Re: FLYOVER SHOWS INDIAN POINT'S A SITTING DUCK

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

 >> If there were the same level of incident at Indian Point as there was

 >> at Chernobyl, the first difference one would see is that there would

 >> be public notification of a problem, unlike Chernobyl, where the

 >> local residents weren't informed for quite some time. If they had

 >> been told, and evacuated, the effects would have been reduced

 >> significantly.



>What effects?  How would they have been "reduced?"



Rapid action (potassium iodide) would probably have saved at least about 

1900 children from thyroid cancer (total of about 2000 so far). This seems 

clear from the experience from Poland where children were given potassium 

iodide quickly after the Chernobyl disaster. Poland got heavy radioactive 

fallout but very few thyroid cancers which contrasts the neighboring fallout 

areas in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.



My personal comment only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com









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