[guide.chat] 14,000 americans died from radiation
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- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:28:27 -0000
Study: Fukushima Radiation Has Already Killed 14,000 Americans
Submitted by George Washington on 12/27/2011 01:53 -0500
Japan Meltdown New York Times University of California
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of
Health Services alleges that 14,000 people have already died in the United
States due to Fukushima.
Specifically, the authors of the study claim:
An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the
radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in
Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the
International Journal of Health Services. This is the first peer-reviewed study
published in a medical journal documenting the health hazards of Fukushima.
[The authors] note that their estimate of 14,000 excess U.S. deaths in the 14
weeks after the Fukushima meltdowns is comparable to the 16,500 excess deaths
in the 17 weeks after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986. The rise in reported
deaths after Fukushima was largest among U.S. infants under age one. The
2010-2011 increase for infant deaths in the spring was 1.8 percent, compared to
a decrease of 8.37 percent in the preceding 14 weeks.
The authors seem - at first glance - to have pretty solid credentials. Janette
Sherman, M.D. worked for the Atomic Energy Commission (forerunner of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission) at the University of California in Berkeley, and
for the U.S. Navy Radiation Defense Laboratory in San Francisco. She served on
the EPA's advisory board for 6 years, and has been an advisor to the National
Cancer Institute on breast cancer. Dr. Sherman specializes in internal medicine
and toxicology with an emphasis on chemicals and nuclear radiation.
Joseph J. Mangano is a public health administrator and researcher who has
studied the connection between low-dose radiation exposure and subsequent risk
of diseases such as cancer and damage to newborns. He has published numerous
articles and letters in medical and other journals in addition to books,
including Low Level Radiation and Immune System Disorders: An Atomic Era Legacy.
Sherman also claims that a study in British Columbia of infants under 1 year of
age allegedly corroborates the increased deaths due to Fukushima:
But a Scientific American blog post and Med Page Today slam the study as being
voodoo science. However, Scientific American does admit:
Certainly radiation from Fukushima is dangerous, and could very well lead to
negative health effects?even across the Pacific.
WHAT DO OTHER EXPERTS SAY?
Pediatrician Helen Caldicott said recently:
May I say that North America has received quite a large fallout itself.
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We?re going to see an incredible increase in cancer, leukemia, and ? down the
time track ? genetic disease. Not just in Japan but in the Northern Hemisphere,
particularly North America.
Caldicott also wrote in a New York Times Op-Ed:
Children are innately sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation,
fetuses even more so. Like Chernobyl, the accident at Fukushima is of global
proportions. Unusual levels of radiation have been discovered in British
Columbia, along the West Coast and East Coast of the United States and in
Europe, and heavy contamination has been found in oceanic waters.
Nuclear engineer Gunderson says that the Japanese will suffer one million
cancer deaths from Fukushima, and that we?ll see a statistically meaningful
increase in cancer on the West Coast of America and Canada from Fukushima.
Gundersen says that - after Japan - the most radioactive areas are the Cascades
and Portland.
There is certainly evidence that West Coast residents - especially in Seattle,
Portland and other areas near the Cascades - have been hit with some radiation.
And there is certainly evidence that radioactive contamination has spread in
the United States, and will continue to spread for some time to come.
WHY IS THE SCIENCE SO HOTLY CONTESTED?
Why is there so much dispute about the number of deaths which Fukushima could
cause on the West Coast?
Because radiation safety standards are set based on the assumption that
everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s - and that radioactive particles
ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the outside
of the body.
However - in the real world - radiation affects small children much more than
full-grown adults. And small particles of radiation ? called ?internal
emitters? ? which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general
exposures to radiation. See this and this.
In addition, American and Canadian authorities have virtually stopped
monitoring airborn radiation, and are not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed,
the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising "acceptable" radiation levels.)
So - as in Japan - radiation is usually discovered by citizens and the handful
of research scientists with funding to check, and not the government. See this,
this, this, this, this and this.
The Japanese government?s entire strategy from day one has been to cover up the
severity of the Fukushima accident. This has likely led to unnecessary,
additional deaths.
Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world's nuclear agencies are wholly
captured by the nuclear industry ... as are virtually all of the supposedly
independent health agencies.
So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and
share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about
what is happening.
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