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"Now think about your bodily city and picture these mitochondria as your body's nuclear power plants. They give off a lot of energy but also have the potential to cause a lot of damage. As you'll see many times throughout the book, most things that are powerful enough to help you are also powerful enough to hurt you. If something bombs your power plant, it's not just the physical plant that suffers damage; a whole lot of collateral damage takes place as well. In the case of Figure fcl Biological Backbone Mitochondria provide the power to our metaphorical city." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Some investigators have attributed the increase to environmental radiation from sources such as nuclear power plants. However, the report suggests that the real reason for the higher rates may be "increased detection of subclinical disease." "New tests are available to detect abnormalities that we never saw in the past," says the coauthor of the national report, Dr. Louise Davies, an assistant professor of surgery at Dartmouth Medical School. Ultrasound scans and needle biopsies can detect nodules as small as 2 millimeters (mm), one-quarter of the size of a pencil eraser." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"The Atomic Energy Commission had recently declassified a report about a remarkable aerosol filter that removed radioactive particles from the air in nuclear power plants. This extraordinary material was crocidolite—a bluish kind of asbestos. The company making Kent cigarettes, P.J. Lorillard, decided to use this new material in its brand-new cigarettes in 1952. Nearly 12 billion cigarettesabout 585 million packs of these asbestos-filtered cigarettes—were sold in the United States until 1956. Ads assured smokers that these filters provided health protection." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Greens by and large loathe nuclear power, so tend to plump for renewable options like solar and wind. Others express an equal loathing for wind turbines, and mount vociferous campaigns against their development. Some take both or neither side. In Cape Cod, Massachusetts, prominent climate activists like Robert R Kennedy Jr have opposed a large offshore wind farm, despite its potential for clean power generation - because, some suspect, it would spoil their view." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"In a comparative analysis of nuclear power and energy conservation through energy efficiency, the Rocky Mountain Institute found that "electrical efficiency is nearly seven times more effective in abating C02 (per dollar invested in the United States) than nuclear power." Nuclear energy does not meet the criteria of a good global insurance plan against global warming. In the 1970s, the oil embargo and the meteoric rise in oil prices created a crisis in fossil fuel-generated energy, a crisis that sparked public interest in energy conservation and renewable energy sources." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"Just think back to 1979, when employee missteps during an overnight shift at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant contributed to the most serious nuclear accident in U.S. history—one that came perilously close to a full-blown nuclear disaster. Clearly, life on Earth has its extreme stresses, too. The potential uses of Rhodiola rosea, either alone or in a formula with other adaptogens, are as plentiful as high-stress jobs." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"If we use only a tenth of the monies that we put into nuclear power and weapons, we can do it. These new high-tech buildings and underground sites can replace our nuclear power plants and chemical producing, smoke-spewing factories that now hasten Earth's demise. Cleaning the air will allow the sun to function for us, as it once did, and not become a danger. We can also harness solar, wind, and water power to further supply our living needs, so that Earth can continue to survive for many centuries even after the cosmos shifts or the sun itself weakens." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., Staying Healthy with Nutrition: The Complete Guide to Diet and Nutritional Medicine (Get the book.)

"The legacy of the atomic bomb, nuclear power was to have provided 30 to 40 percent of our electricity by the end of the 1980s and 50 percent by the twenty-first century. By 1980, U.S. utility officials virtually stopped ordering atomic-powered generating equipment. Dozens of nuclear power plant orders were canceled; twice as many were deferred." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.) "I have heard supporters of nuclear power argue that radioactive waste disposal is no different a problem than naturally occurring radioactivity. Since we live with one, they ask, why can't we live with the other? But isn't this like saying that road salt in municipal drinking water is not a health issue because it is a natural substance, we even add it to food, and it doesn't cause cancer? The chronic problems of safety, cost, management, and disposal of radioactive wastes still plague nuclear power. Indeed, the problem of waste disposal has worsened." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"The United States has the largest number of nuclear power plants in the world, over 100, and dozens of these reactors are at a high risk for leaks and/or accidents. Other risks include accidents during the transport of nuclear wastes. Currently, all nuclear power plants leak radiation, negatively affecting at a minimum anyone living within a 20 mile radius of the plant. A study in England found a 10-fold increased occurrence of leukemia in plant workers, plus there is a higher than normal risk for individuals living in close proximity." - Dr. Cass Ingram, Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures (Get the book.)

