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Dominique — san francisco babarian poet from hell
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Schroder grooms Bechtel grooms Reagan
Schroder thru their subsidiary Bechtel politically grooms Reagan from when he ran Hollywood’s Actor’s Guild (1947-1952) & he and Nancy were FBI informers on ‘communist’ movie stars, put him on TV’s Death Valley Days co-sponsored by General Electric to introduce electric stoves & dishwashers to U.S. families & sends him across America as a speaker promoting “Crusade for Freedom” (1952) as a speaker covertly promoting “Crusade for Freedom” (1952) (covertly) promoting Hitler’s policies of a fascist Europe & Eastern Europe in the guise of anti-communism to destroy the Soviet goal (Soviet means ‘worker’s democratic governing units) of income equality and ownership of industry & profits by workers NOT capitalist bankers & billionaires (After all if the people of Russia were not starving there would have been no peoples revolution in the first place.)
At the same time, JPMorgan (Skull & Crossbones) has installed the leadership of their subsidiary, General Motors to run post-war Germany. And Allen Dulles a Wall Street lawyer has run WWII U.S. Intelligence. At the same time, JPMorgan (Skull & Crossbones) has installed the leadership of their subsidiary, General Motors to run post-war Germany. And Allen Dulles a Wall Street lawyer has run WWII U.S. intelligence as the head of Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Dulles & his brother exclusively represented the Nazi portfolio in the United States. Before WWII’s end, Dulles (covertly a triple-agent) hires & installs Hitler’s intelligence chief of Foreign Armies East tasked with destroying the Soviet Union, to run the newly formed CIA Division, Office of Eastern Affairs, tasked (yet again) to destroy the Soviet Union. However, Dulles also is a director of Schroder Bank (that financed Hitler). Dulles continues to run CIA and runs the Warren Commission investigation of the JFK assassination …(after JFK fired 500 Dulles CIA agents.)
Reagan begins homelessness in California
Running West Coast politics thru Bechtel, Schroder runs Reagan as Governor who closes State mental hospitals in California, in effect planting the seeds of, and beginning homelessness in California as a destabilization tactic against the United States …the fruits of which we witness today. Again, Schroder financed Hitler to include destroying America.
Reagan + Bush = Bohemian Grove + Skull & Bones
In 1988 it hits the fan at the end of the Reagan / Bush Administration (Bohemian Grove / Skull & Bones Administration) …and is outted in the national press when the Republican National Ethnic Heritage Committee (located within the Reagan / Bush Whitehouse) …tasked with organizing U.S. Eastern European republican voters is busted in national press …because the 13 members are all former Nazi death squad leaders &/or fascist Eastern European death squad leaders (&/or death squad financiers). After all, Reagan was an enthusiastic supporter of the Contra death squads destroying democracy in Central & South America under the propaganda of promoting democracy.
CIA, U.N., Israel, Pakistan, World Bank, IMF
In the roots of midcentury fascist American industrialists such as Henry Ford supported Hitler & Mussolini’s repression of worker’s rights, 8-hr work shifts, fair wages & unions and in 1947 I was born as was CIA, United Nations, Israel, Pakistan, World Bank & IMF at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA.
CIA had an evil twin & they were referred to as ‘two CIAs’ …one was tasked to get Nazis out the United States … while the other was tasked with bringing them into the United States for use by the State Dept. & Justice Department in the event of a WWIII against the Soviet Union (our allies in WWI & WWII who largely defeated Germany’s industrialists,
chemists and financiers in WWI and WWII). The route smuggled Nazis from Ukraine thru Belarus (the Nazi name for Byelorussia) …which helps explain the Nazi and fascist military and government of Ukraine today …and their coup into power led by the Obama / Biden Administrations and resulting fascist Ukrainian slaughter of 14,000 Russians until Putin stepped in to stop their genocide by Ukraine, NATO, the City and 'West’.
In 1776, 1865, WWI & WWII Soviet Union was there for us
In 1776 Russia sailed its fleet to help America win the American Revolution and the British central banker warlords known as the City of London. In 1865 Russia sailed its fleets to San Francisco to help Lincoln win the Civil War. (America bought Alaska from Russia as a thank-you’.)
Until Dulles (Schroder / Bohemian Grove / German Skull & Bones Society), Russia & Soviet Union known as our faithful ally
Until Dulles (Schroder / Bohemian Grove / German Skull & Bones Society of the Order of Death), Russia and the Soviet Union have always been known as our faithful ally against British imperial financial rule housed in City of London (Corporation …a separate country housing the main bank branch leadership of the West’s central banks) one square mile housed within London).
1868 — City of London founds America's evil twin
1868 — City of London Corporation created United States Corporation, an evil twin of America ...created by and working for the City of London Corporation bankers that is creating all the evil in America, today. The United States is not the name of your country. The name of your country, is … America. The United States (corporation) is a foreign occupying enemy reporting to City of London (corporation) and responsible to create profits for central bankers thru debt, and to plunge Americans deeper under water thru financial warfare.
Click my book pics for content & how to order. Several are in inexpensive e-book editions as well as print. These books I've written & published. Except for the covers, they are in black & white. Old Rails' Tales was reviewed by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year. (I was the founding editor for the poetry anthology project, New American Underground Poetry: the babarians of san francisco – poets from hell.)
Financial Warfare for Crash Dummies
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"Kill a Banker, Win a Prize"
Financial Warfare for Crash Dummies — c/o JPMorganChase, Schroder Bank, City of London & Wall Street
[This is a historical non-fiction narrative written at the jr. high-to-high-school level explaining what makes the work tick and the increasing revolution around the world to establish non-political human equity & sustainability of health and well being for people and the planet.]
Excerpt
CAN YOU IMAGINE A SUPER BOWL WHERE TEAMS FIGHT TO THE DEATH? ...or, an arena where central banking teams fight to the death?In the NFL, 32 teams battle it out to win division titles. Division winners fight to win conference championships. Conference winners battle in the Super Bowl. One team wins the Super Bowl. In the 1% of the 1% warlord globalist central banks, 104 teams battle to win division titles. Division winners fight in conference championships. Conference winners battle in world wars. One team wins the war and the other 104 teams forfeit their wealth to the winning team.
The Pacific Ocean is Dying & You Don't Even Know
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Final Solution for Mammals, Gaia and Divine Order
[This is a subjective interpretative narrative of the objective narrative database (see right)]
Nuclear Waste & Fallout Reference Database 8,012 headlines (in reverse chronicalogical order from the four Fukushima meltdowns in 2011 thru UFOs over nuclear plants in 2018) link to 8,012 summary pages of 3-to-5 articles linked to 25,000-to-35,000 published documents including ~90% consumer news & ~10% scientific studies & abstracts; includes documented deep state nuclear lobbyist & presidential cover-ups featuring most unique & comprehensive info for everyday people, politicians, lawyers & scientists ...in the world.
[This is an objective database & how-to book to simply inform everyday people, newcomers, lawyers & scientists to the truth of nuclear industry's destruction of life on Planet Earth and put a stake thru heart of nuclear industry mythology that nuclear power is safe and clean ...when it is the most destructive force in the universe to the being of Life and the Divinity of the Soul.]
Available in PDF form free; MS Word edition by special arrangement only — Use ms word search engine to sort database, for example: by state, country, city, reactor, dump, waste, illness, fallout, radionuclide, animal, name, date, company for documentation to win arguments at home or in court.
p.s. Low income MAGA and Dem seniors are screwed by the little, ugly bill that is only beautiful for the wealthy — betrayed by United States Corporation's corrupt Congress, again ... the no tax on tips only applies to cash tips not electronic and has caps over which all tips are taxed — and — overtime is taxed ...same old b.s. by politicians & attorneys that should be in prison & crucified
Common Sense: A staircase for Trump & Congress to kill the unconstitutional $36.22-trillion-dollar national debt extorted by an illegal border-jumping foreign body [the Federal Reserve] a subsidiary of another illegal border-jumping entity: City of London Corporation [running the United States Corporation]
...10 steps done in one big beautiful financial reform bill — or, if the Fed admits treason & registers as the foreign agents they are & repay the national debt (plus interest since 1913) to taxpayers ...let the Fedsters die in Guantanamo
These steps as part of a sweeping financial reform bill are modeled to be after release of strategic petroleum reserves by twenty-seven nations, this measure should be enacted in tandem with as many willing nations as possible. The same Rothschild-led cabal controls central banks of most every nation and there is power in numbers. If these measures are enacted separately or by only one nation, the Eight Families cartel will use their financial clout to target and destroy the United States:
1) Introduce a Treasury Department-administered infrastructure investment fund, which workers should be strongly encouraged to opt into using accrued funds from their private 401K plans. This is important because the banker’s stock market casino will crash due to the next nine steps and workers must be shielded from this event. This fund can be used to rebuild America’s infrastructure, with American workers acting as lenders and receiving a fair rate of interest in return.
2) The U.S. needs to withdraw from the Bank of International Settlements, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF and all Eight Families-controlled multilateral lending facilities. We would save billions funding these banker welfare schemes while freeing ourselves from rules which prevent our financial emancipation.
3)De-link the dollar from all currency baskets and IMF special drawing rights. Ban trade in dollars on all global exchanges. This will create a demand for dollars and strengthen our badly devalued currency. Impose currency controls by fixing the dollar at 1:1 euro, Chinese yuan, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc; 100:1 Japanese yen. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fixed the nation’s currency – the ringgit. It was the only currency in the region that did not crash whenRothschild front-man George Sorostook aim at the region.
4) Nationalize the Federal Reserve. According to a London barrister I have been in contact with, under the Federal Reserve Act there is
a provision that allows for the U.S. government to buy back the Fed’s charter for $4-billion-dollars. We should pay this fee, revoke the Fed charter and launch a new U.S. dollar issued by the Treasury Department. With the dollar fixed, the vampires cannot crash it. Annexure – The Federal Reserve Cartel Part 1-5: The Eight Families 28]
5)Cancel the $10-15 trillion debt to the Illuminati bankers. Debt obligations to foreign governments and small bond-holders should be honored at par.
6)Arrest the perpetrators. Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all fraudulent transactions involving the Fed cartel. Send the FBI to the New York Fed. Seize all documents. Confiscate the world’s largest gold reserves which are stored there. These were stolen from various governments including from our own Ft. Knox reserves.
7) Forget just repealing the Bush tax cuts on the rich. The top tax rate on people who make more than $1 million/ year should be raised to 75%. People making more than $500,000/year should pay 50%. All tax brackets below $75,000/year should see tax cuts. If you get more from government you need to pay for it, instead of soaking the middle-class and blaming it on the poor.
8)Slash Pentagon spending. Shut down all U.S. military bases on foreign soil, including those in Europe, Japan and South Korea. Withdraw ALL troops from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Use the savings to pay off government and small bond-holders.
9) Outlaw offshore banking by U.S. citizens and corporations. Bring your money home and pay taxes on it or surrender your U.S. passport/corporate charter. The dramatic increase in tax revenue would be enough to pay off the remaining debt to sovereign governments and small bond-holders, while keeping our obligations to the Social Security trust fund.
10) Introduce single-payer health care and price controls on prescription drugs. The current corporate for-profit health care
...under the Federal Reserve Act there is a provision that allows for the U.S. government to buy back the Fed’s charter for $4-billion-dollars
bonanza depends upon sickness and ill health for its hefty profits. In 2006 Canada government spent $3,678 per person for free single-payer coverage for all its citizens. The U.S. government spent $6,714 per person covering the insurance, pharmaceutical, hospital, and AMA cartels. The savings attained from eliminating insurance / pharmaceutical / hospital chain / doctor perpetrated Medicare /Medicaid / Social Security fraud will save the U.S. Treasury billions. It is the only solution to skyrocketing and unsustainable health care costs. Using this methodology the U.S. could wipe out both its deficit and its debt within a year.
