The first manufacturing victims of ionising radiation
Until, one by one, the dial painters began, mysteriously, to fall ill. Their teeth fell out, their mouths filled with sores, their jaws rotted, they wasted away, weakened by an apparently unstoppable anemia. By 1924, nine of the dial painters were dead
The Radium Girls | Speakeasy Science, By Deborah Blum March 24, 2011 “……Radon (Rn) is an element found in the earth’s crust as a radioactive “daughter” of uranium. ……….After American troops joined the war in Europe, (1916) the factory in Orange, New Jersey won a contract to supply radium-dial instruments to the military. By the time the war ended, wristwatches with their glowing dials and handy wristbands were all the style. So were luminous-faced clocks, nicely dressed up in gold and ebony for elegant homes. The corporation’s business was as healthy as ever, as healthy, you might say, as radium itself.There was not a thought worth mentioning that radium might not really be the golden child of the elements. Continue reading
Japan’s hibakusha see a repeat of Hiroshima’s radiation horror
Sasamori is a hibakusha, or heat radiation survivor — a name given to those who lived through the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the end of World War II.
For them, radiation is an invisible enemy that has haunted them, claimed their loved ones, altered their bodies and threatened their lives…….The hibakusha like Sasamori have lived in uncertainty, watching their childhood friends fall ill and wondering if their bodies were ticking time bombs for radiation-related diseases.
Hiroshima survivors fear new nuclear fallout, By Madison Park, CNN, March 18, 2011 Los Angeles — The cities flattened by last week’s earthquake look eerily similar to the decimated buildings Shigeko Sasamori saw after an atomic bomb was dropped on her hometown in 1945.
UK’s rising use of CT scans causing radiation worries
Certain CT scans can be up to 400 times more powerful than a chest x-ray…….
(UK) Radiation: are we putting our health at risk with increased CT scans?, The Ecologist, Eifion Rees10th March, 2011 Tesco provoked an outcry by offering Clubcard members the opportunity to redeem points for a CT scan. Now, increasing numbers of scans in NHS and private hospitals are causing concerns that we are over-exposing ourselves to radiation. Continue reading
Revelations of cancer caused by radiation from Antarcic nuclear plant
Other McMurdo veterans across the US have now been revealed to have cancer………The first thing the doctors asked me was, well, that’s the type of cancer you typically get from exposure from radiation,” Boyles said.
Health fears around polar nuke leak | Stuff.co.nz, by Michael Field, 7 Mar 11, A small nuclear power plant used at McMurdo Sound near New Zealand’s Antarctic Scott Base is being implicated by US media in unusual cancers in men who worked on it in the 1960s.It has also been revealed the PM-3A nuclear power plant – known at MacTown as “nukey poo” for the way it leaked – had 438 malfunctions in its life between 1964 and 1973. Continue reading
Navy personnel claim cancers due to radiation exposure
Veterans who served there have long suspected their cancers were related to possible radiation exposure,
Exclusive report into Navy radiation exposure reaches Obama cabinet officials WEWS News, by Ron Regan, 3 March 11, CLEVELAND – Two top level cabinet officials in the Obama administration have been asked to review an exclusive 5 On Your Side investigation into possible radiation exposure among Navy personnel. Continue reading
A new worldwide standard for monitoring workers for radiation exposure
New ISO standard will improve protection of workers exposed to radiation, IEWY News 3 March 11, A new ISO standard will help optimize individual monitoring and protection of workers exposed to radiation. It will also provide the technical basis for reinforcing regulation in this field worldwide. Continue reading
Grudging recognition of cancers caused by radiation, among uranium workers
employees who worked outside of those dates still have to prove their cancer was caused by radiation at the plant….“They waited so long until almost everyone died,” Wytovak said.
They’re hoping for help in radiation case, Fuel Fix 3 March 2011, “…………“I thought it was a fertilizer plant,” said Wytovak, who discovered later during his 20 years at the plant that he had been part of an unwitting team extracting uranium for nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Overexposure to radiation of some hospital patients
Cabell Huntington Hospital Says Some Patient May Have Been Overexposed to Radiation – WOWK-TV – , 3 March 11, HUNTINGTON — Cabell Huntington Hospital is informing former patients about possible overexposure to radiation.Hospital officials made the announcement Thursday in a news release. According to the hospital’s findings, officials believe it happened during a specific radiological procedure known as CT Angiography. The overexposure could have happened to patients who underwent the procedure between Oct. 9, 2009 and Nov. 23, 2010. Cabell Huntington believes the “a group of patients may have received an exposure to radiation that is above the recommended level.”Cabell Huntington Hospital Says Some Patient May Have Been Overexposed to Radiation – WOWK-TV – WOWKTV.com
The very real health danger of low level radiation
each successive report of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation committee, a committee of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, has acknowledged a greater danger to low-dose radiation. Their most recent report states there is “no evidence of a threshold below which no cellular damage occurs.” (5) That is, even the lowest of doses may be dangerous
Airport Body Scanners: More Radiation Than You Think?, THE HUFFINGTON POST, by Gayle Greene:, 3 March 11, Late last year, the American Pilots Association persuaded the TSA to allow pilots exemption from screening by full-body scanners. Captain Dave Bates, president of the association, argued that pilots “experience significantly higher exposure than most other occupations, and there is mounting evidence of higher-than-average cancer rates as a consequence.” (1)
But what about the rest of us? Continue reading
The continuing cancer toll from Chernobyl
“In our report we say 6,800,” said Mettler. “But now, from what I understand people from Belarus say it is 7,000. Now the question they are asking is: what percent of them are due to the accident? And the answer is, most of them.”…….
UN Reports Thousands of Thyroid Cancers 25 Years After Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Voice of America, Jim Brooke | Moscow February 28, 2011 Twenty five years after the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a United Nations report estimates the disaster caused thyroid cancer in more than 6,000 children in the affected area. Continue reading
Doctor sanctioned for botched radiation treatments
NRC sanctions Pa. doc in flawed cancer treatments, San Jose Mercury News, The Associated Press 02/24/2011 PHILADELPHIA—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sanctioned a doctor who performed nearly 100 botched prostate cancer procedures at Philadelphia’s VA Medical Center…..The commission found Kao took part in 91 procedures in which veterans received incorrect doses from radioactive seeds implanted in the prostate to kill cancer cells…… NRC sanctions Pa. doc in flawed cancer treatments – San Jose Mercury News
Radioactive patients a hazard to homes and hotels
A New Policy on Radioactive Hotel Guests – NYTimes.com, February 15, 2011, By MATTHEW L. WALD A drawn-out fight over the guidelines for thyroid patients who are given radioactive drugs has taken a new turn, with a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission urging them not to stay in hotels after receiving treatments. Continue reading
X-rays – increased cancer risk with exposure at very young age
Greater Caution Urged for X-Rays in Pregnancy, Infants, Bloomberg, 14 Feb 2011, Possible increase in cancer risk in kids exposed before birth and up to 3 months of age, study finds Continue reading
Evidence of cancer from medical radiation
The real trouble arises when an individual undergoes multiple tests or procedures,” ……the number of radiation-based tests and procedures each patient undergoes should be tracked in order to estimate their cumulative radiation dose.
UK public’s radiation levels raised, due to medical radiation
Medical examinations raise radiation levels, Personnel Today, (UK) 01 February 2011 Greater use of X-rays over the last 10 years, including a 140% increase in CT examinations, has raised the annual radiation dose that the UK public receives, health watchdog the Health Protection Agency has concluded. Continue reading
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