Chernobyl Radiation; The Negative Health Effects And Diseases In Residents And Children Of Belarus, Dr. Vasily Hectepenko

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The secret story of the Chernobyl disaster and of how the Soviets tried to cover up the consequences.UK, 1991, 52 min

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BELRAD MEASURED RADIATION INTERNALLY IN 300,000 CHILDREN AFTER CHERNOBYL

Part I http://youtu.be/6QbcEeOdyVA

Pari II http://youtu.be/Id58pgYpXKg

BELRAD http://belrad-institute.org  has measured the internal radiation of more than 300,000 children in Belarus region for radioactive elements released by Chernobyl for many, many years now. 

The conclusion that they arrived at is that most harmful radiation (70-80%) gets into children via the food they eat, with low doses of radiation in many foods building up the whole body dose of radiation gradually over time, sometimes many years. Eventually the radiation reaches levels that affect the health in negative ways, including causing heart attacks and deaths from many other causes. 

BELRAD was founded by Nesterenko. The radiation from Chernobyl grows in time, effect and in space. Independent non government, non industry radiation and protection information and CLEAN Food is the only REAL protection & help for citizens in any country.. Video by http://tekknorg.wordpress.com 

The following is a rough translation of a Russian paper written and published by Vasily Hectepenko, Corresponding member of HAH RB, professor, Ph.D., Director of the Belarusian Institute of Radiation Safety, using Google translate plus some editing by AGRP. 

THE NEED FOR PROTECTING CHILDREN OF BELARUS

The economic damage to Belarus due to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster over 30 years (1986 to 2015) has been estimated to total 235 billion U.S. dollars, equivalent to 32 times the annual national budget of Belarus in 1990.

In recent years Belarus has had to spend an enormous amount of money on dealing with the negative health impacts and negative consequences of Chernobyl. Up to 25% of the annual budget in just one county is spent annually to try to deal just with the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, with no end in sight. However, assessment of costs necessary for minimizing the full consequences of Chernobyl provides evidence that the allocated funds are inadequate and are less than a tenth of what is actually necessary.

13 years after the Chernobyl accident, radiation contamination still affects 70% of Belarus total land mass.  Radionuclide contamination negatively affects 23% of it's total population. Belarus is home to nearly 2 million people, and of these, about 500,000 - are children. The main radiation contamination burden (80%) of the inhabitants of these regions is obtained by the consumption of locally produced food, with significant contamination by the radionuclides cesium-137 and strontium-90.

More info at; (UN Report On Belarus and Impact Of Chernobyl)

http://www.un.org/ha/chernobyl/belarus.html

COMPARING AGE OF CHILDREN AND EFFECT OF RADIATION

Compare with much older children or adults, younger children experience an effective 3-5 times higher radiation dose rate plus negative health consequences due to much less weight per pound of food consumed, and much more active metabolic processes such as cell division, in the child's body. Also, children in the country have radiation dose rates 5-6 times greater than their urban peers. (They eat mostly radiation contaminated foods grown on radiation contaminated ground, or gather wild food from the woods, which are also radiation contaminated.)

Due to the lack of international legislation around responsibility or educating people about the damaging effects of radiation across borders and international boundaries, there has been almost zero help. There is almost zero compensation for damages caused, and Belarus has not received any compensation for damages to her citizens due to the Chernobyl disaster damage either from Russia nor from Ukraine. 

There is almost no compensation or assistance at the national level nor at the international community for the total amount of radiation damages to such things as farms, forestry, fisheries. There is almost no compensation for negative health effects suffered by residents from the Chernobyl disaster. However, a considerable amount of humanitarian assistance has been provided, which includes the annual rehabilitation abroad of almost 50,000 children; with a radiation vacation. Belarus receives funds from international charitable non-governmental organizations, such as the UN, for this purpose. 

Belarus is not able to provide safe production clean radiation free food or liquids. In this sense, what is needed is a systemic outreach to the public on radiation education and protection measures, particularly around radiation contaminated foods and drinks. 

In recent years, the country instead of objectively informing the public about the extent of the health hazards of high cesium-137 contamination of food, most agencies that are involved with radiation protection, have totally ignored and minimized the problem.  Instead of studying and informing the international community about the extent of radiation caused diseases among inhabitants of the Chernobyl regions, the nuclear, government and associated medical industry has preached the myth of radiation safety (via the hormesis theory).  The government, nuclear industry and medical industry have also passed laws that encourage the return of residents to the radiation contaminated lands that used to be banned for human habitation due to the dangerously high radiation levels. (All of the negative public health effects below, are based on people living OUTSIDE of these even more highly radiation contaminated zones.)

In this sense, there is a huge contradiction between the myth of radiation safety as put out via the marketing and PR organizations such as the IAEA, and the real world dangers of low dose radiation. This contradiction can be overcome only by providing evidence on the degree of radiation contamination, and the resulting negative health effects that it causes. Additionally, information about available human radiation protection measures is needed so that people can deal with this threat to their health and the health of their children.

MANY COUNTRIES ATTEMPTING TO LOOSEN RADIATION LIMITS, RAISING THEM BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE

With passing time and increasing financial repercussions, the governments of many countries are attempting to loosen the existing low dose radiation danger concepts, plus relax the laws around the protection of citizens affected by the low dose radiation from the Chernobyl disaster, in order to reduce the financial costs to countries such as Belarus. (The agencies responsible for this include the IAEA in cooperation with UNDP, WHO, UNEP, UN-OCHA, UNSCEAR, FAO and the World Bank.)

