
After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough
2 Dec 2011: The nuclear power industry has been resurrected over the past decade by a lobbying campaign that has left many people believing it to be a clean, green, emission-free alternative to fossil fuels. These beliefs pose an extraordinary threat to global public health and encourage a major financial drain on national economies and taxpayers. Commitment to nuclear power as an environmentally safe energy source has also ...
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The Awful Destruction from a Nuclear Meltdown
19 Jul 2011: The Rasmussen Report (October 1975, updated by Union of Concerned Scientists) states that in the “worst possible case” (an assumed 10 million people at risk) 3,300 people would die of severe radiation damage within several days; 10,000 to 100,000 people would develop acute radiation sickness within two to six weeks of initial exposure ...
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Unsafe at Any Dose
01 May 2011: Six weeks ago, when I first heard about the reactor damage at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, I knew the prognosis: If any of the containment vessels or fuel pools exploded, it would mean millions of new cases of cancer in the Northern Hemisphere. Many advocates of nuclear power would deny this ...
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