New manager and new fights for Cancer Society
New manager and new fights for Cancer Society Meridian Booster By Allison Wall q12 March 09
The Lloydminster Canadian Cancer Society is taking an unprecedented stand against a possible nuclear power facility near Paradise Hill.
Although the Saskatchewan government recently issued a release encouraging Bruce Power to continue laying groundwork for a possible facility in northwest Saskatchewan, the Canadian Cancer Society Lloydminster unit has developed a policy to educate the public about the health risks associated with nuclear facilities.
“The start is to educate people about it before they can make a decision on it … and people can voice their opinions,” said Wendy Clague, new manager of the Society’s Lloydminster unit.
The policy is the first of its kind for the Cancer Society in Canada……………………ncreased cancer risk has been associated with nuclear power facilities in some studies – a fact that made some at the meeting uneasy.
“We know there are many benefits to nuclear power, but we also know that nuclear facilities create many situations that affect the human health, plant life and the earth itself,” said Don Retzlaff, a guest at the Canadian Cancer Society Lloydminster unit annual general meeting. “There has been a considerable amount of research in the United States and Europe that indicated that nuclear power plants can create serious health problems.”
Retzlaff said statistics in United States and Europe have indicated a sharp increase in breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer and pancreatic cancer, particularly in women and children.
“In Germany and Ireland, women and children living within 50 kilometres of a nuclear facility have a one in six chance of developing leukemia,” said Retzlaff.
New manager and new fights for Cancer Society – Lloydminster Meridian Booster – Alberta, CA
Americans are exposed to seven times more radiation
Americans are exposed to seven times more radiationTop News by Piyush Diwan on Wed, 03/04/2009 Recent research revealed that Americans are seven times more exposed to radiation than in 1980. The possible reason behind this increase is overuse of a diagnostic scans by doctors for profit.Research conducted by National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement said that doctors are ordering too many diagnostic tests, driving up the cost of healthcare in the United States and potentially harming patients. Researchers believe that too much radiation exposure can cause cancer, especially in younger people.Dr. James Thrall, chair of the American College of Radiology’s Board of Chancellors, said: “Unfortunately, one of the things we have seen in the imaging world is that many physicians look at imaging as the solution to their financial problems.”
Americans are exposed to seven times more radiation | Top News
News Headlines Increase Radiation Risks – More people go to the doctor if they are panicked – Softpedia
News Headlines Increase Radiation Risks SOFTPEDIA 7 March 09 More people go to the doctor if they are panicked – “……………………doctors say, patients are prone to getting more exposed to radiation after news programs and various daily papers tell that a disease is on the rise, or other such information……………………“Adding up all the doses and then spreading out the total over the entire population, no matter a person’s age, occupation, location, or health status is not appropriate for assessing risk to the general population,” Mayo Clinic professor of radiological physics Cynthia McCollough shares.
window.google_render_ad();While trying to keep healthy, people actually tend to get intoxicated with unnecessary doses of radiation, just to make sure that whatever disease is circulating the country at one point is not affecting them.
Overexposed: Imaging tests boost U.S. radiation dose
Overexposed: Imaging tests boost U.S. radiation dose
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) Mar 4, 2009 – Americans are exposed to seven times more radiation from diagnostic scans than in 1980, a report found on Tuesday as experts said doctors are overusing the tests for profit and raising health risks for patients.
The findings, issued by National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement, add to already mounting evidence that doctors are ordering too many diagnostic tests, driving up the cost of healthcare in the United States and potentially harming patients.
While diagnostic scans give doctors valuable information and many times are necessary, doctors fear too much radiation exposure can cause cancer, especially in younger people………………………”Unfortunately, one of the things we have seen in the imaging world is that many physicians look at imaging as the solution to their financial problems,” Thrall, head of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in a telephone interview.
Overexposed: Imaging tests boost U.S. radiation dose | Reuters
Nuclear Darkness and Climate Change
NUCLEAR DARKNESS AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE – The deadly consequences of nuclear war 3 March 09 5 million tons of smoke created by 100 Hiroshima-size nuclear weapons Following a war between India and Pakistan, in which 100 Hiroshima-size (15 kiloton) nuclear weapons are detonated in the large cities of these nations, 5 million tons of smoke is lofted high into the stratosphere and is quickly spread around the world. A smoke layer forms around both Hemispheres which will remain in place for many years to block sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. One year after the smoke injection there would be temperature drops of several degrees C within the grain-growing interiors of Eurasia and North America. There would be a corresponding shortening of growing seasons by up to 30 days and a 10% reduction in average global precipitation.
