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The deadline for comment on the US NRC 100 mSv per year exposure proposal, also known as cancer for everyone, is November 19th. Network-Organize! http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NRC-2015-0057

In this comment, sent to the USNRC on the 27th of October, the US EPA affirms its support of the LNT (Linear No Threshold) model, which says that increased exposure to radiation is increased risk. It is, however, strange that no mention is made of the Richardson, et. al. nuclear worker study report which came out on the 20th of October. Richardson is serving on an EPA advisory committee, so they should have had early access. The research by Richardson et. al. suggests that per 100 mSv there will be an extra 10 cancers per 100 people, whereas the BEIR report estimates 1 extra cancer per 100 people. Thus, over the course of only 10 years, the 100 mSv per year, proposed, may lead to…

What do you know! GE Hitachi has a Nuclear Fuel Facility Near Prince of Wales Elementary School in Peterborough Ontario.


Prince of Wales Public School. 1211 Monaghan Road Peterborough, Ontario
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Fuel Facility 1160 Monaghan Road, Peterborough, Ontario

This is where Jay Cullen, prof. at U. Vict, BC, grew up! You know, the metals in plankton expert, who doesn’t seem to be testing for radionuclides in plankton. Did he miss that most radionuclides are metals? Cadmium and lead, which he has studied, are heavy metals, as are uranium and plutonium. Uranium eventually becomes lead. You know, Jay Cullen, the guy who seems to think that a man in a wheelchair venting his frustration about Fukushima constitutes a danger to himself. You know the guy who appears clueless about sampling, since he seems to think that a handful of water samples tells us something. That assumes that he’s even sampling…

This is from an official 1995 US government document (under Bill Clinton) on human radiation experiments:
“In August 1947, General Groves urged Major General Paul Hawley, the director of the medical programs of the Veterans Administration, to address medical problems related to the military’s use of atomic energy. Soon thereafter, Hawley appointed an advisory committee, manned by Stafford Warren and other medical researchers. The advisers recommended that the VA create both a “publicized” program to promote the use of radioisotopes in research and a “confidential” program to deal with potential liability claims from veterans exposed to radiation hazards. The “publicized” program soon mushroomed, with Stafford Warren, Shields Warren, and Hymer Friedell among the key advisers. By 1974, according to VA reports, more than 2,000 human radiation experiments would be performed at VA facilities, 48 many of which would work in tandem with neighboring medical schools, such as the relationship…

“Ionizing radiation is known to cause genetic and genomic damage in humans and causes increases in chromosome aberrations. Damage to germ cells can manifest itself as congenital effects in offspring.“ (Busby and de Messieres, 2014).


“Miscarriages and Congenital Conditions in Offspring of Veterans of the British Nuclear Atmospheric Test Programme” by Christopher Busby and Mireille Escande de Messieres
“Abstract
A postal questionnaire case-control study examined miscarriage in wives and congenital conditions in offspring of the 2007 membership of the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association, a group of ex-servicemen who were stationed at atmospheric nuclear weapon test sites between 1952-67. Results were compared with a veteran-selected control group and also with national data. Based on 605 veteran children and 749 grandchildren compared with 311 control children and 408 control grandchildren there were significant excess levels of miscarriages, stillbirths, infant mortality and congenital illnesses in the veterans’…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple

“Some human diseases caused by translocations are:
Cancer: Several forms of cancer are caused by acquired translocations (as opposed to those present from conception); this has been described mainly in leukemia (acute myelogenous leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia). Translocations have also been described in solid malignancies such as Ewing’s sarcoma.
Infertility: One of the would-be parents carries a balanced translocation, where the parent is asymptomatic but conceived fetuses are not viable.
Down syndrome is caused in a minority (5% or less) of cases by a Robertsonian translocation of the chromosome 21 long arm onto the long arm of chromosome 14.[5]
Chromosomal translocations between the sex chromosomes can also result in a number of genetic conditions, such as XX male syndrome: caused by a translocation of the SRY gene from the Y to the X chromosome…”
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“In 1938, Karl Sax, at the Harvard…

World:

¶ Researchers may soon be able harness the power of undersea waves. Carnegie Wave Energy and Western Power are working together to create the first wave energy island microgrid in Australia. This technology, known as the CETO 6 Project, will be built six miles off the coast of Garden Island, a small Australian Island near Perth. [Nature World News]

CETO 6 units (one of which is pictured here) may be able to harness the energy of undersea waves. (Photo : Carnegie Wave Energy)

¶ The UK’s rating for the security of its energy supplies has been cut. In its latest ‘trilemma’ report, the World Energy Council reduced the UK’s rating from AAA to AAB. It also warned that recent ‘unexpected’ moves by the Government to remove subsidies for wind and solar power would hinder future investment in the sector. [This is Money]

¶ It was…

It’s a wonder that Professor Jay Cullen (U. Vic. BC) and Ken Buesseler (WHOI) can show up to work at all, if they are truly frightened of a physically disabled man who moves about with crutches or a wheelchair. Universities have become dangerous places. People who are so thin-skinned, that they apparently feel that they must have someone arrested for calling them names on youtube, should not be working with the public, and certainly not with students. It must be truly frightening for these two apparently nervous men to show up in front of able-bodied students, if they are truly afraid of a physically disabled man with crutches and a wheelchair. They must really quiver in their little boots to be on board boats with young able-bodied students, if they are frightened of the youtube videos made by a man in a wheelchair.

Can it really be true that they…