[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation

Fri May 2 11:51:59 CDT 2014

Not to mention her inclusion of "rubinium" as a dangerous reactor emission.

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Brennan, Mike (DOH) <
Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:

> It is a hoot that under alpha emitters einsteinium is worth mentioning,
> but radon is not.  Using the well-established metric of people like
> Caldicott, radon is a google times greater health risk than einsteinium is
> to the average person.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:
> radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Helbig
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:58 AM
> To: RADSAFE
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts
> on radiation
>
> This probably is miseducating a lot of young impressionable people who
> will grow in importance as they season through the years !  Perhaps, it
> should have a reply from genuine experts in the same forum.
>
> Roger Helbig
>
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> Date: Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:06 PM
> Subject: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
> To: rwhelbig at gmail.com
>
>
> Christina MacPherson posted: "The impact of the nuclear crisis on global
> health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4,
> Issue 2 2014  ".......Types of ionizing radiation  X-rays are
> electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass through the bod"
> Respond to this post by replying above this line
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> New post on nuclear-news
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> Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on radiation
>
> by Christina MacPherson
>
> The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical
> Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014 ".......Types
> of ionizing radiation
>
> X-rays are electromagnetic, and cause mutations the instant they pass
> through the body.
> Similarly, gamma radiation is also electromagnetic, being emitted by
> radioactive materials generated in nuclear reactors and from some naturally
> occurring radioactive elements in the soil.
> Alpha radiation is particulate and is composed of two protons and two
> neutrons emitted from uranium atoms and other dangerous elements generated
> in reactors (such as plutonium, americium, curium, einsteinium, etc - all
> which are known as alpha emitters and have an atomic weight greater than
> uranium). Alpha particles travel a very short distance in the human body.
> They cannot penetrate the layers of dead skin in the epidermis to damage
> living skin cells. But when these radioactive elements enter the lung,
> liver, bone or other organs, they transfer a large dose of radiation over a
> long period of time to a very small volume of cells. Most of these cells
> are killed; however, some on the edge of the radiation field remain viable
> to be mutated, and cancer may later develop. Alpha emitters are among the
> most carcinogenic materials known.
> Beta radiation, like alpha radiation, is also particulate. It is a charged
> electron emitted from radioactive elements such as strontium 90, cesium 137
> and iodine 131. The beta particle is light in mass, travels further than an
> alpha particle and is also mutagenic.
> Neutron radiation is released during the fission process in a reactor or a
> bomb. Reactor 1 at Fukushima has been periodically emitting neutron
> radiation as sections of the molten core become intermittently critical.
> Neutrons are large radioactive particles that travel many kilometers, and
> they pass through everything including concrete and steel. There is no way
> to hide from them and they are extremely mutagenic.
>
> So, let's describe just five of the radioactive elements that are
> continually being released into the air and water at Fukushima.
> Remember, though, there are over 200 such elements each with its own
> half-life, biological characteristic and pathway in the food chain and the
> human body. Most have never had their biological pathways examined. They
> are invisible, tasteless and odourless. When the cancer manifests it is
> impossible to determine its aetiology, but there is a large body of
> literature proving that radiation causes cancer, including the data from
> Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
>
> Tritium is radioactive hydrogen H3 and there is no way to separate tritium
> from contaminated water as it combines with oxygen to form H3O. There is no
> material that can prevent the escape of tritium except gold, so all
> reactors continuously emit tritium into the air and cooling water as they
> operate. It concentrates in aquatic organisms, including algae, seaweed,
> crustaceans and fish, and also in terrestrial food.  Like all radioactive
> elements, it is tasteless, odorless and invisible, and will therefore
> inevitably be ingested in food, including seafood, for many decades. It
> passes unhindered through the skin if a person is immersed in fog
> containing tritiated water near a reactor, and also enters the body via
> inhalation and ingestion. It causes brain tumors, birth deformities and
> cancers of many organs.
> Cesium 137 is a beta and gamma emitter with a half-life of 30 years.
> That means in 30 years only half of its radioactive energy has decayed, so
> it is detectable as a radioactive hazard for over 300 years. Cesium, like
> all radioactive elements, bio-concentrates at each level of the food chain.
> The human body stands atop the food chain. As an analogue of potassium,
> cesium becomes ubiquitous in all cells. It concentrates in the myocardium
> where it induces cardiac irregularities, and in the endocrine organs where
> it can cause diabetes, hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer. It can also
> induce brain cancer, rhabdomyosarcomas, ovarian or testicular cancer and
> genetic disease.
> Strontium 90 is a high-energy beta emitter with a half-life of 28 years.
> As a calcium analogue, it is a bone-seeker. It concentrates in the food
> chain, specifically milk (including breast milk), and is laid down in bones
> and teeth in the human body. It can lead to carcinomas of the bone and
> leukaemia.
> Radioactive iodine 131 is a beta and gamma emitter. It has a half-life of
> eight days and is hazardous for ten weeks. It bio-concentrates in the food
> chain, in vegetables and milk, then in the the human thyroid gland where it
> is a potent carcinogen, inducing thyroid disease and/or thyroid cancer. It
> is important to note that of 174,376 children under the age of 18 that have
> been examined by thyroid ultrasound in the Fukushima Prefecture, 12 have
> been definitively diagnosed with thyroid cancer and 15 more are suspected
> to have the disease. Almost 200,000 more children are yet to be examined.
> Of these 174,367 children, 43.2% have either thyroid cysts and/or nodules.
> In Chernobyl, thyroid cancers were not diagnosed until four years
> post-accident. This early presentation indicates that these Japanese
> children almost certainly received a high dose of radioactive iodine.
> High doses of other radioactive elements released during the meltdowns
> were received by the exposed population so the rate of cancer is almost
> certain to rise.
> Plutonium, one of the most deadly radioactive substances, is an alpha
> emitter. It is highly toxic, and one millionth of a gram will induce cancer
> if inhaled into the lung. As an iron analogue, it combines with
> transferrin. It causes liver cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, or multiple
> myeloma. It concentrates in the testicles and ovaries where it can induce
> testicular or ovarian cancer, or genetic diseases in future generations. It
> also crosses the placenta where it is teratogenic, like thalidomide. There
> are medical homes near Chernobyl full of grossly deformed children, the
> deformities of which have never before been seen in the history of medicine.
> The half-life of plutonium is 24,400 years, and thus it is radioactive for
> 250,000 years. It will induce cancers, congenital deformities, and genetic
> diseases for virtually the rest of time.
> Plutonium is also fuel for atomic bombs. Five kilos is fuel for a weapon
> which would vaporize a city. Each reactor makes 250 kg of plutonium a year.
> It is postulated that less than one kilo of plutonium, if adequately
> distributed, could induce lung cancer in every person on earth...........
> http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
>
> Christina MacPherson | May 2, 2014 at 4:06 am | Categories: 2 WORLD,
> radiation | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-he2
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