Every year in August we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the first and only nuclear bombs were used in warfare. That act of remembrance is important as it highlights the folloy and dangers of war in a nuclear age. Next week sees the 20th anniversary of the disaster at Chernobyl and this should be time to consider the dangers of nuclear power especially as governments are again looking at the nuclear option as gas and oil runs out. The dangers of accident, terrorism and the disposal of nuclear waste have never been adequately confronted by politicians.
It is timely then that this week Greenpeace has come out with a report stating that the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine 20 years ago have been grossly under-estimated.
Official UN figures have predicted 4,000 extra cancer deaths attributable to Chernobyl's radioactive fallout. But Greenpeace says in a report released on Tuesday that recent studies estimate there will be 100,000 extra cancer deaths. Many of them will be in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, the report says
Well this is a major concern as the globe debates future energy needs and how to tackle the depletion of carbon fuels. It is a debate that concerns us all not just in terms of our life style but also in terms of our safety and indeed very existence on the planet – so it is a debate that no one can ignore.
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Posted by: Jack Cooprey | April 22, 2006 at 11:49 PM