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    Nuclear power plants and 
    iodine tablets 
    For risks and side effects ask your physician 
    or read... 
    
    Attention: 
    The translations on this 
    page had not been completed and verified. Please refer to 
    the  German 
    original. |  
    
    
    Package insert for nuclear power ...
      
    
 
 
      
  
  
    | Author: Wolfgang Rehfus
 Date: 12.11.2004
  German 
    original | 
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    Radioactivity in a nuclear power plant 
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    No protection by iodine tablets 
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    Risks and side effects of nuclear power plants 
     ●  
    Safe protection by renewable energies
 
     ●  
    Medical memorandum for the industrial use of nuclear 
    energy (summary) 
     ●  
    Appendix: Open letter at government (Bundesrat) and 
    parliament 
    (energy 
    regulation EnV: Package insert for nuclear power) 
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    Radioactivity | 
          
    
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    »The quantity of radioactivity, 
    which is present in a reactor, is larger than the quantity of radioactivity 
    spread by a nuclear bomb - significantly larger.« 
    (Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, nuclear physicist) 1) 
     
    »A reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt 
    nuclear explosion.« 
    (Prof. Dr. Richard L. Garwin, nuclear physicist) 2) 
    This amount 
    of radioactivity is equivalent with 1460 nuclear bombs the size of 
    Hiroshima (12.5 kt) for each nuclear reactor in each year! 3) | 
    1) see
    "Ärztliches Memorandum zur industriellen Nutzung der Atomenergie", 
    Dr. med. Max Otto Bruker u.a.
 2) see 
    
    Prof. Dr. 
    Richard L. Garwin (nuclear physicist), «Can the World Do Without Nuclear 
    Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?»,  
    Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001 (see 
    copy page 5
  ) 
 3) see
    
    Hiroshima Atombombe à 12.5 kt (Copy
  ), 
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, 
    1985 Nobel Peace Prize) 
 see also
    Glaubhafte 
    Friedenspolitik erfordert Verzicht auf Atomenergie!, Offener Brief an Bundespräsident 
    Köhler in Deutschland, SolarPeace.org, 24.5.2005
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    Iodine tablets | 
    
     
     
    
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    Iodine tablets do not protect against a 
    country-wide radioactive contamination. 
         
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    No protection by iodine tablets 
    
    In Switzerland iodine tablets (potassium 
    iodide tablets) are distributed to the population in the periphery of 20 
    kilometers around the 5 Swiss nuclear power plants. These iodine tablets are 
    to protect the population in the case of a radioactive accident in a nuclear 
    power plant against thyroid cancer, not however against other 
    radiation damages. 4) 
    But the radioactivity from 
     
    nuclear power plants does not stop at these 20-kilometer-borders. What is 
    with the remaining population? Also the iodine tablets offer expressly no 
    protection against radioactive radiation, which affects the body from 
    outside.  
    
    Therefore Iodine tablets certainly 
    cannot protect against a country-wide radioactive contamination! 
     
    The Swissmedic writes under 
    'correct behavior in an emergency' that the remaining population is 
    usually not concerned, and as 'background information': "Potassium 
    iodide tablets prevent that radioactive iodine, which is taken up over the 
    respiratory system, 
    enriches itself in the thyroid. The 
    potassium iodide tablets offer however no general protection against 
    radiation, which affects the body from outside. Therefore in the 
    event of an endangerment by radioactivity the house 
    inside and/or a cellar or a shelter must be 
    visited. The protection of the thyroid with 
    potassium iodides is considered as a safe and 
    harmless measure."  
    5)
 "No general protection against radiation" is thus 
    according to Swissmedic
    a safe measure. And in 
    the shelter prescribed
    in addition to the 
    iodine tablets there (hopefully) is anyway no radioactive iodine, which 
    could be taken up over the respiratory system, otherwise it
    would be no shelter?
 
