MADRID .- French laboratory Criidad Experts have confirmed in a report prepared for Greenpeace the "gravity of the problem radioactive" Fertiberia generated by the company in the Marshes of Huelva, a result of discharges of radioactive phosphogypsum have warned the risks the presence of carcinogens such as polonium 210, radon-222 or radio 226.
The head of the laboratory, Chareyon Bruno said today at a press conference at the headquarters of the NGO that the test results confirm gamma radiation from three to 38 times normal levels and equivalent doses of two and nine times normal.
Thus, publicly denounced the fishermen, workers and citizens who walk through the marsh area of \u200b\u200bPalos de la Frontera Huelva receive radiation doses very important "to the extent that only exposure nine minutes each day for a year, "we taking a grave risk of diseases like cancer. "
On the other hand, referred to the high levels of concentration in the area of \u200b\u200bthorium-232, 400 times higher than those of undisturbed soils. This is a substance" very radiotoxic by inhalation "factor which is comparable radiotoxicity of plutonium.
Similarly, Chareyon warned of risks to human health that concentrations of lead 210 and polonium-210 as recorded in the marshes in Huelva. In this regard he recalled that the polonium 210, a substance with which he was poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is "swallowed radiotoxic element" and the effects it could have on the children are higher than those of plutonium.
Both lead and polonium that the French laboratory researchers found in the samples, carried out between 3 and 4 October this year, are "highly soluble elements" to "accumulate in fish and shellfish area and may go to the food chain. "
CRII The report will be sent by Greenpeace to the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament, currently processing a complaint filed by the environmental organization for breach of ionizing radiation directives, management of hazardous waste and protection of waters is occurring in the marshes of Huelva, as a result of which the European Commission at the request of Parliament, has started an investigation.
On the other hand, the French laboratory has also studied samples of contaminated water and sludge discharged from the Rio Tinto more than 7,000 tons of radioactively contaminated material by Acerinox accident occurred in the Bay of Algeciras in 1998 and is buried in the "so-called" Inertres Recovery Center (CRI) No. 9 Mendaña Marshes within the marshes of the rivers Tinto and Odiel.
levels of this isotope artificial "very high", something "especially troubling" because it originates and beta radiation range and because, from a biological standpoint, cesium 137 and joins the agency "determines a persistent internal radiation." The emissions of this element are "responsible for cancers and other diseases" and even may be associated with cardiovascular disease, recalled.
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