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11. Your field, apparently, but study shortcomings indicated don't preclude legitimate health concerns.

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:31 PM

Mar 2013

I first encountered this material on Chernobyl's impact on public health in the aftermath of Fukushima. The last link is the only one I regard with skepticism.

CHERNOBYL HEART
by Adi Roche

VOICES FROM CHERNOBYL, The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich (Author), Keith Gessen (Translator)

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Discussion-on-Nuclear-Crisis-in-Japan-and-the-25th-Anniversary-of-Chernobyl/10737420512-1/

http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
(FREE online PDF (349 pages):
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
by Alexey Yablokov (Author), Vassily Nesterenko (Author), Alexey Nesterenko (Author), Janette Sherman-Nevinger (Editor), Dmitry Grodzinsky (Foreword)

Nader on Yablokov study:
http://counterpunch.org/nader04272011.html
April 27, 2011
Concealing the Consequences
Chernobyl 25 Years Later
By RALPH NADER

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2974725/
Yablokov Rebuttal

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Last chance to buy tinfoil in New York before the shortage! FBaggins Mar 2013 #1

Thanks! I needed the laugh. FBaggins Mar 2013 #7

This data is attributed to the source 'Fukushima Prefecture 2013.' proverbialwisdom Mar 2013 #8

THAT data is... but so what? FBaggins Mar 2013 #9

Let me give you another example FBaggins Mar 2013 #10

IMO, inspiring photos here (plus easy C+P for links above). proverbialwisdom Mar 2013 #12

The legitimate health concerns... FBaggins Mar 2013 #13

Thanks for this info, bananas dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #2

It's going to be webcast live bananas Mar 2013 #3

thank you again! dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 #4