1957: Accident in Windscale – UK. The core melted. Radioactivity harms the environment (Iocine 131) More than 50 years later, thyroid cancer is still rising in this area. (…) – more
John Garland, director of the research team which developed a british study about the consequences said that not only 200 people got cancer because of the accident but much more. The Windscale reactor was build to produce Plutonium for atomic bombs (this was also the purpose of the Chernobyl reactor). Source
Since 1929 genetic und cancer creating effects of radioactivity are known.
In 1946 Hermann J. Mueller got for his experiemts the nobelprice: Source
Today science and IAEA ignore these facts.
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