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Truth about health effects of low dose radiation is now coming out

From Nuclear Information and Resource Service, 13 Sept 12,   The debate on the effects of low-dose radiation, confined until the first decade of the 21st century to narrow circles in which a few independent scientists stood opposed to national and international specialized nuclear energy agencies (among others the International Commission on Radiation Protection or ICRP and the International Atomic Energy Agency or IAEA), entered the public arena by way of three recent events, events which made it clear that the reference model for effects of ionizing radiation on health was beginning to be called into question.

The first of these, in 1999, was the sudden interruption of the research work of Yuri Bendazhevsky, and his arrest and imprisonment for “activities threatening state security”.

Bendazhevsky was studying the multiple effects of Chernobyl radioactive contamination on the health of Belarusan children (Bendazhevsky 2005).

The event provoked an international movement of support and call for his release, which paradoxically gave world visibility to his research results—results that contradict the optimistic appraisals of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident published by international organizations.

The nuclear industry understands the impact of nuclear disasters to be the effect of a single event like an explosion of a reactor. Only those who die or are effected during that time frame are categorized as attributable to the disaster.

However, other scientists, citing fundamental scientific knowledge about the genesis of cancer, understand the disease as a multi-stage process. If not merely external irradiation but also internal contamination at the level of a given organ is taken into account as relevant to the cancer process, it becomes necessary to attend to the effects of two types of exposure: extremely brief exposure of the entire body – termed acute exposure – and extremely low doses from point sources that hit very near target organs over a long period of time – chronic exposure -but vary in terms of internal movements and whether the organism responds by retaining or purging itself of inhaled or ingested radioactive particles.

This video does a great job of explaining the different sides to the argument. Which side do you believe?
http://vimeo.com/33724891

Text citation: http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/philosophy/images/pdf/Paul_JOBIN/ThebaudMony-PrefaceEnglishEd.pdf

PHOTO OF YURI BENDAZHEVSKY: From this article that can be translated into any language with a click http://ciaramc.org/ciar/boletines/cr_bol152.htm

September 14, 2012 - Posted by | health, history, Ukraine

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