Geoffrey Small writes: Who is this "Int'l Commission" ? It's the ICRP, dedicated member of the international scientific nuclear industry lobby which likes to tell governments what standard doses of radiation they should apply to their people by law. They are very close friends with the IAEA, UNSCEAR, WHO, AREVA, EDF, Toshiba, NRC and hundreds of nuclear power companies.
Now they want the innocent Japanese public to be legally exposed to 20 years worth of radiation every hour so they can argue that they do not have to be evacuated from the highly contaminated Fukushima, Iwate and Ibaraki zones, and more importantly, so that the government, the authorities and the power companies, will not be breaking the law by failing to do so.
Now they want the innocent Japanese public to be legally exposed to 20 years worth of radiation every hour so they can argue that they do not have to be evacuated from the highly contaminated Fukushima, Iwate and Ibaraki zones, and more importantly, so that the government, the authorities and the power companies, will not be breaking the law by failing to do so.
In the words of the late Dr. John Goffman who co-invented Plutonium, this is a license to murder.
In 1981 Goffman wrote "Licensing a nuclear power plant is in my view, licensing random premeditated murder. First of all, when you license a plant, you know what you're doing--so it's premeditated. You can't say, 'I didn't know.' Second, the evidence on radiation-producing cancer is beyond doubt. I've worked fifteen years on it, and so have many others. It is not a question any more: radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to the lowest doses. The only way you could license nuclear power plants and not have murder is if you could guarantee perfect containment. But they admit that they're not going to contain it perfectly. They allow workers to get irradiated, and they have an allowable dose for the population. So in essence I can figure out from their allowable amounts how many they are willing to kill per year."
Now in the case of the ICRP, the containment is out of control, plutonium, cesium 137, Iodine 131 reaching levels approaching Chernobyl--and now they want to raise the allowable dose for the population to 20 millisieverts per hour. If Goffman were alive today, I think he would be screaming murder.
In 1981 Goffman wrote "Licensing a nuclear power plant is in my view, licensing random premeditated murder. First of all, when you license a plant, you know what you're doing--so it's premeditated. You can't say, 'I didn't know.' Second, the evidence on radiation-producing cancer is beyond doubt. I've worked fifteen years on it, and so have many others. It is not a question any more: radiation produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way down to the lowest doses. The only way you could license nuclear power plants and not have murder is if you could guarantee perfect containment. But they admit that they're not going to contain it perfectly. They allow workers to get irradiated, and they have an allowable dose for the population. So in essence I can figure out from their allowable amounts how many they are willing to kill per year."
Now in the case of the ICRP, the containment is out of control, plutonium, cesium 137, Iodine 131 reaching levels approaching Chernobyl--and now they want to raise the allowable dose for the population to 20 millisieverts per hour. If Goffman were alive today, I think he would be screaming murder.
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It IS murder when a government allows the building of a nuclear plant.
I don't understand why people around the world are not pissed off and marching on their government capitals to demand the rapid shutting down of nuclear plants and the rapid transition to sun, wind, and water based energy.
It's a FUCKING OUTRAGE that these nuclear plants are allowed to exist. WE HUMANS ARE SO STUPID AND SO FUCKING ASLEEP THAT IT MAKES ME ASHAMED TO BE COUNTED AS A HUMAN BEING!
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