Hospitals Become Major Source of Nuclear Waste
Natural News.com February 24, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer Hospitals have become a major source of nuclear waste in the United States, producing and storing millions of radioactive materials each year with no long-term disposal plan. Experts increasingly fear that such waste could pose health hazards or be stolen by terrorists and used to build dirty bombs.“Instead of safely secured in one place, it’s stored in thousands of places in urban locations all over the United States,” said nuclear waste consultant Rick Jacobi.
Hospitals and other health facilities use radioactive material for a variety of functions, from examination to treatment. For example, radiation from cobalt and powdered cesium is used to sterilize blood and medical equipment, while cobalt is also used to kill diseased brain tissue. Capsules of cesium are implanted next to tumors to kill cancerous cells, and thin tubes of radioactive material are used to o
Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies
Iraq’s War Disfigured Babies iSLAMoNlINE.NET By Afif Sarhan, Feb. 23, 2009 BAGHDAD— In new Iraq, women like Leila Omar Wassin are heart-broken giving birth to babies born malformed because of the deadly substances years of war have sown in their bodies.
“My first baby died after he was born without legs and the second one died few days ago because his spinal cord was exposed and his head was too big,” the 36-old woman told IslamOnline.net.
Wassim is one of the victims of the massive bombing of Fallujah in 2004, when the US army admittedly used depleted uranium munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste……………………………
After denying it at first, the Pentagon admitted in November 2005 that white phosphorous, a restricted incendiary weapon, was used in shelling Fallujah.
It also admitted to having used more than 1,200 tons of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq during the 2003 invasion.
The plight of babies’ birth defects has exacerbated over the years, becoming a common occurrence for doctors and nurses.
“Baghdad has shown a high level of contamination,” a doctor and a researcher at a Red Crescent Hospital in Baghdad told IOL, requesting anonymity.
“In 2005, we had about 600 cases reported at public hospitals and three years latter, this number has doubled.”
Radiation in Ottawa waste may have come from patients
Radiation in Ottawa waste may have come from patients TIM WIECLAWSKI, METRO OTTAWAF ebruary 25, 2009 There is a strong possibility that the radiation detected in Ottawa biowaste last month came from the waste of medical patients, but the city’s director of Water and Wastewater Services said it’s impossible to know for sure……………………….
The radioactive material is very likely the medical isotope iodine-131, but an investigation of the facilities known to use it failed to produce a source.
Similar situation have occurred in other cities in North America and Weir said the research points to “normal excreta that comes from people undergoing medical treatments.”
“The situation is that what we have found, after much investigation, the biosolids here in Ottawa are consistent all over North America.
Metro – Radiation in Ottawa waste may have come from patients
Cancer questions grow around Fermi nuclear plant
This extract has been reduced in accordance with the request from THE MICHIGAM MESSENGER
State health report shows 31 percent increase in cancer rate among young people in Monroe County since 1996 THE MICHIGAN MESSENGER By Eartha Jane Melzer 17 Feb 09 The cancer rate among people under the age of 25 in Monroe County rose at more than three times the rate of the rest of the state between 1996 and 2005, according to a report generated by the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH). …………Monroe is home to DTE Energy’s Fermi II nuclear power plant, which became fully operational in 1988………………………….
Dr. Janette Sherman, adjunct professor at Western Michigan University’s Environmental Institute …….. said that her analysis of leukemia statistics in the United States indicates that kids living near power plants are more likely to get the disease.
Sherman said that the rise in cancer rates around Fermi is significant……………………
Michigan Messenger » Cancer questions grow around Fermi nuclear plant
Finds of Radioactive Steel on the Rise in Germany, probably from India
SPIEGEL ONLINE
By Christian Schwägerl 16 Feb 09
German authorities in recent months have found a disturbingly large amount of radioactive steel in factories across the country. Much of the contaminated metal is thought to have originated in India………………….radiometers indicated unusually high levels of radiation. They measured a level of 71 microsieverts per hour, a level that in 24 hours would exceed the amount permitted for an entire year………………………..For months, similar cases have been found across Germany, all involving bits of metal contaminated with radioactive cobalt. And most of them come from the same source: three steelworks in India, in particular a company called Vipras Casting, based in Mumbai. Germany’s environmental authorities are alarmed……………………………..Since last August, a total of 150 tons of contaminated metal has been seized. Some of it has been sent back to India. The rest is being stored by the companies that discovered the radioactivity, pending a decision on how to safely dispose of the material……………………..
Authorities noted that there is already a European Union directive designed to prevent the import of radioactive materials. Enforcement, however, apparently remains problematic………………..
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,607840,00.html
Tons of Radioactive Material From India Found in Germany
Tons of Radioactive Material From India Found in Germany DETSCHE WELLE 15 Feb 09
Tons of Radioactive Material From India Found in Germany | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 15.02.2009
TV show reveals radioactive risk
TV show reveals radioactive risk The Connexion February 14, 2009 FEARS that radioactive material taken from France’s old uranium mines has been used in construction have been raised by a TV documentary.
