have a couple visits here and there and then I start all over again. There are 5 cycles of that all together, so if all goes as scheduled I should be done mid July with my last cycle. I guess I should say why I am receiving chemotherapy: I had a tumor removed in November 2012 from my right leg, around the shin area, that ended up being a cancerous tumor. It’s stage 3 high grade leiomyosarcoma. It hurt so terribly bad to have that removed, as well as muscle and a tiny bit of bone.It took about a month to recover to walking normally and to get the splint-casts off. Unfortunately I did not save pictures from my old phone of my leg then.

I went through 33 treatments of radiation which wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. At first it was a piece of cake. I needed to take a nap everyday and some foods didn’t taste the same. Mostly salty food tasted like dirt. And then towards the end my leg was quite red. Then came the peeling of the skin, and after came the blistering. Blistering was the worst part. But eventually I made it through, graduated, got my certificate and it healed very nicely. It still gets a little dry and Aquifer works wonders on that. So I took about a month break after radiation, got my port placed into my chest, and now I’m being pumped full of chemo. Considering my age and my “great” health they are hitting me with some pretty hard chemo, which is fine with me because what doesn’t kill you ONLY MAKES YOU STRONGER right? I wasn’t about to chicken out from chemo because it makes you feel like crap if I have a better outcome in life. Which in this case is basically a life or death topic. If it were to spread, which the doctor says it is since it’s a high grade and is more like to metastasize, the first place it spreads in into your lungs, then to your brain. I’m not taking any chances! And yes, many people think chemo is terrible and I’ve heard from dozens of random people to try to find alternatives, but if this has helped the majority of cancer survivors, I’m doing it too! Anyways, the tumor was a leiomyosarcoma, cancer of the soft tissue and muscle. It was deep in my leg at was 8.5 centimeters long. I think 3.4 centimeters wide and 2.6 centimeters in depth. I also had a nerve removed that the tumor was laying on or around and some muscle removed as well. They scraped a tiny tiny amount of bone off too just be sure the margins were clear. I’m very confident, and lucky as well, in my surgeons results. So far scans on my body have shown no sign of spreading, only a few small nodules on my lung that they are keeping an eye on to make sure they don’t grow. There’s also one lymph node in my groin area that they are keeping an eye on, but so far it seems like everything is going as I hoped it would.

[knowtoomuch]

Israeli soldiers exposed to radiation risk developing cancer within 10 years

back to the regularly scheduled broadcasts. a lot of stuff i write about on here i can't get published where i write record reviews,editorials and stuff like that. so the main reason for this site is to write about current events for my personal pleasure. i love informing people. i write extremely sloppy on here though, because im not getting paid for it yet..

anyways..back to the information...

dear karma...

you're getting faster.

A new study has found that soldiers exposed to electromagnetic radiation during military service are at heightened risk of developing cancer within 10 years or less after their first exposure.

The study was recently published in the European Journal of Oncology. The article does not mention the IDF as an occupational factor that increases the likelihood of developing cancer, but 80 percent of the research subjects were exposed to EMFs during their army service.

According to Dr. Stein, "High exposure to EMFs occurs with tasks involving fixing of radar equipment, sitting in vehicles with antennas and communication equipment, carrying radio equipment on the waist or back all day, or working in offices located very close to powerful transmitting antennae, or situation rooms that are packed full of communications equipment and radios." Stein, who is doing a doctorate on modeling of EMF exposure sources and penetration into the body, emphasized that she and her colleagues are not calling for an end to the use of radiation-emitting equipment. Rather, she advocated the use of technological developments such as radiation-blocking fabrics or plastic shields in order to reduce exposure to EMFs.

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[ilizc]

Los 10 modelos de celulares que emiten más y menos radiación

CNN — Los usuarios de teléfonos móviles –un grupo que, al menos en México, incluye a más de 77 millones de líneas– sin duda están preocupados por la noticia que dio el martes la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) que clasifica a los teléfonos celulares como “probablemente cancerígenos para los humanos”.

Los teléfonos por sí mismos no son necesariamente dañinos. Es la radiación que emiten lo que el cuerpo humano absorbe y lo que preocupa a algunos médicos.

Cuando se trata de niveles de radiación, no todos los teléfonos son iguales. Abajo encontrarás una lista con los modelos que emiten los mayores y menores niveles de energía de radiofrecuencia.

Una rápida explicación de las cifras:

El “Índice de absorción específica” (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés) es un punto de referencia común que mide el nivel de energía de radiofrecuencia que tu cuerpo absorbe de tu teléfono. A una cifra menor, una menor exposición de radiación. Para un teléfono certificado por la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones de Estados Unidos (FCC) y vendido en EU, por ejemplo, el nivel máximo de SAR debe ser menor a 1.6 watts por kilogramo.

Pero ten en cuenta que éstas son sólo cifras aproximadas. Tu exposición real depende de la manera en que utilices tu teléfono, su portabilidad y las condiciones específicas de la red. Por ejemplo, cuando tu conexión es débil, tu teléfono móvil necesita enviar mayor radiación para encontrar la torre celular.

Y aún no existe una evidencia conclusiva de que un teléfono con mayor nivel de SAR representa un mayor riesgo para la salud que un modelo que emite menos radiación.

La lista fue hecha por el Environmental Working Group, un grupo de cabildeo que aboga a favor de la salud pública y del medio ambiente, basado en datos proporcionados por los fabricantes de teléfonos. Los datos son hasta diciembre de 2010, lo que significa que algunos modelos más recientes no están enlistados. Puedes consultar el modelo de tu interés en una lista publicada por CNN.

Menores niveles de radiación:

1. LG Quantum: 0.35 W/kg

2. Casio EXILIM: 0.53 W/kg

3. Pantech Breeze II: 0.55 W/kg

4. Sanyo Katana II: 0.55 W/kg

5. Samsung Fascinate: 0.57 W/kg

6. Samsung Mesmerize: 0.57 W/kg

7. Samsung SGH-a197: 0.59 W/kg

8. Samsung Contour: 0.60 W/kg

9. Samsung Gravity T: 0.62 W/kg

10. (Empate) Motorola i890; Samsung SGH-T249: 0.63 W/kg

Mayores niveles de radiación:

1. Motorola Bravo: 1.59 W/kg

2. Motorola Droid 2: 1.58 W/kg

3. Palm Pixi: 1.56 W/kg

4. Motorola Boost: 1.55 W/kg

5. Blackberry Bold: 1.55 W/kg

6. Motorola i335: 1.55 W/kg

7. HTC Magic: 1.55 W/kg

8. Motorola W385: 1.54 W/kg

9. Motorola Boost i290: 1.54 W/kg

10. (Empatado) Motorola DEFY; Motorola Quantico; Motorola Charm: 1.53 W/kg

Otros modelos muy conocidos aparecen a la mitad de los rankings. El nivel SAR del iPhone 4 de Apple fue de 1.14 W/kg. Los niveles de exposición de docenas de modelos de BlackBerry varían ampliamente

[pritheworld]

@MarcoWerman asks Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno about the Japanese government shutting down the town due to radiation.