[ RadSafe ] Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Could Have Been Worse

[John Jacobus]

Susan,
Thanks for this copy.  So the estimate is 3,490
additional cancers among the typical number of 131,333
cancers.  And that is plus or minus what?

--- Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net> wrote:

> More details from the report.
> 
> --Susan Gawarecki
> 
> Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Could Have Been Worse
>
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/tb/1686
> 
> By Michael Smith , MedPage Today Staff Writer
> Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
> at the University of 
> Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
> 
> Review
> 
> VIENNA, Sept. 5 - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster 19
> years ago may 
> eventually lead to up to 4,000 deaths from radiation
> exposure, but so 
> far fewer than 50 people have died from the direct
> effects of radiation, 
> a United Nations report says.
> 
> Most of the deaths were among emergency workers and
> came within months 
> of the April 26, 1986, explosion, which has been
> called the world's 
> worst nuclear accident. The toll also includes nine
> children who died of 
> thyroid cancer from drinking radiation-tainted milk.
> 
> The UN report says there will likely be 3,940 excess
> cancer and leukemia 
> deaths among the roughly 600,000 people who were
> exposed to high levels 
> of radiation after the accident, but that is only
> about a 3% increase 
> over the rate of spontaneous cancer deaths and may
> be difficult to detect.
> . . .

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


	
		
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