Chernobyl/Chornobyl=Blackobyl

[Emil <kerrembaev@YAHOO.COM>]

Jim,



Do you know what would be a Bela-Russian version

of the "Chernobyl"?



In any case, "Cherno" or "Chorno" =(equals) to

the English "Black" so lets we all call

"Chernobyl" as "Blackobyl" 

At least there will be less animosity

between russian and ukrainian scientific

communities.







Emil.





From: "Dukelow, James S Jr" 

Subject: RE: Article: U.N. Faces Tough Sell on

Chornobyl Research



Webster's Science news report strikes me a being

pretty well balanced.  The

offending phrase, "200 Hiroshima bombs' worth of

radiation" is not a direct

quote, but part of a summary of the assertions of

Keith Baverstock, who, for

better or worse, is the European radiation health

advisor for WHO and who

was apparently a driving force behind the

creation of the (unfunded)

International Chornobyl Research Network. 

Webster describes at length the

results of the UNSCEAR review of Chornobyl health

research, quoting

UNSCEAR's Norman Gentner and University of Munich

Radiobiology Institute's

Albrecht Kellerer, both of whom seem to view

dimly the need for the proposed

additional research.  Kellerer proposes putting

time and money that would be

spent studying the effects of the Chornoby

accident into studies of the

consequences of contamination of the Mayak region

and exposure of workers

and those living in the region.

 

Strictly speaking, Chornobyl is the correct

English transliteration of the

Ukrainian spelling (in their version of Cyrillic)

and pronunciation of

Chernobyl/Chornoby/whatever.

 

Best regards.

 

Jim Dukelow





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