Originally posted by RTStuka
Boroda,
I tend to believe you are fairly intelligant in many areas and I do believe you know alot about what happened in Chernobyl, but a whole nuclear reactor was melted to the ground. The roof was blown off and people all around the city could actually feel the radiation. So I find it very difficult to believe that no after effects ever happened or were ever detected.
Like was stated before, this was not a govt. that was willing to dole out lots of info on the accident when it happened so its easy to see how things could have been lost. I do agree that drinking causes many more problems than this incident would have caused in new born children but I have to believe there were incidents.
Well, the only people killed in the accident by radiation were less then 20 firemen, who were literally extinguishing burning heat-emitting elements from blown-up reactor with their boots
Even they didn't "feel" the radiation.
Information on medical consequencs of the catastrophe isn't classified. Our department studied huge load of data collected there, and it is watched closely still. Sorry, no "deformed babies". It's up to you - if you want to believe in this crap.
"Small exposures to radiation" is a very ineresting and sometimes paradoxical issue. Small portions of ionising radiation may be sometimes good for your health... The problem is too complicated for popular science and propaganda TV programms.
Chernobyl remains the most well-studied nuclear accident, the ammount of data collected is uncomparable to Japanese bombing sites or other accisents. The consequences are much worse then from possible nuclear bombings, even with such relatively dirty and ineffective devices like bombs dropped on Japan. It's quite cynical, but I have to say that Chernobyl became the best source on radiation influence on human, animal and plant biology...
I absolutely love people like Siaf making comments on such issues. Ignorant brainwashed crowd at it's best. I advise this people to keep watching TV and believe that it never lies. "As seen on Ophrah and National TV"...