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Re: News Advisory: Still Crazy After Oil These Years!



mvasic@vub.ac.be (Vasic Michel) wrote:

>: The worst nuclear accident which has occurred as a result of the world-wide
>: nuclear program is the Chernobyl accident. The total number of deaths
>: attributable to this accident as of November, 1995, is approximately 50.
>: This includes those people who died of acute radiation exposure during the
>: accident (and the two who died during the accident due to non-radiation
>: related causes), the three children which had died of thyroid cancer (the
>: _only_ radiation induced health effect which has been found to have
>: affected any members of the general public), and all of the cancer deaths
>: in the "liquidator" population, even though the cancer rate in this
>: population is _not_ in excess of the expected rate.
>
>: Patrick Reid
>
>Dear Patrick,
>
>please have a walk in the children's hospitals in former eastern Europe. 
>You could find out that the picture you draw is far from the reality. 
>
>You may be an ignorant, but are you honest when you list sicknesses due
>to coal combustion and do not list any sicknesses due to Chernobyl ? 
>Do you believe one second that the only result of Chernobyl was
>p deaths ?
>
>Who paid you to write this message, poor boy ?
>
> Michel Vasic
>u

Michel, the information that Patrick cites is in agreement with a 
report titled "Chernobyl: Ten Years On Radiological and Health Impact"
prepared by the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development.

The report is available on the web at the following URL
http://www.nea.fr/html/rp/chernobyl/chernobyl.html.

This report summarizes the results of many man-years worth of 
investigations and studies. It provides facts, not hearsay.

Your comment about walking in children's hospitals is a blatent 
attempt to generate emotions rather than to provide information.  It
is ALWAYS heart rending to walk in a children's hospital and to see
infants, toddlers and young people who are very sick.  It is especially
difficult when they are sick from cancer, hairless from treatments
and hooked to IV units.

However, you can find these types of patients in children's
hospitals all over the world.  I have had the unfortunate
experience of visiting a young friend several times in the past 
few months in just such a place.  It tears me apart. The closest that
my friend, or any of the other children in the hospital got to 
Chernobyl, however, is measured in thousands of miles.

The problem with your comment is that there is no evidence linking
Chernobyl with an increase in the occurance of this kind of 
illness, with the exception of the thyroid cancer that Patrick
mentioned.

We know that there are millions of people who die each year from 
diseases that can be easily prevented by making large quantities
of energy more readily available at lower costs.  These diseases are
those of exposure, water borne illness, inhalation of interior cooking
smoke, and many types of other bacterial infections.

Fighting against nuclear power makes those diseases more prevalent
and less susceptible to cure.

Rod Adams
Adams Atomic Engines, Inc.
http://www.opennet.com/AAE




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