Marla wrote on Feb 29
th, 2016 at 4:56am:
Chimp_Logic wrote on Feb 27
th, 2016 at 5:03pm:
Doctors in Japan are instructed not to panic their patients by not telling them they are suffering from radiation sickness etc.
Why should they? The fallout - both literally and metaphorically - of Fukushima will not be known for generations to come. Ignorance is not bliss here for even the effects of
Chernobyl remain unknown but the bottom line is no one can really tell.
There are plenty of published articles on the Chernobyl fallout. A good start would be the review report published recently by the NY Academy of Sciences. It sieved through over 5,000 scientific reports and articles carried out in the then Soviet Union and other nations. (especially the nations most affected by Chernobyl fallout and rain-out in Europe like Finland, Sweden, Turkey etc)
There are documented cases of heart disease in children known as Chernobyl heart which has been directly linked to Cesium exposure (Cs is a very active muscle seeker when it enters the human body)
Its interesting to note that the NY Academy of Sciences had to withdraw public access to the Chernobyl report due to several years of political lobbying by the Nuclear power and weapons industry. They cant squash the report, but its a lot more difficult to gain access to it in the public realm.
After all the report estimates that there has been over 980,000 additional deaths attributed directly to the Chernobyl disaster and fallout.
http://www.nyas.org/Publications/Annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-... (there is a very good reason why people living in the Northern Hemisphere have twice the chance of getting cancer than the populations living in the Southern hemisphere. The Northern hemisphere is the location of the bulk of the nuclear surface testing, nuclear power stations, waste dumps and U/Pu enrichment facilities. The background radiation levels are twice as high in the Northern hemisphere. One can estimate the additional deaths/cancers per additional mSv exposure over time)