Chernobyl survivor message to Japanese

[poopfuel]

Run away as quickly as possible.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/22/chernobyl-cleanup-survivors-message-for-japan-run-away-as-qui/

[lbrtbell]

1. Why aren't there more comments on this thread?

Are so many Democrats really so pro-nuclear, that they'll ignore the warnings of someone who knows more about nuclear disasters than anybody on this board? :(

[JackintheGreen]

2. Having survived a nuclear disaster

doesn't mean you know anything about them. Just that your survival instinct is probably better.

Or maybe the advice just seems to go without saying. I grew up close to a powerplant, remember Chernobyl, and always had a plan of escape.

[femmedem]

5. Her credentials go beyond surviving. She's a nuclear engineer.

Her team reported to Chernobyl days after the disaster.

[JackintheGreen]

6. Well, I guess I should have read the link, then

but the headline as posted was misleading. The headline as printed was not.

[GliderGuider]

3. That's quite an account.

Why did you go back to Chernobyl after getting a thyroid tumor?
Right around the time of my operation, the government passed a law saying the liquidators had to work for exactly 4 1/2 years to get our pension and retire. If you left even one day early, you would not get any benefits.

Really? That seems beyond cruel.
It's why the nuclear industry is dangerous. They want to deny the dangers. They kept changing the law about what benefits we'd get because if they admitted how much we were affected, it would look bad for the industry. Now we hardly get any benefits.

That's something to keep in mind about powerful industries everywhere, especially those that privatize their profits and socialize their costs.

The story of the dog really tore me up.

[felix_numinous]

4. K&R for visibility.

She is the only one left from her team who is still alive. Her eyewitness accounts should be circulated.