IF WE CARE, WE CHANGE THE THINGS THAT HARM THE INNOCENT.
PAUL FUSCO DOCUMENTED FOR ALL TIME THE RESULTS OF A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT ON YOUNG HUMAN LIVES, ON THE ONES WHO CANNOT ESCAPE CHERNOBYL'S UGLY LEGACY.
The above video is a compilation of some of this extraordinary, caring man's photos.
He CARES.
THERE IS A FULL-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY RELEASED IN 2007 BY THE SAME NAME, "CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL" BY JOURNEYMAN PICTURES.
PLEASE, GO READ AT THEIR WEBSITE HERE: http://www.journeyman.tv/57557/documentaries/children-of-chernobyl.html
NO, NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE ALTERED, ALL ARE OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY THE CHERNOBYL DISASTER.
THE RADIATION FROM CHERNOBYL IS PRESENT STILL TODAY AND THAT IS WHY THESE CHILDREN LOOK AS THEY DO.
THEY ARE LIVING PROOF THAT RADIATION, ANY RADIATION, ALL RADIATION CAN TRANSFORM NORMAL DNA, NORMAL CELLS INTO NIGHTMARES.
SPIEGEL ONLINE DID AN INCREDIBLE SERIES OF ARTICLES WITH PHOTOS OF SOME OF THE AFFECTED CHILDREN.
THEIR 3RD ARTICLE, <FOUND HERE> TELLS OF ONGOING RESEARCH AND AID FOR THESE VICTIMS, FOLLOWS UP ON SOME.
GO. READ. LEARN!
DON'T LET FEAR KEEP YOU FROM FACING FACTS.
NOTICE: PAY ATTENTION!
NOTICE, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION:TO "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" WHO THINKS, LIKE TERRIFIED OTHERS, THAT THIS IS "FAKE", THAT NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS DON'T CAUSE NIGHTMARE, THAT I AM JUST "FULL OF B-S, AND UNEDUCATED".
1st, I HAVE BEEN THERE, SEEN SUCH THINGS, TALKED TO SOME JUST LIKE THE ONES PICTURED, THOSE TREATED FOR AFTER-EFFECTS!
2nd, PEER-REVIEWED EVIDENCE ABOUNDS, SCIENTIFIC, MEDICAL, LONG-TERM GOVERNMENT STUDIES, PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, ABSOLUTE PROOF OF EVERYTHING WRITTEN HERE.
THE "IDIOTS" 'ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" REFERRED TO ARE NOT THE ONES IN THE FIELD, NOT THE ONES WHO CAPTURE SUCH PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE, BUT THE SCARED-TO-DEATH, UNREAD WISHFUL THINKERS WHO DENY NUCLEAR ENERGY IS A MASS-MURDERER.
YOU SEE, THE SO-CALLED KNOWLEDGEABLE ONES, THOSE WHO FIRST EXPERIMENTED WITH NUCLEAR POWER TO MAKE THE BOMB, KNEW WE'D SEE THESE EFFECTS ONCE WE HAD NUCLEAR ENERGY TO CREATE IT, BUT THEY WENT AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.
FEDERAL DOCUMENTS ABOUND, FREE FOR THE READING, THAT SHOW HOW WELL THEY KNEW WE'D SEE SUCH AS THESE CHILDREN IN OUR FUTURE!
THEY KNEW!
HAVE YOU, "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER", EVER TREATED FOR RADIATION SICKNESS?
I HAVE!
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SPONTANEOUSLY ABORTED FETUS, WHO DIED INSIDE THE MOTHER'S BODY BECAUSE OF HER EXPOSURE TO RADIATION?
I HAVE!
HAVE YOU SEEN THE NUMBERS ON BIRTH DEFECTS, CHILDHOOD CANCERS, SYNDROMES, ETC, CAUSED BY RADIATION LEAKS, EXPOSURE, OR SEEN THE DATA SENT OUT TO PHYSICIANS, AVAILABLE TO THOSE WITH A "DEA NUMBER" ONLY?
I HAVE!
HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO A MILITARY FAMILY WHOSE CHILD IS DYING BECAUSE OF DAD'S EXPOSURE IN IRAQ TO DEPLETED URANIUM, AND DAD WILL SOON SUCCUMB TO THAT AS WELL?
I HAVE!
HAVE YOU BEEN TO CLINICS NEAR THESE HORRORS WE CALL "NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS" AND LISTENED TO PHYSICIANS THERE GRIEVE OVER SO MUCH LOSS OF YOUNG LIVES, SHOW YOU THEIR RECORDS, ASK WHY NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING, WHY NO ONE IS LISTENING TO THEM?
