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  1. predicting nuclear and other technological disasters by LAMPTON, 1989
  2. in time of emergency a citizen's handbook on nuclear attack natural disasters by department of defense, 1968
  3. In Time of Emergency a Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack Natural Disasters by Department of Defense, 1968
  4. Nuclear and Other Technological Disasters by Christopher Lampton, 1989
  5. In Time of Emergency (A Citizen's Handbook on ...Nuclear Attack...Natural Disasters) by Department of Defense, 1968
  6. Surviving Nuclear Disaster by Cresson Kearny, 1990-02
  7. Survival Techniques: Quick Response Solutions During Nuclear Disasters by David Scott, 2001-12-01
  8. Chernobyl: The Ongoing Story of the World's Deadliest Nuclear Disaster by Glenn Alan Cheney, 1993
  9. Baneberry: A nuclear disaster by Paul Duckworth, 1976
  10. Sociopsychological aspects of evacutating [sic] or sheltering health care facilities in the event of a nuclear power plant accident (Preliminary paper ... of Delaware, Disaster Research Center) by E. L Quarantelli, 1992
  11. Assumptions about individual and social effects of peacetime and wartime nuclear disasters by Gary A Kreps, 1981
  12. How to survive natural & nuclear disasters in an earth sheltered home by Terry A Johnson, 1981
  13. Nuclear Disaster
  14. The Chornobyl nuclear disaster: (an East European view) by Constantine Zelenko, 1986

81. Potassium Iodide - ThyroSafe - ThyroProtect.com
In case of a nuclear emergency, these tablets will protect you from nuclear radiationcaused by nuclear plant disasters, leaks or terrorist activity that
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Why ThyroSafe™ Potassum Iodide ? What does it do? Did you know that there are 103 nuclear reactors in United States and if there is nuclear disaster, you will be affected even if you don't live close by? Radioactive iodine that damages your thyroid gland, spreads by air and can travel 300 miles with winds. You can protect yourself from this damaging radiation by keeping potassium iodide in your First Aid Kit. These are the same "anti-radiation" pills you have been hearing about in the news and couldn't find them in your pharmacy. In case of a nuclear emergency, these tablets will protect you from nuclear radiation caused by nuclear plant disasters, leaks or terrorist activity that targets our nuclear facilities. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, potassium iodide has saved the lives of many communities in Eastern Europe from thyroid related cancers and other diseases. Those regions where potassium iodide wasn't distributed, observed cancer cases rise as much as 100 fold. As we learned, children have suffered the most and this prompted The American Academy of Pediatrics to urge the storage of potassium iodide in every home, school, and child-care center. We offer ThyroSafe potassium iodide because it is the only child-appropriate FDA Approved

82. Factophile.com :: Disasters :: Nuclear Accidents
of Accident.1957, Oct 7, A Fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor......Home disasters nuclear Accidents, Date,
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  • Animal Kingdom Astronomy ... Disasters :: Nuclear Accidents Date Description of Accident 1957, Oct 7 A Fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor N of Liverpool, England, released radioactive material; later blamed for 39 cancer deaths. 1961, Jan 3 A reactor at a federal instalation near Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA, killed 3 workers. Radiation was contained. 1966, Oct 5 A sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor, near Detroit, Michigan, USA. Radiation was contained. 1969, Jan 21 A coolant malfunction from an experimental underground reactor at Lucens Vad, Switzerland, released a large amount of radiation into a cavern, which was then sealed. 1975, Mar 22 Fire at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Alabama, USA, caused dangerous lowering of cooling water levels. 1979, Mar 28 The worst commercial nuclear accident in the U.S. occurred as equipment failures and human mistakes led to a loss of coolant and partial core meltdown at the Three Mile Island reactor in Middleton, Pennsylvania. 1981, Feb 11

83. Chernobyl Disaster A Turning Point: Part Three Of A Series (EnvironmentalChemist
to continue using nuclear power, the benefits must be balanced against the risks. Precautions must be taken to prevent those types of disasters from happening
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Chernobyl Disaster a Turning Point
Part three of a series
By Jesus E. Gomez
Part Two (Chernobyl, Agricultural and Environmental Impact)
If societies worldwide want to continue using nuclear power, the benefits must be balanced against the risks!
Chernobyl's accident was a turning point for the nuclear power industry worldwide. According to World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO), "It demonstrated clearly that nuclear power in some parts of the world was not safe enough." The association points out that the accident "caused such a negative opinion of nuclear energy that, should such an accident occur again, the existence and future of nuclear energy all over the world would be compromised." On the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), the Chernobyl nuclear accident rates the highest classification, which is level seven. The worst nuclear accident in the West, which was rated a level five by the INES, occurred in the pressurized water reactor at the Three Mile Island facility in Pennsylvania in 1979. Chernobyl incidents are still happening but now are relatively minor compared to the two explosions occurred on April 26, 1986. For example, on Nov, 1995, a small amount of nuclear fuel leaked from the Unit 1 reactor and exposed a worker to about one year's permitted radiation dose.

