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2006-04-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Twenty Years After Chernobyl (or anti-nuke protesters fake numbers)

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Posted by Greretle Elmaise9763 2006-04-14 10:07|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'Fake but accurate' rides again as the justification of choice of the LLL weenies.

Posted by WTF! 2006-04-14 13:36|| 2006-04-14 13:36|| Front Page Top

#2
But no one was harmed by the incident at Three Mile Island.

That's not quite true. Instead of correcting the errors in the US domestic nuclear power industry, we put it on the shelf and increased our reliance on imported petroleum products. I can think of 5,000 Americans harmed by this.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-14 13:55|| 2006-04-14 13:55|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no doubt that Chernobyl was a disaster, but it was not one of mythical proportions.
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...are examples of how the anti-nuclear lobby takes every available opportunity to scare the public about nuclear power.

Nothing to worry about, except: 1) the hundreds of square miles of contaminated land, which will remain useless for decades to come; 2) the smoldering reactor remains still capable of restarting a chain reaction as it almost did in 1990.

So yeah, just another Katrina. Or a lesson for terrorists. Nothing big. Really.

Posted by Hupick Chaitle7863 2006-04-14 17:53|| 2006-04-14 17:53|| Front Page Top

#4 This also applies to the use of nukes on Japan in 1945. The numbers have been greatly inflated.

The Army wanted to know the real effect of the weapons. They conducted an extensive survey of the bombing. They tracked down the rice allotments being shipped to the cities to determine the population before hand. They then conducted a census of the survivors to include having residence identify people living on their streets and neighborhoods. This took time, so they were also accounting the radiation sickness casualties as well. By the completion of the survey the number for Hiroshima was near 66,000 with another 5,000 from long term radiation. As related in this article, most of the radiation victims died within a year of the event. Both Japanses and American authorities tracked the authentic radiation cases. This was a census not a sampling.

However, the Anti-American and anti-nuke community has for years inflated the numbers, never showing how they got those same numbers. Its was interesting in the late 90s as the 'death' number from Hiroshima rose beyond a 100,000, then 150,000. Its finally starting to dawn on some that those are just people who were there when the event occured and their deaths are not linked in any fashion to that event.

Posted by Glolung Crish8020 2006-04-14 18:06|| 2006-04-14 18:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Moral of the story - don't let a bunch of dumbasses run "safety experiments" on a poorly designed, poorly maintained, obsolete reactor.

Posted by DMFD 2006-04-14 20:34|| 2006-04-14 20:34|| Front Page Top

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