In Order To Maintain Safe Internal Radiological Environments

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When FallOut Comes!

Your Water Supply!

    Water will be critical during this time. You can drink water if it has been covered during all this time. If it is in cupboards in the house, it should be safe to consume. Water outside; or even inside, uncovered during fallout should be suspect and not be consumed until purified.

    However, Here is when you need a sensitive Geiger Muller counter. For this type of operation, we recommend a Pancake Probe meter for testing for alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. Be advised: Some waters naturally contain radioactive isotopes, such that it is not safe to drink, even though it is natural to the water!

    In certain places throughout the world, warnings are up about not drinking the radioactive water from fresh streams, icy mountain flows, and signs are up on a few beaches warning would be bathers not to bathe—the sand is too radioactive from natural background sources!

What To Do:

    Using the pancake probe, take the setting for Counts Per Minute, CPM, and take a background reading of the tap water; then your stored water. Do a timed–count for 12 hours before the radiation plume hits. One can do this now before the fallout cloud arrives in weeks, months, etc., as the Worsening Crisis mounts.

    Then, when the radioactive cloud does come, you have knowledge of the water you have stored, and from the tap; but, be warned, the reservoirs will be polluted from fallout for several weeks. Any water that is suspect and shows to be directly contaminated from the Pancake Probe studies compared to the background studies you have performed prior to the fallout raining down, must be purified.

    Distilling the water does not remove radioactive iodine.

    Nuclear War Survival Skills, by Cresson H. Kearney, writes:

Filtering through earth removes essentially all of the fallout particles and more of the dissolved radioactive material than does boiling-water distillation, a generally impractical purification method that does not eliminate dangerous radioactive iodines. Earth filters are also more effective in removing radioactive iodines than are ordinary ion-exchange water softeners or charcoal filters. In areas of heavy fallout, about 99% of the radioactivity in water could be removed by filtering it through ordinary earth.

You can make an Expedient Filter this way:

1. Perforate the bottom of a 5-gallon can, a large bucket, a watertight wastebasket, or a similar container with about a dozen nail holes. Punch the holes from the bottom upward, staying within about 2 inches of the center.

2. Place a layer about 1&1/2 inches thick of washed pebbles or small stones on the bottom of the can. If pebbles are not available, twisted coat-hanger wires or small sticks can be used.

3. Cover the pebbles with one thickness of terrycloth towel, burlap sackcloth, or other quite porous cloth. Cut the cloth in a roughly circular shape about 3 inches larger than the diameter of the can.

4. Take soil containing some clay-almost any soil will do-from at least 4 inches below the surface of the ground. (Nearly all fallout particles remain near the surface except after deposition on sand or gravel.)

5. Pulverize the soil, then gently press it in layers over the cloth that covers the pebbles, so that the cloth is held snugly against the sides of the can. Do not use pure clay (not porous enough) or sand (too porous). The soil in the can should be 6 to 7 inches thick.

6. Completely cover the surface of the soil layer with one thickness of fabric as porous as a bath towel. This is to keep the soil from being eroded as water is poured into the filtering can. The cloth also will remove some of the particles from the water. A dozen small stones placed on the cloth near its edges will secure it adequately.

7. Support the filter can on rods or sticks placed across the top of a container that is larger in diameter than the filter can. (A dishpan will do.) The contaminated water should be poured into the filter can, preferably after allowing it to settle as described below. The filtered water should be disinfected by one of the previously described methods.

 

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    This would entail using bleach and/or iodine; See Purifying Water, then run it through a charcoal filter.

    However, we first suggest to use the following flocculation methods to get rid of particulate matter; then, use the above method, or easier, the Katydyn

    If your pancake probe meter or your GM survey meter shows high readings of radiation, this tells us gamma radiation is present, and often, accompanying it are alpha and beta ionizating radiation. To remove very dangerous alpha emmiters, Polonium–210, –214–, –218 from water, do the following.

    The latter two are Radon 'daughters' which lodge in the tissues of the lung and send out a highly carcinogenic amount of alpha particles that can result in cancer. Keep this in mind if you're a smoker; or, get second hand smoke! We'll discuss this shortly.

    If your water is contaminated, from whatever source, then, using gloves, goggles and face mask, treat the water this way:

1. Draw the water from a relatively clean supply; that is, water that has no algae, debris and the like floating in it.

2. Pour through an old towel if water contains debris and is cloudy, to remove as much as possible the debris, mud and flotsam. When it filters through, do not touch it. Use a stick and bury the cloth and stick a foot down; cover throughly with the soil.

3. Take the remaining filtered water, clear of surface debris, and stir in a half a cup of Aluminum Sulfate, Al₂(S0₄)₃ to a gallon of drawn water. Aluminum Sulfate is Alum! You can get it at a local hardware store.

4. Make the solution more basic for more floc to form and much to settle to the bottom, by adding a two teaspoons of Sodium Hydroxide, NaOH, which is lye. Be very careful with this. Add it slowly and stir gently. Do not add all at once as you could form an effervescent explosive mass that suddenly boils over!

5. Stir very carefully not to splash any on you, the ground, or others. This is why you want goggles, face mask, and sturdy neoprene gloves. Then, let rest for 30 to 40 minutes. You will notice during this time, floccillation forming throughout and on top of the liquid in blobs of gell. Do not touch nor allow the children to poke sticks at it!

