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lix Z is the atomic number, that is, the number of protons in the nucleus (defined in Chapter 2). lx A is the mass number, that is, the sum of protons and neutrons in the nucleus (defined in Chapter 2). lxi For long, Bismuth (Z=83) was regarded as stable, till in 2003 it was demonstrated that it was radioactive with a half life of 19 x 1018 years, that is, over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe. Due to its extraordinarily long half-life, for nearly all applications Bismuth can be treated as if it is stable and non-radioactive. lxii Information for this section is taken from Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 2006, Chapter 3, and also from a wide variety of sources easily available on the Internet; also see S. Shawky, “Depleted uranium: an overview of its properties and health effects”, March 2002, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, http://www.emro.who.int/Publications lxiii For more such quotes, see: “Radiation – No safe dose”, The Alliance for Clean Environment, http://www.acereport.org lxiv Interview of Dr. Hofman, published in a publication of the University of California: “The Health Effects of Radiation: There is no safe threshold", John Gofman interview, Synapse, June 1994, http://www.mindfully.org lxv Dr. Karl Morgan's article in the September 1978 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cited in: “Radiation – No safe dose”, The Alliance for Clean Environment, http://www.acereport.org lxvi “Radiation – No safe dose”, The Alliance for Clean Environment, http://www.acereport.org lxvii From a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in May 1998: E. G. Wright, et.al., “Chromosomal instability in the descendants of unirradiated surviving cells after a-particle irradiation”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, May 1998, http://www.pnas.org lxviii “US Radiation Panel Recognizes No Safe Radiation Dose”, Washington, DC July, 2005, http://www.nirs.org/radiation lxix Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 44-45. lxx R Deolalikar, “Safety in nuclear power plants in India”, 2008, http://www.ijoem.com lxxi Peter Eyre, “Part 2: Uranium Weapons - Does anyone care about our planet?” http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions lxxii Even Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam gives this argument: “Address at the Launch of Paryavaran Mitra Programme of Centre for Environment Education”, Pune, Dec 26 2010, http://www.abdulkalam.com lxxiii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op.cit., p. 44. lxxiv Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 46. lxxv Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 48-51; Chip Ward, “Big Bad Boom: Radioactive Déjà Vu in the American West”, June 19, 2008, TomDispatch.com; Peter Diehl, “Uranium Mining and Milling Wastes: An Introduction”, http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwai.html lxxvi Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 48. lxxvii Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 48-51; Chip Ward, “Big Bad Boom: Radioactive Déjà Vu in the American West”, June 19, 2008, TomDispatch.com; Peter Diehl, “Uranium Mining and Milling Wastes: An Introduction”, http://www.wise-uranium.org/uwai.html lxxviii Material for this section, unless otherwise mentioned, taken from Peter Diehl, ibid.; Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 50. lxxix “Navajos: recalling disaster, forging a green future”, July 27, 2009, MAC: Mines and Communities, http://www.minesandcommunities.org lxxx Peter Diehl, “Uranium Mining in Europe: The Impacts on Man and Environment”, Chapter 3, http://www10.antenna.nl/wise lxxxi “Uranium Waste Pile Makes Colorado River Most Endangered”, Washington, DC, April 14, 2004, http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2004; “Decommissioning of Moab, Utah, Uranium Mill Tailings”, http://www.wise-uranium.org/udmoa.html lxxxii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 51- 53. lxxxiii “Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ignores Depleted Uranium Risks, Votes to Ignore Sound Science, Its Own Prior Analysis, and Radiological Safety”, Press Release, IEER, March 18, 2009, http://www.ieer.org; also Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 51. lxxxiv “Cogéma's Depleted Uranium Storage Project (France)”, http://www.wise-uranium.org/ediss.html lxxxv Thomas D. Williams “The Depleted Uranium Threat”, Aug 13, 2008, www.truthout.org; Peter Eyre, “Israeli Use of Depleted Uranium on Gaza Residents”, Aug 15, 2009, http://ccun.org lxxxvi Arun Shrivastava, “Depleted Uranium is "blowing in the wind"”, Global Research, March 2, 2006, http://www.globalresearch.ca 182
