[ RadSafe ] Re: Serious reporting on Chernobyl - and the LNT

[John Jacobus]

Howard,
If you are so concerned, why dont you do it?

--- radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl <hflong at pacbell.net>
wrote:
> This morning the American Conference of Catholic
Bishops sponsored a program 
> showing in heart-rending personal detail some cases
of children's cancer from the Ukraine with treatment
in the USA. The preliminary Chernobyl pictures and
doomsday music associated it with radiation. 
>  
> Would someone with authoritative knowledge on
post-Chernobyl cancer frequency 
> inform that group of the greater damage from panic
(like thousands of abortions)
> and malnutrition (like neurologic defects from folic
acid deficiency from insufficient greens in pregnancy
from the excessive exodus and displacement?
> 
> Howard Long
> 
> "Ludwig Dr. Feinendegen" <feinendegen at gmx.net>
wrote:
> Dear Jim:
> 
> Thanks again for the info. I am delighted about this
article and hope that
> people note what is going on. I am still on travel
and will come back later
> after my return. 
> 
> All the best,
> Ludwig
> 
> 
> > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > Von: "Muckerheide, James" 
> > An: , 
> > Kopie: "rad-sci-l at wpi.edu" , 
> > Betreff: Serious reporting on Chernobyl - and the
LNT
> > Datum: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:27:34 -0400
> > 
> > Friends, FYI.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Why can't the nuclear industry produce and apply
the equivalent factual
> > treatment of the readily documented lack of health
effects from low dose
> > radiation exposures!?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> > 
> > ===================
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Washington Times: Chernobyl exposed -
Editorials/Op-Ed - 
> > 
> > By Joshua Gilder 
> > 
> > October 25, 2005 
> > 
> > It turns out that scaring people to death may be
more than a 
> > figure of speech. That's the overriding message of
a recently 
> > released U.N. report on the health effects of the
1986 explosion 
> > at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the
then-Soviet Ukraine. 
> > 
> > The result of an exhaustive investigation by eight
U.N. 
> > agencies, the report concludes that a "paralyzing
fatalism" 
> > among the residents of the effected areas and
problems such as 
> > suicide, alcoholism and clinical depression --
resulting in part 
> > >from people's perceived sense of hopelessness --
"pose a far 
> > greater threat to local communities than does
radiation 
> > exposure." 
> > 
> > The Chernobyl explosion and resulting fire spewed
200 times 
> > as much radioactivity into the environment as the
Hiroshima and 
> > Nagasaki atom bombs combined, directly affecting
an area 
> > currently inhabited by some 5 million people.
(Built with 
> > standard Soviet disregard for public safety, the
unstable 
> > reactor had no containment structure.) 
> > 
> > At the time of the disaster, all Europe was thrown
into 
> > panic, with estimates of as many as a half-million
people dying 
> > as a result of the contamination. Yet, according
to the report, 
> > there have been fewer than 60 fatalities so far,
about 50 of 
> > them on-site staff and emergency workers exposed
to massive 
> > radiation poisoning at the time of the blast and
its immediate 
> > aftermath. It is believed that nine children have
also died of 
> > thyroid cancer as a result of the accident, though
these deaths 
> > may have been preventable. 
> > 
> > The U.N. scientists were deeply divided over the
report's 
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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


	
		
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