These measures should be planned in secret and introduced swiftly and in rapid succession. Social security and Medicare will be saved. The middle class will see their tax rates go down, while their retirement fund finances the rebuilding of a 21st Century America. Manufacturing jobs will come home, since the Chinese yuan will have seen a dramatic appreciation. Our national security will be enhanced by withdrawing from the role of global policeman.
If we keep thinking inside the banker-manufactured beltway box, our children have no future. They will live in a Third World country which produces nothing, lorded over by debt-collector parasites known as the “financial services industry”. The wealth-destroying Eight Families banker elite are the perpetrators of the U.S. debt crime. Should a woman who is raped serve the sentence of her rapist? That’s absurd. Then why should Americans or any other nation pay a fraudulent debt foisted upon them by con-men?
It is time for the President and Congress to get a backbone and force the criminal Federal Reserve cartel to make the “broad sacrifices”.
Dean Henderson, author:Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network
...under the Federal Reserve Act is a provision that allows the U.S. government to buy back the Fed’s charter for $4-billion-dollars ...& the national debt disappears & WWIII, IV, V etc. materialize from City of London directors inc. Schroder & JPMorganChase leading the carnage
Irish Occupy IMF
Financial Warfare for Crash Dummies
Irish Occupy IMF
(Start at 3:50 to meet the largest nuclear company in the world & consequently the power behind the throne ...if nuclear is so safe, why are nuclear companies immune from lawsuits ...and why do taxpayers have to pay the bill for reactors and eternal storage of nuclear waste ...it's straight communism, not socialism, not capitalism ...the eternal coast of nuclear and waste storage is borne by the little people while the big people are immune and make all the profit)
When we use nuclear power, we create something nature tried to destroy to make life possible
Until about two billion years ago, it was impossible to have any life on Earth; that is, there was so much radiation on Earth you couldn’t have any life – fish or anything. Gradually, two billion years ago, the amount of radiation on this planet – and probably in the entire system – reduced and made it possible for some form of life to begin. Now when we go back to using nuclear power, we are creating something which nature tried to destroy to make life possible. Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a half-life, in some cases for billions of years. I think the human race may wreck itself; it is important that we get control of this horrible force and eliminate it. Nuclear power is not worth it. - Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Navy officer, engineer, & driving force behind naval nuclear power
All of life on Earth is radioactive now, and it only took about 70 years. The more people, plants and animals get, the quicker they sicken. It is just that simple. - Bob Nichols
True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress? I am going to venture the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization. - Chief Standing Bear, The Land of the Spotted Eagle, 1933
For this other death - not by plague, this time, not by poison, not by fire, not by artificially induced cancer, but by the squalid disintegration of the very substance of the species - this gruesome and infinitely unheroic death-in-birth could as well be the product of atomic industry as of atomic war. - Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley (1949)
You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many. - Corinthians 1:11
HEART BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order overhauling regulations to speed up testing & approval of nuclear reactors
by Christina Consolo aka RadChick
Benny Johnson on X (formerly Twitter): "BREAKING: President Trump signs an Executive Order overhauling regulations to speed up testing and approval of nuclear reactors. pic.twitter.com/9vpNF2grfW / X" ? Trump's Nuclear EO's May 24, 2025 View in app.
This is devastating. The activist movement has been set back all the way to Three Mile Island, in 1979.Every time you split an atom, you create radioactive nuclear waste! One part of this calls for 3 new reactors to be online by July of next year!!! The way this will be accomplished is by "looser regulation" to speed up the process... "Over regulation has throttled the development of new highly modernized nuclear reactors that could revolutionize the field..." And where is the largest uranium ore deposit in the entire country? In FLORIDA. So expect mining to get a boost. Stocks already are.
(click pic) 1979: First Occupy movement: Protest vs Wall Street & nuclear power — defends 99.99% against 0.001% central bankers, monarchs & rogue billionaires. This is a short clip from the film "Early Warnings" that details the sit-in that happened on Wall Street on the 50th Anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The protestors were demanding an end to Wall Street financial support for the nuclear industry and the action was part of the larger occupations at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. The costumed figures on stilts are from the Bread and Puppet Theatre. The film is from Green Mountain Post Films www.gmpfilms.com
Free e-book PDF file urls to our Two Volume Companion Books (objective database & subjective interpretive narrative)
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Samples: subjective interpretive e-book narrative Subjective descriptive interpretive narrative of the information in our nuclear waste & fallout reference database proves nuclear energy, reactors & industry is not safe & clean
Samples: objective e-book database 8,012 listings Objective descriptive narrative database of 8,011 headlines each link to three-to-five (3-5) blurbs of published articles &/or scientific studies together linked to 25,000-to-35,000 original documents proves nuclear energy, reactors & industry is not safe & clean
Chernobyl was dwarfed by the consequences of Fukushima
The 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl stunned the world, releasing thousands of tons of radioactivity over an innocent population. Magnum photographer Paul Fusco revisits the affected region, searching for the accident's enduring effects ...but Chernobyl was dwarfed by the consequences of Fukushima, 2011: Ironically, it appears from scientific measurements recorded at the HAARP facility & witnesses testimony at Haarp ...of its electromagnetic assault on the offshore earthquake fault prior-to, during & after the earthquakes causing 3-to-4 General Electric nuclear reactors to meltdown with one nuclear-
and at least one hydrogen explosion; with nuclear fallout & waste equivalent to detonations of 600 airborne Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs & 600 seaborne nuclear bombs ...thanks to City of London financiers ...the deaths of 20,000 Americans living in the U.S. & decimation of the Pacific Basin oceanic food chains from plankton-to-whales & excruciating suffering of sea mammals, fish, shellfish, tidepools & all oceanic life dying beneath the surface & washing up dead & dying on the beaches of the West Coast & on both sides of the Pacific Basin & across the Arctic — events from 2011 to present
have been totally censored, until now.41,000 people every day get fatal & non-fatal cancer from nuclear fallout & waste; according to science in France, Germany Britain & America — women & girls that live within 20 miles of a nuclear reactor get more cancer than men or boys or those living farther away. The two free e-books document this along with this website. Fasten your seatbelts, your sorrow, mourning & anger ...you're starting on a journey from which you will never return as the person you were, before.(1-here2-here3-here4-here & 5-here)
Welcome to Misha of Chernobyl Grace VanderWaal: 12-Year-Old Ukulele Player Golden Buzzer Chernobyl Legacy ...a film by Paul Fusco Laura Bretan - Adagio ...Official Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC581EeIMKgChernobyl ...it took me about six months to arrange it and it was an awakening to the problem that was just overwhelming. This story turned into a two months endeavor ... because I couldn't leave ...it changed my life...
A 12-year-old ukulele player gets the golden buzzer when she takes a risk and performs an original tune, "I Don't Know My Name."
...it changed what I wanted to do ...it was so immense in its implications. There was so much damage to so many people in so many different ways. My first reaction was that I was looking at a different race of people ...because the damage was so incredible.
If you know where to find me, if you know how to reach me ...before this light fades away, before I run out of faith be the only man to say that you'll hear my heart, that you'll give your life forever, you'll stay. Don't let this light fade away, don't let me run out of faith ...be the only man to say that you believe, make me believe you won't let go.
A dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause problems from poor school performance to severe mental retardation. Damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies including permanent damage to the brain, mental deficiency, skull deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities, growth retardation and childhood cancer.
Nuclear waste & fallout affects: ...micro-evolutionary mechanism is activated in virtually all radioactively contaminated areas & leads to activation of old & occurrence of new forms of viruses & bacteria. [Radioactivity leads to] ...activation of old & occurrence of new forms of viruses & bacteria & new diseases ...(never seen before)
Pacific Ocean Dying: The 'new & mysterious' diseases of ocean life are not caused by the fake news 'red blob' of warm water ...they are caused by seaborne nuclear fallout & waste (here) that mutates viruses & bacterial to form new & mysterious diseases, (here). And, by military oceanic use of depleted uranium shells for target practice blowing up ships & military use of ionospheric heaters, military & oil company use of sonar (that bursts the ear drums of whales, dolphins & other sea life & disorients them) & oil company use of sonar-like sonic booms every few seconds for weeks for sounding out oil deposits beneath the ocean floor.
RED BLOB – SEABORNE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR WASTE & FALLOUT
(above: ongoing seaborne fallout – for more seaborne 'red blob', here – for ongoing airborne fallout, click here & here) Oceans are dying – Charts show red dots representing sea stars suffering & melting ... & that the fake news 'red blob' of global warming water blamed for creating new & mysterious diseases & killing millions & trillions of sea life ...is really Fukushima airborne & seaborne fallout covered up by Obama & Trump & their Fed central bank deep state pimps. (more Red Blob, here)
12:28 PM Jan 30, 2014-7030-West Coast sea stars rip themselves apart – innards spill out – melt to mush – vaporize(VIDEO)
Nuclear waste & fallout affects: ...micro-evolutionary mechanism is activated in virtually all radioactively contaminated areas & leads to activation of old & occurrence of new forms of viruses & bacteria. [Radioactivity leads to] ...activation of old & occurrence of new forms of viruses & bacteria & new diseases ...(never seen before)
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Nuclear: 41,000 New Cancers A Day 2 p.m. 04-5-2025 west coast usa
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Rosalie Bertell
41,000 people get fatal & non-fatal cancer from nuclear industry every day
Rosalie Bertell (1929–2012), an american scientist, author, environmental activist, epidemiologist and Catholic nun. Bertell was a sister of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, best known for her work in the field of ionizing radiation, weather warfare, electro-magnetic pulse weapons and weaponizing the Earth (making the Earth a weapon) ...and correcting then revising the harm count and death tool of the number of people getting fatal and nonfatal cancer from ionizing radiation — from 1 million according to the nuclear establishment and nuclear apologists ...to 1.2 billion.
Depleted Uranian in the human body
Gulf War Syndrome, Depleted Uranium & Dangers of Low-Level Radiation
Desert Storm veterans along with the people of iraq and kuwait were victims of one of the latest military experiments on human beings; i believe that the ignorance was culpable and criminal.
by dr. rosalie bertell [biographical notes]
Introduction — I first heard about the military using depleted uranium for bullets from the Native Americans for a Clean Environment (NACE) in Gore, Oklahoma. Kerr Magee was operating a factory there, and in a liquid waste spill a young man, about twenty-one years old, was sprayed with the mixture and died. Many members of the public were also exposed, and were taken to the University in Oklahoma City for medical examination and feces analysis. It seems that the liquid waste contained primarily uranium and other heavy metals.
Local people had found this factory to be very polluting. When I visited the town to see what was happening and to decide whether or not I could help, they showed me rust marks scattered over the surface of their automobiles where the toxic corrosive spray released from the factory routinely had impacted on the paint. People complained of burning throats and eyes, some with even more serious complaints, but little systematic information which would show that the factory was the source of their problem.
I met a young boy who showed me a frog he had caught--the frog had nine legs. It was in a bottle of formaldehyde. I wanted to take it for some tissue and bone analysis but it was his prize possession and he would not part with it.
I learned that the Kerr Magee plant had been disposing of its waste by deep-well injection in this rural, primarily farming area. The people, becoming alarmed at this practice which threatened the water table, got a court injunction to stop it. In an action, which seemed to the local farmers to be a retaliation, Kerr Magee had applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to call their waste an "experimental fertilizer" and just spread it over the top of the land. The stories were quite strong evidence that this so-called fertilizer was sometimes just released into the local river, or released in one place on the factory property, with no pretense even to spread it.
The young boy had found his nine-legged frog on the hill which served as the "experimental plot." Hunters had found a rabbit with two hearts, and the local taxidermist told me that he had tried to mount two deer heads and the fur came off in his hands in clumps. He had never seen anything like it in his whole career.