    The potassium iodide 
    tablets are thus more than a rough mischief and a playing down of the actual 
    dangers by nuclear power plants! 
    On the risks and side 
    effects of iodine for the human organism mostly one does not report. 
    Artificially supplied iodine in the nutrition increases the 
    Nitrosaminbildung for example by at least 
    the 6-fold, and increases thereby in principle the risk for cancer. Iodine 
    is enriched not only in the thyroid, but 
    also in other organs, e.g. in salivary glands, stomach, 
    Laktierenden chest glands, Placenta, plexus 
    chorioideus, skin. 6) | 
    
    4) vgl.
    
    Pressemitteilung, Swissmedic, 29.10.2004
 vgl. das Kapitel 'Jod, Strontium, Krypton und Plutonium' in: 
    
    Ärztliches Memorandum zur industriellen Nutzung der Atomenergie, 
    Dr. med. Max Otto Bruker u.a.
 
 
 5) vgl. www.kaliumiodid.ch,  ATAG Wirtschaftsorganisationen AG (im 
    Auftrag der Swissmedic, Schweizerisches Heilmittelinstitut)
 
 vgl. auch
    
    "AKW-Lobby befürchtet Imageschaden", "Die Direktion des Atomkraftwerkes 
    Gösgen lässt verlauten, sogar eine Vorverteilung im kleinen Kreise sei 
    wissenschaftlich unnötig und imageschädigend! Sie bittet darum, mit dem 
    Neuverteilen der Tabletten sei zuzuwarten bis nach den energiepolitischen 
    Abstimmungen. Der Bundesrat hat dieser Bitte entsprochen.",
    zitiert aus: "Kaliumiodid: (k)ein Thema vor der Strom ohne Atom-Abstimmung?", Greenpeace, 9.2.2003;
 vgl. hierzu
    Die 
    Natur gewinnt immer!, SolarPeace.org, 18.8.2003
 
 
 6) vgl. 
    www.jod-kritik.de und die dort angegebenen Links, z.B.:
    
    Krebskrank durch Jod?, Dagmar Braunschweig-Pauli, BALANCE® 4/2000 und 
    Der Jod-Krimi, Dr. med. M.O. Bruker und Ilse Gutjahr, BALANCE® 1/2000
 
 vgl. "Ab einem Alter von 45 ist nach Angaben der Experten die Gefahr einer 
    Schilddrüsenüberfunktion größer als das Risiko von Schilddrüsenkrebs, so 
    dass dieser Personenkreis keine Jodtabletten benötige.",
    Jodsättigung der Schilddrüsen für den Super-GAU
  aus: 'Krankmacher Jod - Die Chronik eines Jahrhundertskandals', Dagmar Braunschweig-Pauli, 
    2002, ISBN 3-927124-40-0 
 vgl. Krank durch Jod auch 
    in der Schweiz!, Selbsthilfegruppe
 Jod Krank Schweiz
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    Nuclear 
    power | 
     
     
    
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    Nuclear energy is for reasons of economy, security, 
    neutrality, ecology and health no option of the future power supply.
 
 Further information:
 
 "Atomenergie - Kalkulierte Menschenopfer" in
    Grün gewinnt - Die letzte Ölkrise und danach, Dr. Rudolf Rechsteiner
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    Risks and side effects of nuclear 
    power plants 
    Perhaps it is good on the occasion of these 
    ordered iodine tablets, if we recall into our minds the complete problem of 
    nuclear power plants: 
     
      
    
    Billions 
    at subsidies and state privileges are the causes that nuclear energy is 
    sold very favourably, in reality however it is by far the most expensive 
    form of energy and damages our national economy. 7)
 Nuclear power costs 3 CHF/kWh or 2 
    Euro/kWh (without subsidies and state privileges). Today solar 
    electricity costs approx. 1 CHF/kWh (without subsidies) and is thereby 66 % 
    more favourably than nuclear power. 8)
    
    A 
    GAU 
    (largest accident which can be foreseen) leads to a country-wide 
    radioactive contamination. Artificially calculated probabilities are 
    perfectly irrelevant with such risks! The Federal Office for civil defense 
    and the Federal Office for energy (BfE) calculate for a core melt-through 
    accident damage costs from 4'200 to 4'300 billion CHF. 9) 
    
