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Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 35, Dated September 04, 2010 |
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Nuclear energy. Ministries warn they are far from ready
BY SANJANA
Nuclear
Liability no concern of the suppliers: The new nuclear regime
'IN THE final analysis, what is disturbing is the short shrift given to
assertions by officials in the ministries of water resources, health and
environment, which will be responsible for managing situations in the
eventuality of a nuclear accident — that their opinions were not
considered before the legislation was drafted. Consider this, even as
there is vocal opposition about the final liability amount, the
Environment Ministry official revealed to the Standing Committee that
there had been no attempt to even define the scope of what constitutes
environment — an integral requirement if environmental damage was under
discussion for assessment in case of disaster. Even more disturbingly,
the Health Ministry official told the Committee that her ministry is
“nowhere [ready] to meet an eventuality that may arise out of nuclear
and radiological emergencies”. Further, a poor response system and
ill-equipped hospitals would only ensure that “mortality and
morbidity... could be on a very high scale”. In fact, for a legislation
that claims to focus on payment of compensation due to health impacts of
radiation, there isn’t a single clause that details diseases or health
care!' "
1. Nuclear power programmes are not utilitarian. They are unacceptably dangerous.
Nuclear
power programmes the world over consume five or more times the energy
at the busbars that they deliver at the busbars during their entire
lifetime(1a). Thus it is shocking that nuclear energy is even an option
the
world over for meeting electricity needs. But even if it were conceded
that nukes can be, the safety is utterly and absolutely unacceptable.
Every nuclear reactor is, as time passes, an extinction level ongoing
event. On the basis of Indian census data and Sr90 artificial isotope
release data(UNSCEAR 2000) I have established that about 23 million
excess infant mortalities have resulted in India alone due to nuclear
activities during 1945 to 1997. All the variations of the excess infant
mortalities are explained by the variations from year to year of the 477
PBq Sr90 releases in the Northern Hemisphere. Sr90 releases from
Chernobyl was 8.14 PBq and this resulted according to my studies of
579200 infant mortalities excess in India alone(1c). Thus the 1200 PBq
estimated to have been released by the three nuclear explosions at
Fukushima from 11 March to 15 March 2011(1d) would estimate to 84
million infant mortalities in India in the years after Fukushima.
And more Fukushimas are certain because of the reason why Fukushima
catastrophe happened: A great earthquake of 9.0 MM magnitude, caused by
the surges unleashed by the dynamic disequilibrium forces of the world's
dams as they get rapidly filled up or drained.
More
earthquakes of major and great magnitude would unleash more FUkushimas.
And the planners will unleash more and more extinction level events by
commissioning more and more Kudankulams, Jaitapurs and what not some
even in the midst of cities! But energy shortages would forever continue
to the glee of Gillards, corporatocracies and PMs(1b).
2.High Atomic Number Uranium and Thorium enhance background gamma ray effect by several orders of magnitude and have resulted in human tragedies at Jaduguda and Kanyakumari.
A
long standing but ignored danger of perfect mass murder by nuclear
energy programmes the world over and in India in particular has come to
light with the award of the 2012 Nobel Peace Price(!) to the EU. The
EUropean Committee on Radiation Risk in its ECRR 2010 Health Risk
Recommendations regarding
Ionising Radiation(3) has brought out that heavy metals like Uranium
238(atomic number 92) and by implication Thorium 232(atomic number 90)
cause enhancement of background gamma radiation of 500 KeV or lower
energy by several orders of magnitude when lodged inside DNA. Thus
continuously secondary photoelectrons are emitted by the heavy metal and
these photoelectrons are like beta rays and hence highly effective in
breaking dna strands and causing irrepairable cell damages without
killing them. That is why we are seeing in Jaduguda(1) and in
Kanyakumari monazite area(2) families affected with deadly cancer, birth
defects, still births and ill health and cell damages in offspring.
These internal radiation damages were explained by invoking the ICRP
Recommendations based via witchcraft on external radiation model by the
government authorities, saying that these effects cannot be due to the
very low radiation of the radionuclides.
Even
now all this nuke liability will be explained away on the basis of
these false Risk Recommendations of ICRP where applicable even for
internal irradiation.
3.Incorporate ECRR 2010 into Indian Law forthwith.
It is now therefore
imperative to see the true risk of nuclear radiation by incorporating
ECRR 2010 Risk Recommendations into Indian Law and duly the nuke
liability must be revised in this light and suppliers made duly culpable
not only in the case of accidents but also during normal(sic)
operations.
References:
(1a) R. Ashok Kumar.2005.Energy audit of the Indian Nuclear Energy Programme
(1b)R. Ashok Kumar.2012. The nuclear effect in causing earthquakes and nuclear reactor consequences
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.in/2012/04/close-nukes-they-are-subject-to-beyond.html
(1c) R. Ashok Kumar. 2008. The Unacceptable Dangers of Nuclear Energy
http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.in/2008/01/unacceptable-dangers-of-nuclear-energy.html
(1d)
Paul C. Gailey.2012.Estimating the Potential Impact of Failure of the
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool:A Local Problem for Japan or a
Global Mega Crisis?
http://www.holophi.ch/resources/Holophi-Special-Report-on-Fukushima-SFP-4-r.pdf
(3) Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk.
http://www.euradcom.org/2011/ecrr2010.pdf
