Helen Caldicott, the Australia-born American physician and anti-nuclear activist of the late 1970s and early 1980s, was a practitioner of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, US A leading critic of nuclear technology and armament industries, she tried to educate the world through her almost solitary protest writings and TV and radio appearances against the dangers of nuclear technology for the environment. In the light of Fukushima (2011), Chernobyl (1986) and Three Mile Island (1979) nuclear accidents (all of which happened after 1978) and the great concern they generated in the world during the last four decades, Caldicott's 1978 book Nuclear Madness assumes prophetic significance. www.helencaldicott.com Helen Caldicott "Educate those Corporate Prostitutes in Congress" originally Uploaded by FluxRostrum on Mar 30, 2012 On day one of NOW DC ( nowdc.org ) Helen Caldicot speaks at the EPA about nuclear radiation and the need to shut down the dozens ! of reactors in the United States that are identical to the Fukishima plant and they are also on mostly on fault lines. Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics ... Not Science http www.occupyepa.com *Note Single radiation dose of 2000 millisieverts (200000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below. Half-life of some radioactive elements In addition, Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor also used MOX [mixed oxide], a plutonium-uranium fuel mixture ...
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