      
    
    The 
    appraisal of the German society for reactor safety (GRS) to the terror 
    dangers for nuclear power plants 
    resulted in that "the purposeful crash of an airplane can lead for each 
    German nuclear power plant to a 
    Super-GAU." 
    This applies to all 
    nuclear 
    power plants and surely not only to "purposeful" airplane crashes. 
    10) 
    
    Nuclear 
    power plants make neutrality impossible, as uranium, the raw material 
    for nuclear energy, is 100% imported and it becomes increasingly difficult 
    to distinguish between "peaceful" and military usages of nuclear energy. The 
    countries, which strive for nuclear weapons, try this over the bridge of 
    nuclear energy. With the further spreading of nuclear energy the danger of 
    spreading nuclear weapons and the propagation of nuclear terrorism grows. 11) 
    
    
    Today the 
    nuclear energy has a portion of the primary energy consumption of the world 
    from far under ten per cent. If we would aim at a world-wide portion of 
    forty per cent of primary energy from nuclear power stations, the uranium 
    supplies would be exhausted within 10 years. Contrary to the 
    fossil energy raw materials a gap between mining quantities and consumption 
    already exists with uranium for several years. With recent numbers 
    from the International Energy Agency in Paris (IEA) with 
    40% primary energy from nuclear power plants the uranium supplies became 
    even just enough for only 5 years. 12) 
    
    The 
    radioactive nuclear waste
    radiates for many 1'000 years, cannot not be eliminated, is 
    high-grade carcinogenic and poisonous. Nuclear 
    waste is an unsolvable problem and last but not least also an economical and 
    an irresponsible mortgage to coming generations. Since only 0.1 % of the 
    fuel material in the reactor is converted into energy, thus 99.9 % remain as 
    radioactive nuclear waste, nuclear reactors 
    produce inconceivable quantities of nuclear waste 
    each day. 13) 
    
 "Radioactive waste is the most dangerous waste product of 
    the industrial society, and the most long-living inheritance of our 
    civilization. In each phase of the nuclear cycle radioactive waste is 
    produced - with the exploitation of uranium, with the enterprise of nuclear 
    power plants and during the reprocessing. The Swiss nuclear power plant in 
    Leibstadt alone produces 300'000 tons radiating ore each year. During the 
    reprocessing the high-dangerous plutonium is separated and further 
    nuclear waste is created." 14)
    
    The 
    medical effects of the nuclear power plants are nearly unknown in the 
    public. That shows also an example in Germany, in which scientists of the 
    federal state government accuse "masking". 
    The majority of the professional commission in Schleswig Holstein to find 
    the cause of the leukaemia illnesses explained its resignation. Children 
    continue to get sick remarkably frequently with leukaemia around the 
    nuclear power plants in Geesthacht. 15)
    
 Dr. med. Max-Otto Bruker together with the nuclear 
    physicists  Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl Bechert and Prof. Dr. C. F. von 
    Weizsäcker had provided the "Medical memorandum for the industrial use of 
    nuclear energy". The summary version published below is completely quoted 
    from it. 18)
 
 Also the report ECRR 2003 of the 'European Committee on Radiation Risk' 
    states firmly that "It is not possible accurately to determine ‘radiation dose to
    populations’." and comes to the conclusion: "Nuclear 
    power is a costly way of producing energy when human health deficits are 
    included in the overall assessment."  16)
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    7) 
        "BfE: 
        Atomenergie schadet der Schweizer Volkswirtschaft", SolarPeace.org, 
        29.4.2003
 vgl.
    115 Mrd. Subventionen und Staatsprivilegien
  , 
    Solar Agentur Schweiz, 2003 
 
    
    8)
    "Die AKW Begeisterung steckt tief im Kühlturm"  
    
 , 3.3.2000,
    CASH; und die dort 
    zitierte Studie "Privatisierung der 
    KKW-Haftung in der BRD", Gutachten der Regierung Kohl (CDU/CSU/FDP), Sept. 
    1992 
 vgl. 
    CDAK-Grundsatzpapier, CHRISTLICHE DEMOKRATEN GEGEN ATOMKRAFT (CDAK), 
    BUNDESVERBAND CDU/CSU - Mitglieder für die Überwindung der Kernenergie, 
    17.05.2005
 
 vgl.
    