I HAVE!
I'M SORRY FEAR MAKES YOU NEED TO BELIEVE ALL IS WELL.
ALL IS NOT WELL!
ALL IS NEVER GOING TO BE WELL.
FEAR IS NOT WHAT MEN LIKE FUSCO ARE SELLING...THEY'RE TRYING TO SHOW US THE TRUTH, JUST THE TRUTH, SO WE CAN STOP BEING AFRAID AND DEMAND SOLUTIONS!
THESE ARE DOCUMENTED RESULTS OF CHERNOBYL, BUT WE HAVE PERHAPS WORSE THAN CHERNOBYL RIGHT HERE IN THE USA!
WE HAVE HANFORD IN WASHINGTON STATE!
WHILE THE GOVERNMENT THERE, FOR THE MOST PART, NO LONGER DENIES THE EFFECTS OF CHERNOBYL, OUR GOVERNMENT HERE DENIES THAT HANFORD, OR ANY OTHER NUCLEAR ABOMINATION, HAS ANYTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCERS, DEATH AMONG THE POPULATION LIVING NEAR THOSE SITES.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA REFUSES TO DOCUMENT THE "AMERICAN CHERNOBYLS". PEOPLE LIKE "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER" ARE THE MAIN REASON FOR THAT... THE ONES WHO WANT TO DENY THAT DEATH LIVES NEXT DOOR.
THEY ARE THE ONES WHOM OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AFRAID WILL PANIC IF THEY REALIZE THE TRUTH.
THEY'RE ALSO AFRAID THOSE OF US WHO KNOW THE TRUTH AND DON'T PANIC WILL DEMAND ALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES BE CLOSED, SEALED, HEAVILY GUARDED AND CONSTANTLY MONITORED.
THAT WOULD COST BILLIONS, TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NECESSARY CENTURIES TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS, AND THE COST TO CLOSE THOSE LEAKING ABOMINATIONS WOULD BE ENORMOUS.
THEY PUT MONEY OVER HUMAN LIVES.
ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL.
AND NOW WE HAVE THE ADDED FUKUSHIMA RADIATION POURING INTO OUR NATION DAILY!
UNTIL YOU HAVE GONE TO THESE PLACES AND HAVE SEEN WITH YOUR OWN EYES AS I HAVE THE RESULTS OF GOOD OLD NUCLEAR ENERGY, SIT DOWN, SHUT UP, AND NEVER DARE SPEAK OF WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW, WHAT YOU FEAR, ON THIS SITE AGAIN!
I DON'T ACCEPT FEAR.
IT ROBS THE MIND.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER...WE NEED SUCH POWER.
GO, STICK YOUR HEAD BACK UP THAT BEHIND OF YOURS, "ANONYMOUS COMMENTER", OR IN THE SANDS OF YOUR IGNORANCE.
IF THAT IS HOW YOU HANDLE THINGS, THAT'S CERTAINLY YOUR RIGHT, BUT DON'T BOTHER ME WITH YOUR DENIALS BECAUSE OF YOUR FEARS.
I'VE STUDIED SUCH AS THIS FOR 10 TO 20 HOURS A DAY SINCE I WAS 23 YEARS OLD BECAUSE IT TOUCHED ME DEEPLY EVEN BACK THEN.
I WILL SOON BE 70.
AND I STILL DEEPLY CARE WHAT BEFALLS THE CHILDREN OF OUR PLANET, ALL CHILDREN, NO EXCLUSIONS.
WHEN YOU'VE MATCHED MY "CREDENTIALS", GET BACK TO ME.
MAYBE BY THEN YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD.
I WILL LIST MANY "SCHOLARLY, PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS" *** AT THE END OF THIS BLOG, SO PRINT THOSE OUT, YOU "ANONYMOUS" WHO FEAR SO MUCH THAT YOU DENY THE EVIDENCE, AND FEEL FREE TO PLACE THOSE IN YOUR ANAL ORIFICE AS WELL, TO KEEP YOUR HEAD COMPANY.
I WANT TO SAVE LIVES, NOT DENY THAT CHILDREN NEED SAVING!
<END NOTICE, WITH APOLOGY TO NO ONE>
FROM A PEER-REVIEWED INTENSE STUDY OF THE CHERNOBYL CHILDREN:
"The Chernobyl radiation accident is undoubtedly the greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of mankind. Vast areas of Europe were contaminated by radioactive fallout. In the Ukraine alone it is estimated that more than 4 million people were exposed to radiation. While this accident happened over a decade ago (26 April 1986), it will be several more decades before the exact health consequences are known."
