[ RadSafe ] Helen Caldicott to be in St Louis Feb 20th

Mon Feb 15 12:04:10 CST 2016

Radsafe,
     Hmmmmm....The serious nuclear waste (Cs, Sr etc.) will be gone in 300
years (i.e. 10
half-lives)...The other leftover nuclear waste is not a serious
problem...It is quite a volume of
waste.

     Right now, we (USA etc.) are in a rather comfortable time of having
plenty of oil, gasoline,
natural gas, methane,....  In 100 years maybe we will be down to having
nuclear, fusion???,
solar, methane, hydroelectric and not much in the way of hydrocarbons.
Fission will still be around
and can be made to work safely.

     Joe Preisig

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Helen Caldicott is coming to St Louis on Feb 20th.
>
> Helen Caldicott to conduct nuclear symposium in St. Louis: ‘The Atoms Next
> Door'
> The inimitable Dr. Helen Caldicott will be traveling to Saint Louis to
> conduct a symposium on the health impacts of radioactivity and nuclear
> waste on Saturday, February 20th at St. Louis Community
> College-Wildwood. Recently, the radioactive West Lake Landfill...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Dr Helen Caldicott has no confidence in USA’s Waste Confidence Act (I
> have no confidence in Helen Caldicott - this was posted to Examiner,
> which lets people profess to be Examiners in various subjects - they
> pretend to be journalists, but they are not - this one is would-be
> politician who has twice run for Congress and failed - now he is the
> Progressive Examiner - and posts this as his bio
>
> Byron DeLear -- Author, media producer, enviro-entrepreneur and twice
> former US House candidate. DeLear keeps his finger on the pulse of a
> wide range of progressive missions, serves on boards of various NGOs
> and non-profits. He can be reached at ByronDeLear at gmail.com.
>
> his webpage that was extracted by Nuclear-News is
> http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-national/byron-delear
>
> by Christina MacPherson
>
> There is a situation in America called the ‘Waste Confidence Act’
> which means that the industry has ‘confidence’—confidence that one day
> they’ll work out what to do with all this radioactive waste. So, the
> situation is insane, or should I say is “there is a gap between
> reality and perception of reality.” And it’s extremely serious.
>
> Helen Caldicott to conduct nuclear symposium in St. Louis: ‘The Atoms
> Next Door' Examiner, Byron DeLear  14 Feb 16 Byron DeLear:
> "..........“Why do you think that these federal agencies seem to tend
> to want to obfuscate and cover-up the real health impacts of this
> contamination?”
>
> HC: “The federal agencies are not really interested in remediation
> unless they absolutely have to do it because they’re interested in
> building bombs and building nuclear power plants—but cleaning-up their
> mess? That’s not part of their agenda and never has been. The problem
> is that we’re now moving into the period of nuclear waste—we’re
> leaving the period or the “age” of nuclear power because it’s not
> working and cannot be financed; it’s so expensive, and because we’re
> moving rapidly into renewable energy.
>
> So, now we’ve got, I think its 350,000 tons of high-level radioactive
> waste accumulating around the world; in Japan, in Britain, in France,
> in many European countries at their nuclear reactors. Specifically in
> America and Russia, the waste is emanating from the production of
> nuclear weapons and this is what we’re dealing with at West Lake.
> There’s no interest really in the government doing anything about it
> because they like to invent things and in particular want to work with
> the atom which is an extreme and powerful form of energy. But
> cleaning-up the waste doesn’t interest them because many of them are
> physicists and engineers—they don’t understand the medical
> ramifications.
> If they themselves get cancer from having dealt with radiation then
> they kind of understand, but its swept under the carpet mostly and so
> the money at present—over a trillion dollars—is going to build new
> nuclear weapons and delivery systems over the next 30 years—a trillion
> dollars, which is absolutely obscene.
>
> There’s a kind of “nuclear fiction” in America that stems from the
> Manhattan Project and that brings us back to West Lake again and the
> people who are suffering there. The problem is the absolute
> persistence of this waste—the half-life of Uranium-238 is 4.5 billion
> years, so it will be there forever. And what do they do with it? Pick
> it up? And where do they take it? What poor community will have to put
> up with this radioactive detritus for the rest of time? Do they bury
> in the desert? What if it rains because of global warming and it
> contaminates underground rivers and food supplies and all that? So,
> the situation is overwhelming.
>
> No one knows what to do with radioactive waste. I’ve been saying for
> 40 years, what are you going to do with the waste? And they say,
> ‘Trust us we’re excellent scientists, one day we’ll find the answer.’
> Well, that’s like me saying to a patient, ‘Well, you’ve got a
> pancreatic carcinoma, your prognosis is about six months, but trust me
> in about 20 years time I’ll find a cure.’ There is a situation in
> America called the ‘Waste Confidence Act’ which means that the
> industry has ‘confidence’—confidence that one day they’ll work out
> what to do with all this radioactive waste. So, the situation is
> insane, or should I say is “there is a gap between reality and
> perception of reality.” And it’s extremely serious. This waste down
> the time-track will induce, as I wrote in my book Nuclear Madness in
> 1978, epidemics of cancer, leukemia, genetic disease, congenital
> deformities for the rest of time. But no one really wants to know
> about it until there’s a nuclear accident like Three Mile Island,
> Chernobyl, or Fukushima, where everyone is desperate to know what’s
> happening. So you can talk until you’re blue in the face to educate
> people, but until they really understand in an acute situation they
> tend not to be so interested. But the people living near West Lake,
> they understand, and the power of the people is the ultimate power for
> redress. As Jefferson said, ‘An informed democracy will behave in a
> responsible fashion.’ So, what I like to do is practice preventive
> medicine by teaching people the dangers so that they’ll do something
> about it.
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