[ RadSafe ] More Arnie Gundersen as Nuclear Expert Fukushima: young women at 5 times greater cancer risk than general population

[Tom Simpson]

Why doesn't Arnie stick to telling us what is going on inside reactors 
and leave the public health stuff to people that are actually qualified 
to have an opinion?

-Tom


On 05/01/2012 05:02 AM, Roger Helbig wrote:
> Word Press is an exceptional propaganda organ; it allows for one-way
> communication like this to thousands -
>
> Fukushima: young women at 5 times greater cancer risk than general population
> by Christina MacPherson
>
> Nuclear Expert: Fukushima risk underestimated ENE News, — 5% of young
> girls will get cancer living in 20 milliSv/y for 5 years — “Actually
> worse than that” — Hot particles NOT included&  only counts cancers,
> not other effects  : Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima
> Daiichi Underestimated Source: Fairewinds Associates, Inc Author:
> Arnie Gundersen   Transcript Excerpts That gets me to the issue of
> BIER, Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. [...]
>
> Now in Japan, the Japanese government is allowing people to go back
> into these radiation zones, when the radiation exposure is 2 rem. What
> that means is that they are willing to say that your chances of
> getting cancer are 1 in 500 if you go back into these areas that are
> presently off limits, and the exposure levels are 2 rem or 20
> milisieverts in a year.
>
> But it is worse than that. The number that we are using in the BIER
> Report is for the entire population, old people and young. And old
> people are going to die of something else before a cancer gets to
> them, whereas young people have rapidly dividing cells and they live a
> longer time, so they are more likely to get cancer. So if you go into
> the BIER Report and you look at Table 12-D, you will see that young
> women have a 5 times that number chance of getting cancer than the
> population as a whole. So young girls in the Fukushima Prefecture are
> going to get 5 times the exposure they would get from 2 rem. That
> means that about one in 100 young girls is going to get cancer as a
> result of the exposure in Fukushima Prefecture. And that is for every
> year they are in that radiation zone [at 20 milliSv/y]. If you are in
> there for 5 years, it is 5 out of 100 young girls will get cancer.
>
> Now the BIER Report only addresses cancer, and of course, there are
> other effects of radiation that are not included in BIER, so it is
> actually worse than that.
>
> Two more items: The first is that the BIER Report does not address hot
> particles. Now we have been over that extensively on the site, and you
> will see that imbibing it (a kid gets radioactive cesium on their
> hands and they swallow it, or breathing it in), is not included in the
> BIER Report.
>
> And the last piece brings us over to Ian Goddard’s video, and that is
> this assumption by the Japanese and International Atomic Energy
> Agency, that at some point, this radiation is really so hard to
> measure that it does not count anymore. Well, the data indicates that
> just the opposite is happening……
> http://enenews.com/gundersen-fukushima-cancer-risk-underestimated-5-of-young-girls-will-get-cancer-living-in-20-millisvy-for-5-years-actually-worse-than-that-hot-particles-not-included-only-counts-cance
>
> Christina MacPherson | May 1, 2012 at 8:39 am | Categories: Japan,
> women | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-6du
>
> http://nuclear-news.net/2012/05/01/fukushima-young-women-at-5-times-greater-cancer-risk-than-general-population/
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