No Nukes News: Chernobyl - 25th anniversary

Tue Apr 26 14:12:48 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

April 26, 2011

Today is the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Blessings
and peace to all those affected.

Throughout the Northern Hemisphere radioactivity covered most living spaces
and became a source of potential harm for all living things. Owing to the
polarization of the problem, instead of organizing an objective and
comprehensive study of the radiological and radiobiological phenomena
induced by small doses of radiation, anticipating possible negative
consequences, and taking adequate measures, insofar as possible, to protect
the population from possible negative effects, apologists of nuclear power
began a blackout on data concerning the actual amounts of radioactive
emissions, the doses of radiation, and the increasing morbidity among the
people that were affected. 

- From the introduction of Chernobyl: The Consequences of the Catastrophe
for People and the Environment
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23745> 

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No to Nuclear Power - Nobel Peace Laureates to World Leaders

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster nine
Nobel Peace Laureates are calling upon world leaders to invest in safer
forms of renewable energy. 

http://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/media-room/article/no-to-nuclear-power

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Chernobyl: The Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the
Environment

The book is solidly based -- on health data, radiological surveys and
scientific reports -- some 5,000 in all. It concludes that based on records
now available, some 985,000 people died, mainly of cancer, as a result of
the Chernobyl accident. That is between when the accident occurred in 1986
and 2004. More deaths, it projects, will follow. 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23745> &aid=23745

The retail price of the book is $150 but the editor is selling copies for
$10! Order from this link or get one from
<mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> me - I purchased multiple copies.

http://janettesherman.com/books/

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25 Years After Chernobyl: Is a Nuclear Renaissance Likely?

Watch this 14 minute video presentation by Worldwatch President Chris Flavin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP_6D1BTJc

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Chernobyl new radiation shield funding fall short 

25 yrs. later and they are still needing $1 billion to encase the
contamination from the biosphere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13124777 

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Nuclear Controversies

50 min. video documentary - Russian scientists, physicians and affected
residents speak up following the Chernobyl disaster 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826#
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8746168177815160826> 

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Chernobyl 25 years on: a poisoned landscape

As Japan struggles with its nuclear plant crisis, the site of the biggest
atomic disaster in history remains a grim, radioactive monument

Four hundred times more radioactive material was released at Chernobyl than
at Hiroshima. The cloud of fallout spread over most of Europe, with the
exception of Spain and Portugal.

The cost of the disaster has crippled the national budgets of Ukraine and
Belarus. In 1998, Ukraine said it had already spent $130bn cleaning up after
the accident while Belarus said it would have to pay out $35bn that year
alone. Vast tracts of its farm land had been ruined.

Dozens of farms in Britain, mainly in the Lake District and north Wales, are
still restricted in the way they can use land and rear sheep because of
radioactive fallout from Chernobyl.

Scientists say that radiation will affect the Chernobyl area for 48,000
years although it will be safe enough for humans to begin repopulating the
area long before then - in about 600 years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/27/chernobyl-disaster-anniversary-j
apan

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Health Effects of Chernobyl 

25 years after the reactor catastrophe

This paper evaluates studies that contain plausible indications of health
damage caused by the Chernobyl catastrophe.

http://www.chernobylcongress.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/chernob_report_2
011_en_web.pdf

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Chernobyl: An Unbelievable Failure to Help 
Rosalie Bertell, MD, PhD., GNSH

http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/CaUFtH.html

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Hard Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima

<https://sites.google.com/site/cleangreensaskca/Home/jim-harding-s-column/he
alth-and-trust-hard-lessons-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima>
https://sites.google.com/site/cleangreensaskca/Home/jim-harding-s-column/hea
lth-and-trust-hard-lessons-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima 

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OPG denies public information on Chernobyl-type accidents at Ontario
reactors

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/OPG-denies-public-information-on-
Chernobyl-type-accidents-at-Ontario-reactors/ 

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Chernobyl: distorted reality, and unanswered questions

While for some it may be a distant memory or something to read about in
history books, people living near Chernobyl are still affected in their
daily lives. Last month, Greenpeace went to Ukraine to investigate and found
that the local people live with the disaster every day in health effects and
in contaminated food supplies. 

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/chernobyl-
distorted-reality-and-unanswered-qu/blog/34331?utm_source=SilverpopMailing
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25 Years after Chernobyl - Imagine a World without Nuclear Disasters - Vigil

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Chernobyl, please join us to imagine a
world without nuclear disasters.  

Tuesday, April 26 - 8 pm (Dusk)

Ministry of Energy, 900 Bay Street (at Wellesley), Toronto

April 26th marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Twenty-five years later the world is unfortunately watching another nuclear
disaster unfold at the Fukushima nuclear station in Japan. Remember
Chernobyl, the nuclear disaster we were told would never happen. Rethink the
energy choices we make today that may lead more nuclear disasters.

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/Blog/invitation-a-vigil-for-the-victims-
of-chernob/blog/34225

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165004076889993 

For more information: natalie.caine at greenpeace.org

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 <http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=54451> The Strangest
Dream <http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=54779> 
Directed by Eric Bednarski, 2008, 89 min 28 s

Wednesday, April 27 at 4pm

  At the NFB, 150 John Street, Toronto

Free

The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of
nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and
World Affairs - an international movement Rotblat co-founded - to halt
nuclear proliferation.

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Chernobyl: Remember and Rethink

A photo exhibit by Robert Knoth

April 14-28, Tues. - Sat., 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Hotshot Art Gallery, 181 Augusta Ave. (in Kensington Market), Toronto

Hosted by Greenpeace.ca
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202705929769334 

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Climate Refugees 

Free screening and discussion, Toronto

Friday, April 29, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
JJR Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, I King's College Circle,
U of T

This documentary was filmed in Bangladesh, Belgium, Chad, China, Denmark,
Fiji, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Kenya, the Maldives, Poland,
Switzerland, Tuvalu, UK and the US. It examines the creation - and migration
- of hundreds of millions of climate refugees that will be displaced as a
result of climate change.

For more info:  rita.bijons at sympatico.ca
SPONSORED BY: Science for Peace, For Our Grandchildren, Greenspiration, Noor
Cultural Centre, Toronto Climate Campaign
ENDORSED BY: Citizens' Climate Lobby, Climate Action Network, Council of
Canadians (Toronto), FutureWatch EDEP, Green Awakening Network, JustEarth,
KAIROS, Oikos Network, People's Assembly (Toronto), SAFSS (Settlement
Assistance and Family Support Services)

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Sign the  <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php> Petition Calling
for a Moratorium on New Nuclear Projects in ON

http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php

And order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets here: 

They contain postcards to politicians.

Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

Thanks.

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1

160 John St., #300

Toronto, ON  M5V 2E5

angela at cleanairalliance.org

www.cleanairalliance.org <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>  

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