Maralinga atomic veterans join British class action
It is a race against time as applications have to be lodged before a legal deadline of May 2010
CLASS ACTION BY NUCLEAR VETERANS HEADED BY SYDNEY LEGAL TEAM – NO WIN NO FEE December 31, 2009 by Coober Pedy Regional Times Surviving Australian veterans of the British nuclear tests at Maralinga, Monte Bello Island and Christmas Island in the 1950s and 60s are joining British and other nuclear veterans in taking the British government to court in what could be one of the most significant compensation cases in legal history. Continue reading
Need for media coverage of medical radiation risks
Let’s hope the media gives this as much attention as they do with their traditionally disproportionate reporting on a given test’s benefits.
Radiation from CT scans increases the risk of cancer | KevinMD.com 29 Dec 09 The Archives of Internal Medicine recently released a study concluding that “roughly 72 million CT scans performed in the U.S. in 2007 will ultimately cause some 29,000 cases of cancer.”
That’s an attention grabber.It was found that the amount of radiation given off by CT scans can vary by a factor of ten, based on the model of the scanner itself and the hospital the test was performed in. That makes it difficult to truly estimate a patient’s exposure.
Extrapolating their model to CT-angiography, a controversial heart scan that gaining popularity, it’s estimated that “one in 270 women who [receive the study] at age 40 will develop cancer as a result of the scan, and one in 600 men.”That’s a huge number, and one that warrants discussion whenever the test is being considered. Let’s hope the media gives this as much attention as they do with their traditionally disproportionate reporting on a given test’s benefits.
Radiation from CT scans increases the risk of cancer | KevinMD.com
Nuclear facilities: the terrorists’ dream target
Bad enough that the uranium/nuclear lobby are spruiking their products to Australia. But as well, we have the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) suggesting that Australia might need nuclear weapons, too!
Not a mention in all their worthy documents of a fact (one that “blind Freddy”, every intelligent housewife, and even a cat looking at the Authorities might think of):
Every nuclear facility is a dream-built target for terrorists. Australia has just one little foot in the nuclear door – and that has already been targeted once.
Nuclear weapons option to go back on the table?
Australian report canvasses nuclear weapons option World Socialist Website By Mike Head 30 December 2009 An Australian government-funded military policy think tank issued a report this month advocating a policy shift to re-open the option of building a nuclear arsenal Continue reading
What about the radiation risks of airport scanning?
“I’ve read nothing about the accumulated radiation risk. Will pregnant women be forced to submit? What about women who aren’t certain that they’re pregnant?
Getting X-Rayed at the Airport: Radiation Risk Anyone? Huffington Post Carol Felsenthal December 30, 2009 I read in both Chicago dailies and the New York Times and Wall Street Journal much about the full-body scanners that seem destined for airports around the world– in hopes that they might prevent another near miss like the Christmas Day attempt by the young Nigerian to blow a hole in the side of the Amsterdam to Detroit airplane. Continue reading
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