Remember Chernobyl?

Can you remember the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident? The Belarusians and the Ukrainians can. They are still suffering from the legacy of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.........

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in northern Ukraine
Damaged reactor No.4  
 

• The world’s worst nuclear accident 26th April 1986
• At least 90x greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb
• 190 tonnes of highly radioactive material and other toxins expelled into the atmosphere
• 70% of the emitted 100 million curies fell on Belarus
• 2 million+ people subjected to radioactive contamination
• 25% of Belarusian farmland and foresty now wasteland
• An estimated 800,000 children will be at risk of contracting cancers, genetic blood disorders and damage to their immune systems
• Related illnesses have become known as ’Chernobyl Aids’ and the post operative thyroid scar as ’Belarusian Necklace’
• New ’hot spots’ of contamination are still being discovered
• At present the death rate in Belarus is higher than the birth rate but 2008 statistics indicate a reversal in progress
• The entire Republic of Belarusia is described as the greatest environmental and ecological disaster in the history of humanity
• The present containment sarcophagus is in danger of failing and is being replaced

  The emerging picture of impact on the children born subsequent to the accident is causing concern with an increasing incidence of leukaemia and related illnesses, cancers such as thyroid and intestinal as well as heart and other soft organ defects. Their health problems are compounded with heavy metal poisoning and economic and social hardship.   
  
  
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