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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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"But that's my point precisely - no-one would expect to be able to demonstrate statistically-significant increases after very low exposures, and any study that did demonstrate statistical-significance would rightly be treated with suspicion."
Jim, did you actually write that? If I have this straight, you are asking us to condemn an industry based on supposed deaths that are so small in number as to be impossible to detect despite looking for 20 years? And if anyone did detect it, we couldn't trust them? WTF?
"UNSCEAR doesn't come to any conclusions that would trouble anyone - it sits on the fence". If anyone out there is still listening, for heavens sake stop reading what Jim and I have to say and just read the 24 pages of the main section of the report. Should you need a quick summary of what "sitting on the fence" looks like, here it is:
• 28 fatal doses of radiation
• Skin injuries and cataracts for the other ARS survivors
• Over 6,000 additional thyroid cancers in children and adolescents, by 2005 15 cases had proved fatal. That’s roughly consistent for thyroid cancer which is normally 1% fatal.
• “To date, there has been no persuasive evidence of any other health effect in the general population that can be attributed to radiation exposure”
• Psychological issues leading to risk taking behaviour in diet, drinking, smoking and other risk taking activity.
Jim, shame.