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Dr. Helen Caldicott delivered this lecture on March 23, 2012 in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Caldicott is a member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Advisory Council. For more information, visit www.wagingpeace.org.
Tags: Chernobyl, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Technology, U.S.
- Caldicott Live on TV as US Election Called: “About half of Japan is contaminated” — Huge censorship on what’s happening with Fukushima… Host interrupts to say Obama re-elected (VIDEO) (ENENews, Nov 7, 2012):
Helen Caldicott Interview
Democracy Now Election Special
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Nov. 6, 2012 at 11:00p ETDr. Helen Caldicott, Physician: About half of Japan is contaminated. I’m going there next week. There’s a huge, a very big press censorship on what’s happening in Japan with Fukushima.
Watch the broadcast here
Tags: Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation
See also:
- CONFIRMED: 36 Percent Of Fukushima Kids Have Abnormal Thyroid Growths And Doctors Are In The Dark (Business Insider, July 19, 2012):
A few days ago we reported that 36 percent of Fukushima children have abnormal thyroid growths likely from radiation exposure, based on the “Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey.”We got in touch with Australian pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, who has spoken about the growths, to ask her about the implications of the study.
After confirming the validity of the report, Caldicott reinforced the alarming nature of the findings:
1. “It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children.”
2. “This is an extremely large number of abnormalities to find in children.”
3. “You would not expect abnormalities to appear so early — within the first year or so — therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation].”
4. “It is impossible to know, from what [officials in Japan] are saying, what these lesions are.”
Doctors worry about these abnormal growths because even though thyroid nodules are relatively common, they are not as common in children and some of them could become cancerous.
When asked why these results haven’t been widely reported, Calidcott noted that Japanese officials are not sharing ultrasound results with foremost experts of thyroid nodules in children and accused the media of “practicing psychic numbing,” saying that she doesn’t understand why media outlets are choosing to ignore the nuclear fallout. Continue reading »
Tags: Cancer, Children, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Science, Society, Thyroid
- Fukushima plant “to keep contaminating the Pacific Ocean for the rest of time” if fuel can’t be removed — No good solution, must constantly pump out water from under buildings (VIDEO) (ENENews, Sep 3, 2012):
Title: Arnold Gundersen with another update on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima disaster
Source: KPFT Houston, If You Love This Planet Radio
Date: Aug 31, 2012
Description: This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen [...]At 19:00 in
Caldicott: If you put concrete on it, you know it’s going to keep going down into the water table.
Gundersen: Right.
Caldicott: And you know it’s going to keep contaminating the Pacific Ocean for the rest of time.
Gundersen: Right. So the solution — there is no good solution — but the solution would be to bore holes underneath and constantly pull water out from under the buildings.
[...]
At 23:00 in
Caldicott: You are sacrificing the Pacific by leaving this stuff there for the rest of time, which will leak and drain consistently into the Pacific.
Gundersen: You’re right. It needs to be constantly pumped out
[...]
Listen to the report here
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Oceans, Radiation
- Gundersen: A ton of plutonium was in each Fukushima reactor — Host shocked (VIDEO) (ENENews, July 30, 2012)
Title: Arnold Gundersen with the latest on Fukushima: its effects on Japan, and the global risks posed by the No. 4 reactor
Source: If You Love This Planet Radio
Author: Dr. Helen Caldicott
Date: July 27, 2012This week, Dr. Caldicott has a new conversation with nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen about the ongoing nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant and its effects on Japan and the rest of the world. [...]
At ~15:00 in
Arnold Gundersen, Nuclear Engineer: Unit 3 had 30 bundles of MOX fuel… All the reactors have plutonium in them… Uranium-238 becomes plutonium-239 when it absorbs a neutron… There was close to a ton of plutonium in each of the reactors… scattered throughout the fuel… A ton of plutonium in each reactor… you and I know how dangerous plutonium can be… makes the cleanup that much more difficult.
See also: Physician: “A millionth of a gram of plutonium, or less, can induce cancer, or will induce cancer”
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Plutonium, Radiation
- ‘The Sleeper’: Unit 3 building ‘fatally flawed’ (ENENews, May 21, 2012):
Arnold Gundersen with a new report on the Fukushima meltdowns and their worldwide implications
IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET, A Weekly Radio Program with Dr. Helen Caldicott
May 18, 2012Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Chief Nuclear Engineer: This is the sleeper as far as I’m concerned.
Unit 3 has about half the nuclear fuel in its pool than Unit 4 does.
Some of it is still quite hot.
It had been removed about 6 months before the meltdowns.
So it has a hot enough quarter of a core that it could burn in air.
And of course the Unit 3 building is fatally flawed.
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation
- Double-headed worm in Miyagi (Fukushima Diary, May 19, 2012):
Following up this article..Double-headed flowers
Double-headed worm was found in Natori city Miyagi. It was in the street gutter.
Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation
- JP gov is going to send disaster debris to USA (Fukushima Diary, May 19, 2012):
TBS reported Japanese government is planning to send disaster debris to Pagan Island of Saipan, USA.
The amount is 10 million tones from Ishinomaki city Miyagi.
Because there is no incineration facility in Pagan island, Japanese government will mine minerals and fill the land with disaster debris.
Benigno Fitial governor states, they need money.
Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, U.S.
- Trillions of becquerels per day still being emitted from Fukushima Daiichi — Radioactive steam continues (VIDEO) (ENENews, May 20, 2012):
Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Arnold Gundersen
If You Love This Planet Radio
May 8, 2012I would say there are billions, actually trillions, of becquerels per day being released airborne, mainly from Units 2 and 3.
Actually on cold nights you can still the steam coming off those reactors, its not just steam its radioactive steam.
Something on the order of trillions of becquerels per day… trillions of disintegrations per second per day are being released even now.
Download the broadcast here
Tags: Arnie Gundersen, Environment, Fukushima, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation
Helen Caldicott, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Kate Orff, Columbia University GSAPP
At 49:55 into the video:
“When the earthquake occurred actually the reactors sunk about a meter in the earth.”
Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Helen Caldicott, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Science, Technology
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