As local people became sick and started to complain, Kerr Magee bought them out, and took over their land. The Native people, who were determined to preserve their land, formed a Coalition of White and Natives Concerned, and began the long legal fight with the company. They learned about environmental assessment hearings, licensing hearings, etc. and began to seriously participate. They also undertook a human health survey of all families -- there were about four hundred of them -- living within four miles of the factory. Every family was included in the survey, which was very comprehensive and carefully administered.
The International Institute of Concern for Public Health agreed to analyze this data for the citizens. The outstanding illnesses in the area were respiratory and kidney problems. There were significantly more persons with respiratory illnesses down wind of the plant, and significantly more with kidney problems down stream of the plant.
We intended to do a clinical follow-up of this survey, and designed the study with the cooperation of the Occupational Health and Respiratory Units at the University Medical School of New Jersey. We were not able to obtain funding for this study. Nevertheless, with the health survey and a great deal of local perseverance, Kerr Magee moved out. A second multinational tried to take over the factory--I think it was General Dynamics--but it failed.
Uranium bullets
I learned many things about the uranium bullets in the process of this research:
They are incendiary, that is after piercing the object they can burst into flame.
They are fragmentary, they disintigrate into small fragments inside the body, and cannot be removed.
They are more dense than lead, and can pierce a bullet-proof vest, or a light armored car or tank. Because the "enemy" might also use them, the military made uranium armor as a protection.
They were cheap, because the depleted uranium was a waste product of the nuclear-bomb program.
They were radioactive, which meant that even handling them was risky, but no one seemed to be worrying about this!
Research into gulf war syndrome
Six years after the Gulf War there is still deep controversy over the causes of the severe health problems observed in the veterans. Reluctantly, the U.S. government has been slowly releasing data on possible Iraqi chemical exposures of the veterans, but many physicians, some of whom have reported that their jobs are being threatened, have said that this information does not explain the variety of symptoms observed.
Shortly after the Gulf War, at the request of Staff Sargeant Carol Picou, San Antonio, Texas, who was a victim, Patricia Axelrod undertook research into the possible causes of this illness.
The research was jointly sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Office of Women's Health. It was submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services on May 10, 1993, and was labeled: for internal distribution only. The research was intended to be a guide to further research into the problem, so its limitation to internal distribution did not make sense.
Our journal, International Perspectives in Public Health, published the document in full in 1994.
At the time, the U.S. Department of Defence was treating this illness as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and advising military doctors to treat it with muscle relaxants and sleeping pills, while ordering a mental illness assessment. Most of the information in Ms. Axelrod's Guide to Gulf War Sickness comes from interviews with Dr. Thomas Callender, a toxicologist; Dr. Barry Wilson, of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories; and Commissioner Rudy Arredondo, Maryland's Commission on Black and Minority Health. Ms. Axelrod also interviewed many veterans and reviewed the journal articles and reports available in the public press. Information on leishmaniases was provided by the World Health Organization.
Potential causes of gulf war syndrome
In this complex situation, any or all of the following factors may have interacted to bring about specific symptoms in veterans. Obviously, the combinations of factors differ with individuals, hence it is likely that there is not one single explanation of the whole spectrum of symptoms. However, the following main categories are candidates for causal relationships with illnesses reported by veterans:
Administration of three vaccines intended as protection against nerve and biological warfare agents. These were:
Pyridostigmine, normally prescribed for myasthenia gravis and known to have serious side effects, especially when the person taking it is exposed to heat. It is also known that exposure to pesticides and insecticides (Baygon, Diazinon and Sevin) should be avoided when taking pyridostigmine because they can accentuate its toxicity. Some women who took this drug during pregnancy and have breast-fed infants have seen side effects in their child.
Botulinum Pentavalent, an unproven vaccine intended to counteract botulism. It is unlicensed in the United States.
Anthrax, to protect against the disease anthrax. This was apparently selectively administered to troops during the war, and women receiving it were warned not to have children for three or four years.
Depleted uranium was used for the first time in this war. It was incorporated into tank armor, missile and aircraft counterweights and navigational devices, and in tank, anti-aircraft and anti-personnel artillery. The scientific information on this deadly chemical has been reported in "Radium Osteitis With Osteogenic Sarcoma: The Chronology and Natural History of Fatal Cases" by Dr. William D. Sharpe, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 47, No. 9 (September 1971). There was no excuse for this human experimentation because the effects of this exposure were known.
Smoke and chemical pollutants released by the continuous oil- well fires. Levels of soot, carbon monoxide and ozone have been studied by an Environmental Protection Agency Task Force. The National Toxics Campaign, Boston, Massachusetts, found five different toxic hydrocarbon products in the smoke (1,4-dichlorobenzine, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, diethyl phthalate, dimethyl phthalate and naphthalene), any one of which could induce serious health effects.
Old World leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by the bite of many species of sand fly indigenous to the region. Non-indigenous people who enter an infected area are known to be more seriously affected by this parasite than the inhabitants. If left undiagnosed, and therefore untreated, it can be fatal.
Diagnosis requires bone and spleen biopsy, and the disease can have a three-year incubation period without causing symptoms. It can be transmitted by blood transfusion, and transmitted by a woman to her unborn child. Leishmaniasis was reported as widespread in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. This disease is thought to be responsible for the Pentagon ban, November 1991, against blood donations from Gulf War veterans. This ban was lifted, for unknown reasons, on January 11, 1993.
Pesticides and insecticides were used extensively throughout the war to protect against pestilence. It is known that large quantities of DDT, malathion, fenitrorthion, propuxur, deltamethrin and permethrin were used. They are all toxic nerve agents, and many are suspected carcinogens and mutagens.
Destruction by allies of Iraqi chemical, nerve and biological warfare weapons resulting in widespread distribution of these toxins in the environment. This problem has now been, at least in part, documented by the U.S. Department of Defense. They are focusing on this potential cause as if it were the only candidate cause.
The electromagnetic environment which permeated the battlefield during the war. Veterans were exposed to a broad spectrum of electromagnetic radiation created by electricity generated to support the high-tech instruments, thousands of radios and radar devices in use. This intense electromagnetic field causes both thermal and non-thermal effects, and potentially interacts with the other hazardous exposures and stresses of the battlefield. Electromagnetic radiation can alter the production of hormones (neurotransmitters), interact with cell membranes, increase calcium ion flow, stimulate protein kinase in lymphocytes, suppress the immune system, affect melatonin production required to control the "body clock," and cause changes in the blood-brain barrier.
Hazards of low level radiation
In the past few years the information available on the health effects of exposure to low levels of radiation has increased. We are no longer dependent on the commercial or military nuclear researchers who since 1950 have claimed that studies of the effects of low-level radiation are impossible to undertake. The new information is unsettling because it proves the critics of the industry to have been correct as to its serious potential to damage living tissue.
There have also been significant new releases of findings from the atomic bomb research in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the self-acclaimed "classical research" of radiation health effects. I will list these findings toward the end of this article, along with studies from the nuclear industry.
In reviewing these research papers one is struck by the high-dose response when the radiation is delivered slowly, with low total dose. The conventional wisdom has claimed that at low dose/slow-dose rate the body is well able to repair most of the harm caused by the radiation. Some nuclear apologists go so far as to claim such exposures are "beneficial."
Because the nuclear industry has always maintained that the effects of low-dose radiation exposure are so small that it is impossible to study them, they proposed extrapolating the effects from those observed at high dose, using a straight line to zero (zero dose, zero effect), together with "correction factors" for low dose/slow-dose rate.
The effect of this "correction" is to reduce the fatal cancer estimates calculated by D.L. Preston, then Director of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at Hiroshima, using the new dosimetry, from seventeen fatalities per million people per rad exposure, to five fatalities per million people per rad exposure. The corresponding estimates based on actually observed rates for nuclear workers is between ten and thirty fatalities per million per rad. Obviously, for the adult healthy male, the dose-response estimate should be about twenty for fatal cancers per million per rad.
However, although we can make a strong case for increasing the "official" estimates of harm by a factor of four, this fails to deal with non-fatal cancers, depressed immune systems, localized tissue damage (especially the respiratory, digestive and urinary tracts), damage to skin, and reproductive problems. Radiation can cause brain lesions, damage to the stem cells which produce the blood and, when the radiactive material is carried in a heavy metal (uranium) it can be stored in bone, irradiating body organs and nerves within its radius.
"While nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments', others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And, limiting [the counting of] genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth." – Sister Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, Pres., International Institute of Concern for Public Health; Editor, International Perspectives in Public Health, Epidemiologist, ENMOD Expert
Nuclear: 41,000 New Cancers A Day From Nuclear Industry
Victims of the Nuclear Age — True Number of Nuclear Industry Victims
Statistics are people, with tears wiped away
abstract: When Chernobyl blew up, it was women & pregnant women in the next country across the border from Ukraine, Belarus, whose ovum & embryos were bathed in high yield nuclear reactor fallout ...but, women do not know that everyday business-as-usual low level fallout from 'normal' nuclear reactors adds up to create similar damage to soft & rapidly growing living tissue & chromosomes that becomes your baby ... it's high time to dismantle the Fed interest rate bankers stranglehold & their merciless military industrial nuclear reactor / nuclear bomb phallic deity.
(Exciting conclusion of Sister Rosalie's story (that begins in the column to your right) ...with letter of explanation, (follows below)– including the truth and true figures of Chernobyl casualties ...thousands of times higher than numbers falsified by nuclear industry regulatory apologists.)
Abstract: A minimum of 1,300 million people have been killed, maimed or diseased by nuclear power since it's inception. The industry's figures massively underestimate the real cost of nuclear power with restrictive rules, in an attempt to hide its victims from the world. Here, the author calculates the real number of victims of the nuclear age. Additionally, Rosalie cites figures on the true amount of deaths and casualties from Chernobyl ...thousands of times higher than nuclear industry regulatory apologists claim.
Following article from The Ecologist, Nov 1999, pp. 408-411
Victims Of The Nuclear Age —by Dr. Rosalie Bertell
FIREMEN DEPlOYED AS BIO-ROBOTS TO CLEAN-UP CHERNOBYL
On the tenth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, I was standing at a public meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, listening to the story of one of the firemen employed to clean up the site after the explosion. These workers took huge doses of radiation during this task, and their story is a terrifying one.
HUMAN BIO-ROBOTS
About 600,000 men were conscripted as Chernobyl `liquidators' [also called bio-robots']: farmers, factory workers, miners, and soldiers -- as well as professionals like the firemen -- from all across Russia. Some of these men lifted pieces of radioactive metal with their bare hands. They had to fight more than 300 fires created by the chunks of burning material spewed off by the inferno. They buried trucks, fire engines, cars and all sorts of personal belongings. They felled a forest and completely buried it, removed topsoil, bulldozed houses and filled all available clay-lined trenches with radioactive debris. The minimum conscription time was 180 days, but many stayed for a year. Some were threatened with severe punishment to their families if they failed to stay and do their duty.
These `liquidators' are now discarded and forgotten, many vainly trying to establish that the ill health most have suffered ever since 1986 is a result of their massive exposure to radiation. At the Centre for Radiation Research outside Kiev, there is an organization of former liquidators. This group reports that by 1995, 13,000 of their members had died- almost 20 percent of which deaths were suicides. About 70,000 members were estimated to be permanently disabled. But the members of this organization are the lucky ones. Because many former liquidators are now scattered throughout Russia, they neither have the benefit of the organization's special hospital, nor of membership of a survivor organization. They are known as the `living dead.'
The fireman whose story I was listening to seemed to be an exception to this grim litany of illness and death. He was telling the meeting how pleased and excited he was that, for the first time in ten years, his blood test findings were in the normal range. I was standing next to a delegate from the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] -- the organisation charged with promoting the use of atomic energy. On hearing the fireman's story, he leaned over to me and said: "You see! We said these were only transient disorders." A rough translation might read: Chernobyl? What's the problem?
