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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...
...NYPIRG study indicates that hundreds of chemicals, many of them carcinogens, have been dumped into the Hudson for years. Normal water purification processes do little to filter these toxic chemicals, leaving them in drinking water. The study found traces of the harmful chemicals in household tap water. "Any amount of a carcinogen should be considered unsafe. We don't know what the threshold levels are," Hang said...
...have not provided evidence linking saccharin with bladder cancer, it must be rembered that heavy intake of this additive in diet drinks has only occurred in relatively recent years. In man, a latent period measured sometimes in years and sometimes in decades is often observed between exposure to a carcinogen and clinical evidence of cancer. In the case of cigarette smoking, its relation to lung cancer was established only after decades of exposure by human populations...
...even to the terminally ill, seems not only cruel but fundamentally contradictory. The nimblest Washington lawyers find it difficult to rationalize a ban on a substance that, in reasonable quantities, apparently can do no direct harm, while at the same time the Government permits the sale of a known carcinogen (cigarettes) and may soon revoke its ban on a suspected carcinogen (saccharin). Says the Food and Drug Administration's chief counsel, Richard Merrill: "It is hard to provide an appealing rebuttal in this case...
...seen lawyers, that unreasonable sentences have been imposed, that Gov. Thomson and the assistant attorney general have twisted the court system to make life difficult for us. Our central concern, however, continues to be nuclear power. The insanity of a national energy economy based on an incredibly toxic carcinogen, plutonium; the public's blindness to the incredible costs of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining to fuel fabrication to power reactors to reprocessing plants to waste storage; the deliberate suppression of alternate energy sources like wind and solar; a technology that even government sources admit is capable of accidents...