The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) are very concerned with the Pahang state government’s decision to go ahead with the proposed rare earth plant in Gebeng despite the fact that this refinery is a disaster waiting to happen.
here is no safe level or threshold of ionizing radiation exposure. Long-term, low-level (chronic) exposure to radiation is harmful because living tissue in the human body can be damaged by ionizing radiation.
The exposure to radioactive waste can contribute to increased incidence of childhood leukaemia, cancer, miscarriages, impaired immune systems with an abnormal low white blood cell counts, high lead levels among children which would lead to lead poisoning.
Children are much more vulnerable to the harmful effects of radiation disasters than the general population because their bodies absorb and metabolize substances differently, and because they are more likely to develop certain cancers from such an exposure.
There is also a high possibility that children born to parents that have been exposed to radiation could be affected by those exposures too. The other issue of concern is that there no known way to safely dispose the waste which is generated from this refinery.
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