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Jayashree

Jayashree — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Gee. And I thought living there would be great for my health.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Some parts of Europe are truly adversely affected by the Chernobyl explosion and fallout.

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Nuke seems to be the curse on mankind. In fact, religion and science, both have created all the misery we are suffering today and both have been man’s creations

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It’s the way to go, so says some people.

Grace Calderon

Grace Calderon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I found this additional information:

Chernobyl fallout impaired mental development of Swedish infants

16 August 2007

Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster impaired the mental development of Swedish children that were still in the womb at the time of the incident. That’s the conclusion of a new study by US-based researchers, showing that affected children went on to perform poorly at school. The findings suggest that infants are endangered by radiation exposure at levels previously thought to be safe.

Economists Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund from Columbia University, New York, US, and their Stockholm University colleague Mårten Palme, carried out an analysis of the academic achievements of more than 560,000 Swedish children born between 1983 and 1988.

They found that academic performance was generally weaker in all children still in utero at the time of maternal exposure to Chernobyl fallout, and this effect was most pronounced for those foetuses at 8 to 25 weeks post conception. This is the peak period of brain development when cells may be particularly vulnerable to being killed by relatively low doses of radiation, Edlund said.

Moreover, children born in regions of Sweden that received most fallout seemed to fare worst - for the eight municipalities receiving the highest doses, children born between August and December 1986 were four per cent less likely to qualify for high school and had five per cent lower grades.

The authors expect their results, seen by Chemistry World, to be published later this month as a US National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2007/august/16080701.asp

Marie Hazledine-Barber

Marie Hazledine-Barber — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Lest we forget Chernobyl, the people and the children. As I have written before to quote Abe Lincoln ” To destroy the soil,is to kill the Nation” Mankind should be looking at sustainable eco friendly alternatives or the continued use of nuclear power with kill the soil. Then where are the nations to go?.