Rig, Rad, Run: Radiation Monitoring, Fukushima, and Our Nuclear Dystopia - Softcover

Kishner, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996549404 ISBN 13: 9780996549400

Verlag: Andrew Kishner, 2015

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'RIG, RAD, RUN' is a scientific and activist retrospective oriented to the world's largest ongoing nuclear disaster. The book examines faulty federal monitoring and critical weaknesses in the U.S. EPA's national radiation monitoring network that allowed hazardous plumes linked to the Japanese nuclear disaster to cross into the U.S. undetected--potentially creating radioactive hotspots on land, even farmland. From 'RIG, RAD, RUN': "The key danger to public health from the radioactive materials that landed in the United States from Fukushima in March and April 2011 had to do with a process called biomagnification, which means the amplification of concentrations of radionuclides through the food chain. Put simply, when lots of small fish get eaten up by bigger fish and then those fish get eaten by even bigger fish, the concentrations of toxins ...increase up the food chain. The whole food supply in the United States, particularly items like milk (and fish) affected by biomagnification, needed to be monitored..." Instead, "pitifully meager sampling and analyses" and "testing protocols that were as unimpressive as the layout of the [EPA's monitoring] network" corrupted the EPA's and the FDA's ability to characterize the dangers from Fukushima to Americans and seafood-lovers. While federal agencies were downplaying Fukushima's threats by pointing to dubious radiation protection standards, the authorities' actual confidence in the range of contamination values in America's food supply--which in turn had implications for understanding the true impacts to public safety--was quietly being shattered by their own substandard monitoring response to Fukushima. Author Andrew Kishner writes in 'RIG, RAD, RUN': "There is no point in a radiation protection standard designed to limit population exposures during nuclear incidents if you don't also do great monitoring. The two go hand-in-hand."

Drawing on his depth of knowledge as a radiation watchdog and deep library researcher on the nuclear age, Kishner gradually widens the scope of 'RIG, RAD, RUN' beyond Fukushima to explore a set of harsh and unthinkable realities including a historical pattern of nuclear lies and manipulations in society. Fans and followers of the author's former website, NuclearCrimes.org, which Kishner used to chronicle radiation coverups and closed in 2014, will find familiar terrain in his discussion in 'RIG, RAD, RUN' of 'nuclear dystopia.'

In the conclusion to this visionary book, 'RIG, RAD, RUN' presents a solution to our nuclear dystopia that will challenge citizens with its revolutionary simplicity.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in preparing for future or worsening nuclear disasters by learning to deconstruct distortions of truth in radiation monitoring and nuclear communications. Until 'RIG, RAD, RUN,' and since it came out in 2015, this side of the Fukushima story has not been told. Some understanding of nuclear history or radiation basics is helpful in reading this book.

In 2017, 'RIG, RAD, RUN' was re-released as a Kindle e-book with a new introduction to the original 2015 version.

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'RIG, RAD, RUN' is a hard-hitting citizen-scientist analysis about the U.S. radiation monitoring response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. The book shares the author's research discoveries on a wide range of failures and manipulations in the radiation monitoring activities of the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal health agencies in the Fukushima aftermath. Because of better monitoring done elsewhere on the globe, the disappointing results of this weakened or corrupted U.S. monitoring data are clear: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to find in the United States any airborne plutonium emitted from the Japanese disaster, yet plutonium linked to the nuclear crisis was detected in the air over Lithuania in 2011. The same thing happened with radioactive strontium--another significant nuclear pollutant associated with the Japanese accident. While the EPA didn't pick up any of the stuff east of Hawaii in the spring of 2011, strontium linked to Fukushima was readily detected a hemisphere away downwind--in Russia!

In the months following the Fukushima nuclear accident, Americans were assured by their federal agencies that there was no health threat from the airborne plumes or from imported or wild-caught seafood, but laboratory analyses and testing protocols at the EPA and other agencies during the Fukushima era were far from adequate. Attributable to faulty federal monitoring and critical weaknesses in the EPA's national radiation monitoring network, hazardous plumes linked to the Japanese nuclear disaster may have crossed into the U.S. undetected--potentially creating radioactive hotspots on land, even farmland.

