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Aging Vermont Yankee nuclear plant – a hazard to public health

Beyond Nuclear 22 Jan 2010 Entergy Nuclear has betrayed the trust of the lawmakers, regulators, and citizens of Vermont. Simultaneous with its revelation of radioactivity leaks on site, Vermont Yankee spokespeople engaged in a predictable campaign to downplay the health and safety risks of tritium. However, tritium can impact the human body right down to the DNA level, and can cross the placenta from mother to fragile fetus. At such intimate levels, tritium can and does damage human health, leading to cancer, genetic damage, birth defects, and other maladies. The National Academy of Science has reported consistently over the decades that any exposure to radioactivity, no matter how low the dose, still carries a health risk. As reactors age – and Vermont Yankee is nearly 40 years old – its systems, structures and components degrade, worsening tritium leaks from buried piping. Vermont Yankee’s license should not be extended 20 additional years.

January 22, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Risk to air travelers with full-body radiation scanners

Full Body Scanners Pose Health Risks to Travelers, Says Czech Nuke Official YOP NEWS  by Surjit Singh  01/16/2010 –The Chief of the Czech nuclear watchdog has insisted that she is against the use of full-body scanners as an airport security measure as these pose threats to the travelers’ health. Continue reading →

January 18, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , , , | Leave a comment

Heart disease and stroke linked to moderate ionising radiation

Moderate Radiation Tied to Heart Disease, Stroke Study does not clarify whether exposure from scans raises risk Business Week  Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) –– New research based on the experiences of atomic-bomb survivors has found a link between exposure to moderate levels of radiation and higher levels of heart disease and stroke………….. Continue reading →

January 18, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , , , | Leave a comment

Terahertz waves in full-body radiation scanners – especially harmful

the type of radiation the scanners emit is particularly harmful. Terahertz waves, the type of radiation emitted, have been described by Los Alamos researchers as “ripping DNA apart.”

Scanners Aren’t the Solution DISSIDENT VOICE Joshua Fulton / January 14th, 2010 “…….The astonishing thing was that hardly anyone in the mainstream media mentioned that a full-body scanner would not have been able to detect the chemical Abdulmutuallah brought onto the plane with him. Continue reading →

January 17, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

Breast cancer risk increased due to early radiation exposure

Cancer News: Early radiation exposure raises breast cancer risk  Jan 11, 2010 (foodconsumer.org) –– Exposure to radiotherapy or radiation-based diagnostics like computed tomography (CT scans) in early childhood increases breast cancer risk in adulthood, a new study in the Jan 2010 issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention…… Continue reading →

January 13, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , , , | Leave a comment

The two types of airport scanners

Imaging Technology Transportation Security Administration (TSA) 13 Jan 2010
“………Use of advanced imaging technology is optional to all passengers.

Millimeter Wave

  • Millimeter wave technology beams millimeter wave radio frequency (RF) energy in the advanced imaging spectrum over the body’s surface at high speed from two antennas simultaneously as they rotate around the body.
  • The energy reflected back from the body or other objects on the body is used to construct a three-dimensional image.
  • The three-dimensional image, with facial features blurred for privacy, is displayed on a remote monitor for analysis.

Backscatter

  • Backscatter technology uses low level X-ray to create a two-sided image.
  • TSA is testing backscatter with an algorithm applied to the entire image to further protect passenger privacy.