    "Atomstrom würde 5 CHF/kWh kosten ...", Greenpeace, 24.5.2005
 
 
 9) vgl.
    Inefffizienz, Marktverzerrung und 4'300 Milliarden Franken Risikokosten 
    durch Atomenergie.
  in der Studie "Verbesserte Deckung des Nuklearrisikos 
    - zu welchen Bedingungen?", 
    Bundesamt für Energie (Dezember 2000) 
 vgl.
    
    Ein neues Atomkraftwerk für die Schweiz?, "... Bei zwei Euroreaktoren à 
    1600 MW ist das im Jahr die Radioaktivität von 3200 Hiroshima Bomben.", 
    Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND) e.V., 21.2.2007
 
 see »A reactor in one day produces as much radioactivity as a 50-kt 
    nuclear explosion.«,
    Prof. Dr. 
    Richard L. Garwin (Atomphysiker), «Can the World Do Without Nuclear 
    Power? Can the World Live With Nuclear Power?», Nuclear Control Institute, 9.4.2001 (see 
    copy page 5
  ) 
 Note: this corresponds to annually 1460 
    Hiroshima Atombomben 
    à 12.5 kt (Copy
  ), 
    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, 
    1985 Nobel Peace Prize) 
 vgl.
    
    "Super-GAU-Risiko in Europa: 16 Prozent", Internationale Ärzte
    für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges
    Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW), 2005, vgl.
    
    Poster im 
    "Nuclear 
    Power Fact File""Nuclear 
    Power Fact File"
 
 vgl. „Das zentrale Sicherheitssystem hat nicht funktioniert“,
    
    Schwere Panne in bulgarischem Kernkraftwerk und "Das Risiko für 
    Reaktorkatastrophen ist weit höher, als die Betreiber behaupten",
    
    In letzter Minute, Der Tagesspiegel, 23.04.2006; vgl. auch:
    
    Kein Tschernobyl in Bulgarien!
 
 
 10) vgl. Kapitel
    "Sicherheit" der Studie "Chancen für unsere Zukunft", SolarPeace.org, 14.11.2003
 
 vgl.
    
    Sicherheit von Atomkraftwerken bei Erdbeben, Schweizerischer 
    Nationalrat, 02.10.2006
 
 
 11) vgl. Kapitel
    "Neutralität" der Studie "Chancen für unsere Zukunft", SolarPeace.org, 14.11.2003
 
 vgl.
    
    "Erneuerbare Energien statt Atomenergie"
  , 
    Gemeinnützige Europäische Vereinigung für erneuerbare Energien e.V.
    
    EuroSolar, 2004 
 
 12) 
    Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH, Rubrik 'Uran: Kernenergie und Kernfusion'.
 
 vgl. "Die 
    Prognosen des Weltenergierats sind eindeutig: Das  Uran reicht 60 Jahre", Dr. Franz Alt, 
    2001
 
 vgl.
    
    "Nur 3,3% der weltweit verbrauchten Energie stammen aus den 440 
    Atomkraftwerken", Internationale Energieagentur in Paris,
    IEA, 01.07.2005; vgl. auch
    
    Die Träume der Atomlobby, Dr. Franz Alt, 2004
 
 vgl. auch
    "Versorgungslücke und Prognosen (Erdöl, Erdgas, Uran)" in der 
    Studie "Chancen für unsere Zukunft", SolarPeace.org, 14.11.2003
 
 
 13) vgl. die Kapitel 'Die Halbwertszeit' und 'Der 
    Atommüll' in: 
    Ärztliches Memorandum zur industriellen Nutzung der Atomenergie, 
    Dr. med. Max Otto Bruker u.a.
 
 vgl.
    
    "Yucca Mountain, USA", CBS NEWS, 25.7.2004
 
 vgl.
    
