Bad to Worse in Japan
By Stephen Lendman | 2011-03-20
Empty streets in Tamura in the Fukushima prefecture where residents are staying indoors due to the radiation risk caused by the failure of the Fukushima nuclear plant. Photograph: Joe Chan/Reuters
Even operating normally, reactors discharge enough radiation daily to contaminate food, water, air and earth. Further, if a large city like New York, Chicago or Los Angeles lies downwind of a meltdown, it would become uninhabitable forever.
Moreover, contrary to government and industry misinformation, nuclear power is neither efficient, reliable, cheap, clean or safe. Annually, it discharges significant amounts of greenhouse gases and hundreds of thousands of curies of deadly radioactive gases and elements.
As a result, a single gene mutation can and often is fatal. No amount of radiation is safe, cumulative exposure causing 80% of known cancers.
He lied. Ingested irradiated substances cause considerable harm, depending on amounts consumed.
A Final Comment
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