Written by a self-described 'environmental radiation activist,' 'RIG, RAD, RUN' is a scientific and activist retrospective oriented to the world's largest--and ongoing--nuclear disaster. Author Andrew Kishner shares many personal and activist experiences shaped by Fukushima and prior nuclear events. Drawing on his depth of knowledge as a radiation watchdog and deep library researcher on the nuclear age, Kishner gradually widens the scope of 'RIG, RAD, RUN' beyond Fukushima to explore a set of harsh and unthinkable realities including a historical pattern of nuclear lies and manipulations in society. Fans and followers of the author's former website, NuclearCrimes.org, which Kishner used to chronicle radiation cover-ups and reluctantly shuttered in 2014, will find familiar terrain in his discussion of 'nuclear dystopia.' In the conclusion to this disturbing, visionary book, 'RIG, RAD, RUN' presents a solution to our nuclear dystopia that will challenge citizens with its revolutionary simplicity.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in preparing for future or worsening nuclear disasters by learning to deconstruct distortions of truth in radiation monitoring and nuclear communications. Until 'RIG, RAD, RUN,' and since it came out in 2015, this side of the Fukushima story has not been told. Some understanding of nuclear history or radiation basics is helpful in reading this book.

In 2017, 'RIG, RAD, RUN' was re-released as a Kindle e-book with a new introduction to the original 2015 version.

Reseña del editor

'RIG, RAD, RUN: Radiation Monitoring, Fukushima, and Our Nuclear Dystopia' chronicles the personal and investigative journey of the author, Andrew Kishner, a U.S. citizen-scientist and activist, in the years following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The book compiles the author's independent research on the manipulations and shortcomings in the radiation monitoring response by U.S. federal agencies to Fukushima in 2011-2014. The reader will learn about scenarios in which the U.S. EPA's sampling and testing plans for Fukushima-associated radiation in air, milk and rainwater were driven by preconceived, unscientific notions about the radiation releases. 'RIG, RAD, RUN' also looks at the monitoring failures of the FDA, which continues to allow a dubious radiation "protection" standard--as well as preconceived notions--to justify nonexistent or substandard radiation monitoring of domestic and imported seafood when the Pacific Ocean is experiencing a growing radiation crisis, the result of years of unstoppable ocean contamination leaks at Fukushima Daiichi.

EXCERPT from 'Rig, Rad, Run': "Why wasn't the EPA rigorously testing for plutoniums or strontiums? If strontium and plutonium and uranium fallout from Fukushima went undetected across the U.S., and left behind deposits in soil, water or food, then these poisons could be contributing to damaging radiological internal exposures. Aside from my astonishment over government monitoring malfeasance, I was concerned about Americans and others downwind of Fukushima getting hurt. Perhaps there was a scientific basis for this barebones testing effort. Maybe the U.S. government had secret knowledge that plutonium and radiostrontiums weren't emitted from Fukushima in significant quantities. Perhaps Uncle Sam had evidence that significant quantities of these radiochemicals, if hypothetically released, couldn't reach the U.S. in dangerous concentrations under any meteorological scenario. Did the U.S. possess this evidence or knowledge, or was the government instead relying on unscientific, preconceived notions?"

Author Andrew Kishner blends into this retrospective a fascinating narrative about his activism--sharing with the reader the inner struggles he faced with burnout, plagiarism, and the frustration of being an 'unapproved channel.' Breakthroughs and breakdowns presage greater growing-pain-events over Andrew's eight-year activist arc, leading him to face increasingly difficult decisions--the final one, a heart-breaking dilemma involving the fate of his website, NuclearCrimes.org.

EXCERPT from 'Rig, Rad, Run': "Since 2006, I had been laboring, fueled by compassion alone, at disseminating warnings and information online to peoples across the U.S. and the globe who I fear are being harmed by radiation overexposures and I now found myself stuck between a rock and a hard place: through my online activism, I kept encountering (predictably) more disappointment and grief from a host of things...but to remove my website would mean that I would be confronted with a lack of a viable outlet for expressing the grief associated with what I had learned about our nuclear world that also functioned as my hope for change."

Kishner concludes his book with two hard-to-swallow assertions stemming from his revelations of U.S. scientific misconduct and government malfeasance. First, we're not being protected from radiation incidents and Americans should--in the future--RUN if government monitoring manipulations (and rigging) become evident (RIG, RAD, RUN). Second, the problems of nuclear dystopia stem directly from the failures of the humans that created and support it. The author presents a solution that challenges citizens with its revolutionary simplicity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Andrew Kishner
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0996549404
• ISBN 13: 9780996549400
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar