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    The author draws parallels between the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Radiation released from damaged reactors poses invisible long-term health risks similar to those exposed by bomb survivors, including increased cancer rates and genetic effects over generations. While Fukushima is not as severe as Hiroshima, the same "invisible contamination of radiation" creates understandable nuclear fear. No technology utilizing such a destructive force can ever be completely safe. Denial of long-term radiation dangers does little to address legitimate concerns about the impacts of nuclear power and weapons.

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    The author draws parallels between the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Radiation released from damaged reactors poses invisible long-term health risks similar to those exposed by bomb survivors, including increased cancer rates and genetic effects over generations. While Fukushima is not as severe as Hiroshima, the same "invisible contamination of radiation" creates understandable nuclear fear. No technology utilizing such a destructive force can ever be completely safe. Denial of long-term radiation dangers does little to address legitimate concerns about the impacts of nuclear power and weapons.

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    The author draws parallels between the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Radiation released from damaged reactors poses invisible long-term health risks similar to those exposed by bomb survivors, including increased cancer rates and genetic effects over generations. While Fukushima is not as severe as Hiroshima, the same "invisible contamination of radiation" creates understandable nuclear fear. No technology utilizing such a destructive force can ever be completely safe. Denial of long-term radiation dangers does little to address legitimate concerns about the impacts of nuclear power and weapons.

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    NY TIMES http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16iht-edlifton16.html?_r=1 accessed 1/3/2012 I.H.T.

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    Fukushima and Hiroshima


    By ROBERT JAY LIFTON Published A!"il #$% &'## CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS Nothing is mor ra!id"# g"o$a"i% d than nu&" ar ' ar(
    Th !artia" m "tdo)n o' r a&tors in Fukushima, *a!an, has &r at d o+ r)h "ming ' ar in ! o!" "i+ing n ar$#, &onsid ra$" ' ar in ! o!" "i+ing in th r st o' *a!an, and a & rtain amount o' ' ar in ! o!" throughout Asia and + n in Euro! and th Unit d Stat s( Nor &an this ' ar $ sim!"# dismiss d as h#st ria( It &an $ ,agg rat d

    s! &ia""# in r "ation to oth r &ontin nts $ut th 'a&t is that, d ! nding on )hat ha!! ns to th r a&tors, ho) th )ind $"o)s, and )hat kind o' radiation !"um d + "o!s, th dang r &ou"d $ gra+ ( Mor o+ r, th r is sti"" mu&h ignoran& a$out th kind o' harm don to human $ ings $# +arious " + "s o' radiation( Fukushima is not Hiroshima- it is nu&" ar ) a!ons that most ndang r mankind( But as )ith nu&" ar ) a!ons, th radiation r " as d $# !o) r !"ants is a 'orm o' )hat in )riting a$out Hiroshima I &a"" d .in+isi$" &ontamination/ a !oison that on &annot s , sm "" or ' ", and )hos '' &ts ar so "asting that, + n i' th # do not sho) u! in on # ar or on g n ration th # ma# ) "" do so in th n ,t( As on sur+i+or !ut it to m 0 .1ou ma# "ook h a"th# 'rom th outsid $ut a"" o' a sudd n som thing go s )rong and #ou ar si&k and #ou di (/ 2h n I int r+i ) d sur+i+ors in Hiroshima d &ad s ago, th # d s&ri$ d th ir t rror at )itn ssing and ,! ri n&ing grot s3u radiation s#m!toms0 a&ut '' &ts o' s + r diarrh a, $" ding 'rom +arious $odi"# ori'i& s, dr ad d .!ur!" s!ots/ 'rom $" ding into th skin, ,tr m ) akn ss and 'r 3u nt"# d ath- and d "a# d '' &ts in&"uding in&r as d in&id n& o' " uk mia during ar"# !ost4$om$ # ars, and "at r o' &an& r o' th th#roid, stoma&h, "ung, o+ar# and ut rin & r+i,( Sin& it is kno)n that radiation &an ha+ g n ti& '' &ts o+ r th g n rations, th r )as mu&h ' ar in Hiroshima a$out gi+ing $irth to a$norma" &hi"dr n( Non o' this ma# ha!! n in &onn &tion )ith Fukushima, and it is 3uit !ossi$" that r a&tors th r )i"" $ su''i&i nt"# tr at d and &oo" d to a+oid a "arg 4s&a"

