Impact of INTERNAL radiation emitters in the Chernobyl area

Official studies of radiation health effects are irrelevant to Chernobyl.

Why? – because the studies, such as the decades long Hiroshima survivors’ study focused on external radiation – exposure to radiation that passes through the body and causes cancer.

In the areas affected by Chernobyl radiation,internal emitters are the cause of health effects. This means that radionuclides (alpha and beta particles) in soil and water enter the body, breathed in , or by mouth, and, lodging inside the body,continue to irradiate body cells.

Drs Alexie Yablokov and Wladimir Werteleckigave extensive information on the continuing effects of this chronic internal radiation, at the recent symposium in New York. See reference links below.

In a nutshell, the messages from these two scientists are that the world must no longer ignore these chronic effects. That young women and children are the most vulnerable. Internal irradiation affects the female reproductive system, causing birth abnormalities. These effects go on to the next generation. Women exposed as children, to the Chernobyl radiation, now have increased risk of having malformed babies.

These effects on the growing foetus (– teratogenesis) are found also in small animals.

Equally important are the other delayed effects – genetic changes, which also are observed in birds, insects and small mammals – with cancers and malformations.

Dr Yablokov -lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZIaV-xrXk&feature=youtu.be – diagrams and graphics at http://www.totalwebcasting.com/tamdata/Documents/hcf/20130312-1/YablokovChernobylNewYork%202013.pdf