Day 2 - Morning session on comprehensive research regarding effects and the levels of radiation exposure that protect industry but not the public and especially the fetus. Research on mutations and fetal death from contaminated food and cultural practice. Explanation of the assumptions built into the Hiroshima Long Term Survivors Study and the resultant underestimation of harm to humans. Analysis of the existential threat to the United States from the highly radioactive waste fuel stored in lightly constructed sheds at all reactor sites in the U.S. The potential for runaway fire due to coolant loss or an explosion event due to storage density is proportional to the extent that safety measures are suppressed for to increase corporate profits.
See speaker topics in program notes. Video archive of presentations available at: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf#
Helen Caldicott Foundation Physicians for Social Responsibility Union of Concerned Scientist The New York Academy of Medicine
Session Chair: Andrew Kanter, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Alexey Yablokov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Lessons from Chernobyl A free PDF of Chernobyl : Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment available at: http://nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/read-or-download--chernobyl--consequences-of-the-catastrophe-for-people-and-the-environment-for-free.html
Wladimir Wertelecki, Former Chair, Department of Medical Genetics University South Alabama Congenital Malformations in Rivne, Polossia Associated with the Chernobyl Accident
Ian Fairlie, Radiation Biologist and Independent Consultant The Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima: Nuclear Source Terms, Initial Health Effects
Steve Wing, Gillings School of Public Health, University North Carolina Epidemiological Studies of Radiation Releases from Nuclear Facilities: Lessons Past and Present
Joe Mangano, Radiation and Public Health Project, Post Fukushima Increases in Newborn Hypothyroidism on the West Coast of USA
Robert Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies, Management of Spent Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste
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March 12, 2013
The New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, NY
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