ABC News article: // Number of deaths from Chernobyl disaster

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>Please check out the following URL: 

>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/strike_nukesafety011022.html

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It seems like there is a randomizer that the newsmedia use to tell how many 

died from the Chernobyl disaster. This time 2500. Ten days ago (Swedish 

newspaper) 30 000, sometimes 30, other times 3 000, 11 000 or 75 000. 

Mothersalert discuss 150 000 ( http://www.mothersalert.org/ ) - forgot the 

number Rosalie B. has but there are probably many zeroes involved (just as 

with her milliBq) - she gives 1.3 billion for anything "nuclear". One thing 

is for sure:



There can only be one correct answer for acute deaths (31 I believe) - and 

then different estimates depending on models and assumptions regarding 

cancers - or as Sir Karl R. Popper wrote in 1962:

"Science is a collection of data which is to be assembled in accordance with 

the collector's interests and points of views." (The Open Society and its 

Enemies).



My personal reflections only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/

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PS. If your blood pressure is too low, the following quote from RB may help 

( http://www.mothersalert.org/victims.html ):

"Meanwhile, electricity production from nuclear plants between 1943 and 2000 

may have lead to another million victims, of which as many one-fifth will 

have been premature cancer deaths. Although not officially accounted for, 

about 500 million  foetuses would have also been lost as stillbirths during 

that period from radiation exposure while in the womb.



Another century of nuclear power, and this carnage would continue with more 

than 10 million victims a year. An industry  which has the potential to 

kill, injure and maim that number of innocent people- and all in the name of 

'benefitting' society - is surely wholly unacceptable."







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