[ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area

[ROY HERREN]

Franz,

   I suspect that in many ways the WW-II Allied forces firebombing of Dresden, 
Germany and Tokyo, Japan were perhaps just as physically damaging as the single 
bombs that hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki..  Thankfully as events worked out, the 
Truman administration and their General staff made the decision to spare 
historic Kyoto from the nuclear bomb.  There can be no doubt that the toll of 
war is horrid!


 Roy Herren




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From: Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
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Sent: Sun, May 19, 2013 5:43:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area

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

--- --UrsprünglicheNachricht----- 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


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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