It wasn't a 'terrible disaster' - I don't think anyone died for a start. 8-100 millirems. Not great, but minor?
Chernobyl official estimate 4,000 people have died because of it - and that's really conservative, and didn't count most of the countries. Estimates range from 10,000 to 100,000 to a million. But the NFL still likes to downplay this - and yes I have had experience of the nuclear fuel lobby cos I worked at a consultancy that worked for BNFL - i know some of the propaganda tricks they play that make BAT and Philip Morris look like angels - infiltrating protest groups anyone? Certainly the risk has been very downplayed, and that list actually only covers direct deaths...there have been many more, and cos it's a different sort of radiation/exposure it's longer life and harder to judge than say Hiroshima or Nagasaki which were literal flashes in the pan.
Chernobyl - there are still farms here that cannot sell their sheep for meat TODAY - 370 odd of them, cos Caesium is STILL in the soil. You feel a little different when your country was irradiated - and not a few little millirems either.
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Chernobyl official estimate 4,000 people have died because of it - and that's really conservative, and didn't count most of the countries. Estimates range from 10,000 to 100,000 to a million. But the NFL still likes to downplay this - and yes I have had experience of the nuclear fuel lobby cos I worked at a consultancy that worked for BNFL - i know some of the propaganda tricks they play that make BAT and Philip Morris look like angels - infiltrating protest groups anyone? Certainly the risk has been very downplayed, and that list actually only covers direct deaths...there have been many more, and cos it's a different sort of radiation/exposure it's longer life and harder to judge than say Hiroshima or Nagasaki which were literal flashes in the pan.
Chernobyl - there are still farms here that cannot sell their sheep for meat TODAY - 370 odd of them, cos Caesium is STILL in the soil. You feel a little different when your country was irradiated - and not a few little millirems either.