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The dark side of nuclear

The dark side of nuclear
 Fairview Post K. Norman Dyck 7 Jan 09 – “……………….. The dead, but once pristine lakes of the Blind and Serpent River communities of Ontario, spilling their toxic contents into Lake Huron, by-products of the milling process that turns uranium ore into yellow cake reactor fuel while the uninitiated are exposed to the radioactive dust live and die with compromised health.

  – The abandoned salt mines of Germany’s Asse 11 site, that documents what had been undisclosed until recently, that radioactive waste has leached out of the supposedly secure waste canisters and is now leaking radioactive tritium into aquifers.

 – The mounting evidence as documented in the April 23, 2008 issue of the New Scientist citing 17 separate research papers from 136 nuclear facilities from around the world — namely Canada, the U.S., Germany, Japan and Spain — that confirm elevated cases of leukemia for children living next to nuclear facilities, because releases of tritium are routinely emitted from reactors.   

 – The truth that lamb from once productive sheep farms in regions of the northern U.K. is still unsafe to eat, years after the radioactive fall-out from Chernobyl………………….

………the irradiated battle fields of Iraq.  U.S. military shells laced with depleted uranium have now contaminated once productive soils for centuries. The effects of that depleted uranium will haunt the lives of innocent children yet unborn with genetic defects attributable to radioactive isotopes of uranium as it ravages their bodies. This depleted uranium originated from stockpiles of spent reactor fuel from around the U.S., and possibly Canada………………….

………the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive waste worldwide and the mounting security risk which that bomb making material presents?

The dark side of nuclear – Fairview Post – Alberta, CA

January 7, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized