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Re: BBC News - Standby power scare story
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
yeah but they aint that dangerous are they.If they go bang an area dies in for thousands of years.If we keep burning fossil fuels then eventually the global warming will destroy a good portion of the planet. We can send the waste from these stations into space and let people a few million miles away worry about it  |
The Times reported this - ONLY 56 people have so far died directly as a result of the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986, including 9 children with thyroid cancer. In the end, perhaps up to 4,000 people will die from radiation-caused illness.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...768368,00.html
Not good, but not the end of the world scenario that was originally envisioned.
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