IGNORING THE VICTIMS
The IAEA man's attitude was perfectly in keeping with that of hisrorganization which, along with the International Commission onrRadiation Protection [ICRP] exists in practice largely to played down the effects of radiation on human health, and to shield thernuclear industry from compensation claims from the public. The IAEA was set up in the late 1950s by he UN, to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of atomic energy -- ironically, two contradictory objectives. The ICRP which was revlved from the 1928 International Committee on X-Ray and Radium Protection, was set up in the fifties to explore the health effects of radiation and [theoretically] to protect the public from it. In fact, both organizations have come to serve the industry rather than the public.
The Chernobyl case is a classic example of the IAEA's inadequacy and questionable science. Despite massive evidence to the contrary, not least from the many thousands of victims themselves, the IAEA insists that only 32 people have so far died as a result of Chernobyl -- those who died in the radiation ward of Hospital six in Moscow. All other deaths related to the disaster and its aftermath [and there have been many more than 10,000 in Ukraine alone according to the Minister of Health there] are ignored. Belarus had the highest fallout, and yet there is an international blackout among the IAEA and the rest of the "radiation protection community" on the suffering of its people.
The essential problem is that both the IAEA and the ICRP are dealing not with science but with politics and administration; not with public health but with maintaining an increasingly dubious industry. It is their interests, and those of the nuclear industry to play down the health effects of radiation.
RESTRICTIVE DEFINITIONS
The main way in which the "radiation protection industry" has succeeded in hugely underrating the ill-health caused by nuclear power is by insisting on a group of extremely restrictive definitions as to what qualifies as a radiation-caused illness statistic. For example, under IAEA's criteria:
* If a radiation-caused cancer is not fatal, it is not countedin the IAEA's figures
* If a cancer is initiated by another carcenogen, but accelerated or promoted by exposure to radiation, it is not counted.
* If an auto-immune disease or any non-cancer is caused by radiation, it is not counted.
* Radiation-damaged embryos or foetuses which result in miscarriage or stillbirth do not count.
* A congenitally blind, deaf or malformed child whose illnesses are radiation-related are not included in the figures because this is not genetic damage, but rather is teratogenic, and will not be passed on later to the child's offspring.
* Causing the genetic predisposition to breast cancer or heart disease does not count since it is not a "serious genetic disease" in the Mendelian sense.
* Even if radiation causes a fatal cancer or serious genetic disease in a live born infant, it is discounted if the estimated radiation dose is below 100 mSv [mSv= millisievert, a measurement of radiation exposure. One hundred millsievert is the equivalent in radiation of about 100 X-Rays].
* Even if radiation causes a lung cancer, it does not count if the person smokes -- in fact whenever there is a possibility of another cause, radiation cannot be blamed.
If all else fails, it is possible to claim that radiation below some designated dose does not cause cancer, and then average over the whole body the radiation dose which has actually been received by one part of the body or even organ, as for instance when radio-iodine concentrates in the thyroid. This arbitrary dilution of the dose will ensure the 100 mSv cut-off point is nowhere near reached. It is a technique to dismiss the sickness of Gulf War veterans who inhaled small particles of ceramic uranium which stayed in their lungs for more than two years, and in their bodies for more than eight years, irradiating and damaging cells in a particular part of the body.
Survivors of the Three Mile Island accident
THE REAL VICTIMS
Despite the authorities' attempt at concealment, we can still begin to enumerate the real victims of the nuclear age. Although the calculations and statistics which I have brought to bear below do not include all of the human suffering that has been caused by the nuclear age, a closer look will show that the methodology is adequate for a first estimate of major damage. The magnitude of the harm already caused is startling, and even more so when we realise many types of damage have been omitted from this first estimate.
In my estimate cancer, whether fatal or non-fatal [excluding non-fatal skin cancer], genetic damage and serious congenital malformations and diseases will be included in the figures. Other damage is acknowledged but not estimated. Ultimately, whether or not one cares about the damage caused by radiation exposure is ultimately a human, not a scientific question. Damage is damage, and causing an unwanted attack on someone's person or reproductive capacity is a violation of human rights. Such damage can be rated for importance, but it should not be arbitrarily ignored. "Statistics are the people with the tears wiped away" stated one of the Rongelap people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, who `hosted' the United States Bikini nuclear testing in the 1950s. This is the story of many tears, and of a hard hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering and ill-health that would be the `acceptable' price to pay for the world `benefitting' from nuclear technology.
RISK ESTIMATES USED IN THIS ANALYSIS
In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and other nuclear apologists] I will take the customary risk estimates, indicate their probable range of error, and then extend the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by the regulators. For example, while the nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments' by the regulators, others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And limiting genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth.
ESTIMATING THE FATAL AND NON-FATAL CANCER RISKS
In 1991, the ICRP concluded that the projected lifetime risk of fatal cancer for members of the population exposed Sievert whole-body radiation at a low dose rate, was between seven and 11 excess fatal cancers, and seven to eight excess fatalities for in the nuclear industry aged 25 to 64 years. We extend these estimates to non-fatal cancers by estimating the total number of cancers which were used by the ICRP in order to obtain the number of fatalities. We therefore estimate 16 fatal and non-fatal cancers if we exclude non-fatal skin cancers] or 36 if we count them. If the estimate of fatal cancers was off by a factor of two then we can double all those numbers.
The estimate I use for cancer 16 per 100 Person Sieverts, but the reader can adjust this estimate to suit other inclusions, exclusions or uncertainties.
ESTIMATING DAMAGE TO AN EMBRYO OR FOETUS
According to the BEIR Committee [Bilogical Effects of Ionizing Radiation] 1990 report, a dose of 150 mSv to human male testes will cause temporary sterility, and a single dose of 3.5 Sv will cause permanent sterility. According to the ICRP in 1991, just 5 mSv to the testes will cause damage to offspring -- YET THIS DOSE WAS PERMITTED YEARLY TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND TEN TIMES MORE TO NUCLEAR WORKERS, IN ALL COUNTRIES PRIOR TO 1990. It continues today to be permitted yearly for nuclear workers in most countries.
Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever have. The threshold for permanent female sterilisation decreases with age, but in general about 650 mSv is considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in women. After the Bravo event -- the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in March 1954 -- the women of Rongelap Atoll experienced about five years of sterility. As they regained their sterility, they experienced faulty pregnancies, miscarrigies, stillbirths and damage to their offspring. Since some radionucleides can be retained in bone or fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the developing embryo or foetus. Radionucleides in the mother's body can also be transferred in her breast milk.
The official nuclear industry definition of `detriment' includes only serious genetic disease not judged to be serious, and teratogenic diseases [those which are not passed on to offspring] are not counted. Recently the 1990 BEIR committee made one small concession in recognizing mental retardation in children exposed to radiation during the fifth to 15th weeks of their mother's pregnancy. Radiation kills brain cells, causing both an underdeveloped brain [microcephaly] and mental retardation. For the individual child, BEIR estimates that a dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause a range of problems from poor school performance to severe mental retardation.
GENETIC DAMAGE
The U.N. Scientific Committee on the effects of Atomic Radiation [UNSCEAR] and BEIR both agree that a population of one million live births exposed to 100 Person Sieverts will result in one to three genetic damage effects to offspring, and so to the human gene pool. The doubling dose for genetic effects [the dose that will cause twice as many genetic effects] is more contentious, with some geneticists claiming that it is 2.5 Sv, and others claiming much greater sensitivity with a 0.12 Sv doubling dose. If the latter is true, then the increase in genetic effects will be 8.3 per cent for every 10mSv and therefore 83 such effects per million live births when the total averaged dose is 100 Person Sieverts rather than the 4 such effects in the first instance. On the conservative side, we have taken 10 genetic effects to be the number for exposed offspring.
ESTIMATE OF TERATOGENIC EFFECTS
The damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies including permanent damage to the brain, mental deficiency, skull deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities, growth retardation and childhood cancer. A total of all those effects, including mortality, amount to 46, of which 25 are live born.
When we summarise those risk estimates, we get 16 cancers, 10 genetic effects and 25 congenital effects for one million exposed to 100 Person Sieverts. The task now is to apply those numbers for the global population from industrial nuclear activities, including weapons testing in the fifties, sixties and early seventies and electricity production from nuclear power over the past half century. When we do this we find that weapons testing has lead to nearly 376 million cancers, 235 million genetic effects and 587 million teratogenic effects to give A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 1,200 MILLION. Meanwhile, electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have lead to another million victims, of which as many one-fifth will have been premature cancer deaths. Although not officially accounted for, about 500 million foetuses would have also been lost as stillbirths during that period from radiation exposure while in the womb.
Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with more than 10 million victims a year. An industry which has the potential to kill, injure and maim that number of innocent people -- and all in the name of `benefitting' society -- is surely wholly unacceptable.
Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health [IICPH]
From: Rosalie Bertell — Date: 03/11/99 2:58 PM
RE: November Issue
Dear Zac,
Congratulations on a generally excellent issue! I have always felt that newspaper articles are too fleeting, and books are too ponderous to reach the public on this important issue, however, you have found a very good imtermediate carrier for the information. Please keep me informed of reactions (which may get nasty).
I was concerned about my article, and perhaps there were some attempts to reach me for comments when I was overseas (13 Oct to 2 Nov). It was too bad that important references were omitted, as was the fact that I used only UNSCEAR data on population doses of radiation due to weapons or civilian nuclear enterprises. The text does not mention the source of the population dose estimates, which are fundamental to the credibility. I can also be faulted for the comment (added by someone) that 100 mSv is the equivalent in radiation to about 100 medical Xrays. Nuclear doses are always whole body doses, while medical Xray delivers a partial body dose to the target organ (teeth, chest, kidney, etc.). Speaking about "100 medical Xrays" is pretty vague and useless.
I tried to present the results in table form so that you could aggregate them as you needed, but I cannot match the numbers used in the article with my original estimates. The editor exaggerated somewhat the weapon testing contribution and very much slighted the nuclear power contribution. Both calculations were made using the same methodology and both used the official UNSCEAR data.
However, the text says: "we find that weapon testing has led to ... approximately 1,200 million. Meanwhile, electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have led to another million victims ..."
My estimates are:
Nuclear weapon testing: 1,138 million Nuclear weapon production: 3.2 million (84% local or regional) Nuclear power production: 21 million (76% local or regional) Medical production and use: 4 million
Accidents: Military 16 million Civilian 15 million
Total Military: 1,156 million Total civilian electricity related: 36 million Total medical: 4 million GRAND TOTAL: 1,200 million
Of these amounts, about 31.4% are radiation induced cancers; 19.6% are genetic effects and 49% are teratogenetic effects in live born offspring.
I used official risk factors except for not introducing the dose rate effect which the nuclear people do to reduce the number of cancers. My own research would say that the cancer estimates should be doubled, not divided by two. In the paper I maintained a neutral position be not doing either.
Best wishes, Rosalie Bertell
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Nuclear Industry cancer jumps from 1 million to 2 billion; include animals & double or triple that. Cancer rates edge from 1-in-2, to 1-in-1. Will you fight for justice? Deaths from high yield atmospheric testing when low yield is included jump from 1 million to 60 million deaths & 100 million cancers. When all nuclear industry deaths, fatal & non-fatal cancers are included, jump is to 1.2-to-2.4 billion victims. If you include animals, the toll doubles or triples. Since fallout radiation is accumulative in the body, and women carry all their eggs from birth, the chances of ingested everyday fallout harming your unborn child increase as your injestion of each radionuclude atom, increases. Yes, each atom.
Epidemiologist counts 1.2 billion fatal & non-fatal nuclear cancer victims: real victims of nuclear industry go untold as a Chernobyl count and as a world count.
