கூடங்குளம் அணுமின் நிலையத்தை மூடு! நாகர்கோவிலில் HRPC கருத்தரங்கம்!!

மனித உரிமை பாதுகாப்பு மைய கிளை கன்னியாகுமரி மாவட்டத்தில் இருப்பது மிகுந்த மகிழ்ச்சி அளிக்கிறது. ம.க.இ.க.வின் தோழமை அமைப்பின் கருத்தரங்கம் நாகர்கோவிலில் என்றதும் கூடங்குளம் போராட்டம் வெற்றி அடைந்துவிட்டது போன்றதொரு மகிழ்ச்சி உணர்வு! கையறு நிலையில் வாழ்த்து சொல்ல எனக்கு தகுதியில்லை என்றாலும் கருத்தரங்கம் முழு வெற்றி பெற என்னுடைய வாழ்த்துக்களையும் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.

அருமையான கட்டுரை. அணு உலைக்கு எதிரான மக்கள் போராட்டம் வெல்லட்டும்.

“இரத்தம் சிந்திய மக்கள் போராட்டத்தால் ராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலம் ஜெய்தாப்பூர் அணு உலை தற்போது நிறுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது”

ஜெய்தாபூர், மஹாராஷ்டிர மாநிலத்தில் உள்ள ரத்தினகிரி மாவட்டம் மதுபன் என்ற கிராமத்தில் அமைந்துள்ளது. ராஜஸ்தானில் அல்ல.

அணி திரள்வோம்

“1986 ரஷ்ய செர்னோபில் அணு உலை விபத்தில் பல்லாயிரம் மக்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டு…”

செர்னோபில் விபத்தில் நேரடி கதிர்வீச்சின் காரணமாக இறந்தவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 50. விபத்து நடந்து 25 ஆண்டுகளில் கதிரியக்கத்தினால் ஏற்பட்ட புற்று நோயினால் இறந்தவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 5000. சர்வதேச அணுசக்தி கழகம் வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கை.

http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/Chernobyl/pdfs/pr.pdf

இந்தியாவில் சாலை விபத்தில் ஆண்டுதோறும் இறப்பவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை 1 லட்சத்துக்கும் அதிகம்.

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/country_profiles/en/index.html

நூற்றுக்கும் அதிகமான அணு உலைகள் கடந்த 50 ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக இயங்கி வருகின்றன. ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய்களை கொட்டி கட்டப்பட்ட அணு உலைகளை பாதுகாப்பாக இயக்குவது எப்படி என்பதை ஆராயாமல், மூடுவதே தீர்வு என் முரண்டு பிடிக்கும் போராட்டத்திற்கு பொதுமக்கள் ஆதரவு குறைந்து வருகிறது என்பதே உண்மை.

இந்த கட்டுரை மூலம் அணுமின் பற்றி அறிந்து கொண்டேன். நன்றி வினவு! உங்கள் சேவை தொடர வாழ்த்துக்கள்!

“செர்னோபில்லின் அதே தொழில் நுட்பத்தில் இன்று கூடங்குளத்தில் இரண்டு அணு உலைகள் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது”

தவறான செய்தி.
செர்நோபில் அணு உலைகள் RMBK எனப்படும் கிராஃபைட் தணிப்பான்கள் (moderator) கொண்டது. மேலும் containment எனப்படும் உறுதியான வெளிப்புற கட்டிடம் கிடையாது. கூடங்குளம் அணு உலைகள் VVER எனப்படும் தண்ணீரை தணிப்பானாக பயன்படுத்தும் வகையைச் சேர்ந்தது. விபத்து நிகழ்ந்தாலும் கதிர்வீச்சு வெளியே பரவாது தடுக்க முடியும்.

இக்கட்டுரை தவறான தகவல்களின் அடிப்படையில் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளது.

நாம் என்ன போராட்டம் செய்து என்ன? மங்கூசு மன்டையர் மன்னு மொகன் வாய் மூடியே இருப்பார்.

