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Showing posts with label gamma radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gamma radiation. Show all posts

20130413

30 Years After Fukushima Comes the Zombie Apocalypse (humor)

As long as America and Iran have this propaganda war, eventually it will not be Americans that will rule the world, or the Muslims, Nortth Korea and Syria.

Rather it will be cockroaches as they adapt to gamma irradiation.

Every human will expire not by nuclear war but from fallout from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear hell.

Additionally, when the thorium reactor becomes popular, gamma radiation will rise to the point of mutation.

Here's why: 232Thorium is irradiated by neutrons, forming 233Uranium and suddenly gamma ray emitters are produced!!!

The decay chain of 232U quickly yields strong gamma radiation emitters:
232U (α, 72 years)228Th (α, 1.9 year)224Ra (α, 3.6 day, 0.24 MeV)220Rn (α, 55 s, 0.54 MeV)216Po (α, 0.15 s)212Pb (β−, 10.64 h)212Bi (α, 61 s, 0.78 MeV)208Tl (β−, 3 m, 2.6 MeV)208Pb (stable)

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium-233

This means gamma ray mutations.

And no, nobody turns into the Fantastic Four.

Actually it means everyone irradiated is destined to develop cancer 30 years from now.

So the starting point of this doomsday scenario is the Fukushima Earthquake.

Thirty years from now, there will be more people in their 80s than now. This means senile octogenarians with cancer will basically become the zombies of 2040.

>:)

PS Currently, the thorium reactor lobbtist wants us to use "safe" thorium.

20040330

Entrez-PubMed: Pantothenol protects rats from gama rays

Entrez-PubMed

Pantothenol protects rats against some deleterious effects of gamma radiation.

Slyshenkov VS, Omelyanchik SN, Moiseenok AG, Trebukhina RV, Wojtczak L.

Institute of Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Grodno.

Rats were exposed to gamma radiation from a 60Co source, receiving 0.25 Gy at weekly intervals. During 2 d before each irradiation, the animals received daily intragastric doses of 26 mg pantothenol or 15 mg beta-carotene per kg body weight. One hour after the third irradiation session, the animals were killed and their livers were analyzed. In animals not supplied with pantothenol, the irradiation resulted in a significant decrease of total liver lipids and a 50% decrease in phospholipids. Liver cholesterol was decreased by about 20%. Irradiation produced lipid peroxidation as expressed by doubling of the amounts of conjugated dienes and ketone dienes and of thiobarbituric acid reactive compounds. The amount of CoA in liver was decreased by 24% and that of reduced glutathione by 40%. The NAD+/NADH ratio was increased by 60% and the activity of NADP-dependent malate dehydrogenase (decarboxylating) was decreased by 26%. The amount of pantothenic acid and its derivatives (expressed as pantolactone-generating compounds) in blood decreased by about 80%. In rats to which pantothenol was administered, the content of pantothenic acid in blood was tripled compared to nonirradiated (control) rats, and all the biochemical parameters measured in liver were the same as in nonirradiated animals.

PMID: 9607598 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]