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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 12:05 AM
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Fairewinds: US news outlets said there’s “no threat to health” from Fukushima…
The opposite of what all the studies say about radiation and cancer (VIDEO):

Epidemiologist, Dr. Steven Wing and nuclear engineer, Arnie Gundersen, discuss the consequences of the Fukushima radioactive fallout on Japan, the USA, and the world. What are the long-term health effects? What should the government(s) do to protect citizens?


http://enenews.com/fairewinds-news-outlets-threat-health-fukushima-opposite-all-studies-about-radiation-cancer-video
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 12:18 AM
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1. Renowned nuclear policy expert: “Every amount of radiation exposure increases your risk of cancer…
There is no safe level of radiation”

"the false illusion of a safe amount of radiation has pervaded all the highest circles concerned with the development and promotion of nuclear electric power. The Congress, the nuclear manufacturing industry, and the electric utility industry have all been led to believe that some safe amount of radiation does indeed exist. They were hoping to develop this industry with exposures below this limit — a limit we now know is anything but safe. ”

--John William Gofman (September 21, 1918 – August 15, 2007) … Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California at Berkeley. … early work was on the Manhattan Project

http://enenews.com/safe-level-radionuclide-exposure-food-water-other-sources-period-physician
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 12:51 AM
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2. Exactly. And ingesting and breathing radioactive particles is FAR more
dangerous than simply being exposed to an X ray or background radiation.
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freshwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 01:07 AM
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3. However, there's really nothing we can do here. I read this is supposed to go on for 9 months.
When they talk about the west coast, it's not exactly like it's going to stop there, is it?

Whether the Coastal Range, Cascades and then the Rockies will mitigate it, who knows?

I'm becoming apathetic, since the Japanese seem to be refusing, or else are unable to entomb the infernal thing.

And you can't stop the wind.
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Ghost Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 02:43 AM
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4. There is no safe level of radiactive contamination.
The industry and its hired politicians had simply been hoping that no more radioactive contamination would be produced than could be relatively easily swept under some kind of carpet - a carpet of media disinformation, for example - and that no direct line of causality could ever be established between any particulat individual case of cancer and any particular 'event' caused by the irresponsibility of that industry and those hired politicians and the political system(s) that can allow such irrationality to take place.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 06:03 AM
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5. Very helpful video.
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 08:24 AM
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6. The sad thing is that west coast media BLACKOUT is total
when I mention this is coming to friends and colleagues you see the fear in their eyes. No one can handle the truth. Including me.
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