On 13/04/2012 08:15, harry wrote:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/494793.html

indymedia is a collection of nutters who cannot get published by any
reputable organisation.

We ain't seen nuthin' yet?

Russian sniffing round UK nuclear programme
Rosatom the Russian state backed outfit displays interest in UK
future reactor programme.
So the people that ran Chernobyl want to build a reactor in the UKs
most likely Tsunami zone. (Severn Estuary)

Even when it was built, the RBMK reactor was known to be a poor design
with serious safety flaws, particularly being the only design built
without a containment vessel. Three Mile Island was essentially the same
type of accident and the containment vessel there prevented anyone
getting more than a minimal exposure to radiation. Neither design, or
indeed Fukushima, has much in common with the generation III reactors
that Britain would be building today.

When Chernobyl exlpoded, 400 times more radioactivity than the
Hiroshima bmb was released into the atmosphere.

However, the victims of Hiroshima received high radiation doses in a
very short time, while exposure to radiation from Chernobyl has, for the
most part, been long term exposure to low doses. The effects of that are
much less well understood, but evidence from areas where people live
with very high natural background radiation (up to 250mSv p.a.) suggests
that the linear no-threshold (LNT) model, which is used in all
predictions about the effects radiation exposure, is significantly over
pessimistic when dealing with long term exposure to low levels of radiation.


Nearly a million people have died soon due to cancer according to
some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernob...he_Environment

Wikipedia is only slightly better than indymedia as a source, as it
relies upon collective opinion, rather than provable fact. ISTR a
well-known personality who tried to correct their own date of birth
several times, before giving up, as so many other people 'knew' better
and kept changing it back to the wrong date.

According to the World Health Organisation:

'The Expert Group concluded that there may be up to 4,000 additional
cancer deaths among the three highest exposed groups over their lifetime
(240,000 liquidators; 116,000 evacuees and the 270,000 residents of the
SCZs). Since more than 120,000 people in these three groups may
eventually die of cancer, the additional cancer deaths from radiation
exposure correspond to 3-4% above the normal incidence of cancers from
all causes.'

Note: This prediction is based upon the LNT model, so may be over
pessimistic.

The actual number of deaths that can definitely be attributed to
radiation is, however, very much lower:

'According to UNSCEAR (2000), 134 liquidators received radiation doses
high enough to be diagnosed with acute radiation sickness (ARS). Among
them, 28 persons died in 1986 due to ARS. Other liquidators have since
died but their deaths could not necessarily be attributed to radiation
exposure.'

Colin Bignell