Cover Up - What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power by Karl Grossman free download

[bananas]

http://karlgrossman.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-book-cover-up-what-you-are-not.html

Karl Grossman
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

My book, "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power," Is Being Distributed Free by Publisher Online

People can now get free copies of my book "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power" -- with a new updated preface I've written in the midst of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear power disaster.

Just go to www.thepermanentpress.com and you will see the book displayed on the homepage--and a box to click on and have the book downloaded at no cost.

What I emphasized in putting the book together was printing actual documents, as facsimiles, documents from the nuclear industry and government nuclear agencies. I believed that would be a good way to counter the Atomic Pinocchios and their lies -- something we're being intensely hit with now as the nuclear propagandists try to cover-up the consequences of the Fukushima disaster.

For example, in recent days I received an email asking for the source of the line in a government report that a major nuclear plant accident could involve an area the size of the state of Pennsylvania. It is on Page 9 of Cover Up, exactly as it appears in a government report titled "WASH-740-update" -- "the possible size of the area of such a disaster might be equal to that of the State of Pennsylvania." This projection is repeated over and over again in this report about the consequences of nuclear power plant accidents that was done by Brookhaven National Laboratory and kept secret for years. It was written a little more than a decade before the Three Mile Island accident.

By pasting down portions of such reports on the flats from which the book was printed, between narrative, I hoped to empower people by providing them with primary documents and thus make them fully aware of the truth about nuclear power -- and give them tools to refute the snow-jobs and the lies.

Marty and Judy Shepard of The Permanent Press had the guts to put out the book while publishers in New York refused claiming at the time that they didn't think interest in nuclear power was long-lasting. My agent, a top New York agent, was astonished. I eventually understood that this was part of the overall media cover-up on nuclear power. A good part of a chapter in the book is about this informational cover-up. Chapters include: "What Is At Stake?," "How It Works," "Accident Hazards," "Medical Consequences," "Radioactive Waste," "Economics and Jobs," "How We Got So Far," "The Alternatives," and "What You Can Do About It."

Marty says on his publisher's blog that the book is being distributed free because: "We’re not interested in making a nickel off Cover Up....Our passion in publishing has always been the good feeling that comes from doing worthy books, which trumps profits any time."

Publisher's Weekly said when the book came out that it was "powerfully documented" and that I make "a strong case for the view that giant nuclear energy corporations have taken extreme measures to hide the shocking facts about nuclear power, and are now stalling development of other energy sources in order to protect their huge investment."

So, please download the book. And, please put this information on other websites and list-servs so even more people can at no cost download the book.

Also, videos I have done on nuclear power are available for viewing free at www.envirovideo.com They include: "Three Mile Island Revisted," "The Push to Revive Nuclear Power," and "Chernobyl: A Million Casualties."

Posted by Karl Grossman at 5:36 AM

If you don't see it on the homepage, the book's webpage is: http://www.thepermanentpress.com/p-354-download-free-copy-about-nuclear-power.aspx
It links to a google docs viewer which lets you view or download the pdf.

[freshwest]

1. Thanks, bananas, just downloaded the pdf and will read it. This has been a long time coming.

[FBaggins]

3. A long time coming? He wrote it over three decades ago.

And I think you'll find that it's worth every penny. :)

[freshwest]

7. I'm talking about the attention it's getting, and he has a new preface.

[TheWraith]

2. Ironic: a propaganda job that he literally has to give away to get anyone to read it. nt

[madokie]

4. Telling that you see it that way

As the man said the propagandist and he was talking about you when he says that. Of course I don't expect you to realize that :hi:

[GliderGuider]

5. What a perfect illustration of quants at work

The quants and the poets

The fight between the pro-nukers and the anti-nukers, for example, is actually quite archetypal. Though both sides pretend to be informed by ’science’ and ‘facts’ both are actually informed primarily by prejudice. Whether you like nuclear power or not is a reflection of the kind of worldview you have: whether you are a confident embracer of the Western model of progress or whether it frightens or concerns you; whether you trust science or tend not to; whether you are cautious or reckless; whether you are ‘progressive’ or ‘conservative.’ On issues ranging from GM crops to capitalism, these are the underlying stories that actually inform the green debate. That they are then supported by a clutch of cherry-picked facts – easy to come by, after all, in the age of Wikipedia – is a footnote to what’s really going on.

[madokie]

6. The science of nuclear energy does not prove its safe by a long shot

and time has shown that statement I just made to be true

[FBaggins]

9. Where has time shown that?

How on earth are you defining "safe"?

[GliderGuider]

11. Nope. But the science of the anti-nuclear movement doesn't prove it's unsafe, either.

That's because "safe" and "unsafe" aren't scientific terms. They're value judgements.

[madokie]

15. Chernobyl, TMI and now Japan isn't proof that nuclear energy isn't safe then nothing is

Jimminie crickets there's no discussing anything anything concerning nuclear with you guys it seems.
peace
have a good evening

[FBaggins]

16. What's your definition of "safe"?

Is your car safe? Your home?

Is ANYTHING safe by the standards you appear to be setting?

[bananas]

8. There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and

"There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't" – Robert Benchley

[GliderGuider]

12. The magic of duality at work... n/t

[GliderGuider]

14. There is only one kind of person in the world...

The kind who divides the people of the world into two kinds...

[flamingdem]

10. Thanks bananas! nt

[qb]

13. Grossman is not a hack as some here are trying to portray him.

"Closing with testimony by leading environmentalists here and abroad, Grossman’s powerfully documented book is tough-minded evangelism for the anti-nuke movement. A veteran reporter for newspapers, radio and TV in New York, winner of journalism’s George Polk Award..." - Publishers Weekly

Thanks for the link, bananas :hi:

[DeSwiss]

17. TY - K&R - n/t

[diane in sf]

18. Thank you Bananas--good info!