Nuclear power more than doubles child leukaemia risk
dv | 15.01.2008 01:47 | Climate Chaos | Ecology
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=FORWRKPNVU2E3QFIQMGSFGGAVCBQWIV0?xml=/earth/2008/01/10/scileuk110.xml
Can nuclear power really be part of the solution to climate change and energy security? Are the lives and health of our children really worth so little? One can only hope there will be a mass mobilisation against the government's plans - announced last week - to support the construction of at least four new nuclear power stations in the UK by Gordon Brown's brother's firm, French-owned EDF. Of course, the government is also to streamline the planning process to make it easier to steamroll over public opinion and get its new nuclear power stations (toxic white elephants) built.
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Deaths from cancer on an epidemic scale in the UK.
15.01.2008 11:51
North Wales has a number of nuclear reactors, Trawsfynydd (no longer operational), Wylfa, Capenhurst (near Chester but close enough) and nearby Sellafield too. The Irish sea is the most radioactive in the world. This due to discharges from Sellafield mainly.
Successive governments has chosen to cover this up.
There have been studies, see http://www.llrc.org/health/subtopic/menai2.htm
The latest plans to create more nuclear energy have lead to specualtion that Trawsfynydd will be reopened. How much longer will they allow the people living in these areas to have their lives ended, or ruined, by the effects of nuclear energy?
Rosa
missing stations
16.01.2008 11:21
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