In 1986, the Soviet minister of hydrometeorology, Yuri Izrael, had a regrettable decision to make. It was his job to track radioactivity blowing from the smoking Chernobyl reactor in the hours after the 26 April explosion and deal with it. Forty-eight hours after the accident, an assistant handed him a roughly drawn map. On it, an arrow shot north-east from the nuclear power plant, and broadened to become a river of air 10 miles wide that was surging across Belarus toward Russia.
'clear and deliberate misinformation' by Kate Brown - and
Fearmongers & fake news mass media have induced much more deaths(abortions, heart-attacks, suicides) by spreading irrational fear and by favoring coal/oil/gas/fracking(backup for intermittent renewables) which air pollution respects no border and kills millions of people a year.
Kate Brown 'appears to have an ideological commitment to pre/anti-modernism that motivates her to see radiation not just from nuclear plants but also from medicine...'
Yeah, this sounds a lot like fear mongering over the ONE sustainable alternative source of energy that we have.
Very interesting!
I don't see what this has to do with nuclear power in general. Chernobyl was a cover up not because it was a nuclear power plant, but because it happened in Soviet Russia. You twisting this into anti nuclear propaganda is dishonest at best.
I knew North Wales had been affected by Chernobyl but didn’t realise that post-Chernobyl restrictions on some North Wales farmers had lasted for 26 years !
So instead of improving the techology of nuclear power you propose to completely forget the most powerfull source of energy and start with lo-productive alternative sources that in addition requires huge amount of space to be built on. Right?