[ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[David Lee]

Franz,



Re-settled so fast!?
And making Mazdas! Very good development for the nuclear desert. Many towns
in these days wish a famous car factory to be build in them.
Take a look at the devastated Detroit, there was no bomb, but it looks like
one hit it.

Why did you visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki so many times?


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello
.at> wrote:

> Joel,
> Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are cities full with people, shops, cars etc.
> like any other (Japanese) city. If it were not for the memorials and some
> ruins left standing deliberately one would not be able to recognize that
> these towns were destroyed by nuclear bombs. (I have  been twice in
> Hiroshima and once in Nagasaki.)
>
> As for rebuilding I can recommend facts from Google: For Hiroshima a
> construction law to rebuild the town was passed in 1949, the Hiroshima
> Peace Memorial Museum opened in 1955. (It is worth visiting.) The number of
> inhabitants was 419,182 in 1942, after the bombing it was 137,197 and in
> 1955 it had returned to "pre-war level". The town and its vicinity is a
> center for various big industries, one being "Mazda", where my car comes
> from.
>
> There was less information on Nagasaki, but todays population is 440,000.
> It was stated that the radiation dose is not distinguishable from ambient
> doses elsewhere.
>
> Let me finally remark that both towns are of considerable historic
> interest. The harbor of Nagasaki was for a very long time the only one open
> for trade with foreign countries.
>
> This is not much information, but confirms very well that all that rubbish
> anti-nuclear groups tell people about land not being usable after a nuclear
> accident for centuries is just what it is: BS.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
> --- --Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Joel C.
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 5:16 PM
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area
>
> 27 years after the accident, Ukraine is making plans to re-settle the area.
> link: http://www.world-nuclear-news.**org/RS_Most_Chernobyl_towns_**
> fit_for_habitation_2504121.**html<http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Most_Chernobyl_towns_fit_for_habitation_2504121.html>
>
> Can anyone tell me how long after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
> were those cities re-settled?
>
>
>
>
> Joel Cehn
> joelc at alum.wpi.edu
>
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