வினவிர்க்கு ந்யானியை பிடிக்காது என்று எனக்கு தெரியும். ஆனால் அவர் ஒரு அருமையான கட்டுரையை எழுதி உள்ளார். அவரது புள்ளியியல் விவர்ங்கள் நேர்த்தியாக உள்ளன. வினவு வாசகர்கள் அதையும் படித்து பாருங்கள்.

கருத்தரங்கம் வெற்றிபெற வாழ்த்துக்கள்.நான் அவசியம் வருகிறேன்.

கூடங்குளம் அணுமின் நிலையத்திற்கு எதிராக போராடிவரும் போராட்டக்காரர்களின் கோரிக்கை வெற்றி பெற்றுவிடுமானால், அது இந்தியாவில் உள்ள அனைத்து அணூலைகளுக்கும் ஆபத்தாக முடியும் என எச்சரிக்கிறேன்..

கூடங்குளம் போராட்டக்குழுவினரின் கோரிக்கைகள் நிறைவேறினால், இந்தியாவில் உள்ள மற்ற அணூலைகளையும் மூடக்கோரி போராட்டம் நடத்தப்படும், இது இந்தியாவிற்கு பேரிழப்பாக மாறும்.

உலகிலெ யெ அனு உலைகலை ஆத்ரிகும் மெதாவி கல் இருகும் ஒரெ நாடு நம் இந்திய தான். மட்ர நாடுகல் அனைதும் முட துவஙி விட்டன. இப்படி பட்ட நாடில் பிரக்க என்ன தவம் செஇதொமொ நாம் எல்லம். வாக்ழ்க நம் நாடு.

கூடங்குளம் அணுமின்நிலையம் வேண்டும் என்று வாதாடும் சுயநலவாதிகளுக்காக ஒரு செய்தி….

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s food watchdog, the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA), said it hasn’t imported Meiji brand milk powder to the country since March 2011.

Dairy products and infant formula, including baby food containing milk, were suspended from four prefectures – Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma.

This was in response to Japan’s recall of 400,000 cans of powdered milk after traces of radiation from its crippled nuclear plant were detected.

Dairy products from other prefectures are subject to AVA’s sampling programme.

AVA also said that dairy products from Japan that are in the market are safe for consumption.

– CNA/fa

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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1169971/1/.html

Chernobyl nuclear disaster: 25th anniversary
Posted by feww on April 26, 2011

1 Million Killed in Chernobyl Disaster

Ukraine marks the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On 26 April 1986 Reactor 4 at Chernobyl NPP in Ukraine, then in the Soviet Union, exploded releasing about one hundred times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Ukrainian city of Chernobyl had managed to live for 793 years… that is until the Chernobyl nuclear power plant underwent a core meltdown on April 26, 1986 at about 1:00am local time. This image was taken by authorities in the former Soviet Union

Remembering Chernobyl Victims

The sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen behind a building decorated with a graffiti in the abandoned city of Prypiat April 4, 2011. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia will mark the 25th anniversary of the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, the place where the world’s worst civil nuclear accident took place, on April 26. Engineers are still struggling to regain control of damaged reactors at the Fuskushima plant after last month’s earthquake and tsunami, in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986, with the government urging the operator of the plant to act faster to stop radiation spreading. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich. Image may be subject to copyright. Reuters images …

Birth defects and cancer were the norm for many years following the Chernobyl disaster. By the time residents of Pripyat, a town located near the plant, were ordered to evacuate, about two days after the Chernobyl core meltdown had occurred, many had already been exposed to varying doses of radiation poisoning.

The Incident: A meltdown of the reactor’s core in the Chernobyl power plant killed thirty people in 1986. About 135,000 people were evacuated. It is believed that about one hundred times more radiation was released in the accident than by the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Legacy: More than 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer were diagnosed among children and adolescents between 1992 to 2002 in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Victims under 14 years were most severely affected by the elevated concentrations of radioiodine found in milk.

