

The floating nuclear reactors would provide power and heat to Arctic regions




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By Pirks on 6/19/2006 7:25:04 PM , Rating: -1
I doubt I can give you any hard facts other than in Russian, one can dig 'em up on Russian sites, so you probably have to stay with wikipedia's English language content for now :) All my experience is mostly based on official information released in Soviet Union 20 years ago, and some other sporadic Russian info blurbs (plus my mom which I agree is rather an exception from the rule - haven't seen anything like this myself, probably because she was the only person cleaning garage roof on that day when everyone else was celebrating May 1st with vodka and salo? :) yep, quite likely). The important thing is that I happened to have some relatives around the area so I can approximately measure extent of how meltdown changed people's lives - and here you are right again in that deaths and damage could have been MUCH less. Those 30 firefighters that died due to exposure were simply victims of the local Communist Party bosses who told them "be heros, save the country, go and save you faterland blah blah" while safely staying away because they KNEW about radiation but of course wouldn't tell that to anyone - this is how Russians won WWII by the way - by throwing human bodies at the enemy en masse - exactly same approach here, and in any other industrial catastrophe in USSR - this was a COMMON PATTERN, a STANDARD PRACTICE, not an EXCEPTION!)

Belarus - I know less, I only heard they had some mass radiation pollution, away from Minsk or any other MAJOR city but it was quite serious - many extensive areas in Belarus are rumored to be not quite safe even these days - cautious people never buy mushrooms and any other stuff picked up in those forests. I had relatives there at the time, but they were rather tightlipped - it was not wise to spill the beans those days when KGB was a real (and scary) force.

Hence I can't give you precise facts, unfortunately, besides one simple observation which nicely debunks any BS patentman and others can say about atomic power plants - in Soviet Union, with their braindead government, and you better believe me here - if you think Bush is braindead - you haven't seen Politburo, hence you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about how _REALLY_ BRAINDEAD governments look and work, only the people who lived in Soviet Union know _real_ stuff so they just laugh at patentman's and cwalk's BS - in Soviet Union this kind of meltdown was BOUND to happen, and the best thing about it - it was bound to happen NOT because atomic power plants are unsafe or other patentman's fantasy - the reasons are quite different.

So, even if I don't have hard numbers - my and my Ukrainian and Belorussian relatives' personal experience 100% coincides with masher's words, and contradicts BS that patentman was spilling here about millions of dead etc.

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