On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
> No you don’t know that at all. You don’t have some crystal ball and are > just quoting from studies that have been criticized as very much low > balling the ultimate number of cancer deaths attributable to Chernobyl. > Other studies have come up with much higher numbers – ranging into the > millions. For example the TORCH report commissioned by the German Green > Party[...] > Can you think of a reason the German Green Party > that included areas not covered by the WHO report that produced the 4000 > figure you quote. It concluded that the death toll from cancer is more > likely to be around 30,000 to 60,000 extra incurred deaths. We could go on > till the sun comes up – you present a study and I can present another > study. It is hard to correlate cancer deaths that may happen decades even > after the originating event with some event and the statistical > methodologies used are all open to argument --- and the numbers can be > moved about by changing boundary conditions etc. > > Besides the cancer deaths, what about the 2,600 kilometer square exclusion > zone – that is a very big area. What is the dollar value on that? > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/world/europe/05iht-nuke.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 > > > > And however many cancers Fukushima turns out to have been made it is > unlikely to be more than the cancers made by a average run of the mill coal > power electric plant that never had a industrial accident. > > So say you. You speak of Fukushima as if it was an event that happened in > the past – the disaster is still unfolding and Tepco cannot even say where > the nuclear material in the cores of units #1, #2, and #3 is located. A > run of the mill industrial accident does not produce an essentially > permanent and very large exclusion zone – affecting the lives of hundreds > of thousands of uprooted atomic refugees -- as has Chernobyl and now once > again Fukushima. The cost to sequester the Fukushima disaster will run into > the many hundreds of billions of dollars – hardly a run of the mill price > tag. > > There is nothing run of the mill about Fukushima – to suggest so is rather > obscene. > > Chris > > > > John K Clark > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
