Government to Dispose of Radioactive Waste By Putting It In Our SILVERWARE
Jan 28, 2013 | Washington's Blog
Department of Energy Wants to Let Radioactive Scrap Metal Back into Consumer Products
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that any amount of radiation – no matter how small – can cause cancer and other serious health effects.
(Current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption that everyone
exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles
ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the
outside of the body. In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation
can cause cancer.
Moreover, small particles of radiation – called
“internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous
than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.)
But the Department of Energy – the agency which is responsible for the design, testing and production of all U.S. nuclear weapons, promotes nuclear energy as one of its core functions, which has been covering up nuclear accidents for decades, and has used mutant lines of human cells to promote voodoo, anti-scientific arguments – proposes letting radiation into our silverware.
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