Articles by Helen Caldicott
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Fukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad
Michael Welch, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and Arnie Gundersen – Global Research,
25 Mar 2019
As of November 2018, 18,434 people are known to have died from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and the follow-up tsunami which struck the nuclear facility. When the generators failed, three units experienced catastrophic meltdowns. Radioactive water has for years now been draining into the Pacific Ocean. Toxic debris spewed into the Earth’s atmosphere. More than 73,000 people remain evacuated and fully 3,600 die from causes like illness and suicide linked to the aftermath of the event.
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Helen Caldicott on Our Denial of the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon
Mark Karlin interviews Helen Caldicott | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
29 Nov 2017 – Donald Trump’s vow to increase and “upgrade” the United States nuclear arsenal, tensions between the US and North Korea, and the unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make it clear we still need to be concerned about this apocalyptic danger. Since the corporate media give short shrift to the peril of nuclear weapons, most world residents are unaware of how close we are to nuclear annihilation.
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Dr Helen Caldicott – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
How can Japanese Prime Minister Abe possibly say that Tokyo will be safe for the Olympics? He actually said that “there is absolutely no problem” and “the situation is under control.” Does he not understand that parts of Tokyo are already radioactively contaminated and that his government is dumping ashes from the incineration of thousands of tons of radioactive debris from the tsunami and earthquake into Tokyo Bay? Is this what the athletes will be swimming in?
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Helen Caldicott – The New York Times,
12 Dec 2011
Children are innately sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation, fetuses even more so. Like Chernobyl, the accident at Fukushima is of global proportions. Unusual levels of radiation have been discovered in British Columbia, along the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and in Europe, and heavy contamination has been found in oceanic waters.
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Dr. Helen Caldicott – Global Research,
16 May 2011
Japan is by orders of magnitude many times worse than Chernobyl. Never in my life did I think that six nuclear reactors would be at risk. I knew that three GE engineers who helped design these Mark I GE reactors, resigned because they knew they were dangerous. So Japan built them on an earthquake fault.
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Helen Caldicott – The Guardian,
18 Apr 2011
George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy.
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Dr Helen Caldicott,
20 Oct 2009
Jennifer Nordstrom, co-ordinator of the Carbon-Free Nuclear-Free project has noted “Telling states to build new nuclear plants to combat global warming is like telling a patient to smoke to lose weight.” A recent study sponsored by the German government (the KiKK study – Kaatsch P, Spix C, Schultze-Rath R, et al. Leukemia in young children […]
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