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[Lachlan Brown]

for Helen Sloan,

'its exciting and its frightening' 

on thinking of making a web site
autumn, 1994.

Hi Lisa ..


BTW, if anyone is thinking of going to London schooldisco is
moving to Heaven on Friday nights, could be the new megatripolis.

Underneath the arches, Charing Cross Station. 

Waterloo sunrise.

Can't be there myself.

Lachlan




Message 2 in thread 
From: Anders Andersson (andersa at kuling.UUCP)
Subject: Re: Russian Nuclear Accident 
 
  
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Newsgroups: net.followup
Date: 1986-05-05 20:02:22 PST 
 

In article <228 at scbhq.UUCP> sdp at scbhq.UUCP writes:
>Europe, what is happening over there?  I would greatly appreciate reading your
>first hand reports, and comments.

[This might quickly get either scientific or political. Direct followups as
you wish, but remember that net.politics does not reach Europe by itself.]

As western news media and authorities usually keep each others informed
(with the sparse TASS bulletins in mind) of what they know, I suspect you
can get almost the same info as I regarding the details of the Chernobyl
accident itself, just by listening to the news.  What might differ is the
coverage of its various effects in neighbouring countries (i.e. Europe).

An increase in radioactive radiation has been measured in several European
countries.  In Sweden, the increase has ranged from 2-100 times the usual
background radiation (it's somewhat unclear to me what these figures really
mean, as the background radiation itself can vary a lot between different
geographical areas).  The main peak was located just west of Uppsala (from
where I'm writing this).  This should be due to the rain which fell here on
Monday the 28th and around.  The radiation is now steadily decreasing.

The total amount of radioactivity received here is about 1/1000 of what's
considered really *dangerous*, about 1/50 of the *security limit* chosen for
ordinary people, and about 1/5 of the limit chosen for pregnant women.  Thus
it seems very unlikely that someone here will actually get harmed from this.
As radioactive material, mainly iodine-131, might concentrate on the ground,
some precautions have been recommended.  Among these, farmers have been
advised to keep their milk-producing cows indoors a few days more, until the
radioactivity in the grass has been declared below reasonable levels.  Also,
people are advised not to use rain water for drinking and cooking.

I've heard similar reports from the FRG, Luxembourg and Austria.  Eastern
Europe is expected to have received a much higher amount of radioactivity.
In Poland, children have been given iodine solution for protective reasons.
I think in Romania people are advised to stay indoors, but reports from
these areas are few as usual.  Food imported from eastern Europe will be
carefully checked for radioactive pollution before accepted.

The accident has also resulted in a re-born debate on the Swedish nuclear
power programme, and there have been demands for immediate closing of all
Swedish nuclear reactors (of which none is said to have the same design as
the misfortunate Chernobyl reactor).

To throw in my personal opinion: "Rumors in Kiev say 2000 deaths"...  I
simply don't believe such a rumor (who could possibly have counted them,
without the authorities' blessing?) until better proven.  It might even be
true that only two persons were killed, as they declare - I know nothing
about what Chernobyl looks like geographically, and what kind of staff was
at the plant on Saturday the 26th.  If someone knows more, please tell us.
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