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Devastating review of Yablokov’s Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment

ByRod Adams

…e report of the Chernobyl Forum? http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf If you are not interested in scientific samples, I highly recommend reading Mary Mycio’s “Wormwood Forest.” I interviewed her in 2006 about her experiences, which included about a dozen visits to the Chernobyl area. https://atomicinsights.com/atomic-show-21-interview-with-mary-mycio-author-of-wormwood-forest-a-natural-history-of-chernobyl/ Here is an…

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Chernobyl Consequences – Myths and Fables Versus Science

ByRod Adams

…n fund-raising tours through the United States and elsewhere by malformed ‘Chernobyl victims” who didn’t even all live in or near Chernobyl. e. Radioactivity does not possess all the scary properties attributed to it in the report. The report claims as “damage” a wide range of symptoms extending far beyond those previously shown to result from irradiation. In addition, it describes the effects as extending far into the future.: “Nearly 400 million…

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Is Chernobyl still dangerous or was 60 Minutes pushing propaganda?

ByRod Adams

…purpose of the informer who may be a journalist.. For a different view on Chernobyl, read George Monbiot on “Rewilding,” with Chernobyl being a great example. His narration could have been dubbed over the images you saw when your TV sound was off. northcoast This would be one of those birds that can tunnel through concrete. Jeff Walther While what you write is true, it also true that shows such as “60 Minutes” sell themselves as “hard hitting inv…

Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to repudiate “Chernobyl Consequences”
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Challenging New York Academy of Sciences to repudiate “Chernobyl Consequences”

ByRod Adams

…es. There were fund-raising tours through USA and elsewhere, of malformed “Chernobyl victims” who didn’t even all live in or near Chernobyl. c. A collection of anecdotes is not data. Correlation does not prove cause. The data cited in this report were accumulated by stumbling across correlations of various illnesses or symptoms, regardless of whether such symptoms have ever been known to result from irradiation. Most have not. Recognizing that suc…

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Atomic Guests: CHERNOBYL: THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

ByRod Adams

…se decisions made several million people believe that they are “victims of Chernobyl”, although the average dose they receive from Chernobyl radiation is only about one third of the average dose from Nature. This was the main factor behind the economic losses caused by the Chernobyl catastrophe, estimated to have reached US$148 billion by 2000 for the Ukraine, and to reach US$235 billion by 2016 for Belarus. Psychological factors, and neglect of r…

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Giant new cover for Chernobyl is an engineering marvel – and a monumental waste of money

ByRod Adams

…xplained and defused or unchallenged as the case might be. What happens in Chernobyl and Fukushima doesn’t PR-wise or politically stay in Chernobyl and Fukushima which are given as loud examples to obliterate Indian Point here — yes, the “Chernobyl coffin” got lots of totally unrebuked fear play here (“they’re moving Godzilla into a new cage”). The nuclear power answer is stop being PR ostriches and hit the public with dark mystery-blowing educat…

Are Chernobyl Birds Really Small Brained, Or is The Claim Part of the 25th Anniversary Promotion?

ByRod Adams

…on. The final thing that makes me question whether or not the birds around Chernobyl really are small brained is my knowledge of the calendar. You should expect to see a drumbeat of stories over the next few months reminding people about the Chernobyl accident. They are part of a planned publicity effort timed to come to a crescendo by April 26th to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the accident. In fact, the drumbeat started last fall with the…

The 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl Season is In Full Swing – It is a Good Time For Information to Counter Misinformation

ByRod Adams

…he populations of other European countries. Lives have been disrupted by the Chernobyl accident, but from the radiological point of view, generally positive prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail. Marje Hecht For a comprehensive overview of Chernobyl, I recommend Observations on Chernobyl after 25 Years of Radiophobia by Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc. Jaworowski,a former UNSCEAR chief, was head of radiation pro…

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Chernobyl Health Effects: Best Available Data

ByRod Adams

…om those exposures have received a lot of attention. The UNSCEAR report on Chernobyl now says the following about thyroid exposures: For the last two decades, attention has been focused on investigating the association between exposure caused by radionuclides released in the Chernobyl accident and late effects, in particular thyroid cancer in children. Doses to the thyroid received in the first few months after the accident were particularly high…

Chernobyl Report provides timely lessons about disaster

ByRod Adams

…he full report – broken into three separate files – on the IAEA In Focus : Chernobyl, Chernobyl Disaster, Chernobyl accident page at http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/Chernobyl/index.shtml The bottom line of the study is that the accident was not as bad as initially thought, but it was made hugely worse by the bungling of government officials and by the hysteria and stress. Part of the blame for that reaction has to be attributed to over-zealou…

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“Chernobyl” – 25 years as a profitable brand

ByRod Adams

…an uncounted number of plants were never built. Though the victims of the Chernobyl accident have been carefully inventoried and studied, there has been less attention paid to identifying and crediting the beneficiaries. Some people in my profession will point to the organizations that have used the scare word of “Chernobyl” as a motivator for donations and media attention. Some will point to the media itself for using the word as part of stories…

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Challenging NYAS Decision to Keep Yablokov’s Chernobyl Fiction Online

ByRod Adams

…/Critique-of-New-York-Academy-of-Sciences-for-Publishing-Non-Science-about-Chernobyl The Chernobyl meltdown occurred in 1986 in a fundamentally unstable Soviet weapons reactor. One could argue that the safety of this type of reactor is not indicative of the safety of commercial power reactors, which is true but not relevant to the issue here. This dose rate from the meltdown was four times lower than I would experience visiting places in Norway wh…

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