Was Chernobyl bad for the environment
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Giles, I am more than happy to discuss the issue over a pint. When do you anticipate visiting Norfolk's east coast next? A pint awaits you. My local does a rather nice Real Ale. http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloadpubs/scope50/chapter02.html[^] this may be a resource you might find interesting
I'll look you up if ever I get over there. I'm more of a west coast man myself, better waves!
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I'll look you up if ever I get over there. I'm more of a west coast man myself, better waves!
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Yes.
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Yes.
This looks like an intersting site on the subject: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html[^]
Farmer Giles was fat and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life. Then one day a giant blundered on to his land. Farmer Giles managed to scare him away and instantly became a hero. So it was natural that when the dragon Chrysophylax visited the area, it was Farmer Giles who was to do battle with it.
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Giles, you do ask stupid questions. Look here and all of its sub-pages. http://www.chernobyl.info/[^]
However, the creation of the exclusion zone led to an area preserved of human degradations: quoting Wikipedia, "many species of wild animals and birds, which were never seen in the area prior to the disaster, are now plentiful, due to the absence of humans in the area" (cf http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm[^]). So some animals take benefit from the catastrophe... Even :badger:!
The bombs are falling overhead with no sight
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Apart from the human cost, was Chernobyl bad for the environment? From what I understand the ecology in and around the town is in a better state now than before the accident.
Karl alludes to it, but I think the single biggest factor in the apparently healthy ecology of the area is a result of the complete absense of human beings there. From what I've read, the initial impact of the fallout was catastrophic, causing huge amounts of death and sterility in the local animal populations. However, nature appears to recover from such disasters quite readily. Rutheless efficiency can be had when you have nature's maxim: "The sick and weak are plowed under to benefit the healthy and strong". I'd be interested in seeing if the local animal populations exhibit far greater resitence to cancers and other diseases typically inflicted by radiation overdoses.
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Christian Graus wrote:
The question is - what did it cost to make this the case, and how could that money have been spent elsewhere by Russia if Chernobyl had not happened ?
What? Like paying off their international vodka deficit, created by that alcoholoc president they had.
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Michael Martin wrote:
What? Like paying off their international vodka deficit, created by that alcoholoc president they had.
Hey, don't diss Yeltsin. Just imagine the tips you would have made if he had been a regular customer at your bar! :-D
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pseudonym67 wrote:
Anything that grows on certain hills contains too much radioactivity to be fit for human consumption.
You can't site a nuclear reactor in places like Aberdeen because the natural background radiation of the city is too high in comparison with the maximum permited radiation in the vicinity of a nuclear power station. In otherwords, if a nuclear power station was built in Aberdeen and there was a leak then no one would know.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
In otherwords, if a nuclear power station was built in Aberdeen and there was a leak then no one would know.
Could you lease Aberdeen to India as a site for nuclear power station? According to some flakes, India has the best nuclear technology in the world!
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You are joking right? There are farms in England that are still unable to sell their cattle and sheep because since the cloud from the big C passed over. Anything that grows on certain hills contains too much radioactivity to be fit for human consumption. Not to mention the continuely escalating growth of cancers in the surrounding area
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Did you understand the question? We are not talking about human's problems.
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Did you understand the question? We are not talking about human's problems.
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