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In message ID <granholm.54.2F9E87C1@direct.ca> on 4/26/95, Robert Granholm
wrote:
>RG> 2) The Ukrane government has warned that the #4 reactor at
>RG> Chernobal is still  very dangerous. The cement casing is cracking.
>RG> 125,000 people died nine years  ago when the reactor blew up.

Don_Williams@earthspirit.org writes:
>I suppose the reason you're sighing is that your 125,000 number is completely
>bogus. Typical of the enivronmentalist disinformation campaign.

The source of the 125,000 number is the Ukrainian government and includes
everyone who died since then that they think the accident had something to
do with.  It does not come from an environmental organization.  Check out
recent wire service stories.

Now, it's possible that the Ukrainian government is exaggerating.  If so,
what is their motive, considering that all the surrounding nations want
them to shut down the remaining Chernobyl reactors and they refuse to do
so?  Seems if anything they'd want to *underplay* the disaster.

I suppose you'd rather believe the original number (31) claimed by the
old Soviet Union.  The initial numbers published in the Western press
(in the low thousands) were probably a more accurate figure, but the
nuclear industry of course rallied behind the Soviet propaganda number.


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