http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201412010036
British researcher blasts U.N. report
on Fukushima cancer risk as unscientific.
A British scientist who studied the health effects of the 1986
Chernobyl disaster panned a
United Nations report that virtually dismissed the
possibility of higher cancer rates caused by the 2011 Fukushima
nuclear crisis... However, Baverstock, former head of
the radiation-protection program at the World Health
Organization 's Regional Office for Europe, said radiation levels
shown in the report were enough to cause a spike in cancer
rates...
He also questioned UNSCEAR 's neutrality, given that members are nominated by nations that have a vested interest in nuclear power. He noted that such nations provide funds to the committee. Baverstock also suggested a conflict of interest, as committee members are not required to disclose their history working in the nuclear industry or sign pledges stating that no conflict of interest exists in evaluating radiation risks. Baverstock said that when he was working for the WHO, he felt constant pressure from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a major promoter of nuclear power. He also questioned why it took more than three years for UNSCEAR to release its Fukushima report.
http://enenews.com/nuclear-scientist-fukushima-apocalyptic-disaster-will-haunt-future-generations-world-experimental-lab-humans-guinea-pigs-japan-govt-report-fukushima-worse-311-quake-tsunami
Excerpts from Op-Ed by Quamrul Haider, Ph.D.,
Chair of Dept. of Physics at Fordham University, Dec 4, 2014 (emphasis
added):
- The fraternity of nuclear scientists" create the impression" that their extremely risky projects have been carefully thought out in every detail and are inspired by the spirit of greatest responsibility. A large section of the scientific community, on the other hand, believes that the predictions [are] about as reliable as tomorrow's weather forecast [and] argue that by building nuclear power plants in populated areas, the whole world becomes an experimental laboratory with human beings as guinea pigs.
- There is always the possibility of a major disaster. The basic difference between nuclear and other industrial accidents lies in the long-range repercussions" one could forget about the havoc wrought, for example, by the explosion of a gas pipeline or the breaching of a dam" But an accident in a nuclear power plant, such as a reactor getting out of control, is capable of doing more than immediate harm. Examples of the deadly long-term effects of a reactor accident are Chernobyl and Fukushima [which] will linger on for ages to haunt the future generations. Among the survivors there will be many cases of permanent sterility, increase of genetic mutation in our progenies, and a shortened life span as a result of cancer and other radiogenic diseases.
- [It's] irresponsible and misleading to suppress the consequences of radiation" [A]ttempts are made" to blind the people by equating nuclear accidents with more familiar hazards" an unlimited risk is falsely portrayed as a limited one and glossed over in a manner that is not only unconscionable, but also unpardonable. These deceptions are further camouflaged by the way in which they are presented to the public" the far-reaching consequences of lethal radiation are overly simplified. In the post-Chernobyl and post-Fukushima era, these" do not hold water.
- In the past, wars, plagues, famines and natural disasters were known as the four horsemen of the apocalypse" they were joined by a fifth -- industrial catastrophe. After Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear accidents can be added to the list as the sixth horseman of the apocalypse. [Definition: "Signals end of world is near"]
- Critics describe nuclear reactor as one of the most dangerous technological beasts that mankind has devised and nuclear accident as "A Nuclear War without a War."
- The consequences [of nuclear accidents] can assume dimensions that do not take second place to the consequences of earthquake and pestilence, and in a way actually exceeds them.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/sns-rt-us-fukushima-workers-20141127-story.html
The number of workers at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant on
false contracts has increased in the last year, the station
operator said, highlighting murky labor conditions at the site
despite a pledge to improve the work environment.Ã"� Ã"� The
survey results released by Tokyo Electric Power Co
(Tepco) late on Thursday showed that around 30
percent of plant workers polled said that they were paid by a
different company from the contractor that normally directs them
at the worksite, which is illegal under Japan's labor laws.
http://www.foejapan.org/en/energy/doc/141206.html
50 non-governmental organizations in Japan released a declaration to protest the"Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage" (CSC) which protects nuclear power technology vendors from responsibility for reparations and does not protect the victims of nuclear power accidents.
Declaration : To protest The Japanese Diet's over-hasty approval of the "Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage" (CSC) , which heavily protects the nuclear power industry and encourages nuclear exports....
- Most probably the Pu and the nonnatural U found in this study were transported ... with the plume of the hydrogen explosion in the Unit 3 reactor, which was equipped with a mixed core of uranium fuel, and mixed uranium and plutonium oxides (MOX). Gamma-ray dose rate ... began to increase on March 15 ... This observation together with the wind direction allow us to assume that the unusual Pu and U were transported with this plume from the FDNPP over 120 km distance on March 15 ... Pu and U detected in this study were presumably small particles from the fuel removed by some process and transported over long distance by wind. To our knowledge, this is the first verification using the analytical data of Pu and non-natural U that the fuel materials from the FDNPP were transported in the atmosphere over a distance of 120 km.
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