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Nuclear plant issues in Japan are the least of their worries

ByRod Adams

…ive health effects. I have no first hand knowledge of the specifics at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, or at the Fukushima Daini plant or any of the other plants that might experience similar challenges during the next few days. However, I spent a decade or so being trained and serving as an operator and department head for a nuclear power plant cooled by ordinary water (what we call “light water”). That deeply engrained experience helps me t…

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SARI Comment on EPA’s ANPR for 40 CFR 190

ByRod Adams

…utionary” actions that contribute to increased deaths. A recent example is Fukushima where many deaths were caused by the emergency evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes and the prolongation of the evacuation for years, mostly due to the low-dose radiation concerns (Ichiseki, 2013, Nomura et al., 2013, Saji, 2013, AJW, 2014). Precautions because of low-dose radiation concerns in diagnostic imaging may also be harming patients: poor quality ima…

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Radiation Superstition

ByGuest Author

…lout of short-lived iodine resulted in 4000 cases of thyroid cancer and 15 deaths. However there is no evidence of the thousands of hypothetical deaths predicted by extrapolation of deadly exposures to lower radiation doses. Opponents of nuclear power have now hyped this death number up to one million, without observable evidence. Using simplistic mathematical extrapolations from the effects of high-radiation accidents, nuclear power opponents cla…

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Fighting for nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…25 years) with the calculated POSSIBILITY of up to 4,000 additional cancer deaths in a population that would ordinarily expect several hundred thousand cancer deaths. No one died at Three Mile Island. In contrast, even when burning coal (45% of US electricity) or natural gas (23% of US electricity) goes right, tens of thousands of people each year suffer an early death from the health effects of breathing the tiny particulates released. When those…

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Saving the Environment from Environmentalism

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…cites mortality figures, or provides evidence of actual confirmed tortoise deaths. I am not denying such deaths have occurred. I am simply stating disappointment in your “evidence”. One expects better from a site that prides itself in science. Rod Adams @poa Sometimes it seems as though the demonization of renewables here is based on somewhat contrived or exagerated premises. Questioning the rosy marketing mantras and pointing out that unreliables…

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Why did gullible reporters promote a student paper about nuclear facility security?

ByRod Adams

…oto-2012_ANSconf-June23.pdf Sakamoto was right. Radiation release from the Fukushima disaster did not justify delaying Fukushima residents from returning to their homes. Bas @gallopingcamel “…The exclusion of people from the surroundings of Fukushima was the result of nuclear ignorance and hysteria…” You and others may consider that. My estimation is that US authorities and media will react at least the same. Taking into account the proven eff…

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Why does conventional wisdom ignore hormesis?

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…ncidence in children following the nuclear meltdowns in both Chernobyl and Fukushima, there is evidence even in the more plausible instance of Chernobyl that this putative increase may be an artifact of the new onset of screening. There was no baseline measurement of the rates of such cancers prior to either accident, so any claim of an increase is unfounded, especially in the case of Fukushima. The intense screening for thyroid cancer that has ta…

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A Plea for Common Sense – Radiation Protection Rules Need Amendment

ByGuest Author

…levels as much as a hundred times greater than the forbidden areas of the Fukushima homes. At Fukushima this is no abstract issue. People are being told they cannot return home for an indeterminate period – perhaps years. And efforts to decontaminate their home sites may require stripping off all the rich top-soil and calling it RadWaste. People formerly living there have been reduced to economic poverty, clinical depression, and even suicide. Th…

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Nuclear less risky than natural gas – for customers

ByRod Adams

…Chernobyl was graphite-moderated, not a LWR.  You are lying yourself. and Fukushima Zero deaths due to the reactors at Fukushima, zero plant-related deaths and injuries outside the plant period.  Again you lie. and many other nuclear plant accidents. Workers have died in many nuclear plant accidents. In other words, not members of the public.  People working in industrial settings accept the risk of industrial accidents.  Nuclear worksites tend t…

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60 Minutes on coal ash – muted outrage, lots of smiles and nods

ByRod Adams

…hat it is). There are really dated 1983 figures that claim 500 lung cancer deaths per century, but I would think that this statistic pales in comparison with deaths from coal fired power plant pollution. Nevertheless, for the purposes of apologetics, this should be discussed. . As for CBS and the rest of what passes for new media in this country, if the journalists cannot distinguish between barrels and gallons, then why should any of you believe…

Low dose radiation doesn’t cause cancer, it helps prevent it
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Low dose radiation doesn’t cause cancer, it helps prevent it

ByRod Adams

…C, the numbers are something like 6000 cases of thyroid cancer and 10 – 15 deaths. Is that many deaths outside the number one would expect just from the anesthesia risk? Oh, a bit of searching reveals the risk from anesthesia is in the 4 – 15 per million range. So that’s probably not it by a factor of 160. Back to the hypothesizing board… Eino “So that’s probably not it by a factor of 160. Back to the hypothesizing board…” As this post began, th…

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Why was DOE’s Low Dose Radiation Research program defunded in 2011?

ByRod Adams

…Englert Los Alamos is looking into using cosmic rays to image the cores at Fukushima. http://www.lanl.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2012/October/10.17-fukushimas-nuclear-scar.php John Tucker Yes Bas half rate unchallenged German antinuclear authors strike again. (look at their history) Its fraud. Europe would do better leaving the EU and German fascism lite. John Tucker Lol they are even big into the low dose radiation sex ratio thing. What a bunch o…

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