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RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths
Friends,
Re a few 'private' comments/inquiries, anyone may send this anywhere you think it will do any good. You can 'pirate' it, to adopt and send without attribution. You can especially improve it, in which case you owe me a copy. :-)
Regards, Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Muckerheide
Editors,
Your fallout radiation mortality article shows that you are being used
to promulgate a fraud.
If the subject small fallout doses could cause adverse health effects,
much less deaths, millions of people exposed to higher background
radiation doses (e.g., more than 500 mrem per year) would have higher
mortality than in the millions of people exposed to low background
radiation (e.g., less than 100 mrem per year.) Actual data show, if
anything, the opposite results. Also, hundreds of millions of people
that have had diagnostic, and some moderate levels of therapeutic,
radiation would have excess mortality. This is not true, even though it
is true that people exposed to high doses have adverse effects and
excess deaths.
The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic
Radiation (UNSCEAR) has had to report that there are no deaths in the
public even from the Chernobyl accident, though the surrounding
population was not evacuated. Now, 16 years later, there is only a very
small increase in the number of thyroid cancers primarily in persons who
were children less than about 7 years old at the time of the accident,
with no related mortality reported. This was confirmed in a June 2001
meeting that included the World Health Organization (WHO) and the
affected countries. Recently, the UNSCEAR, WHO conclusions were
confirmed in a report including the UN Childrens Fund and UN Development
Program.
Radiation is natural, and more ubiquitous to life than sunlight or
water. When natural background radiation is suppressed, organisms show
adverse effects. Supplemental radiation is beneficial, like a grow light
to plants. For thousands of years people have found high radiation areas
to contribute to good health and to cure many physiological conditions,
and infectious and inflammatory diseases. This stimulating effect is
also applied to prevent and cure some cancers.
The cellular machinery of life on earth developed when the radiation was
much higher than as it is now. Uranium 238 has a half-life about the age
of the earth, 4.5 billion years. There was twice as much, along with all
of its decay products, including radium, radon, etc. when life evolved.
Uranium 235 has a 700 million year half life, so there was 6-8 times as
much. Potassium 40, a radioactive component of this critical element in
cellular functioning, has a 1.3 billion year half-life, providing a
radiation dose about 3 times the 20-40 mrem per year we receive from
potassium in our bodies. When the small radioactive component of natural
potassium was removed from natural potassium, cells and organisms, and
small animals, had adverse effects, including death. When the removed
potassium was replaced, or natural potassium substituted, or exposures
supplemented by other radiation sources, the cells or organisms
recovered. As a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff member
testified to an NRC Advisory Board in 1996, from his personal knowledge
of such AEC-funded research in 1958, such results were not published
because it refutes the false government premise that radiation is
harmful at low doses.
The NRC, with specific direction by then current Commissioners, refused
to examine this allegation of science misconduct and fraud, as they
supported yet another report by the same people that have misrepresented
the science at the National Council of Radiation Protection and
Measurements (NCRP) to again explicitly suppress the identified evidence
that contradicts their objectives. This defrauds the public of $100s
Billions in the name of "radiation protection" for trivial doses
compared to just the variation in background radiation that can have NO
public health benefit.
Regards, Jim Muckerheide
President, Radiation, Science, and Health
Co-Director, Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh
See the reports at the top right of the web page:
http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/Docs/index.html
See also our comments on the actions of the Federal agencies under
"Correspondence and Comments" in the left column
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