[voxlashi]

Not to seem insolent, but I think the time in which Chernobyl was in focus is long past. People wouldn't donate their money for it. (Also, Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia).

Some initial projections for damage and health were treated as the case, and when actual statistics were found they were ignored.

There is still radiation picked up over the European continent which might cause damage to cattle and crops in the long term.

[Suska]

No one goes near that place anymore except that crazy chick. There are many enormously more important and immediate problems.

[The Clockwork Rat]

There is still radiation picked up over the European continent which might cause damage to cattle and crops in the long term.

Negligible damage to cattle, and plants are much better at coping with radiation than humans. In fact, most animals are better at coping with radiation than humans. The zone around Chernobyl is full of life since no-one wants to live there.

[voxlashi]

Negligible damage to cattle, and plants are much better at coping with radiation than humans. In fact, most animals are better at coping with radiation than humans. The zone around Chernobyl is full of life since no-one wants to live there.

Well, yes. But if the animals and corn or whatever are used for human consumption, some of it is transferred to the consumer. Perhaps not fatal doses, but I suspect it could be harmful over time.

[Suska]

of course its harmful, the question is a matter of degree, right now free market aluminium mining is making poison rivers through Hungary, it won't be the last and would you be surprised to find the whole thing reeks of externalizing costs and corrupt government officials? Can anything get fixed in that environment?

[The Clockwork Rat]

Some fruit is irradiated before shipping to help preserve it. Also, as Suska said, it's a matter of degrees. All the grain to fatten animals, and the anti-biotics that they are given orders of magnitude more harmful to us. Even then, do you really give a shit about a few days at the end of your life?

[Suska]

Damn, did I scare lucko off?


how does it happen that the OP vanishes? That doesn't even happen for the unpersoned does it?