Radiation is More Harmful to Girls and Women

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http://safeenergy.org/2016/03/07/japan-diary-2016-fukushima5-part-4/

Japan Diary 2016, Fukushima+5, Part 4. Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Girls and Women

Mary Olson, Shinagawa, Japan

March 7, 2016

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I first spoke on disproportionate harm to females at the Global Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna (2014), then at the United Nations (May, 2015). I am finally here, speaking in Japan. These findings are rooted here, in the atomic ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Since my work is extremely visual, I encourage you to also visit the slides of my presentation.

Click here for a version of slides with accompanying text. Click here for a version without text but larger slides.

Read my original 2011 paper “Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women” LINK:

Or watch the 5 minute video created for Gender Day at the Climate Talks in Paris (2015).

KEY POINTS FROM MY TALKS:

Gender in the Lifespan data (The National Academies of Science published the data in the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation “BEIR VII” in 2005; here is NIRS’ press release upon its publication.) from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors has been analyzed by three separate authors, each making these findings:

*Those exposed as infants and young children got the most cancer at some point in their lives;
* For every boy who eventually got cancer, two girls eventually got cancer (see slide 1 of my presentation);
* This is cancer across the lifetime, not only in childhood.
*There is a gender difference across the entire lifetime (see slide 2)
*Among those who were adults: for every two men who died of cancer, three women died (see slide 3).

I draw these further points:
• Why is gender a factor in cancer from radiation? Today, we do not know. Dr. Rosalie Bertell suggested that a greater concentration of reproductive tissue in the female body could be the cause (see slide 4). We do not yet know.
• We must not wait! Now we know there is greater harm to the young, particularly females, we must act to protect and prevent exposures now.
• Decision-makers only see information based on the Reference Man (adult male).
• Radiation regulations and standards are all based on pre-2006 information and therefore Reference Man.
• Even the units of dose [REM = Roentegen Man] are based on Reference Man.
• In order to protect the lifecycle of our species, we must reframe radiation protection around the phase that suffers the most from radiation exposure: female infants and children.

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[KT2000]

1. always women and children first

with most toxins. Unfortunately when women explain they have been poisoned by toxic exposures they are accused of being nuts. Testing, if it is done at all, is done on healthy 30 something males.