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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
Even if there were a full, Chernobyl-style meltdown, Tokyo would not be substantially affected, nor would anyone outside Japan. Yet the news hype is so great that people in America are buying potassium iodide pills, which would only be necessary in the worst-case scenario and you were within 12 miles of the plant. If these idiots are dumb enough to start taking iodine undirected, they are likely to develop thyroid problems more serious than if they had been exposed to radiation.
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What if the claim of the International Atomic Energy Agency that the a expected death toll from the Chernobyl accident will be 4,000 was wrong. What if the IAEA underestimated , to the extreme, the casualties of Chernobyl.
just-released publication of a book, the most comprehensive study ever made, on the impacts of the Chernobyl disaster.
New York Academy of Sciences documents. And Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, authored by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, Dr. Vassily Nesterenko and Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, finds that medical records between 1986, the year of the accident, and 2004 reflect 985,000 deaths as a result of the radioactivity released. Most of the deaths were in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but others were spread through the many other countries the radiation from Chernobyl struck.
Makes a good read.