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From: mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein)
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.sci
Subject: Re: effects of pollution
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 18:29:43 EDT
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>> I think one of the most important differences between the effects of
>> nuclear and chemical power generation has been overlooked. The effects
>> of a nuclear accident, either reactor failure or waste spill is
>> localized. It is very bad for those close to it, but has almost no
>> effect on those farther away...
>> Joel Swank

>This is ridiculous.  Tell the northern Italians and the Welsh that waste
>from Chernobyl was localized!!
>-Mark

Well although the media once again went into the panic mode, when they heard
the word nuclear, the facts speak for themselves.  The data
collected by US embassys has now been collated and evaluated by the
EPA.  In Kiev, let alone the West Europe, the dose received in the 
first four days was about 300 millirems, or roughly the dose 
recieved by citizens daring to live in Colorado for a year.  
(And well below the 500 millirems allowed as an occupational risk 
in the US.)  The dose received by West Germans was estimated at 
about 25 millirems.

The dose recieved by the people actually working in the plant is 
estimated by Dr. Henry Hurwitz of being up to 1000 rems an hour.  This
means the personell in the plant would recieve a lethal dose in about
a half-hour.  

-- 
Michael V. Stein
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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