Health Impacts
Trinity fallout hit 46 states, Mexico, Canada
New research, conducted by Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, finds that Trinity atomic fallout reached 46 states, Mexico and Canada within 10 days of detonation in 1945. The hourly reconstruction of blast fallout shows that it was much larger than anticipated and the radioactive mushroom cloud traveled higher in the atmosphere than…
Read More“Zero trust”: St. Louis nuclear coverups
A Freedom of Information Act Request regarding Manhattan Project and Cold War radioactive contamination at numerous sites across the St. Louis region garnered some 15,000 pages of documents. A collaboration between AP, MuckRock, and Missouri Independent analyzed them, resulting in major coverage. Disregard for worker and public health by officials at the Atomic Energy Commission,…
Read MoreNew Mexico: Radioactive catastrophe commemorations
Beyond Nuclear was honored to participate in both the Church Rock uranium spill (July 16, 1979) and Trinity atomic bomb blast (July 16, 1945) commemorations last weekend in New Mexico. At the Red Water Pond Road Community on the Church Rock Chapter of the Navajo/Diné Nation, Beyond Nuclear joined many other groups in co-sponsoring, and…
Read MoreOppenheimer’s bomb: Health impacts continue
At some New Mexico Oppenheimer screenings, a 15-second advertisement will precede the movie. “Oppenheimer’s bomb led to decades of nuclear testing across the Southwest,” it says. “Communities still suffer health impacts related to the tests, many without government recognition or justice.” The ad is intended to point out that, for those who actually live in…
Read MoreQuestions linger as EU lifts curbs on Japanese food imports
In a quid-pro-quo, the EU agreed to lift Japanese food restrictions, initially instituted in the wake of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. The EU is hoping Japan reciprocates by easing controls of its own on EU farm goods. The timing is suspicious, given Japan’s threat to release radioactively contaminated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear…
Read MoreThe baloney about bananas
We often hear those in the business of pro-nuclear propaganda claiming that living around a nuclear power plant is less harmful than eating bananas — which contain a version of radioactive potassium (K-40). At the same time, nuclear advocates assert that releasing tritium (radioactive hydrogen) into the environment is harmless to human health. But this…
Read MoreWatch Tritium Truths: Facts vs. Deceptions
Given the plans to dump tritium into Cape Cod Bay from Pilgrim, the dumping of tritium from Indian Point into the Hudson, the history of batch releases and leaks from Braidwood, the proposed release from Los Alamos, and the plan to dump the Fukushima tritiated water into the Pacific, we have put together a short…
Read MoreExploring Tritium Dangers
Exploring Tritium Dangers: Health and Ecosystem Risks of Internally Incorporated Radionuclides, by Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., uses the tritium pollutant, which forms radioactive water, to illustrate the risks of taking any radioisotope into the human body. Tritium easily crosses the placenta (the book makes clear it is not the only radioisotope that does so) and can…
Read MoreFukushima dumping threat makes U.S. groups ask FDA for tighter food standards
As Japan prepares to release 1.3 million tons of Fukushima radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an increasing number of countries continue to voice strong opposition. A report released Monday by Fukushima operator, TEPCO, showed that fish caught off the harbor at Fukushima contained 180 times the level allowed in Japan of radioactive…
Read MoreFukushima fish too radioactive for human consumption
According to a report issued on Monday by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), operator of the catastrophically ruined Fukushima nuclear reactors, “fish caught in the harbor of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan far exceed safety levels for human consumption.” The content of cesium 137, a radioactive isotope that is a common byproduct…
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