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Nuclear Nightmare Worsens

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Have no illusions about UNSCEAR and the IAEA.  It is their job to make this go away, pretend all is fine.  Cancers can take decades to form, and cancers are not counted by UNSCEAR, excepting the glaringly undeniable childhood thyroid variety.  Here's an aside: If UNSCEAR admits that radiation releases cause thyroid cancers, is it not at least conceivable to them that the absorbed radiation is also causing other illnesses as well?

Numerous other maladies: birth defects, stillbirths, heart, lung, brain, organ diseases will certainly not be counted, and their victims will be ignored by the UN agencies.  That means they never happened, right?

UNSCEAR and IAEA have turned science on its head with a logical fallacy that seems to pass unnoticed in the media.  They claim that because there are "no biomarkers specific to radiation, it is not possible to state scientifically that radiation caused a particular cancer in an individual." (UNSCEAR, 2008)  And they use this as some kind of insane proof that the cancers were not caused by radiation. 

The UN then prepares faulty, fraudulent "death toll" counts that omit cancers when there is no scientific basis for omitting them.  The "no biomarkers" logic cannot be used to rule out that radiation caused cancers: it's then an unknown.  Radiation doesn't just magically lose its carcinogenic properties because of a faulty screening condition that disqualifies people from being counted.  These are gradeschool shenanigans gone global.

This June the president of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology, Carmelo Iacono spoke in Chicago at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting: 

"Nuclear radiation is the most carcinogenic thing that exists, and it cannot be kept under control, as the Fukushima tragedy proved."

The "most carcinogenic thing that exists" says a world-renowned cancer specialist. 

In other nuclear disaster news...

The NY Times reports another plutonium reactor in Monju is involved in a "precarious struggle" 300km southwest of Fukushima, and nearer Kyoto.  It seems that a "3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor's inner vessel, cutting off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods." 

Of course the plant operator tried to cover it up, because that's the modus operandi at nuclear plants:

"...the operator had tampered with video images of the fire to hide the scale of the disaster." (NY Times)

But that's not all.  A US reactor in Nebraska is set to go scuba diving.  That's right.  The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant is now an island.  Earlier last week a fire ignited at a spent fuel pool and knocked out the cooling system!

If the pool or reactor cooling systems are disabled, Nebraska can expect the Fukushima scenario.  After all, these ticking time bombs require constant cooling.  That's what makes  atomic reactors so inherently dangerous and unstable over the long haul.  It wouldn't be an easy job restoring electrical equipment -- underwater.

But it's a two-fer!  A second Nebraska nuke plant declared an "unusual event" as floodwaters approach.  At the Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, NE:

"Personnel have been proactive in preparing the station for flood conditions by filling sandbags, constructing barricades, procuring materials and supplies, and reinforcing the access road..."(ncnewspress.com)

Can we talk about putting that $36Bn toward safe, clean energy technologies now, Mr. Obama? 

Or perhaps we need to lose, say, half of Nebraska before obvious realities come to bear?  Or perhaps there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

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Joe Giambrone is an American author, freelance writer and filmmaker. Non-fiction works appear at International Policy Digest, WhoWhatWhy, Foreign Policy Journal, Counterpunch, Globalresearch, , OpedNews, High Times and other online outlets. His science fiction thriller Transfixion and his Hollywood satire (more...)
 
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