What is the medical accuracy of the claim that Lyudmilla Ignatenko's baby girl absorbed all the radiation?

I didn't deny anyone's suffering, nor did I encourage the genocide of anyone. You're simply unable to refute the information I've presented so you're resorting to personal attacks.

In order for the 26 Roentgen claim to be correct, the baby would need to have 29,853 MBq of Cs-137 incorporated into her body to produce a dose rate of 26 roentgen at a distance of . That's 4000 times more than her father had in his body.

Internal dose values according to post-mortem measurements for 6 patients are shown in Table A.2. The maximum amount of 137-Cs and 134-Cs incorporated activity was 7.4 MBq,

https://www.unscear.org/docs/publications/1988/UNSCEAR_1988_Annex-G.pdf Page 615

In Goiânia Brazil, a six-year-old girl became internally contaminated with Cs-137 from a broken radiotherapy source. When they checked her body after she died, she had 1677 MBq of Cs-137 incorporated into her tissues and produced a 2.5 mSv/hr (.25 r/hr) dose rate near her skin.

All bodies had internal and external contamination; a six-year-old girl had massive internal contamination, and the dose rate close to her skin reached 2.5 mSv/h. Information on the medical, pathological and radiological conditions of these victims is shown in Table 16.

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/EPR-Contamination_web.pdf

That's 1/100th of the amount necessary to reach the 26 Roentgen claim. If we multiply her contamination 100 times under the assumption we'll get a proportional response from the dose rate, we get 167,700 MBq of Cs-137 to produce the required 26 Roentgen. That's 29,000 times more Cs-137 than what Vasily Ignatenko had in his body. So perhaps you would like to explain how not only did the 7 MBq from Vasily's body teleported into Lyudmilla's body, and then into Natasha's body... how did that 7MBq multiply into 167,000 MBq and how did it not kill her and Lyudmila in the 2+ months that followed her visits with Vasily.

The point here isn't that people didn't suffer. The point is that the event was bad enough without exaggerating these stories even further. Plus the OP asked a question, and they deserve an HONEST answer without a bunch of political ranting.

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