Passing Gas in France
Aug. 7th, 2008 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerSomething most folks don't know is that nuclear power plants regularly release "small amounts" of radioactive gas to the environment. The industry and government consider these releases to be harmless. Folks like Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass , former Director of the Department of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, who also founded the Radiation and Public Health Project believe these emissions to be sources of increased childhood leukemia (in particular).
The general idea is that radioactive strontium (which acts like calcium biochemically) gets into the marrow of bones and directly acts on the blood causing the leukemias. The radioactive cesium and iodine is none too keen on folks either.
Ernest J. Sternglass - Wikipedia
"In 1963, Dr. Sternglass testified before the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy regarding the level of strontium-90 in baby teeth. The result of bomb-test fallout, strontium-90 was associated with increased childhood leukemia. His studies played a role in the Partial Test Ban Treaty signed by President John F. Kennedy.
11/92 Interview with Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Author of "Secret Fallout" - ratical.org.
". . . it concentrates in the organs, chemically. In other words, strontium, instead of being uniformly distributed throughout the tissue, all goes to the bone. So it irradiates bone marrow extremely efficiently and that has never happened before from natural sources. So the internal doses from strontium-90 and iodine-131 are really devastating us.
And it's just as true for releases from Rancho Seco and from all the reactors--all the doses they always mention that are so low--first of all they're not so low, they are generally in the few millirem range--but the dose to the bone marrow of a baby could be a hundred times greater because of the chemical composition and the concentration and the fact that the newly developing infant uses up and takes up the strontium so fast."
"Nuclear Witnesses" - Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Physicist - ratical.org
"Back in 1947 they knew. The data had been gathered at Argonne National Laboratory.[1] They knew that the newborn puppies, whose mothers had been fed small amounts of radioactive strontium-90, were dying of underdevelopment and serious birth defects. The government knew, and decided to keep it secret. The government set up the study. The government knew the results. And the government kept those results from the American people. Why?"
High Emissions Reported at French Nuclear Plant - Reuters - 06 Aug 08
"Radioactive gas emissions from a nuclear plant in southeast France were higher than normal in June and July but there was no threat to public safety, nuclear authorities said on Wednesday. The gas emissions occurred at a waste reprocessing installation at the Tricastin nuclear site in southeastern France, where a separate uranium leak was reported last month."
"The reprocessing unit where the emissions occurred, which is run by Areva subsidiary Socatri, has been shut down for more than a week and would remain closed for the rest of the year, an ASN official said."
The general idea is that radioactive strontium (which acts like calcium biochemically) gets into the marrow of bones and directly acts on the blood causing the leukemias. The radioactive cesium and iodine is none too keen on folks either.
Ernest J. Sternglass - Wikipedia
"In 1963, Dr. Sternglass testified before the congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy regarding the level of strontium-90 in baby teeth. The result of bomb-test fallout, strontium-90 was associated with increased childhood leukemia. His studies played a role in the Partial Test Ban Treaty signed by President John F. Kennedy.
11/92 Interview with Dr. Ernest Sternglass, Author of "Secret Fallout" - ratical.org.
". . . it concentrates in the organs, chemically. In other words, strontium, instead of being uniformly distributed throughout the tissue, all goes to the bone. So it irradiates bone marrow extremely efficiently and that has never happened before from natural sources. So the internal doses from strontium-90 and iodine-131 are really devastating us.
And it's just as true for releases from Rancho Seco and from all the reactors--all the doses they always mention that are so low--first of all they're not so low, they are generally in the few millirem range--but the dose to the bone marrow of a baby could be a hundred times greater because of the chemical composition and the concentration and the fact that the newly developing infant uses up and takes up the strontium so fast."
"Nuclear Witnesses" - Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass, Physicist - ratical.org
"Back in 1947 they knew. The data had been gathered at Argonne National Laboratory.[1] They knew that the newborn puppies, whose mothers had been fed small amounts of radioactive strontium-90, were dying of underdevelopment and serious birth defects. The government knew, and decided to keep it secret. The government set up the study. The government knew the results. And the government kept those results from the American people. Why?"
High Emissions Reported at French Nuclear Plant - Reuters - 06 Aug 08
"Radioactive gas emissions from a nuclear plant in southeast France were higher than normal in June and July but there was no threat to public safety, nuclear authorities said on Wednesday. The gas emissions occurred at a waste reprocessing installation at the Tricastin nuclear site in southeastern France, where a separate uranium leak was reported last month."
"The reprocessing unit where the emissions occurred, which is run by Areva subsidiary Socatri, has been shut down for more than a week and would remain closed for the rest of the year, an ASN official said."
