Posted on 03/15/2011 1:35:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
You’ve forgot the 100.000 who died after Chernobyl on cancer caused by the long term radiation. You’ve forgot the thousands of children who died shortly after birth within the last 25 years because of their malformations.
You and I know that, but I don’t see TOTUS out explaining that to the press and the people. I see TOTUS letting the hysteria grow and he runs out of the country.
Alinsky rule:
9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
Or, if it gets bad enough, they will make me emperor!
“except for about 50 brave staff” -
...they seem to be easly glossed over as if they were chopped liver..?
Sadly it would appear likely that all 50 are (or soon will be) way over exposed before ever being allowed to leave?
I would not be suprised if most of these brave 50 are dead within weeks.
All this to excuse Hussein’s partying and vacationing?
Oh, absolutely.
Invest every cent you can scrape up in tablets, then when the panic really sets in, you can sell the excess off at a huge profit.
Start your own commodity rush. If you are in at the start, you are golden.
And the more fear you can generate, the more "change" you can institute as a response.
Typical liberal response to nuclear power...
“China Syndrome! Three Mile Island! Chernobyl! The Reactors in Japan! No more nukes! No oil or gas! No wind power, it kills owls!...”
Have you got a link with those figures?
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Chernobyl_after_the_disaster
Fifty deaths, all among the reactor staff and emergency workers, are directly attributed to the accident.
Estimates of the total number of deaths attributable to the accident vary enormously. Despite the accident, Ukraine continued to operate the remaining reactors at Chernobyl for many years. The last reactor at the site was closed down in 2000, 14 years after the accident.
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Of the 72,000 Russian Emergency Workers being studied, 216 non-cancer deaths are attributed to the disaster, between 1991 and 1998. The latency period for solid cancers caused by excess radiation exposure is 10 or more years; thus at the time of the WHO report being undertaken, the rates of solid cancer deaths were no greater than the general population
RE: Have you got a link with those figures?
As opposed to buzzer, I have my link which is sourced to articles and studies. See post #29 above.
Proof?
I know. And I agree.
I was just curious as to where buzzer got his figures from..
I might also add that uranium can’t ‘explode’ all by itself.
It needs a ‘trigger’.
Besides. There isn’t enough uranium in a reactor to make even a decent bunker buster.. Well, maybe a little one.
“China Syndrome! Three Mile Island! Chernobyl! The Reactors in Japan! No more nukes! No oil or gas! No wind power, it kills owls!...”
Billy Joel remake of “We didn’t start the fire”?
MORE FROM THE Wikipedia source, which cites UN and IAEA data ( see post #29 above ) regarding health effects and birth defects.
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UNSCEAR has conducted 20 years of detailed scientific and epidemiological research on the effects of the Chernobyl accident.
Apart from the 57 direct deaths in the accident itself, UNSCEAR originally predicted up to 4,000 additional cancer cases due to the accident.[73]
However, the latest UNSCEAR reports suggest that these estimates were overstated.[74]
In addition, the IAEA states that there has been no increase in the rate of birth defects or abnormalities, or solid cancers (such as lung cancer) corroborating UNSCEAR’s assessments.
Here are the sources cited :
* http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html#Health
* http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Holy crap!!! Quit watching horror movies.
Research those ridiculous statements and get back to us, if you can stand the humiliation.
Less that a hundred deaths, all workers, no noticable increases in cancers.
Geez, Louise, get a grip.
Do you expect the media to behave differently? This is what it does best.
Last night’s NYT: “Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as Workers Leave Plant”
Shameful reporting.
“Katie Couric said the nuclear reactors caused the earthquake and tsunami and killed tens of thousands of people.”
Given that the Tokyo Tower was bent it was obviously Gojira who did it.
Stop spreading that ridiculous 100,000 number. Not even a small fraction of that number died because of Chernobyl. You might want to actually read the article this thread is based on that gives the true number of Chernobyl deaths.
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