NH #556: Fukushima Thyroid Cancer in Kids - Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano

Fukiushima thyroid cancer in kids - 5 former Japanese Prime Ministers cite the known facts while current Prime Minister lashes out to protect nuclear industry image.  Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano, Exec. Director of Radiation and Public Health Project (above), cites landmark Cherobyl book to back up his findings.

This Week's Featured Interview:

• Joseph Mangano is Executive director of Radiation and Public Health Project.  He is an epidemiologist - one who searches for the cause of disease, identifies people who are at risk, determines how to control or stop the spread, or prevent it from happening again. Joe has over 30 years of experience working with nuclear numbers and comes from a history of teasing out health information from data.  We spoke on Friday, February 11, 2022.

LINKS from Interview:

• Chernobyl: Consequences of the Disaster for People and the Environment by Yablakov, Nesterenko, Sherman.
• Excerpt from a book on Jerome Wiesner, JFK science advisor (who, among other things, received a copy of an article on St. Louis baby teeth results on the buildup of Strontium-90 in teeth, and who presented these to JFK). Go to page 58, and you'll see the JFK quote about radioactive fallout: "You mean it's in the rain out there?"
• LINK to address by President John F. Kennedy Address to the Nation on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963
• Transcript of President Kennedy's speech. 
• National Cancer Institute 1999 study on Iodine-131 in bomb test fallout, and the estimated 11,300 to 212,000 thyroid cancers among persons age 0-19 from 1951-1962, from Nevada testing.

RE: Los Alamos National Lab's recent accident and radiation release:

Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness):

Is this "lucky" Pokemon really worth exposing kids to Fukushima radiation?