    Problem Atommüll weltweit ungelöst, Internationales Endlager Symposium, 
    Greenpeace 10.11.2002
 
 
 14) vgl.
    
    Hunderttausend Jahre lang, Greenpeace, 27.11.2000
 
 
 15) vgl.
    
    Leukämie bei AKW: Wissenschaftler werfen Landesregierung „Verschleierung“ 
    vor., Prof. Dr. Otmar Wassermann u.a., 15.9.2004;
    
    "Abschlussbericht der Fachkomission zur Leukämie-Häufung bei Kindern" im 
    Artikel "Sind Waffentests Ursache für Leukämie bei Kindern in der 
    Elbmarsch?", Zeit-Fragen Nr.43, 8.11.2004
 
 vgl.
    
    Gutachten: Folgen Tschernobyls unterschätzt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6.4.2006; 
    vgl. auch
    
    Tschernobyl, der Krebs und die widersprüchlichen Todeszahlen, 8.4.2006
 
 vgl.
    
    "US-Regierung fürchtet Schadenersatzforderungen (Radiojod und 
    Schilddrüsenkrebs)" im Artikel: "Klärung von Gesundheitsfolgen des Tschernobyl-Unfalls stösst auf Widerstand", Zeit-Fragen Nr.8, 1.3.2004
 
 vgl.
    
    ".. stieg die Krebsrate um 20 Prozent", Journal of Epidemology and 
    Community Health, 26.11.2004
 
 vgl.
    
    "Wie hoch ist Krebsbelastung durch Atomkraftwerke (AKW) im Normalbetrieb?", 
    Kinderkrebsregister der Universität Mainz u.a., 19.01.2003
 
 vgl.  
    Atomenergie und Gesundheit, Internationale Ärzte
    für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges
    Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW), vgl. auch
    
    "Gesundheitliche Folgen von Tschernobyl - 20 Jahre nach der 
    Reaktorkatastrophe", Studie von IPPNW und Gesellschaft für 
    Strahlenschutz
 
 vgl. auch 
    "Die Verharmlosung der atomaren Niedrigstrahlung" 
    (Dr. Rosalie Bertell, USA)
 
 vgl.
    
    Atomreaktoren schädigen Volksgesundheit, Bericht zur Studie von Prof. 
    Dr. Sternglass, Universität Pittsburgh USA, 20.7.2006
 
 vgl.
    
    Strahlung und die Wirkung auf Menschen, ICRP (International Commission 
    on Radiological Protection) und Bundesumweltministerium, 20.6.2007
 
 
 16) 
    ECRR 2003 - Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, 
    Brussels 2003; vgl.  die Kernaussagen aus diesem Bericht weiter unten bei Quellenangabe 16.
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    Protection | 
    
     
     
    
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    Opportunities for our Future
 
    The significance of national renewable 
    energies
 
    
     
    
    SolarPeace.org 
      
      | 
    Safe protection by 
    renewable energies 
    All these risks and side 
    effects of nuclear power plants (apart from the radioactive waste already 
    existing) can be easily avoided, if the use of nuclear energy is terminated 
    as fast as possible.   
    There are sufficient alternative potentials by 
    safe renewable energies (sun, water, wind, biomass/gas, geothermal) 
    including the necessary technologies and financial means. 17) 
     
    The significance of 
    national renewable energies in the full context of 
    peace, economics, security, neutrality and ecology is published with 
    complete source data on
    www.SolarPeace.org.    | 
    17) vgl. "Ersatz-Potential 
    für 15 Atomkraftwerke" 
    
 , 'Energie&Umwelt', 1/03 
 und
    
    
    
    Potenziale der rationellen Elektrizitätsverwendung und der 
    Elektrizitätserzeugung aus erneuerbaren Energien
  , 
    Bundesamt für Energie (BfE), 
    30.1.2003 
 vgl.
    Vorhandene 
    Technologien, mögliche Finanzmittel, zielgerichtete Massnahmen im 
    Beitrag "sun21: Bundesrätin Calmy-Rey spricht zu
 Frieden durch saubere Energie - statt Krieg um Öl", SolarPeace.org,
    5.5.2004
 
 vgl.
    
