|Bunghole| Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 If you want to see a nuclear disaster, go through this ride with Elena. Total killed during and as a result of contamination...1,000,000 people. Human error caused it. A girl by the name of Elena took a motorbike ride to Chernobyl and put up this website. This is absolutely mesmerizing; each photo more interesting than the one before. [url="http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl"]http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whodey319 Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 [quote name='Bunghole' post='457036' date='Mar 15 2007, 01:34 PM']If you want to see a nuclear disaster, go through this ride with Elena. Total killed during and as a result of contamination...1,000,000 people. Human error caused it. A girl by the name of Elena took a motorbike ride to Chernobyl and put up this website. This is absolutely mesmerizing; each photo more interesting than the one before. [url="http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl"]http://www.myownlittleserver.us/chernobyl[/url][/quote] Chernobyl is one of the most overstated disasters in the history of the world. Where did you get a million people died from? In 20 years since the disaster, exactly 50 people died from cancer caused by radiation exposure and add that to the 45 employees of chernobyl that died and that makes 95 total in 20 years. And all these people were either employees or emergency workers. They also estimate that potentially 4000 people may eventually die from cancer caused by radiation but up to this point there is no proof that cancer rates are higher in the exposed people because the exposure wasnt actually that high. The 2 main towns by chernobyl are about 35 and 50 km away. What made chernobyl a disaster isnt death, its the fact that it displaced over 500,000 people. [url="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html"]http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releas...8/en/index.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 [quote name='whodey319' post='457130' date='Mar 15 2007, 01:54 PM']Chernobyl is one of the most overstated disasters in the history of the world. Where did you get a million people died from? In 20 years since the disaster, exactly 50 people died from cancer caused by radiation exposure and add that to the 45 employees of chernobyl that died and that makes 95 total in 20 years. And all these people were either employees or emergency workers. They also estimate that potentially 4000 people may eventually die from cancer caused by radiation but up to this point there is no proof that cancer rates are higher in the exposed people because the exposure wasnt actually that high. The 2 main towns by chernobyl are about 35 and 50 km away. What made chernobyl a disaster isnt death, its the fact that it displaced over 500,000 people. [url="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html"]http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releas...8/en/index.html[/url][/quote] Cut and pasted the blurb from an email sent to me. Surely the numbers have to higher than you suggest. The Russian woman in this slideshow describes firefighters not even being told what kind of fire they were fighting, and how the government didn't alert citizens to the nature of the disaster in order to keep it quiet from the world media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Jump to: navigation, search April 18, 2006 A map showing radioactive contamination by Caesium-137 around ChernobylA report published by Greenpeace questions an estimate made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that 4000 deaths have resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Greenpeace claims that this estimate is 'a gross simplification of the breadth of human suffering' and that over the last 15 years, [b]60,000 have died in Russia because of the accident, and estimates that the total death toll for Ukraine and Belarus could be another 140,000.[/b] [b]The figure of 4,000 deaths given by the IAEA report referred to cancer fatalities within a group of 600,000 people, comprising of those who were sent in to clean up after the accident and those relocated after the accident. The Greenpeace report calls this figure 'misleading', saying that the report 'hid the true scale of human impact of Chernobyl'.[/b] Ivan Blokov of Greenpeace said "it is appalling that the IAEA is whitewashing the impacts of the most serious nuclear accident in human history". The IAEA have not yet responded to the report. The World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Gregory Hartl stated that "The Greenpeace report is looking at all of Europe, whereas our report looks at only the most affected areas of the three most affected countries." Furthermore, "The WHO felt it had recourse to the best national and international scientific evidence and studies when it came up with its estimates of [up to] 9,000 excess deaths for the most affected areas. We feel they're very sound." The report has been released at a time when the UK government is considering whether new nuclear power stations should be built in the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 I've read that this chicks story is fabricated, the pictures are real however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 [quote name='Ben' post='457161' date='Mar 15 2007, 02:33 PM']I've read that this chicks story is fabricated, the pictures are real however.[/quote] I don't know if it's real or not. Perhaps Snopes can debunk it. It appears real. there are photos of this woman holding a dosimeter with radiation readings on it in what appears to be Chernobyl and it's outskirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 A few years ago I saw a 60 min special on it and the birth defect rates are really high in these areas. I will try to find it and post it here. BUt the shit they were showing was right out of a side show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 [url="http://www.chernobyl-international.com/chernobyl_disaster/immediate_aftermath.463.html"]LINK[/url] Plenty of info here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlackJesus Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 [b]nice pictures ... plus I'd do her [/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted March 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2007 [quote name='BlackJesus' post='457209' date='Mar 15 2007, 04:11 PM'][b]nice pictures ... plus I'd do her [/b][/quote] Lube up the big end of the Stoli bottle.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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