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Anti-nuclear quote of the week.

“Every year Areva, the French conglomerate that handles reprocessing, dumps so much radioactive liquid into the Channel that, says Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists, “there are certain beaches where the effluent pipe is where you can get a suntan at night.”"

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What absolutely laughable, ridiculous nonsense. Hell, even Caldicott probably wouldn’t be that stupid. Lochbaum does know what a suntan is, and what causes it, right?

April 18, 2008 Posted by Luke Weston | David Lochbaum, Helen Caldicott, anti-nuclear ignorance, anti-nuclear quote of the week, health physics, radiation | , , , , , | 2 Comments