[ RadSafe ] RadSafe Digest, Vol 1575, Issue 1
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This link led me to a site that was not related to health physics and was very difficult to turn off. I am scanning my computer for viruses. I would recommend that the sender of the message be taken off the list.
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2. Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on
radiation (Roger Helbig)
3. Fwd: [New post] The permanent hazard of nuclear radiation to
global health (Roger Helbig)
4. Re: Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on
radiation (Brennan, Mike (DOH))
5. Re: Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the facts on
radiation (Jake Hecla)
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Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 01:58:26 -0700
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Fwd: [New post] Dr Helen Caldicott explains the
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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"
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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
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Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 02:55:53 -0700
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More from the anti-nuke MD who has forgotten her Hippocratic Oath - deserves well researched and written replies -
Roger Helbig
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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 ".........Conclusion In summary, the radioactive contamination and fallout from nuclear power plant accidents will have me"
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The impact of the nuclear crisis on global health Australian Medical Student Journal By Helen Caldicott in Volume 4, Issue 2 2014
".........Conclusion In summary, the radioactive contamination and fallout from nuclear power plant accidents will have medical ramifications that will never cease, because the food will continue to concentrate the radioactive elements for hundreds to thousands of years. This will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic disease. Already we are seeing such pathology and abnormalities in birds and insects, and because they reproduce very fast it is possible to observe disease caused by radiation over many generations within a relatively short space of time.
Pioneering research conducted by Dr Tim Mousseau, an evolutionary biologist, has demonstrated high rates of tumors, cataracts, genetic mutations, sterility and reduced brain size amongst birds in the exclusion zones of both Chernobyl and Fukushima. What happens to animals will happen to human beings. [7]
The Japanese government is desperately trying to "clean up"
radioactive contamination. But in reality all that can be done is collect it, place it in containers and transfer it to another location. It cannot be made neutral and it cannot be prevented from spreading in the future. Some contractors have allowed their workers to empty radioactive debris, soil and leaves into streams and other illegal places. The main question becomes: Where can they place the contaminated material to be stored safely away from the environment for thousands of years? There is no safe place in Japan for this to happen, let alone to store thousands of tons of high level radioactive waste which rests precariously at the 54 Japanese nuclear reactors.
Last but not least, Australian uranium fuelled the Fukushima reactors.
Australia exports uranium for use in nuclear power plants to 12 countries, including the US, Japan, France, Britain, Finland, Sweden, South Korea, China, Belgium, Spain, Canada and Taiwan. 270,000 metric tons of deadly radioactive waste exists in the world today, with
12,000 metric tons being added yearly. (Each reactor manufactures 30 tons per year and there are over 400 reactors globally.)
This high-level waste must be isolated from the environment for one million years - but no container lasts longer than 100 years. The isotopes will inevitably leak, contaminating the food chain, inducing epidemics of cancer, leukemia, congenital deformities and genetic diseases for the rest of time.
This, then, is the legacy we leave to future generations so that we can turn on our lights and computers or make nuclear weapons. It was Einstein who said "the splitting of the atom changed everything save mans' mode of thinking, thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe."
The question now is: Have we, the human species, the ability to mature psychologically in time to avert these catastrophes, or, is it in fact, too late? http://www.amsj.org/archives/3487
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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.
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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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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"
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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
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Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:51:59 -0400
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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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: nuclear-news <comment-reply at wordpress.com>
> 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
>
> New post on nuclear-news
>
> 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,
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