However, the actual state of health of the population does not give any justification for these actions that relax radiation exposure limits and get rid of radiation protection laws. Over 13 years after the Chernobyl disaster, all of the epidemiological, laboratory medical research at the National Radiation Centre convincingly provides evidence of a strong negative effect of even small doses of radiation on the health of residents, especially children, in the radiation contaminated areas.

Contrary to the predictions made in 1986 by the Institute of Biophysics (Russian, LA Ilyin), and in 1989 the International Chernobyl Project (IAEA), that there would be almost zero negative health impact due to low dose radiation, the opposite of this has been found.  For example, in Belarus since 1990, there has been a catastrophic rise in the incidence of thyroid cancer. By the end of 1998, thyroid thyroid carcinoma in Belarus has steadily increased each year. Doctors have operated on about 900 children and adolescents, as well as more than 3,000 adults. After these operations, all of these people remain disabled for life and totally dependent on drugs to stay alive. 

According to medical forecasts in Belarus in the coming years there will be between 7 to 15 thousand cases of thyroid cancer. Epidemiological studies have found that after the accident at Chernobyl that among the Belarusians who are living in contaminated areas, there has been a steady increase in the overall incidence of diseases and health problems in children, pregnant women and women of childbearing age. According to the Belarusian national register in the Chernobyl region, there is a total death rate that is higher in this area than all other states in Russia.

LOW DOSE RADIATION SYNERGISTICALLY INCREASES NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CHEMICALS ON HEALTH

Research has shown that prolonged exposure to radiation in small doses increases the body's sensitivity to the effects of other adverse factors (such as lead, nitrates, chemicals, etc.).

Therefore, for people living in long-term low-dose radiation contaminated areas, should recognize the serious radiation risk.

DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND LESIONS INCREASED AFTER CHERNOBYL

According to Professor E.B.Burlakovoy (RAS) the Chernobyl disaster had negatives affects on 100,000 residents. Normally, one would find  82 cases of digestive diseases per 100K residents. but after Chernobyl, the effect of low doses of radiation over the next 8 years resulted in an additional 6,100 cases of digestive disease, (an increase of more than 74 times).

Dr. N.A.Gres (Belarusian Institute of Radiation Medicine) performed endoscopic examinations of the digestive tract of approximately 1,650 children who lived in the radiation contaminated areas of Gomel and Brest regions and also 153 control children in clean districts in the Vitebsk region.

His examination revealed the presence of high levels of digestive tract lesions from three toxicants (cesium-137, lead, nitrates) in the children living radiation contaminated zones. These surveys also showed an increase in the frequency of atrophic gastritis (up 36.8%). In such adverse environmental conditions a childhood chronic pathology of the stomach is formed, which quickly progresses to atrophy and intestinal metaplasia. Typically, these diseases are typical for the elderly, not for children. Identification of such pathology in children reflects the beginning of accelerated aging, which is another negative impact of low dose radiation.

VARIOUS DISEASES THAT INCREASED AFTER CHERNOBYL

According to the public health records of Belarus:

Radiation-sensitive malignancies per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was 13, and  8 years later this number rose to 665 (an increase of 51 times).

Thyroid Cancers; The UN reports that the thyroid cancer rates in children under 15 years rose dramatically from 2,000 cases in 1990 to 8,000-10,000 cases of thyroid cancer in 2001. (This is just one TINY state in the huge country of Russia.

http://www.un.org/ha/chernobyl/belarus.html

Infectious and parasitic diseases per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was  36, and eight years later it was 414 (an increase of 11.5 times). 

Endocrine diseases per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was 96, and eight years later it was 4300 (increased of 45 times).

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs was 15 per 100 thousand people up to 1986, and eight years later it was 218 (an increase of 14.5 times).

Mental disorders  per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was 621, and eight years later it was 4930 (an increase of 8 times). 

Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs  per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was  232, and eight years later it was  9890 (an increase of 43 times).

Circulatory diseases  per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was  183, and eight years later it was 4250 (an increase of almost 23 times). 

Respiratory diseases per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was 645, and eight years later it was 7100 (increased more than 11 times).

Diseases of the genitourinary system per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was  34 and eight years later it was 1410 (an increase of almost 40 times). 

Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue  per 100 thousand people up to 1986 was  46, and eight years later it was 726 (an increase of almost 16 times).

Digestive diseases per 100K residents up to 1986 was 82, but after Chernobyl, the effect of low doses of radiation over the next 8 years resulted in an additional 6,100 cases of digestive disease, (an increase of more than 74 times).

Increase in Sensitivity; Research has shown that prolonged exposure to radiation in small doses increases the body's sensitivity to the effects of other adverse factors and substances (such as lead, nitrates, chemicals, hormones, GMO, etc.).

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster created a public health exposure to low doses of radiation for a long time. This low dose exposure has resulted in the people of Belarus, especially children, to severe severe negative health consequences, both physically and mentally. 

REFERENCES

1.Yu.I.Bandazhevsky. Pathophysiology inkorpori-plated radiation. Gomel Medical Institute. Gomel, 1997., 103 pages

2. E.B.Burlakova. Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, № 9,1992.

3. A.V.Yablokov. Nuclear mythology. Moscow, "Nauka", 1997.

4.E.B.Burlakova. Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe: Human Health. Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, 1986, 290 pp.

5. Program "Mother and Child". Fund "Green Cross" (Switzerland), NTO "Fund new technologies." Institute of Radiation Safety, 1998.

6. I.N.Smolyar etc. The evaluation of the development of the Republic of Belarus in nuclear energy. Minsk, 1998."

Source: http://library.by/shpargalka/belarus/medecine/med-004.htm

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