Radiation & Health

Posted Sat, 26/03/2011 - 8:18pm by admin

Some introduction on the dangers of low-level radiation.

Speech for Nagasaki Day Ceremony in London by Kick Nuclear's Dan Viesnik

Posted Wed, 31/08/2011 - 12:55pm by DanV

Nagasaki Day Ceremony, Battersea Park Peace Pagoda, London
– Tuesday 9th August, 2011

Notes from speech by Dan Viesnik (Kick Nuclear and Trident Ploughshares)

- 66 years since manmade nuclear disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 5 months since nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the worst since Chernobyl, 25 years ago

- Russian ambassador to Japan, in Hiroshima for a ceremony to remember the annihilation of the city in 1945, said that while Hiroshima was a disaster caused by humans, the Fukushima nuclear crisis is “a disaster by natural causes.” [1]

417,000 cancers forecast for Fukushima 200 km contamination zone by 2061

Posted Thu, 31/03/2011 - 11:00pm by admin

Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), Professor Chris Busby, has released calculations of the cancer incidence to be expected in fallout areas of Japan. Using data from the International Atomic Energy Agency and official Japanese web sites he has used two methods to estimate the numbers of cancer cases. He compares these results with estimates derived from ICRP modelling.

Nuclear disaster in Japan

Posted Wed, 30/03/2011 - 3:52pm by admin

Berlin / Munich. The consumer organisation foodwatch and the Environment Institute Munich eV have criticised the information policy of the federal government on food safety after the nuclear disaster in Japan. Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has for days talked about "enhanced control measures" and "special protection standards" - but she does not inform the public about the fact that the EU-wide limits ​​for the radioactive contamination of foodstuffs from the affected areas in Japan have been increased over the weekend.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station

Posted Wed, 30/03/2011 - 3:42pm by admin

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 297/2011

of 25 March 2011

imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Deconstructing Nuclear Experts

Posted Sun, 27/03/2011 - 11:00pm by admin

By CHRIS BUSBY

Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment

Posted Tue, 27/04/2010 - 11:00pm by admin

Written by Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko (Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). Consulting Editor Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger (Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan).
Volume 1181, December 2009
335 Pages

Nuclear power: low-level radiation is not harmless

Posted Wed, 31/03/2010 - 11:00pm by admin

The government and the nuclear in­dustry claim that the low level of ra­diation emitted by nuclear power sta­tions during their normal operation is not harmful. Radiation also occurs naturally, they argue, and the small amount of radiation added by nuclear power stations is insignificant.

However, no dose of radiation is safe. Radiation damage is cumulative. Each dose received adds to the risk of develo­ping cancer, or mutating genes in the reproductive cells.

Infant leukaemias near nuclear power stations

Posted Fri, 01/01/2010 - 12:00am by admin

Summary briefing of German government-commissioned research (KiKK study) showing that there are large increases in cancer in children under five who live near nuclear power stations.

Download the CND briefing as PDF at http://www.cnduk.org/images/stories/briefings/nuclear_power/ian_fairlie_...

Case–control study on childhood cancer in the vicinity of nuclear power plants in Germany 1980–2003

Posted Fri, 21/12/2007 - 12:00am by admin

The 1984 Windscale study raised concern about a possible association between living in the vicinity of nuclear power plants and childhood cancer. No such effect for all cancers was seen in ecological studies in Germany (1980-1995). Results from exploratory analyses led to a new study. Pre-selected areas around all 16 major nuclear power plants in Germany formed the study area. The design is a matched case-control study; cases are all cancers under five years diagnosed in 1980-2003: 1592 cases, and 4735 controls.

Leukaemia in young children living in the vicinity of German nuclear power plants

Posted Fri, 07/12/2007 - 12:00am by admin

A case control study was conducted where cases were children younger than 5 years (diseased between 1980 and 2003) registered at the german childhood cancer registry (GCCR). Population-based matched controls (1:3) were selected from the corresponding registrar's office. Residential proximity to the nearest nuclear power plant was determined for each subject individually (with a precision of about 25 m). The report is focused on leukaemia and mainly on cases in the inner 5-km zone around the plants. The study includes 593 leukaemia cases and 1,766 matched controls.