WHO must study Chernobyl's effect on Europe: report

[struggle4progress]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) should study how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster affected nations other than Belarus, Ukraine and Russia, a report said on Wednesday, citing a lack of data especially for western Europe.

"Although areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were heavily contaminated, most of Chernobyl's fallout was deposited outside these countries," said the report, which was carried out by independent researchers and commissioned by Rebecca Harms, a German member of the Greens party in the European Parliament.

"Fallout from Chernobyl contaminated about 40 percent of Europe's surface area," the report said, adding that populations outside the three countries faced "twice as many predicted excess cancer deaths".

The study predicted roughly 30,000 to 60,000 cancer deaths by the end of this century related to Chernobyl, which it said was significantly higher than estimates by the WHO and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-04-19T164347Z_01_L1915182_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-CHERNOBYL-STUDY.xml

[medeak]

1. off topic

but this is a fave of mine...motorcycle tour through Chernobyl:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

[henslee]

3. I think this was debunked..

[medeak]

4. don't think so

snopes doesn't have it but actually had ad running for website.

[henslee]

5. Actually we are both right. For some reason she fabricated being on

the bike part which does not diminish the coolness of her pics but definitely makes you wonder what else is fiction. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1026/

[medeak]

6. thnx for link

haven't heard of that one before...

[henslee]

7. Wait after reading some comments, I am still on the fence... Here is

a link to another site of hers. I cannot tell if she is on the level or not. Grrrrr. http://www.serpentswall.com/page28.html

[jwirr]

2. My family was stationed in Germany at the time and I have

always wondered how much they were effected.