YOU SEE, DNA DAMAGE SPANS GENERATIONS.
WE'RE SEEING THIS IN AMERICA AS RETURNING VETERANS, EXPOSED TO DEPLETED URANIUM, ARE FATHERING CHILDREN WITH THE SAME BIRTH DEFECTS WE SAW AND STILL SEE IN THE CHERNOBYL AREA.
WE SEE IT AND ARE STILL SEEING IN THE MANY "BABY CEMETERIES" NEAR HANFORD IN WASHINGTON STATE.
THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO SOME BABIES BORN THERE TODAY...IT'S CALLED ANENCEPHALY.
WE HERE IN AMERICA CAN ALREADY SEE SIMILAR CHILDREN, VICTIMS OF OUR OWN NUCLEAR "ACCIDENTS" AND LEAKING NUCLEAR REACTORS..
THREE-MILE ISLAND, HANFORD, THE PILGRIM FACILITY, THE YANKEE FACILITY...THE LIST IS LONG AND GROWING DAILY AS OUR NUCLEAR FACILITIES ARE FALLING DOWN FROM AGE , POOR DESIGN, UNEXPECTED EFFECTS OF MASSIVE RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS ON CONTAINMENT METALS THAT CANNOT WITHSTAND THE OVER-LONG AND CONSTANT BOMBARDMENT.
WE HAVE CHILDREN LIKE THESE, AMERICA, AND WE WILL SEE MANY MORE UNLESS WE ACT AND ACT QUICKLY.
"In a dark, emotional account, Magnum photographer Paul Fusco visits the region, where a whole generation has been born, lived, and died amid such life-destroying pollution.
They have eaten it in their food, drunk it in their water, and breathed it in the air. Simply going outside to play remains a life-threatening activity."
(see the movie - http://www.mediastorm.com/publication/ch
Title: The Legacy of Chernobyl
Source: The Nation Blog
Author: Laura Flanders
Date: Apr 26, 2012
"To get a sense of just what tens of millions live at risk of, take a look at these photographs by award winning photographer Paul Fusco.
APRIL 2012 the fourth Schuneman Symposium held at the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
Among the speakers was Fusco, an extraordinary MAGNUM photographer who traveled to the Ukraine to see the legacy of Chernobyl after twenty years. Fusco expected to stay two weeks.
He stayed for two months, following parents, children, nurses and cancer patients.
“It changed my life. I couldn't leave. It was so immense in its implications. There is so much damage to so many people in so many ways…” says Fusco. "
Novinki Asylum, Minsk, 1997.
Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos http://www.c-20.org/
1986. In the early hours of 26 April 1986, one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl power station exploded.
WHAT HAS CONTINUED SINCE THEN IS A NIGHTMARE.
PEOPLE EXPOSED TO THE INITIAL RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT AND PEOPLE STILL BEING EXPOSED ARE LIVING WITH CRIPPLING BIRTH DEFECTS, CANCERS, AND MANY ARE TOO POOR TO ESCAPE.
LIKE THE JOURNEYMAN WEBSITE STATES, THE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T ESCAPE AND WHO CAN'T AFFORD IMPORTED FOODS, WATER, ETC, MUST CONTINUOUSLY EAT PRODUCE GROWN IN THAT SOIL, EAT FOOD ANIMALS THAT ARE RAISED THERE. SUCH DEFORMITIES WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS THAT IS THE CASE.
THE RESULT OF THAT IS CONTINUED HORROR FOR THE PARENTS OF EACH NEW GENERATION OF CHILDREN AFFECTED BY CHERNOBYL'S CONTAMINANTS IN THEIR PARENTS' DNA, WHICH BECOMES THEIR DNA, THEIR BIRTH DEFECTS, THEIR ILLNESSES, THEIR CANCERS, THEIR DEATH.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN AMERICA AFTER THREE-MILE ISLAND, AFTER HANFORD, AFTER EVERY NUCLEAR FACILITY THAT HAS FAILED IN SIMILAR WAYS HAS FAILED.
NOT EVERYONE CAN MOVE AWAY FROM THE CONTAMINATION.
AND WE JUST AREN'T TOLD THE ENTIRE TRUTH ABOUT HOW MUCH CONTAMINATION SURROUNDS US, NOR HOW LETHAL A "SMALL AMOUNT" IS ONCE IT IS INSIDE A HUMAN BODY.
THIS IS WHAT THE FUTURE GENERATIONS IN JAPAN AND WORLDWIDE WHO ARE DAILY AFFECTED BY THE FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT ARE GOING TO FACE, WHAT RESIDENTS NEAR THE HANFORD, WASHINGTON SITE HAVE FACED AND ARE FACING NOW AND WILL FACE FOR HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO COME.
