“ WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF TISSUE ANALYSIS TAKEN FROM DECEASED NUCLEAR TEST VETERANS ? “

“ The motives for the work appear to have been similar to those set out in relation to nuclear industry , namely scientific research and potential claims for damages .”

Why Nuclear Veterans are Being Silenced, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 6 Jan 12,”..……Secret examination of tissue , organs and body parts of nuclear industry workers and nuclear test veterans …..

Michael Redfern QC published his report on tissue analysis at nuclear installations on the 16th November 2010 . This report took some three and half years to complete and covers 655 pages .It was originally set up to investigate claims by the families of deceased nuclear industry worker that their beloved ones body parts had been secretly removed
for examination , without family consent , for analysis and destruction .

One bereaved family found the body of a nuclear industry worker in his coffin had a broom stick put in place of a removed leg bone to give the appearance on burial that the body was whole and not desecrated.

The Redfern Report links Nuclear Test Veterans and Power Workers in on-going medical research programmes .

On page 89 under the section – Whose organs and why – the Report’s
author wrote :

“Besides nuclear power workers it lists …Service veterans who attended
nuclear weapons tests .”

On page 90 under the section – Analysis outside the nuclear industry –
the author wrote :

“ The motives for the work appear to have been similar to those set
out in relation to nuclear industry , namely scientific research and
potential claims for damages .”

After examination, the body parts have been reported to have been
destroyed to avoid future compensation claims .
Ministry of Defence officials frequently brief Ministers in letters
and statements to veterans and to the press that records during the
nuclear weapons test experiments were “ detailed and meticulously
kept” this is confirmed by Michael Redfern QC in page 648 of his
report :

“ …and it is helpful that the inquiry recommends that the
radioanalytical results should remain for bona fide scientific
research , so that at least these autopsy tissue analysis can continue
to provide information to reinforce the scientific basis of
radiological protection .”

The phrases “results should remain for bona fide scientific research
…. to reinforce the scientific basis of radiological protection”
indicates these records are still available .

THEREFORE THE RESULTS OF SECRET TISSUE ANALYSIS OF BOTH NUCLEAR
INDUSTRY WORKERS AND NUCLEAR TEST VETERANS HAVE BEEN “ DETAILED AND
METICULOUSLY KEPT.”

THESE RECORD SHOULD THEREFORE BE PUT INTO THE HANDS OF SOLICITORS
ACTING ON BEHALF OF VETERANS .

This will be resisted of course . If the examination of tissue had
shown negative contamination impact on nuclear veterans the MoD ,
their lawyers and the government ministers would have been exultant
and published the findings in a peer reviewed scientific journal as
strong evidence to stop our case . Yet nothing has happened . We
believe the following is a most important question that must be
answered .

“ WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF TISSUE ANALYSIS
TAKEN FROM DECEASED NUCLEAR TEST VETERANS ? “
However , from past experience , when attempting to gain access to
information on radiation doses , individual blood analysis etc from
the Ministry of Defence or surrogate department acting on their
behalf, such as those listed in the Redfern Report , that is , the
Medical Research Council , Atomic Weapons Establishment , Health
Protection Agency , assorted NHS doctors , pathologists and coroners
etc, it soon becomes apparent that the ‘detailed and meticulously kept
data’ is mysteriously not available , has been lost or if ever made
available under Freedom of Information Questions is heavily censored
by black ink ……

Why the MoD will refuse to release the results of secret tissue analysis .

The Redfern Inquiry Report confirms the link between nuclear industry
workers and nuclear test veterans . Michael Redfern QC also confirms
the motive for the destruction of the body parts after examination .
Why the secrecy ?

The answer is contained in an archive document obtained in the last
decade entitled –

“ Top Secret . Draft Press Statement .
Biological Investigation at Atomic Tests in Australia 1956 “……

Archive information shows the Ministry of Defence were notified of
genetic testing technology in 1984 . A nuclear test veteran examined
by the Medical Research Council Unit at Edinburgh was shown to have
elevated genetic damage . However since that date the MoD have refused
to carry out any such advanced medical monitoring on any UK nuclear
veterans which can detect genomic instability and chromosomal
aberrations ( genetic damage ) induced by exposure to radiation .

We believe if ever a comparison were made between genetically tested
nuclear test veterans and civilian nuclear workers this would probably
show :

a) surviving nuclear test veterans have a HIGHER level of genomic
instability and chromosomal translocations accrued over 12 months or
so exposure to gamma and fall out radiation than nuclear industry
workers after a lifetime of work in industry .Who knows what figure
would result from our comrades who died prematurely from leukaemias
and other legacy ill health etc ? The evidence of contamination from
fall out would still be available in the bones of exhumed veterans .(
Strontium –90 , Beryllium etc etc )

b) civilian nuclear power workers will have a LOWER level of genetic
damage due to better protection and regular health monitoring over a
lifetime of occupational work .
This factor alone will ensure , we believe , that the analytical
records of tissue taken from both nuclear industry and nuclear test
veterans will NEVER be allowed to enter the public domain for
comparison .

NUCLEAR TEST VETERANS ARE STILL PART OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

Freedom of Information questions in the last two years have revealed
that surviving nuclear test veterans are still ‘ flagged’ for secret
Medical Research on death under medical research programme- MR 185
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/why-nuclear-veterans-are-being-silenced/