[ RadSafe ] Fwd: [graffis-l] Young Chernobyl Victims Heal in CubanSun

[Roger Helbig]

It would be very instructive to the anti-DU activist crowd to explain the difference between the high level fission products and radiation levels from Chernobyl versus depleted uranium, especially since Leuren Moret and Doug Rokke have repeatedly claimed that a 1943 memo to Gen Groves concerned depleted uranium being used for radiological warfare.  The 100 Roentgens/day exposure rate cited deeply in the memo along with the initials f.p., though make it clear that the memo spoke of fission products and probably was totally blue sky since it would have been impossible to safely transport fission products to a battlefield and disperse them as an area denial weapon.  

 http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=423501&postcount=2

Moret claims 

I have confirmed with three Manhattan Project scientists 
that DU was intended to be used in the Groves memo 
recommending developing radioactive materials as 
POISON GAS MILITARY WEAPONS in 1943. 

Dr. James Conant, was President of Harvard when John
Kerry's father (a high level CIA agent) brought him
into the Manhattan Project to develop poison gas
warfare weapons. Conant had developed poison gas
warfare weapons in WW I so he was already an expert on
them.

The three Manhattan Project scientists who confirmed
to me that DU was intended to be used in the Groves
memo are: 

Marion Fulk, a retired nuclear physical
chemist who worked on the research of rainout of
nuclear materials for the nuclear weapons program at
Livermore (where I also formerly worked), 

Dr. Fred Wood, and a third one I met in Willits, Calif. while
giving a talk a few months ago with Dennis Kyne on DU.

In addition to those three, Dr. Ernest Sternglass -
who is a world expert on ionizing radiation and
convinced the Senate to sign the partial test ban
treaty in 1963 at the request of Pres. Kennedy - also
confirmed that DU was intended to be used in the
Groves memo.

The first testing of DU munitions as a terrain
contaminant were crude tests done in the late 1940s on
the Badlands Bombing Range in South (or North) Dakota.

These were bags and barrels of uranium poked through
with holes which were exposed to the wind and the
downwind effects tested on unsuspecting Native
Americans and other poor white folks who happened to
live there too.

Moret was a featured speaker at Black Oak Books in Berkeley, CA and is releasing a DVD through www.beyondtreason.com which will enable her to spread lies like the above even more thoroughly throughout the world.  One might even wonder if some jihadist who has seen a Moret or Rokke post on the internet was associated with the terrorist blasts in London this morning.

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Planet Ark : FEATURE - Young Chernobyl Victims Heal in Cuban Sun
CUBA: July 6, 2005
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31533/story.htm

TARARA - At a beach resort near Havana, children with bald heads and skin
lesions splash with joy in the warm Caribbean sea.

They are victims of radiation fallout from the worst civilian disaster of
the nuclear age -- the 1986 power plant explosion in Chernobyl -- and are  
in
Cuba for treatment.
"I want to stay here," says Sveta, a blue-eyed 15-year-old from Ukraine's
capital Kiev whose eyelashes are beginning to grow back.
Since 1990, communist Cuba has treated free of charge 18,000 Ukrainian
children for hair loss, skin disorders, cancer, leukaemia and other
illnesses attributed to the radioactivity unleashed by the reactor meltdown
years before they were born.
Up to 800 children travel to the Tarara Paediatric Hospital each year for  
at
least two months, accompanied by parents or tutors. Some stay for years.
They live in bungalows built as beach houses by rich Cubans before Fidel
Castro's 1959 revolution.
Most get treatment for hair loss, spending 15 minutes a day under an
infra-red light after a lotion made from human placenta is applied to their
heads. Hair grows back in 60 percent of cases, said Dr. Giraldo Hernandez.
Many children suffer from vitiligo, a patchy loss of skin pigmentation,
which is treated with another placenta-based lotion and lots of sunlight on
the beach. Psoriasis is also common.
More serious cases of cancer require chemotherapy or surgery. Six leukaemia
patients have received bone marrow transplants in Cuba.
While some disorders, such as the 30-fold increase in thyroid cancer among
Ukrainian children, are directly linked to the Chernobyl accident,
scientists do not know whether hair loss is caused by radioactive pollution
or post-traumatic stress.

FUN IN THE SUN
Recreation in the tropical sun is as much a part of the cure as the medical
treatment, Cuban doctors say.
Baldness is particularly difficult to bear for adolescent girls painfully
aware of their looks, some of whom arrive in Cuba wearing wigs.
Playing on Tarara's palm tree-lined beach, they soon shed their complexes
and recover a joy for life and personal goals, said Hernandez.
"It helps. We sit under the infra-red lamp and they put a lotion on our
heads. Then we go to the beach," said 16-year-old Alina Petrusha from
Zaporozhe, in southeast Ukraine.
She began to lose her hair when she was 8 and has spent a total of 2-1/2
years at Tarara since 2001. Wearing jeans and tank top, three rings on an
ear, glitter lip gloss and eyebrows painted on with a makeup pencil, Alina
says she and her friends love to go dancing at Tarara's disco at night.
"My hair starts to grow here, but when I go home I lose it again," she  
said.

CUBAN SOLIDARITY
Havana began helping Chernobyl children when Ukraine was a Soviet republic
and communist ally. The programme was maintained after Soviet communism
collapsed, plunging Cuba into deep economic crisis from which it has not
recovered.
Cuba has never revealed the cost of the programme, which Ukrainian  
officials
estimate at some $300 million to date.
"Like no other country Cuba held out a helping hand at a very difficult
moment. We suffered an immense catastrophe and needed help for the most
valuable thing any nation has -- its children," said Raisa Moinsenko, a
Ukrainian Health Ministry official.
Many of the children are orphans or come from poor families that cannot
afford medical treatment in Ukraine, where public health care has
deteriorated since the demise of the communist state and private medical
care is expensive.
The radioactive contamination from Chernobyl will take decades to break  
down
and genetic defects among Ukrainian children are expected to continue
occurring for years.
Tania Syomka from Zaporozhe flew to Cuba a year ago with her crippled
daughter for an operation to treat a deformation of her spine that she  
could
not pay for at home.
"Now Irina can do everything she wants, go to the beach and the disco. She
is a tall and very pretty girl now," Syomka said.
The longest resident at Tarara, Vladimir Zaslaski, could not walk when he
arrived 11 years ago suffering from a progressive neurological movement
disorder. His spasms ended after Cuban neurosurgeons operated.
"This comes from Chernobyl. Thanks to Cuba I began to walk a year ago," the
21-year-old said.

Story by Anthony Boadle

REUTERS NEWS SERVICE