Program Information

Session 4 : Radiation Reaches US

Series:

Medical & Ecological Conquences - Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown

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Program Type:

Action/Event

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Contributor:

Dale Lehman/WZRD Contact Contributor

Date Published:

May 19, 2013, 12:39 p.m.

Summary: Day 2 - Afternoon session continues examination of the Fukushima and Chernoble disasters as they relate to North America. In both the US and Japan allowable levels of radiation in food have been increased to protect commerce. The public has been presented with the "one size fits all" model for radiation induced harm yet research demonstrates that females are more vulnerable to low dose radiation damage. A mountain of high level radioactive waste continues to threaten the regions surrounding U.S. reactors where it is kept in vulnerable cooling pools with less than fool proof certainty that will remain isolated from humanity.

Credits: Helen Caldicott Foundation
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Union of Concerned Scientist
The New York Academy of Medicine

http://www.helencaldicottfoundation.org/symposium-update--online-archive-now-available-at-live-stream-link.html

Notes: Cindy Folkers, Beyond Nuclear,
Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring in the US

Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Services
Gender Matters in the Atomic Age

Kevin Kamps, Specialist in High Level Waste Management and Transportation, Beyond Nuclear.
Seventy Years of Radioactive Risks in Japan and America

David Freeman, Former Chair, Tennessee Valley Authority
My Experience with Nuclear Power

Herbert Abrams, Stanford University School of Medicine
The Hazards of Low Level Ionizing Radiation: Controversy and Evidence

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