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Are Arms Tests Responsible for Childhood Leukemia in the Elbe Marshland Region?
| Author | Sebastian Pfugbeil |
| Date | February 2005 |
| Classification | 2.01.9.82/03 (GERMANY - KRÜMMEL + GEESTHACH) |
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Radiation risks Are Arms Tests Responsible for Childhood Leukaemia in the Elbe Marshland Region? Schleswig-Holstein government obstructs the work of the investigation expert commission Comment Criticism of the authorities by scientists couldn't be harsher than when, out of protest and disgust, after having given the matter careful thought, they decide to hand in their resignation. Prof Otmar Wassermann, Prof Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, Prof Edmund Lengfelder, Dr med Helga Dieckmann, Prof Horst Kuni and Prof Roland Scholz did so on 1st November 2004. With great perseverance they had been investigating the most conspicuous accumulation of childhood leukaemia cases worldwide in the vicinity of Geesthacht nuclear power plant. They have learned their lesson well: They are acutely aware of Kruemmel NPP's list of sins, and, since the so-called "PAC Pellets" (PAC stands for the radio nuclides plutonium, Americium, curium) found by the ARGE PhaM - a group of experts under the leadership of the respected physicist Prof Scharmann - did not match with Kruemmel NPP but with GKSS, they included the nuclear research centre GKSS in their investigations. Their novel idea was to examine the dust of attic floors for radioactive substances. They struck lucky. They also investigated chromosome aberrations and again struck lucky. And, in addition, they found a very effective method to convict a notoriously ineffective laboratory at the Federal Department for Health in Berlin of incompetence. The group of scientists cooperated with local citizens, with the local citizens' initiative, with the Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz (Society for Protection Against Radioactivity), with the IPPNW and with scientists at home and abroad. Their lesson, however, was not limited to their faculty - they learned that the Schleswig-Holstein government was neither willing nor able to help them with their analysis. They learned that this government obstructed their work wherever they could, that state officials and government officials could fake measurements with impunity in order to spread abstruse tall stories to explain away disturbing measurements. They learned that even though the fire brigade was capable of extinguishing difficult fires it was unable to prevent its own filing cabinet from going up in flames. The list is almost endless. But what is even more significant is that the committee members who resigned were "biased": With their hearts and knowledge they were on the side of the leukaemia children. It was for the sake of these children that they endured the lies, slander, and smear campaign of those in power - even when they often became unbearable. The professors are an honour to their profession- word for word they "made known" what they had found out, regardless of the consequences for themselves, using scientific methods, the inquisitiveness of a detective, but most of all driven by their responsibility for the truth, for life and for control of the huge octopus and its tentacles nuclear energy and politics. Weil done! Dr. Sebastian Pflugbeil
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