Fortunately, Chernobyl health records are now available to the public. They show that people living in the radioactive traces fell ill from cancers, respiratory illness, anaemia, auto-immune disorders, birth defects, and fertility problems two to three times more frequently in the years after the accident than before. In a highly contaminated Belarusian town of Veprin, just six of 70 children in 1990 were characterised as “healthy”. The rest had one chronic disease or another. On average, the Veprin children had in their bodies 8,498 bq/kg of radioactive caesium (20 bq/kg is considered safe).
For decades, researchers have puzzled over strange clusters of thyroid cancer, leukaemia and birth defects among people living in Cumbria, which, like southern Belarus, is an overlooked hotspot of radioactivity from cold war decades of nuclear bomb production and nuclear power accidents.
Currently, policymakers are advocating a massive expansion of nuclear power as a way to combat climate change. Before we enter a new nuclear age, the declassified Chernobyl health records raise questions that have been left unanswered about the impact of chronic low doses of radioactivity on human health.
Thanks for making this top news (number one) when you type nrc and areva for the last 24 hours, week, and month. You’ve beat the US NRC itself. It means that your blog is going strong indeed, as well it should. Hats off to you! I wish that I could be even half as efficient and effective as you are.
Thank you, miningawareness. Your articles are always so very welcome – well researched, detailed, full of information.
Ha ha. I am blissfully unaware of how well this site is doing – being really rather a Luddite – I don’t know how to work such things out. No matter. With you and d’un renard bringing in such valuable input, it lifts the standard.
You should be encouraged by realising that you go for quality – (I am more often about quantity.)
Many thanks. You provide quantity, as well as writing quality original pieces and artwork, which is what is needed. The beauty is that those who are lost will find your web site first, rather than the nuclear lobby. It is wonderful to support you in any way. You should get a lifetime achievement award and maybe one day will: https://independentaustralia.net/profile-on/noel-wauchope,56 Anyway, God will one day give you a lifetime achievement award, which is all that matters.