http:\/\/agreenroad.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/quotes-from-famous-people-about-nuclear.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nRalph Graeub; The Petkau Effect, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n“<\/b><\/span>A number of independent researchers have demonstrated that long-term, relatively low levels of radiation may wreak up to 1000 times more biological havoc than the currently accepted “risk levels” that are being used as reference points for decisions about licensing and operating nuclear plants.<\/b><\/span>“<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nIn 1972, a researcher in Canada, Dr. Abram Petkau, found that when cells were irradiated slowly, a smaller total dose was needed to cause damage<\/b><\/span>.<\/b><\/span> Since this critical discovery it has been verified that <\/span>a small dose of radiation over a long time is more damaging than one larger dose<\/b><\/span>. Imagine the ramifications! <\/span>This means that the small amounts of radiation that are released from the everyday operation of the world’s 400 nuclear plants are doing much more damage than calculated<\/b><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis discovery, known as the “Petkau Effect,” showed that the amounts of radiation that are legally released from nuclear power plants, combined with the leaks, spills, and accidents, are a cause of extreme damage to our health because <\/span>continuous low-level exposures produce hundreds to thousands of times more free radicals than the same dose delivered at one time, as in an X ray, for example.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nDr. Ernest Sternglass, retired Emeritus Professor of Radiological Physics at the University of Pittsburgh and a pioneering researcher in the field of radiation health, explains in his 1978 book Secret Fallout the implications of this new understanding: “<\/span>Doses of radiation delivered slowly and continuously over extended periods of time are hundreds of times as damaging biologically as short, high intensity exposures of the same total dose.<\/b><\/span> This was made clear in 1972 by Dr. Abram Petkau who discovered that at <\/span>low doses of radiation absorbed at low rates, the dominant biological damage is produced by highly toxic molecules called free radicals.<\/b><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe everyday releases of radioactivity by nuclear power plants has been found to cause several kinds of health damage, including premature births, congenital defects, infant mortality, mental retardation, heart ailments, arthritis, diabetes, allergies, asthma, cancer, genetic damage and chronic fatigue syndrome. Low dose radiation has been linked to previously unknown infectious diseases and generally weakens the immune system.<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLow dose radiation shortens the life span of most organisms<\/b><\/span>, according to Denham Harman in Free Radical Theory of Aging. <\/span>Even at low levels, radiation may increase mutations of bacteria and viruses, as Andrei Sakharov described in his 1992 Memoirs<\/b><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA 1966 report by the Atomic Energy Commission, The Genetic Effects of Radiation, concluded <\/span>\u201cthere is no threshold on the genetic effect of radiation. There is no safe level of radiation insofar as genetic effects are concerned.\u201d<\/b><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBut humans evolved in an environment that contained naturally occurring radiation. So why is radiation so hazardous to us? The answer to this has to do with the type of radiation. Radon, which was always around (see below), is known as alpha radiation. But if we breathe them in, they can cause lung cancer, per the EPA, which has extensive information on the subject. In other words, ‘natural’ radiation is not ‘safe’. But with alpha radiation from radon, the radiation cannot travel very far. However, radioactive Strontium 90, which is a man-made radiation, emits a beta radiation. It can travel far. So how does this affect us? To be sure, understand that alpha radiation is not ‘safe’, in any form..\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAlpha Radiation Dangers; Polonium, Radon, Radium, Plutonium, Uranium<\/span><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/agreenroad.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/alpha-radiation-dangers-polonium-radon.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nWHAT HAPPENS INSIDE THE BONES, AS RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM AND PLUTONIUM ARE ABSORBED, BECAUSE THEY MIMIC CALCIUM AND IRON?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nHuman bones are hollow inside, so they have a space for the bone marrow. This is the place where the white blood cells, which are key operatives in the immune system, are made. Nature did a brilliant design here because the bone protected the delicate bone marrow from the then-prevalent type of alpha-radiation. Nature did not foresee that humans would come up with a type of radiation that did not fit into this radon radiation protective design.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBecause beta and gamma radiation can travel through bone, they are able to zap the white blood cells. What is worse, is that the strontium 90 mimics calcium, and man made radioactive plutonium mimics iron, they BOTH end up being absorbed INTO the bone marrow, which is the absolute worst place for these deadly man made radioactive elements to be. What happens next?<\/span><\/p>\nAs we gradually absorb and build up radioactive elements in our body and particularly in the bones, we gradually have a more and more weakened immune system. Some people feel this as ‘hurting’ bone pain. \u00a0More severe consequences from these two killers can result in leukemia and bone cancer. What is the answer to this dilemma? This seems to be the question confronting humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIn his ground-breaking book The Petkau Effect (Four Walls Eight Windows, NYC 1992) Ralph Graeub describes the mechanism whereby small doses of low level radiation are far more damaging in their cumulative effect than previously thought. He says in the forward:<\/span><\/p>\n“<\/span>The present book provides additional reasons why nuclear energy is not ‘environmentally benign’ so that the public that continues to be deceived by nuclear propaganda can make a more informed judgement as to whether it really wants a ‘new generation’ of nuclear plants for both bomb-making and civilian power generation. Among the most important of the recent scientific discoveries that have been successfully kept from the public is the Petkau Effect, the discovery that showed <\/b><\/span>low-dose protracted radiation exposures such as those produced by radioactive fission products to be hundreds to thousands of times as damaging as the same dose received in a short medical X-ray<\/b><\/span>…<\/span><\/p>\nDr. Caldicott MD – Lethal Danger of CT Scans, X-Rays; Dental Xrays, Tomography; Cancer Or Leukemia Caused By Low Doses Of Medical Radiation, Harm Versus Benefits, Nuclear Fuel Chain<\/span><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/agreenroad.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/lethal-danger-of-ct-scans-and-x-rays.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nNOBEL PRIZE WINNING DR. MULLER DISCOVERED THAT EVEN LOW DOSES OF X RAYS CAUSE GENETIC MUTATIONS<\/b><\/span><\/p>\nDr. Hermann Joseph Muller<\/span><\/p>\n