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DOE’s Letter of Concern About BEIR 7 Report
(July 15, 2005) “..between the BEIR 5 Report of 1990 and last year, new and exciting biological research has been published demonstrating that cell in tissues respond very differently to radiation than isolated cells in culture and that cellural responses to low doses of radiation are very different from responses to high doses of radiation.” Continue reading
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DOE’s letter of concern about BEIR 7 report
(Jul. 15, 2005) “..between the BEIR 5 Report of 1990 and last year, new and exciting biological research has been published demonstrating that cell in tissues respond very differently to radiation than isolated cells in culture and that cellural responses to low doses of radiation are very different from responses to high doses of radiation.” Continue reading
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Small and smart
(July 13, 2005) The recent increases in prices for various forms of energy – as typified by soaring gas prices and dire warnings about shortages of electricity – are not being tackled with any great success by the politicians and industrialists of the world. Continue reading
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Persistent, stealthy nuclear PR
(June 8, 2005) The letter “Getting figures wrong: U.N. monitoring committee sees no rise in number of birth defects or leukemia, only in thyroid cancer” published June 6th, was authored by a nuclear industry employee, Andrew Daley. Unfortunately, Mr. Daley failed to identify his affiliation when attempting to argue that the Chernobyl accident only caused 1,800 extra cancers thus far. Continue reading
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Nuclear shipyard worker study (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation
(June 2, 2005) A summary of the 1991 Final Report of the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study (NSWS), a very comprehensive study of occupational radiation exposure in the US. The NSWS compared three cohorts: a high-dose cohort of 27,872 nuclear workers, a low dose cohort of 10,348 workers, and a control cohort of 32,510 unexposed shipyard workers. Continue reading
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Nuclear shipyard worker study (1980–1988): a large cohort exposed to low-dose-rate gamma radiation
(Jun. 2, 2005) Information from the unpublished 1991 Final Report of the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study (NSWS). The NSWS is the world’s largest and most thorough study of health effects of low-dose- rate ionising radiation to nuclear workers. Continue reading
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Canada’s nuclear waste still a problem
(May 30, 2005) The Globe’s editorial “How to deal safely with nuclear waste” May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power’s problems solved. Continue reading
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Canada’s nuclear waste still a problem
(May 30, 2005) The Globe’s editorial “How to deal safely with nuclear waste” May 26, is overly hasty in declaring nuclear power’s problems solved. Continue reading
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What happened to my electricity bill?
(May 11, 2005) The results of this study were discussed in “Distribution adds the shock to electricity bills in Ontario” by Eric Reguly, published by the Globe and Mail on April 5, 2005. Mr. Reguly’s write-up led to an exchange of correspondence between a representative of the Ontario Energy Board and Energy Probe. Continue reading
Losing power
(April 15, 2005) Federal taxpayers are on the verge of acquiring a new and potentially massive burden – paying electricity bills for consumers in provinces with the country’s most mismanaged power systems. Continue reading
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