"Three Mile Island The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in some radiation leakage into the atmosphere, panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general. transcontinental railroad A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "Three Mile Island The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant — an electrical generator powered by a nuclear reactor — in Pennsylvania. The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in very little leakage of radiation into the atmosphere, panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general. (Compare Chernobyl.) transformer A device used to transfer electrical energy from one circuit to another. With an alternating current, a transformer will either raise or lower the voltage as it makes the transfer." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"Though a few more nuclear power plants may begin operating each year for several more years, and such controversial plants as Seabrook (in New Hampshire) may even come on line, the pipeline is nearly empty. All plants under construction were ordered before 1974, and no utility has plans to order another for as far into the future as we can see. Some of the oldest nuclear plants are now being retired. Still, the psychological and social costs of living near a nuclear power plant are undeniably awful." - Linda Mason Hunter, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Get the book.)

"Currently, all nuclear power plants leak radiation, negatively affecting at a minimum anyone living within a 20 mile radius of the plant. A study in England found a 10-fold increased occurrence of leukemia in plant workers, plus there is a higher than normal risk for individuals living in close proximity. Marketed as "clean fuel", it is far from clean, since nuclear releases permanently damage the human body as well as any portion of the earth contacted. Do not be fooled by marketing language. nuclear power plants continuously release into the environment poisonous gases as well as water." - Dr. Cass Ingram, Dr. Cass Ingram's Lifesaving Cures (Get the book.)

"In the third study, researchers looked at genetic damage in workers who had helped clean up the radioactive Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Because of their exposure to radiation, these men had genetic damage ten times higher than normal. But after the men took ginkgo supplements, their genetic damage (measured in the subjects' blood cells) declined to almost normal levels. When the men stopped taking the ginkgo supplements, about one-third of them had an increase in genetic damage, indicating that they needed continued supplementation." - Jack Challem, Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging (Get the book.)

"Three Mile Island The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant — an electrical generator powered by a nuclear reactor — in Pennsylvania. The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in very little leakage of radiation into the atmosphere, panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general. (Compare Chernobyl.) torque A force applied in such a way that it produces rotation; a turning or twisting force. transformer A device used to transfer electrical energy from one circuit to another." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"How B-Vitamin Deficiencies Affect DNA Repair Many people are fearful of radiation exposure from nuclear power plants and other sources. However, according to Bruce N.Ames, Ph.D., one of the world's leading cell biologists and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, DNA damage from B-vitamin deficiencies is identical to damage caused by radiation. In both cases strands of DNA break apart. No reasonable person would unnecessarily expose himself to radiation, so why would anyone want to suffer the same damage from low intake of B vitamins?" - Jack Challem, Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging (Get the book.)

"Breast cancer mortality in the area surrounding the Millstone nuclear power plant on Long Island has risen 40 percent in the 17 years since it was started up. Since 1950, breast cancer deaths among women living within 50 miles of nuclear plants have increased ten-fold overall (twenty-five-fold in some locations-such as Rowe, Massachusetts near the Yankee nuclear power plant), according to the National Cancer Institute." - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

