On 02/06/13 18:43, Nightjar wrote:
On 02/06/2013 16:17, RayL12 wrote:
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And so it should be brought to the public. It was the same with
Chernobyl. It was concluded that life around the exploded plant was
actually thriving. That, the only evidence of casualties of fallout was
a small increase in Thyroid cancer victims.
...

One report pointed out that those appeared sooner than would normally
be expected from radiation exposure and postulated that part, possibly
a significant part, of the apparent increase might be due to increased
surveillance and detection.

Colin Bignell

I think thyroid cancer due to I-131 is almost instant in disease terms.

There is no real doubt that the massive doses of I 131 did cause a lot
of thyroid cancers, which equally could have been prevented by issuing
iodine pills as was done instantly at Fukushima. I 131 is gone in days,
or at most weeks.

That, plus radon for natural sources, remains about the only two routes
where the data supports cancer-from-radiation apart from medical uses:
radiotherapy ihas been statistically linked to secondary cancers up to
20 years later. And of course heavy chronic doses in industry as in the
girls who used to lick the radium tipped paintbrushes when painting
luminous dials etc..





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