Re: UKRAINE CHERNOBYL AFTERMATH NEWS ON INTERNET (fwd)

[larisa@sam.neosoft.com (Larisa Streeter)]

FYI.......

>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:46:26 -0500 (CDT)
>
>Dear Friend,
>
>Discovery Channel Online is mounting a major assessment of the consequences
of the Chernobyl
>accident 10 years later on our website, http://www.discovery.com.  Over the
next month we will
>put up approximately 20 stories describing the consequences and the
experiences of some very
>unique people who lived through Chernobyl.  
>
>Some of them now live in Cleveland, Ohio, like the man who was ordered to
bury the 31
>operators and firemen who died, and the man who lost 77 pounds and most of
his hair just  two
>months after he served at the destroyed plant.  Others still live in
Belarus and Ukraine, 
>like the 15-year-old girl whose singing career was destroyed by thyroid cancer.
>
>Our project also includes month-long conversation about the 10th
anniversary of Chernobyl,
>called the Chernobyl Forum. When you log on you can ask questions of our
Chernobyl victims
>and experts, you can post your own statements, and you can respond to the
questions and
>opinions others have left.
>
>Would you please pass on to as many other people as possible this message,
including the press
>release below?  We figure it will attract people interested in Chernobyl,
in nuclear power, and in
>Russian, Belarussian and Ukrainian life.
>
>Once you log on to our home page, go to "World," then to "Science
Wednesday," and finally to
>our series, "The Apocalypse Is Now."
>
>I would greatly appreciate anything you might do to spread the word far and
wide.
>
>
>John Dudley Miller
>Series Author
>
>                          * * * * * *
>
>DISCOVERY CHANNEL ONLINE COMMEMORATES THE TENTH  ANNIVERSARY OF
>THE CHERNOBYL  NUCLEAR DISASTER WITH  "THE APOCALYPSE IS NOW," AN
>INTIMATE LOOK INTO THE HUMAN LEGACY AND SCIENTIFIC AFTERMATH OF
>THE DISASTER
>
>Starting April 17 and continuing through May 15, Discovery Channel Online
>(http://www.discovery.com) will examine the bitter legacy of the world's
most horrific nuclear
>accident, the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia's
Ukraine, just ten years
>ago this April.
>
>Although few Americans are aware of it, the consequences of the Chernobyl
accident are turning
>out to be much worse than the world was originally led to believe.
Chernobyl put 300 times more
>radiation into the air than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  In addition to
the 31 deaths reported,
>6,000 Ukrainian decontamination workers and up to 10,000 workers from other
republics have
>also died.  Over 1000 children have developed thyroid cancer, with 20,000
to 50,000 others
>expected to develop the disease.
>
>DCOL's Chernobyl Files, authored by science writer and Navy nuclear
engineer John 
>Dudley Miller, will offer glimpses into the human legacy and scientific
aftermath of the disaster. 
>Viewers will hear the stories of children with thyroid cancer in a
Ukrainian hospital, and meet the
>men and women who lived Chernobyl close up in Belarus and Ukraine, as they
struggle now to
>make a new life in Cleveland, Ohio.  DCOL will examine the expert cover-up
of radiation-caused
>illnesses and deaths, and see ahead to the future of the radioactive
wastelands of Belarus and
>Ukraine.  DCOL viewers will also be able to correspond one-to-one with
Chernobyl survivors,
>using DCOL's Bulletin Board.
>
>Chernobyl will also be the topic on Discovery Channel Online's weekly live
cyber talk show, Live!
>With Derek McGinty on Thursday, April 25 at 7:00 PM (ET), which corresponds
to the precise
>hour of the accident in Ukraine in 1986.


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Larisa Streeter
    Corporate Environmental Scientist
      Western Atlas International, Inc.
        Houston, Texas
          larisa@sam.neosoft.com

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