Incidents of skin lesions, respiratory ailments, infertility and birth defects were readily found among the more than five million people who inhabit the affected areas of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine for many years following the accident.

The Poisoned land. Up to 5 million people continue to live on radioactive contaminated land. About 85% of the children who live in contaminated areas of Belarus today are ill, a near 6-fold increase compared to the time before the explosion (15%), according to The Belarusian National Academy of Sciences.

Disputed Facts: The above facts, however, have been disputed by a number of individuals including the author of a recent WHO report, and the retired “nukophile” British academic, James Lovelack. Local and international experts, however, have dismissed the WHO report findings. A UN report released in 2005 estimated the number of victims at just 4,000. Their figure is hotly disputed by NGOs and independent experts.

“A report by Alexey Yablokov, Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko which appeared in the Annals of the New York Academy of Science showed that by 2004, there were 985,000 additional deaths worldwide caused by the nuclear disaster, including 212,000 of them within Western Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.”

Chernobyl fallout covers the entire Northern Hemisphere
Consequences of the Catastrophe. Authors Alexey Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow), Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko ( Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus) studies about 5,000 reports and scientific papers mostly published in Slavic languages and compiled their finding in the book “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” which was published last year on the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl reactor core meltdown.

“For the past 23 years, it has been clear that there is a danger greater than nuclear weapons concealed within nuclear power. Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” They wrote.

“No citizen of any country can be assured that he or she can be protected from radioactive contamination. One nuclear reactor can pollute half the globe,” the authors said. “Chernobyl fallout covers the entire Northern Hemisphere.”

According to the book, a total of about 830,000 people, referred to as the “liquidators,” were responsible for various emergency works at the Chernobyl site including fire extinguishing, decontamination and cleanup.

The authors say between 112,000 and 125,000 of the liquidators had died by 2005. The authors also estimate that between 1986 and 2004 some 985,000 people died as a result of Chernobyl fallout {2011 estimates are well over a million deaths.]

“Official discussions from the International Atomic Energy Agency and associated United Nations’ agencies (e.g. the Chernobyl Forum reports) have largely downplayed or ignored many of the findings reported in the Eastern European scientific literature and consequently have erred by not including these assessments.” The authors said last year.

Chernobyl and Other Nuclear Stats

•More than 95% of the radioactive material (180 metric tons with a radioactivity of about 18 million curies) still remains inside the Chernobyl reactor.
•The core meltdown at Chernobyl was said to have released radiation estimated at 50 million curies. Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations said in 1995 that the meltdown had released about 140 million curies. [Researchers Alexey Yablokov, Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko say the radiation released from Chernobyl may have been up to 10 billion curies. In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb released about 3 million curies.]
•Immediately after the accident, 237 people suffered from acute radiation sickness, and 31 died within the first 90 days of the disaster.
•About 135,000 people were evacuated from the area surrounding the plant, including 50,000 from the town of Pripyat.
•The Academy’s estimate for the number of casualties are more than 90,000 deaths and more than a quarter of a million cancer cases.
•The Ukrainian National Commission for Radiation Protection calculates the number of radiation casualties at half a million deaths so far.
•In a book published by the New York Academy of Sciences last year on the 24th anniversary of the reactor core meltdown, the researchers maintain that about one million people have died from exposure to radiation released by the Chernobyl reactor so far [as of 2010.]
•“In the former Soviet Union at least 9 million people have been effected by the accident; 2.5 million in Belarus; 3.5 million in Ukraine; and 3 million in Russia. In total over 160 000 Km2 are contaminated in the three republics.” source
•Some 441 commercial nuclear power reactors are operating in 31 countries ( total capacity of 376 gigawatts) each of which is potentially as lethal as Chernobyl, if not worse. [This item, updated here, was written before the Fukushima nuclear disaster began unfolding.]
•An estimated 56 countries operate more than 250 research reactors.
•At least 220 nuclear reactors power military ships and submarines.
Fukushima NPP
Fukushima NPP is said to contain about 4,277 tons of nuclear fuel, about 24 times as much as Chernobyl (~ 180 tons).