    "Ein Drittel des Atomausstiegs ist bereits geschafft", 
    29.4.2005
 und
 Obrigheim - Magazin zum Abschalten
   sowie
 "Atomkraft: Auslaufmodell der Energieverschwendung",  
    Bundesumweltministerium Deutschland anlässlich Tschernobyl-Jahrestag am 
    26.04.2005
 
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    Health | 
    
     
     
    
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    | The 
    medical and ecological view does not permit any other judgement, than to 
    describe the operation of nuclear power plants as irresponsibly.    
    Further information:
 "Die 
    Folgen von Tschernobyl - Ein Überblick", Internationale Ärzte für die 
    Verhütung des Atomkrieges Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW)
 
 "Gesundheitliche 
    Folgen von Tschernobyl - 20 Jahre nach der Reaktorkatastrophe", Studie 
    von IPPNW und Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz, 06.04.2006
 
 "Verschlußsache Tschernobyl - Die geheimen Dokumente aus dem Kreml - Unsere 
    Kinder sterben. Helft uns!", Alla Jaroshinskaja, 376 Seiten, 16 Fotos 
    und 40 Dokumente, ISBN 3-86163-062-1, 21.4.2006
 
 "Atomenergie - Kalkulierte Menschenopfer" in
    Grün gewinnt - Die letzte Ölkrise und danach, Dr. Rudolf Rechsteiner
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    Medical memorandum for the industrial use of nuclear energy 
    
     
    Completely quoted summary version  18) 
    
    »For the 
    evaluation of the health and life threat by the operation of nuclear power 
    plants only physicians, biologists and ecologists are competent and nobody 
    else. Since the nuclear bomb everyone knows that nuclear fission is 
    afflicted with high risks for the health. Already during the normal 
    operation an emission of firm and gaseous radionuclides into the environment 
    can not be prevented despite adherence to strictest safety precautions 
    (therefore tolerances).  
    
    In alive organisms 
    the effect of ionizing rays begins with the primary procedure of the 
    energieabsorption within the atomic and molecular range. Secondary reactions 
    follow, which are in the beginning of simple chemical nature, soon however 
    reach into the range of complicated metabolic reactions. Primary event and 
    following radiochemical secondary sequences lead to two types of radiation 
    damage: The change of cell structures and changes of the cellular 
    metabolism. "What do you prefer: To save 
    energy and use solar power, resulting in fewer cancer patients as well as 
    genetic disorders, or to use nuclear power?" (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl Bechert, 
    
    nuclear physicist) The radiation dose 
    form nuclear power plants is compared by the proponents of nuclear power 
    plants again and again with the natural base radiation, in order to pay down 
    the dangers. This comparison is from the scientific point of view untenable 
    and misleading, because with the cosmic radiation it predominantly 
    concerns radiation, with which no radioactive substances are incorporated. 
    With the natural base radiation also radioactive substances, e.g. C 14, are 
    involved; the substantial difference in relation to the emissions from 
    nuclear reactors consists however of the fact that it concerns 
    with the latter radioactive substances, which are completely new. 
    Their general effect, which exists in the production of somatic and genetic 
    damages, is well-known, however the specific effects of the numerous 
    isotopes will not be sufficiently investigated for a long time. Particularly 
    for the long-term and late effects still no experiences can be present, 
    since the contamination with the substances from the artificial nuclear 
    fission takes place only since relatively short time.   During the 
    irradiation of a human with the maximally permitted dose it would to be 
    expected that one human out of ten would get a cancer of the lungs. There 
    are up to now no safe data, from which a smallest dose of plutonium 239 
    arises, below which no generation of cancer is possible.    "There is no proof for the fact 
    that there is a safe tolerance limit for the radiation."
 (Radiation laboratory in Livermore / 
    California)   The damaging effect 
    of even smallest doses is summed up during long periods. In the medicine one 
    uses irradiation in individual cases purposefully. Nuclear industry causes 
    completely unaimed effects, before which no organism on earth is safe. Only 
    0.1 % of the fuel material in the reactor is converted into energy, 99.9 % 
    remain as high-radioactive nuclear waste. There is no possibility of 
    destroying radioactivity.   "We do not want to perish in a 
    nuclear disaster, we do not want that our descendants curse us, because we 
    did not offer resistance to the nuclear insanity!"  (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl Bechert, 
    
