"Leuren Moret, an environmental scientist, scares the crap out of me"

[ensho]

http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/08/18/leuren-moret-on-the-far-reaching-harms-of-uranium-and-radiation/


Leuren Moret On The Far-Reaching Harms Of Uranium and Radiation


Leuren Moret, an environmental scientist, scares the crap out of me in a way that I haven’t felt since I read Nevil Shute’s On The Beach–and that was fiction, this is not. Why– because I believe that she is entirely correct in her understanding of the toxic impact of uranium and radioactive contamination. In a new article published in Namaste Magazine entitled Populations Exposed To Environmental Uranium: Increased Risk of Infertility and Reproductive Cancers, Moret talks about the “increased risk of infertility and reproductive cancers” as well as the likely connection between uranium and diabetes and autism. Moret’s article tackles numerous aspects of the impact of uranium on human health and is a landmark effort to connect some dots that definitely need to be connected. Here are some of the astounding issues that Moret examines:

“It was a surprise to discover that Livermore Nuclear weapons Lab has not only secretly conducted extensive global monitoring of ionizing radiation for decades, but local ionizing radiation monitoring as well. In fact, I saw fresh core samples from Hiroshima and Nagasaki lying on a table in a Livermore environmental laboratory in 1991. When I asked Dr. Kai Wong, a Livermore lab ionizing radiation expert, why they were still monitoring Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said:

“Because Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still radioactive. And we are still studying the people because they are too.””

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High-risk counties within 100 miles of nuclear reactors where 2/3 of breast cancer deaths occurred 1985-1989

“When the results of mud samples from the Marin County bay side shoreline and the Pacific coastline are analyzed and reported, low-level ionizing radiation from the Sierras will be identified as the cause of what may be the highest breast cancer incidence in the United States.
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men's stupidy, greed and power grabbing have given women breast cancer and will continue to give women breast cancer until all the hot areas are behind yellow crime scene/HAZMAT tape.


however, men say they love us.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. LOL

:eyes:

[cdb]

2. Men?

All men did this? I don't remember doing this...Do all men love women?

Nice generalizations, there... but an interesting read nonetheless...

[ensho]

5. men invented the nuke bombs, used the bombs, didn't clean up

Congress is more men then women. men voted to do all this. and today men keep promoting nukes.

men used DU on purpose in Iraq. slow genocide.

show me where women had a hand in any of this.

its our breasts that have been and are still being misused by men.

[cdb]

6. show me where women had a hand in any of this??

well, there is that Condoleeza person...

but you might want to research Marie Curie and Lise Meitner and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, who helped build the atomic bomb...

[jayfish]

7. Ummm...

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1222_reg.html

The public perception of the making of the atomic bomb is yet an image of the dramatic efforts of a few brilliant male scientists. However, the Manhattan Project was not just the work of a few and it was not just in Los Alamos. It was, in fact, a sprawling research and industrial enterprise that spanned the country from Hanford in Washington State to Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and the Met labs in Illinois.

The Manhattan Project also included women in every capacity. During World War II the manpower shortages opened the laboratory doors to women and they embraced the opportunity to demonstrate that they, too, could do "creative science." Although women participated in all aspects of the Manhattan Project, their contributions are either omitted or only mentioned briefly in most histories of the project. It is this hidden story that is presented in Their Day in the Sun through interviews, written records, and photographs of the women who were physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists, and technicians in the labs.

Authors Ruth H. Howes and Caroline L. Herzenberg have uncovered accounts of the scientific problems the women helped solve as well as the opportunities and discrimination they faced. Their Day in the Sun describes their abrupt recruitment for the war effort and includes anecdotes about everyday life in these clandestine improvised communities. A chapter about what happened to the women after the war and about their attitudes now, so many years later, toward the work they did on the bomb is included.

Jay

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. So you're saying women aren't any good at nuclear physics?

Sounds sexist to me.

[RadiationTherapy]

3. Hate leads to this. Any hate. nt

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[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. ROFLMAO At Your Closing Paragraph!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Chulanowa]

10. We're irradiating you in a secret desire to fulfill Hentai fantasies

Are you fucking kidding me? Seriously? Your response to the epidemic of breast cancer amounts to "It's men's fault!"? Because you apparently believe there are no women in the business of nuclear physics, and no women on the city councils, state and federal legislatures that vote to have mining done, plants built, troops sent?

My solution to you is to not get pregnant. There's a 50/50 chance you'll have a boy, after all.

[glitch]

11. Not just breast cancer - all organs at risk -- just watch the increase in pancreatic cancer

supposedly (formerly) rare.

[SteveG]

12. correlation, not causation

If you check that map with a similar population density map of the US, you will see that the concentrations of Brest Cancer are also the most populated places in the Country with about 2/3rds of the population. Couple that with the fact that the most populated parts of the country have taken the brunt of a couple of hundred years of industrial waste being poured into the air and water, and dumped in landfills. Yes this is also were the most Reactors are. There may be a correlation, but you haven't shown causation.