On Mon, 21 May 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Dan Minette schreef:
>
> > To tell the truth, Sonja, I don't really know what you mean. You did say
> > zero. Would you accept a risk from radiation from nuclear power that was
> > less than the radiation rask you have from Jeroen?
>
> I meant radiation pollution like after Chernobyl and other nuclear
> accidents. I really don't like that on my veggies (or in my meat or in
> the water for that matter). Over here we had for a while jokes about
> veggies glowing in the dark on account of the Chernobyl disaster. I'm
> surprised you didn't have those types of jokes during that period.
Chernobyl was remote enough for a lot of us that no, we didn't have very
many of *those* jokes, and not for very long. I think that more of the
jokes were poking fun at the idiocy of the Russians more than what was
glowing in the dark. At least, those were the jokes I was hearing.
But I remember that there were a whole bunch of Three Mile Island jokes
for awhile after *that* event. (Was that radioactive steam that escaped?
I'm really fuzzy now on just what happened; I was only 10 and can't
remember everything I read in the papers and news magazines about it. I
*do* remember that Hershey provided catering for at least some of the
shelters that people were evacuated to, and that every box lunch had a
chocolate bar in it.)
Of course, I don't remember any of the jokes, just that they were going
around. (I can, however, remember a couple of the songs we'd sing about
President Carter on the schoolbus.)
Julia
