"When Japan's Fukushima accident prompted a review of safety at United States nuclear power plants, Exelon had an obvious stake in the outcome. Mr. Rowe was the only utility industry executive serving on a commission appointed by Mr. Obama in 2010 that made recommendations based on the accident and concluded in January that nuclear waste stored in pools of water -- as they were in Japan -- present 'no unmanageable safety or security risks.'
"Since the accident, Exelon has managed to minimize how much it must spend to address safety concerns at its plants, including its eight General Electric boiling water reactors -- the same models as those at Fukushima."
A Moral, Public Health and Public Safety Issue [also continued later]
In "The Medical Implications of Fukushima," Dr. Helen Caldicott tells us that "Children are 10 to 20 times more vulnerable to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than adults. Little girls are twice as sensitive as little boys and women are more sensitive than men. Fetuses are thousands of times more sensitive."
"There's a very clear association between increased child leukemias and proximity to NPPs," Dr. Ian Fairlie warns us.
Nuclear power has a big carbon footprint, radiation truth tells us. "People that claim nuclear power is carbon-neutral are considering only the direct emissions of the plant itself. In fact, it has the largest carbon footprint of any energy source other than fossil fuels." Monitoring of radioactive waste - Carbon pollution generated by monitoring and guarding the radwaste for eternity." "Nuclear power has another footprint: NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION -You can't make a modern nuclear weapon without a nuclear reactor".Mobile Chernobyl - Transporting nuclear waste to a central repository risks contamination along highways and rail lines, by accident or terrorists."
"Millions of tons of radioactive soil and debris can be seen packed in black bags in a temporary storage site at Tomioka, Fukushima prefecture." A drone flies over the bags; published April 17, 2015.
In "Fukushima's Legacy," public release August 14, 2014, by AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION we learn that "Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown, biological samples were obtained only after extensive delays, limiting the information that could be gained about the impacts of that historic disaster. Determined not to repeat the shortcomings of the Chernobyl studies, scientists began gathering biological information only a few months after the disastrous meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan in 2011. Results of these studies are now beginning to reveal serious biological effects of the Fukushima radiation on non-human organisms ranging from plants to butterflies to birds.
A series of articles summarizing these studies has now been published in the Journal of Heredity. These describe widespread impacts, ranging from population declines to genetic damage to responses by the repair mechanisms that help organisms cope with radiation exposure.
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