Nuclear radiation more harmful to women
ATOMIC RADIATION IS MORE HARMFUL TO WOMEN , Nuclear Information and Referral Service, 27 Oct 11, Women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men. Today Nuclear Information and Resource Service published a Briefing Paper that focuses on a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women, compared to the same radiation dose
level to men. To be clear: males suffer cancer and cancer death from exposure to ionizing radiation; but gender difference in the level of harm has been to date underreported.
The data leading to this conclusion originally was reported in the National Academy of Sciences 2006 report, “BEIR VII” which is the seventh report in a series on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation. Continue reading
Study on cancer rates near nuclear power plants
As the nation explores whether to invest more in nuclear energy, the National Academy of Sciences is working on a study of cancer rates among people living near nuclear facilities.
“If you show living near a nuclear facility increases your chances of getting cancer, there will have to be radical changes,”
Study aims to bring facts to nuclear power debate, including facilty north of Asheville Parts of WNC Citizen Times, ASHEVILLE, 26 Oct 11, — From a small town in east Tennessee to the nation’s capital, scientists studying cancer rates heard a similar call from those who live near nuclear power plants.
“I really would like to see some real science out there that really analyzes and understands the root causes behind this,” Westmont, Ill., resident and mother Shari Katz, said during a Chicago hearing on the study earlier this year. Continue reading
Canada underestimated radiation doses of health care workers
Radiation doses of 1,769 health care workers under-reported for four years The Star. com, 26 oct 11, A system used by 1,769 health care and research workers to measure their workplace radiation exposure may have under-reported radiation levels since 2008, says the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. The commission says a “calculation error” in the management system used by the devices is responsible for the low readings. Continue reading
Concern for workers exposed to radioactive uranium
Answers sought on uranium at Bethlehem site, Buffalo Business First, October 19, 2011 Three federal lawmakers are calling on health officials to continue investigating working conditions that existed for nearly a quarter century at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna. The concern of Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo and New York Sens. Senator Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand is that workers risked their health because of the presence of radioactive uranium at the plant
The lawmakers have written to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Director John Howard to further investigate and report on the clean-up at Bethlehem Steel. The highly radioactive uranium was processed at the Lackawanna site during the Cold War. Former Bethlehem Steel workers attest that the facility where uranium was rolled was not adequately decontaminated until 1976, despite earlier company reports claiming that the plant was cleaned up in 1952, meaning hundreds of additional workers may have been exposed to dangerous residual radiation…. http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/morning_roundup/2011/10/answers-sought-on-uranium-at-bethlehem.html
South Africa’s shame of radiation caused illness in uranium workers
Nuclear illness scourge, The new Age, Mel Frykberg, 20 Oct 11, Exposure to uranium at South African nuclear facilities over the years has left dozens of people dead and hundreds of others terminally ill, an investigation by The New Age has revealed. “These nuclear workers have been used and abused like cannon fodder and then abandoned without any care or compensation when they were no longer of any use to the nuclear industry,” said Mashile Phalane, the former coordinator of Earthlife Africa (ELA).
ELA and the Pelindaba Working Group – comprising ex-employees and antinuclear activists – are leading the battle to get compensation for victims. Former nuclear workers claim that they were not provided with protective clothing nor given the necessary medical attention when they were exposed to radiation.
Most claim they were given little or, in many cases, no financial compensation and in many cases were summarily dismissed once their symptoms became known. The country’s nuclear watchdog, the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa), stands accused by activists involved in the long-running campaign to ensure justice for victims and their families, of destroying the lives of hundreds of ex-employees.
Japan: the psychological impact of Fukushima nuclear catastrophe
For Japanese, Fukushima spells fear, MARK MACKINNON,TOKYO—Globe and Mail, Oct. 12, 2011 The Fukushima fallout has now spread well beyond what can be measured with a Geiger counter. In the minds of many consumers, Fukushima prefecture – which, at almost 14,000 square kilometres is bigger than Lebanon or Jamaica – and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are one and the same. Though the Japanese government has evacuated only a 20-kilometre radius around the plant, many inside and outside Japan treat the entire region as though it’s contaminated, unsure of what to make of shifting official assessments of the situation. Continue reading
Experts find USA radiological labs not prepared for nuclear disasters
U.S. Labs Not Equipped to Handle Radiation Disasters, By Shalmali Pal, MedPage Today October 12, 2011 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The U.S. state-based public health community is not ready to address a large-scale radiological event such as the one at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to recent survey results.
The “serious gaps in U.S. radiological preparedness,” include a shortage of appropriate personnel and a lack of federal certification to conduct sample testing, wrote Megan Weil Latshaw, PhD, and colleagues, from the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in Silver Spring, Md., in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
APHL is the national professional organization representing state and local government labs. The authors analyzed data from two inhouse surveys, the 2009 All-Hazards Laboratory Preparedness Survey and the 2011 Radiation Capabilities Survey, which were sent to public health labs in 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico…..
The authors called for several initiatives to better prepare public health labs for a radiological event.These plans include funding for the national Laboratory Response Network to continue identifying potential agents of biological and chemical terrorism and funding to develop more advanced lab methods to test radiological specimens…..http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/EnvironmentalHealth/29005
Japan’s plan for 20 year study of 360,000 children’s radiation effects
In Japan, a Long-Term Study On Radiation Leaks’ Effects, NYT, By HIROKO TABUCHI, October 10, 2011 TOKYO — In an effort to track the long-term health effects of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan has begun a survey of local children for thyroid abnormalities, a problem associated with exposure to radiation.
