Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Memories of Chernobyl: 'In Communist countries, the nuclear disasters did not happen'" video.

Before Chernobyl, the UK NHS said the chances of dying of cancer was one in five. Cancer rates today put that figure at one in two. I wonder how much of that change is due to the radiation cloud that was blown over the UK. Something is killing us. Something in the environment, food or drinking water.
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@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527 the general public do not understand the difference between radiation and fallout. The latter produces the former as ionising radiation alpha, beta, gamma and neutron. While the average radiation flux may now be low due to the effects of dilution of the fallout and radio active decay of short lived elements, some of the dust particles, depending on the element involved, will remain intensely radioactive for thousands of years. It is exposure to individual dust particles that result in cancers, predominantly if it is inhaled or consumed. The dust may now be spread very thinly, but it will not help anyone who is unfortunate enough to inhale or consume one or more individual particles which may lodge in the body and expose the individual to a mutagenic dose of radiation. I am not saying the increase of cancer rates are definitely the result of Chernobyl fallout, but it seems likely that it contributed to it to some degree.
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