[ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area

[Franz Schönhofer]

Roy,

I think I mentioned already that I have been always very interested in 
anything nuclear including weapons. I have read and I do not doubt that the 
devastation of Dresden using conventional weapons was at least as effective 
as the nuclear bombings in Japan, but overall cheaper. How cynical! I have 
also read about the original plans to bomb Kyoto. I have also been in Kyoto 
a few times (BTW I need not justify my visits to whereever I go, Mr. 
Troll!!!!!) and this would have been a really extraordinary crime and a slap 
into the face of culture. My suspicion is however that this target was 
simply impractical, because it would have been much to far away from the US 
Airforce base where the Enola Gay and the Bockscar started from. I agree 
with your last remark. The damage done in Europe during the war is 
unimaginable for non-Europeans. Dresden has been reconstructed more or less 
in a modern way, but the historical buildings have all been restored in 
their original shape, the last ones being the cathedral and the historical 
castle which houses again the old treasures. I remember that some 20 or 30 
years ago a lot of devastation was still to be seen.

Best regards,

Franz



-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- 
From: ROY HERREN
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:33 AM
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re-settling Chernobyl area
ll
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
<radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu>
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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