The study comes in response to concerns over the health consequencesof the serious radiation leaks caused by multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March. Japanese officials hope to study about 360,000 children who were under 18 at the time of the accident and track their health through their lifetimes, according to Fukushima Prefecture officials.
Children and pregnant women are particularly sensitive to radioactive iodine, which can harm the thyroid, studies after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 have shown. According to research presented at a 2006 global conference, at least 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer among children have been linked to Chernobyl’s fallout.
On Sunday, the first day of the Fukushima study, more than 100 children were tested. Specific test results will not be made public, according to Fukushima Prefecture. But the children, who will be tested every two years until they turn 20 and every five years after that, will receive further care if doctors discover abnormalities….. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/world/asia/japan-studies-radiation-effects-on-children.html
Chernobyl radiation, and breast cancer years later
Doctors told us our radiation levels were 100 times higher than normal.
Catriona Munro on Chernobyl and her breast cancer, BBC News, 7 Oct 11, Catriona Munro believes her incurable breast cancer is linked to the fall out from the Chernobyl disaster. For a BBC Scotland documentary she has recalled how she may have been exposed to radiation and told of her fears for others whose health may also have been affected. Continue reading
Japan will no longer measure plutonium
Japan ceases measuring the plutonium, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog, 4 Oct 11, At the press conference of TEPCO and related ministries of Japanese government, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology stated they will not measure plutonium anymore.
The measurement of plutonium was abandoned in Japan.It was announced on 10/3/2011 by staff from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Now Japanese people are allowed to take 1~10 Bq/kg of plutonium. However, 1 in a million gram of plutonium causes cancer.
They announced that plutonium and strontium were detected in 45km / 79km area on 9/30.They seem afraid of having the contamination situation known by more people. http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/10/breaking-news-the-measurement-of-plutonium-was-abandoned-in-japan/#.Tomr6dmxwk4.facebook
JGov and TEPCO are disgusting.
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/japan-ceases-measuring-the-plutonium/
Plight of Canada’s veterans with cancer from depleted uranium
All efforts to get adapted care for his condition lead no where since Veterans Affairs do not acknowledge depleted uranium poisoning.
Ex Canadian Forces Soldier To Go On Hunger Strike To Protest Against Depleted Uranium Exposure October 2, 2011, Ottawa Citizen Sylvain Bouchard: On November 5th 2011, Pascal Lacoste, an ex-soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and a very good friend of mine, will go on a hunger strike in front of Steven Blaney’s office at Lévis-Bellechasse 115, route Kennedy, 101 Lévis (Québec) G6V 6C8 Canada.
After 12 years of fighting with the Canadian government to acknowledge that he and other members of the Canadian Forces have been poisoned with depleted uranium while on duty, he no longer sees any alternative than to go out on his terms, go out fighting. Continue reading
Medical radiation treatment necessary, but carries risks
Radiation treatment meant mother could not touch son Hartlepool Mail, 30 September 2011 A MUM was forced to stay away from her baby son after being given potentially dangerous treatment when she found she had a rare form of cancer. New mum Jill Teasdale could not get close to little son Max just months after he was born after contracting thyroid cancer.
The 30-year-old found a lump in her neck and following hospital tests, was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. Within weeks, she had undergone an operation to remove her thyroid gland and was prescribed a course of radioactive iodine treatment.
“The treatment lasted about a week, but because of the radiation I wasn’t allowed to get close to my little boy,” she said. “I had to have minimum contact.”
Although diagnosed in June 2009, it was not until the following April that Jill was given the all clear…..
Risk of cancer – delayed, but real, in medical radiation
Medical imaging with radiation and cancer: the risk Indy Star.com 3 Oct 11 Ionizing radiation used in medical imaging, such as CT scans and diagnostic X-rays, is high-frequency radiation that has enough energy to remove an electron from an atom or molecule. This is called ionization. Ionized molecules are unstable and quickly undergo chemical changes. Ionizing radiation has enough energy to damage the DNA in cells, which in turn may lead to cancer, says the American Cancer Society.
» The damage takes place in a fraction of a second, but other changes, such as the beginning of cancer, may take years to develop. Radiation studies have shown it takes five to 10 years for blood cancers to develop and 15 to 30 years for solid tumors to develop.
Most studies on radiation and cancer risk have looked at people exposed to very high does of radiation, such as during the Chernobyl nuclear accident…. http://www.indystar.com/article/20111002/LIVING01/110020319/Medical-imaging-radiation-cancer-risk
The myth of safe ionisng radiation
We are in the middle of a terrifying scientific experiment in which we and our children are the subjects. Let’s face the facts that mixing the profit motive with the most dangerous technology is a very bad idea, and that natural forces and human error are reason enough to admit nuclear power is a mistake. It’s time to move on.
The Myth of Low-Level Radiation, Why safe levels are a myth , Radiation Truth All radiation is dangerous, whether it is natural or man-made. There is no “safe” amount of radioactive material or radiation. “The U.S. Department of Energy has testified that there is no level of radiation that is so low that it is without health risks”, reports Jacqueline Cabasso, the Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation. (full article) Continue reading
Radiation standards for children should be lower than for adults
“Safety standards established in nuclear power countries are currently set for adults,” .. “It is a given fact that children are far more vulnerable to exposure.”
New Radiation Limits Demanded for Children, By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, Sep 29, 2011 (IPS) – The threat of radioactive contamination faced particularly by children after the Mar. 11 nuclear disaster in Japan has touched the heart of the Japanese public, and become a major political and social issue.
Mothers are inevitably in the forefront of citizen groups working to protect children. At a meeting this week at the Ministry of Welfare, they presented an appeal that included a demand for the world’s first radiation safety standards for minors. Continue reading
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