Despite the authorities attempt at concealment, we can still begin to enumerate the real victims of the nuclear age – Although the calculations and statistics which I have brought to bear below do not include all of the human suffering that has been caused by the nuclear age, a closer look will show that the methodology is adequate for a first estimate of major damage. The magnitude of the harm already caused is startling, and even more so when we realise many types of damage have been omitted from this first estimate. In my estimate, cancer, whether fatal or non-fatal (excluding non-fatal skin cancer), genetic damage and serious congenital malformations and diseases ... will be included in the figures. Other damage is acknowledged but not estimated. Ultimately, whether or not one cares about the damage caused by radiation exposure is ultimately a human, not a scientific question.
Whether or not one cares about damage caused by radiation exposure ...is ultimately a human, not a scientific question
An unwanted attack on someone's person or reproductive capacity is a violation of human rights — Damage is damage, and causing an unwanted attack on someone's person or reproductive capacity is a violation of human rights. Such damage can be rated for importance, but it should not be arbitrarily ignored. "Statistics are the people with the tears wiped away," stated one of the Rongelap people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, who 'hosted' the United States Bikini nuclear testing in the 1950s.
Hard-hearted mindset laid down the degree of suffering & ill-health as the 'acceptable' price to pay for the world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology
Story of many tears — This is the story of many tears, and of a hard-hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering and ill-health that would be the 'acceptable' price to pay for the world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology.
Risk estimates used in this analysis — In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and other nuclear apologists], I will take the customary risk estimates, indicate their probable range of error, and then extend the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by the nuclear regulators. For example, while the nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments', others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And, limiting genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth.
Nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments', others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And, limiting genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth
Estimating fatal & non-fatal cancer risks — In 1991, ICRP concluded the projected lifetime risk of fatal cancer for members of the population exposed to Sievert whole-body radiation at a low dose rate, was between seven and 11 excess fatal cancers ...and, seven to eight excess fatalities for those in the nuclear industry aged 25 to 64 years. We extend these estimates to non-fatal cancers by estimating the total number of cancers which were used by the ICRP in order to obtain the number of fatalities. We, therefore, estimate 16 fatal and non-fatal cancers if we exclude non-fatal skin cancers, or 36 if we count them. If the estimate of fatal cancers was off by a factor of two then we can double all those numbers. The estimate I use for cancer is 16 per 100 Person Sieverts ...but, the reader can adjust this estimate to suit other inclusions, exclusions or uncertainties.
A dose of 150 mSv to human male testes causes temporary sterility, a single dose of 3.5 Sv causes permanent sterility
Estimating damage to an embryo or fetus — According to the BEIR Committee [Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation] 1990 report, a dose of 150 mSv to human male testes will cause temporary sterility, and a single dose of3.5 Sv will cause permanent sterility. According to the ICRP in 1991, just 5 mSv to the testes will cause damage to offspring – yet this dose was permitted yearly to members of the public, and ten times more to nuclear workers, in all countries prior to 1990. It continues today to be permitted yearly for nuclear workers in most countries.
650 mSv is considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in women – since radionuclides can be retained in bone or fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the developing embryo or fetus – radionuclides in the mother's body are transferred in her breast milk
Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever have —Women carry with them all of the ova from birth which they will ever have. The threshold for permanent female sterilization decreases with age, but in general about 650 mSv is considered to be the threshold for temporary sterility in women.After the Bravo event -- the detonation of a hydrogen bomb at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in March 1954 -- the women of Rongelap Atoll experiencedabout five years of sterility. As they regained their fertility, they experienced faulty pregnancies, miscarrigies, stillbirths and damage to their offspring. Since some radionuclides can be retained in bone or fatty tissues, they are able to cross the placenta barrier and disrupt the developing embryo or fetus. Radionuclides in the mother's body can also be transferred in her breast milk. The official nuclear industry definition of 'detriment' includes only serious genetic disease. Teratogenic diseases (those not passed on to offspring) are not judged by the nuclear industy to be serious, and, therefore, not counted as a 'detriment'.
Women regained their fertility but had faulty pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth & offspring
Recently, the 1990 BEIR committee made one small concession in recognizing mental retardation — in children exposed to radiation during the fifth to 15th weeks of their mother's pregnancy — Radiation kills brain cells, causing both an underdeveloped brain (microcephaly) and mental retardation. For the individual child, BEIR estimates thata dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause a range of problems from poor school performance to severe mental retardation.
A dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause problems from poor school performance to severe mental retardationA dose in utero of 100 to 500 mSv can cause problems from poor school performance to severe mental retardation
Genetic damage — The U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation [UNSCEAR] and BEIR both agree that a population of one million live births exposed to 100 Person Sieverts will result in one to three genetic damage effects to offspring, and so to the human gene pool.The doubling dose for genetic effects [the dose that will cause twice as many genetic effects] is more contentious, with some geneticists claiming that it is 2.5 Sv, and others claiming much greater sensitivity with a 0.12 Sv doubling dose.If the latter is true, thenthe increase in genetic effects will be 8.3 per cent for every 10mSv and therefore 83 such effects per million live births when the total averaged dose is 100 Person Sieverts rather than the 4 such effects. in the firstinstance. On the conservative side, we have taken 10 genetic effects to be the number for exposed offspring.
The 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl stunned the world, releasing thousands of tons of radioactivity over an innocent population. Magnum photographer Paul Fusco revisits the affected region, searching for the accident's enduring effects. See the project at Mediastorm
Estimate of 'Teratogenic Effects' —Damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the wombis not considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can lead to 30 different congenital anomolies, including permanent damage to the brain, mental deficiency, skull deformities, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformities, growth retardation and childhood cancer. A total of all those effects, including mortality, amount to 46, of which 25 are live born. When we summarise those risk estimates, we get 16 cancers, 10 genetic effects and 25 congenital effects for one million exposed to 100 Person Sieverts.
Damage to an embryo from ionizing radiation when in the womb is not considered to be genetic. Such irradiation can lead to some 30 different congenital anomolies; including: permanent brain damage, mental deficiency, skull deformity, cleft palate, spina bifida, club-feet, genital deformity, growth retardation & childhood cancer
The task now is to apply those numbers for the global population from industrial nuclear activities, including weapons testing in the fifties, sixties and early seventies and electricity production from nuclear power over the past half century. When we do this we find that weapons testing has lead to nearly 376 million cancers, 235 million genetic effects and 587 million teratogenic effects to give a total of approximately 1,200 million. Meanwhile, electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 may have lead to another million victims, of which as many one-fifth will have been premature cancer deaths.
Although not officially accounted for, about 500 million fetuses will have also been lost as stillbirths during that period from radiation exposure while in the womb
"Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with more than 10 million victims a year. An industry which has the potential to kill, injure and maim that number of innocent people – and all in the name of 'benefitting' society – is surely, wholly unacceptable." – Sister Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health, and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health (IICPH).
"In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry (as oppossed to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and other nuclear apologists), I will take the customary risk estimates, indicate their probable range of error, and then extend the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by nuclear regulators.
"While nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments', others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And, limiting genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth." – Sister Rosalie Bertell, PhD, GNSH, is President of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health, and Editor in Chief of International Perspectives in Public Health (IICPH)
(For the exciting conclusion to Rosalie's story, go to the top of the column to your left.)
[Editor's note: Breathing or eating radionuclides, or food with radionuclides in it, smoking cigarette tobacco or pot exposed to fallout, (or having skin contact with tritium as released or vented daily from every nuclear reactor into the air and water and soil), creates ingested (internalized) sources of ionizing radiation. Even if it is considered low level ionizing radiation, once it is ingested, it is no longer a one-time external exposure ...it as a 24x7x365 life-long exposure ...such as getting shot once with a bullet, compared to getting shot hundreds or thousands or millions of times a day, for the rest of your life. Some ingested low level exposures take 30-40 years to produce non-fatal or fatal cancer ...but you may experience mild-to-severe immune deficiency diseases along the way. Some will kill you immediately, or in a short time.]
Instruments Don't Eat, People Do
12:32 PM Mar 22, 2011 -0103- Comparisons with X-rays and CT scans meaningless - inhaling particles increases radiation exposure by a factor of a trillion
(following excerpted from: The Pacific Ocean Is Dying And You Don't Even Know)
More info on tritium, see Maggie Gundersen & Fairewinds, (here)
Also, see: Tritium Toxicity, Effects of Prenatal Irradiation (here)
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(l) Executive Director & health researcher of Radiation & Public Health Project (radiation.org), Joe Mangano explains how citizens can monitor radiation in the air. (r) Post Fukushima Increases in Newborn Hypothyroidism on the West Coast of USA. Christie Brinkley, model, actress, anti-nuclear activist ...is vice president. With a nuclear power site 17 miles from her home, model, Christie (also, a launch partner of Beyond Nuclear with Helen Caldicott) warns the public of nuclear reactor dangers. "From the shores of Long Island, it's only 11 miles. Eleven miles across the Sound," she says. "Because it sits in Connecticut, a lot of Long Islanders don't realize the proximity, don't realize the danger. And certainly people in Manhattan don't realize that even Millstone has the potential to affect Manhattan." During the past few years, Brinkley has become a nuclear activist. She and her husband, Peter Cook, an architect whose family roots in the Hamptons date back to the 1600s, have joined the East Hampton-based Standing for Truth About Radiation (STAR). Cook is chairman of the nonprofit group that formed in 1997 and helped to permanently close Brookhaven National Laboratory's High Flux Beam Reactor.
10:15 AM Feb 21, 2017 -8847- Scientists fear Fukushima radiation hitting U.S. to worsen - A lot of people are very concerned - Billions being exposed - Reactors will continue to pour water into Pacific for the rest of time (VIDEO)
Feb 2, 2017 Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear engineer (emphasis added): “When I went to school, the saying was ‘dilution is the solution to pollution,’ and that’s what the Japanese believe. If they dump [radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi] on their side and it floats over to the West Coast of the U.S. — the Pacific’s a big place — it’ll dilute out. I don’t think that’s appropriate… people are going to die. Regardless of how low the radiation is, it does cause cellular damage and cancer. So if you spread it out in a big body of water, the concentration goes down, but on the other hand, you’ve got a couple billion people exposed to it because they’re on the edge of that big body of water. So the concentration is down but the population is up and you’re still going to get cancer; it’s inevitable.”
Feb 13, 2017 Dr. Helen Caldicott: As water flows beneath the damaged reactors, it immerses three molten cores and becomes extremely radioactive and its journey into the adjacent Pacific Ocean. Every day since the accident began, 300 to 400 tons of water has poured into the Pacific where numerous isotopes including cesium 137, 134, strontium 90, tritium, plutonium, americium and up to 100 more, enter the ocean and bio-concentrate by orders of magnitude at each step of the food chain… tuna, salmon and other species found on the American west coast now contain some of these radioactive elements… [Fukushima Daiichi] will continue to pour water into the Pacific for the rest of time.
womenget more cancer from nuclear industry than men
09:57 AM Jun 2, 2011 -0642-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says no such thing as safe levels of radiation - standard based on ‘cost-benefit’, not safety.National Academy of Science: 1-in-5 workers get cancer from IAEA safety standard; study from National Academy of Science says one out of five workers will get from cancer and suffer if exposed to IAEA-deemed allowable radiation level
07:07 PM Nov 28, 2011 -1872-World Health Organization tied to IAEA since 1959 - Can’t release info without permission (VIDEO) — Exposed: World Health Organization beholden to nuclear interests — “Like having Dracula guard the blood bank” (VIDEOS)
01:14 PM Feb 28, 2013 -5448- Film: World Health Organization beholden to nuclear interests - Physician: Like having Dracula guard the blood bank (VIDEOS)
41,000 people every day get fatal- & non-fatal cancer from nuclear industry. NUCLEAR ENERGY IS NOT SAFE & CLEAN
Statistics are people with tears wiped away
Using nuclear industry statistics, Rosalie Bertell conservatively estimated 1.2 billion people got fatal & non-fatal cancer from nuclear industry, since 1940; that's 41,000 people every day.
