Reply #5: Last week I attended an exhibition [View All]

[Karenina]

dedicated to keeping the reality of the ONGOING effects of Tschernobyl in the public eye. There I met 2 women speakers, my age, both of whom had lost their husbands to radiation poisoning and both of whom were dealing with sick children and their own health problems. I also had an opportunity to talk with an oncologist who has been working in the area for the last decade.

I was not shocked by anything presented. They were surprised that I, as an American, was so aware of what was happening there.
It's all just so sad and stupid, Lars. I raised my first objections to nuclear facilities when I was 10. My argument was we didn't know what to do with the waste, its pollution was not easily perceived and the risk/benefit was skewed by half-life.

I was subsequently sent to the principal's office for declaring during a duck and cover drill that if a nuke were dropped on D.C. jumping under the desks would not help. Some classmates started crying and off I went for punishment.

That was 50 FUCKING YEARS AGO, Lars...

Tante K.