Posted on 04/23/2021 5:58:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The 1986 reactor explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced a region-wide evacuation, sending radioactive fallout billowing across Europe. While the explosion itself killed 31 people, millions were exposed to dangerous radiation levels, and estimates of the final death toll from long-term health problems are as high as 200,000.
Hoping to better understand the effect of radiation exposure from the disaster, a team of scientists at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Maryland studied 130 children born to 105 mother-father pairs, where at least one parent had been exposed to gonadal -- reproductive gland -- radiation, having worked as radiation cleanup workers or been evacuees from contaminated areas.
The team, led by Meredith Yeager, screened the genomes of the children, born between 1987 and 2002, and who were conceived after the accident -- and did not find an increase in new genetic mutations in those studied, they said in a paper published in the journal Science. Each parent was studied for exposure to ionizing radiation, either from their work in the clean-up or from environmental exposure. Parents in the study had experienced varying radiation doses.
Researchers studied the genomes of the children for an increase in inherited genetic changes, known as de novo mutations. These changes randomly arise in a parent's sperm and eggs; although they are not observed in the parent's genomes, they can be passed to their children.
The team found no evidence of an increase in the number of these mutations in children born between 46 weeks and 15 years after the accident when compared with the wider population, and noted that the characteristics of de novo mutations found in the children were similar to those in the general population.
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Chernobyl, the “global disaster” that wasn’t.
It was a “local” disaster, VERY local. Sure some radiation went here and there, but what damage did it cause? NONE!
Chernobyl was OVERHYPED! Catastrophic predictions NEVER came to pass. You might even say “Hoax”. You know, the same leftists screaming today about climate change were screaming then about nuclear destruction and earth contamination.
The easiest way to confirm what I said is to look up the then and now photos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Ground zero for the nuke is a PARK!
What is rarely known is that most of the leaked oil in the oceans comes from natural sources.
Thanks!
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