    nuclear physicist) In summary it must 
    be stated that above all increasing hereditary defects is to be expected as 
    consequence of the radioactive contamination. The medical and ecological 
    view does not permit any other judgement, than to describe the operation of 
    nuclear power plants considering today's conditions of science and 
    technology as irresponsibly. The largest accident (GAU), which can be 
    accepted, which will allegedly never occur, became reality in the nuclear 
    reactor of Tschernobyl. The disaster proved the dangers.« Dr. med. 
    M. 0. Bruker
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    18) vgl. 
    Ärztliches Memorandum zur industriellen Nutzung der Atomenergie, 
    Dr. med. Max Otto Bruker, emu-Verlag, 5. Auflage (ISBN 3-89189-015-X, 
    Copyright emu Verlags- und Vertriebs-GmbH). 
 vgl. auch 
    "Die Verharmlosung der atomaren Niedrigstrahlung" (Dr. Rosalie Bertell, 
    USA)
 
    see also
    Radiation and Health
    
    
     , Dr. Bill Williams, 
    energyscience.org.au, Nov 2006 
 vgl. auch 
    "Was tun bei Gift-Alarm? - Im Notfall fliehen?", Konradin Kreuzer (dipl. 
    Ing. Chem. ETH)
 
 vgl. auch
    ECRR 2003 - Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, 
    'The Health Effects of Ionising Radiation Exposure at Low Doses and Low 
    Dose Rates for Radiation Protection Purposes', 
    Brussels 2003, ISBN 1-897761-24-4; 
    Hier einige Kernaussagen:
 
    ● "...
    UN Declaration of Human Rights should be applied to thequestion of avoidable radiation exposures ...."
 
    ●
    "... the smallest <radioactive> dose has a finite, 
    if small, probability of fatal harm."
 ● "It is not possible accurately to determine ‘radiation 
    dose to
 populations’... "
 
    ●
    "... each exposure should be addressed in terms of its 
    effects at the cell or molecular level."
 ● "... recommends 
    caution in attempting to gauge the effects of novel exposures by comparison 
    with exposures to natural radiation."
 
    ●
    "Comparisons between external and internal radiation 
    exposures may also result in underestimates of risk since the effects at the 
    cell level may be quantitatively very different." 
    ● 
    "... physical models of 
    radiation action cannot take precedence over epidemiological studies of 
    exposed populations." 
    ● 
    "... very little is known 
    about the mechanisms leading from cell impact to clinical disease." 
    ● 
    "... health effects 
    relative to the radiation dose are proportionately higher at low doses 
    ..." 
    ● 
    "... unequivocal 
    evidence of harm from internal irradiation at low dose." 
    ● 
    "... the present cancer 
    epidemic is a consequence ... and that more recent releases of 
    radioisotopes to the environment from the operation of the nuclear fuel 
    cycle will result in significant increases in cancer and other types of 
    ill health." 
    ● 
    "... the total number of 
    deaths resulting from the nuclear project since 1945. ... 61,600,000 
    deaths from cancer, 1,600,000 infant deaths and 1,900,000 foetal deaths. 
    ... 10% loss of life quality integrated over all diseases..." 
    ●
    "... nuclear power is a costly way of producing 
    energy when human health deficits are included in the overall assessment."  |  
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    The government (Bundesrat) is committed to 
    the long-term well-being of the entire population and the entire national 
    economy.
    20) | 
    Appendix: Open letter at government 
    (Bundesrat) and parliament 19) 
    
    (package 
    insert for nuclear power - revised energy regulation EnV)
 
    Kilchberg, 26. November 2004
 
 
    Nuclear power plants and iodine 
    tablets
 For risks and side effects ask your 
    physician or read...
 
