French
Government's Deception
On Deadly Tricastin Spill
By Bob Nichols
31 July,
2008
Countercurrents.org
(San Francisco) July 28, 2008 - The French Government today admitted a series of dangerous radioactive spills near French nuclear giant AREVA plants at Tricastin, in a wine growing region of southeastern France.
Paolo Scampa, a physicist and President of the International Association for Protection Against Ionizing Radiation, condemned the deceptive French response in the strongest possible terms. AIPRI was established in 1964. Workers at the Tricastin plant were evacuated after contamination July 27.
The chain reaction of events is a public relations and radiological
disaster for AREVA, owner of the plant. AREVA is partially owned by
the French government.
The international reaction was swift. The British are questioning
the upcoming sale of the British nuclear industry to France's AREVA
and the Americans are uneasy about construction of a huge double new
nuclear reactor at Calvert Cliffs near Washington, DC.
Nuclear reactors make nuclear bomb grade plutonium, about 500 lbs a year, and they heat water to make steam.
AIPRI President Scampa's Letter of Congratulations
July 19, 2008
The Association Internationale pour la Protection contre les Rayons Ionisants, AIPRI, congratulates the French authorities for their excellent campaign to conceal the truth about the deadly leak of insoluble uranium into the Drome River in southeastern France on July 7.
"Radioactive leaks without environmental impact." With mere words they have rescued a region recently listed as contaminated, from its radioactive fate. There is now more deadly uranium in the Drome and Rhone River basin than ever polluted the waters surrounding Chernobyl!
"There is no imminent danger." Another stunning denial of
reality that the media helped craft, to conceal everlasting devastation.
The AIPRI can only salute your valiant efforts to keep the world ignorant
of the incontrovertible scientific fact that radioactivity persists
for billions of years.
It is commendable to deceive the public into believing that radioactivity is somehow diminished when it is diluted in water to infinitesimal, insoluble particles. In fact, dilution exponentially multiplies the opportunities for internal contamination of all life forms, and spreads cancer in its wake.
It is essential that the public ignore tens of millions of people,
starting with children, now at risk for hundreds of millennia. You
do well to lie. What must ordinary people do protect themselves when
faced with a superpower so supremely bent on self-interest that it
voluntarily contaminates itself ?
Be sure to ready a scientific propaganda "A" team briefed to say that the soon to appear "Drôme syndrome" is "totally unrelated to the Gulf syndrome." It will be easy to make the case, because the effects will be so much more drastic here, both in terms of cancer and mutations, that it will appear to bear no relationship to the Gulf Syndrome.
Ladies and gentlemen, you who by your actions have just inaugurated the Radioactive Mediterranean Union, we salute you. Your national contribution to world de-population is worthy of commendation.
President
Scampo may be reached by Email at [email protected]
and the "History of AIPRI" by President Scampo is available
at:
http://tinyurl.com/5qzhh7
Bob
Nichols is a San Francisco based, Project Censored Award
Winning writer and correspondent. Nichols covers war, peace and the
two nuclear weapons labs in San Francisco for the San Francisco Bay
View newspaper. Nichols is available by email at [email protected]
and at 415-992-6397.
