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Giving Green the red light : Comments
By Ben Heard, published 12/4/2011The United Nations is quite clear that deaths from Chernobyl were only in the tens.
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• You regard UNSCEAR as a fringe scientific body. Everyone else regards them as the peak scientific body for this nuclear accident
• You regard their findings as not credible, since your lower end estimate for credibility is 9,000 fatalities. The findings were presented to the United Nations general assembly, so I rather think their credibility is beyond reproach.
And finally, for the third time now, UNSCEAR comments clearly that any illness from the low levels of radiation will be so small as to be beyond detection, and in their general conclusions state that “To date, there has been no persuasive evidence of any other health effect in the general population that can be attributed to radiation exposure” (Page 65, paragraph 95, final bullet point). And that’s after 20 years, a goodly proportion of the average human life.
I think this, along with some (unfailingly polite) correspondence I have had with a representative of ICAN over the last day, really confirms the point of my article. UNSCEAR and their findings are deeply troubling for anti-nuclear opponents who would prefer they don’t exist. That not being possible, they will either ignore the findings all together, or resort to publishing deeply skewed interpretations as you did in Radiation and Risk. I have nothing further to say on the matter