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> .. biologists rely on readings of external levels of gamma radiation to assess risk and harm.. #LifeSpanStudy. The #LSS was based on models developed following the.. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where.. participants experienced a single high-dose exposure to external radiation. More pertinent here is the recent groundbreaking work of the INWORKS study of long-term low-dose exposures to external radiation, which found significantly elevated cancer incidence compared to the LSS.
Apr 26, 2024 at 8:25amWeb
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> The INWORKS study has yet to be engaged by biologists focused on external exposures in the #CEZ

> After years of study in the CEZ, biologists #RonaldChesser and #RobertBaker concluded that “we must examine the internal and external doses for each individual, rather than relying on population averages or the animal’s proximity to the reactor.”

https://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/four-legs-good-two-legs-bad-animals-return-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-0

#RobertJacobs
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Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad: Animals Return to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

How we project our own fantasies onto animals in Chernobyl depends on if they are what animals we have in mind.

Environment & Society Portal
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> Debates about harm from radiation exposure have been fraught, and we can see this reflected in the discourse around mammals in the CEZ. There are two lines of dispute: One focuses on how levels of exposure to external radiation correlate with radiogenic illnesses. The other involves the distinction between external and internal exposures.
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> When humans flee a location and the territories of other creatures expand, this does not demonstrate an absolute difference in biological risk, just a shift in which species are being harmed. Whether the recognition of ongoing risk prompted by human presence in the Zone will extend to nonhuman animals remains to be seen.