Click to get your own widget

Saturday, March 19, 2011

PUTTING CHERNOBYL IN PERSPECTIVE - HERALD LETTER

  Herald today
Doctor Andrew Craik's memory (letter today) of Chernobyl is playing him false. He is wrong in remembering that all the fire-fighters at Chernobyl died of radiation. The total casualties from that "disaster" were 56, including those killed in the immediate explosion and 3 elsewhere who died of thyroid cancer. It is true that the antinuclear movement predicted 1 million cancers and half a million deaths which would be easily statistically provable had it happened. In fact the current number of such is zero.

   He is correct to remember that various British farms were prevented from selling mutton due to the detected radiation levels. He clearly doesn't know, because the media have been silent on it, that though the Chernobyl radiation had a short half life an is virtually all gone in Ukraine, the radiation in these farms is unchanged - thus proving that it cannot have any link to Chernobyl but is natural background radiation which has been there for at least 10s of millions of years. Of course admitting this & removing the restrictions would be to admit that the entire anti-nuclear movement is politically driven Luddite hysteria, comparable to medieval witchburnings and our political class clearly consider the farmer's livelihoods less important than concealing that fact.
  Glad the Herald allowed a response to Dr Craik's error of fact. Edited out bits in bold. Understandable that they decided the last sentence, while clearly true, was to strong a criticism of our wise and benevolent class of political parasites to be published.

Labels: , ,


Comments:
"...the radiation in these farms is unchanged - thus proving that it cannot have any link to Chernobyl but is natural background radiation which has been there for at least 10s of millions of years": golly. Can you provide a link for that?
 
I don't know of any other publication of the accusation that the sheep farm radiation is natural. However it is accepted that the radiation at Chernobyl has fallen to near normal & indeed the area is being turned into a tourist attraction http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-chernobyl-60-year-old-men-appear-not.html

If it were the same materials in British farms the laws of physics would have required that the fall would closely match that at the source. Therefore it can't be.
 
I accept your logic. What I was hoping for was a reference to your source for the radiation levels in the Lake District hills (or wherever) being still at the same levels as they were then.
 
Post a Comment

<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

British Blogs.