I have some sort of feeling, that for a many people Chernobyl is over, but it is not and the death toll is still not finished until today. The reasons were mentioned by Seans and AnnaMariaS' articles, is the constant low radiotion exposure and there are not only cancer cases, other diseases too and this are still under research. The full amount of this disaster will be only able to be fully understand in the next generation saving one, according to Oda Becker, Diplom - physicist (investigated with Dr. Hirsch the sarcophagos status of chernobyl 2006) and is one of the scientific references for Greenpeace Germany, which is going to law now, to shut down nuclear power plants here. 


The sarcophagos was just constructed for 20 to 30 years, which are over now and the trouble to renew it is/was as well a social disaster on the expense of the people there, noone wanted to take reponsibilty, because the costs are enormously high for the new one. 

 

The health inheritance of Chernobyl

 

In three mostly affected countries Byelorussia, the Ukraine and Russia from the Chernobyl disaster originated medical research centres after 1986 , till this day a large portion of ray-exposed population is regularly examined: Liquidators (clearing worker), in highly polluted areas living population and the evacuated as well as in each case the children of the ray-exposed people. Prof. Jablokow has collected numerous data and investigation results about the health and ecological consequences of the Chernobyl  disaster and published them in a book in 2009. 49 international scientists were involved to reworking his first book from 2006.

 The scientists observed very disconcerting trends, for example, in regard to the state of health of the liquidators and the evacuated people, but also with the children of ray-loaded parents. Official investigations proof an avalanching portion nearly of all illness groups during the first ten years after the disaster. Thus it came to a rapid increase of somatic illnesses from many body systems and organs how impairment of the immune system, heavy heart and circulatory illnesses with death result already at relatively young age (Cardiac infarction, brain bleeding), chronic intestinal diseases, chronic illnesses of the sign gland and the pancreas as well as neurologic – psychiatric illnesses as more directly somatic effect of low radiation. Similar effects are known also from Hiroshima research in the last years.

Results for whole Europe

 In Europe were 200,000 km ² strongly radioactively polluted between the 26th of April and the 5th of May, 1986. Varying air streams floated the radioactive clouds of the fallout of Chernobyl first to Scandinavia, then over Poland, Czechia, Austria, South Germany and North Italy. The third cloud reached the Balkans, Greece and Turkey at last. In Europe it came to an increase of the perinatal mortality, Stillbirths (5,000 additional deaths with babies), congenital deformations (only 10,000 in Europe) and the cancer illnesses as well as less births and sex-specific effects. The ray physicist Dr. Mikhail Malkow from Minsk counts only for Europe 90,000 cancer cases by Chernobyl. Besides the particularly remarkable sign glands cancer cases stepped many leukaemia, many cases of breast cancer as well as considerably augmented to brain tumour within children in to in eachcase significant increases. First were only children affected from sign gland cancer, because their sign gland it is especially receptive, but after 1990 the sign gland cancer also has conspicuously increased in adults, because the cancer is not caused only by the radioactive Iodine, but also by Tellurium, Caesium and other nuclides. The international nuclear energy agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) recognise the increase from sign gland cancer, however, ignore furthermore, that also adults in Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine as well as in particularly from Chernobyl fallout affected East and North European countries are concerned of these illness. Chernobyl fallout in these countries is completely suppressed by the IAEA. I addition, the organisations still deny the connection between radioactive radiation and deformation. After a closed contract in 1959 between the IAEA and the WHO, the World Health Organization is engaged in the area of the radioactivity to the nuclear agency. While the IAEA has no scientific proof about the increases of the incidence or mortality of cancer or do not see evil health disturbances in succession of the ray load, refers Jablokow to the drastically deviating information of the liquidators Unions. Only with the liquidators add up to now 112.000 - 125.000 dead people to a total of 830,000 assistants. The average life expectancy of them, meanwhile deceased, lies by 43 years. 94% the clearing workers are today ill, mainly affected with not cancer illnesses.

Genetic damages 

About non-cancer illnesses is very little told to the public, just a little how about genetic impacts of the Ray loads by Chernobyl. Number of the affected people is high and politicians would like to avoid, that health defects of this kind possibly also in quite different connections as ray-conditioned occupational illnesses must be recognised. It is known from genetic damages that only 10% of all expected damages appear in the first generation. 90% of the genetic problems we have still to face. Why is this thus?

Since the 1970s is known, that ionising radiation not only causes cancer, but also leads to genetic damages. These damages are able already by the lowest tins are released. During the last years if there were essential new results of the research – "non target effects", „genomic instability“and „Bystander-Effect“. These effects change the present images about the mechanisms of the ray damages fundamentally, even if of it not yet everything is cleared in detail. Genome broad instability becomes not only transmitted with the genotype, but increases itself also with every generation. One phenomenon, the scientists is already known on account of the leukaemia cases in Sellafield itself and also by Chromosome aberrations with children from liquidators and not ray-loaded mothers shows in the research centres of all by the Chernobyl disaster affected Countries. The radiation protection commission (ICRP) provides exclusively data for the ray risk evaluation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki uses, so the Model for short-term expressed ray effect. Chernobyl research examines however, the results from chronic ray load after incorporation of radio nuclides and a chronic radiation exposure.

Other new findings

In their study of 2006 proofed Vladimir Bebeschko and Konstantin Loganowsky, that the ionising radiation also accelerates the ageing process. This are illnesses for example a quickened ageing of the blood vessels particularly in the brain, arteriosclerosis of the blood vessels of the ocular background, cataract, loss of the higher intellectual, cognitive functions as a result of damage of the central nervous system or the loss of the stability antioxidant system. The liquidators for example as well as other stronger loaded people see from five to seven years older, than they really are.

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