6. After allowing it to settle for 30 to 40 minutes, to even an hour or more, pour off the top water carefully into a catch basin, leaving the settled parts. This necessitates a deep two gallon pail with strong sturdy handle. Pour off gently. Do not dump!
   This does not catch (remove) Strontium 90. The alum does remove other positive cations other than those of alkaline earths and alkali metals. It also removes much dissolved and non–dissolved debris.

7. From here, pour the catch basin water carefully and slowly into the clay/soil filter above. Then, add the bleach to this filtered water, stir and let rest for an hour. Filter again through charcoal to remove the bleach taste and any impurities that may have gotten across; or, use your Katadyn.

 

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    To remove the beta emitter, Strontium–90 from water, use lime (Calcium Oxide; CaO), and Washing Soda, Na₂CaCO₃. The degree of removal is dependent upon precipitating with Calcium Carbonate, formed from the reaction of the lime and soda. This is a softening of the water. Calcium Carbonate is also found in Dolomite, get the powder at your health food store, Egg Shell crushed up, Coral Calcium powder, and/or oyster shell crushed up to a powder.

    Follow the same as in the immediate above to form the floccillation, and continue as in the above to remove the floc and filtering mechanisms and purifying.

    Keep in mind that Strontium–90 is a bone seeker. Once inside the bones, cancer of the bone, leukemia, immune system depression can occur, especially leukemia.

    We speak of 'Risk' of getting cancer of one who smokes. No one can say absolutely, smokers get cancer. Hence, the risk of getting cancer for a smoker. However, there are non–smokers who do get lung cancer; there are smokers who tend to have a greater risk of getting lung cancer, but it does not mean they will get cancer of the lungs. And, there are smokers who never get lung cancer.

    However, a lot of this may be changing in another year or so for smokers. But first consider the following: The smoking industry has known for years and years that cigarettes are radioactive and as such, has tried to remove the radioactivity from them to no avail; so they finally gave up. They won't even broach the subject if it is brought up that their cigarettes are radioactive!

    Wayne Biddle, writing in A Field Guide To Radiation, says:

The presence of polonium–210 in tobacco leaves, and thus cigarette smoke, casts one of the most treacherous shadows across an industry that actively suppressed knowledge of smoking's dangers for decades.

In 1964 a research paper published in the journal Science reported the existence of polonium–210 in tobacco smoke. Smoking one and a half packs a day for thirty years would expose the lungs to as much radiation as three hundred chest X–RAYS a year, causing an estimated 1 percent of all lung cancers in the United States—or about 2,225 new cases in 2010. (Much of the excess cancer attributed to breathing RADON may in fact be due to polonium–210—smokers are killed by alpha radiation, wherever it comes from.)

The high–phosphate fertilizers that are used to grow tobacco contain radium–226, one of whose decay products is polonium–210, which is absorbed by plant roots and via fertilizer dust on leaves. The major tobacco companies tried for decades to remove or filter polonium–210, but gave it up as commercially infeasible.

According to a 2008 analysis in the American Journal of Public Health of internal corporate documents release in response to litigatgion, the companies followed a legal strategy whereby avoiding knowledge of biologically significant levels of polonium–210 in their products would allow them to ignore it as a possible cause of lung cancer. They thus stymied efforts by their own scientists to perform or publish further research on the subject, seeking to "avoid heightening the public's awareness of radioactivity in cigarettes."

Ignorance was bliss.

Polonium–210 is highly toxic, extremely radioactive (sixty–five thousand times more than PLUTONIUM–239), and easy to ingest.

    It appears with the increasing background radiation everywhere, from the earth, from medical waste and nuclear power plant waste, we are running out of places to store the stuff. You cannot get rid of the waste by neutralizing it. The only place to store it is in underground vaults of salt domes, man made, and in so–called 'leak' proof metal tanks, often submerged in water. The earthquake is what got the Fukushima's on-site stored nuclear wastes. It tore through the metal casings, tanks, and water, releasing the wastes underground; then, the Tsunami came in and finished off any containment, releasing it to the environment.

    If you smoke, with the increasing Background Radiation from man, that already from the earth, from foods, and certain waters, your best bet is to stop as soon as you can; start on 25,000 units of Vitamin A daily, 5,000 to 10,000 units of Vitamin D once per day, be on the thiols we have mentioned in this series, and get the above products (sodium alginate, bentonite, pectin, kelp) to rid the body of any radioactive particulate matter.

    More scientists are being dragged kicking and screaming from their cherished ideas that are opposite to the idea that There is no safe level of radiation, because we actually have nothing to judge background radiation from zero! There is no 'zero' anywhere on earth! If so, then, we could ascertain starting out with zero background radiation, how does it affect a life, compared to one who is exposed to radiation in jobs, such as nuclear power plant workers, nuclear submarine outfitters and refurbishing spent rods thereof, and those working with medical waste...There is no answer yet, as there is no zero background radiation position to judge from.

Do You Know This About Cancer Treatments?

About 50 percent of cancer patients are treated with radiation, in most cases receiving high doses of 40 to 60 Gray to a small region of the body, with the aim of killing cells.

Cervical cancer patients may receive doses as high as several hundred Gray, significantly increasing their risk for later cancers of the bladder, rectum, stomach, and vagina, and for leukemia.

For treatment of childhood cancers, the risk for developing a second cancer in the twenty–five years after diagnosis of the first is as high as 12 percent.

Of course, many patients who endure radiation therapy are not being treated with cures in mind,

but rather for palliative reasons.

— A Field Guide To Radiation, Wayne Biddle; 2012