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“Many people really don’t care because they cannot see the radiation, they cannot smell the radiation,” …

“But the impact of the radiation will come maybe 10 years later.

Fukushima a future silent killer – expert, Herald Sun, AAP , July 15, 2011, JAPAN’S Fukushima nuclear disaster is a silent killer that will claim lives for years to come, an anti-nuclear campaigner from Tokyo says., Rikiya Adachi, who also lectures on Peace Studies at the National University of Japan, recently toured the area north of Japanese capital that had been affected by the nuclear incident and high radiation levels.

“It will be a silent killer into the future.”

Mr Adachi said he had come to Australia to urge the country to withdraw itself from the nuclear cycle.

“The Tokyo Electric Power Company, which operates the Fukushima nuclear power plant, gets much of its uranium from Australia, including the Olympic Dam mine in South Australia,” he said.

South Australian Greens MP Mark Parnell said his party backed Mr Adachi’s call.”I think it is important for people in South Australia to realise that the nuclear problem is a global problem and that the most responsible thing for South Australians to do is to leave the uranium in the ground.”

He said in SA the giant Olympic Dam mine was overwhelmingly a copper and gold deposit and it was possible to return any uranium extracted back to the pit.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/fukushima-a-future-silent-killer-expert/story-e6frf7jx-1226095506836

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