Radiation syndrome of Russian soldiers in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine: without adequate protection and compliance with safety rules, “there is a shortterm risk of injury, especially to the intestinal, nasal and oral mucosal membranes, with bleeding, it is necessary to be in the presence of important contamination , which on average can also lead to acute leukemia. But I am quite skeptical about this possibility. The contamination has decreased after all these years “. Says AdnKronos Roberto Romizi, President of Isde, the Medical Association for the Environment.
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These soldiers “could show the effects of contamination, especially in a few months or even in a few years with heart and spinal cord problems”, while the acute effects, which are visible immediately, “occur in the face of significant contamination “, explains Romizi, for whom the acute risk “but is quite low, it could be the distant one, because especially radionuclides like strontium and cesium accumulate even for years. Cesium can cause serious heart disease and strontium attacks the bone marrow and therefore diseases of the hematological system. Overall, all radiation causes bone marrow problems and this is the most serious. Iodine is a rather marginal problem, mostly in the acute phase, because then the negative iodine load quickly decreases.
“The radioactivity is not due to the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl reactor, but to the fact that this Russian army is unprepared and unprofessional,” said Maurizio Martellini, nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Insubria in the Department of Science and Other Technology ( Disat ) The movement of heavy vehicles, tanks and everything in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the idiotic idea of digging trenches in this exclusion zone moved a significant amount of radioactive dust, they had personal protective equipment and therefore were contaminated and removed from the Exclusion Zone”.
In short, the contamination of Russian soldiers in the area is “not new” and in any case “completely irrelevant compared to the enormous pollution caused by daily Russian bombing”.