84. Probability Of Nuclear Power Plant Disasters
Probability of nuclear Power Plant disasters. I wrote an essay then aboutthe potential probability of nuclear power plant disasters.
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Probability of Nuclear Power Plant Disasters Back in 1975, nuclear plants were being built around the U.S., and proponents were touting their immense safety. I wrote an essay then about the potential probability of nuclear power plant disasters. Through a very simple probability analysis, I estimated that although the odds of failure of any one plant may be utterly miniscule, the cumulative odds of at least some failures among many plants, over time, is anything but negligible. I sent the essay to the local newspaper (at the time, in Eureka, California) as an extended letter to the editor, responding to a recent pro-nuclear article on the subject. My essay was soundly rejected on the ostensible grounds that they publish articles only written by their own staff. Yet, soon thereafter, they published some extended letters to the editor that extolled the virtues of nuclear plants. That was in 1975. On March 28, 1979, Reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant suffered a partial meltdown. And on April 26, 1986, the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl suffered a catastrophic failure, releasing immense clouds of nuclear waste that would contaminate parts of western Russia and northern Europe.

85. Will The Real Millennium Bug Please Stand Up?
Hardly the widespread air disasters, power failures and nuclear catastrophespredicted by computer service companies. nuclear disaster.
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Will the real Millennium Bug please stand up?
Let's look at some of the victims of this bug:
Air disaster
The crash of a Cali-bound American Airlines jet in December 1995 occurred because the plane's captain entered an incomplete command into the onboard computer—and the default action taken by the software pointed the plane in the wrong direction. The beacons at the Cali ("ROZO") and Bogota ("ROMEO") airports both begin with the letter R, which is the only character the pilot typed; instead of proceeding toward Cali, the plane turned in the opposite direction (toward Bogata) and crashed into a mountain. 152 passengers and 8 crew members died.
Car disaster
In December 1976, there was a serious motorway pile up on the M5. The cause of the accident was traced to the central computer that failed to change the roadside speed limit signs when fog descended. The error occurred because the system required cryptic, error-prone input. For example, to change (X) a particular sign (300) on the M5 (R) to indicate a fog condition (code 1), the operator needed to enter the code "XR300/1". The system failed to provide feedback on what the operator had done, and the teletype machine itself was old and hard to read. So the operator could not see what he entered into the system, or the system's reply. 34 vehicles crashed, 3 people were killed and 11 people were injured.
Nuclear disaster
The nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island in 1979 is widely acknowledged to have been exacerbated by user interface problems. At Three Mile Island, an automatic relief valve on top of the pressuriser failed to close, even though a poorly designed indicator led operators to believe that it had. The light, which one operator described as perhaps the brightest light on the entire panel, indicated only what the valve had been

86. Chernobyl - Tschernobyl - Information
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Partners OCHA "At least three million children in Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation require physical treatment (due to the Chernobyl accident). Not until 2016, at the earliest, will we know the full number of those likely to develop serious medical conditions." Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations "This project gives us the opportunity to work with computers and improve our skills. It opens up the possibility of working with computers in the future." Natalya Birillo, Student from Igovka, Belarus "Chernobyl is a global environment event of a new kind. It is characterized by the presence of thousands of environmental refugees, longterm contamination of land, water and air and possibly irreparable damage to ecosystems." Christine K. Durbak, Chairwoman of World Information Transfer, New York

87. World Nuclear Association | Information | Chernobyl
The April 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine (seemap of regions surrounding Chernobyl) was the product of a flawed Soviet
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Search Feedback Glossary Calculator ... WNA Home WNA Publications are updated regularly to serve as a comprehensive and reliable resource. The WNA can vouch for and support anything it publishes, and unreservedly offers to correct promptly anything that is shown as wrong or misleading. News Nuclear Intro Info Briefs Articles/Opinion ... Conferences INFORMATION AND ISSUE BRIEFS Contents Nuclear Power for Electricity Radioactive Wastes Other Aspects of Fuel Cycle Plant Safety ... WNA home Chernobyl March 2001 Chernobyl and Soviet Reactors Appendices UNSCEAR Annex J Chernobyl - Post Accident Changes to the RBMK ... RBMK light-water graphite reactor
  • The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety.
  • The resulting steam explosion and fire released about five percent of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind.

88. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, And Tokaimura
was taken from the nuclear Energy Institute's Web site, where Ukraine was a large nuclear reactor that was undergoing some In a nuclear reactor, the fission chain reaction is
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Category: Nuclear Accidents The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q: I have an older sister who lives in Pennsylvania. Recently in chemistry we briefly studied nuclear accidents. One we discussed was Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. I am concerned for my sister and was wondering, what were the official causes and effects of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island? I was also wondering, what were the causes and effects of the accidents at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, and in Tokaimura, Japan? A: The three accidents you mention, Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and Tokaimura in 1999, were very different in cause and effect. Following is a brief summary of the three events:
Three Mile Island
The accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI 2) in 1979 was caused by a combination of equipment failure and the inability of plant operators to understand the reactor's condition. A gradual loss of cooling water to the reactor's heat-producing core led to partial melting of the fuel rod cladding and the uranium fuel, and the release into the environment of a small amount of radioactive material.
The TMI 2 accident caused no injuries or deaths. In addition, experts concluded that the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere was too small to result in discernible direct health effects to the population in the vicinity of the plant. At least a dozen epidemiological studies conducted since 1981 have borne this out. This information was taken from the

89. EPA History - Answering Questions About Chernobyl
For almost a month, the Task Force was the source of information for Americans onthe world s worst nuclear disaster. Chernobyl was a secret disaster at first.
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[EPA Journal - August 1986] Before the reactor blew on April 26, few Americans had heard of the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant; 48 hours later, it was a household word, the anxious focus of the press, the public, and the government. Was dangerous radioactive fallout heading to the United States? Was the health and safety of Americans abroad being threatened? No one knew. Answering these questions became the job of the Task Force on the Soviet Nuclear Accident. At the peak of its activity, it was measuring domestic radiation levels, monitoring foreign levels, tracking the situation at Chernobyl, and handling hundreds of phone calls every day. For almost a month, the Task Force was the source of information for Americans on the world's worst nuclear disaster. Chernobyl was a secret disaster at first. The initial evidence that a major nuclear accident had occurred came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden, where on April 27 workers at a nuclear power plant were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes. It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivitythere was no lake at the Swedish plantthat led to the first hint of a nuclear problem in the Soviet Union. EPA first learned about a possible radiological incident from press and citizen inquires coming in on Monday, April 28. The Agency's Press, Radiation, and International Activities offices began fielding calls while working with the State Department, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and the Department of Energy (DOE) to find out what was happening. Although the Soviet news agency, TASS, finally issued a terse statement that evening confirming the accident at the Chernobyl plant, the Soviets offered no details. The resulting information vacuum fueled rumors of all kinds, from fatality estimates to speculation about fires in adjoining reactors.

90. Awesome80s.com: 1986: Challenger Explodes, Chernoble Nuclear Disaster, Iran-Cont
Awesome80s.com (Where the 1980s never ended) looks back on 1986 Challenger Explodes,Chernoble nuclear Disaster, IranContra ScandalAwesome80s also covers all
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1986: Challenger Explodes, Chernoble Nuclear Disaster, Iran-Contra Scandal
By Patrick Mondout The Space Shuttle Challenger exploding was the most memorable story of the decade, let alone the year. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union and the beginnings of the Iran-Contra scandal were also big stories.
Major Stories
January 20 : The French and British governments jointly announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.
January 24 : NASA's Voyager 2 becomes the first space probe to visit Uranus.
January 26 : The Chicago Bears complete an 18-1 season by crushing the New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
January 28
: The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff killing all six astronauts and "Teacher in Space" program participant Christa McAuliffe
February 19 : Soviet Union launches the Mir Space Station.
February 25 : Filipino Dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda flee (sans her shoe collection) the island nation ending 20 years of brutal rule.
February 26 : Corazon Aquino, widow of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, becomes president of the Philippines.

