Dangerous Myths of Fukushima
Alex Smith | 17.03.2013 17:15 | Anti-Nuclear | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield
It isn't over. Danger to women, children, wildlife. Selections from symposium "The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" New York March 11-12 by Helen Caldicott Foundation & Physicians for Social Responsibility. Radio Ecoshock 130320
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MYTH #1 THE ACCIDENT IS OVER
This is the huge lie politicians and power companies most desperately want you to believe. Here is Akio Matsumura, Founder of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders. Who is he? Lets just say Mr. Matsumura meets with world leaders one on one. As he tells us, when he was invited to dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister, the whole cabinet was invited to join them. What did he tell them?
Kevin Kamp, Radioactive Waste Specialist for the non-profit group "Beyond Nuclear" demolished the "it's over" myth when interviewed by Karl Grossman Chief
Investigative Reporter for VVW Hamptons TV.
In just one of a thousand examples that the Fukushima accident is far from over, just listen to Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com in that morning Q and A session on March 11th at the symposium.
MYTH 2 American reactors are safer.
You think so? Think the next nuclear melt-down isn't just waiting for the USA? Here are two quick clips from David Lochbaum, nuclear engineer from the Union of
Concerned Scientists, again from that morning Q and A session.
MYTH 3 Women and children are being protected.
This is one of the most important lessons of this symposium. A stream of scientists and investigators have found women, girls, and babies are far more sensitive to radiation than the 30 year old healthy male used to set acceptable radiation standards around the world. If you aren't outraged about what you are about to hear, you aren't paying attention.
Here are clips from a presentation by Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Southeast. She spoke on "Gender Matters in the Atomic Age".
MYTH 4 Japan will return to normal.
This talk March 11th is titled: "The implications of the massive contamination of Japan with radioactive cesium" by Dr. Steven Starr from the University of Missouri (and Physicians for Social Responsibility).
MYTH 5 Chernobyl is an Eden with animals returning, and Japan's wildlife is recovering nicely.
Dr. Tim Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina. We'll hear a ten minute excerpt from his talk "Chernobyl, Fukushima and Other Hot Places, Biological Consequences".
More coming on this Fukushima symposium in 2 weeks time. Also, I am coordinating material with Maria Gilardin, host of TUC radio. Check her web site at
tucradio.org
Helen Caldicott's site is http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/ Find out more about the symposium there.
Alex Smith
host/producer
Radio Ecoshock
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http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130320_Show_LoFi.mp3 MYTH #1 THE ACCIDENT IS OVER
This is the huge lie politicians and power companies most desperately want you to believe. Here is Akio Matsumura, Founder of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders. Who is he? Lets just say Mr. Matsumura meets with world leaders one on one. As he tells us, when he was invited to dinner with the Japanese Prime Minister, the whole cabinet was invited to join them. What did he tell them?
Kevin Kamp, Radioactive Waste Specialist for the non-profit group "Beyond Nuclear" demolished the "it's over" myth when interviewed by Karl Grossman Chief
Investigative Reporter for VVW Hamptons TV.
In just one of a thousand examples that the Fukushima accident is far from over, just listen to Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com in that morning Q and A session on March 11th at the symposium.
MYTH 2 American reactors are safer.
You think so? Think the next nuclear melt-down isn't just waiting for the USA? Here are two quick clips from David Lochbaum, nuclear engineer from the Union of
Concerned Scientists, again from that morning Q and A session.
MYTH 3 Women and children are being protected.
This is one of the most important lessons of this symposium. A stream of scientists and investigators have found women, girls, and babies are far more sensitive to radiation than the 30 year old healthy male used to set acceptable radiation standards around the world. If you aren't outraged about what you are about to hear, you aren't paying attention.
Here are clips from a presentation by Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Southeast. She spoke on "Gender Matters in the Atomic Age".
MYTH 4 Japan will return to normal.
This talk March 11th is titled: "The implications of the massive contamination of Japan with radioactive cesium" by Dr. Steven Starr from the University of Missouri (and Physicians for Social Responsibility).
MYTH 5 Chernobyl is an Eden with animals returning, and Japan's wildlife is recovering nicely.
Dr. Tim Mousseau, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina. We'll hear a ten minute excerpt from his talk "Chernobyl, Fukushima and Other Hot Places, Biological Consequences".
More coming on this Fukushima symposium in 2 weeks time. Also, I am coordinating material with Maria Gilardin, host of TUC radio. Check her web site at
tucradio.org
Helen Caldicott's site is
http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/ Find out more about the symposium there. Alex Smith
host/producer
Radio Ecoshock
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Chilling stuff
17.03.2013 17:23
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Except the wrong conclusion from this one
17.03.2013 20:58
No, it's NOT a myth, but easy to misinterpret the meaning and what that truly says about us humans, other animals, and the Earth.
The residual radiation around Chernobyl greatly harms the wildlife BUT (a very big but) this harm is minor compared to the harm we humans cause them where we aren['t being excluded by the radiation. That's not as much a measure of how harmless the radiation around Chernobyl is (to these critters) but how devastatingly bad for them WE are.
THAT is why wildlife is making a remarkable comeback in the abandoned areas around Chernobyl. That this is happening isn't a myth. We are WORSE for them than the radiation.
MDN
Earth recovery
18.03.2013 15:36
www.un.org/en/ecosoc/
The reports make clear that the media usually exaggerate the initial risk by a factor of 10 and the clear up time by a factor of 5. Their predictions of the death toll have been shown to have been wrong in EVERY SINGLE major disaster.
At Fukishima the expected clear up time (defined as the period when humans could safely live in the zone again) was predicted to be up to 50 years and yet some 80% of the population has now returned and the Japanese medical board is not seeing any new cancer developments (this is the organisation with the greatest amount of nuclear population contamination data in the world.)
Earth
Inconvenient truth ?
19.03.2013 07:44
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