Fukushima Drawfs Chernobyl

Dr. Helen Caldicott Japan 'Disaster Can Dwarf Chernobyl Disaster

'One millionth of a gram of plutonium ingested causes cancer.' Fukushima 3 is leaking plutonium

· Smoke has been reported rising from the Fukushima unit number 3. If it's from fuel-cooling pools that contain plutonium, that's a major (to put it mildly) disaster.
· one millionth of a gram of plutonium ingested causes cancer.

· Geiger counter radiation levels have been reassuring for the West Coast of North America. But the real question for public health is "internal emitters" (e.g. Strontium attached to bone) -- that cause cancer and gene mutations -- versus external radiation measurements that cannot discern isotopes.

· Long lived isotopes versus quickly degrading ones: the big question for our gene pool.
· Fuel-cooling pools pose a far worse threat than reactors. In the U.S. the fuel pools are not backed up with cooling systems!

· A large part of Japan is damaged permanently.