Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and the Perils of Nuclear Power

Earth Focus: Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott discusses with Earth Focus correspondent Miles Benson what the Fukushima disaster really means for the health and future of the people of Japan. Dr. Caldicott also explains the links between nuclear power and public health in the United States and Europe. Dr. Caldicott received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School. In 1977, she joined the staff of Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston and taught pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1978. She served as President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating others on the dangers of nuclear energy from 1978-1983. She also worked to establish similar groups focused on education about the risks of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. One such group, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She is the author of seven books including: Nuclear Madness (1979); Missile Envy (1984); If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth (1992 and 2009); The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military Industrial Complex (2001 and 2004) and Nuclear Power is Not the Answer to Global Warming or Anything Else (2006). The Smithsonian Institution named Dr. Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th century.

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[BlueMagicEarth]

I don't know why people still want to prove it wrong without offering relevant sources. She's right.

[telemetry9]

helen is a grand and beautiful lady isn't she?

we need a few more like her.

[mphello]

@dsatnik BRAVO! Excellent! Well said!

[mphello]

@d2099y Except when an accident occurs and forces taxpayers to pay for cleaning up the mess. That's why no private insurance company insures nuclear plants.

It's entirely government-subsidized, forcing the taxpayers to pay for it.

And no women were ever "pressured" to have an abortion.

It is good that they did, for a host of OTHER reasons.

Their kids would be forced to starve and go homeless.

[mphello]

@EschatologyGal True. But miserably. Let's perform surgery on you without the benefit of electricity to monitor the anesthesia, lights, etc - i.e. let's perform surgery on you without anesthesia.

[EschatologyGal]

@mphello People lived thousands of years WITHOUT electricity.

[EschatologyGal]

@joel1923 Fifteen

[mphello]

Ok Caldicott 11m17s: suppose you've got your informed democracy, but suppose 50.01% of them, or 99.9% of them, or even all of them (except you) still want nuclear power? Suppose they think dying by cancer is better than dying from a lack of electricity. What then? (Of course, this would have to be a really dumb population that didn't believe in wind and solar power.) You NEVER offer ANY solutions to ANYTHING. You're definitely not an engineer or a politician or even a TRUE activist.

[mphello]

4m6s Even if there were no ill effects from radiation, it is THIS fact alone: the free subsidies for nukes - that enrages me the most and is cause enough to shut them all down. And, yes, even Caldicott should not be believed point-blank (re: the ill-health effects) without criticism - I have NOT read and her work - IF I were to make policy on nuclear power, obviously then I should.

[thumbs1964]

A EVIL NUCLEAR POWER=1200

A EXTINCTION EVENT=1200

GEORGIA GUIDE STONES=1200

KYOTO PROTOCOL=1200

AS ELITES HATE HUMANS=1200

AS CFR IMF MANDATED EVIL O=1200

ENGLISH BASE 6 GEMATRIA

A=6, B=12, C=18 ETC..