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Nuclear industry can no longer hide radiation danger to workers

The “Silkwood Syndrome” of denial by employers and governments has dogged Australia since the 1950s….the nuclear industry must realise it risks embarrassment on a global scale should it persist in these tactics.

Things are always officially perfectly safe –  nuclearhistory « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 14 May 2010, ….In late July l996 the Australian Democrats raised the issue of radiological safety in the SA State Parliament.The Democrats report that workers employed at Roxby Downs were contaminated while performing nuclear duties in relation to radioactive waste owned by the Commonwealth.

On 2.8.96 the Adelaide Advertiser reported that the State Liberal Minister Stephen Baker told parliament that the contamination did not take place. Mr Baker further stated that uranium oxide is not radioactive.The “Silkwood Syndrome” of denial by employers and governments has dogged Australia since the 1950s

.Current events are proving that social isolation and its consequent political disenfranchisement remains a tool of the nuclear industry and its propagandists.However, given modern mass communication and alternative media the nuclear industry must realise it risks embarrassment on a global scale should it persist in these tactics……..nuclearhistory « Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog

May 14, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets and lies, South Australia | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, radiation, renewable, secrets and lies, South Australia