Ionising radiation a danger to many workers

Radiation exposure a workplace reality for construction industry: Expert, Daily Commercial NewsVINCE VERSACE , November 15, 2010 Exposure to radiation and radioactive materials is a reality for construction workers and not just specific to the nuclear industry, says a radiation expert.“There is a new workplace reality,” said Fergal Nolan, president of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada (RSIC). “When most people think of radiation in the workplace, they think nuclear power plants, uranium mines, hospital workers or dental x-rays, but the reality is a lot different than that.”

There are approximately 150,000 Canadian workers monitored each year for radiation exposure in the workplace. Only about 10 per cent of these workers actually work in the nuclear industry. Roughly 40 per cent of non-nuclear workers are in the health care sector in workplaces such as hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centres.

The remaining 50 per cent work in industries and services where radiation machines such as industrial x-ray machines and sealed radioactive materials are used as standard tools in the workplace…….

Some 550 Ontario Building Trades workers were exposed to radiation from radioactive materials in November 2009 during the refurbishment of a shut-down nuclear reactor at the Bruce Power plant in Kincardine, Ontario…..

Radiation exposure a workplace reality for construction industry: Expert – Daily Commercial News

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor https://thebulletin.org/2019/08/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-on-the-cutting-room-floor/ By Thomas Gaulkin, August 5, 2019 Seventy-four years after nuclear weapons were first and last used in war, it can be challenging to conceive of the devastation they cause. But even in the immediate months after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, news accounts offered a view of ingenuity and destruction that often elided the human cost.

The newsreels below [on original] were mainly screened to audiences in 1946 and 1947 and detail the destructive force of the explosions almost entirely through excited accounts of the structural damage to the cities. There’s occasional mention of the lost city populations and the scientific knowledge to be gained from studying their casualties, but hardly any description of what people actually suffered, let alone personal accounts. It’s instructive to look at and listen to these reports today, and contemplate what is missing.

The 12-minute reel below was produced by the US War Department in 1946. “Tale of Two Cities” makes selective use of film that was confiscated from a Japanese filmmaker, Akira Iwasaki—though you wouldn’t know that from the narration, which boasts that “army cameramen have found and filmed pictorial evidence that tells in twisted steel and stone the effect of death-dealing atomic power.” (Some twenty years later, historian Eric Barnouw obtained more of Iwasaki’s footage and produced a remarkably different narrative that documented the horrible physical impact of the attacks on Hiroshima’s citizens.)

Contrasted with the triumphant tone of the news/propaganda made for 1940s audiences, silence changes everything. Made public only decades later, the two films below —one beginning with footage of wounded victims, the other, a full-color glimpse of survivors picking up the pieces of the ruined city—report what those above do not, without a single word.

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