AW: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl's Reduced Impact

[Jaro]

John, you seem to forget that the Radiophobia that the Chernobyl victims
endured is not unique -- why don't you go have a look in the Radsafe
archives under "Goiania", "Jose Julio Rozental", etc. ?

The January 1991 special issue of Health Physics journal, subtitled "The
Goiania Radiation Accident," the specialist physicians of the Instituo de
Radioprotecao e Dosimetria of Brazil explained,

<quote>
....irresponsible yellow journalism stirred fear in the population
...hysteria instigated by the media was very expensive for the government
and extremely painful to those involved... the victims of Cesium 137 were
rejected by an entire city and its population... as much discriminated
against by society (as are) AIDS patients.
<end quote>

Now scale that situation up by about a factor of a hundred thousand, and
you've got the situation described by the U.N.'s the Chernobyl Forum.

 Jaro
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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 3:38 PM
To: Rainer.Facius at dlr.de; michael.g.stabin at Vanderbilt.Edu;
radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: AW: [ RadSafe ] Chernobyl's Reduced Impact


Rainer,
I think the causes of mental illness, alcoholism,
depression, etc. is due primarily to the people being
displaced from there home, loss of income, and being
lied to by their government.

In this country, large numbers of people were
evacuated, separated from family and friends, and sent
to places have never been before.  The difference, I
hope, is that the citizens of our country will get
medical, housing and living assistance.  Large numbers
of mental health professions have already been
dispacted.  Otherwise we could have a new outbreak of
hurricainephobia.

Radiophobia is a nice term.  However, you see these
same symptoms when natural or man-made disaster occur,
and people are displaced.  Blaming every preceived
problem on the use of the LNT hypothesisis the same as
anti-nuclear people blaming radiation for every
cancer.

Simplisticc, but not very scientific.

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