"The United States was also concerned strategically that Iran was on its way to becoming a nuclear power whose aggressive tendencies in fomenting Islamic revolution would be greatly enhanced if it acquired nuclear leverage. A U.S. military presence in Iraq would have a tempering influence on Iran's nuclear development program and its messianic impulses. Iran, the world's fourth leading oil producer, was run by a revolutionary Shi'ite mullahocracy. Neighboring Iraq itself happened to have a majority Shi'a population, which was subject to the influence of Iran's mullahs." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Under the Carter policy, coal and nuclear power plants were encouraged to meet new demand. Then, in March 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suffered a partial meltdown, which put any growth in the U.S. nuclear industry on indefinite hold. The environmental legislation of the 1970s made coal increasingly problematic, too, as it was implicated in acid rain. Meanwhile, by the mid-1980s consumption of natural gas had dropped by 24 percent from the early 1970s levels. The natural gas producers began to go bankrupt." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"A much smaller amount of the radiation we receive comes from human-made sources such as X-ray machines, radios, heat sources, nuclear power plants, and microwave ovens. Although most of the radiation we receive comes from nature, most of us still perceive radiation as unnatural. Research indicates that the public tends to overestimate radiation risks, for example, those posed by living near a nuclear power plant, and to underestimate more com- Energy mon risks, such as the likelihood of dying due to cigarette smoking or an automobile accident." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"Cars using regular electric motors are a better bet, though the battery problem limits their range, and to some extent their existence in any numbers is predicated on a renewed nuclear power effort. That in itself may be impossible to accomplish in a nation with an impotent central government. There are additional problems with keeping the car-and-highway system, as we have known it, going through the Long Emergency. One is political." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Since the first commercial nuclear power plant began producing electricity in 1957, the total amount of accumulated spent fuel is 9,000 tons. It would all fit inside a space equivalent to a high school gymnasium with room to spare. In July 2002, President George W. Bush signed House Joint Resolution 87, allowing the U.S. Department of Energy to take the next step in establishing a safe repository at Yucca Mountain. The DOE is currently preparing an application to obtain a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to proceed with construction of the repository." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"No one knew that nuclear power would bring us to the brink of annihilation or fill our planet with highly toxic radioactive waste. We are so excited by the power of a new discovery that we leaped ahead blindly, and without caution. Today the situation with genetic engineering is perhaps even more grave because this technology acts on the very blueprint of life itself." When you do not know what you are doing, and you insist on meddling, you have the potential to create a great deal of damage. There is an old saying, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"In short, the practical application of genetic engineering at an early stage was no more predictable than that of any other new technology, from the steam engine to nuclear power. Just as the engineers of nuclear power had downplayed the risks of cooling nuclear reactors, so the biotech companies minimized the scientific realities of making a transgenic plant. In the same breath, companies were stressing the novelty of bioengineering techniques to their investors while assuring the public that these changes in the food supply presented no risks to health or the environment." - Peter Pringle, Food, Inc. Mendel to Monsanto - The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Get the book.)

"Maharishi University of Management in Iowa, returned a government grant of $614,000, plus other grants for over $1 million to do genetic engineering research because he feared that this pursuit could become more dangerous than nuclear power and he no longer wanted to be part of it.9a'b • The CDC (Center for Disease Control) is investigating claims from 44 people who believe they became ill from eating corn products. How will most people know if what they ate was genetically engineered or modified if it was not labeled?" - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Chances of a major leak at a nuclear power plant are less than one in a billion but, because of simulation, Ricky's father is able to deal with that kind of condition whenever he wants, and he's ready should it ever occur. You don't need to be a nuclear power plant operator or even a basketball player to benefit from simulation. This chapter shows how it can be used to leverage your mind-power for everyday feats that make you a better performer on the job, in your hobbies, in dealings with other people, and in nearly any pursuit you choose to undertake." - Scott Witt, How to Be Twice as Smart: Boosting Your Brainpower and Unleashing the Miracles of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"How could the nuclear power industry design, and the government allow to be built, facilities that create such drastic health problems? The answer lies partially in the fact that the effects of low-level radiation were not known in the late 1950s at the beginning of the nuclear power industry. The standard allowable exposure of Sr-90 was set at 1,000 pic-ocuries (per gram of calcium). This was the amount considered "safe" for adults, but it apparently didn't occur to anyone that children were more vulnerable than adults, it is now known that if a newborn infant has an exposure of only 0." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Three Mile Island The location of an accident in 1979 in a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. The plant underwent a partial meltdown that resulted in some radiation leakage into the atmosphere, panic among nearby residents, losses of billions of dollars, and intense criticism of nuclear power programs in general. transcontinental railroad A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west. The two lines met in Utah." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

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