25,000 MEGATONS

Using AEC documents it can be shown that:

Fallout was not deposited into the biosphere uniformly. Local and distant fallout has differing characteristics and concentrations. Local hotspots: the test sites and down wind tracts suffered higher fallout concentrations. Local hotspots produced a threat to health not reflected in the assumptions behind the “average” exposure.

Strontium 90 is a long range hazard. Project Sunshine ignored immediate hazards and was solely a long range predictive study which was therefore used to falsely find a “safe” methodology which could be used to decieve people into accepting routine detonation of nuclear weapons either in war or in nuclear testing.

This same false premise is used today in order to falsely claim the safety of operating nuclear reactors.

Radioactive Strontium did not exist in the biosphere before 1945.

Natural Strontium is not radioactive.

Pecher (1939) found that Strontium is used by the bodies of all mammals including humans as a substitute for calcium. The uptake of strontium is therefore, he found, related to the amount of calcium found in the local diet. The more deficient in dietary calcium a population’s diet, the more radiostrontium from nuclear weapons that population would absorb.

AEC documents reveal that it was known that the bulk of the Soviet population had a diet comparatively deficient in calcium compared to that of white America.

Various populations – mainly the indigenous Aboriginal peoples of the world – had a comparatively calcium deficient diet also.

For the purpose of studying Projects Gabriel and Sunshine, these native peoples throughout the world may be considered to be, from the point of view of war planners, expedient “proxy” Soviets for the purposes of predictiting the enhanced take of radio strontium. The radioisotopes of concern include the highly radioactive short lived isotopes of Strontium such as Strontium 89, as well as the longer lived isotopes of Strontium such as Strontium 90. Strontium 90 is far far less radioactive than Strontium 89.

Natives peoples such as the Australian Aboriginal people and Native Americans lived adjacent to and down wind from nuclear test sites.

Although intense studies were made of strontium 90 in crops, animals and food consumed by white populations, no study was made of the native diets at the time in either the USA or Australia.

A compounding problem was the admission, in secret documents, that the measured fallout within the United States was incorrect. This was because the sticky paper method of fallout particle collection was inadequate. Up to half the fallout which landed on the sticky paper fell off before it was measured. The officials knew this and did not correct the readings. The official readings for fallout in the United States remain under estimated by 50%.

Australia had 28 fallout monitoring stations during the era of British test here. These used the same method of fallout collection as the United States. The monitoring stations were reactivated in the 70s during the French South Pacific Tests.

Nuclear veterans returned to civilian life after being exposed to gamma and neutron bursts and local fallout from the bombs. Upon their return they continued to be exposed to fallout like everyone else. However, their previously accumulated doses and body burdens were and remain much higher than everyone else’s.

The role of milk as a means of minimising radio strontium uptake was first identified in dietary studies performed by Pecher, Berkeley, 1939 – 41.

In that era world wide and local fallout not contaminated the milk supply.

Prior to 1945 no populate had radioactive strontium in their bones and other tissues (calcium is present in the brain, bones, nerves (calcium is an import ion used in the transmission of nerve impulses). It is present in the placenta, the fetus and the breast of all species of mammals including humans.

Radio strontium was transported to the fetus and infant not just by cow’s milk, but by the human placenta and human breast milk.

All mammals today have radio stronium in our bones.

This is just one radioisotope.

There are over 250 others.

All of them are produced by reactors. Those which are the decay products of gaseous primary fission products (for example Krypton) vent from the reactor containment and quickly deposit in the biosphere.

I was almost 1 month old when the AEC meeting of August 1953 took place. It would be another 2 months before the Totem 1 blast took place in October at Emu Junction in South Australia. Lallie and her family had little time left to live unassailed by the deceptions and suppression which allowed British fallout in Australila to ungulf them and scar them.

Authorities may never admit to the true number of people they killed. Australia claimed 7 at first, on the basis of epidemiological studies. This was later revised upward to 35. Being population studies, it is impossible to know the names of the killed.

Sound fantastic? Consider the statements of Minister Michael Wooldridge
who stated that nuclear testing had “harmed people”.

Who were they? How many were they? Did they ever recieve justice?

LIkewise, it is impossible to know the names of the people afflicted by disease due to (supposedly) civil nuclear industry. Noone knows their names. They therefore cannot be given justice. Claimants are routinely refused acknowledgement and on the basis of assurances dating from the 1950s it is falsely assumed that reactors are safe and clean.

They are not.

Noone knows how many reactors and how many reactor years of operation and radioactive venting will result in the emissions of radiostrontium equivalent to 25,000 megatons of bombs.

If anyone does, they aint telling us.

Anyway, how many bombs do you reckon it is safe to detonate either on ourselves or our enemies?

And how many reactors do you reckon the planet can sustain before the emissions from them shorten lives and kill?

There is a scientific basis to the opposition to nuclear power. At the present state of the nuclear debate in Australia, we had better hurry up and learn what it is.