[ RadSafe ] More on Chernobyl

[Cehn at aol.com]

I visited the Cherobyl area 7 years after the accident and was amazed at  
what low-level radiation exposure can be responsible for.  Every illness  was 
somehow blamed on the accident.  Come to find out, the government was  paying 
reparations to anyone harmed by it.  Quite an incentive to draw  victims.  I saw 
a 5-year old in a hospital with leukemia; caused by  Chernobyl of course.  I 
inquired how was he exposed to radiation from  the plant, when he wasn't born 
until 2 years after the accident and 50 miles  away? Never got an answer.  

Joel I. Cehn,  CHP