lxxxvii Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, “Iraq: 'Special Weapons' Have a Fallout on Babies”, Global Research, June 13, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca lxxxviii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., p. 54. lxxxix Annie Makhijani and Arjun Makhijani, “Radioactive Rivers and Rain: Routine Releases of Tritiated Water From Nuclear Power Plants”, Science for Democratic Action, August 2009, IEER publication, http://www.ieer.org xc Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 54, 59. xci Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 54, 59. xcii Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 54, 55. xciii Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 55. xciv Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 56. xcv Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 62-64; “What are the Health Risks of Living Near a Nuclear Power Plant?”, SEED Coalition, http://www.nukefreetexas.org xcvi “Radioactive Waste and Pollution”, Riverkeeper, http://www.riverkeeper.org xcvii Victoria Cho, “How Safe Is Our Seafood?”, Aug 31, 2010, http://ecohearth.com xcviii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 56- 57; Annie Makhijani and Arjun Makhijani, “Radioactive Rivers and Rain: Routine Releases of Tritiated Water From Nuclear Power Plants”, op. cit. xcix Helen Caldicott, ibid., pp. 56-57. c Annie Makhijani and Arjun Makhijani, “Radioactive Rivers and Rain: Routine Releases of Tritiated Water From Nuclear Power Plants”, op. cit. ci Cited in: “Nuclear Energy is Dirty Energy”, NIRS Briefing Paper, Jan 25, 2011, http://www.nirs.org cii Helen Caldicott, op. cit., pp. 58-59. ciii Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 59. civ Victoria Cho, “How Safe Is Our Seafood?”, Aug 31, 2010, http://ecohearth.com cv Baker PJ, Hoel D., “Meta-analysis of standardized incidence and mortality rates of childhood leukaemia in proximity to nuclear facilities”, European Journal of Cancer Care, pp. 355-363, July 2007, cited in: M. V. Ramana, “Nuclear Power: Economic, Safety, Health, and Environmental Issues of Near-Term Technologies ”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2009; also cited in “Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities”, http://www.eurekalert.org cvi Spix C, Schmiedel S, Kaatsch P, Schulze-Rath R, Blettner M., “Case-control study on childhood cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants in Germany 1980–2003”, European Journal of Cancer Care, pp. 275–84, 2008, cited in: M. V. Ramana, “Nuclear Power: Economic, Safety, Health, and Environmental Issues of Near- Term Technologies ”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2009; paper also available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov cvii Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., p. 60. cviii Poornima Gupta, “U.S. needs fresh look at nuclear waste issue: Chu”, Mar 5, 2010, http://www.reuters.com cix Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., p. 60. cx “Reprocessing”, June 27, 2006, http://www.greenpeace.org cxi Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 61-62. cxii Helen Caldicott, ibid., p. 109. cxiii David Biello “Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Trash Heap Deadly for 250,000 Years or a Renewable Energy Source?”, Scientific American, January 28, 2009, http://www.scientificamerican.com cxiv Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., pp. 107-114; Steve Tetreault, “Federal panel to examine nuclear waste storage”, Las Vegas Review Journal, Jan 30, 2010, http://www.lvrj.com; Channing Turner, “Liability for Scrapping Yucca Mountain Could Run In the Billions”, July 27, 2010, http://www.mainjustice.com cxv “German Nuclear Storage Facility Hit by Safety Scandal”, Sept 4, 2008, http://www.dw-world.de; James Owen, “Photos: Leaking Nuclear Waste Fills Former Salt Mine”, July 8, 2010, http://news.nationalgeographic.com; “Germany must rethink its permanent nuclear storage”, Sept 3, 2008, http://www.thelocal.de cxvi Frank von Hippel, Editor, “ The Uncertain Future of Nuclear Energy”, Research report of: International Panel on Fissile Materials, Sept 2010, www.fissilematerials.org, p. 53. cxvii “Reprocessing and Nuclear Waste”, Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2009, http://www.ucsusa.org cxviii Cited in Frank von Hippel, Editor, “ The Uncertain Future of Nuclear Energy”, op. cit., p. 19. cxix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Economics cxx “Reprocessing”, Greenpeace, June 27, 2006, http://www.greenpeace.org cxxi Ibid. 183
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