Larissa's right, we don't know the long term effects of nuclear power. Will we guard the nuclear waste, or find a solution for it over even the next 100 years? I don't think we will successfully, and usually I'm an optimist when it comes to technological problems. You can't consider the last 60 years as us knowing the long term risks of nuclear power, you have to look at the larger life cycle of it.
That being said, the Green Party of Sask is taking the wrong stance against it. To most people, the environmental cost is moot. What matters is the billions of dollars of debt a nuclear reactor for power will leave us like Ontario. They're paying off $15,000,000,000 in debt on their hydro bills. Goodie?
Breeder reactors are the answer to nuclear waste.
As for the cost, I'm not worried. Long term investment in a crumbling infrastructure has to be done sooner, rather than later.
Have you considered the possibility that it might be you that is misinformed about nuclear power and not the Green Party of Saskatchewan or Green Party of Canada?
See article below.
Nuclear power workers face higher cancer risk: report
Jeremy Warren, Saskatoon Starphoenix; Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, June 23
Those working in, and living near, nuclear-power plants--such as the one being considered for construction in Saskatchewan--are more likely than the general population to develop cancer or die from it, according to a research paper being released today.
The 30-page Exposure to Radiation and Health Outcomes, commissioned by the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, found that chronic exposure to low doses of radiation causes the higher risk.
A 15-country, 12-year, 407,391-person study of nuclear-power workers found the employees are twice as likely to die from all causes of cancer than the general public because of the extra radiation exposure, said the report written by Saskatchewan-based health researcher Mark Lemstra.
But in Canada, one of the 15 countries studied, reactor workers are 7.65 times more likely to die from all causes of cancer compared to non-employees, said the report.
Researchers are unsure why Canadian reactor workers seem to face a higher cancer risk than those in other nuclear countries.
"We don't know why Canadians are more likely to get cancer than others," said Lemstra, a former researcher with the Saskatoon Health Region. "We are going to have to consider revising the protection standards of nuclear workers."
Another study, which looked only at cancer rates among Canadian workers, concluded nuclear-power workers are still 3.8 times more likely to die from radiation-related cancer than non-workers, said the report.
"The results . . . confirm that chronic exposure to low doses of radiation are associated with an excess relative risk of cancer mortality," it said.
The report was presented to the Future of Uranium in Saskatchewan stakeholder conference in Regina.
Lemstra cited 22 articles in the report, pared down from a review of more than 1,700 articles he found in medical databases, reference lists and on the Internet.
The report found that, even outside the workplace, radiation has effects on the human population.
A German study cited in the report found children below the age of five who live within five kilometres of a nuclear facility are 2.19 times more likely to develop leukemia.
"There's a simple solution: Keep children more than 10 kilometres away from a nuclear facility," said Lemstra.
Children are more susceptible to radiation because, in the early stages of development, their bodies are more sensitive to the effects of inhalation, ingestion and other forms of internal exposure, said the report.
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No, Eric, I do not. Every other long term study refutes this one. So, there you go.
The Green Party is woefully misinformed about nearly everything they speak out about, so that they know almost nothing about nuclear energy is unsurprising.
Eric is correct. You are a liar.
Lots of people died from nuclear power.
Like the Gore, Oklahoma unreported release and the Church Rock New Mexico unreported release.
Recent German studies show increased childhood cancer and leukemia around nuke power plants; American studies corroborate this.
All of this has been known for more than 30 years.
Do you enjoy contributing to premature death and increased suffering?
Your money "uber alles"?
Morton Skorodin, M.D.,
Somehow, I doubt you doctorin' credentials.
So, you're saying two unreported things happened. It's like ROSWELL and KENNEDY, man. It's a coverup! We're through the looking glass, people.
As for the cancer clusters? Stuff and nonsense. The German report can be dismissed simply because the results didn't meet the criteria that defines cancer clusters.
You can spread your lies elsewhere, sir. Oh, you know what, "Doc"? You just might be worth an entire post. Your shrill stupidity is exactly why the anti-nuke forces are losing everywhere they turn up.
You are worth an entire post.
I have no doubt that you are a psychopath.
Psychopaths take advantage of the fact that humans can not perceive radiation with the 5 senses.
Peer-refereed biomeedical report on the Church Rock and Gore releases:
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/...tract/97/9/
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Any more holes you want to fall into Psychopath McDonald?
Hey Doc, can I call you Morty? Morty it is, then.
Morty,
Everything under your name is online. If you want me to take you seriously, you might want to think about not posting rants about evil Jews in the Obama White House... Just sayin'.
You can go now. You certainly aren't going to convince me with your senile rants. Look, man, the effects of nuclear power are known. Just because they don't fit your idiotic preconceptions it doesn't mean I'm wrong.
My very own troll. This is awesome.
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