Re: NRC scraps commercial nuclear power terrorism program

["declark" <declark@gateway.net>]

Dear all, yes, we had an international conference on Chernobyl at the IAEA
in Vienna at 10-year anniversary in April, 1996.  Look up the conference
proceedings (I have them stuck away in box somewhere) or the subsequent
quarterly IAEA publication from 1996 to find the pertinent statistics.  Of
course, it was nothing like numbers below -- 30-some persons died during
course of or shortly after the accident.  Actual deaths resulting from
accident over next several years was tragic but certainly not of the
magnitude dying from natural catastrophies such as earthquakes, tornadoes,
hurricanes, etc.  This was probably worst case event, hopefully (and
probably not) to be repeated; as terrible as it was, it should still be kept
in context so far as human casualties are concerned (there are plane crashes
where hundreds have died in single accident; the titanic disaster; etc.).
And, of course, there were numerable lasting effects, persistent
health-related problems, etc. which need to be taken into account, as well.
But hardly of the magnitude of a wartime battle, etc.  Human history is full
of grim events from which, hopefully, lessons are learned and improvements
are made.   Probably, only good to come out of the Chernobyl accident is
that it sealed the fate of the communist empire (USSR)...

DEC

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-----Original Message-----
From: Busby, Bruce <bab1303@doh.wa.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: NRC scraps commercial nuclear power terrorism program


>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
>
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>Bruce A. Busby
>H-babusby@aol.com
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