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

[howard long]

John,
Thousands of deaths are likely to be caused in the USA from Chernobyl ignorance and lack of Nukalert type data in the next 10 years - reason for all HPs to be concerned enough to counteract it.
 
It is also worthy of specialists with first hand knowledge of the Chernobyl data to correct it with more effect than my doing so..
 
Howard long

John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
Howard,
If you are so concerned, why dont you do it?

--- radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl 
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" 
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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