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Chernobyl's Downplayed Victims | 49 comments (49 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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No, me thanks :-)

At the university (physics), when a younger guy had practical radiology class with us, he recounted how an older and famous collague excitedly invited him for a visit to Chernobyl, saying something like, "sacrificing four month's permissible radiation is worth it!", but the younger collague winked off...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 11:05:30 AM EST
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I wouldn't sacrifice $300 for any amount of radiation I could get there, but I'd be very interested how many would.

I can resist anything but temptation.- Oscar Wilde

by Little L (ljolito (at) gmail (dot) com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 11:11:04 AM EST
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I must add that working in a radiation laboratory, getting any amount of radiation was not his worry - it was more that that 'four month's worth of permissible radiation' is a mean with large uncertainties, and that, say, he may carry a highly radioactive dust particle unnoticed.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:22:47 PM EST
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Apparently radioactive dust gets washed off asphalt by rainfall, so that roads are relatively safe. Open soil, vegetation and buildings are not safe.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun May 7th, 2006 at 12:32:41 PM EST
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