    nu&" ar disast r( But ) ar ta"king a$out th sam t &hno"og#, so ) shou"d not $ sur!ris d that radiation r " as d 'rom r a&tors &r at s nu&" ar ' ar simi"ar to that asso&iat d )ith th ) a!ons( I 'ound this a"so to $ tru at Thr Mi" Is"and, )h r " ss radiation )as r " as d

    than at Fukushima, $ut ! o!" non th " ss ,!r ss d th 'u"" !ano!"# o' ' ar asso&iat d )ith th in+isi$" &ontamination o' radiation( Su&h ' ar has ! r+ad d th nu&" ar a&&id nt at Ch rno$#", and has $# no m ans ntir "# disa!! ar d to this da#( Th sam ' ar o' in+isi$" &ontamination o&&urr d in Am ri&ans ,!os d to nu&" ar radiation in +arious oth r !"a& s0 to !"utonium )ast at Han'ord, 2ashington, in &onn &tion )ith th !rodu&tion o' th Nagasaki $om$- to nu&" ar t sting o+ r d &ad s at Ro&k# F"ats, Co"orado- and to Ground 5 ro at t st sit s in N +ada, 'rom )hi&h G(I(6s ) r mar&h d short"# a't r nu&" ar ,!"osions( 7n ma# ask ho) it is !ossi$" that *a!an, a't r its ,! ri n& )ith th atomi& $om$ings, &ou"d a""o) its "' to dra) so h a+i"# on th sam nu&" ar t &hno"og# 'or th manu'a&tur o' a$out a third o' its n rg#( Th r was r sistan& , mu&h o' it 'rom Hiroshima and Nagasaki sur+i+ors( But th r )as a"so a !att rn o' d nia", &o+ r4u! and &o%# $ur au&rati& &o""usion $ t) n industr# and go+ rnm nt, th "ast s! &ia""# notorious in *a!an $ut $# no m ans "imit d to that &ountr#( E+ n th n, !ro4nu&" ar !o) r 'or& s &ou"d !r +ai" on"# $# managing to insti"" in th minds o' *a!an s ! o!" a di&hotom# $ t) n th !h#si&s o' nu&" ar !o) r and that o' nu&" ar ) a!ons, an i""usor# distin&tion mad not on"# in *a!an $ut throughout th )or"d( Th r is a"so th ho! 8and h r th sam n ss o' th t &hno"og# is r &ogni% d9 that som thing ! a& 'u" and "i' 4 nhan&ing &an $ d ri+ d 'rom th a) som , )or"d4d stro#ing nu&" ar d it#- that ) humans )ho &ommission d and $ui"t th ) a!ons &an som ho) 'ind r d m!tion in that sam u"timat t &hno"og#( And th r ar th .risk4ass ssm nt/ studi s that 'ind nu&" ar !o) r 3uit sa' in statisti&a" t rms, 'ai"ing as th s studi s do to a&&ount 'or ,tr m natur as ) "" as human rror and t &hni&a" ma"'un&tion( Som ha+ $ n o$: &ting to th .doomsda# "anguag / us d in &onn &tion )ith Fukushima6s radiation dang rs( And it is tru that ,agg rations at a"" " + "s shou"d $ dis&ourag d, ,a& r$ating as th # do ' ars on th !art o' + r#on ( But that doomsda# "anguag has its sour& in th doomsda# natur o' th stu'' that is ' ar d, and in th r a"i%ation that ) ha+ &r at d a t &hno"og# )ith )hi&h ) &an annihi"at ours "+ s as a s! &i s( H r too th asso&iation $ t) n $om$ and r a&tor &annot $ )i"" d out o' ,ist n& ( + nts o'

    2 do $ tt r to o+ r&om our d nia" and disso&iation and to inst ad a&kno)" dg that radiation '' &ts ar on and th sam no matt r )hat th ir sour& , that th &om$ination o' natur and human 'a""i$i"it# mak s no t &hno"og# &om!" t "# sa' , and that th t &hno"og# most dang rous to us &an hard"# $ r "i d u!on to !ro+id som thing .&" an/ or !ur , or to oth r)is r d m us( Robert Jay Lifton is a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and the author of Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and the forthcoming memoir Witness to an !treme "entury#

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