Health Effects of Ionising Radiation St Georges House April 3 2012 Dr Robin Russell-Jones MA FRCP FRCpath International Conference Organiser for Help Rescue the Planet (HRTP)
Hiroshima August 6, 1945
KINLEN HYPOTHESIS “An abnormal immune response to one or more common infections (viral or bacterial) in susceptible individuals” Prof M F Greaves: Personal Communication 2012
MAJOR NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS CIVIL REACTORS ONLY Windscale (renamed Sellafield) 1956 Three Mile Island (New York) 1979, Chernobyl (Russian Ukraine) 1986 Fukushima (Japan) 2011. 15,000 years of operating experience Approx one accident every 4000 years 400 reactors world-wide One major accident per decade
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI : Deaths Short-Term Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefecture health department estimated that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a U.S. estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20– 30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries. Long-Term 5% of 9,335 solid cancer deaths in a population of 86,000 and one third of the leukaemias attributable to radiation exposure.
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