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Medical Considerations/Biological effects of LLR (Lingering Lethal Radiation):
“.....small amounts of radiation given over long periods of time are some 100 to 1000 times more damaging to cell membranes than when the same dose is given in a brief flash.”
“.....the principal cause for concern in the case of Iodine-131 released to the environment by the fission process does not appear to be the induction of thyroid cancer as much as the indirect effect of the radiation on hormonal functions critical for the normal development and survival of the newborn.”
“...it is the three to six month old FETUS rather than the six month old infant that should be regarded as the most sensitive and most critical member of the population.”
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“Alpha emitting particles in bone marrow may destroy many of the rapidly multiplying cells that produce the blood platelets which assist in the control of blood clotting. Similarly, alpha activity may reduce the population of radiosensitive leucocytes, with a corresponding reduction in resistance to disease. In addition, the gradual increase in alpha radiation-induced chromosome structural changes may be expected to contribute to the whole pattern of degenerative diseases of the cardiovascular and renal systems.”
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“Published evidence indicates that atherosclerosis plaques may be arterial tumors and that an excess
of alpha activity is present at the calcified plaque site, suggesting that radiation is the possible possible agent of mutagenesis.”
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“Positive results were found between leukemia and 13 other diseases, which occurred at least 5 years prior to the leukemia. The indicator diseases were asthma, hay fever, hives, eczema, goiter, diabetes, herpes zoster, psoriasis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, heart disease, and rheumatism.”
“Bross and Natarajan confirmed that among the indicator diseases for the sensitive subseries were asthma, urticaria, eczema, pneumonia, dysentery, and rheumatic fever.
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“Radiation is imperceptible. Radioactive isotopes are forms of common, biologically useful, readily assimilable elements and have no difficulty traveling within the biosphere, the food chain, or the human body. Highly active radiotoxins, such as strontium and plutonium, can even cross the placental barrier to reach the developing fetus.”
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Excerpts from: A lawsuit to end atomic power
Honicker vs. Hendrie

1978 The Book Publishing Company
156 Drakes Lane, Summertown, TN 38483
ISBN 0-913990-20-5

“...the rationalization for promoting atomic power-unlimited energy- (is) insignificant with the realization that an ancient fusion reactor operating at a safe distance of 93 million miles from earth is providing ample energy readily available for a fraction of the cost and few of the detriments associated with nuclear fission.”
Page 150, Summary of the Petition

“Concerning the disposal in the ocean of radioactive wastes, explorer Jacques Cousteau has said:
“It seems that good common sense is sufficient to make good judgements by referring to two basic criteria: in the first place, no risk at all should be taken when survival of the human species is at stake or the quality of life of future generations may be threatened (we have no moral right to make our children pay dearly for our own selfish remissness). Second, no chance should be taken on issues that could bring about irreversible damage to the environment we live in.
…...Any irreparable damage done to the water system is an unatonable crime; any human enterprise that might bring about such permanent scars must be withheld until it is proven harmless.
The ocean has the capacity to absorb and neutralize a certain quantity of degradable pollutants every year, but as far as non-degradable pollutants are concerned, they just pile up in the sea and are biologically concentrated in the flesh and the entrails of marine creatures; as for those indestructible toxic materials..., the only acceptable discharge level is, … zero. As a consequence... nuclear waste should be isolated forever from the water system...” ”
Cousteau, J., The Pulse of the Sea, November 27, 1976

“The 1976 safeguard laws require utilities to demonstrate a proven method of waste disposal before granting a license for nuclear plant construction.” ….

“The California commission concluded in a report released Jan 11, 1978 that there is no safe method of disposing of radioactive wastes, and it is questionable whether one will be developed in the future. Therefore,
….....the evidence indicates that it is not prudent to continue siting nuclear power plants based on an optimistic assumption that waste management technologies to handle nuclear waste will be developed and scientifically demonstrated...there are substantial scientific gaps which preclude proceeding on the basis of faith that all the attendant risks and issues will be resolved.”
House Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee Page 117

“California's Energy Commissioner Gene Varanini ...told the subcommittee the history of waste management in this country has been 'a series of false starts, beginning in 1957... the foremost theme of waste disposal has been, and continues to be, to defer decisions to another time and place.”
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(The true definition of LLW is) “Lingering Lethal Wastes.”

“Among the more dangerous LLW are I-129 which has a half-life of 17,200,000 years, Cs-135 which has a half-life of 2,000,000 years, Rb-87 which has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years (47 billion years or 3 times the age of the universe) and C-14 which has a unique biological danger due to the rapid movement of carbon within the life cycle.” (5,730 year half-life).
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“The half-life of U-238 is 4,510,000,000 years. While the hazard exists as long as the last atom to disintegrate, the original volume will decay to less than 1% after 45 billion years. This contrasts to our sun (5 billion years), the Milky Way Galaxy (10 billion years), and the calculated time which the present universe has been expanding (13-20 billion years) from it's original creation.”
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“Plutonium has a half-life ranging from 13 years for Pu-241 to 76 million years for Pu-244. Half-life is not a true indicator of the persistence, because it is only the time for one-half of the substance to decay, and because some of the decay byproducts are also radioactive and persistent. Pu-239 would decay to 1% or less in 244,000 years, has a known carcinogenicity in amounts as small as one millionth of a gram (0.000001 g).”
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“The...daily death commitments from mining and milling, and the other deaths from other stages, from accidents, and from variant releases, represent deaths to both private citizens and occupational workers, neither of whom have knowingly consented.”
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Excerpt from the Nuremburg Tribunal: (re: medical experimentation) Pages 130- 131
“...The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
…..The human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.
….the scientist” (i.e. nuclear industry/utility companies) “in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage.....” ( if) “ a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.” (i.e. us, the people and other living entities of this planet. SHUT DOWN THIS INDUSTRY NOW!

Excerpt from the final Atomic Energy Act of 1954:
“SECTION 1 (a) the development, use, and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to make the maximum contribution to the general welfare, subject at all times to the paramount objective of making the maximum contribution to the common defense and security; and (b) the development, use and control of atomic energy shall be directed so as to promote world peace, improve the general welfare, increase the standard of living, and foster our system of private enterprise.”
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