TSA: Imaging Technology

January 13, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , | Leave a comment

Investigation of radiation-caused cancer among Ground Zero workers

Radiation had contaminated the World Trade Center Towers –  9/11 Sicknesses consistent with environmental radiation contamination

The Canadian National Newspaper Expolitics Headlines by David Jones 7 Jan 2010

A group of 9/11 responders has contracted blood cancers at an unusually young age, and top doctors suspect the disease was triggered by an unprecedented “synergistic mix” of toxins at the World Trade Center site. These growth of these cancers among Ground Zero workers, and others, are consistent with exposure to environmental radiation contamination associated with the destruction of the “9/11 targets”. Continue reading →

January 8, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

Ionising radiation risks to the unborn

Uranium Weapons, Low-Level Radiation and Deformed Babies Global Research.ca by Paul Zimmerman  2 Jan 2010 “…………..Abundant evidence exists which clearly demonstrates that birth defects are being induced by levels of radiation in the environment deemed safe by the radiation protection community. In light of this knowledge, uranium contamination cannot be summarily dismissed as a hazard to the unborn…………… Continue reading →

January 2, 2010 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , | Leave a comment

International airport to get full-body radiation scanners

Newark Liberty Airport to receive full-body scanners January 1, 10: Essex County Conservative Examiner, Terry Hurlbut Newark Liberty International Airport which has always been an early adopter of the latest security equipment and measures, will be among the first to receive the new full-body scanners designed for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Continue reading →

January 1, 2010 Posted by | health, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Media not sufficiently covering CT scans’ radiation risk

Let’s hope the media gives this as much attention as they do with their traditionally disproportionate reporting on a given test’s benefits.

Radiation from CT scans increases the risk of cancer | KevinMD.com 29 Dec 09 The Archives of Internal Medicine recently released a study concluding that “roughly 72 million CT scans performed in the U.S. in 2007 will ultimately cause some 29,000 cases of cancer.” Continue reading →

December 31, 2009 Posted by | health, USA | , , , | Leave a comment

Need to discuss radiation risks of airport scanning

I’ve read nothing about the accumulated radiation risk. Will pregnant women be forced to submit? What about women who aren’t certain that they’re pregnant?

Getting X-Rayed at the Airport: Radiation Risk Anyone? Huffington Post Carol Felsenthal December 30, 2009 I read in both Chicago dailies and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal much about the full-body scanners that seem destined for airports around the world– in hopes that they might prevent another near miss like the Christmas Day attempt by the young Nigerian to blow a hole in the side of the Amsterdam to Detroit airplane. Continue reading →

December 31, 2009 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , , | Leave a comment

USA researching (?preparing for ) radiological attacks

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures OHS Occupational Health and Safety  25 Dec 09 “…… Nine contracts worth up to $400 million have been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop more effective tests and devices to measure how much radiation people absorb after a nuclear or radiological incident. The contracts’ first phase will be worth $35 million; the $400 million covers five years.

Contracts to Develop Field Tests for Radiation Exposures — Occupational Health & Safety

December 25, 2009 Posted by | health, USA | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

NASA to irradiate monkeys in the name of space travel

NASA, Don’t Expose Monkeys to Radiation!
Care 2 Petition Site NASA has announced that it plans to expose approximately two dozen squirrel monkeys to dangerous space radiation in a cruel and frivolous experiment that purportedly aims to study the health effects of radiation in deep space. Space-radiation exposure in monkeys can cause them to suffer from fatal types of cancer, including brain tumors, and other illnesses.
Because of drastic biological differences between species, radiation experiments on monkeys won’t tell scientists anything about how astronauts will react to deep space……

NASA, Don’t Expose Monkeys to Radiation! – The Petition Site

December 23, 2009 Posted by | health, USA | , , | Leave a comment

Nuclear workers’ cancer from radiation

More former Hanford workers eligible for money Seattle pi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS December 16, 2009 RICHLAND, Wash. — More former workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation may be eligible for compensation for developing cancer due to radiation exposure. Continue reading →

December 17, 2009 Posted by | health, USA | , , , , | Leave a comment

CT scan radiation cancer danger

CT scan radiation ’causes cancer’ Herald Sun Washington  AFP * December 17, 2009 TWO US studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine have found that radiation from computed tomographic (CT) scanners can cause cancer decades after patient exposure. Continue reading →

December 17, 2009 Posted by | 2 WORLD, health | , , , , | Leave a comment

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