Rosalie said:
Whether or not one cares about damage caused by radiation exposure ...is ultimately a human, not a scientific question
Story of many tears — This is the story of many tears, and of a hard-hearted mindset that laid down the degree of suffering and ill-health that would be the 'acceptable' price to pay for the world 'benefitting' from nuclear technology.
Risk estimates used in this analysis — In order to estimate the real victims of the nuclear industry [as oppossed to those figures enumerated by the ICRP, IAEA and other nuclear apologists], I will take the customary risk estimates, indicate their probable range of error, and then extend the definition to cover related events not recognized as 'detriments' by the nuclear regulators. For example, while the nuclear regulators only take fatal cancers into consideration as 'detriments', others, especially those who endure a non-fatal cancer, may find their suffering equally worthy of consideration. And, limiting genetic effects to live born offspring does not wipe away the tears of a family that has endured a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth.
Causal proximate genetic mutation from ingested ionizing radiation can occur immediately when dna is sliced or burnt, such as from legal daily airborne & waterborne releases of tritium & other radionuclides vented or poured from nuclear reactors into water or air or falling on or watering crops & gardens or blowing down the streets of manhattan ...or from catastrophic nuclear meltdowns such as fukushima vomiting radionuclies airborne & seaborne. however, many cancers & many immunity deficiency diseases appear 20 years or more after fallout exposure. Low level exposures add up over time to create many of the same diseases as high level exposure, such as cancers of the eye, brain, heart, breast, prostrate, lung, stomach, skin & other body organs & leukemia & a host of immune deficiency diseases. In utero affects of ionizing radiation exposure either if the dna of either parent, in the sperm of the father or egg of the mother, or in the fetus
nuclear power is not safe & clean
“It is not Greenhouse Gases — it´s the military!”~ Rosalie Bertell
Earnest Sternglass, Hero
Earnest Sternglass
Effects of low level radiation on pregnancy: Children twice as likely to get cancer before age 7
Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass: Nuclear Contamination & Cancer, part 1
Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass: Pregnant, Kids, Nuclear Radiation & Cancer, part 3
Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass: Health Effects of Nuclear Radiation
Infant Death & Childhood Cancer Reductions after Nuclear Plant Closings in the United States, E.J. Sternglass, J.M. Gould, J.J. Mangano, W. McDonnell, J. D. Sherman and J. Brown , Archives of Environmental Health, 57, 23 - 31, 2002. <>
Strontium-90 Baby Teeth Study & Childhood Cancer, Sternglass, Gould, Mangano, McDonnell, Sherman & Brown, European Journal of Oncology, Vol. 5, Suppl. 2, 119-125, 2000. <>
Strontium-90 in Newborn & Childhood Disease, Sternglass, Mangano, Gould, Sherman, Brown, McDonnell, Archives of Environmental Health, 55, 240-244, 2000. <>
Strontium-90 in Baby Teeth as a Factor in Early Childhood Cancer, Sternglass, Gould, Sherman, Brown, Mangano & McDonnell, International Journal of Health Services, 30, 515-539, 2000. <>
U.S.A. Newborn Deterioration in the Nuclear Age, 1945-1996, Sternglass, Gould, Mangano. International Congress on Effects of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation, Muenster, Germany, Mar 18-21, 1998. <>
Health Effects of Low Dose Exposure to Fission Products from Chernobyl & the Fermi Nuclear Reactor in the Population of Detroit Metropolitan Area, Sternglass, Gould & Mangano. Proceedings of International Congress on Effects of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation, Muenster, Germany, March 18-21, 1998. <>
Interview with Dr. Sternglass concerning Cassini ~ "Sternglass went on to discuss how NASA estimates danger from radiation: They make risk estimates at 10,000 to 50,000 mrad, instead of at 5 mrad.' At those high doses, the effect flattens out - that's why they choose to try to extrapolate from that level of radiation poisoning, rather than look at the actual effects low-level radiation poisoning has been shown to have!
Post-Chernobyl Thyroid Disease in the United States of America, Sternglass, Gould & Mangano. Presented to International Medical Commission Conference: Chernobyl:Environmental Health and Human Rights Implications, Vienna, April 12-15, 1996. <>
The Enemy Within: The High Cost of Living Near Nuclear Reactors; Breast Cancer, AIDS, Low Birthweight & other Immune Deficiency Effects , Sternglass, Gould, Mangano & McDonnell, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, NY 10011, 1996. <>
Breast Cancer: Evidence for a Relation to Fission Products in the Diet, Sterngalss & Gould, International Journal of Health Services 25, 481-488, 1995. <>
Nuclear Fallout, Low Birth Weight, and Immune Deficiency, Sternglass & Gould, International Conference on Children and Radiation, Trondheim, Norway June 1993, published in International Journal of Health Services 24, 311-335, 1994 <>
Breast Cancer: Evidence for a Relation to Fission Products in the Diet , with Jay M. Gould, International Journal of Health Services, 23, 783-804, 1993. <>
Radioactive Releases into the Environment & their Relation to Breast Cancer ,Subcommittee on Human Resources & Intergovernmental Relations of the Committee on Government Operations, U. S. House of Representatives, October 30, 1993. <>
Low Birth Weight: Evidence for an Association with Fission Products in the Diet, with Jay M. Gould and William L. McDonnell, Presented at the International meeting on Children and Radiation, Trondheim, Norway, June 1993. <> Interview with Dr. Ernest J. Sternglass: The interview discusses events since 1981 in the history of nuclear technology Keywords: nuclear industry's true health costs are fastidiously suppressed. Read the interview. <>
Initial Evidence for Health Effects from Chernobyl in the United States, with J. M. Gould, First Global Radiation Victims Conference," September 26, 1987. <>
Birth Weight and Infant Mortality Changes in Massachusetts, Following Releases from Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, Report for the Township of Plymouth, Massachusetts, June 10, 1986. <>
Die Kinder Des Atomaren Fallouts, Sterngalss & Bell, Psychologie. <>
The Implications of Chernobyl for Human Health, International Journal of Biosocial Research, 8, 7-36, 1986. <>
Radiation Exposure of Bone Marrow Cells to Strontium-90 during Early Development as a Possible Co-Factor in the Etiology of AIDS, Sternglass & Scheer, Annual Meeting - American Association for Advancement of Science, Phil.a, PA, May 29, 1986. <>
Fallout & SAT Scores: Evidence for Cognitive Damage During Early Infancy,Sternglass & Bell, Phi Delta Kappan 64, 541-545, 1983. <>
Secret Fallout: Low-Level Radiation from Hiroshima to Three Mile Island, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, N.Y., 1981. <>
Shut-Down: Nuclear Power on Trial; Radiation is Causing Cancer and Birth Defects,with John W. Gofman, The Book Publishing Company, Summertown, Tennessee 38483, 1979. <>
Petition for Emergency and Remedial Action to suspend licenses for the nuclear industry, testimony in preliminary evidentiary hearing in Nashville, TN, Federal District Court on a filed by Jeannine Honicker, October 2, 1978. <>
Infant Mortality Changes Following the Three Mile Island Accident, Fifth World Congress of Engineers & Architects, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Dec 1979. <>
Cancer Mortality Changes Around Nuclear Facilities in Connecticut, in Radiation Standards and Human Health, pp. 174-212, Proceedings of a Congressional Seminar Feb. 10, 1978, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington D.C., 20003, 1978. <>
Radioaktive 'Niedrig' Strahlung: Strahlenschaden bei Kindern und Ungeborenen, Sternglass, foreword by Klaus Bajter & discussion by Klaus Batjer & Per Carbonell. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 21, Germany, 1977. <>
Nuclear Fission: The Biological Peril, letter to New York Times explaining the effects of very low annual doses from reactor releases and fallout, May 23, 1974. <>
Epidemiological Studies of Fallout & Patterns of Cancer Mortality, Proceedings - 12th Annual Hanford Biology Symposium, May 10-12, 1972, Edited - Sanders, Bush, Ballou & Mahlum, pp.254-277, U.S. AEC, Info Services (CONF-720505) 1973. <>
Radioactive Waste Discharges from the Shippingport Nuclear Power Station and Changes in Cancer Mortality, May 8, 1973 report submitted to Governor Milton Shapp's Hearing Board at the Aliquippa Hearings <>
Possible Health Effects of Shippingport Nuclear Plant, July 31, 1973 <>
Significance of Radiation Monitoring Results for the Shippingport Nuclear Reactor, January 21, 1973 Report submitted to Governor Milton Shapp's Hearing Board at the Aliquippa Hearings on Possible Health Effects of the Shippingport Nuclear Plant, July 31, 1973. <>
Infant Mortality Changes Near the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Station in York County, Pennsylvania, Dept. of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Feb 7, 1971. <>
Infant Mortality Changes Near a Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant, Testimony: Illinois Pollution Control Board, Nov 30, 1970. <>
Infant Mortality & Nuclear Power Generation, Hearings of Penn. Senate Select Committee on Reactor Siting, Oct 21, 1970.
Infant Mortality & Nuclear Testing- Reply, Quarterly Bulletin of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 4: 115-119, Sept 1970. <>
Effect of Low Level Radioisotope Contamination on Infant Mortality, Symposium - Environmental Pollution from Nuclear Reactors, Mid-West Chapters,American Association of Physicists in Medicine & Health Physics Society, Waukegan, IL, May 16-17, 1970. <>
Nuclear Air Pollution, Infant Mortality & Lung Disease, Mid-West Clinical Conf., Chicago Medical Society, Mar 4, 1970. <>
The Death of all Children,Esquire, pp.1a-1d, September 1969. <>
Has Nuclear Testing Caused Infant Deaths?New Scientist, 43:178-181, 1969. <>
Infant Mortality: The Nuclear Culprit , Medical Tribune, July 21, 1969. <>
Can the Infants Survive? Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 43: 178-181, Jul 1969. <>
Evidence for Low-Level Radiation Effects on the Human Embryo & Fetus, in Radiation Biology of the Fetal & Juvenile Mammal, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Hanford Biology Symposium, May 5-8, 1969, pp. 681-692, AEC Symposium Vol. 16, Ed. by Sikov & Mahlum, Division of Technical Information U.S.AEC, 1969 (CONF-690501). <>
Infant & Fetal Mortality Increases in the U.S. ...Evidence for a Correlation with Nuclear Weapons Tests, meeting of Pittsburgh Chapter of Federation of Atomic Scientists, Oct 1968.
Leukemia: Evidence for Induction of the Diseases in Childhood by Fallout Radiation at Low Dose-Rates, 13th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society, Denver, Colorado, June 1968. <>
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Cancer: Relation of Prenatal Radiation to Development of the Disease in Childhood, Science 140:1102-1104, June 1963.
Alexei Yablokov and Janet Sherman
Nuclear Controversies: Video includes presentation by Alexei Yablokov, rebuking IAEA & UN nuclear apologists
Children hurt by nuclear fallout, many with fatal diseases & cancer ...put a face on their health issues.
Children hurt by nuclear fallout, many with fatal diseases & cancer ...put a face on their health issues.
Children hurt by nuclear fallout, many with fatal diseases & cancer ...put a face on their health issues.
Alexei yablokov
russian environmental anti-nuclear activist – greenpeace in russia co-founder
Photo: Nils Bøhmer
(above) Folks can return to the nuclear reactor stricken area in only 20,000 years: Amusement park electric bumper-cars attraction abandoned after Chernobyl nuclear disaster & evacuation of Pripyat, Ukraine on April 27, 1986. Today, over 200 tons of uranium remains inside Chernobyl’s No 4 reactor, which exploded at 1:23 a.m. On the hush-hush, 48,000 residents were evacualted from of the city of Pripyat Ukraine, 3 kilometers from the site of the Chernobyl explosion. It wasn’t until two weeks later that Sweden, noticing mysterious and growing spikes in their own radiation monitors, sounded an alarm – the beginning of a long tradition of Scandinavia alerting the world to Russian nuclear calamity. Communist Party Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev, only two years on the job, finally went live and admitted to the disaster on May 14, two weeks and four days after it happened, something many of the shadowy figures behind him opposed. With the new shelter dome over the site, the surrounding exclusion zone of around 2,600 square kilometers will remain uninhabitable – and it will take another 20,000 years before people can live near the plant again.
