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Re: Suggestions?
I consider the word disaster in this article as catastrophe (calamity,
tragedy), am I wrong?
In this sense the Nuclear Accident at Tokaimura, even considering the worst
Japan's nuclear accident, was not a disaster, but a nuclear accident. This
accident was classified as level 4 in the INES SCALE, that's mean: ACCIDENT
WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT OFF-SITE RISK, MINOR RELEASE AND PUBLIC EXPOSURE OF THE
ORDER OF PRESCRIBED LIMITS. No consequences also to the great majority of
the workers.
Jose Julio Rozental
rozental@unisys.com.br
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I'll be back to Israel next February 22.
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> Sept 30 - In Japan, at least 69 people are exposed to radiation at
> > a uranium reprocessing plant in Tokaimura.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard L. Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: Suggestions?
> Does anyone have any ideas about how we can respond to the following?
> -Bernard L. Cohen
> University of Pittsburgh
>
> > RTw 12/31 0757 Chronology of disasters through 1999
> > LONDON, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Here is a chronology of the worst
> > disasters, natural and man-made, in 1999:
> > Jan 25 - A powerful earthquake rips through Colombia's central
> > coffee-growing region killing at least 1,170 people. It measures 6.3 on
> > the Richter scale.
> > Feb 6 - More than 300 people missing after an Indonesian ferry
> > sinks near Tambelan islands 800 km (500 miles) north of Jakarta.
> > Feb 23-24 - Avalanches in the Austrian ski resort of Galtuer kill
> > 38 people.
> > Feb 24 - All 61 people aboard a Chinese Russian-built Tupolev
> > Tu-154 airliner are killed when the plane crashes in eastern China after
> > a mid-air explosion.
> > Mar 22 - At least 150 people drown at sea off Sierra Leone when an
> > overloaded motorised canoe capsizes off the town of Tasso.
> > Mar 25 - Forty people are killed in a fire which traps at least 30
> > vehicles in the tunnel under Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain.
> > May 3 - More than 70 tornadoes rake Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and
> > Tennessee, killing 54.
> > May 20 - A tropical cyclone hits southern Pakistan killing at least
> > 127 people and leaving about 1,200 missing.
> > May 30 - At least 52 people are crushed to death when hundreds of
> > fans at a rock concert into an underground railway station to escape a
> > storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.
> > Jul 1 - A French cable car taking staff to an international Alpine
> > observatory falls 80 metres (260 feet), killing 20.
> > Jul 27 - In Switzerland 21 people are killed on a thrill-seeking
> > "canyoning" expedition near the resort of Interlaken.
> > Aug 2 - Two crowded trains collide head-on at a railway station in
> > eastern India, killing 286 people.
> > Aug 2-7 - The worst rains in decades slice across the Philippines,
> > the Korean peninsula, Vietnam and China, killing almost 1,000 people.
> > Aug 17 - An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale strikes
> > Turkey's northwestern city of Izmit, some 90 km (55 miles) east of
> > Istanbul, killing at least 17,110.
> > Aug 31 - An Argentine Boeing 737 from private airline LAPA crashes
> > on take-off from an airport near Buenos Aires' city centre, killing at
> > least 71.
> > Sept 7 - An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale strikes
> > the Greek capital Athens killing at least 139 people.
> > Sept 16 - Hurricane Floyd strikes the eastern United States,
> > killing at least 48 people and causing widespread power outages and
> > flooding from Florida to New England.
> > Sept 21 - A major earthquake strikes Taiwan, killing 2,321 people.
> > The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale.
> > Sept 30 - In Japan, at least 69 people are exposed to radiation at
> > a uranium reprocessing plant in Tokaimura.
> > Oct 5 - Two trains collide outside London's Paddington station
> > killing 31 people.
> > Oct 29 - In India, a "super-cyclone" slams into northeast state of
> > Orissa. At least 9,885 are killed.
> > Oct 31 - A Cairo-bound EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes 60 miles (96 km)
> > off Massachusetts killing all 217 aboard.
> > Nov 11 - A six-storey apartment block collapses in Italy in the
> > town of Foggia killing at least 62.
> > Nov 12 - An earthquake strikes Turkey's province of Bolu killing at
> > least 749 people. Tremor measured 7.2 on the Richter scale.
> > Nov 25 - At least 280 people die when the car ferry Dashun founders
> > and breaks up in stormy waters off the port city of Yantai on the
> > Shandong peninsula in the east coast of China.
> > Dec 8 - A four-storey apartment building collapses in Morocco's
> > ancient city of Fes, killing 47 people.
> > Dec 15/16 - In Venezuela huge mudslides and floods after a week of
> > rain kill at least 30,000 and make thousands homeless.
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