SO GET USED TO SEEING CHILDREN LIKE THIS IN AMERICA, IN JAPAN, ANYWHERE THERE IS A "NUCLEAR ACCIDENT"...IF YOU CAN EVER GET USED TO THIS...I CANNOT.
I don't know about you, but I have to ask myself, "What if this was my grandchild?"
What would I want to say to the world?
Weary eyes, a child with an "old soul".
Saying we're sorry won't make these children healthy, but if enough of us say,
"NO MORE! NEVER AGAIN!", then maybe others WILL be spared.
PEOPLE OF EARTH, WE MUST PROTECT OUR CHILDREN!
WE MUST DO ALL WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO MORE CHERNOBYLS.
THESE PHOTOS OF THESE CHILDREN ARE MEANT TO DO ONE THING, JUST ONE...CALL ATTENTION TO THE NEED TO PROTECT FUTURE GENERATIONS, TO MAKE CERTAIN WE'RE ALL AWARE WHAT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THE PHOTOGRAPHER HAD ANYTHING ELSE IN MIND.
I ALSO CANNOT IMAGINE SEEING THIS AND NOT HAVING A HEART THAT ACHES FOR THESE INNOCENTS, BUT AN ACHING HEART AND TEARS MUST TRANSLATE TO ACTION.
WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BESIDES WEEP.
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=29YL5304T2G4 ]
"It is a disaster that left a 30-kilometre uninhabitable exclusion zone, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and still threatens the lives of tens of thousands," writes Greenpeace today.
All these years and a triple meltdown at Fukushima later, the industry and its supporters have yet to learn.
"The nuclear industry still hasn't realized or admitted that its reactors are unsafe. Reactors are vulnerable to any unforeseen combination of technological failures, human errors and natural disasters. That puts the tens of millions of people living near the worlds more than 400 reactors at risk."
Yet his extraordinary photographs, which you can see here in a short promotional slideshow, aren't printed in US papers.
They're like his pictures of US military funerals, his current project, which is called Bitter Fruit.
"The pictures are printed a lot in Europe. Never here," Fusco told the Scripps students. "Why do you think that is?"
Ironically, like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island's Unit
Two was a state-of-the-art reactor. Its official opening came on
December 28, 1978, and it melted exactly three months later. Had it
operated longer,the accumulated radiation spewing from its core almost certainly would have been far greater.
Some of the disturbing experiences of survivors and their families through the years were collected in the book Three Mile Island: The People’s Testament, which is based on interviews with 250 area residents done between 1979 and 1988 by Katagiri Mitsuru and Aileen M. Smith.
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AFTERMATH, THOSE BATTLING THE EFFECTS EVERY DAY, OR SELF-SERVING GOVERNMENT DENIAL?
IF YOU EVER ONCE TALK TO VICTIMS, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES, LISTEN TO THEIR ANGUISH, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND!
IT IS A HELL OF A THING TO KNOW THAT HUMAN LIVES COME SECOND TO MAINTAINING NUCLEAR FACILITIES, THE ETERNAL "ARMS RACE", THE BATTLE FOR "KING OF THE HILL", AND PROFITS.
I SINCERELY HOPE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO READ A VERY SHORT PDF FROM THE BOOK.
(http://www.greenaction-japan.org/internal/090217_tmi_testament.pdf)
Every reactor now operating in the US is much older than THREE-MILE—nearly all of them are fully three decades older—than TMI-2 when it melted. They have reached the end of their design limitations, and they are just falling apart.
Their potential fallout could dwarf what came down in 1979.
People died–and are still dying–at Three Mile Island.
Click on the above link to read the study.There is documented proof of a fifty percent increase in childhood cancer incidence in the Three Mile Island area for each 10 millirem increase in radiation exposure per year.
Baseline: Children living with different radiation levels are compared for evidence of disease.
http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radchart.htm
(Hatch M. et al. “Background Gamma Radiation and Childhood Cancers Within Ten Miles of a US Nuclear Power Plant.” International Journal of Epidemiology, v 19, no 3. 1990)
YES, YES, BYALLTHEGODS, EXPOSURE, EVEN "SHORT-TERM" EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION CAN, HAS, ALWAYS WILL CAUSE CANCERS AND THEREFORE DEATHS.
THERE IS MORE PROOF OF THIS THAN I CAN LIST HERE, BUT HERE IS A SHORT LIST.
[PLEASE NOTE: THIS ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW, AFTER THIS LIST.
IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT SOURCES, JUST SCROLL PAST THE MANY NUMBERED CITATIONS.]
