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Chances are if you are reading this you may love a kid or two or ten in your life. It could be your own or your grandkids or maybe the kid is your best friend's child or even some favorite nieces or nephews or the adorable urchins who live two houses down. Or if your kids are grown, you may really want them to one day have kids of their own so that you could hold and love and play with your future grandchildren.
Kids are our hope and our future. And many of us who are speaking up and out against wars and about the radioactive weapons we use in them do so not so much for ourselves (as many of us have lived more than half the number of years we are meant to live, anyway), but we do it for the kids or promise of grandkids or other young ones we know and love.
I have been
doing research about what happens to the Uranium we use inside the US after it is fired, dropped, exploded, or burned out into the open air. I keep trying to think about: How will it affect our kids and their grandkids and so on? What kind of a legacy are we leaving these little ones in terms of how difficult will it be for them to breathe? In 40 years hence, how likely are they (compared to us now) to come down with asthma, severe allergies, diabetes, heart disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, MS, Fibromyalgia, or various cancers?
I have been reading an amazing report - the type that you don't often read in the US. It was done by The Royal Society and it tells us, citizens here in the U.S., the research done in our own proving grounds that does not even appear to be available for our own reading - even though we live here!
What I am finding out is that when Uranium oxides are fired into the air, some of that radioactivity does contaminate our waters (oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds) and eventually finds its way down into the soils and groundwaters and wells.
One passage that hit me hard reads:
"Studies have shown that even reduced uranium oxides may over a period of tens, hundreds and thousands of years become mobilised into ecosystems and the local environment. These are timetables over which studies in the laboratories and at proving grounds are impractical or impossible".
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/displaypagedoc.asp?id=11498
And with all my research that shows that U238 has been used in "test" facilities all over this nation,
including in Hawaii and Alaska... and the atomic bomb "tests" (radioactivity still present)... and the 103 nuke reactors with their releases, and all the weapons production/manufacturing plants...
What kind of a nation are we leaving these kids? How come more Americans are not up in arms? Do they not know? Do they not care? Certainly everyone loves at least one kid, don't you think? I honestly can not figure this out.
Does anyone have any clues?
Thanks in advance,
Cathy Garger
Help the US become Radiation Free by 2033!
Cathy Garger
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