[ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area

[David Lee]

Agree. You are right, war is no good.


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:33 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Franz Schönhofer <franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
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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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