Re: FLYOVER SHOWS INDIAN POINT'S A SITTING DUCK

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

>>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?

 > ---

 > About 2000 children (Chernobyl) got thyroid cancer - at least about 30 of

 > them died and at least about 100 have chronic problems and cannot be 

treated

 > properly.

 >

 > My personal comment only,

 >

 > Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com



Not true. The few (1800, about 1 in 100,000 exposed persons) thyroid cancers

are not "local residents." Association with dose is weak.  No  associated

deaths. (The 3 deaths first identified in the 10-year update were shown to

---

>>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?

 > ---

 > About 2000 children (Chernobyl) got thyroid cancer - at least about 30 of

 > them died and at least about 100 have chronic problems and cannot be 

treated properly.

------

OK - I agree that most of them were not _local_ residents (It seems like you 

are trying to do a propagandistic trick by referring to a lower population - 

while the risk per unit radioiodine can be expected to be the same for young 

children).



The statistics for the larger - more distant surrounding areas is very 

convincing however - very low incidence up until around 1989/90 and then the 

incidence shoots up very strongly.



Some chromosome damage (lymphocytes, light microscopic level) has also been 

seen among the clean-up workers,



My personal comment only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com'





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