Published: April 28th, 2012 at 12:25 am ET
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Title: Workers still at risk decades after Chernobyl blast
Source: Euronews
Date: Apr 27, 2012
[...] “Because of the construction work they’ve dug down to the level where the nuclear fuel and graphite lay. As a result the level of radioactivity in the air has risen. While the work is going on the level of the radioactivity in the air exceeds the sanitary norm by hundreds, perhaps thousands of times,” warned construction expert Yuri Andreyev.Once the digging is finished experts say there will be no danger from the dust at the site. But to reassure the builders and technicians there are regular health checks. Each person is monitored and his or her exposure to radiation is controlled.
Euronews reporter Angelina Kariakina said: “The experts believe the encasement doesn’t solve the main Chernobyl problem, that of the nuclear waste inside the demolished reactor. But there is currently no chance of moving it to a safer storage facility.”
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Published: April 28th, 2012 at 12:25 am ET
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Workers will get regular health checks, but unfortunately, doctors can't do anything against cancer caused by radiation, as proven by the dramatic increase of the disease since the development of nuclear weapons and power plants.
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Must be the kind of cereal they have for breakfast !
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Half them were smokers who regularly ate banana's while having cat scans … probably.
And they weren't smiling either!
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"Once the digging is finished experts say there will be no danger from the dust at the site."
Who are they kidding ?? Being around this stuff is enough, then they say:
"Each person is monitored and his or her exposure to radiation is controlled."
When they get sick they will blame on other reasons !
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TBP
have you got any links to any graphs etc regarding cancer increase please.
thank you! I live in mid wales and lots of cancer with people in there 40,50,60s as a contrast to people living into 90s. I myself wonder was it from weapons testing in 1940s- 50s ???????
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Sellafield? Radioactive waste dumped into the ocean by Areva in France?
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many of my family who lived in the southwest of ireland succumbed to cancer too!! the connection would be the rainfall and the method of contamination would have been through the food chain and inhalation of hot particles after the rain had dried off!! norway (another high percipitation area) too has a high incidence of cancers amongst the young but this is attributable too chernobyl mostly i believe!!
there was a recent article about the norwegians refusing a cancer treatment because of the cost but the health authorities backed off! not the sort of publicity that a depleted uranium financing country could do with i imagine!??
alot of the norwegian sites have an english language option but the info is hard to glean… maybe a serch in that direction might help your statistics.. but be wary of the reports.. an open critical mind is required .. good luck! let us know any findings, its an area i havent focused on .. but i have a great interest in!
good luck
hope you get your links..
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What is a few million victims here and there?… No one is really counting anyways, so lets keep building those nuke plants.. keep smiling!
Chernobyl Coverup And Denial Of 1 Million + Casualties; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/chernobyl-coverup-and-denial-of-1.html
The Chernobyl Sacrifice; 1 MILLION Liquidators; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/chernobyl-sacrifice-1-million.html
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"There is 0.0 chance of moving the fuel melt to a safer facility"
Things that make you go hmmmmm.
There is nowhere to put ANY spoil fuel, in rod form, melt form, or any other form. One of my old managers used to have a desk sign reading "THINK AHEA" yes there is no spelling mistake there, the sign was too small for the size of the letters. Rather like our nuclear waste product problem.
Aside, I guess there is something of a handling problem.
And for those who keep up with recent events, they were only talking about Chernobyl, where some organizational skills and national/supranational pride are evident. Now what were we talking about before ? Oh yes, somewhere just north of Tokyo.
pfffffffffffffffffFFFFT!
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Tells you where Japans reactors coriums/fuel pools = melted to bottom into blob's will be for the next century's, eons !
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"No chance of moving fuel"
Where exactly would you want to move it to??????
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jayjay, regarding cancer rates, I searched data on the web. In 1900, death from it was 3%. And today, well, most everyone is waiting around to see what cancer they'll be getting.
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From Fukushima Diary:
Thyroid nodules rate in Fukushima is 20 time higher than in Chernobyl
http://fukushima-diary.com/category/dnews/
Gaining speed with every nuclear test, and every nuclear plant, and bigger and bigger accidents.
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Thanks thebigpicture,
Did a search myself and found this:
Dr. Sternglass said the cancer rate for children ages 5 to 9 was very low BEFORE 1945, one case in 10,000, even in states such as Texas that have high rates of chemical pollution because of the oil and gas industry. The rate has since climbed to 100 in 10,000, "overwhelming evidence" of the link between childhood cancer and radiation, he said.
http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/news2001/nn11105.htm
We must get the evidence in the public domain.
Great website as always!
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Impressive article ! I saved a copy.
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Phytoremediation can clean leech these radionuclides from the soil and the best one is hemp but of course people confuse hemp with marijuana. You would have to smoke and entire field of hemp to get a buzz. Thus they should be using this to clean up the soil. IMHO
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Oops they are using this in Chernobyl. Do a google search on phytoremediation and hemp. Please let me know your thoughts on the alternative site here on Enenews. Thanks for your time concerning this matter.
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msb very interesting found this:
"Although the cause of cesium-137 contamination—aboveground nuclear testing—has been reduced, large land areas are still polluted with radiocesium," Kochian says. "Cesium is a long-lived radioisotope with a half-life of 32.2 years. It contaminates soils at several U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites in the United States. Projected costs of cleaning up these soils is very high—over $300 billion."
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/jun00/soil0600.htm
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