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Low dose ionising radiation IS harmful to health
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/life/health/low-dose-ionising-radiation-is-harmful-to-health/ ^ | May 20, 2012 | Noel Wauchope

Posted on 06/13/2012 10:58:45 AM PDT by ransomnote

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The article says the nuke industry, particularly in the US, has two 'public information' projects under way.

Project 1 – weakening emergency safety standards. Project 2 – discrediting the radiation risk model

THIS is their reaction to Fukushima!?

Also, I think his part is a little too optimistic:

"It’s now just over a year since the tragic Fukushima disaster."

Fukushima reactor cores are still releasing radiation into the environment and will continue to do so for the forseeable future because no one knows how to stop it. That and tremendous amounts of fuel in spent fuel pools, some of which are located in destroyed buildings, one of which has a sagging wall or two, mean that the disaster is ongoing.

1 posted on 06/13/2012 10:58:54 AM PDT by ransomnote
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I wonder about the credentials of the source Independent Australia. .

Their mission statement:

Independent Australia is a progressive journal focusing on politics, democracy, the environment, Australian history and Australian identity. It contains news and opinion from Australia and around the world.

IA supports quality investigative journalism, as well as citizen journalism and a diversity of voices.

Red flag words are "environment", "progressive" and "diversity".

2 posted on 06/13/2012 11:11:39 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: pfflier

"yuu put dots too well toogetar,you start too much tinkin"

3 posted on 06/13/2012 11:19:54 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: ransomnote
I have been treated for prostate cancer and will have low dose of radiation in me for the rest of my life. Should I have stuck with cancer, I think not. My dental xrays gave me as much radiation as an hour at high altitude in a Jet airliner. The person should stay out of the sun as it is radiation. Brownstone buildings are radioactive. Life is unsafe and if he is worried there is a cure.
4 posted on 06/13/2012 11:21:13 AM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: ransomnote

Sorry, Leftards, “the science is settled,” low-dose ionizing radiation is NOT harmful to health.


5 posted on 06/13/2012 11:23:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: mountainlion

Life is unsafe and if he is worried there is a cure.

True. Any affliction is just temporary until we die.


6 posted on 06/13/2012 11:25:21 AM PDT by ruesrose (It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
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To: pfflier

How about the medical research cited in the article? Too ‘progressive’ for your liking, too?

“Studies of the Mortality of Atomic Bomb Survivors, Report 14, 1950 – 2003:
An Overview of Cancer and Non-cancer Diseases”

http://www.rrjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.1667/RR2629.1


7 posted on 06/13/2012 11:25:24 AM PDT by ransomnote
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You REALLY want to try to compare elective, controlled amounts of radiation you received to nuclear waste being dumped into the air, water, and land??? You were advised of the cancer risk when you accepted the treatment, weren’t you? Because of liability, Doctors, Dentists etc. all advise of the risk/benefits. I am quite certain you were not asked to ingest or inhale cesium, strontium, plutonium etc. for your treatment. There is no comparison.


8 posted on 06/13/2012 11:30:16 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sorry, Leftards, “the science is settled,” low-dose ionizing radiation is NOT harmful to health.

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So that’s what the nuke shills are down to? Flat out lies? BEIR VII (state of the art US research) demonstrates that low-dose ionizing radiation IS harmful. THIS study proves it IS harmful. The only ones saying it isn’t are the same ones with a) no credibility and b) vested interest in lying.


9 posted on 06/13/2012 11:32:32 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ruesrose

Life is unsafe and if he is worried there is a cure.

True. Any affliction is just temporary until we die.

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So....let’s just let incompetent nuclear industry management continue without comment? We address elective risk based on information but you don’t like that? We should just ‘die’ if we object to nuclear industry incompetence and misinformation? What other industries should we allow to abuse the public interest without comment? Which industries should be allowed to pollute the environment and condescend to us if we object?


