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Nuclear power and HEALTH – theme for April 2012

The nuclear lobby will now tell you, proudly, that there are no deaths from Fukushima radiation – so really, it’s not all that bad for health.  Indeed, they will claim that ‘low level’ radiation is even good for health.

They know well that radiation induced cancer takes decades to appear – so that first claim is a wicked deception.

The second claim is untrue.  The truth is that the USA Department of Energy is funding research in many places, worldwide, aimed at trying to prove that “low level radiation is good for you” .  No credible evidence exists for this distortion of the true situation.

The list below applies to USA veterans, who took part in nuclear weapons testing decades ago. The ‘low level radiation’ that they received is exactly the same kind of ‘low  level radiation’ experienced by the Fukushima communities.  The cancer outcomes will be the same.   But, like the veterans, not just soon after the contamination.

DISEASES ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO BE CAUSED BY PARTICIPATION IN ATMOSPHERIC TESTING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS,   Leukaemia (other than chronic Iymphocytic leukaemia)  –  Cancer of the Thyroid  –  Cancer of the Breast –  Cancer of the Pharynx –  Cancer of the Oesophagus- Cancer of the Stomach – Cancer of the small intestine – Cancer of the Pancreas – Multiple Myeloma – Lymphomas (except Hodgkinís disease) – Cancer of the Bile Ducts  – Cancer of the Gall Bladder – Cancer of the liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis indicated) – Cancer of the urinary tract, which also translates to the bladder and kidneys – Cancer of the salivary glands

Incorporated into public law 100-321, 20.5.88.

“This law gives US atomic exservicemen due recognition for the unusual service they rendered, and is an expression of gratitude of the American people toward their atomic veterans The law enables Veteran Affairs benefits to flow to US atomic veterans who are afflicted. The US government m relation to nuclear veterans considers the nature of service plus the development of any of the above diseases sufficient cause to quality for Veteran Benefits regardless of recorded dose rates received. All US nuclear test service personnel are officially Veterans.”   http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/diseases-acknowledged-by-the-united-states-government-to-be-caused-by-participation-in-atmospheric-testing-of-nuclear-weapons/

April 7, 2012 - Posted by | Christina's themes

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