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Articles by the RPHP Board
Radioactive Fallout From Nuclear Testing and the Rise of Thyroid Cancer in the U.S.
Robert Alvarez
Institute for Policy Studies
Huffington Post,Thursday, October 14, 2010
According to a recent New York Times article, thyroid cancer in the U.S. has been on the rise for nearly 40 years. The long-standing explanation that this is due to better diagnostics is no longer accepted. This also means that the impacts of radioactive iodine fallout from nuclear weapons testing and Chernobyl cannot be so readily ruled out.
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Cancer -- The Number One Killer -- And Its Environmental Causes
Karl Grossman
Huffington Post, Tuesday, August 17
The World Health Organization projects that this year cancer will become the world's leading cause of death. Why the epidemic of cancer?
The cause of the cancer epidemic, as numerous studies have now documented, is largely environmental -- the result of toxic substances in the water we drink, the food we eat, the consumer products we use, the air we breathe. But there are powerful interests that profit from pollution and stifle effective governmental regulation.
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Chernobyl:The Gift That Never Stops Giving
Robert Alvarez
Institute for Policy Studies
Huffington Post,
August 13, 2010
We are now finding that threats to human health and the environment from the radioactive fallout of Chernobyl will persist for a very long time. There is an exclusionary zone near the reactor, roughly the size of Rhode Island (1000 sq kilometers), with such high levels of contamination that people are not supposed to live there for centuries to come. There are also "hot spots" throughout Russia, Poland Greece, Germany, Italy, UK, France, and Scandinavia where contaminated livestock and other foodstuff continue to be removed from human consumption.
Other examples of contamination abound. But true to form, governments with major nuclear programs or ambitions are silent and are encouraging the view that it's time we forget about Chernobyl.
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The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
Bob Alvarez
Institute for Policy Studies, Sunday, May 23, 2010
As a result of nuclear weapons testing, the people of the Marshall Islands had their homeland and health sacrificed for the national security interests of the United States. The Obama Administration and the U.S. Congress should promptly correct this injustice.
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The Chernobyl Catastrophe
An Atomic Credibility Gap Obama Goes Nuclear
Karl Grossman
Counterpunch, Wednesday February 17, 2010
Read Karl Grossman's important new piece about President Obama's stance on nuclear power.
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Nukes Aren't the Answer
Zealots of the Atom: The Nuclear Cult