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madokie

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1. This disaster is a never ending one
Fri Feb 14, 2014, 06:30 AM
Feb 2014

or it seems that way anyway. The only reason it is not seen as the worst nuclear disaster in the world is because of lies by TEPCO, hiding the truth by the Japan Government and its close proximity to the ocean and the fact that the prevailing winds there are blowing out to the sea. Other than those things most people in the world would be up in arms over this. IMO

Its the lies that will doom the nuclear power industry. The lie that it would be cheap, the lie that it safe. Just because it takes a long time for radiation to manifest in cancers is all it takes for the industry to say that no one or very few have been killed by nuclear energy. funny thing is the cancer rate throughout the world seems to be increasing all the time. As a kid it was rare to know of someone who died from cancer but today its not so much at all. I know there is a lot of poisons out there that can be the cause but I also know that exposure to radiation does too.

I have health issues that the doctor would like to keep a closer eye on but due to the dangers of the many scans it would take we can't do that so we have to go on hopes and wishes. So don't tell me that exposure to radiation is safe.

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