Fukushima is rated at 100's or even 1,000's of times worse that Chernobyl, but pregnant women and others are forced to return to dangerously contaminated areas in order to get government recovery help ...and farmers are forced to grow radioactive crops like rice & vegetables & feed in contaminated farmlands covered with 30 million 1-ton rotting plastic bags of radioactive waste.
Alexei Yablokov, the towering grandfather of Russian ecology who worked with Bellona to unmask Cold War nuclear dumping practices in the Arctic, has died in Moscow after a long illness. He was 83.
...a person on whom the authorities had no influence
Nuclear environmental pollution issues, Nuclear Russia Environmental Pollution at Sea & the Artic
Cold War nuclear dumping practices in the Arctic
Arctic: Dumped military reactors, scuttled nuclear subs
The Russian Northern Fleet: Source of Radioactive Contamination (document, here)
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (pdf, here)
Dumped Russian nuclear sub shows no radioactive leaks, but still presents chain reaction dangers(here)
Russia announces decades of Russian nuclear reactors & radioactive waste & nuclear reactors dumped into Kara Sea in Arctic ocean north of Siberia(here)
Russia to resume subcritical nuclear bomb tests in Arctic? – Beefs up military security at old Arctic nuclear test archipelago of Novaya Zemlya for so-called subcritical nuclear tests of old nuclear weapons(here)
Russia’s aging Kola Nuclear Power Plant - 2 reactors past engineered life spans - negotiates with Gazprom to build 2 more reactors for underwater Arctic Shtokman oil & gas reserves (here)
Floating nuclear power plants attracting interest of the oil industry in Russia and abroad: Kaliningrad – The extremely hazardous use of floating and underwater atomic energy stations to supply power to tap remote oil and gas reserves is gaining currency among not only Russian gas giants but their Norwegian counterparts as well, despite vociferous environmental criticism (here)
The book presented the conclusion that the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was responsible for 985,000 premature deaths – the boldest mortality tally to date – by analyzing 6,000 source materials on the accident.
Bellona President Frederic Hauge Tuesday remembered Yablokov as a friend of three decades standing. “He was an inspiration, a great friend and a great scientist, one of the world’s most significant environmental heroes,” said Hauge. “To know him and to work with him, someone of such cool and keen intellect is a memory we should all take care of and treasure.”
Yablokov commanded a broad environmental and political mandate in Russia, and published over 500 papers on biology, ecology, natural conservation and numerous textbooks on each of these subjects. He founded Russia’s branch of Greenpeace and was the leader of the Green Russia faction of the Yabloko opposition party.
While serving as environmental advisor to President Boris Yeltsin’s from 1989 to 1992, Yablokov published a searing white paper that detailed the gravity of the radiological threat posed by dumped military reactors and scuttled nuclear submarines in the Arctic. The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radioactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.
U.S. is probably #1: Catalogue of nuclear waste dumped at sea by the Soviets: 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radioactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.
Yablokov’s white paper spearheaded an epoch of environmental openness that led to more than $3 billion in international aid to Russia to clean up 200 decommissioned submarines and to secure decades of military nuclear waste.
The paper’s findings dovetailed an early Bellona report in 1992 on radioactive waste dumped by the Russian Navy in the Kara Sea.
Hauge said that Yablokov was “the first person in a position of power in Russia who was brave enough to step forward and support our conclusions.”
“He helped open serious discussion about what was a Chernobyl in slow motion,” said Hauge.
The partnership became critical. In 1995, Bellona’s Alexander Nikitin was charged with treason for his contribution to a report expanding on Bellona’s conclusions about nuclear dangers in the Arctic. The report was called “The Russian Northern Fleet: Source of Radioactive Contamination (pdf download, here).”
Throughout the endless hearings leading up to Nikitin’s eventual acquittal, Hauge said Yablokov’s “calm, collected” knowledge of the Russian constitution helped guide the defense.
“His coolness during the Nikitin case was remarkable,” said Hauge on Tuesday. “He really emphasized that the constitution was the way to Nikitin’s acquittal.”
In 2000, Russia’s Supreme Court agreed, and acquitted Nikitin on all counts, making him the first person to ever fight a treason charge in Russia and win.
Yablokov was a constant luminary at Bellona presentations in Russia, the European Union, the United States and Norway, most recently presenting his 2007 book in Oslo on the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
He was also a tireless defender of environmental activists in Russia, suggesting at a 2014 Bellona conference in St. Petersburgthat ecological groups should publish a list of those government officials who harass them.
“We must constantly support our comrades who have been forced to leave the country or who have ended up in jail on account of their environmental activism,” he told the conference.
That same year, Yablokov championed the presentation of a report on environmental violations that took place at Russia’s showcase Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Yablokov arranged for activists from the Environmental Watch on the Northern Caucasus – many of whom were jailed, exiled or otherwise harassed into silence – to present their shocking report on Olympic environmental corruption in Moscow when every other venue had turned them away.
“He was a friend and advisor to us from the beginning and in a large part we owe the success of our Russian work to his steady advice and guidance,” said Hauge.
Yablokov’s death was mourned across the spectrum in Moscow. Igor Chestin, head of the WWF called Yablokov Russia’s “environmental knight.”
Valery Borschsev, Yablokov’s colleague in the human rights faction of the Yabloko party said of him that “he was a person on whom the authorities had no influence.”
Charles Digges charles@bellona.no
Janet sherman
Janette Sherman, M.D. specializes in internal medicine & toxicology with an emphasis on chemicals & nuclear radiation that cause illness, including cancer & birth defects. she graduated from western michigan university with majors in biology & chemistry & from wayne state university college of medicine. prior to medical school, she worked for atomic energy commission (forerunner of nuclear regulatory commission) at university of california in berkeley, & u.s. navy radiation defense laboratory in san francisco.thus began her long-time involvement with the subject of nuclear radiation. from 1976–1982 dr. sherman served on the advisory board for the environmental protection agency (epa) toxic substances control act. she has been an advisor to the national cancer institute on breast cancer and to the epa on pesticide.
Life's Delicate Balance: Causes & Prevention of Breast Cancerhere
Elevated Childhood Cancer Incidence Proximate to U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
by Joseph J. Mangano , Janette Sherman , Carolyn Chang, Amie Dave , Elyssa Feinberg & Marina Frimer
Abstract: Numerous reports document elevated cancer rates among children living near nuclear facilities in various nations. Little research has examined U.S. rates near the nation's 103 operating reactors. This study determined that cancer incidence for children <10 yr of age who live within 30 mi (48 km) of each of 14 nuclear plants in the eastern United States (49 counties with a population >16.8 million) exceeds the national average. The excess 12.4% risk suggests that 1 in 9 cancers among children who reside near nuclear reactors is linked to radioactive emissions. If cancer incidence in 5 western states is used as a baseline, the ratio is closer to 1 in 5. Incidence is particularly elevated for leukemia. Childhood cancer mortality exceeds the national average in 7 of the 14 study areas.(more, here) (here) (here)
Women & pregnant women, babies-to-be, infants & girls within 25 miles of a nuclear reactor get more cancer than men or boys or those living farther away
“A 2012 study of all nuclear plants in France found elevated levels of child leukemia in the vicinity of the plants. A 2008 study in Germany came to a similar conclusion regarding child leukemia and Germany’s nuclear generating facilities. A study in, Archives of Environmental Health, in 2003 found cancer rates in children were 12.4 percent higher (than nationwide occurrences) in 49 counties surrounding 14 nuclear plants in the eastern United States.” - Excerpted from, Washington Spectator, (project of Public Concern Foundation), Watching the Nuclear Watchdog, February 1, 2015, by Janet Sherman.
08:44 AM Jan 12, 2012 -2242-Child leukemia doubles near French nuclear plants
09:57 AM Jun 2, 2011 -0642- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says no such thing as safe levels of radiation – standard based on ‘cost-benefit’, not safety – 06/02/11, National Academy of Science: 1 in 5 workers get cancer from IAEA safety standard
09:56 AM Apr 25, 2012 -3163- Epidemiology Scientist: Slower you spread radiation dose, more effectively it produces cancer and inherited defects – Japan is going the very best way in the world for destroying the human race (1993 VIDEO)
08:31 AM Apr 25, 2012 -3162-Mom speaks out about brain cancers around San Onofre nuclear plant
03:53 PM Feb 27, 2013 -5443- We have seen how it’s affecting children already, and no one knows exactly what’s going on – can only rely on nuclear experts in Germany, France, U.S.
03:32 PM Aug 8, 2012 -3975- Global public sentiment vehemently anti-nuclear – Extreme public resistance in Japan, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
08:48 AM May 31, 2012 -3468-Germany produces 50% of energy from solar during mid-day – ‘Equivalent to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – without any radioactive waste
05:21 PM Mar 18, 2012 -2875-U.S. to burn 100s of tons of radioactive waste from Germany in Tennessee (also see, Human & Uranium Trafficking)
06:40 AM May 13, 2012 -3310.a- Japanese not allowed to get on bus in Germany because people from Tokyo are contaminated
02:36 PM Feb 15, 2012 -2612- Evidence links nuclear plants to ill health – UK blames unidentified virus for childhood leukemia rise
03:53 PM Aug 26, 2015 -8702- California Coast: Many baby seals dying of leukemia-linked disorder- 1/3 of recent deaths at San Francisco Bay rescue center (CHART)
-8702.1- also see: Physics and Radiobiology of Nuclear Medicine (Springer), Jun 29, 2013: Leukemia is one of the most common cancers induced by radiation in humans, accounting for one in five mortalities from radio-carcinogenesis. Risk of leukemia varies with age, younger persons more prone to radio-carcinogenesis - Leukemia appears as early as 2-3 years after exposure, average latent period of 5 to 10 years.
-8702.2- also see: California sea lions dying from organs falling out of place, tumors, accumulation of pus inside bodies (PHOTO)
Normal nuclear reactors spew fallout every day same as nuclear bombs
Sustained low levels of everyday nuclear emission-fallout add up in you – can be more harmful than a nuclear bomb
Every day, low yield nuclear reactor fallout from cancer-causing releases from 'normal' reactors, mishaps, facility-obsolescence leaks, nuclear dump leakage and mishaps, uranium mining, tailing operations, shipping nuclear materials and waste by plane, ship, train, truck and container mishaps …produces the same fallout that detonating a nuclear bomb produces – and is considered by the nuclear indus try as 'business-as-usual'. The (pink pregnant woman) chart link tells how normal reactors contaminate our food, water, earth, sky ...and you.
09:10 AM Apr 12, 2013 -5738- U.S. Experiments: Hundreds of pregnantwomen fed nuclear material – infants & children fed radioactive lemonade, here
Women & girls, especially pregnant women, infants & unborn within 20-25 miles of a nuclear reactor get more cancer than men, boys or those farther away, —(cell phone pdf) - or - (MS Word w/ search engine & pop-ups)
nuclear radiation: new & mysterious diseases
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People & the Environment
Written by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko & Alexey V. Nesterenko
Edited by Janette Sherman-Nevinger
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences – Vol 1181
(Webmaster's note: I read published abstracts of scientific research studies, written by Chernobyl scientists, and learned exposure to radionuclides causes bacteria and viruses to mutate, causing new and mysterious diseases. It took you less than ten seconds to read the previous sentence …now, you know more than all the apologist bad science perps will admit.)
