Tag: radiation sickness

San Onofre Nuke Plan, nuclear dangers, ocean health
Collamer, Nuclear, Oceans

Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer

While large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison’s artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?

Environmental Health

Danger and Risk from Nuclear Fission Products

Some believe low, cumulative doses of radiation from dietary exposures are one-hundred to one-thousand times more dangerous than brief, high exposures as in the case of atomic bomb blasts or x-rays. It is known, in fact, that exposure to nuclear fission products impair the body’s defenses against cancer by depleting it of protective enzymes such as superoxide dismutase.