Re: " U.N. Studies Chernobyl Aftermath

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

A few points of issue...



--- Kerimbaev <kerrembaev@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> 1. What did we learn from the accident?

> 

> 

> a) We have learned everything and it will never

> happen again.



Who is the "we?"  The Western nuclear industry had

very little lessons learned from the accident. 

Saying, "it will never happen again" is not a very

proper thing to say.



> c) Radiation is not harmful at all and we just

> need to educated everyone about that fact and

> then we will be okay.



Of course radiation is harmful...in large enough

doses.  The LD50/30 for humans is still around 500 REM

and Chernobyl did not change any of that.



> d) We need to learn nothing, we knew all before

> and it was just a very rare mishap which lead to

> the disaster. PROBABILITY of that to happen again

> is so low anyway, nuclear industry has NO future

> beyond our retirement time lines, our children

> will be brain surgeon and lawyers, sleeping on

> the warm beaches and wont need electricity to

> heat their bungalows.



This makes little sense.  Are you saying that we will

no longer need electricity becuase we will all have

good jobs?  How will the brain sugeons operate with no

electricity to power the instruments they use, the

hospital to operate in, or the manufacturing plants to

manufacture the equipment they use?



> e) Before Chernobyl we did NOT know what we were

> doing and now, we have some ideas about  fission,

> leisure and fusion.



You have "some" ideas about fission?  This is a very

scary statement.  The reactor designers of the RBMK

knew what they were doing, that is why they wrote the

procedures the way they did.  If their procedures were

followed, then the accident would not have happened.



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