Shusli took me to a "Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement" comment session at the Double Tree Red Lion yesterday night. It was comment on closing and cleaning Hanford while the state of Washington Governor, Christine Gregoire, supports transporting more waste to the nuclear reservation in Washington.
Transporting it, however, causes many health risks. Hundreds, ANNUALLY, can get cancer and die just from being along the transport route. Environmental damage? ABSOLUTELY!
It was sad to hear from a few down winders who had got cancer because of the PURPOSEFUL radiation releases from Hanford to measure the health effects on folk. Here are a couple of websites to do further research:
Hanford Watch
Physicians for Social Responsiblity
When I was a kid in grade school, we watched numerous times throughout my educational career a film about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I was told in school that Russians performed all sorts of experiments on its own people using radiation. I was told that the U.S. did not do such things.
When I got older was when I learned about the purposeful releasing of radiation in the '50's at Hanford. I also watched videos and documentaries showing U.S. soldiers at a nuclear bomb test as they were exposed to radiation. Shusli and I watched a video a few years back about the Bikini Atoll testing that went on in '46, where U.S. naval personell were sent to ground zero after the first bomb within 10 hours and within 24 hours after the second one. One fella who was there was interviewed and he had so much horrific cancer running throughout his body it was horrific.
I have to get going, otherwise I would do more research on this, but the transport of nuclear waste has to be stopped and we need to get back our tax dollars from those billionaire bankers and start funding science to figure out what to do with this or, possibly, how to neutralize it.
You can send comments to:
Tank Closure and Waste management Environmental Statement
Mary Beth Burandt, Document Manager
Office of River Protection
U.S. Department of Energy
TC & WMEIS
P.O. Box 1178
Rutland, Washington 99352
or e-mail @:
TC&WMEIS@saic.com
or fax:
1-888-785-2865
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I attended one of these public outrage meetings at Hood River a few years back. It was sad to hear all the stories of cancers and other maladies that are afflicting the people of this area. Throughout the years, the Hanford PR machine has gotten very touchy, feely at these meetings. They used to blame the victims. The only thing more polished than the pr gang of many, are their polished lies and more lies.
ReplyDeleteOn my first trip to the Hanford Reservation, I was passing through the Federal Building and the subsequent screening. I felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up, I slowly turned my head, my eyes gazed upon the source, the two supersized faces of Cheney and Bush hanging on the walls. Two faces of evil.
I will always cherish my memories of standing atop the Rattlesnake Ridge, looking eastward to where the "Wana"(the big river--now sadly called the Columbia), flows around a bend, and I listened to Yakama Tribal elder Russell Jim, recite our oral history about how our young warriors who wanted to ride with one of our most revered warrior at thst time, had to run across the plateau, all the way to the river, where they could drink the cold, clean waters of the Wana and then run back to the ridge. If PGE isn't spewing pollution from their coal fired plant, you can see that this was quite a distance.
Here is a great link of Russell talking about some little known facts about Hanford. Thankfully, someone uploaded it to the web. He told me some amazing things about Hanford. It could be a horror movie.
Sheila
Sorry, here is the link:
ReplyDeletehttp://videos.apnicommunity.com/Video,Item,989791817.html
Titled: Nuclear Attack on the Yakama Nation
Sadly, Russell now is battling thyroid cancer.
Sheila