“The Fukushima Dai-ichi site has a considerable number of fuel rods on hand, according to information provided Thursday by Toyko Electric Power Co., which owns the atomic complex: There are 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools within the six-reactor plant, including one joint pool storing very old fuel from units 3 and 4. There are 877 tons in five of the reactor cores. Officials have said that the fuel in Unit 4′s reactor vessel was transferred to its spent fuel pool when the unit was temporarily shut in November.” AP reported.

On April 12, Japanese authorities raised the measure of severity of the Fukushima NPP disaster to the maximum level of 7 on INES. (See below for details.)

The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)
The INES, a logarithmic scale, which was introduced in 1990 by the IAEA to enable prompt communication, classifies the intensity of nuclear incidents as follows:

7 – Major Accident [Chernobyl disaster, criticality accident, April 1986]

6 – Serious Accident [e.g., Kyshtym incident, Mayak, former Soviet Union, steam explosion released up to 80 tons of highly radioactive material into the atmosphere, September 1957. ]

5 – Accident With Wider Consequences [e.g., Three Mile Island accident Pen State, U.S., partial meltdown release radioactive gases into the environment, March 1979.]

4 – Accident With Local Consequences [e.g., Sellafield, UK, at least 5 incidents reported between 1955 to 1979]

3 – Serious Incident [e.g., Vandellos NPP, Spain, fire destroyed control systems; the reactor was shut down, July1989]

2 – Incident [e.g., Forsmark NPP, Sweden, a backup generator failed, July 2006]

1 – Anomaly [e.g., TNPC, France, 1,600 gallons of water containing 75 kilograms (170 lb) of uranium leaked into the environment, July 2008]

0 – Deviation (No Safety Significance) — [e.g., Atucha, Argentina – Reactor shutdown caused by tritium increase in reactor encasement, December 2006.]

What is a lethal dose of radiation from a single Exposure?
Studies of the 1945 atomic bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki show that 100 percent of victims whose bodies were exposed to 600,000 millirems (6,000 mSv) died from radiation. About 50 percent of victims who received 450,000 millirems (4,500 mSv) of radiation also died.

(Note: Rem is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to the amount that produces the same damage to humans as one roentgen of high-voltage x-rays. Source: MIT)

1 rem = 10 mSv (1 Sv = 100 rem)

Background Radiation in millirems per year (mrem/yr)
•Average background radiation (US): 300
•Higher altitudes (e.g, Denver): 400
“Safe Levels” of Radiation (U.S.)
Limits above natural background radiation levels (average 300 millirems per year) and medical radiation:

•Occupation Limit: Maximum of 5,000 (the limit for a worker using radiation)
•Average Natural Background: 300
[Note: Lifetime cumulative exposure should be limited to a person’s age multiplied by 1,000 millirems, e.g., a 70-year-old person, 70,000 millirems.]

Adults

•Max single dose for an adult: 3,000
•Annual total dose: 5,000
Under 18

•Max single dose for a person aged under 18 years: 300 millirems (whole body equivalent)
•Annual total exposure: 500
Fetal Exposure

•Maximum limit for fetal exposure during gestation period: 50 millirems per month above background levels
Medical

•Single Chest X-ray (the whole body equivalent): 2 millirem
Air Travel

•Coast-to-coast US round trip flight: 12 millirems
*Note: Radiation dose of about 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) cause serious illness.

Half-life of some radioactive elements

[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.]

•Cesium-134 ~ 2 years
•Cesium-137 ~ 30 years
•Iodine-131 ~ 8 days
•Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years
•Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.]
•Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days
•Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.]
•Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years
•Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years
•Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years

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