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US newborn deterioration in the nuclear age, 1945-1996 (1998)
| Auteur | Jay M.Gould, E.J. Sternglass, J.J.Mangano, RPHP |
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| Datum | maart 1998 |
| Classificatie | 6.01.4.70/76 (STRALING - GEVOLGEN - REST) |
| Opmerking | See https://web.archive.org/web/20160324013205/http://radiation.org/reading/newborn/newborn_article.html |
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Uit de publicatie:
INTRODUCTION
In 1983, the USA Congress asked the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to estimate the impact of fallout of radioactive iodine from the above-ground nuclear weapons exploded at the Nevada test site in the 1950s. After 14 years of study, NCI reported that perhaps 10,000 to 75,000 thyroid cancers could have resulted, particularly among children drinking contaminated milk in the Mountain states closest to the test site.
While there is no doubt that the very young were most vulnerable to the adverse health effects from weapons test fallout, the NCI study ignored the impact of fission products other than iodine, such as radioactive strontium and cesium, as well as fallout from tests of all other nations, and emissions from the operation of nuclear reactors. However, there are simple ways of calculating the number of excess infant deaths and underweight live births that can be attributed to chemical and radioactive pollutants released since 1945, the first year of the Nuclear Age.
The USA Department of Energy, under pressure from 27, 000 plaintiffs living downwind of the Hanford Nuclear Weapons facility, recently revealed that in 1945 the facility had released 550,000 curies of radioactive iodine-of the magnitude of the 1986 accident at Chernobyl-in the haste to produce plutonium for the first atomic bombs. In terms of picocuries, the unit in which radioactivity in milk and water is measured, this represents a huge potential exposure to the wartime USA population of 150 million, of the order of over 4 billion picocuries per-capita! 1 For the first two decades of the Nuclear Age, in addition to the as yet unestimated radioactive emissions from all DOE reactors engaged in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, we must consider the impact of all bomb tests, estimated by the Natural Resources Defense Council to be equivalent to exploding 40,000 above-ground Hiroshima bombs from 1945 to 1963.
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