According to investigators for the programme Pièces à Conviction (Incriminating evidence), there are many sites where radioactive material is a potential health risk including schools, playgrounds, buildings and car parks.
Very little uranium is now mined in Europe, but France carried out mining from 1945 – 2001 at 210 sites which have now been revealed by IRSN, the Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety on its website……………………Problems stem from millions of tonnes of reject rock which contained small amount of uranium which are still stocked at some of the sites along with 50 million tones of waste from extraction factories.
The documentary on France 3 also revealed that some reject rock has also been used as construction rubble in areas used by the public, that there have been some radioactive leaks into the environment from waste and that some “rehabilitated” areas where building has been taken place had been contaminated with radon.
Reject rock has been used at sites including carparks, buildings, roads and even schools and children’s playgrounds, the programme said.
Volunteers with Geiger counters have found that some sites where it was used have worryingly high radiation levels.
The programme makers said they had “opened a national debate on uranium waste in France”.
Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo has admitted that uranium extraction had little state regulation and has called on the firm which was responsible for most of the sites, Areva, to “do its job” and to take better safety measures regarding the waste.
Before the programme went out Areva had lodged a complaint about it with the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel concerned that its intention was to make accusations against the firm.
The Connexion – The Newspaper for English-Speakers in France
The Worldwide Environmental Crisis
………………………… the toxic legacies from Bhopal, Three-Mile Island, and the ExxonValdez oil spill that all continue to wreck havoc. Chernobyl and other nuclear-related accidents also keep on exposing all life on our planet to various types of nuclear radiation fall-out (for example, from radioactive uranium, plutonium, cesium, going back more than 60 years to US World War II bombings; and they persist now with accidents and illegal uses of DU –depleted uranium– and other heinous weapons tested on citizen guinea pigs and used illegally by governments, including the US and Israel). (1)Nuclear radiation does not go away. Some of it is short lived, some of it stays forever. The half-life of uranium 238, for example, is 4.5 billion years (i.e., the amount of time it takes for half of the uranium to decay). The fallout from US atomic bombs (dropped tragically on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl accident [and both still continue to be monitored by Japanese and Russian scientists], as well as the DU bombing of innocent civilians in Iraq and now Gaza, all go far past these tragically harmed people then to be carried on the winds and distributed around the entire globe. Ours is closed-loop system: what happens one place eventually travels to other global areas. Our entire planet is enveloped in on-going nuclear radiation fallout. Yes, of course, we get radiation for the sun, too. However, the criminal use by governments of nuclear warfare is illegal and unethical. Nuclear energy, too, is completely unsafe………………………..The Precautionary Principle is not only an admirable ethical necessity, it is vital to our very survival. When it is thought of at all, it is within the framework of environmental considerations. However, there are other aspects of the Precautionary Principle that also must be integrated into governmental policies, if we are to survive as a nation: ethical and fiscal responsibility –neither of which is anywhere to be found now in public policy or discourse. All we have is one massive fraud after another………………If we are to save whatever little bit may be left of “these United States,” then it is crucial that the Precautionary Principle must be an intrinsic part of any realistic plan.
Nuclear test case on hold…months before judge’s ruling
Nuclear test case on hold…months before judge’s rulingB
TS23 Billingham by Evening Gazette on Feb 10, 09
A TEESSIDE widow and more than 1,000 atom bomb test veterans and their families will have to wait until after Easter to discover if their compensation claims can go ahead.The ex-servicemen, their widows and families claim that the men were made ill by radiation exposure following nuclear tests in the Pacific and mainland Australia in the 1950s.The claims, if successful, could potentially cost the Ministry of Defence hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation payments for a wide range of health problems………………. The judge has now opted to go away to read and consider the evidence and submissions before giving a decision.
Nuclear test case on hold…months before judge’s ruling – Billingham – TS23
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Chernobyl children say thank-you for your help –
Chernobyl children say thank-you for your help
Peterborough Today 09 February 2009
YOUNG victims of one of the worst ever nuclear disasters have said a big thank-you to kind-hearted Peterborough residents.Hundreds of city folk donated gifts for the children, who still suffer from the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago…………………..“Every time we visit Ukraine, we find more people who need support. The Chernobyl disaster may have happened 23 years ago, but the dreadful legacy is still being felt today.
“Nine out of ten children have three or more medical problems as a result of the disaster…………………………….Hundreds of people were killed when a huge explosion occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Thousands of people were killed as a result of the blast and radiation poisoning, while millions are still suffering from health problems as a result of the catastrophe.
Chernobyl children say thank-you for your help – Peterborough Today
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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