Chernobyl Children's Project International http://www.chernobyl-international.org/galina.html
The conclusion was that the
human body will accumulate radioactive elements such as cesium 137 over a long
period of time. Dr. Bandazhevsky proved that a contamination level of as little as
50 Becquerel of radioactivity per kilo body weight could cause serious health
problems to a child. Cesium
enters the body through food and accumulates in different organs. The thyroid
gland and the heart are particularly vulnerable. When cesium 137 enters the
heart it destroys the energy system in the heart cells. The result is that the
mitochondria in the cells die and the structure of the cells is destroyed.
Therefore problems with the heart rhythm and heart attacks occur. Dr. Bandazhevsky was sent to a jail because of his discovery that cesium will be a cause of cardiac deceases that lead to a death. He was in the jail for several years till eventually Amnesty International, European commission and European parliament issuing an international passport and got him out of the jail in 2005. ……..In 2009 he received "Peter Edwards Memorial Award" for his work on radiation biology at Resubosu congress.
Prof.
Christopher Busby, radiation specialist urged all of the children suffering
heart problem need to be checked and evacuated immediately.
……Ionizing radiation
in Chernobyl caused whole range of disease, not just cancers and leukemia. One of the causes was heart disease. College of mine, Prof. Yuri Bandazhevsky studied effects of cesium137 exposure to children in the areas that were
contaminated by Chernobyl accident in Belarus. He discovered in late 1990’s that children
who were contaminated to the extent of having only 20-30BQ/kg of ceseum137 were
suffering cardiac rhythmic that was heart wasn’t beating properly. And they were suffering heart attacks and dying. There were very high rates of heart disease
in these Chernobyl children. They were
manifesting heart diseases that we normally find in old people………
While Iodine goes
into thyroid, Strontium goes into bones and cesium goes into muscles in the
body including in heart muscles……
(Reference) European commission of radiation risk http://www.euradcom.org/
Free download: ECRR
2010 recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk
The Health
Effects of Exposure to Low Doses of Ionizing Radiation
(P68-) The
committee will not follow the ICRP in assuming that the only stochastic outcome
of radiation exposure is cancer. It will
address the general effects of radiation on non-cancer outcomes including adult
heart disease, infant mortality and fetal death. (Reference Table 7.4)
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Japanese blogs
and twitters have been reporting more and more news of people (children and
adults) dying with heart disease in not only in Fukushima but also in Kanto
area that includes Tokyo as well. None
of them goes on the newspapers. On March
14, 2011 radioactive plume came towards Tokyo, large area of the Kanto plain
were contaminated because there are no mountains to stop it. There was a report of 36% children developed cysts
in their thyroid at the end of last year.
I remember that Ms. Noro Mika who has been helping Chernobyl children
commented in her lecture soon after the accident that a level of contamination in
Tokyo area was similar to the areas that were contaminated by Chernobyl disaster
26 years later. Ｅｖｅｎ almost
27 years passed after the disaster, the level of radiation doesn’t go down very
much. (Half life of cesium137 is 30
years, strontium90 is 29 years, Plutonium245,000 years) She also commented “people live far away from
the Daiichi nuclear power plant can be affected the same as or worse than the
ones nearer to the plant in some cases because radioactive material gets finer,
therefore once it is taken into the body, it can go deeper into the body, for
example into the lung, then it stays in the body.
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