20 Radioactive Dangers We All Face

1. Nuclear reactors crashing on Earth from space 
and fallout from:
2. Pacific nuclear testing
3. the Nevada Test Site
4. High-altitude nuclear tests 
5. Project Rulison
6. Mighty Oak nuclear test
7. North Korea's nuclear tests
8. Global nuclear testing
9.  'Project 57' (Area 13) 
10. Trinity, WSMR & Steel

11. Hanford & INL & LANL
12. Nuclear Power
13. DTRA's Divine Strake's babies 
14. Fallout resuspension: Milford Flat Fire 
15. Australia's fallout and duststorms
16. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
-and-
17. Low-level radiation impacted viruses
18. Radioactivity in drywall (dust) 
19. Nuclear waste transport
20. Greenham Common

       

Millstone Point Unit 1
Airborne releases  1973 1974 1975 1976
Total noble gases (Curies) 78,900 912,000 2,970,000 507,000

  

Source: Summary of Radioactivity Released in Effluents from Nuclear Power Plants From 1973 to 1976, December 1977, U.S. EPA-520/3-7-012

* In 1975, Millstone 1 also released 9.7 Curies of Iodine-131 and 17.2 Curies of Tritium.

Notes:  In the year 1975 alone, the Millstone 1 nuclear reactor released the highest ever recorded amounts of radioactivity in the history of nuclear energy (up to that time).  In the preceding year (1974), the total release from all U.S. reactors was about 6.5 million Curies!

Millstone's record-breaking contaminating year was soon trumped by a single incident - an accident - at Three Mile Island (TMI) that received international media attention.  In 1979, TMI released at least 13 million Curies of radioactive noble gases similar in nature to those gases released at Millstone.   In her book Nuclear Madness, Helen Caldicott notes that radioactive noble gases may pose an acute danger to downwinders if they are exposed to the clouds of gaseous radiation.  She writes that 'Although noble gases do not combine chemically in the body, they are absorbed by the lungs after inhalation' and emit gamma rays that, like X-rays, can damage reproductive organs.  Both TMI and Millstone released similar levels of harmful Iodine-131, which accumulates in local food chains and eventually pools into a person's thyroid where cancer may  be induced.   

Idealist's public document archives: 1. Documents 2. Documents

U.S. NUCLEAR tests: 128 A + 899 U in NV,
1 A in NM, 10 U (in NM, CO, AK, MS, central NV),
100+ A, U in Pacific, 3 A in S. Atlantic
(A=aboveground; U=Underground)


'The greatest irony of our atmospheric nuclear testing program is that 
 the only victims of U.S. nuclear arms since World War II have been our own people.' 
- Forgotten Guinea Pigs Report, 1980

In 1986, the U.S. Dept. of Energy used the cover of the Chernobyl fallout cloud over the United States to release huge amounts of radiation into the air from a failed underground Nevada nuclear test. It was called Mighty Oak.

Did global fallout cause massive mutations that may explain disorders like autism?

learn more on our global fallout page

 

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