Word: caldicott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average nuclear reactor produces 400 to 500 pounds of plutonium a year. One pound, distributed evenly through the atmosphere, is enough to give every person on earth lung cancer for so goes the estimate of Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of Nuclear Madness and an anti-nuclear activist). One-millionth of a gram of plutonium constitutes a carcinogen dose. That's just one of the dangers when reactors operate "safely." Since at Three Mile Island, the public has learned that far more dangerous accidents will happen, and the anti-nuclear movement has been swelling...
Speakers at the conference included local, national and international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these...
...Caldicott, who now lives in the United States, emphasized the inability of technology to destroy, safely and adequately, dangerous nuclear wastes. The man-made element plutonium is a particular danger since it is both a carcinogen and a key component in nuclear weapons. She said in her speech, sponsored by Natural Sciences 150, "The Biology of Cancer...
...mere miracle that we're still here." Caldicott said, adding "We are right now the curators of life on earth because we can destroy the world with nuclear...
After describing the probable effects of radiation on the world after a nuclear war, Caldicott warned that "the scenario would be left to the hands of human mutants...