[ RadSafe ] Belarus Repopulating Chernobyl

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

Dear Maury and dog, 

You are a difficult person to deal with!!! (In case you do not understand what I mean, I think the US expression applicable is
"tongue in cheek".) One day you write something I can only with all my heart support and the next day you post something I only can disagree with - like this message.

I probably never met Jaworowski personally, if so he did not leave any impression, but I dislike almost everything he writes. Sorry, but what he writes in this case is nothing new, it is well known in Europe - we know our administrations, that they are not able to make any useful decisions. We know our anti-everything groups, we know their influence on people - multiplicated by the massmedia. The costs to the countries outside the really heavily contamination zone he claims are pure nonsense - in a paper presented at an IAEA conference I was able to show, that the absurd trade rules, the absurd system of export-gratifications and the subsistence of overproduction led actually to a saving of money for the governments especially taxpayers money , and at the same time to higher income of farmers  - sad, but true. 

Jaworowski has a way of expression when referring to LNT which reminds me seriously on the way of professional anti-nuclears. In every sentence there is an undertone of ridiculing persons having another point of view. 

I am not explicitely talking about Jaworowskis age, but at that age most people leave the field to younger ones, who have hopefully more oversight - I will for sure do it and I am even practicing that now already! He is very often cited to be "director" or "head" or similar, but these are partially long gone titles and since I hate titles I do not appreciate somebody who puts forward his multiple titles and degrees. I have never published anything with any of my titles! Jaworowki is in the European Radiation Protection community not much appreciated. We do not need Jaworowski to find out about the activities and impacts of this multinational concern Greenpeace. Finally let me comment, that the impact of the Chernobyl accident on the USA seems to have been extremely low. When I was in 1988 several weeks in the USA, visited many universities and gave seminars on not only radioanalytical science, but first of all on the then recent Chernobyl accident I found out that even educated people never have heard there anything about it - including the president of a well known and large university. Therefore I do not think that Jaworowski will have any major impact in the USA.

So much about this topic - the positive one to follow....

Best regards to both of you!

Franz



---- Maury Siskel <maurysis at peoplepc.com> schrieb:
> I wish these two articles by Zbig Jaworowski were more easily available 
> to all Radsafers. The scientific findings are truly impressive. A small 
> portion follows.
> Best,
> Maury&Dog  [MaurySiskel mairysis at peoplepc.com]
> 
> ========First article========
> NUCLEAR UPDATE.  Belarus Repopulating Chernobyl Exclusion Zone by 
> Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
> 
> "... In practice, the recommendations suggested removal of all the 
> restrictions that had been imposed. Most important among them was that 
> the relocated individuals should  be allowed to return to their old 
> settlements.
> 
> This last recommendation was fulfilled by the government of Belarus, 
> which should be commended for its courage in standing up to the 
> Chernobyl hysteria, that has been cultivated for years by Greenpeace and 
> other Greens. We come back to normalcy".
> 
> =========== begin second article===========
> Observations on Chernobyl After 25 Years of Radiophobia
> by Zbigniew Jaworowski,
> 
> [opening paragraphs]
>