“Percent Increase in Cancer Incidence, Cancer Mortality, and Other Health Effects of Human Exposure to Ionizing Radiation”
- 1500% increase in incidence of testicular and ovarian cancer in children on Navajo reservation in uranium mining area
- 500% increase in bone cancer in children affected by uranium
- 250% increase in leukemia (all ages) in the Navajo population
- 200% increase in each of the following non-cancer effects:
miscarriage, infant death, congenital defects, genetic abnormalities,
learning disorders.
Baseline for 1-4: Navajo residents living near Uranium facilities were compared to Navajo residents in non-uranium areas - 500% increase in birth defects when compared to the national average.
(Southwest Research and Information Center. “Uranium Legacy.” The Workbook, v 8, no 6. Albuquerque, NM: 1983)
- 400% increase in leukemia incidence in the population living
downwind of the Pilgrim nuclear power reactor in Massachusetts in the
first 5 years after fuel was know to have leaked excess radioactivity.
Baseline: Disease in population before and after Pilgrim radioactive releases and comparison to upwind population.
(Morris M. Knorr R. The Southeastern Massachusetts Health Study 1978-1986-Report of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. October 1990. See also: Clapp R. Cobb S. et al. “Leukemia Near Massachusetts Nuclear Power Plant.” Letter in Lancet. December 5, 1987)
THREE-MILE ISLAND - 300—400% increase in lung cancer in the general population within the plume of the Three Mile Island accident releases
- 600—700% increase in leukemia in the general population within the plume of Three Mile Island accident releases
Baseline: Disease in population upwind (out of the radiation plume path) is compared to disease in population downwind (in the pollution plume.)
(Wing S. Richardson D. et al. “A Reevaluation of Cancer Incidence Near the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant: The Collision of Evidence and Assumptions.” Environmental Health Perspectives, v 105, no 1. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Maryland. January 1997) - 50% increase in childhood cancer incidence in the Three Mile
Island area for each 10 millirem increase in radiation exposure per
year.
Baseline: Children living with different radiation levels are compared for evidence of disease.
(Hatch M. et al. “Background Gamma Radiation and Childhood Cancers Within Ten Miles of a US Nuclear Power Plant.” International Journal of Epidemiology, v 19, no 3. 1990)
- 500% increase in thyroid cancer in Ukrainian children.
- 75% increased incidence of heart disease
- 200% increase in respiratory and digestive disease
- 200% increase in birth defects
- 200% increase in spontaneous abortions
- Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion
(Rupert J. “Illness Tied to Disaster Still on Rise.” The Washington Post. June 24, 1995. The reporter was quoting Britain’s Imperial Cancer Research Fund, The Ukrainian Health Ministry and the United Nations.)
8000% increase in thyroid cancer in Belarussian children living near Chernobyl, reported 6 years after the meltdown.
Baseline: Comparison of population health before and after the Chernobyl explosion.
(Hudson RL. “Child Cancers Found to Rise Near Chernobyl.” The Wall Street Journal. September 3, 1992. The article they quote was published in Nature on the same day and was researched by the World Health Organization.)
BACK IN THE USA - 63% increase in leukemia incidence among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratories(US) who received very low doses of external (gamma) radiation on the job.
- 123% increase in leukemia incidence in the same population where there were also very low internal doses of radioactivity
Baseline: Cohort comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels
(Wing S. Shy C. et al. “Mortality Among Workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Evidence of Radiation Effects in Follow-up Through 1984.” JAMA, v 265 no 11. March 20, 1991)
- 80% increase in eight types of cancer deaths in Department of Energy atomic workers exposed to external doses of radiation.
Baseline: Various baselines. Usually cohort comparison of workers with various doses and their deaths from resulting diseases were used.
(Mancuso TF. Stewart A. Kneale G. “Radiation Exposures of Hanford Workers Dying From Cancer and Other Causes.” Health Physics, v 33. Pergamon Press, Great Britain. November 1977)
IN BRITAIN - 200% increase in leukemia in children of atomic workers
Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
(Roman E. et al. “Case-control Study of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Among Children Aged 0-4 years Living in West Berkshire and North Hampshire Health Districts.” BMJ 1993 #306)
- 287% increase in cancer incidence in children of nuclear workers who received internal radiation in England
Baseline: The parents of children with cancer were compared for occupation to discern if those adults who worked with radiation had more children with cancer than those who worked in other jobs.
(Sorahan T. Roberts PJ. “Childhood Cancer and Paternal Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: Preliminary Findings From the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine, v 23: 343-354. 1993)
- 250% increase in all cancers among atomic workers.