    
    Very honoured Bundeskanzlerin,
 Very honoured Bundesrätin,
 Very honoured Upper and Lower House of Parliament
 
    Each also still so harmless 
    medicine has a package insert to risk and side effects, and each 
    advertisement must refer to it. Each patient can individually decide, 
    whether he takes the medicine and if side effects occur, then only this 
    patient is concerned. 
    With nuclear power plants and nuclear power there is no 
    package insert to risks and side effects and the population is still not 
    completely informed about risks and side effects. The risks and side effects 
    concern the entire population every day, including the owner of a solar 
    house, who does not consume nuclear power. Since the risks and side effects 
    of nuclear power plants contain the radioactive contamination of the entire 
    country, artificially calculated probabilities are perfectly irrelevant! 
    Therefore no insurance is ready to take this risk. But the population is 
    forced to carry this risk each day. "Nuclear industry 
    causes completely unaimed effects, before which no organism on earth is safe"  (Dr. med. Max Otto Bruker) Together 
    with this letter you receive the package insert for risks and side effects 
    of nuclear power plants and nuclear power. I would like to suggest that 
    this package insert is attached to all supplies of nuclear power in the 
    future and that each advertisement for nuclear power refers to it. Thus 
    the primary goal of the power marking in the revised energy regulation (EnV) 
    becomes - "the protection and the transparent information of consumers" - 
    consistently is put in place.  
    21) 
     This 
    open letter at government (Bundesrat) and parliament of Switzerland is 
    published on www.SolarPeace.org as 
    appendix to the current contribution "Nuclear power plants and iodine 
    tablets" together with further information, the complete
    "Medical memorandum for the industrial use of 
    nuclear energy" and all source data. For your valued answer I 
    thank you very cordially in advance. I wish 
    you a Merry Christmas time and the strength in the coming year to take the 
    necessary energy-political decisions.  
    22) 
     Yours 
    sincerely
 Wolfgang Rehfus
 www.SolarPeace.org
 
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    19)
    Der Originalbrief an Bundesrat und Parlament der Schweiz ...
      
    
 , SolarPeace.org, 
    26.11.2004 und die Beilagen: ●   
    
    
    Package insert for nuclear power ...
  ●   
    SolarPeace Flyer
  
 
 
 
 
 20) vgl.   
    
    Offener Brief an den Schweizerischen Bundesrat zur Verkehrs- und 
    Energiepolitik!,  SolarPeace.org, 
    28.1.2004
 
 vgl.
    "sun21: Pegasus erhebt sich aus dem Wasserschloss", Offener 
    Brief an Bundesrat und Parlament der Schweiz, SolarPeace.org, 28.6.2004
 
 vgl.
    "Hat 
    "Fahrenheit 9/11" Konsequenzen für die Schweiz?", Offener Brief an 
    Bundesrat und Parlament der Schweiz, SolarPeace.org, 30.8.2004
 
 
 
 
 
 21) Revidierte Energieverordnung (EnV): "Die primären 
    Ziele der Stromkennzeichnung sind der Schutz und die transparente 
    Information der Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten.", 
    
    "Herkunft des Stroms wird künftig deklariert", UVEK Eidgenössisches 
    Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie, Kommunikation, Bundesamt für 
    Energie, 10.11.2004
 
 
 
 
 
 22)
    vgl.
    Vorhandene 
    Technologien, mögliche Finanzmittel, zielgerichtete Massnahmen im 
    Beitrag "sun21: Bundesrätin Calmy-Rey spricht zu
 Frieden durch saubere Energie - statt Krieg um Öl", SolarPeace.org,
    5.5.2004
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    | Please 
    tell others ... | P.S. 
    
     
    Please pass these information via E-Mail, SMS, 
    copied, by telephone or verbally over to business 
    partners, customers, 
    guests, members, colleagues, friends, etc.. 
     
    Cordial thanks | 
    
    
    Print version:Package insert for nuclear power ...
  , for 
    passing on ... 
 see also
    
    Atomkraftwerke und Jod-Tabletten on www.Sonnenseite.com, 
    30.11.2004
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