3 items of interest

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net>]

>From the know_nukes group:



drkberg wrote:



>  Three items from the news:

> 1. more than 20,000 workers from USSR nuclear weapons facility at

> Mayak/Cheljabinsk/ural have been identified and their health records

> followed.

> Professor M Skolonikov of Ozyorsk biophysical institute reported that

> 2,600 have died of cancer, and that this represents 426 over

> expected. He estimates that at least 50% of the excess 426 deaths are

> due to over-exposure to radiation.

>

> 2. Psychiatrist Julia Malova (Moscow scientific center) reported new

> experience from observations of the tens of thousands of workers who

> cleaned up after Chernobyl.

> These workers are suffering from "unexpected health problems", such

> as degraded verbal ability, loss of memory, lessened ability to

> concentrate, as well as combined with depressions.

> The two major reasons for death are blood circulation 48%, and

> cancers 28%.

> Onkologists at Kiev/Ukraina have tracked 17,000 workers and noted an

> increased frequency of cancers, primarily stomach and lungs.

>

> 3. The number of children who developed thyroid cancer is now quoted

> as "approximately 2,000". Professor sir Dillway Williams from

> Cambridge stated that a majority of these cases would have been

> avoided if Soviet authorities had issued warnings regarding intake of

> milk after the release of radioactivity.

>

> Regards

> Dr K

>

>

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