By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAYNataliya Manzurova, a lead engineer of cleaning up the aftermath of Chernobyl, says she experienced headaches and nosebleeds of her work there.
By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAYNataliya Manzurova, a lead engineer of cleaning up the aftermath of Chernobyl, says she experienced headaches and nosebleeds of her work there.
She says that at the time, she and other experts in the region had no idea how much radiation had released in the nuclear disaster in reactor No. 4. Manzurova of the Plant of Chernobyl nuclear energy has been marking the 25th anniversary of the explosion of speaking engagements including a Washington earlier this month aimed at raising awareness of the potential consequences of nuclear energy, which March s nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan brought back to the forefront.Manzurova, a nuclear engineer who was named for her work in Chernobyl of Ozersk, Russia, spent four and a half years studying the effect of radiation on the environment in the Chernobyl accident, and help clean up workers or liquidators.She says she would work in the zone 20 days and then go home for 10, and that they have a lot of side effects. I would get experienced huge headaches and nose bleeds, Manzurova, which was later diagnosed with thyroid cancer of the attributes them to that experience says.How many diseases to be the result of exposure to radiation on the Chernobyl cleanup are unclear.Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, says 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer are detected by Chernobyl s disaster affected region. The number of directly related to the disaster unlike, for example, the result of improved detection is uncertain. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency has given 56 people died from the event.Last week, Texas Tech University released a statement from four biologists from the University, including Ron Chesser, Director of the university s centre of radiation environmental studies and the first American scientist admitted to the exclusive economic zone in 1992. The statement said their investigation has found no evidence of genetic mutations, but added that there is still much to be learned from the disaster.Human radiation absorption rate is measured in units called millisieverts. Fred Mettler, u.s. representative to the Scientific Committee of the United Nations on the effects of atomic radiation, says Chernobyl liquidators received approximately 117 millisieverts, and that statistically, an increase in cancer risk takes place above 150-200. There may be a risk of cancer below that level, he says, but researchers have not been able to detect it.Mettler also says radiation levels were not measured on many liquidators, who worked after the disaster, and even those who were measured should be traced to their effects on health have been evaluated, a difficult task because they came out on the former Soviet Union. Mikhail Balanov of the Scientific Committee of the United Nations on the effects of atomic radiation told a Conference in the Ukrainian capital Kiev last week that other medical long-term effects were difficult project because the margin of error in various studies are too high.Balanov say that radioactive contamination of mushrooms and berries both popular delicacies in Ukraine high and will give us increased levels for the next decades come u. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon used the Conference to call for a review of the top-to-bottom of nuclear safety standards and the strengthening of the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ 's. Report corrections and clarifications, contact standards Editor Brent Jones. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and State for authentication. Our corrections, go to corrections. usatoday.com. We've updated the guidelines for the conversation. Changes include a brief overview of the monitoring process and an explanation about how to use the "report abuse" button. Read more.
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