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.
Another very stupid article. The American nuclear-imperialists, will never agree to peace with N Korea. In America there are only Right-wing republicans and right wing-neoconservative democrats, with any real power. The clintonite and Obamaite democrats, pretend to be more socially liberal. They are both, controlled Heavily by the Military industrial complex, which uses nuclear weapons to threaten the world.
The Nuclear-Imperial state will maintain North Korea as a scapegoat and, whipping boy as long as The US military imperial state exists to keep making nuclear weapons and selling armaments to the rest of the world.
Articles like this are a good example of the weakness of news aggregators with no commentary.
Most all professional journalism in the world conform to not-so-apparent, government and corporate narratives .
The journalists themselves have to conform to establishment narratives to get paid.
I have been watching the American nucleoape controlled-circus, on the Korean peninsula for 40 years. It is always the same.
Bolton is a particularly blackhearted-operative yet an Obama operative or Clinton operative or Jimmy Carter operative would do the same. Spare us the drama please.
Obama did nothing about global warming while in power by the way. He conformed absolutely to the wishes of his corporate masters