Chernobyl: Consequences of the catastrophe for people and the environment
written by scientists who used health data from 1986 to 2004; edited by Janet Sherman
excerpt: Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
chapter 11
Chernobyl’s Radioactive Impact on Microbial Biota
by Alexey V. Yablokov
Abstract: Of the few microorganisms that have been studied, all underwent rapid changes in the areas heavily contaminated by Chernobyl. Organisms such as tuberculosis bacilli; hepatitis, herpes, and tobacco mosaic viruses; cytomegalovirus; and soil micromycetes and bacteria were activated in various ways. The ultimate long-term consequences for the Chernobyl microbiologic biota may be worse than what we know today. Compared to humans and other mammals, the profound changes that take place among these small live organisms with rapid reproductive turnover do not bode well for the health and survival of other species.
One gram of soil contains some 2,500,000,000 microorganisms (bacteria, micro-fungi, and protozoa). Up to 3 kg of the mass of an adult human body is made up of bacteria, viruses, and micro-fungi. In spite of the fact that these represent such important and fundamentally live ecosystems there are only scarce data on the various microbiological consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Several incidences of increased morbidity owing to certain infectious diseases may be due to increased virulence of microbial populations as a result of Chernobyl irradiation … … …
All microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa) and microbiological communities as a whole undergo rapid changes after any additional irradiation. The mechanism of such changes is well known: inclusion and increase in the frequency of mutations by natural selection and preservation of beneficial novel genes that for whatever reason appear more viable under the new conditions. This micro-evolutionary mechanism has been activated in all radioactively contaminated areas and leads to activation of old and the occurrence of new forms of viruses and bacteria.
All but a few microorganisms that have been studied in Chernobyl-affected territories underwent rapid changes in heavily contaminated areas.
Our contemporary knowledge is too limited to understand even the main consequences of the inevitable radioactive-induced genetic changes among the myriad of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi that inhabit the intestines, lungs, blood, organs, and cells of human beings.
The strong association between carcinogenesis and viruses (papilloma virus, hepatitis virus, Helicobacter pylori, Epstein-Barr virus, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and herpes virus) provides another reason why the cancer rate increased in areas contaminated by Chernobyl irradiation (for a review, see Sreelekha et al., 2003).
Not only cancer, but also many other illnesses are connected with viruses and bacteria. Radiologically induced pathologic changes in the microflora in humans can increase susceptibility to infections, inflammatory diseases of bacterial and viral origin (influenza, chronic intestinal diseases, pyelonephritis, cystitis, vaginitis, endocolitis, asthma, dermatitis, and ischemia), and various pathologies of pregnancy. The long-term consequences for microbial biota may be worse than what we understand today.
This micro-evolutionary mechanism has been activated in virtually all radioactively contaminated areas and leads to activation of old and the occurrence of new forms of viruses and bacteria.
[Editor's note:] Mainstream science, the nuclear energy industry and theirapologists remain dumbfounded and swear on the bible there is more danger from natural radiation in eating bananas or potato chips or taking a walk in the park than eating or breathing in manmade ionizing fallout …from Fukushima or daily nuclear energy industry legal discharges, or accidents like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
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Book - Published by New York Academy of Sciences, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was written by scientists who used health data from 1986 to 2004; edited by Janet Sherman.
Chapter 11 — Chernobyl’s Radioactive Impact on Microbial Biota — by Alexey V. Yablokov
[Abstract] Of the few microorganisms that have been studied, all underwent rapid changes in the areas heavily contaminated by Chernobyl. Organisms such as tuberculosis bacilli; hepatitis, herpes, and tobacco mosaic viruses; cytomegalovirus; and soil micromycetes and bacteria were activated in various ways. The ultimate long-term consequences for the Chernobyl microbiologic biota may be worse than what we know today.Compared to humans and other mammals, the profound changes that take place among these small live organisms with rapid reproductive turnover do not bode well for the health and survival of other species.
One gram of soil contains some 2,500,000,000 microorganisms (bacteria, microfungi, and protozoa). Up to 3 kg of the mass of an adult human body is made up of bacteria, viruses, and microfungi. In spite of the fact that these represent such important and fundamentally live ecosystems there are only scarce data on the various microbiological consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Several incidences of increased morbidity owing to certain infectious diseases may be due to increased virulence of microbial populations as a result of Chernobyl irradiation.
1.-Soon after the catastrophe studies observed activation of retroviruses(Kavsan et al., 1992).
2.-There is evidence of increased susceptibility to Pneumocystis carinii and cytomegalovirus in children whose immune systems were suppressed in the contaminated territories of Novozybkov District, Bryansk Province (Lysenko et al., 1996).
3.-Tuberculosis became more virulent in the more contaminated areas of Belarus(Chernetsky and Osynovsky, 1993; Belookaya, 1993; Borschevsky et al., 1996). Address for correspondence: (Editor’s note: omitted.)
4.-In some heavily contaminated areas of Belarus and Russia there was a markedly higher level of cryptosporidium infestation(Lavdovskaya et al., 1996).
5.-From 1993 to 1997 the hepatitis viruses B, C, D, and G became noticeably activated in the heavily contaminated areas of Belarus (Zhavoronok et al., 1998 a, b).
6.-Herpes viruses were activated in the heavily contaminated territories of Belarus 6 to 7 years after the catastrophe (Matveev, 1993; Matveev et al., 1995; Voropaev et al., 1996).
7.-Activation of cytomegalovirus was found in the heavily contaminated districts of Gomel and Mogilev provinces, Belarus (Matveev, 1993).
8.-Prevalence of Pneumocystis was noticeably higher in the heavily contaminated territories of Bryansk Province (Lavdovskaya et al., 1996).
9.-The prevalence and severity of Gruby’s disease (ringworm), caused by the fungus microsporia Microsporum sp., was significantly higher in the heavily contaminated areas of Bryansk Province (Rudnitsky et al., 2003).
10.-The number of saprophytic bacteria in Belarussian sod-podzolic soils is at maximum with radioactivity levels of 15 Ci/km2 or less and minimal in areas 281 282 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences with up to 40 Ci/km2 (Zymenko et al., 1995).
11.-There is a wide range of radionuclide bioaccumulations in soil micromycetes. The accumulation factor of Cs-137 in Stemphylium (family Dematiaceae) is 348 and in Verticillium (family Muctdinaceae) 28 (Zymenko et al., 1995).
12.-Since the catastrophe, the prevalence of black microfungi has dramatically increased in contaminated soil surrounding Chernobyl (Zhdanova et al., 1991, 1994).
13.-Among soil bacteria that most actively accumulate Cs-137 are Agrobacterium sp. (accumulation factor 587), Enterobacter sp. (60–288), and Klebsiella sp. (256; Zymenko et al., 1995).
14.-In all soil samples from the 10-km Chernobyl zone the abundance of soil bacteria (nitrifying, sulfate-reducing, nitrogen-fixing, and cellulose-fermenting bacteria, and heterotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria) was reduced by up to two orders of magnitude as compared to control areas (Romanovskaya et al., 1998).
15.-In contaminated areas several new variants of tobacco mosaic virus appeared that affect plants other than Solanaceous species, and their virulence is most likely correlated with the level of radioactive contamination in the areas. Infection of tobacco plants with tobacco mosaic virus and oilseed rape mosaic virus was shown to induce a threefold increase in homologous DNA recombination in non-infected tissues (Boyko et al., 2007; Kovalchuk et al., 2003).
16.-All the strains of microfungi species that were studied (Alternaria alternata, Mucorhiemalis, and Paecilomyces lilacinus) from the heavily contaminated Chernobyl areas have aggregated growth of threadlike hyphae, whereas the same species from soil with low radionuclide contamination show normal growth. Only slowly growing Cladosporium cladosporioides has aggregated growth both in contaminated and TABLE 11.1. Characteristics of Oocysts of Coccidia (Eimeria cerna) in Voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) from Two Differently Contaminated Sites, Bryansk Province (Pel’gunov, 1996) Level of contamination 20μ R/h 180–220 ΜR/h Normal 94.5 76.6 Anomalous 06.3 Nonsporulated 5.2 12.2 lightly contaminated soils(Ivanova et al., 2006).
17.-Sharp reduction in the abundance of bifidus bacteria and the prevalence of microbes of the class Escherichia; in particular, a sharp increase in E. coli has been noted in the intestines of evacuee children living in Ukraine(Luk’yanova et al., 1995).
18.-In a long-term study (1954 to 1994—before and after the catastrophe) in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia it was revealed that in areas with a high level of radioactive contamination (740–1,480 kBq/m2 and higher) in Bryansk, Mogilev, Gomel, Chernygov, Sumy, Kaluga, Oryol, Smolensk, and Kursk provinces, practically no cases of rabies in wild animals have been reported since the catastrophe (Adamovich, 1998). This suggests that the rabies virus has either disappeared or become inactivate.
19.-Rodents in the heavily contaminated territories of Belarus have been extensively invaded by coccids (obligate intracellular protozoan parasites from the phylum Apicomplexa; Sutchenya et al., 1995).
20.-There are fewer than normal, more anomalous, and no sporulated oocysts of coccidian Eimeria cerna in voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in Bryansk Province (Table 11.1).
21.-Six years after the catastrophe a population of Eimeria cernae From Clethrionomys Glareolus living in heavily contaminated soil (up to 7.3 k Bq/kg of Cs-134, Cs-137, Sr-90, and Pu-106) in Kiev Province Yablokov: Radioactive Impact on Microbial Biota 283 had anomalous oocysts (Soshkin and Pel’gunov, 1994).
22. -There was a significant decline in the Shannon diversity index of infusoria species and a concomitant increase in their abundance in the Pripyat River mouth from 1986 to 1988 (Nebrat, 1992).
All microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa) and microbiological communities as a whole undergo rapid changes after any additional irradiation. The mechanism of such changes is well known: inclusion and increase in the frequency of mutations by natural selection and preservation of beneficial novel genes that for whatever reason appear more viable under the new conditions. This micro-evolutionary mechanism has been activated in all radioactively contaminated areas and leads to activation of old and the occurrence of new forms of viruses and bacteria.All but a few microorganisms that have been studied in Chernobyl-affected territories underwent rapid changes in heavily contaminated areas.
Our contemporary knowledge is too limited to understand even the main consequences of the inevitable radioactive-induced genetic changes among the myriad of viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi that inhabit the intestines, lungs, blood, organs, and cells of human beings.
The strong association between carcinogenesis and viruses (papilloma virus, hepatitis virus, Helicobacter pylori, Epstein–Barr virus, Kaposi’s sarcoma, and herpes virus) provides another reason why the cancer rate increased in areas contaminated by Chernobyl irradiation(for a review, see Sreelekha et al., 2003).
Not only cancer, but also many other illnesses are connected with viruses and bacteria. Radiologically induced pathologic changes in the microflora in humans can increase susceptibility to infections, inflammatory diseases of bacterial and viral origin (influenza, chronic intestinal diseases, pyelonephritis, cystitis, vaginitis, endocolitis, asthma, dermatitis, and ischemia), and various pathologies of pregnancy. The long-term consequences for microbial biota may be worse than what we understand today.
Published by New York Academy of Sciences, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was written by scientists who used health data from 1986 to 2004; edited by Janet Sherman
Chapter I. Chernobyl Contamination: An Overview —1. Chernobyl Contamination through Time and Space — Chapter II. Consequences for Public Health — 2. Public Health Consequences: Methodological Problems — 3. General Morbidity, Impairment, and Disability — 4. Accelerated Aging — 5. Nonmalignant Diseases — 6. Oncological Diseases — 7. Mortality — Chapter III. Consequences for the Environment — 8. Atmospheric, Water & Soil Contamination — 9. Flora — 10. Fauna — 11. Microbial Biota — Chapter IV. Radiation Protection after the Catastrophe — 12. Radioactive Contamination of Food and People — 13. Decorporation of Radionuclides — 14. Protective Measures for Activities in Radioactively Contaminated Territories —15. Consequences for Public Health & the Environment, 23 Years Later
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