Nuclear Hypocrisy: The USA Alone Has The Right to Radiate Middle East And America

The interesting part of this is all the proponents of nuclear power and depleted uranium weapons are exposed to the the same poisons as the rest of the world

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Unfortunately, the nuclear energy industry is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. They have always had their shills among the Republicans (that is what happens when one values money more than people) but now there are major backers from among the environmentalists. A few of the latter have become so concerned about global warming that they have lost sight of the fact that not EVERY alternative to burning oil or coal is worth pursuing.

We have come so very, very close to a nuclear disaster of biblical proportions that if we keep playing with this stuff, such a disaster is inevitable. I was speaking with someone a couple of weeks ago about my concerns that a terrorist group or rogue nation might get their hands on a warhead from Pakistan or the former Soviet Union's arsenal. She allowed that this would be tragic but added something to the effect of "but we survived Hiroshima."

I gently showed her on the Web that just ONE average, run-of-the-mill modern warhead has roughly the same destructive capacity as SIXTY Hiroshima explosions...and the sophistication of modern bombs with respect to spreading radioactivity is staggering. By the same token, there is no such thing as a "safe" nuclear power plant. That is an oxymoron on par with "jobless economic recovery."

Verified adverse health effects from personal experience, physicians, and from personal reports from individuals with known DU exposures include: (a) Reactive airway disease, (b) neurological abnormalities, (c) kidney stones and chronic kidney pain, (d) rashes, (e) vision degradation and night vision losses, (f) gum tissue problems, (g) lymphoma, (h) various forms of skin and organ cancer, (I) neuro-psychological disorders, (j) uranium in semen, (k) sexual dysfunction, and (l) birth defects in offspring.

Today, serious adverse health effects have been documented in employees of and residents living near Puducah, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington. Additionally employees at uranium manufacturing or processing facilities in New York, Tennessee, and the four corners area of southwest Colorado have repeatedly reported adverse health effects similar to those reported by verified Gulf War DU casualties. Iraqi and other humanitarian agency physicians are reporting serious adverse health effects in exposed populations. Today, verifying correlation between uranium exposures and adverse health effects, except in only in a few cases, may not be possible because of deliberate delays in screening. Health physics guidelines state that testing should be completed within 30 days not 8 years after exposures. Testing involves the collection of a urine, fecal, and throat samples. Eight years or so after exposures only a small fraction of the sequestered uranium or original dose will be detected. This fraction represents only the mobile or soluble portion that is in the body. Figure 1 shows the relationship between time of sampling and detection of internalized uranium. Two recent autopsys have revealed that sequestering is an observed phenomena and that the mobile fraction may or may not be representative of what is actually present. The current U.S. Army medical department guideline dated April 1999 requires immediate testing as always required by laws and regulations. However, this is still not occurring.

http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/duupdate.htm

The psychopaths who enjoy creating and using radioactive weapons will stop at nothing. To them, all other humans have the same significance as cartoon characters. This is what happens when the government stops funding mental hospitals.