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In reply to the discussion: Plutonium from Fukushima is a global catastrophe. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)No offense. She sides with open government, you know, what's it called? Democracy, that's it.
One important reason for the reason wide range in the estimate is that much off the information has been withheld by TEPCO, as you probably know.
The link in my reply above also contains sources on plutonium research going back to the MANHATTAN Project. Unfortunately, much of the research on the subject since then is classified and, thus, unknown, or lost, to the public, or, in a democracy, the People who should be in charge.
Fo those new to the subject of the health effects of plutonium and secret nuclear testing, more eye opening info here:
NuclearCrimes.org.
Much of the most egregious criminality, you may notice, occurred in the 1950s, when the Dulles brothers ran the secret government in Washington to the benefit of their cronies on Wall Street.