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 The Weekly Report

  WEEK 34 Aug 12th to 18th 2002

 http://www.midnight-fire.net/theweeklyreport/theweeklyreport.html

  DOMESTIC ANIMALS STILL HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE

  Domestic animals in at least 40 Norwegian counties will have to be
treated, fed with special forage (again) because of high radiation in
meat and milk. The reason, as before is the accident at the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant 16 years ago.
  According to preliminary prognosis from the Norwegian Radiation
Protection Agency (Statens Str�levern) will also this year between 40
and 70 counties be hit. The national food and drug administration
(N�ringsmiddeltilsynet) has already issued a temporary ban on butchering
several places.
  - The final numbers won't be ready until the middle of September, Per
Strand in the Radiation Protection Agency says. - This is dependent on
how much mushrooms there will be this year. Mushroom is sucking up a lot
of radioactivity and domestic grazing animals are eating a lot of
mushroom.
  The upper limit for starting the forage treatment for sheep, lamb,
cows, goats and horses are 600 Bq/kg (becquerel per kilo). For reindeer
it is 3000 Bq/kg. The previous season 36800 sheep and lamb had to be
treated before being skipped off to the slaughterhouses and become human
consumption food. This year's measures are suggesting that steps in the
same scale will be needed. In addition to the special forage program the
animals are fed Berliner Blue in various forms, a compound binding
radioactive cesium.
  Norwegian agriculture will probably keep struggling with the after
effects of the accident in the Ukraine for years to come. Exactly how
long nobody can say. In the months following the Chernobyl-accident vast
quantities of Cesium 127 and 135 fell over Norway with rain from the
east. The half-life for these modest radioactive isotopes is 30 years.
According to prognosis from Norwegian health authorities 500 Norwegians
may contract cancer as a direct result of the pollution after Chernobyl.
The numbers for indirect effects and complications are far higher. In
several valleys in middle and northern Norway the number of brain tumors
was doubled from 1985 to 1990.



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