Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment -- The Big Lies Fly High

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I believe Dr. Weightman of the IAEA is making a point at Fukushima Dai'ichi.

The Big Lies Fly High

Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment

By KARL GROSSMAN
CounterPunch
June 16, 2011

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Nearly 100 days after the Fukushima disaster began, with radiation still streaming from the plants, with its owners, TEPCO, now admitting that meltdowns did occur at its plants, that releases have been twice as much as it announced earlier, with deadly radioactivity from Fukushima spreading worldwide, and with some countries now changing course and saying no to nuclear power, while others stick with it, a nuclear crossroads has arrived.

“No health effects are expected among the Japanese people as a result of the events at Fukushima,” the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry trade group, flatly declared in a statement issued at a press conference in Washington last week.

“They’re lying,” says Dr. Janette Sherman, a toxicologist and contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: The Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment published by the New York Academy of Sciences in 2009. Using medical data from between 1986 and 2004, its authors, a team of European scientists, determines that 985,000 people died worldwide from the radioactivity discharged from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The Fukushima disaster will have a comparable toll, expects Dr. Sherman, who has conducted research into the consequences of radiation for decades. “People living closest to the plants who receive the biggest doses will get sick sooner. Those who are farther away and receive lesser doses will get sick at a slower rate,” she says.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/grossman06162011.html

Hey, Corporate McPravda! While you're all busy protecting your corporate owners through lies and ommissions, that report shows how a real journalist does it. Rather than protecting the profits of the well-off, Karl Grossman's working to warn the innocent and vulnerable.