Re: UKRAINE CHERNOBYL AFTERMATH NEWS ON INTERNET (fwd)

[paul pater <ppater@mail.sdsu.edu>]

At 10:59 AM 4/23/96 -0500, Larisa Streeter wrote:
>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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