5 Types Of Plutonium Released From WIPP; Officials Not Informing Public – Dr. Caldicott: Inhaling A Millionth Of A Gram Of Plutonium Will Induce Lung Cancer

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Radiation Expert: 5 types of plutonium were released from WIPP; Officials not informing public — Caldicott: “I predict that facility will never be able to be used again”; Inhaling a millionth of a gram of plutonium will induce lung cancer (AUDIO) (ENENews, March 25, 2014):

KUNM, Mar. 24, 2014: The director of an organization that evaluated the WIPP site for over 25 years said officials aren’t doing enough to inform New Mexicans. […] “I just can’t stress the importance of DOE being available to respond to detailed questions that people have,” [Dr. Bob Neill] said. “There’s no substitute for direct communication.” Immediately after the leak was discovered, the public should have been given a detailed explanation of what was released, said Dr. Neill, who received his degree in radiological medicine. Americium 241 and plutonium 239 were mentioned. “But there are four other radio-isotopes of plutonium, namely the 238, 240, the beta and 241,” he said. “They’re all bone-seekers. So you want to be able to report all the values—how each one may have contributed. It’s just essential.” […] “It’s so important to answer people’s questions—and not just people in Carlsbad, but throughout the state and elsewhere,” he said. As for the leak itself, he said all of the possible causes of the failure at WIPP must be considered, and a response system should be designed accordingly.

Interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, March 2014 (at 37:30 in): One of the repositories for very, very dangerous radioactive waste plutonium, americium, etc. has just leaked radiation all around the area in Carlsbad, New Mexico. One microgram of plutonium, a millionth of a gram of plutonium, if inhaled will induce lung cancer. It’s extraordinarily radioactive. So they thought this would be safe storing radiation in salt mines, but something happened, one of the casks blew up or part of the ceiling fell on the casks, we do not know. But I predict that that facility will never be able to be used again, it will be so contaminated.

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3 thoughts on “5 Types Of Plutonium Released From WIPP; Officials Not Informing Public – Dr. Caldicott: Inhaling A Millionth Of A Gram Of Plutonium Will Induce Lung Cancer”

  1. The fact they won’t tell us where and when leaks from nuclear waste occur, and they are happening quite frequently……is very disturbing.
    All sanity and safeguards are gone. We have the ongoing genocide from Japan where they don’t even bother telling their own people any truth, and jail those who do………now, the US is playing the same game. Numbering the sites, not telling us where they are, not removing folks from the danger zones…….what has happened to this world?
    Utter madness, and we have idiots in charge. Denial is a huge human illness, and it may well be the key to our extinction. It may also be the reason other civilizations and species vanished without a trace……….insanity.

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  2. Attention NRC, EPA & WIPP Officials:

    When something happens, show US all the Data and stop talking to us like we have no scientific training!

    If you will N?T, then we are Calling You Out (CYO) , because the only real reason that you will not share ALL THE DATA is that it shows something VERY BAD has happened and you are afraid of a public panic…!

    Experts from:
    http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-8394-woops-wipp-did-it-again.html
    and
    http://shar.es/BG86d

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