[ RadSafe ] Has Nuclear bomb testing has resulted in radioactive polonium in seafoods

[Roger Helbig]

After reading this, I searched for Polonium and found this CTBTO website

https://www.ctbto.org/nuclear-testing/the-effects-of-nuclear-testing/general-overview-of-theeffects-of-nuclear-testing/

and since it cites activist organizations, I wonder how much of the
information that they present on this page is accurate (for example,
how accurate is the following?)

It is difficult to assess the number of deaths that might be
attributed to radiation exposure from nuclear testing. Some studies
and evaluations, including an assessment by Arjun Makhijani on the
health effects of nuclear weapon complexes, estimate that cancer
fatalities due to the global radiation doses from the atmospheric
nuclear testing programmes of the five nuclear-weapon States amount to
hundreds of thousands. A 1991 study by the International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) estimated that the radiation
and radioactive materials from atmospheric testing taken in by people
up until the year 2000 would cause 430,000 cancer deaths, some of
which had already occurred by the time the results were published. The
study predicted that roughly 2.4 million people could eventually die
from cancer as a result of atmospheric testing.

Thanks.

Roger Helbig

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Nuclear bomb testing has resulted in radioactive polonium in seafoods

by Christina MacPherson

Kiwis exposed to radiation in seafood – study
http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/kiwis-exposed-to-radiation-in-seafood—study-2015081507#axzz3ipQ2JViV
Saturday 15 Aug 2015 New Zealanders who eat a lot of seafood may be
exposing themselves to radiation and putting their health at risk, a
study suggests.

Researchers found seafood such as mussels, paua and oysters contained
concentrated levels of radiation.

Those at particular risk were sub-populations for whom fish
consumption was culturally important and those relying of fishing and
shellfish collection to feed their families, the study’s authors said
in an article released on Friday.

“Seafood has importance to the New Zealand population as a source of
nutrition consumed in considerable amounts by some sectors of the
community,” they said.

“Chemical contaminants in seafood can therefore lead to significant
health burdens to the population and it is an important public health
function to identify the contaminants of concern and characterise
their exposure.”

Researchers measured levels of radioactive caesium and polonium in 36
kinds of seafood.

Levels of caesium were of minimal dietary concern, but levels of
polonium could “contribute significantly to the dietary does of
ionising radiation for high seafood consumers, although the magnitude
varies considerably depending on the composition of seafood species
consumed,” the researchers said.

They found levels in New Zealand were the same as found in other
countries, which suggested the radiation was a worldwide result of
global nuclear testing rather than the 2011 Fukushima incident.

Radiation levels were higher in seafood than other foods, they said.

The study by Andrew Pearson, Sally Gaw, Nikolaus Hermanspahn and Chris
Glover was published in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
earlier this year.

SEAFOOD WITH HIGHER CONCENTRATED RADIATION LEVELS:

Slapjack tuna
greenshell mussels
paua
queen scallop
rock lobster
Bluff oyster
littleneck clams

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