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Harvard study reveals large-scale radiation releases just outside major US city that lasted for decades (Original Post) bananas Apr 2012 OP
Near Pittsburgh PA Trajan Apr 2012 #1
An additional article on the topic... PoliticAverse Apr 2012 #2
I'd be more comfortable if I could read the report prepared by Rice. kristopher Apr 2012 #3
You do all that you can to live a healthy life, Curmudgeoness Apr 2012 #4
Wow. Everybody must be dead. NNadir Apr 2012 #5
Have I ever told you how much I enjoy your posts? kristopher Apr 2012 #6
+(10^100)^10^100) saras Apr 2012 #15
If it's so safe around the Fukushima Plant thelordofhell Apr 2012 #7
Are you high? alittlelark Apr 2012 #8
I for one am surprised that most haven't been killed off by all the solar radiation as well. L0oniX Apr 2012 #9
You must have missed this part... FedUpWithIt All Apr 2012 #13
Another reason the Upper Ohio valley doc03 Apr 2012 #10
Really? malakai2 Apr 2012 #11
Steel industry (mostly dead now), coal fired power plants and chemical plants. n/t doc03 Apr 2012 #12
Incomparable to the radiation released by coal plants around the country, imo. joshcryer Apr 2012 #14
This is a perfect example madokie Apr 2012 #16

kristopher

(29,798 posts)
3. I'd be more comfortable if I could read the report prepared by Rice.
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:04 PM
Apr 2012

I think the origin of this news is here:
http://www.motleyrice.com/news/view/armstrong-radiation-report-harvard-study-cites-years-of-large-scale-uranium-releases

And here is the webpage for the lawsuit:
http://www.motleyrice.com/environmental/apollo-parks-contamination

Perhaps the content of the study is available somewhere else. I can't find it but I don't have much knowledge about how to do research into ongoing legal cases.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
4. You do all that you can to live a healthy life,
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:05 PM
Apr 2012

and then you find out you might as well have eaten that whole chocolate cake or bought the cheap meat and produce. We ban DDT and other nasty chemicals. We have the FDA and inspections. They test drugs before using them on us. We chase all the mills away by cleaning up the air (thank god we don't have to hose shit off the porch daily anymore). Safe water standards.

Living in W PA, this does not make me feel very good about how safe we are supposed to be.

NNadir

(33,532 posts)
5. Wow. Everybody must be dead.
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:21 PM
Apr 2012

Another vast nuclear wipeout.

Just like Fukushima left Japan completely uninhabitable forever, this must have lead to the extinction of life in the United States.

This may be the reason so many of the solar PV companies are going out of business world wide.

Everybody died and there's no one left to buy them.

Congratulations on yet another exposure of the billions upon billions upon billions of deaths from nuclear power.

It's something of a suprise, however that the World Health Organization doesn't report on these deaths, although it does report on the 3.3 million air pollution deahts each year.

There's a rumor going around that 7 billion people are constantly exposed to air pollutants, much of it from the so called "renewable energy" that scientifically iliterate anti-nukes are always trying to stick in our lung tissue.

But I'm quite sure that nuclear energy must account for the vast decrease in the population of the planet.

Nobody ever dies ever, unless it's because of nuclear power.

kristopher

(29,798 posts)
6. Have I ever told you how much I enjoy your posts?
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 05:47 PM
Apr 2012

They always provide such perfect insight into the reasoning of a mind that supports nuclear power. Most wouldn't believe it if you tried to describe it to them, they too often associate industrial nuclear corporations with science. But you do a wonderful job of illustrating the reality.

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)
7. If it's so safe around the Fukushima Plant
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:20 PM
Apr 2012

Then you should volunteer to help clean up around there. I'm sure they can use a strapping young lad like yourself instead of the 70+ year old Japanese men volunteering for the job.

 

L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
9. I for one am surprised that most haven't been killed off by all the solar radiation as well.
Sat Apr 28, 2012, 06:51 PM
Apr 2012

FedUpWithIt All

(4,442 posts)
13. You must have missed this part...
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:55 AM
Apr 2012

"“I’m one of the lucky ones,” Patty Ameno said. “There’s been parents burying their children here.”

Ameno is a fighter. She’s had neurosurgery for one brain tumor and has another. She’s also survived uterine cancer. [...]

On May 2nd, another report is due out tracking the health impacts from radiation exposure."

joshcryer

(62,276 posts)
14. Incomparable to the radiation released by coal plants around the country, imo.
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:33 AM
Apr 2012

Not that Gen III+ or earlier is safe.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
16. This is a perfect example
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 08:52 AM
Apr 2012

of what I've been trying to say since day one. You can't trust the nuclear power boys as far as you can throw an elephant. It seems that once they figured out how to harness the power of splitting an atom that was it. Not much study has been done on the down sides of that. If thats true then that would be criminal or should be. According to them there's not been more than a handful of people who have been harmed by that soft green glow where any thinking person can see though that as a lie.
The nuclear power industries MO is to obfuscate and when that doesn't work, out right lie.

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