DU oldsters will remember this but you young ones may not know (re: nuclear) [View All]

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excerpts from a new book:


"Plutonium was a crazy element that crawled and burrowed. It melted at room temperature. It was different colors - silverery or purple."

"The book documented the secret government plutonium experiments in the decade following Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

"In medical experiments, the essential substance of nuclear weaponry had been shot into the bloodstream of human beings who were told only that it was good for them."

"Besides trying to figure out tolerance doses of radioactivity, researchers used plutonium and other radioactive substances as an experimental cancer treatment. Most people lived only a short time, but a few lived for years with plutonium locked inside them."

"He remembered that the plutonium exeriments had come to light during the nineties, and the D.O.E. had apologized. Some reparations had been paid and then the subject was forgotten."

"Radioactive substances had been tried in breakfast cereal - boys at a correctional school and been fed radioactive iron and calcium in their oatmeal. He read about a radioactive iron experiment on pregnant women - a nutrition study that backfired. He read about huge black tumors in the mouth, grapefruit-sized growths on thighs. Some doctors thought plutonium might jazz up spermatocytes."

"Even though researchers figured that a microgram of plutonium might cause cancer, they injected people with many times that amount."

"The testes of prisoners. Plutonium mixed into vaginal jelly. Whole-body irradiation. The book said all baby boomers carry around a trace of plutonium in the bones, from fallout."

Works consulted in the writing of this book:


Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
The Elegant Universe
Atoms in the Family
A Brief History Time
The Universe in a Nutshell
Cell and Molecular Biology
The Plutonium Files


the above from a novel by Bobbie Ann Mason - An Atomic Romance
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all of the above is true. and more and worse.
read how when it rains on the nuclear scrap piles it creates blue flames.
read about depleted uranium.

no more nuke plants of any kind.