10 posted on 06/13/2012 11:37:40 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

if tshtf what happens when we can keep all those nuclear plants running.....


11 posted on 06/13/2012 11:42:51 AM PDT by freedommom
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http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-forum-arnie-gundersen-reveals-real-reason-americans-need-to-be-afraid?cid=db_articles


12 posted on 06/13/2012 11:44:45 AM PDT by freedommom
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To: ransomnote

http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-forum-arnie-gundersen-reveals-real-reason-americans-need-to-be-afraid?cid=db_articles


13 posted on 06/13/2012 11:45:06 AM PDT by freedommom
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To: ransomnote

I scanned the pdf, didn’t read it through, it doesn’t mention anything about soy or miso...
You might find this interesting:
http://yufoundation.org/furo.pdf

Cheers!


14 posted on 06/13/2012 11:53:45 AM PDT by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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To: mountainlion

Hey, if it doesn’t kill you.....


15 posted on 06/13/2012 11:54:06 AM PDT by wolfcreek (A closed eye mentality is the reason for our current reality)
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To: spankalib

Thank you for posting the link. I will read it later. I skimmed it for now.
Some people are genetically able to handle radiation poisoning better than others. Researchers in the Chernobyl region have a rule of thumb regarding exposure.

15 percent of the population is resistant to radiation effects and fares better than average.

15 percent of the population is ‘sensitive’ to radiation and fares worse than average (in Chernobyl this meant rapid death)

The rest of the population (the large part of the bell curve) have an average response (diseases like cancer etc.)

The man most directly responsible for the Chernobyl disaster (ranking official on duty in the plant who ordered operators to ‘test’ the reactor systems with horrific results) was the only man in the control room to survive. The other men who were contaminated in the control room died grisly deaths within weeks. That same man was believed to be responsible for a nuclear sub disaster in which he was the survivor. So I will read the PDF with interest and while there may be foods that support immune system and body repair, I go into it knowing that there is a genetic element to responses to radiation in the population.


16 posted on 06/13/2012 12:02:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
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The initial reports of deadly amounts of radiation contaminating the USA have been shown to be unscientific and plain alarmists. Anonymous “landmark” studies are also unreliable. I have had CBN training in the military later service and think this alarm ism is silly and sometimes hilarious. The cesium in my gasoline lantern have not killed me yet. 65 pounds of plutonium disappeared form Rocky flats weapons factory in fire upwind form me when I was a kid and no problems. We depend on the radioactive decay in the earth for half of our heat or we would freeze to death.


17 posted on 06/13/2012 12:04:07 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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So....let’s just let incompetent nuclear industry management continue without comment

I didn’t say that. I agreed there was a cure..that any affliction is tempory until we die. It’s like coughing or bleeding. Eventually they stop.
I live near the Savannah River Site and I know many people who have died or are dying of cancer. The majority of them worked at SRS. If there is a cure no one is bothering to cure them.


18 posted on 06/13/2012 12:04:24 PM PDT by ruesrose (It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
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To: freedommom

You lost any credibility when you linked to Gundersen. The man’s a loon and an opportunist.


19 posted on 06/13/2012 12:04:27 PM PDT by meatloaf (Support Senate S 1863 & House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
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To: mountainlion

By ‘this alarmism’ you mean ‘medical studies of Hiroshima victims’?

“65 pounds of plutonium disappeared form Rocky flats weapons factory in fire upwind form me when I was a kid and no problems” THIS gives you confidence??? Well hey let’s just let the nuke industry story radioactive waste in open buckets! That’s how well they keep track of plutonium!? And you brag of it??

Ok the ‘we depend on radioactive decay’ to warm the earth bit is pathetic. I guess we should just say THANK YOU to the nuclear industry incompetence that has lead to the spread of radioactive waste - they were just keeping us warm! Say...why aren’t the folks in the Chernobyl region just a little more grateful than the rest of us???


20 posted on 06/13/2012 12:11:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
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