June 26, 2014, BERN, Switzerland. (AgoraVox) Translation: SWISS SCANDAL OF HIDDEN NUCLEAR WASTE IN VEGETABLE GARDENS. THE AUTHORITIES HAVE WITHHELD THE TRUTH Three hours with these wastes are sufficient to exceed the limit dose of radiation allowed a full year (my article from June 6 published in Journal nuclear) Gardens on a former nuclear dump. Since this Sunday Swiss Sunday morning and the SonntagsZeitung newspapers assert that local, cantonal and federal authorities are informed from a year and a half, but have decided to say nothing to not to panic the population of this city of 50,000 inhabitants located in the canton of Bern. And while this flagrant secretive scandal, the Swiss federal Office of public health (FOPH) dares venturing in doubtful words, stating that the risks for the health of the people living on this land are tiny, a simple reading of these same newspapers shows us that if this assertion is probably reassuring, it remains no less surprisingly questionable. Indeed, according to press reports, laboratory analysis shows that only three hours from this waste is sufficient to exceed the limit dose of radiation allowed a full year, spot the mistake, how to talk about tiny risks? In addition, it is close to these highly radioactive waste that people have cultivated their gardens, waste were buried to 30 cm and according to the journal Romandie the earth itself was highly contaminated. ADVERTISEMENT They have garden on radioactive waste headline this morning June 1, newspaper morning its only today today, after having been confronted with the information provided in themorningSunday by a whistleblower that the authorities came painfully to confirm the dramatic situation. It all starts with an old landfill open in which the watch industry of the time had thrown a phosphorescent paint used to illuminate clocks banned for its extreme danger figures. From 1950, two-thirds of the 15 hectares of disused landfill have gradually been converted into residential area. As for the rest of the contaminated land, it was covered with 30 centimetres of fresh Earth, prior to be invested by the population, which was installed about 60 small gardens. How therefore the FOPH dares to speak of very small risk to the public? Can we really believe it? What is the health of the people who live on this land and the people who have cultivated vegetables on a nuclear landfill? Have isotopes been eaten? Statistics show, that people are sicker than usually in this neighborhood? According to the newspaper Romandie highest content comes from the land disturbed at the beginning of the year: 300 microsieverts per hour were measured. So, we know that the earth itself was contaminated. What impact for vegetables grown in such a land? The district remained in total ignorance until the opening of the construction of the A5, in 2007-2008. It will be in November 2012 that the construction will fall on waste. A highly radioactive substance. 120 kg of radioactive waste were obtained after sorting.We measured doses of hundreds of microsieverts source, Danieĺ Dauwalder, spokesman of the federal Office Swiss public health (FOPH) in (the morning Sunday)In some places, have been measured up to 300 microsieverts per houris to say more than 100 times the amount authorized for a discharge of the time! Public health authorities blaming themselves, local officials saying that it should have been in the office of public health to inform the public, but the FOPH rejects in turn this accusation and said that this responsibility rests with the municipal authorities. Not even the Pr François Bochud, Director of the Institute of Radiophysics of the CHUV hospital and president of the Federal Commission of radiation protection and radioactivity (CPR) monitoring was held abreast of the situation in Biel. Not to inform residents and former occupants of the working-class Garden was a mistake, because everything eventually catch up with us and it is much harder to remain credible and recover the trust of the population. This time, indeed, the publics trust will be difficult to catch up in Switzerland. Radiation protection legislation exists since 1991. Before. There was no legal basis. It seems very difficult to continue the watch industry to be rid of radium paint in 1960 before his ban, said Sybille Estier.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:00:43 +0000
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