Chernobyl facts that are eye openers - for real

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http://counterpunch.com/cheng04292011.html


Distorted Reality, Unanswered Questions
Return to Chernobyl


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Like how tens of thousands of Ukrainian children need to be sent away every year to uncontaminated areas for at least a month, in order to allow the body to get rid of some of the Cesium-137 accumulated through eating everyday food like milk, mushrooms, berry jam and meat.

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Like how children of Rokytne get tonsillitis several times a year because their immune systems are compromised by radionuclide. According to deputy head doctor from the District Hospital, two-thirds of the population of 53,000 he cares for is affected by Cesium-137 contamination in food. Rokytne is 300km away from Chernobyl, on the other side of the country.

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Like how young expectant mothers get advice about what food they need to avoid, in order to minimise radionuclide uptake, which causes deformity in the developing fetus. They need frequent checks and if the fetus develops serious deformity then it may have to be aborted.

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I want them to say that to the doctors and the parents who are told that the state can now only afford to send children away for breaks in clean areas for 18 days per year. Nuclear supporters probably don’t know that it takes 50 days for the body of a child (100 days for adult) to get rid of half of its radioactive Cesium-137.
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I chose 4 paragraghs about children/preg. women.

would some DUers post in this thread some of the other facts/paragraphs from this article. please and thank you

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1. where is Japan going to send its children?

nt

[appal_jack]

3. This could solve the US housing crisis...

I hate to sound glibly macabre, but a wide swath of contaminated Japan should cause the US and other allies of Japan to consider opening up their own borders to people who cannot return to their contaminated home towns.

-app

[fascisthunter]

2. I'm Sure we will hear from some idiot invested in Nuke power

that radiation is ok.

[madokie]

4. I'm surprised that isn't already the case

[Yooperman]

5. It is time to start decommissioning ALL nuclear power plants...

After nearly fifty years of nuclear power they still don't have a solution to the nuclear waste.

I have been around long enough to have seen 4 nuclear catastrophes in my lifetime. We don't need another.

Of course, when one does happen... say from a mile wide F5 tornado hitting a reactor directly, the nuclear pundits..will say... "Who could have predicted that?!"


The crisis in Japan is far worse than we are being told. Just as Chernobyl was far worse than we were told at the time.

Peace,

YM