“Toxic Waste Bubble Gum” recalled for lead contamination

Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Believe it or not, there is actually a product on the market called “Toxic Waste Short Circuits Bubble Gum.” How’s that for subliminally mind-warping your children into thinking toxic waste is fun and tastes good, too!  Ironically, the Pakistani product has been recalled for “elevated levels of lead,” per the FDA. Only Lot #15070SC12, shipped between January 4 and March 18, 2011, is involved.

The candies look like spent uranium fuel pellets from a nuclear power plant. Isn’t that cute?  Forget that this nuclear waste is more dangerous than the nuclear reactor itself.  Those fuel pellets are stored in rod assemblies that are submersed in cooling pools on top of nuclear reactors, as I detailed in a recent post.

Quoting physician and nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott:

There’s far more radiation in each of the cooling pools than there is in each reactor itself…. Now the very short-lived isotopes have decayed away to nothing. But the long-lived ones, the very dangerous ones, Cesium, Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, Neptunium, I mean really dangerous ones, the long-lived ones – that’s what the fuel pools hold.

Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab whistleblower and geoscientist, Leuren Moret, recently gave a 65-minute interview where she reported that each of these tiny pellets contain 6% uranium. Hardly something we would want our children to think is fun or tastes good.