RE: " Chernobyl's children " [FW]

["Dov Brickner" <brickner@zahav.net.il>]

Title: " Chernobyl's children " [FW]

Hi radsafers and Jaro

 

I guess tha t "Vcitims of Chernobyl" is a better headline than "Victims of poverty and political corruption" for fund raising..

Indeed a poverty and neglectance - the main risk factors for those kids' deformities and diseases- are to some extent - the consequences of Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster accelrated the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the economic results were devastating for the young republics of Belarus and Ukraine.

As for the Iodine, of course I131 decayed, but it was accompanied by Cs137 (and probably other less omportant isotopes) I think that the committed dose for the Cs137 is too small to induce hormesis but I don't remeber wether it could be high  enough to indicate crops' destruction and increase the economic burden.

just my thoughts

Dov  (Dubi)Brickner   MD
Beer Sheva    ISRAEL

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Franta, Jaroslav
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 4:42 PM
To: Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: " Chernobyl's children " [FW]

Amazing claim in this article : children born several years after the Chernobyl accident ( 5 years in the particular example given ) are "plagued by disease and deformity" and "although these children weren't yet born at the time of the 1986 nuclear accident in Chernobyl, many suffer its consequences.....Thyroid cancer, stomach ailments and leukemia are common among children."

How does radioactive iodine, with a half life of 8 days, cause thyroid cancer in someone born years after the release ? ...no doubt a shining example of metaphysics ?

Jaro