RE: ARTICLE: Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths

["Wes Van Pelt" <wesvanpelt@ATT.NET>]

Jim and All,

I thought that there were at least a few dozen fatalities from thyroid

uptake of radioiodine from Chernobyl. Of the 1000+ thyroid cancers I would

certainly expect some mortality. Even though you give references, the

statement "no related mortality reported" is hard to believe.

Regards,

Wes

Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP

Wesley R. Van Pelt Associates, Inc.

Consulting in Radiation Safety and Environmental Radioactivity.

http://home.att.net/~wesvanpelt/Radiation.html

mailto:wesvanpelt@att.net



Editors,



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.



Regards, Jim Muckerheide

President, Radiation, Science, and Health

Co-Director, Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI

http://cnts.wpi.edu/rsh







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