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Defusing Misinformation About “New” Chernobyl Study Before it Has Too Much of a Head Start

ByRod Adams

…bigniew Jaworowski, whom many of you know, has written a 25-year review of Chernobyl (16 pp.) which is freely available on our website, and is a good rebuttal to the Chernobyl scare stories: http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Summer_2010/Observations_Chernobyl.pdf Jaworowski was in charge of radiation protection in Poland at the time of the accident, and so his perspective is particularly interesting. His update, which is also ava…

Long-term effects of Chernobyl debated

ByRod Adams

…a prediction based on assumed theories of radiation health effects and documented evidence of actual cancer rates versus those of non-exposed populations. I also hope that the writers realize that there are a multitude of factors influencing the health of inhabitants of the Chernobyl area and that actual radiation health effects are much lower than the effects of stress and dislocation caused by an excessive fear of what the effects might be. A p…

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Chernobyl Politics and Market Share: Possible Motives Behind Emphasis

ByRod Adams

…onal support for their efforts to gain independence from Moscow. The word “Chernobyl” became a symbol of all that was bad about the centrally controlled economy that imposed its technology on client states like the Ukraine, Belorussia, and Lithuania. Interestingly enough, the tactic worked. International and internal reaction to the Chernobyl accident is widely credited with contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Market Competition Anot…

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Chernobyl Accident: Advice and Sources

ByRod Adams

…, WI, 1993. Piers Paul Read, Ablaze: The Story of the Heros and Victims of Chernobyl, Random House, New York, NY, 1993. Ten Years After Chernobyl – What do we really know? http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernoten/ You can also find the most up-to-date information about the accident and its effects at http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Features/Chernobyl-15/index.shtml. This site provides several articles that are the product of intense stud…

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Stubborn returnees to Chernobyl exclusion zone outlive those who accepted relocation

ByRod Adams

…ndependently minded women who returned to their ancestral homes inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They have been there for more than 25 years, but though their numbers are naturally shrinking due to old age, most researchers agree that they are outliving their counterparts of who accepted the Soviet Union’s relocation orders. Holly Morris, a writer, director and world traveler, documents her surprise and confusion as she learned more about the…

Adam Curry Exposes Robert Alvarez’s Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool Fable on No Agenda

ByRod Adams

…ogical fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident. Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima Daiichi plant sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl. Nuclear experts from the US and Japan such as Arnie Gundersen, Robert Alvarez, Hiroaki Koide, Masashi Goto, and Mitsuhei Murata, a former Japanese amba…

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The Accident at Chernobyl: What Caused the Explosion?

ByRod Adams

…ment, and violations of procedures by operators, the specific cause of the Chernobyl explosion and subsequent release of radioactive material from the Chernobyl reactor was a shutdown system that initiated a positive reactivity accident. For those readers who have never operated a nuclear reactor, it might be helpful to think of the cause as a brake pedal that – without the driver’s knowledge – transformed itself into an accelerator. It took far l…

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Why is the New York Academy of Sciences allowing its name to be used in an anti-science FUD campaign?

ByRod Adams

…000 links, including videos, articles and blog entries like the following: Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book ‘Chernobyl: A Million Casualties’ taped before Fukushima, now on BlipTV Chernobyl: A Million Casualties? (Note: In this video interview, Karl Grossman makes the following statement: “This book was published by the New York Academy of Sciences, a rather prestigious organization.”) and Chernobyl Death Toll: 4,000…

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Arnie Gundersen going international

ByRod Adams

…nd excessively protective care.” http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf The nuclear industry is in a bit of a mess – some of it self inflicted by very poor communications. However, nuclear technology can enable almost magical improvements in our energy supply picture. In my opinion, the very disruptive nature of the technology is also partly responsible for attracting so many foes – it can upset a whole lot of assumption…

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Out of 110,645 Chernobyl clean up workers, 19 might have contracted radiation related leukemia

ByRod Adams

…had been involved in efforts to clean up contaminated areas after the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The exposures were all received sometime during the period from 1986-1990. Out of that large population, 162 (0.146%) were diagnosed with leukemia between 1986-2006. Of the 162, radiation dose estimates were not available for 25 people, leaving a group of 137. Out of the 137, 20 people were interviewed within 2 years after they started chemotherapy for t…

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Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski – CHERNOBYL: THE FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN?

ByRod Adams

…ological Protection, Warsaw Poland) has written an excellent column titled Chernobyl: The Fear of the Unknown? It was commissioned by a group that received the draft from Dr. Jaworowski in February, 2006 and then took so long to review it that they missed the deadlines imposed by traditional media outlets for publication during the “attention period” surrounding the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Though it may no longer qualify as “ne…

Atomic Show 91 – Alexandra Prokopenko, blogger, journalist, Chernobyl survivor, atomic energy thinker

ByRod Adams

…tomic fact seeking. Alexandra was born in Belarus about 4 years before the Chernobyl accident. She is a worldly journalist who speaks a half a dozen languages, has worked in print, radio and television, has a master’s degree, and is currently studying for her PhD. Her master’s thesis was an investigation of the three different views of the Chernobyl accident provided by the three different media outlets in Belarus. We had a fascinating conversatio…

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