Actually the pro nuke shills convinced skiers it was safe and a great idea, the skiers themselves are not the shills. In fact, pro nuke shills avoid the area and certainly don’t live in the contaminated zones.
Radioactive waste land it quite accurate - those pesky people living in contaminated regions of Chernobyl find that human health deteriorates until supplied with non-contaminated food! Imagine that! No one has figured out how to clean the soil around Chernobyl either; it’s just not feasible. And well, some of those isotopes last thousands of years.
Oh I think your sense of humor is sick but I wouldn’t bother trying to change your mind about that. It does strike me as indecent after watching videos from the Chernobyl region and reading the international health studies - but human suffering doesn’t matter to pro nuke shills. In fact, pro nukers pretend that Chernobyl doesn’t exist and all concerns regarding health are merely urban myths...oh and they stay clear of the area whenever politics doesn’t make them show up.
Who hides from Chernobyl? It was a nasty accident caused by bad reactor design and poorly trained operators. The health effects of Chernobyl have been the most studied in human history. As bad as it was, it was not nearly what it was made out to be.
Health Impacts Chernobyl Accident Appendix 2
Some conclusions from the article:
"413. Apart from the substantial increase in thyroid cancer after childhood exposure observed in Belarus, in the Russian Federation and in Ukraine,
there is no evidence of a major public health impact related to ionizing radiation 14 years after the Chernobyl accident. No increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality that could be associated with radiation exposure have been observed. For some cancers no increase would have been anticipated as yet, given the latency period of around 10 years for solid tumours. The risk of leukaemia, one of the most sensitive indicators of radiation exposure, has not been found to be elevated even in the accident recovery operation workers or in children. There is no scientific proof of an increase in other non-malignant disorders related to ionizing radiation."
Read the whole report...very detailed. Basically, since the Chernobyl incident and accompanying hype, predictions about exposures and health affects to the general population have been continuously revised downward. Much of the doom and gloom failed to materialize. Same will be the case with Fukushima.