Re: [Know_Nukes] Re: Chernobyl remembered - article

[Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net>]

Hi Maury,



    The number of people who died and continue to die from Chernobyl is

open to speculation. I've seen numbers on radsafe ranging from 0 to 100

to the low thousands. I've seen numbers on other lists ranging into the

tens of thousands and more (see Dr Bertell).

   You all on radsafe have discussed this in great detail. My personal

opinion is that 15 to 30 thousand is the low range of worldwide deaths

due to Chernobyl. In reality we'll never know the exact figure.



norm



maury wrote:



>  At least so far this is the first propagation of this 15 to 30

> thousand deaths fairy tale that I have noted for the 16th anniversary

> of Chernobyl. Here is a French news agency release picked up in an

> Australian news website which

> claims: " An estimated 15,000 to 30,000 people have since died." It is

> sad enough that about 100 people lost their lives in this disaster

> without the gratuitous unattributed claim of thousands more having

> perished. Surely it

> would be interesting to learn exactly how this "estimate" was made and

> by whom? Norm, can you shed any light on this? You posted the article

> on Radsafe as well as on Salem and Know Nukes - do you personally

> afford this claim any

> credibility?

> Sincerely,

> Maury Siskel           maury@webtexas.com

> =============================

> Norman Cohen wrote:

>

> > > Andrew Hund wrote:

> > > Chernobyl remembered

> > > 26apr02

> > > SLAVUTICH, Ukraine: About 250 people gathered to commemorate the

> 16th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, the

> world's worst nuclear accident, in this town near the doomed facility.

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