Bad nuke accident in Idaho
Nuclear power is perfectly safe -- until it isn't. Now up to 16 workers have inhaled plutonium over at the federal nuke lab (and atom bomb factory) in Idaho. That's a major safety breach.
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Pray for those workers -- their probability of premature death from lung cancer just sky-rocketed.
Meanwhile, in Japan the avaricious nuclear merchant-maniacs jabber on:
Japanese Pro-Nuke Scientists: "Plutonium is Not That Dangerous"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTNKFHQexSI
(click on "cc" button to show English subtitles).
A quote from that video:
"So, if you compare the toxicity, plutonium, when ingested, is not very different from salt."
Tadashi Narabayashi, Professor in Engineering, at Hokkaido University (in TV Asahi "Sunday Scramble" on Apr. 3, 2011).
Posted by Mojo | November 10, 2011 6:46 PM