Re: NRC scraps commercial nuclear power terrorism program

["Busby, Bruce" <bab1303@doh.wa.gov>]

Hi all,

While I could be wrong (happens more often than I would like), I believe 
the 100,000 number comes from the Ukraine government figures. I have also 
heard that the figure is an attempt at maximizing the death toll in hopes 
of increasing the limited funding for Ukraine government for clean up? 
Simply put,  I do not know.  I do know the 100,000 has been repeated 
numerous times on Anti-nuc web sites and is attributed to the Ukraine 
Government statements on those sites. 

I believe the UN/IAEA and NEA publish deaths at:  31 people died in the 
course of the accident or soon after and another 137 were treated for the 
acute radiation syndrome. Anyone have better info? 

More on Chernobyl: 
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/chern.htm


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Bruce A. Busby  
H-babusby@aol.com
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