Nuclear Impact Worldwide Children Suffering Expert Guest Panel Fairewinds Energy April 29, 2016
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Date: 2016-05-07

CCTV host Margaret Harrington anchored a panel with Maggie Gundersen, Caroline Phillips, and Chiho Kaneko from Fairewinds Energy Education to discuss the health risks to children around the world from operating nuclear power reactors and their burgeoning waste. In the aftermath of the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, mothers in Japan especially bear the responsibility to protect their children. As a result, they experience greater hardships in an environment where just expressing one’s legitimate concerns about radiation contamination is seen as a treasonous act. Meanwhile in Ukraine, 30-years following the atomic disaster at Chernobyl, the repercussions of massive radioactive contamination and government zoning continue to severely impact children living within 50 miles of Chernobyl’s epicenter. The United States is not immune to these worries and contentions as Tritium, Strontium-90, and Cesium 137 are radioactive releases that threaten the health of children living nearby leaky atomic power reactors and nuclear waste dumps. Learn more by watching this episode of Nuclear Free Future as the women of Fairewinds lend their voices to protect the children.http://tinyurl.com/hsrompe

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The topic that we have given ourselves is “Children Suffer Nuclear Impact Worldwide.” Now on March 11th of this year – the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima triple meltdown, I heard on the BBC news all about the tsunami with no mention of the meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi. So what is the impact on children? Because the news media is not talking about this at all.

CK: So in Fukushima specifically? In Japan – it’s misleading to say Fukushima ?1:37 because radiation pollution has impacted practically half of Japan – half of the Japanese islands. But they are monitoring, following the health of children who lived in Fukushima at the time of the disaster. And I think they keep expanding slightly the definition, but let’s say out of – let’s say – 300,000 children who were 18 or younger in 2011, today confirmed 116 thyroid cancer cases, which is statistically quite high. Because prior to that, the Japanese average was 3 in 1 million. So you could say, if you just compare the confirmed thyroid cancer cases among children, which is supposed to be very rare anyway, the jump is 30 times. 

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Fairewinds Predicts St. Lucie Unit 2 Steam Generator Failures Before the NRC April 27, 2016http://tinyurl.com/zwe3gxa (download the testimony)

St. Lucie Unit 2 Steam Generator Tube Inspection Report, April 15, 2016, Florida Power & Light Company (download the report) http://tinyurl.com/zjuh78q

Demystifying Nuclear Power: Chernobyl's Forgotten People/Casualties of Atomic Meltdownhttp://tinyurl.com/hq4w7kj

Thanks to Dr. Mousseau, the Fairewinds Crew presents a collection of scientific reports produced by experts (including Dr. Mousseau) concerning the health effects of radiation on wildlife and biodiversity: Cataracts: Elevated frequency of cataracts in birds from Chernobyl: http://tinyurl.com/hgkx6r7  See: Fitness costs of increased cataract frequency and cumulative radiation dose in natural mammalian populations from Chernobyl http://tinyurl.com/zq6sgzd

Tumors and developmental abnormalities:High frequency of albinism and tumours in free-living birds around Chernobylhttp://tinyurl.com/zk7fflt

Albinism and phenotype of barn swallows from Chernobyl http://tinyurl.com/hxspanm

Elevated frequency of abnormalities in barn swallows from Chernobyl http://tinyurl.com/6nu77r

Brain size:Chernobyl birds have smaller brains http://tinyurl.com/gnerxgt

Fertility effects: Aspermy, Sperm Quality and Radiation in Chernobyl Birds http://tinyurl.com/jdbz6ce

The effects of radiation on sperm swimming behavior depend on plasma oxidative status in the barn swallow http://tinyurl.com/god6rof  Impaired swimming behavior and morphology of sperm from barn swallows

Fairewinds in The News Fukushima, Chernobyl, CCTV, Margaret Harrington, Tritium, Maggie Gundersen, Chiho Kaneko, Caroline Phillips

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