From Greenpeace Link: http://reliefweb.int/node/397989 Greenpeace condemns move to raise radiation exposure levels for Japanese children Tokyo, Japan, 22 April, 2011 “” Greenpeace today called on the Japanese government to drop plans to raise the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 milliSievert per year (1) “” the same level as nuclear
Read more →Earlier this week it was reported in the UK Independent that TEMCO Japan has admitted that it could take 9 months before the leaks at Fukushima are fixed and the plant brought under control – and that is their best case wing-on-a-prayer scenario – barring any more major after shocks or tsunamis. So it looks
Read more →Sent on by Hans Karow: George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation By Helen Caldicott for the Guardian Excerpts: Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size
Read more →Here is a Press Release from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) from one year ago. The then proposal to increase allowable radiation contamination in food and water supplies after a nuclear disaster was not acted upon. It is worrying, however, that a rogue element within the EPA was seriously considering the possibility of a
Read more →Over the past few weeks the old claim that only 40 or so people died as a consequence of the radiation release from Chernobyl has been repeated quite a few times on the media. Here is one example from the pseudo environmentalist George Monbiot: “The United Nations [Scientific ] Committee [on the Effects of Atomic
Read more →Here’s a good follow-on from the previous message # 1367. Lets hope they check some of the ones I worked on! From Reader Supported News: By Matthew Daly, Associated Press 24 March 11 RSN Special Coverage: Disaster in Japan Companies that operate US nuclear power plants are not telling the government about some equipment defects
Read more →When I worked at Stone & Webster Engineering (nuclear power plant design) in Boston in the early 1970s as a design draftsman we had several examples of potentially unsafe design flaws in planned nuclear powerplant that the company tried to cover up. My primary job was designing emergency access and egress routes (Emergency Evacuation Procedures).
Read more →From Reader Supported News (Highly recommended News blog): David Corn Columnist Groped by a TSA agent or zapped by harmful radiation? That may well be the real airport screening debate. But in the past weeks, there’s been an uproar in the media only over the new intrusive examinations being used at airport screening by the
Read more →In 2002 the Health Council of the Netherlands, that so-called group of independent experts who can be relied upon to give their mark of safety to any toxic product they are asked to rule on, gave the all-clear for the use of depleted uranium. Below are a few excerpts from the 2002 HCN report “Depleted
Read more →UK admits using DU ammunition in Iraq http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=135896§ionid=351020201 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 UK defense secretary says American and British forces used depleted uranium (DU) ammunitions during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. “UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003,” UK Defense Secretary Liam Fox
Read more →From Richard Bramhall: Verdict based on failure of ICRP risk model On September 10th a Coroner’s jury in the West Midlands found that depleted Uranium caused the fatal cancer of a soldier – Lance Corporal Stuart Dyson – who served in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. Professor Chris Busby, scientific adviser to the LLRC
Read more →From Bloomberg.com: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aKNgo0CVJg9s &refer=home#Radioactive Beer Kegs Menace Public, Boost Costs for Recyclers By Jonathan Tirone and Subramaniam Sharma Enlarge Image/Details Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — French authorities made headlines last month when they said as many as 500 sets of radioactive buttons had been installed in elevators around the country. It wasn’t an isolated case. Improper
Read more →New ABC site too radioactive By Darren Cartwright http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23981701-1248,00.html July 07, 2008 03:20pm Article from: The Courier-Mail THE ABC has abandoned a new site for its Brisbane headquarters after discovering it was too radioactive. The national broadcaster was intending to build new headquarters on a site in Newstead after it had to abandon its Toowong
Read more →The New York Times June 19, 2007 The Consumer With Rise in Radiation Exposure, Experts Urge Caution on Tests By RONI CARYN RABIN Advances in radiology have radically transformed medical practice, with CT scans and nuclear medicine exams providing physicians with the ability to quickly pinpoint internal bleeding, diagnose kidney stones or confirm appendicitis, assess
Read more →DNA damage to nuclear test vets prompts call for study of children http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/05-15-07.html The Government is considering whether to fund studies into the health of nuclear test veterans”™ children, after a Massey study confirmed that the veterans had suffered genetic damage as a result of radiation. The New Zealand Nuclear Test Veterans”™ Association commissioned Dr
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #582: Ionizing radiation causes bone loss-implications for DU exposure The following article about new research findings of bone loss in mice after a single exposure to a “therapeutic dose of radiation” raises questions about the possibility of similar effects from humans exposed to depleted uranium dust. Perhaps
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #581: Repacholi declares Depleted Uranium”basically safe” Michael Repacholi who has done for good science what Michael Jackson has done for child care now reaches a new low in scientific prostitution by proclaining that Depleted Uranium is “basically safe.” I wonder who’s paying the fiddler now? Don Depleted
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #523: More on Chernobyl’s Nuclear Nightmares. From Eileen O”™Connor: The enclosed information from Richard Bramhall in response to Mike Repacholi”™s appearance on the BBC Horizon programme “˜Nuclear Nightmares”™ is interesting. From Richard Bramhall, The Low Level Radiation Campaign Horizon: Nuclear Nightmares. BBC Two, 9.00 p.m. Thursday 13th
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #522: Exorcising the ghosts of Chernobyl This commentary is in response to the below BBC article about the BBC Horizon documentary that downplays the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (Message #519). Michael Repacholi, retiring from being the head of the WHO’s International EMF Project now is the expert spokesperson
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=519 From Eileen O’Connor: Just when we though we had got rid of him, he turns up like a bad penny. We’ve all just had a gut full of watching Repacholi on TV, BBC 2 Horizon programme. The programme was about Chernobyl. ** Chernobyl’s ‘nuclear nightmares’ **
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