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People were worried about radiation affecting the us long before now.
http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/a_radioactive_nightmare/9886/
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/08/no-place-to-hide-fukushima-fallout-findings-widespread/all/1/
http://enenews.com/newspaper-navy-sailors-experienced-great-physical-pain-after-fukushima-radiation-exposure-lawsuit-therapies-chelation-bone-marrow-transplants-required
http://enenews.com/new-study-u-s-bluefin-tuna-still-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation-cesium-found-in-100-of-small-recently-migrated-tuna-tested
http://www.sfu.ca/archive-pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archives/radiation-from-japan-reaches-bc-shores.html
http://www.straight.com/life/what-are-officials-hiding-about-fukushima
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/07/anon-leaks-nrc-sfp4-crisis-may-happen-at-us-nuclear-plants-too/
Want something more recent?
http://enenews.com/report-nuclear-material-came-off-fuel-assembly-removed-from-unit-4-pool-cobalt-60-at-1400000000-bqkg-it-felt-like-grit-photos/comment-page-1
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(29,257 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)The nuke power companies telling us nukes were safe is as crazy woo as you can get.
Here is a blast form the past about radiation... they have known for a long time how dangerous nukes are.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/51585989-82/nuclear-radiation-scientists-bullets.html.csp
There is no 'safe' exposure to radiation
Bioaccumulation is one reason why it is dishonest to equate the danger to humans living 5,000 miles away from Japan with the minute concentrations measured in our air. If we tried, we would now likely be able to measure radioactive iodine, cesium, and strontium bioaccumulating in human embryos in this country. Pregnant women, are you OK with that?
Hermann Mueller, another Nobel Prize winner, is one of many scientists who would not have been OK with that. In a 1964 study, "Radiation and Heredity", Mueller spelled out the genetic damage of ionizing radiation on humans. He predicted the gradual reduction of the survival of the human species as exposure to radioactivity steadily increased. Indeed, sperm counts, sperm viability and fertility rates worldwide have been dropping for decades.
These scientists and their warnings have never been disproven, but they are currently widely ignored. Their message is very clear: Virtually every human on Earth carries the nuclear legacy, a genetic footprint contaminated by the Cold War, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the 400-plus nuclear power plants that have not melted down and now Fukushima.
Albert Einstein said, "The splitting of the atom changed everything, save man's mode of thinking; thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe."