Chernobyl incident. Please answer only those who have knowledge of incident. Is that a miracle or incident?
A veil of Soviet secrecy meant people were left totally in the dark and led to exaggeration and mistakes in western media coverage.
The disaster released at least 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Despite relocating more than a million people after 36 hours, many millions still live in contaminated areas and to my surprise wild horse, boar and wolf populations are thriving, while lynx have returned to the area and birds have nested in the reactor building without any obvious ill-effects. Trees are sprouting everywhere and people have minimum efect of radiation. And the deaths related to the incident are only in double digits comparing to deaths in hundreds of thousands in Heroshima and Nagasaki.
Should we call it a miracle or incident?
Answer:
HOW MANY DIED?
Acute Radiation Sickness (ARS) deaths in 1986: 28
ARS patients who died later: 19 (some from other causes)
Others who died during explosion: 2
Child thyroid cancer deaths (1992-2002): 15 (UN figure)
Predicted extra cancer deaths: from 4,000 (UN) to 93,000 (Greenpeace)
Dozens killed in accidents building sarcophagus (according to an engineer)
About 760 children in the contaminated "Safety Zone" have been reported to have thyroid cancer, though only 3 children have died from it so far. It is the children that has local doctors the most worried about. Doctor Oleksandr Urin reports that the immune system in the children is weakening. Birth defects have more than doubled inside the "Safety Zone". There have also been isolated cases of liver and rectal cancer, which is uncommon in children of their age. "These are isolated cases so far, but they are warning signals about what may follow," says Dr. Urin. It may take another decade before the full effect can be seen.
Andrew Nagorski, "The Zone of Alientation," Newsweek, 22 Apr. 1996, p. 54
Those who lived in the area around the nuclear power station at the time of the accident have had mutations in their germ cells due to the radiation. Germ cells, sperm and eggs, are the "genetic building blocks of future generations. " Thus, the children of such people can turn out disformed and disfigured.
B. Bower, "Radiation Damages Chernobyl Children," Science News, 27 Apr. 1996, p. 260
This is just what they are willing to tell us.
Official UN figures predicted up to 9,000 Chernobyl-related cancer deaths.
But Greenpeace says in a report released on Tuesday that recent studies estimate that the actual number of such deaths will be 93,000.
Stressing that there is a problem with diagnosis, it adds that other illnesses could take the toll to 200,000.
miracle? I think not.
I think we can call it two things.
# 1. Some people will do anything to get a dig in at "the west".
#2. Do your home work. If you do you will find than a lot of research has been done that pretty much proves after a disaster like this it takes about 200 generations for even animals to recover.
The radioactivity released was not as high as you are making it out to be.
the radiation levels AT THE REACTOR were extremely high.
There was some radioactive material that got spread due to the fire.
You might want to actually research the incident before jumping to conclusions.
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