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thorium bandwagon please share this information do your own research and think twice before spreading the hundreds of myths not facts about this very dangerous alternative to uranium sources nuclearfreeplanet org nonukes it industrytap com envirosagainstwar org kelley bergman is a media consultant critic and geopolitical investigator she has worked as a journalist and writer specializing in geostrategic issues around the globe http preventdisease com news 13 111013_dont jump on the thorium bandwagon not green not viable not the answer shtml leave a comment thorium nuclear reactors an expensive waste of time march 13 2015 christina macpherson economics why are we not using thorium instead of uranium for power https in answers yahoo com question index qid 20150303142722aa751rc i have followed this technology for some years with interest it has merits and one great demerit it is very costly at least twice the cost of most renewables so why go this route the so called renaissance of uranium reactors has become a fiasco the finnish project with areva was to cost 2500 per mwe for the first prototype with 1200 per mwe in the following standardized units the reality is 3 years behind schedule 77 over budget with no hope of completion at less than a 100 overrun and standardized successors now priced at 5000 per mwe four times the hoped for cost there is no reason whatever to claim thorium based reactors will be any cheaper we cannot afford to waste precious time and money on nuclear but should have a crash implementation of commercializing renewables like wind and solar thermal electric leave a comment medical use of thorium a cancer causing mistake february 28 2015 christina macpherson health thorotrast http en wikipedia org wiki thorotrast thorotrast is a suspension containing particles of the radioactive compound thorium dioxide tho 2 that was used as a radiocontrast agent in medical radiography in the 1930s and 1940s use in some countries such as the u s continued into the 1950s thorium compounds produce excellent images because of thorium s high opacity to x rays it has a high cross section for absorption unfortunately thorium is retained in the body and it is radioactive emitting harmful alpha radiation as it decays because the suspension offered high image quality and had virtually no immediate side effects compared to the alternatives available at the time thorotrast became widely used after its introduction in 1931 antónio egas moniz contributed to its development 1 about 2 to 10 million patients worldwide have been treated with thorotrast safety even at the time of introduction there was concern about the safety of thorotrast following injection the drug is distributed to the liver spleen lymph nodes and bone where it is absorbed after this initial absorption redistribution takes place at a very slow pace specifically the biological half life is estimated to be 22 years 2 this means that the organs of patients who have been given thorotrast will be exposed to internal alpha radiation for the rest of their lives the significance of this long term exposure was not fully understood at the time of thorotrast s introduction in 1931 due to the release of alpha particles thorotrast was found to be extremely carcinogenic there is a high over incidence of various cancers in patients who have been treated with thorotrast the cancers occur some years usually 20 30 after injection of thorotrast the risk of developing liver cancer or bile duct cancer in former thorotrast patients has been measured to be well above 100 times the risk of the rest of the population the risk of leukemia appears to be 20 times higher in thorotrast patients 3 thorotrast exposure has also been associated with the development of angiosarcoma german patients exposed to thorotrast had their median life expectancy shortened by 14 years in comparison to a similar non exposed control group 4 the danish director nils malmros s movie facing the truth original danish title at kende sandheden from 2002 portrays the dilemma that faced malmros s father richard malmros when treating his patients in the 1940s richard malmros was deeply concerned about the persistence of thorotrast in the body but was forced to use thorotrast because the only available alternative per abrodil had serious immediate side effects suffered from image quality problems and was difficult to obtain during the second world war the use of thorotrast in denmark ended in 1947 when safer alternatives became available today iodinated hydrophilic molecules are universally used as injected contrast agents for x ray procedures leave a comment 1979 2015 the story of malaysia s thorium pollution at bukit merah february 28 2015 christina macpherson politics wastes the star has discovered that 80 000 200 litre drums containing radioactive waste are currently being kept at the dump located in the kledang range behind papan town the site is about 3km from bukit merah and papan and about 15km from ipoh and the waste is thorium hydroxide not amang chronology of events in the bukit merah asian rare earth development http www consumer org my index php health 454 chronology of events in the bukit merah asian rare earth developments eight men a welder a shoemaker a general worker a pensioner a barber a tractor driver a crane operator and a cancer victim who was to die shortly sued asian rare earth in 1985 on behalf of themselves and 10 000 other residents of bukit merah and the environs in perak they wanted to shut down this rare earth plant in their village near ipoh because its radioactive waste was endangering their lives when the mitsubishi joint venture plant opened over 1982 the villagers soon began complaining of the factory s stinging smoke and bad smell which made them choke and cry worse was to come their health began failing indicated not only by frequent bouts of coughs and colds but a sharp rise in the incidence of leukaemia infant deaths congenital disease and lead poisoning for the first time in malaysian legal history an entire community has risen to act over an environmental issue to protect their health and environment from radioactive pollution below is the chronology of what happened when a radioactive rare earth plant was set up in bukit merah today about 30 years later the government is allowing a new rare earth plant to be set up by lynas in gebeng kuantan this new project should be scrapped if the malaysian government puts the health of malaysians before profits 1979 november the asian rare earth sdn bhd are is incorporated to extract yttrium a rare earth from monazite the major shareholders are the following mitsubishi chemical industries ltd 35 beh minerals 35 lembaga urusan dan tabung haji or the state owned pilgrims management fund board 20 and other bumiputra businessmen 10 are seeks the advice of the tun ismail research centre puspati of the science technology and environment ministry about radioactive waste produced by processing monazite it is decided that the waste the property of the perak state government will be kept in view of its potential as a source of nuclear energy 1982 june residents of parit in perak learn that a nine acre site six kilometres away has been chosen by the government as a storage dump for are s radioactive waste 30 june following strong protest by the residents committee and other political and social organisations the plan is scrapped by the government which begins to