Published: March 18th, 2011 at 10:34 pm ET
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Chernobyl shows Japan the difficult task ahead, CBS News, March 18, 2011:
25 years after Russia’s disaster, experts are still working to entomb the deadly reactor that still releases radioactivity
… In Japan, the Fukushima complex will also have to be entombed, and the radiation levels will make that very difficult.
“These reactors are never going to be used again,” said James Acton, of the Carnegie Endowment’s Nuclear Policy Program. “They’re going to have to be entombed for a significant length of time before anything’s able to be done about them.”
And in Japan, officials are dealing not with just one rogue reactor, but six of them. …
That still unfinished containment dome at Chernobyl is only projected to last 100 years. And Chernobyl, like the Japanese plant at Fukushima, will remain radioactive — and deadly — for thousands of years.
Read the report here.
Published: March 18th, 2011 at 10:34 pm ET
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In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You
over 9,000 square miles, affecting some 270,000 Soviet citizens and their food supplies. Over twenty megacuries (MCi) of radioactivity were released, almost half of that expelled by the Chernobyl incident.
http://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you
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As Germany’s wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,709345,00.html
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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Radioactive Longer Than Expected
It stands to reason that at some point the Ukrainian government would like to be able to use that land again, but the scientists have calculated that what they call cesium’s “ecological half-life” — the time for half the cesium to disappear from the local environment — is between 180 and 320 years.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/chernobyl-soil/
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“British newspapers reported that some 6,000 stillborn babies and dead infants were sent from hospitals in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South America, the UK and the US between the 1950s and 1970s without the permission of parents for use in nuclear experiments.
According to the reports, the US Department of Energy used the bodies and some body parts for tests to monitor radioactivity levels of the element Strontium 90 in humans…The Observer, a British newspaper, also stated that British scientists also conducted tests on babies sent from Hong Kong and the research did not end until the 1970s…..
http://nuclear-news.net/2009/10/01/project-sunshine-used-people-as-radioactive-guinea-pigs/
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Wildfires in Russia Spread Chernobyl Radiation Again
http://www.nukewatch.com/quarterly/fall2010/page1.pdf
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Definition of Radiation sickness:
http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000026.htm
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How long till ‘clean’?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/01/2328234/Chernobyl-Area-Survey-Finds-Lasting-Problems-For-Wildlife
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