Re: FWIMBW--Chernobyl tour / mortality figures

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

I missed the initial discussion of Elena's motorcycle tour of Chernobyl. It 

is a wonderful site with great pictures as was said.



I think the main site is at http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/



I found her English much better than my Russian/Bulgarian.



The one statement in the entire site which seemed to be out of line with 

what I've heard here is:



"who can count how many people died of radiation? no one, even 

approximately. Some tell that 400.000 dead, soyuzchernobyl report of 

300.000 people that died since 1986 and this is not over, in 30 years 

people will still die"



She's in her mid-20s and her father is a nuclear scientist. I don't know 

her education, but she says her father is more concerned about a motorcycle 

accident than her going near Chernobyl.



Anyway, I found the site charming, with the one exception of the unresolved 

piece of information quoted above. I would appreciate updates to her 

mortality figures.



Thanks!



Cheers,



Richard





At 10:36 AM 3/18/2004 -0800, Raymond A Hoover wrote:

>Having walked around Pripyat, with a meter, most of what she reports is 

>pretty accurate.  I saw a bit more activity (human) when I was there.  If 

>I remember correctly, there are workers there most days.  I don't know 

>exactly what they are doing there though.  I saw rad levels ranging 

>between slightly above normal (20 or so microR) to maybe a few hundred 

>microR.  I was told (don't remember by whom) that they are higher level 

>areas out in the woods.  I didn't find the quiet too bad myself.  I was 

>also told that the exclusion zone is chock full of wildlife.





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