look for another site to locate the dump 11 july are factory begins operations at 7 2 km jalan lahat in bukit merah new village 1983 november residents of papan about 16 kilometres from ipoh find out that are is building trenches of a waste dump near their town to store radioactive waste the site had been picked by the government 1984 24 may about 6 700 residents of papan and nearby towns sign a protest letter and send it to the prime minister perak menteri besar the minister of health the minister of science technology and environment 31 may about 200 residents from papan protest against the proposed waste dump they block the road leading to the site 5 june the prime minister datuk seri dr mahathir mohamad says the government has taken every precaution to ensure safety and that construction of the radioactive dump in papan will go ahead 18 june about 300 papan residents demonstrate for the second time against the proposed location of the dump 28 june the minister of science technology and environment datuk amar stephen yong states that the papan dump is safe because it is being built according to stringent standards he challenges critics to prove that the dump will be hazardous to health and the environment in the meanwhile are continues operating dumping the thorium waste into an open field and pond next to the factory 1 july about 3 000 people including women and children hold a peaceful demonstration to protest against the papan dump 4 july about 2 000 people continue with the demonstration despite an order from the perak chief police officer to call it off 18 july a bukit merah action committee is formed comprising residents from bukit merah lahat menglembu and taman badri shah to support the papan residents sahabat alam malaysia sam sends a memorandum to the prime minister stating that high levels of radiation exist at the open field and pond next to the are factory in bukit merah one reading taken by sam officials in a recent visit was 43 800 millirems year 88 times higher than the maximum level permitted by the international commission on radiological protection icrp for the public 29 august michael o riordan from the british national radiological protection board is invited by the government to inspect the dump site in papan 19 september a three man team from the united nations international atomic energy agency iaea visit the papan site at the invitation of the malaysian government they declare the trenches there as unsafe 1992 11 july the people of bukit merah win their suit against are the factory is ordered by the ipoh high court to shut down within 14 days are announces that it will appeal to the supreme court 23 july are files an appeal at the supreme court against the ipoh high court order to cease operations parc chairman hew yoon tat and lau fong fatt one of the plaintiffs in the suit against are meet top management personnel of mitsubishi chemical in japan they are told that are filed the appeal without the corporation s consent 23 december 1993 the supreme court overturned the high court decision on 2 grounds the court was of the opinion that are s experts were more believable in terms of the results of the tests conducted by them showing that radiation was within permissible levels secondly the supreme court said that the residents should have gone back to the aelb to ask that it revoke are s licence because aelb has the power to do so under the atomic energy licensing act despite the success of are in their appeal the company later stopped operations and began cleaning up due to public pressure both nationally and internationally 1994 19 january 1994 are announced the closure of its bukit merah plant 2003 a decommissioning and decontamination exercise started in 2003 and 2005 2010 13 june 2010 former premier dr mahathir mohamad disagreed with the proposal for malaysia to build nuclear power plants and reported that a small amount of nuclear waste was buried in perak mahathir said in malaysia we do have nuclear waste which perhaps the public is not aware of we had to bury the amang tin tailings in perak deep in the ground but the place is still not safe almost one square mile of that area is dangerous following his remarks the star has discovered that 80 000 200 litre drums containing radioactive waste are currently being kept at the dump located in the kledang range behind papan town the site is about 3km from bukit merah and papan and about 15km from ipoh and the waste is thorium hydroxide not amang in fact it is only january this year that work finally began on the building of a proper underground storage facility called an engineered cell ec the ongoing cleanup of the 30 year old problem is estimated to cost a massive rm300 million leave a comment malaysian thorium polluted site quietly cleaned up by mitsubishi february 28 2015 christina macpherson wastes mitsubishi quietly cleans up its former refinery http www nytimes com 2011 03 09 business energy environment 09rareside html _r 0 by keith bradsher march 8 2011 bukit merah malaysia hidden here in the jungles of north central malaysia in a broad valley fringed with cave pocked limestone cliffs topped with acacia and durian trees lies the site of the largest radiation cleanup yet in the rare earth industry residents blamed a rare earth refinery for birth defects and eight leukemia cases within five years in a community of 11 000 after many years with no leukemia cases seven of the leukemia victims have since died the bukit merah case is little known even elsewhere in malaysia and virtually unknown in the west because mitsubishi chemical quietly agreed to fix the problem even without a legal order to do so local protesters had contacted japanese environmentalists and politicians who in turn helped persuade the image conscious company to close the refinery in 1992 and subsequently spend an estimated 100 million to clean up the site image burnishing was important because the company is part of the mitsubishi group of companies which has long made malaysia the cornerstone of its southeast asian operations the group has dominant positions in manufacturing a range of products including air conditioners and cars mitsubishi chemical also reached an out of court settlement with residents here by agreeing to donate 164 000 to the community s schools while denying any responsibility for illnesses osamu shimizu the director of asian rare earth the mitsubishi chemical subsidiary that owns the mine declined to discuss details of the factory s operation before it closed in 1992 but he said that the company was committed to a safe and complete cleanup workers in protective gear have already removed 11 000 truckloads of radioactively contaminated material hauling away every trace of the old refinery and even tainted soil from beneath it down to the bedrock as much as 25 feet below said anthony goh the consultant overseeing the project for one of mitsubishi s contractors geosyntec an atlanta based firm to dispose of the radioactive material engineers have cut the top off a hill three miles away in a forest reserve buried the material inside the hill s core and then entombed it under more than 20 feet of clay and granite the toughest part of the bukit merah cleanup will come this summer when robots and workers in protective gear are to start trying to move more than 80 000 steel barrels of radioactive waste from a concrete bunker they will mix it with cement and gypsum and then permanently store it in the hilltop repository the...