Dr Caldicott is armed with 37 years of extensive research, including access to thousands of official medical, scientific and economic documents that blow the cover on the dangers and costs of nuclear energy.

Together with a growing number of experts and professionals from all over the world Dr Caldicott is working to ensure members of the public have information and control over the nuclear energy issue.

When asked what happens after radioactive exposure Dr Caldicott informed Narooma news, “If you are engulfed in a cloud of radioactive gasses after a meltdown your hair drops out, you develop severe vomiting and diarrhea and you die bleeding to death within two weeks, that’s called acute radiation sickness, that’s what happened after Hiroshima and it happened after Chernobyl and after the Three Mile Island meltdown,” she said.

“Then in five years there will be an epidemic of Leukemia and particularly in children who are incredibly sensitive to radiation, 10 or 20 times more than an adult and then an epidemic of solid cancer starting fifteen years later,” she said.

People living around nuclear reactors are also at great risk as reactors continuously emit radiation into the air and water.

“It is medically contra indicated to live near a nuclear power plant,” Dr Caldicott said.

The radio program ‘if you love this planet’ is recorded in Canberra and edited in Bermagui by Australian program producer and engineer Jasmin Williams.

Already aired on five independent radio stations in the US the show will officially be launched in America by host network Pacifica Radio at the beginning of June.

Plans to have the show aired in Australia are under way.

To date she has spoken with David Lochbaum, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists in America who spoke about the vulnerability of aging reactors in the united states and the proven risks to public health.

For information visit www.ifyoulovethisplanet.org

A full-length feature article on the issue will be printed in the next Bermagui Times on Wednesday June 18.