After the interview with La Stampa Umberto Veronesi ('is the energy of the future') , members of the scientific committee deny the claims ISDE oncologist. "From him, omissions and superficiality." Article by Ernesto Burgio, Angelo Baracca - The interview with Umberto Veronesi La Stampa left stunned by the complacency with which the teacher lets go to claims without scientific support, the risk of trivializing a very complex issue and influence with its "authority" to public opinion, increasingly forced to endure the attack of the powerful media lobby nuclear. We can not reply in a few lines here and in the long series of questionable statements made by the professor in the field: we will restrict ourselves to challenge some of the passages of what looks like a superficial apology for an energy source by far the most expensive and dangerous to health human.
A source that does not in any way alleviate its dependence on oil, for today only 5% of the electricity is generated with this source, which is used for most transport and industry and can not be replaced by nuclear power, used to produce only electricity. So more than in the past 10 years, in Italy, was installed new electric power equivalent to well 12-15 nuclear reactors (and extra power is waiting for authorization), this has not brought any benefit to users, because in our produce electricity country is now only business and any "return" to the nuclear business would be a huge damage to a few of many. is also likely that the uranium will run out before the fossil fuels, the current rates of consumption (it is absurd to speak of! plants can operate for 60 years) let alone whether there was a nuclear revival. 
But fortunately this is also a colossal fable. Just read the most authoritative international newspapers to know that trumpeted the rebirth of nuclear power does not exist, because of the costs out of control, problems, uncertainties, delays in construction time, the U.S. has built in a single reactor (a second is been deleted), while in Europe the only two under construction (in Finland and France) carry a thousand obstacles, which have already caused a doubling of costs and time. The bleak future that 
Veronesi paints in the absence of nuclear worries not countries such as Austria, Denmark and others, which exclude the use of this source and link energy self-sufficiency with renewable sources (those sources that Europe strives to develop and our Government, with larger and more suspicious that punctuality, strives to provide a disincentive). instead it is known to all the experts that both Germany and France, are opting to extend the operational life of existing reactors, a very risky choice, because aging increases the likelihood of accidents (it has been reported anomaly of the system 'emergency in less than 34 French reactors, in operation for 30 years, which could make enough cooling in the event of an accident, and lead to meltdown!) because the bombing Neut! onyx mine structures. Neither the incidents are increasing in the central all countries (other data that the professor obviously does not know or ignores) the point that even in France, representing the country in the collective imagination of the "broad consensus" to the civil and military nuclear, are growing doubts and anxieties, after some television services which have failed to disclose the details of the bleak picture of radioactive contamination of the territory. 
But the most disarming is the ease with which one who defines the editor of La Stampa of Italy's most famous doctor considers the biological and health effects of radioactivity. A serious nuclear accident can contaminate an entire hemisphere, and yet Veronesi "liquid" with a few bars even the catastrophe of Chernobyl, so alongside these "nuclear" than to face a tragic reality, consisting of ghost towns and thousands of cases of childhood cancer against thyroid and bone, are still able to claim that victims of the disaster would be few. Forgetting that eminent scientists and researchers who have dedicated their lives to document the effects of a radioactive cloud that has affected not only the USSR, Ukraine and Belarus, but the whole of Europe, speak of a million victims! How can a doctor agreed to direct an Agency for the Safety of Nuclear, ignoring or neglecting these studies? How can the professor Veronesi not know that back in the '90s only in Belarus and Ukraine verified cases of childhood thyroid cancer were nearly 1000 (an increase of 30 times or even 100 times in areas close to Chernobyl). How can you not know that for several years increases, in many other European countries, reports of increases in childhood leukemia directly related to the dispersion of radioactive isotopes of cesium that persist in the environment and food chains for decades? 
How can a doctor of repute do not know that some Russian researchers have published in prestigious journals like Science and Nature, the results of studies and research showing that children of so-called "liquidators" Chernobyl, are carriers of high rates of mutation, a figure which may explain not only the data, long in dispute, concerning the increase of leukemia in children born to parents living near nuclear installations English, but also and especially the alarming results A recent German study, known by the acronym Kikko (Kinderkrebs in der Umgebung von KernKraftwerken, childhood cancer around nuclear power plants), who described 1592 cases of solid tumors (most of them from embryos) and 593 in childhood leukemia children under 5 years old, living in the years 1980-2003 in the vicinity of the 16 central Germany. all the more important scientific studies that document the issue radioactive isotopes (tritium, krypton, etc.) in environment and food chains during the normal operation of power plants and the introduction of radioactive material via food in small daily doses, is most likely the most dangerous mode of exposure, because collective and difficult to assess. Finally, the trivial problem of nuclear waste, which costs more Italians € 400 million a year (at least 10 billion since 1987, and who knows how many more years). How can the teacher not to know that no country in the world has yet found a solution to the problem of nuclear waste and safe geological repositories exist only in the imagination of some nuclear weapon, that Yucca Mountain after decades of work and millions of dollars spent has been permanently shelved, and the Americans do not know where to put the enormous quantities of spent fuel across a seventy sites, whereas in the store from Plank Germany have found (just now) water leaks that threaten a disaster and will require huge expenditures for the recovery and transfer (where?) on drums. In this regard, in truth, the professor proposes a solution: states that it would tend to identify a single site for the continent and which, fortunately, Italy would not have been identified as an ideal site for this storage. We hope that those gave this information to the prof. Veronesi not meant to refer to that certain individuals facing as the only possible solution for materials that are likely to pollute the entire ecosphere for thousands of years (is not consoling to realize that the continent would not be designated for landfill planet in this case neither the 'Europe or North America). is easy to foresee that in the coming days they will let loose against the criticism a "famous doctor" who does not hesitate to make public statements tacciabili least lightness.
Some might come to accuse him of shameful conflict of interest (in this case is particularly serious, since the role of guarantor of public health that the professor has agreed to play). We believe that many of the things we listed Professor Veronesi not really know and understand that this is a person who has never dealt with this matter. But we are also convinced that the continuing in such a state of "ignorance" is dangerous and could seriously affect the shape of a famous physician, says that even at this interview as his absolute certainty that the risks to health are minimum, and you want to spend the next year to ensure that citizens do not take any risks. Source: http://www.infoaut.org/blog/no-tavabenicomuni/item/661-nucleare-risposta-a-umberto-veronesi% E2% 80% 8F
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