- 190% increase in leukemia incidence
Baseline: General Population
(Kendall. GM. et al. “Mortality and Occupational Exposure to Radiation: First Analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers.” BMJ v 304: 220-5. 1992)
FROM FRANCE
- 500% increase in childhood leukemia in children visiting the beach once a week near the French nuclear reprocessing facility at LaHague
- 760% increase in childhood leukemia if they ate the local fish regularly
- 345% increase in childhood leukemia associated with drinking well water from the vicinity of the nuclear facility
Baseline: Observed leukemia cases were compared to expected leukemia cases.
(Viel JF. Pobel D. Incidence of Leukaemia in Young People Around the La Hague Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Plant: A Sensitivity Analysis.” Statistics in Medicine, v 14: 2459-2472. 1995)
- 1200% increase in all cancers exist around the Sellafield, (formerly Windscale) reprocessing facility and of these.
- 600-1000% increase in leukemia of children whose fathers were exposed to certain amounts of radiation prior to conception
- 1000% increase in lymphoma was found in children near a reprocessing facility in Cumbria
Baseline: Local and Area Controls
(Gardner et al. “Results of Case-control Study of Leukemia and Lymphoma Among Young People Near Sellafield Nuclear Plant in West Cumbria.” BMJ v 300. February 17, 1990)
- 1000% increase in leukemia incidence in children living near a nuclear reprocessing facility
Baseline: Children of the same age in the same area prior to the facility’s operation.
(Heasman et al. “Childhood Leukemia in Northern Scotland.” Lancet, v 1:266. 1986)
- 27.3% increase in all cancer deaths among atomic workers exposed to internal doses of radiation
Baseline: Comparison of worker deaths and radiation exposure levels.
(Morgenstern H. Froines J. Epidemiologic Study to Determine Possible Adverse Effects to Rocketdyne/Atomics International Workers from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. State of California Health and Welfare Agency. June 1997)
- 500% increase in leukemia among Utah nuclear bomb test Downwinders
- 121% increase in thyroid cancer incidence in the same group
- 200% increase in breast cancer
- 700% increase in bone cancer
Baseline: Utah Mormons exposed to bomb fallout are compared to all Utah Mormons.
(Johnson CJ. “Cancer Incidence in an Area of Radioactive Fallout Downwind From the Nevada Test Site.” JAMA, v 251 n 2: 231-6. January 13, 1984)
- a greater then 120% increase in thyroid cancer in those who
drank milk laced with Iodine-131 from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests
Baseline: Estimated cases are based on dose reconstruction where estimated exposures were between 6-112 rads per individual child in the bombs’ plumes.
(Ortmeyer P. Makhijani A. “Let Them Drink Milk.” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nov/Dec. 1997)
- 200% increase in lung cancer in women who received radiation treatments for breast cancer
Baseline: Breast cancer patients treated with radiation were compared to those who were treated only by other methods.
(Bishop JE. “Study Links Breast Cancer Treatment to Higher Risk of the Disease in Lungs.” The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 1993: B6)
- 66—96% increase in early cancer deaths due to background radiation
Baseline: Deaths of children living with different radiation levels are compared for cancer.
(Kneale GW. Stewart AM. “Childhood Cancers in the UK and their Relation to Background Radiation.” Radiation and Health. 1987)
Further effects found in victims of the Chernobyl accident less than ten years after the meltdown
A partial list of non-cancer health effects of human exposure to radiation:
Downs Syndrome
Hydrocephaly
Microhydrocephaly
Cleft Lip and Palate
Epilepsy
Kidney and Liver Damage
Thyroid Disease
Low Birth weight
Increased Infant Mortality
Increased Stillbirth
Genetic Mutations/Chromosomal Aberrations
Spinal Defects
Congenital Malformations
NUCLEAR POWER JUST KEEPS ON KILLING!
Hydrocephaly
Microhydrocephaly
Cleft Lip and Palate
Epilepsy
Kidney and Liver Damage
Thyroid Disease
Low Birth weight
Increased Infant Mortality
Increased Stillbirth
Genetic Mutations/Chromosomal Aberrations
Spinal Defects
Congenital Malformations
NUCLEAR POWER JUST KEEPS ON KILLING!
March 24, 2009 : As the thirtieth anniversary of America’s most infamous industrial accident approaches, we mourn the deaths that accompanied the biggest string of lies ever told in US industrial history.
As news of the accident poured into the global media, the public was assured there were no radiation releases.
That quickly proved to be false.
The public was then told the releases were controlled and done purposely to alleviate pressure on the core.
Both those assertions were false.
The public was told the releases were "insignificant."
