Chernobyl, Radiation, Strange Long Term Effects, page 1
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reply posted on 27-5-2005 @ 06:02 PM by eaglewingz
Maybe Mr. Harvey was just shilling for the Nuclear Power industry, as he is wont to do with commercial products.

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reply posted on 27-5-2005 @ 06:07 PM by Kidfinger
Originally posted by Adonsa
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I looked around some more and haven't yet found a definitive link,
however, I dug up this other fasinating Chernobyl URL.
This is a massive website describing Elena's motorcycle rides through Chernobyl
during the Spring of 2004




I have seen this site before. Man that chick loves her bike! You read as much about her bike and how she fixed it up as you do about her drive through Chernobyl.

BTW, I replied to a humorous post earlier and I realized I may have come off a little A holish. I apologize for that. I would like to say that the children being born in the vicinity of Chernobyl with birth defects are no laughing matter. My reply was in no way ment to convey this.



reply posted on 5-7-2010 @ 07:16 AM by DutchBigBoy
I found this on the net

National Geographic has announced that the ARC Centre for Coral Reef Studies has surveyed the 1.2-mile crater from the hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll and discovered something phenomenal: the corals are bouncing back from nuclear annihilation.


Photo:
[img]http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sites/default/files/images/http-inlinethumb45.webshots.com-16044-2494803340103329676S600x600Q85.preview.jpg[ /img]


How is this even possible? The first round of tests there sank 13 warships the U.S. Navy itself wanted to get rid of after World War II. Radiation is poison to every living thing. What could have possibly happened?

As it happens, radiation may not be the end of the world after all. How bad is radiation, really?

First there's this news out of Chernobyl--the surrounding ecosystems are thriving, and, while the enthusiasm is tempered, I'll reprint the key quote here:

"By any measure of ecological function these ecosystems seem to be operating normally," Morris told Nature. "The biodiversity is higher there than before the accident." How has this happened, given that radiation levels are still too high for humans to return safely? Morris thinks that many of the organisms mutated by the fallout have died, leaving behind those that have not suffered problems with growth and reproduction. "It's evolution on steroids.

That only explains the ability of nature to make up for man's complete screw-ups, however. Edward Calabrese, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, claims that radiation may fall into a concept called hormesis: poisons that are lethal at high doses, are beneficial in low ones. Calabrese has spent his career studying the concept, and universally found that low doses of toxins lead to longer lifespans and enhanced growth-- as well as that high doses kill.

So what does this mean for radiation? The "allowable" dose of radiation in the 1920s was 700 mSvs (Milliservs), then 70 in 1941, and 20 in 1990. It's possible that we're missing out on major advantages through this restriction, because the science would support a J-shaped curve representing danger from radiation, instead of the simple threshold suggested.


Here is the link
www.environmentalgraffiti.com...

edited
trying to get the link right but ....

[edit on 5-7-2010 by DutchBigBoy]


reply posted on 5-7-2010 @ 08:03 AM by ~Lucidity
The last bullet on this page, Chernobyl 20 Years On: Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident from the European Committee on Radiation Risks (ECRR) report that that lists the effects would imply quite the opposite, but I suppose anomalies could occur.

More information on searches shows indications of lower, not higher IQ among children being born there. However, there appears to be a tabloid rumor that started sometime in 2005 that researchers in Russia discovered that some of the children had "higher IQs and faster reaction times."


reply posted on 8-8-2010 @ 10:23 AM by Sinter Klaas
reply to post by ~Lucidity


It seems like nature is not being effected as humans do and that a limited amount of radiation might actually have a positive effect. Studies suggest that those genes responsible for being able to fight of radiation damage work a lot better when they are actually exposed to radiation.

Please, visit the link I posted. It is also in my signature.

Reply to post by DutchBigBoy


I''ve posted the info amongst others in my thread as well. Please feel free to share your opinion on it.

@ the OP

Thanks for posting S&F
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