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Peaceful nuclear hazards are bad enough

Peaceful nuclear hazards are bad enoughBy Citizen News Service • on May 24, 2009

Peaceful nuclear hazards are bad enough
By SHOBHA SHUKLA
CITIZEN NEWS SERVICE …………………

Proponents of nuclear power plants not withstanding, it is impossible to have 100 percent safe nuclear power plants, even with the strictest of safety measures.

Radiation exposure can have very long-term effects and are often difficult to quantify. In the no-nonsense words of Gofman (the “father of the antinuclear movement”): “There cannot be a safe dose of radiation. There is no safe threshold. If this is known, then any permitted radiation is a permit to commit murder.”

In 1996, Gofman estimated that most cancer cases in the United States were caused by medical radiation. Although his claims were refuted by the U.S. government, one must remember that, since the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979, not a single power plant has been built in that country.

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May 24, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized