Chernobyl Article in Washington Post

[Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Just a note:  In Washington Post Today.  Article on Page A-18 (Part 1 of 2)

        NUCLEAR BLIGHT INVADES MINDS AS WELL AS BODIES (by J. Rupert)

Shows increases in thyroid cancer in children in former Soviet Republics.
Excerpts/quotes from Scientific American article said a comparison of
"mortality rates before and after the accident...has estimated a total of
32,000 deaths...I believe a figure in this range is defensible."  

[Why not publish the "..." part]

Mention of the new phrase "Chernobyl AIDS".  Paragraph reads:  "I don't know
how much I got," said Nikolai Karpenko, who drove a bus around the Chernobyl
plant in the months after the accident.  Like a person who has been exposed
to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, "I only know that maybe, I could get
sick and die," Karpenko said.  He snapped his fingers.  "Just like that."

[I think the reporter coined the new term]

Just a note, [my opinions only]




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