But stack monitors were saturated and unusable, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission later told Congress it did not know—and STILL does not know—how much radiation was released at Three Mile Island, or where it went.
Using unsubstantiated estimates of how much radiation was released, the government issued average doses allegedly received by people in the region, which it assured the public were safe.
But the estimates were utterly meaningless, among other things ignoring the likelihood that high doses of concentrated fallout could come down heavily on specific areas.
The public was told there was no melting of fuel inside the core.
But robotic cameras later showed a very substantial portion of the fuel did melt.
The public was told there was no danger of an explosion.
But there was, as there had been at Michigan’s Fermi reactor in 1966.
In 1986, Chernobyl Unit Four did explode.
The public was told there was no need to evacuate anyone from the Three Mile area.
But Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh then evacuated pregnant women and small children.
Unfortunately, many were sent to nearby Hershey, which was showered with fallout.
In fact, the entire region should have been immediately evacuated.
It is standard wisdom in the health physics community that—due in part to the extreme vulnerability of human embryos, fetuses and small children, as well as the weaknesses of old age—there is no safe dose of radiation, and none will ever be found.
The federal government did nothing to track the health histories of the region’s residents.
In fact, the most reliable studies were conducted by local residents like Jane Lee and Mary Osborne, who went door-to-door in neighborhoods where the fallout was thought to be worst.
Their surveys showed very substantial plagues of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, respiratory problems, hair loss, rashes, lesions and much more.
Data unearthed by radiologist Dr. Ernest Sternglass of the University of Pittsburgh, and statisticians Jay Gould (now deceased) and Joe Mangano of New York have led to strong assertions of major public health impacts.
On-going work by Sternglass and Mangano clearly indicates that "normal" reactor radiation releases of far less magnitude that those at TMI continue to have catastrophic impacts on local populations.
A series of interviews conducted by Robbie Leppzer and compiled in a “a two-hour public radio documentary VOICES FROM THREE MILE ISLAND give some indication of the horrors experienced by the people of central Pennsylvania."
PLEASE, PLEASE , WATCH THAT AND PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
VICTIMS HAVE NO RECOURSE.
Some 2,400 area residents have long-since filed a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for the plague of death and disease visited upon their families.
In the past quarter-century they have been denied access to the federal court system, which claims there was not enough radiation released to do such harm.
TMI’s owners did quietly pay out millions in damages to area residents whose children were born with genetic damage, among other things.
The payments came in exchange for silence among those receiving them.
But for all the global attention focused on the accident and its health effects, there has never been a binding public trial to test the assertion by thousands of conservative central Pennsylvanians that radiation from TMI destroyed their lives.
So while the nuclear power industry continues to assert that "no one died at Three Mile Island," it refuses to allow an open judicial hearing on the hundreds of cases still pending.
Meanwhile, the death toll from America’s worst industrial catastrophe continues to rise.
More than ever, it is shrouded in official lies and desecrated by a reactor-pushing “renaissance” hell-bent on repeating the nightmare on an even larger scale.
IT HAS BEEN THE SAME AT THE HANFORD SITE IN WASHINGTON, THE SAME AT FERMI NEAR DETROIT IN 1966, THE SL-1 REACTOR NEAR IDAHO FALLS IN 1961...
AT LEAST 3/4ths OF ALL U.S. NUCLEAR PLANTS HAVE LEAKED!
THE REST ARE FAILING QUICKLY.
Like rust under a car, corrosion has propagated for decades along the hard-to-reach, wet underbellies of the reactors — generally built in a burst of hasty construction during the 1960s and 1970s.
The number and severity of the leaks has been
escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and
more reactors across America.
Tritium, which is a radioactive form of hydrogen,
has leaked from at least 48 of 65 sites, according to U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission records reviewed as part of the AP's yearlong
examination of safety issues at aging nuclear power plants.
Over the history of the U.S. industry, more than
400 known radioactive leaks of all kinds of substances have occurred,
the activist Union of Concerned Scientists reported in September.
Nuclear engineer Bill Corcoran, an industry
consultant who has taught NRC personnel how to analyze the cause of
accidents, said that since much of the piping is inaccessible and
carries cooling water, the worry is ,if the pipes leak, there could be a
meltdown.
[READ THE REST OF THIS USA TODAY ARTICLE HERE http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2011-06-27-nuclear-plant-leaks_n.htm ]NOW...NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I SO OFTEN WRITE OF SUCH THINGS AS FUKUSHIMA, HANFORD, WIPP, AND THE OTHER NUCLEAR FACILITIES THAT CREATE THE HELL THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE LIVING?
