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2011-03-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Workers battle radiation risk as nuclear crisis worsens

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Posted by anon1 2011-03-15 15:20|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Day markets in eastern Europe from Germany through Poland are awash with medals awarded to Chernobyl workers by the old USSR Government.

They were a badge of bravery, a big 'thank you' for going in to fight the fire at the reactor.

They dressed in the white suits too, showered the dust off, took iodine tablets. They were told the risk was negligible.

But the markets are full of those medals now because they are dead and their goods have been sold.

Posted by anon1 2011-03-15 15:25|| 2011-03-15 15:25|| Front Page Top

#2 And, like a typical communist bureaucracy hiding their dirty laundry, the USSR moved the people from Chernobyl and the exposed workers around the country.

And didn't follow them all up, ensuring records would never reflect the real scale of cancers, birth defects and genetic deformities that followed those victims and their offspring.

Let's hope the rods don't melt. Five Japanese reactors in trouble now.

Posted by anon1 2011-03-15 15:27|| 2011-03-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#3 They dressed in the white suits too, showered the dust off, took iodine tablets. They were told the risk was negligible.
I don't know what the Chernobyl last-ditch workers were told, and it really makes no difference at all. Those workers were no doubt trained in radiation biophysics. THEY KNEW THE LETHAL DOSAGE. No doubt they were wearing radiation monitors. No doubt the men 'on the line' at Chernobyl knew when they would absorb their fatal dosage.
That's why the medals. No doubt there are now brave Japanese men 'on the line' at Fukushima in the same fix as the last ditch workers at Chernobyl. I can only admire them.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-15 18:42|| 2011-03-15 18:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Second that AH9418. Brave people holding the line working to prevent disaster.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-15 23:03|| 2011-03-15 23:03|| Front Page Top

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