Author Archives: Dennis

The attached link is to an article questioning whether CT Scans cause cancer. There is no safe level of ionizing radiation and the article estimates how many cancers might be caused by medical exposure to ionizing radiation including CT Scans. … Continue reading →

Russian soldiers reported ill with radiation sickness after digging near Chernobyl. https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-troops-suffer-acute-radiation-083839177.html

The incidence of cancers (particularly thyroid cancer) among those exposed to radiation after a tsunami destroyed the core cooling systems, causing the reactors to explode and release radioactive materials into the environment, has increased markedly in subsequent years. Now, individuals … Continue reading →

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has left the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl once again in a state of uncertainty after the invading Russian army drove the Ukrainian caretakers out of the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl site and the abandoned … Continue reading →

The tragedy of radiation damage to the population of Kazakhstan is documented in a new book by Togzhan Kassenova in the following link: https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/02/14/how-kazakh-people-fought-back-against-soviet-nuclear-tests-pub-86404?mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGConUJ3LaEG1oCWWSIAGXdMmV9ovOMMx7dO8qtK9r_17-sn1omiXHXvRMd-11FM39HSGFp3az2A8CKwmwa_6k_Tl1Sg51uY33npEAtBmoWKlLg#?utm_source=carnegieemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=announcement

The fires near Boulder Colorado not only destroyed the homes of hundreds of residents but came uncomfortably close to the Rocky Flats radioactive contamination zone. Plutonium fires there in the 1950s and 1960s contaminated large swaths of land with radioactive … Continue reading →

The recent devastation wreaked by December tornados in Kentucky shows how close we came to a radioactive and chemical catastrophe at the uranium gaseous diffusion plant near Paducah, KY. For decades that plant has stored the waste product of their … Continue reading →

The CO2 cycle on earth is clearly more complicated than has been previously understood. It is not just the burning of carbon fuels that is important but also the trapping and sequestering of CO2 by many mechanisms in the environment. … Continue reading →

The extreme wild-fires in the American West, as well as those around the Chernobyl accident site, pose a danger to human and animal health by releasing radioactive particles and gases back into the air.  In addition to the heat load … Continue reading →