CHILDREN DON'T MAKE DECISIONS TO LIVE NEAR SUCH PLACES...ADULTS DO.
CHILDREN DON'T BUILD SUCH THINGS...ADULTS DO.
AND THE DEAD HAVE NO VOICE...EXCEPT MINE AND OTHERS WHO CARE.
[Two videos, for all who care, are available for viewing beneath my list of sources....]
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SOURCES ...PEER-REVIEWED...***"SCHOLARLY, PEER-REVIEWED" EVIDENCE:
I FOUND THOUSANDS, LITERALLY THOUSANDS!
BELOW ARE JUST A VERY FEW.
READ! LEARN! THINK!
1, http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2011/257943/
External exposure to ionizing radiation produces DNA
damage and increases the rates of cancers such as
thyroid, lung, and breast cancers and leukemia [5].
The most dramatic effect on physical health resulting
from exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl disaster
has been an increased incidence of thyroid cancer [6, 7].
These thyroid tumors have a particularly high rate of
rearranged during transfection (RET)/PTC
rearrangements (57–67%, mainly PTC3) [6, 8, 9].
2. Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special
Health Care Programmes, Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum,
Expert Group “Health”, World Health Organization, 2006.
3. K. Hamatani, H. Eguchi, R. Ito et al., “RET/PTC
rearrangements preferentially occurred in papillary
thyroid cancer among atomic bomb survivors exposed
high radiation dose,” Cancer Research, vol. 68, no. 17,
pp. 7176–7182, 2008.
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4. M. C. Mahoney, S. Lawvere, K. L. Falkner et al.,
“Thyroid cancer incidence trends in Belarus:
examining the impact of Chernobyl,” International
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5. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3579003
The thyroid gland of children is especially vulnerable
to the carcinogenic action of ionizing radiation.
To provide insights into various modifying influences
on risk, seven major studies with organ doses to
individual subjects were evaluated. Five cohort studies
6. http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/141/1/101.full.pdf+html
7. http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/1/125.long
Patterns of acute leukaemia occurrence among children
in the Chernobyl region
To ascertain the effect of in utero radiation exposure and the development of leukaemiaThe Chernobyl
radiation accident is undoubtedly the greatest environmental
catastrophe in the history of mankind.
Vast areas of Europe were contaminated by radioactive fallout.
In the Ukraine alone it is estimated that more than 4 million people
were exposed to radiation.1 While this accident happened over a decade ago (26 April 1986), it will be several more decades before the exact health
consequences are known.
8. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/HEofC25yrsAC.html
| International Advisory Committee. The International Chernobyl Project. Technical Report. IAEA, Vienna (1991) |
| De Cort M, Dubois G, Fridman ShD, Germenchuk MG, Izrael YuA, Janssens A, Jones AR, Kelly GN, Kvasnikova EV, Matveenko II, Nazarov IM, .Pokumeiko YuM, Sitak VA, Stukin ED, Tabachny LYa. Tsaturov YuS and Avdyushin SI (1998) Atlas of Caesium Deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident. EUR Report 16733. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg |
Populations which were particularly exposed to radiation
by the Chernobyl catastrophe
by the Chernobyl catastrophe
- Clean-up workers (liquidators):
830,000 (Yablokov 2010) - Evacuees from the 30 km zone and other highly
- contaminated zones:
350,400 (Yablokov, 2010) - The population of the heavily irradiated zones in Russia,
- Belarus and Ukraine:
8,300,000 (Yablokov, 2010) - European population in zones with minor exposure to radiation:
600,000,000 (Fairlie, 2007)
NOTHING WRITTEN, NOT ALL OF IT TOGETHER, COMPARES TO EVEN ONE DAY SPENT WITH FAMILIES LIVING THESE DISASTERS.
IF YOU REALLY WANT THE TRUTH, GO TALK WITH THOSE WHO ARE SURVIVING THESE "ACCIDENTS" AND "LEAKS".
PLEASE VISIT "CHERNOBYL CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL"... PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THERE, ARE THERE NOW AND WHO WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THE TRUTH SO THESE FAMILIES CAN BE HELPED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, WILL EDUCATE YOU, IF YOU WISH TO FACE THE FACTS WITH THEM.
FOR ANY WHO PREFER TO "HEAR IT FROM THE UNITED NATIONS", THEY, TOO, HAVE A LONG, LONG LIST OF ARTICLES, DOCUMENTATION, ETC, ABOUT THESE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES, ABOUT THE ONGOING SAGA.
GO <HERE> AND CHOOSE A FEW TO READ.
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER VIDEO, THERE ARE PLENTY OF THOSE, BUT WILL A VIDEO CONVINCE YOU?
