[ RadSafe ] Psychological Impacts of Chernobyl

[Richard Gallego]

Great point Harry! And easy enough for people not educated in health physics
to understand.

Rich 

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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Psychological Impacts of Chernobyl

The statement below by Dr. Busby is actually very defensible.  

~800,000 people (or ~10% of the population) within 200 kilometers or
anywhere with a population of 8 million will contract cancer if they are not
moved out.  They will also contract cancer if they are moved out.

It is a very successful and probably intentional distortion of a true
statement.


Dr. Chris Busby, another physicist says there is a rage in the 
> >> people in Tokyo and he now predicts based on his calculations that 
> >> 800,000 people out of about 8 million who live within 200 kilomters

> >> [sic] of the plant will contract cancer if they are not moved out."
> >>

Harry Reynolds
>

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