#Atomic society review plus

#Atomic society review plus

The project has followed approximately 100,000 survivors, 77,000 of their children, plus 20,000 people who were not exposed to radiation. These studies began in 1947 and are now conducted by a dedicated agency, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF), with funding from the Japanese and U.S. Around half of the those who survived subsequently took part in studies tracking their health over their entire lifespan. No health effects of any sort have so far been detected in children of the survivors.ДЄpproximately 200,000 people died in the bombings and their immediate aftermath, mainly from the explosive blast, the firestorm it sparked, and from acute radiation poisoning. The studies have clearly demonstrated that radiation exposure increases cancer risk, but also show that the average lifespan of survivors was reduced by only a few months compared to those not exposed to radiation. Jordan's article contains no new data, but summarizes over 60 years of medical research on the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors and their children and discusses reasons for the persistent misconceptions.

'There's an enormous gap between that belief and what has actually been found by researchers.'Дr. 'Most people, including many scientists, are under the impression that the survivors faced debilitating health effects and very high rates of cancer, and that their children had high rates of genetic disease,' says Bertrand Jordan, an author and a molecular biologist at UMR 7268 ADГ‰S, Aix-Marseille UniversitГ©/EFS/CNRS, in France.