Archive for category: Radiation and Health

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  The Darker Reality of India’s Nuclear Power Goals

  Radiation and Health March 1, 2012 12:50 pm

  The fishermen protesting the Kudankulam NPP could be doing their fellow countrymen a greater service than they currently realize.

   
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  Cancer: The Epidemic of the Nuclear Age

  Radiation and Health January 2, 2012 11:07 am

  Is Cancer Epidemic in America? by RUSSELL D. HOFFMAN Courtesy: CounterPunch A friend and I were looking back at 2011. She remarked about all the cancer she’s seen this year. Last month she lost a close friend — a woman in her 30s. Another friend, 40, has bladder cancer for [...]

   
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  What Future for Nuclear Power in India?: C. E. Karunakaran

  Environment and Climate Change, India's Nuclear Expansion, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents December 13, 2011 7:57 pm

  For very many years I have been a supporter of nuclear power plants, on the premise “Bomb No, but Power Yes”.

   
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  Nuclear Unaccountability: Shankar Sharma

  Industry and Lobbies, Media and Censorship, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents, Society and Culture December 2, 2011 12:52 pm

  As they say “War is too important to be left to the Generals”, the decision on Nuclear Power is too critical from the perspective of the overall welfare of our communities to be decided by a handful of people in the nuclear establishment.

   
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  Deeper meltdown at Fukushima than thought

  Fukushima Latest News, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents December 1, 2011 8:21 am

  Radioactive debris from melted fuel rods may have seeped deeper into the floor of a Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear reactor than previously thought, to within a foot from breaching the crucial steel barrier, a new simulation showed Wednesday.

   
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  Answers to some FAQs about Koodankulam and Nuclear Power

  Environment and Climate Change, Koodankulam, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents November 22, 2011 11:59 am

  The people are looking for answers to serious questions. Dr. Kalam should answer them respectfully, or restrain himself from speaking.

   
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  There’s No “Safe” Dose of Radiation

  Radiation and Health November 5, 2011 10:21 am

  There is no safe dose of radiation. We do not x-ray pregnant women. Any detectable fallout can kill. With erratic radiation spikes, major air and water emissions and at least three reactors and waste pools in serious danger at Fukushima, we must prepare for the worst. When you hear the [...]

   
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  Science far from conclusive on low-level radiation risks

  Radiation and Health November 5, 2011 10:03 am

  Experts just don’t know the effect on humans below 100 millisieverts The March 11 nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant has transformed what used to be a long-standing academic debate into an urgent issue for millions of ordinary people: Will long-term exposure to low-level radiation cause any health [...]

   
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  Thyroid Cancer Corridor in India and the Chernobyl Iodine Fallout

  Radiation and Health November 2, 2011 10:02 am

  VT Padmanabhan, R Ramesh and V Pugazhendi Cancer is a disease caused by mutation. Some 200 genes out of an estimated 30,000 genes in the human genomes have been linked to cancers. There are four types of cells in our body. These are stem cells, dividing cells, working cells and [...]

   
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  What is Really Real?: Prof. Atul Chokshi

  India's Nuclear Expansion, Koodankulam, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents November 1, 2011 8:29 pm

  There has been substantial public debate recently on a host of issues such as climate change,genetically modified crops and nuclear power; a common theme running through these issues involves science and public policy. This presentation will be based broadly on three interlinked themes: growth of specialization in science, significant commercial interests pushing science and technology, and a checkered track record of the promises-made and the broken-reality.

   
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  Their Dreams and Our Children’s Nightmares: Nuclear power in a fast-changing planet

  Radiation and Health October 31, 2011 10:51 pm

  V T Padmanabhan  VT Padmanabhan is a researcher in health effects of radiation. He has led epidemiological investigations among people exposed to high radiation in Kerala. He has also studied the occupational radiation hazards among workers of Indian Rare Earths, genetic effects of children exposed to MIC gases in Bhopal, [...]

   

• Kalpakkam: MAPS Official Health Study

  Radiation and Health October 30, 2011 12:56 pm
   
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  In Memorium: Rudi H Nussbaum

  Community Updates, Movements and Social Change, Radiation and Health September 9, 2011 9:08 am

  The global antinuclear movement recently lost one of its greatest activist-intellectuals known for his rigorous work and unputdownable committment – Rudi H. Nussbaum. DiaNuke.org had re-published his article ‘A Reckless Denial of Reality : Clinging to the Nuclear Option‘ along with Dr. V T Padmanabhan’s message on the occasion. Members [...]

   
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  A Reckless Denial of Reality : Clinging to the Nuclear Option

  Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health July 27, 2011 12:08 am

  I was deeply saddened to receive notice that one of my radiation mentors has passed away. Rudi Nussbaum, while in Amsterdam on vacation with his wife Laureen, was apparently wrestlng with his luggage when he slipped and fell down some steps and broke his neck. I have no further details [...]

   
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  DU – You Don’t Have To Inhale Or Ingest It For It To Make You Sick

  Nuclear Disarmament, Radiation and Health July 25, 2011 3:31 am

  by Elaine A. Hunter. July 22, 2011   Concentrated “Depleted” Uranium Munitions Emit: Alpha + Beta + Gamma rays + Neutrons + X-rays, Can Wreak Havoc in the Human Body While Waiting to be Used in Battle! From Multiple Horses’ Mouths:  More, Much More on Ignored and Suppressed US Government [...]

   
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  Nuclear power plant accidents: listed and ranked since 1952

  Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents July 24, 2011 1:15 pm

  How many nuclear power plants have had accidents and incidents? Get the full list and find out how they’re ranked By Simon Rogers. March 18, 2011   How often do nuclear power plants go wrong? How many accidents and incidents are there? The explosions and nuclear fuel rods melting at [...]

   

• Living and Dying with Fallout

  Community Updates, Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health July 22, 2011 4:36 pm

    MARY DICKSON is an award-winning Salt Lake City writer who has written about nuclear testing-related topics and worked on issues of peace and justice for three de- cades. A former newspaper reporter who now works in public broadcasting, she has writ- ten newspaper and magazine articles, essays, and opinion [...]

   
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  Nuclear Waste: The Perfect Plague

  Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health July 22, 2011 1:22 am

  In the 1300?s an epidemic known as the bubonic plague spread throughout Europe. This epidemic later known as the Black Plague has been historically recorded as one of the worst pandemics in human history. It is was so deadly that once infected only 1/3 survived and those who didn’t died [...]

   
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  Social Fallout: Marginalization After the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown

  Nuclear and Racism, Nuclear and Society, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents July 21, 2011 1:33 pm

  Robert Jacobs On March 1, 1954 a Japanese tuna trawler was at sea in the Marshall Islands. Quite unexpectedly grey ash began to fall like snow and covered the boat and crew. It was not snow; it was radioactive fallout from a nuclear test that had been conducted by the [...]

   
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  The lessons of July 16, 1945: Gopalkrishna Gandhi

  Environment and Climate Change, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents July 20, 2011 9:25 pm

  The nuclear age — our age — may be said to have begun 66 years ago on this day, July 16, in 1945. Not one but three things happened on that day, giving the world its nuclear teeth. The first was a meeting, the second was a testing, and the [...]