The radiation effects at Chernobyl will last 1,000 years

[Fledermaus]

‘Of course, like everyone else I knew about Chernobyl when it happened, but I had no idea about the effects of radiation which will last for 1,000 years.

‘We take children with limited life expectancies for respite care. I only take boys and they come to us between the ages of 10 and 12 when their thyroid glands are developing because that’s when their immune systems are at their most vulnerable.

‘It’s not meant to be a holiday but of course that’s exactly what it becomes for them. It’s a month away from contaminated air, contaminated food, contaminated water – everything they eat is contaminated.

‘Not only are these kids suffering from radiation but they also suffer from extreme poverty.

‘It’s a very poor rural area for hundreds of miles around the plant and most of the people are farmers and grow their own food.

‘They are so poor that we’ve had several children who arrive with nothing more than the clothes they stand up in. One little boy came with just an asthma pump in a little bag around his neck.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/community/the-radiation-effects-at-chernobyl-will-last-1-000-years-1-4081860

[Demeter]

1. We would be lucky if it's only 1000 years

Radioactive half-lives for the Chernobyl spew are much longer, and it's still spewing. Just like Fukushima. Or all the hotspots from testing, refining, or fashioning nuclear weapons or fuel, or using them...

Too many stupid people in positions of decision-making.

[FBaggins]

2. So says some woman in Portsmouth?

Not even a long-retired pediatrician?

1,000 years from now... 99.999999%+ of the cesium 137 will be gone. Slightly more of the Strontium 90 will be gone. Obviously the radioiodine is already long gone.

[NNadir]

3. That would compare mildly with the more than 5 billion years that the effects of the supernova

that created the earth and all of the uranium, thorium, radiorubidium, radiopotassium, and radioneodymium - to name a few.

What's the latest take in the anti-nuke community, that Ukraine and Belarus will be wiped out every week for a thousand years by Chernobyl?

How many times has Ukraine been wiped out in the last 25 years?

I seem to remember that there were some coal mine accidents there that killed close to 1000 people, like the 2007 methane explosion that killed 101 people at Zasyadko, Donetsk, Ukraine? Where'd they come from? Zombies from Chernobyl?

How long does the Chernobyl/Fukushima/Three Mile Island fetish squad think the effects of climate change will be with us?

1000 seconds? 1000 hours? 1000 days? 1000 weeks? 1000 hours? Surely not 1000 years, eh?

Very few people will be here to see this annual wipeout of Ukraine and Belarus (where they are, um, building new nuclear reactors, as they haven't understood completely that they've been wiped out) because it seems that the normal operations of the dangerous fossil fuel plants that are anti-nukes couldn't care less about as they try to destroy the world's largest, by far, source of clmate change gas free energy in a paroxysm of fear, ignorance and superstition have lead to failed grain crops in Europe (2003 and 2012), North America (2012), Russia (2010 and 2012) and Australia (2006-2009).

Also on the planet earth, air pollution, according to the World Health Organization, is responsible for 3.3 million people killed each year. Half of the dead are under 5 years old.

Every month this year, the carbon dioxide concentrations at Mauna Loa have been running close to or more than 2.0 ppm over 2011.

Heckuva job anti-nuke. You must be very proud. Ignorance won. Congratulations on your great victory over the science of Seaborg,
Fermi, Wigner et al.

Good job. Every fucking living thing on the planet has carbonized crap in its tissue, while we all wait for that 2090 Greenpeace nirvana where we'll all be driving Tesla electric cars powered by the sun and by the wind.

Ignorance won.

Humanity deserves what it is getting now.