27 years after the Chernobyl disaster

[whitehall]

First of all let me say for the sake of our left wing comrades who operate out of emotion rather than logic that I do not advocate nuclear disasters or even try to minimize their effects. It's merely an observation. Who would expect a fishing show to reveal the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Russian Ukraine district. The show featuring naturalist and fisherman Jeremy Wade is called "River Monsters" and Wade goes around the world looking for fresh water monsters. In this case Wade was investigating an alleged account of a diver having his hand ripped off by a river monster in the Chernobyl nuclear reactor lake. The show was billed "the atomic monster". The point is that the area was not a desert wasteland as the mythical nuclear disasters suggest. The woods were green and Wade caught some nice sized pike right up close to the reactor before he found his monster fish which turned out to be a large catfish called the "wels". The city near the reactor has been abandoned and humans would probably suffer the effects of radiation but it seems that nature goes right along.

 

[mamooth]

There's no land near Fukushima which is unsuitable for humans to live in, other than that directly adjacent to the damaged reactors. There's land the government has declared off-limits, but that's a different thing. You can't safely consume food grown there, due to the bioaccumulation of radioactive caesium and strontium, but there's nothing hazardous about the background count.

Or, put another way ... if there was a Fukushima-scale meltdown every year, it would still do less environmental damage than replacing all nuke plants with coal plants.

 

[Mr. H.]

You're a paid shill for the nuclear industry.