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In reply to the discussion: Japan, South Korea agree on visit to Fukushima nuclear plant ahead of planned water release [View all]Kid Berwyn
(18,462 posts)14. Still zip on plutonium. Thanks on the stats!
While they dont address my question, it gave you a chance to write:
I cannot hold any respect for anyone carrying on about Fukushima as if it outweighs the destruction of the planetary atmosphere.
Glad you are a scientist scribe. Still, you dont know anything about me. Except were on Democratic Underground. We believe, or at least I do, that we are equals.
Heres why I have a problem with people who think they are better than others:
Children Were Radiation Subjects, Data Shows :
Experiments: The federal government and its contractors also used prisoners and psychiatric patients in testing from 1945 to the mid-1970s.
BY KELLY OWEN
FEB. 10, 1995 12 , Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON A graduate student at the University of Rochester fed radioactive milk to children, one of whom developed thyroid cancer, while other researchers injected radioactive material into psychiatric patients in San Francisco and prisoners at San Quentin, according to new data about government radiation experiments.
The findings, released Thursday, detail 100 human radiation experiments conducted by the federal government and its contractors at government labs, universities and public and private hospitals between 1945 and the mid-1970s.
The report adds to a growing body of information that the department has made public since December, 1993, when Energy Secretary Hazel OLeary disclosed the existence of the experiments and announced a broad investigation to determine their nature and extent.
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The 100 experiments detailed Thursday are included in a group of 154 such tests conducted on 9,000 subjects. An earlier report described the other 54 experiments.
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Many of the experiments used very small amounts of radioactive material, intended to map where the material goes in the body without doing damage, said Bill LeFurgy, deputy director of the radiation office. But the amount that can be judged safe is hotly disputed, he said.
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-10-mn-30398-story.html
And the fascists are always looking for scientists.
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Japan, South Korea agree on visit to Fukushima nuclear plant ahead of planned water release [View all]
Omaha Steve
May 2023
OP
I have never been able to understand why we build nuclear power plants next to the oceans.
Lasher
May 2023
#2
The San Onofre state beach has 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste buried underneath it, a byproduct
womanofthehills
May 2023
#3
Shouldn't the release be reviewed by the IAEA or some other body with deep expertise?
JudyM
May 2023
#4
How come nobody ever visits a coal plant before it releases stuff that's actually harmful?
NNadir
May 2023
#8
It wiped out the planet. Everybody on Earth died. Thank God that our antinukes were right...
NNadir
May 2023
#11
Tsunami was horrific. So is an atmosphere contaminated with radioactive dust.
Kid Berwyn
May 2023
#22