Chinese nuclear disaster “highly probable” by 2030

Revolutionar

petera Post time: 2013-3-28 13:30
I d i o t

You imbecile.Chernobyl alone killed a million.The real long term toll from Fukushima ma ...

you also  saying China cannot do better than the first generation of ancient reactors?

petera

seneca Post time: 2013-3-28 18:22
Chernobyl "killed a million"?

That must be news even to the Ukrainians who lived close to the sit ...

Scientists conclude: Chernobyl killed nearly 1 million people




A massively documented new book charges International Atomic Energy Agency with covering up the extent of the “worst technogenic accident in history”



Editor’s Note: This is a positive review of a controversial book. For a strong counter-argument, see the pro-nuclear blog Atomic Insights

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Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. Edited by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, Alexey V. Nesterenko, and Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 400 pages ISBN: 978-1-57331-757-3

reviewed by Karl Grossman
Op-Ed News, September 3, 2010

(Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury and host of the nationally syndicated TV program Enviro Close-Up.)

This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government officials in the United States and other nations were trying to “revive” nuclear power. And it followed the publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.

Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment was published by the New York Academy of Sciences. It is authored by three noted scientists: Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov, former environmental advisor to the Russian president; Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, a biologist and ecologist in Belarus; and Dr.Vassili Nesterenko, a physicist and at the time of the accident director of the Institute of Nuclear Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Its editor is Dr. Janette Sherman, a physician and toxicologist long-involved in studying the health impacts of radioactivity.

The book is solidly based on health data, radiological surveys and scientific reports — some 5,000 in all.

It concludes that based on records now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of the Chernobyl accident. That is between when the accident occurred in 1986 and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow.

The book explodes the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency – still on its website that the expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000. The IAEA, the new book shows, is underestimating, to the extreme, the casualties of Chernobyl. Alice Slater, representative in New York of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, comments:


“The tragic news uncovered by the comprehensive new research that almost one million people died in the toxic aftermath of Chernobyl should be a wake-up call to people all over the world to petition their governments to put a halt to the current industry-driven “nuclear renaissance.’ Aided by a corrupt IAEA, the world has been subjected to a massive cover-up and deception about the true damages caused by Chernobyl.”

Prometheus2

petera Post time: 2013-3-28 13:30
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You imbecile.Chernobyl alone killed a million.The real long term toll from Fukushima ma ...

Chernobyl killed 54 directly. The most accurate assessments of deaths cause by cancer years after is in still only in the tens of thousands max. That study has raised many eyebrows but isn't completely credible.

petera

Prometheus2 Post time: 2013-3-28 18:42
Chernobyl killed 54 directly. The most accurate assessments of deaths cause by cancer years after  ...

Corrupt

You are obviously a corrupt propagandist.The book referred in my post has been written by eminent scientists based on thousands of scientific papers.

Revolutionar

petera Post time: 2013-3-28 18:50
Corrupt

You are obviously a corrupt propagandist.The book referred in my post has been written by ...

Present generation of reactors has no resemblance to the first geeration of soviet reactors.

Designs improve

Putting faith in science vs putting faith in rats.

Its clear what Zhongnanhai chooses.


You want to be anti CPC element?

Prometheus2

petera Post time: 2013-3-28 18:50
Corrupt

You are obviously a corrupt propagandist.The book referred in my post has been written by ...

Haha. This paper was in no way credible with the scientific community. Just because they are scientists does not mean they are right. There are countless other scientists that have done studies that have far lower numbers. I will show you.

Prometheus2

petera Post time: 2013-3-28 18:50
Corrupt

You are obviously a corrupt propagandist.The book referred in my post has been written by ...

The type of claims it makes, of extensive radiological damage to people and the environment from the Chernobyl reactor explosion of 1986, have been repeatedly shown to be contradicted by the data. The NYAS report unfortunately carries these claims to new heights, calling the incident “the largest technological catastrophe in history.” claiming “a danger greater than nuclear weapons concealed within nuclear power…No citizen of any country can be assured that he or she can be protected from radioactive contamination.” Getting more specific, the report claims “Prior to 1985, more than 80% of children in the Chernobyl territories…were healthy; today fewer than 20% are well. In the heavily contaminated areas, it is difficult to find one healthy child.”

The facts of the case are quite different. For example, in the exclusion zone, where the report claims it is difficult to find one healthy child, the radioactivity is lower than my sister’s front yard in Colorado (where she raised four very healthy children, and the cancer rate is significantly lower than average). And the Ukrainian tourism bureau is sponsoring eco-tours to show how wildlife is flourishing because the human presence has been restricted. Two thousand villages in the evacuated zone are being repopulated. The Chernobyl meltdown has probably been studied more than any other industrial casualty, by the UNSCEAR, WHO, Red Cross, IAEA, et al. The NYAS report implies that these organizations are uncritical tools of the nuclear industry, but offers no supporting evidence for such a claim.

Why are the conclusions of the NYAS report versus the consensus reports so dramatically different? There are several facts that contribute to the difference:

a. Fear of radiation was rampant and deep-seated. Government actions were confusing and contradictory. Several of the medical specialists who investigated the after-effects of Chernobyl noted that fear of radiation could by itself explain the spread of depression, alcoholism, absenteeism, abuse of drugs, sleeplessness, and the symptoms that such ills create and sustain. One example: Prior to 1986, the rate of abortions downwind of Chernobyl was fairly constant. The year following showed an additional 50,000 to 100,000 abortions, and abortion rates for following years returned to nearly the previous level. This is presumably because physicians advising pregnant women were ill-informed about the effects of low-dose radiation, and added to the problem, rather than alleviating it. It was repeatedly reported that fear of radiation was much more destructive than the radiation itself.

b. The Ukrainian government offered extensive incentives to declare oneself a “Chernobyl victim.” The original contract with the Soviet government promised that any person injured by the reactor would be fully taken care of, at the expense of the Russian government. This provision came to include housing, hospitalization and other medical care, and cash. The program became so lavish and extensive that resentment grew up against the “victims” who were judged by many to be parasites. There were fund-raising tours through USA and elsewhere, of malformed “Chernobyl victims” who didn’t even all live in or near Chernobyl.