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U.S. Health Care System Unprepared for Major Nuclear Emergency

Thu, 2011-04-07 19:57 — Mikayla McDonald

U.S. officials say the nation's health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist "dirty bomb" or an improvised nuclear device attack.

A blunt assessment circulating among American officials says "Current capabilities can only handle a few radiation injuries at any one time." That assessment [1], prepared by the Department of Homeland Security in 2010 and stamped "for official use only," says "there is no strategy for notifying the public in real time of recommendations on shelter or evacuation priorities."

 

Full Story at:

http://www.propublica.org/article/us-health-care-system-unprepared-for-major-nuclear-emergency

Concerns Regarding Radiological Impacts in Vermont and the Northern Western Hemisphere

Tue, 2011-03-29 07:12 — mdmcdonald

 

With High Levels of Radiation Leaking from Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant, What about Vermont Yankee?

Mon, 2011-03-28 07:55 — admin

Only days before Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant began to fail, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recommissioned Vermont Yankee for another 20 years.  As Vermonters and their state government consider the implications of recommissioning the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, which is the same design as the Fukushima plant built around the same time by GE, many Japanese are questioning their future as high levels of radiation are leaking from the Fukushima plant into the air, soil, and water surrounding the plant. 

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