Nicole Foss on Fukushima

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[Starving Steve]

Re: Nicole Foss on Fukushima

If this fear-mongerer were right, I should be blind now because all through my childhood I stared into the face of my radium wrist-watch at night to see beautiful illumination of the dial and hands. Let's follow her logic: Radium is a highly energetic producer of radiation because it emits alpha particles which are helium nuclei. So these particles should have destroyed my eyes, both because the particles are ionizing and also because the particles have a large kenetic energy due to their mass.

And the result was after sixty-two years of life that I see better at night now than most cats. The radium watch pressed into my eyes did no damage to my eyes whatsoever, and it might even have helped them to develop a keen night vision.

Another point that I note is that she dismisses the growing body of evidence that radiation is beneficial to human health. She calls it spin by FOX News..... But Dr. S.M. Javed Mortazavi's study of the people of Ramsar, Iran who are exposed to a background radiation of 132mSv/year from the Ra 226 in their drinking water is rather convincing. So is the evidence now coming in from the people eating mushrooms and berries and root vegetables grown in the soil around the Chernobyl melt-down. And I don't work for FOX News; I am unemployed, retired, and starving on dividend income... So why would I spin anything?

It is now time to question the fear-mongers, like Nicole Foss above.

I want nuclear power to be the salvation of the free world. I don't want the free world to be buying oil from the Middle-East at these prices, forever.... So, I speak-up and speak loudly against the eco-frauds. As far as FOX News is concerned, I don't listen to FOX News anymore than I listen to BBC News these days for my news.

My only financial interest in atomic power is some shares in GE which I hold. These have performed very poorly as an investment. I also hold Duke Power shares, and these have been a good investment for me. Both companies pay a dividend.

Finally, there is no disposal problem with nuclear power's fission products. My offer to bury atomic waste from reactors into the granite under my home stands as current. That would give me a good job in my old age, and some decent income to live on! If British Columbia would drill the tunnel under my house, maybe I could turn the toxic waste dump into a cafe.

The waste heat from the toxic waste could heat my cafe, and it could also heat my home. The entire subdivision here could be heated by this waste heat, and that is no joke.

[mooncliff]

Re: Nicole Foss on Fukushima

Listen to BBC Radio programs regarding Fukushima.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/material

Japan Nuclear Power Crisis
Thu, 17 Mar 11
In this week’s programme, Material World examines and explains the science behind the nuclear power plant crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. Quentin talks to Professor Andrew Sherry, Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute, about the science and engineering of nuclear power stations. Professor Richard Wakeford explains what radiation is and its effects. Professor Geraldine Thomas, Chair in Molecular Pathology, Imperial College London, explains the health effects of exposure to radiation. Malcolm Grimston, expert on nuclear energy technology and policy from Chatham House discusses what went wrong in Japan and implications and lessons for elsewhere.

Thu, 24 Mar 11
Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and behind the headlines. He talks to Professor Robin Grimes, the Director of the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College, London about the latest developments at the Fukushima nuclear plant. We speak to an ornithologist who is battling to save penguins in one of the remotest parts of the world - the islands of Tristan da Cunha - following an oil spill. Also on the programme; can Hollywood put real science into the movies and the latest in sport engineering and how it can lead to gold medals.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/material

[Starving Steve]

Re: Nicole Foss on Fukushima

So-called, "experts" from Dalton Nuclear Institute? Another "expert" on nuclear energy and policy from Chatham House? This kind of reminds me of another instant "expert" in the recent AGW fraud from Mid-Tennessee College.

Why wouldn't BBC contact Dr. Bill Wattenburg from the University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley to talk to an expert on atomic power and nuclear engineering? What does Dr. Wattenburg have to say about the future of atomic power?