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The Left Needs to Reconsider its Automatic Position Against Nuclear Energy

ByGuest Author

…ural background radiation is higher in some parts of the world than around Chernobyl or Fukushima There are places on earth where the natural background radiation is far higher than in the neighborhood of Chernobyl, and where there are no greater rates of cancer or shortened lives. In fact, often the people who live in these areas, in places like Iran, Japan, England, Finland, India, China, or Brazil, are healthier than average. Moreover, the canc…

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As Fukushima gets moved from 5 to 7 remember that 0 (deaths) is still an applicable number

ByRod Adams

…g is still related to Chernobyl. http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf Accidents are not cheap. ajnosek I agree that the accident as it happened at Chernobyl cannot happen here. But don’t be fooled about graphite rods being on fire or misleading statements about a containment. Zirconium burns much more energetically than nuclear grade graphite, and graphite doesn’t make hydrogen or hydrogen explosions. Also, the RBMK ha…

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Smaller nuclear power plants can be beautiful, despite the opposition of the UCS

ByRod Adams

…a! Note that only few countries had accurate registration in the eighties. Chernobyl book I discussed the Chernobyl book at the New York Academy of Science (NYAS) site in a previous post above (https://atomicinsights.com/small-can-beautiful-despite-opposition-ucs/#comment-64465). More than a year after publication Rockwell found it necessary to include constructed malicious citations in order to show that the book was not viable science. I agree t…

Performance of old nuclear plants in Japan demonstrates why much of current regulatory structure is overkill

ByRod Adams

…orth reading in the Wall Street Journal titled Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl (I am tempted to add a subtitle to that – I think it would be accurate to put it this way “Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl: Much to the Disappointment of Professional Anti-nuclear Activists”) I have also been participating in interesting conversations at Can U.S. Nuclear Plants Handle a Major Natural Disaster? and Nuclear Experts Explain Worst-Case Scenario…

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Disastrous consequences of LNT model at Fukushima Daiichi

ByRod Adams

…damage is transferred to next generations. Germany is >1000miles away from Chernobyl, so no turmoil, alcoholism or stress after Chernobyl. Still jumps in the sex odds at birth after Chernobyl that indicate major DNA damage. The more exposed countries have bigger jumps, up to (p.12) Btw. no indication that temporary alcoholism or stress can create such DNA damage. In Germany the jumps upwards vary from few % (region with little fall out ) via 50% (…

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Exaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects

ByRod Adams

…the key mistakes that were made in the initial response to the accident at Chernobyl were not repeated. Worker doses at Fukushima were controlled so that no one was exposed to dangerous radiation doses. The public was sufficiently informed about radiation releases so that no one drank milk that was contaminated by I-131. Unfortunately, the most important lesson from 25 years worth of intense international study of the Chernobyl accident has not be…

Letter to a reporter from Bloomberg – 1/7/2006

ByRod Adams

…uced by the French Nuclear Energy Agency titled “Chapter V Health impact – Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impact” at http://www.nea.fr/html/rp/chernobyl/c05.html. I hope that you keep digging into the exciting prospects for the industry. It is certainly a newsworthy change in the world perception and may end up making a pretty big impact on the balance of power in the world. Best regards, Rod Adams Editor, Atomic Insights www.ato…

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Green Nuclear Junk – reposted from DecarboniseSA

ByRod Adams

…f 4,900 deaths from nuclear accidents, stating that credible estimates for Chernobyl range from 9,000- 93,000. The link provided to support this statement is to another non-peer reviewed article co-authored by Green himself, which itself provides no source for these figures. But the figures can only be arrived at by doing precisely what UNSCEAR cautions against: multiplying very low doses by large numbers of individuals. Hansen is correct to quote…

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George Monbiot debates Helen Caldicott, who says he is lying

ByRod Adams

…nt the WHO figures were correct. And Michael Repacholi, director of the UN Chernobyl forum until 2006, has claimed that even 4,000 eventual deaths could be too high. The main negative health impacts of Chernobyl were not caused by the radiation but by the fear of it, he claimed. “However, it is important to consider the remarks of Linda Walker, of the UK Chernobyl Children’s Project, which funds Belarus and Ukraine orphanages and holidays for af…

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Why does anyone trust Robert Alvarez’s opinions about nuclear energy?

ByRod Adams

…t and reliability basis. Secondly, Fukushima is not remotely comparable to Chernobyl. The politically driven choice to assign it the same number on the IAEA scale is just plain wrong. At Chernobyl, an uncontained reactor exploded and burned, dumping unfiltered core material into the environment. Of the 600 people on the reactor site soon after the accident, 134 of them received enough radiation exposure to cause immediate illness. Of that group of…

Paul Gunter and Patrick Moore on PBS NewsHour

ByRod Adams

…lear power plants. There is also the well discussed comparison between the Chernobyl Forum Report, with its stated results that as many as 4000 (or 9000) people MAY eventually contract cancer that can be attributed to the Chernobyl accident, and the Greenpeace computation that 93,000 people will die from the accident. I’ve talked a little about the differences in the way that those studies were conducted and also tried to ensure that you understan…

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If fear of radiation is the most serious health risk, the cure is simple

ByRod Adams

…r, Iran have been receiving every year they have been alive. The comment thread that is developing at the YouTube site where I found the BBC documentary is a bit distressing, but the best answer to ignorance is knowledge. I highly recommend reading Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski’s paper titled The Chernobyl Disaster and How It Has Been Understood. We must learn the public health lessons from Chernobyl and ensure that the terrible history of dislocation i…

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