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– 2013: the battle to expose nuclear lies about ionising radiation

On March 11-12, in New York,   leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts will explain the bio-medical  consequences of the Fukushima disaster, at a pubic symposium  at the New York Academy of Medicine

The speakers will be truly a star studded array of scientists.  Included among them will be Dr. Tim Mousseau – on Chernobyl, Fukushima and Other Hot Places, Biological Consequences, and Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki  – on Congenital Malformations in Rivne Polossia associated with the Chernobyl Accident, (at right, Dr Wertelecki)

Other speakers – Dr. Marek Niedziela, Dr. Alexy Yablokov, Akio Matsumura and Robert Alvarez.  It’s going  to be hard for our radiologically illiterate politicians, media leaders, and corporate big boys to counter the information from these prestigious speakers.  nuclearfreeplanet.org

This New York Symposium is a very welcome event.  The nuclear industry likes to portray its opponents as somewhat deranged, feral individuals without any expertise or influence.

The nuclear lobby, in itself mainly illiterate about matters of biology and radiation seeks to  ignore, minimise and downright lie about the harmful effects of “low level”radiation.

Some of the nuclear lobby’s deceptions about radiation:

• “Hormesis “- quack science that portrays low level radiation as beneficial to health
• “Adaptive Response” – the idea that low level radiation is good because it can somehow sort of immunise you against high level radiation

But the omissions about radiation are even more striking:

•  So many studies that are touted in the media – count only “external emitters” – not the cancers caused by “internal emitters” .  Internal emitters are the sources of radioactive material that lodge inside a person’s body – the lungs or the gut – and will cause cancer later on – perhaps years after they have been taken in by the body, through eating or breathing.  They can be taken in long after the actual radioactive release, as they are the particles that have settled somewhere – on the ground, on plants, in water.
• In the case of the high  levels of birth deformites in Fallujah, studies focus on causes like mercury contamination, yet ignore ionising radiation –   in a place affected by great releases of depleted uranium.

It is to the credit of the World Health Organisation’s newest Director General, Margaret Chan, that she stated, in May this year – “There is no safe low level of radiation.”