Sunday, February 18, 2007
Did you know?
The Irish Sea is the most radioactively contaminated in the world?
Windscale/Sellafield nuclear reprocessing involves discharging 96 per cent of all British radioactive marine discharges or roughly the same as all other installations in the world put together?
British Nuclear Fuels do not dispute that their dumping causes two to three fatal cancers, two to three non-fatal cancers, two to three genetic defects and two to three non-genetic defects for every year of their operation? Many scientists believe these figures are too low by a factor of 10 or a 100.
The only known cause of childhood leukaemia is radiation?
Researchers have not been able to isolate an amount of plutonium small enough not to cause cancer?
Scientists estimate the 0.5 rem (measure of radioactivity) maximum permissible radiation dose for the public is comparable to smoking 14 cigarettes a day. The maximum permissible dose to a nuclear worker at Windscale is ten times this, or 140 cigarettes a day?
The US has a radiation dose limit for the public 20 times stricter than that in the UK?
I just hate Toxicology project, it really ruined my new year mood! I have been sitting in front of my laptop for hours and yet couldn’t find anything useful for my project. Darn! DEADLY radiation pollution…
exposed to radiation @ 11:34 PM