Chernobyl Revisited

Chernobyl's Harm Was Far Less Than Predicted, U.N. Report Says

[lawman]

"Without a permanent residency of humans for 20 years, the ecosystems around the Chernobyl site are now flourishing,"

[washingtonpost.com...]

[bill]

...for a second there I thought you were going to treat us to the story of your trip through Chernobyl on your motorcycle...again... ;)

[aleksl]

<snip>

"The report said that nine children had died of thyroid cancer" - ha-ha-ha, I've been to Belarus, you can't really fool anyone with this stuff.

[edited by: lawman at 2:58 pm (utc) on Sep. 11, 2005]
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[Essex_boy]

a 'Glowing' report then....

[Webwork]

I was happy with the improvements to the ecosystem . . . until I read about the large flocks of flying pigs . . . now I gotta pay up on about 40 old bets . . :)

[balam]

I notice that the Washington Post is now linking to scraping, MFA sites... (See the "Who's Blogging?" section of the page.)

[Adam_T]

"It looks like the nature park it has become."

Hmmm... I just can't wait to live there, I've never seen glowing flowers and fish with 3 eyes before :p

I'm sure most of it blew over here to the uk which is why the cancer rate is so high thesedays.

[aleksl]

Here's one more piece of <snip> "paid news", now from BBC:
[news.bbc.co.uk...]

<snip>

[edited by: lawman at 2:58 pm (utc) on Sep. 11, 2005]
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