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More from the anti-nuke MD who has forgotten her Hippocratic Oath -
deserves well researched and written replies -

Roger Helbig

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Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on
global health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in
Volume 4, Issue 2 2014 ".........Conclusion In summary, the
radioactive contamination and fallout from nuclear power plant
accidents will have me"
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The permanent hazard of nuclear radiation to global health

by Christina MacPherson

The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014

".........Conclusion In summary, the radioactive contamination and
fallout from nuclear power plant accidents will have medical
ramifications that will never cease, because the food will continue to
concentrate the radioactive elements for hundreds to thousands of
years. This will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic
disease. Already we are seeing such pathology and abnormalities in
birds and insects, and because they reproduce very fast it is possible
to observe disease caused by radiation over many generations within a
relatively short space of time.

Pioneering research conducted by Dr Tim Mousseau, an evolutionary
biologist, has demonstrated high rates of tumors, cataracts, genetic
mutations, sterility and reduced brain size amongst birds in the
exclusion zones of both Chernobyl and Fukushima. What happens to
animals will happen to human beings. [7]

The Japanese government is desperately trying to "clean up"
radioactive contamination. But in reality all that can be done is
collect it, place it in containers and transfer it to another
location. It cannot be made neutral and it cannot be prevented from
spreading in the future. Some contractors have allowed their workers
to empty radioactive debris, soil and leaves into streams and other
illegal places. The main question becomes: Where can they place the
contaminated material to be stored safely away from the environment
for thousands of years? There is no safe place in Japan for this to
happen, let alone to store thousands of tons of high level radioactive
waste which rests precariously at the 54 Japanese nuclear reactors.

Last but not least, Australian uranium fuelled the Fukushima reactors.
Australia exports uranium for use in nuclear power plants to 12
countries, including the US, Japan, France, Britain, Finland, Sweden,
South Korea, China, Belgium, Spain, Canada and Taiwan. 270,000 metric
tons of deadly radioactive waste exists in the world today, with
12,000 metric tons being added yearly. (Each reactor manufactures 30
tons per year and there are over 400 reactors globally.)

This high-level waste must be isolated from the environment for one
million years - but no container lasts longer than 100 years. The
isotopes will inevitably leak, contaminating the food chain, inducing
epidemics of cancer, leukemia, congenital deformities and genetic
diseases for the rest of time.

This, then, is the legacy we leave to future generations so that we
can turn on our lights and computers or make nuclear weapons. It was
Einstein who said "the splitting of the atom changed everything save
mans' mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled
catastrophe."

The question now is: Have we, the human species, the ability to mature
psychologically in time to avert these catastrophes, or, is it in
fact, too late? http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487

Christina MacPherson | May 2, 2014 at 7:31 am | Categories: 2 WORLD,
radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-hem

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