91. Detailed Search Page
Summary disasters · Civil Defense Preparedness · Physical Effects of NuclearWeapons · Prepare for the Ultimate Disaster and you will be Prepared for
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92. ThinkQuest : Library : Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster
Chernobyl A nuclear Disaster.
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93. Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, And Tokaimura
Answer to Question 1462 Submitted to Ask the Experts . Category nuclearAccidents. Recently in chemistry we briefly studied nuclear accidents.
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Category: Nuclear Accidents The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q: I have an older sister who lives in Pennsylvania. Recently in chemistry we briefly studied nuclear accidents. One we discussed was Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. I am concerned for my sister and was wondering, what were the official causes and effects of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island? I was also wondering, what were the causes and effects of the accidents at Chernobyl, in Ukraine, and in Tokaimura, Japan? A: The three accidents you mention, Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and Tokaimura in 1999, were very different in cause and effect. Following is a brief summary of the three events:
Three Mile Island
The accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI 2) in 1979 was caused by a combination of equipment failure and the inability of plant operators to understand the reactor's condition. A gradual loss of cooling water to the reactor's heat-producing core led to partial melting of the fuel rod cladding and the uranium fuel, and the release into the environment of a small amount of radioactive material.
The TMI 2 accident caused no injuries or deaths. In addition, experts concluded that the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere was too small to result in discernible direct health effects to the population in the vicinity of the plant. At least a dozen epidemiological studies conducted since 1981 have borne this out. This information was taken from the

94. Activity Name: Potential Disasters In The Need For Energy
Some examples of uncontrolled energy would be a forest fire, an explosion, or anuclear bomb. Many disasters are associated with energy use refinery fires
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  • Research background of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster Determine the difference between propaganda and scientific data Participate in the role play of a nuclear disaster case study Defend a particular viewpoint with data in this role play experience
Motivational Introduction: The energy to function can be controlled for use and benefit or uncontrolled and destructive. Some examples of uncontrolled energy would be a forest fire, an explosion, or a nuclear bomb. Many disasters are associated with energy use - refinery fires and explosions, hydroelectric dams can fail and flood areas, coal fired steam generated electric plants can have fires, oil burning plants can have spills. However, the most misunderstood and feared energy source is nuclear power. While there have been mishaps such Three Mile Island, nothing compares with the disaster at Chernobyl in Russia. Approximate Time to Complete Activity: 5 class periods.

95. Potassium Iodide - FDA Approved IOSAT
They will protect you from nuclear radiation caused by nuclear plantdisasters, leaks and even terrorist activity that may occur.
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Limited Time Offer - $6.99 per package! These are the anti-radiation pills you have been hearing about in the news and couldn't find in your pharmacy. They will protect you from nuclear radiation caused by nuclear plant disasters, leaks and even terrorist activity that may occur. When a nuclear disaster strikes, be prepared to shield yourself and your family against thyroid related cancers and other diseases that crippled and killed thousands for years after the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, and the current generation is still suffering. Did you know that there are 104 nuclear reactors in United States and if there is nuclear disaster, you will be affected even if you don't live close by? Radioactive iodine that damages your thyroid gland, spreads by air and can travel thousands of miles with wind. You can protect yourself from this damaging radiation with IOSAT brand of Potassium Iodide (KI). IOSAT is the only publicly available, FDA approved and over the counter tablets on the market. Even the government and military stocks up on millions of IOSAT packages in case of a nuclear disaster, but when something happens, do you really want to wait for the government to dispense them? This is why we have started to offer IOSAT to the public.

96. Lesson Plans - Submarines:
How did the K19 disaster demonstrate the implications of a nuclear disaster atsea? What were the causes of accidents involving other nuclear submarines?
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Submarines: Underway on Nuclear Power International Alliances The United States/Mexico Border Understanding Wilderness Was the United States Ready for Pearl Harbor? Yours, Mine, and Ours: Determining Boundaries Complete Index Submarines: Underway on Nuclear Power Overview: On January 17, 1955, Commanding Officer Eugene P. Wilkinson of the U.S.S. Nautilus (SSN 571) declared, "Underway on nuclear power." Thus began a new era in submarine warfare and a race between the United States and the Soviet Union for superiority under the sea. This lesson introduces students to the role of nuclear submarines during the Cold War. Students will explore the uses of nuclear submarines, the dangers faced by their crews, and the legacy left to their generation by the Cold War build-up. They will look at incidents involving submarines both during and after the Cold War, including the K-19 disaster . Students will analyze various aspects of these incidents and assemble their findings into a classroom presentation. Connections to the Curriculum: Geography, world history, environmental science

97. Protecting Against Radiation Fallout (Radioiodine)
BBC News The toll of thyroid cancer carried by the fallout from the Chernobylnuclear disaster could have been prevented, new evidence suggests.
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High-dose chemotherapy directly destroys the bone marrow's ability to produce white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. Patients experience side effects from low numbers of white blood cells (neutropenia), red blood cells (anemia), and platelets (thrombocytopenia). A person exposed to "fallout" can suffer from a myriad list of ailments, among them thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer, due to radiation poisoning, is caused by the uptake (through inhalation or ingestion) of radioiodine (a radioactive isotope of iodine). Governments world-wide are now stockpiling potassium iodide (KI) . Amongst them are Japan, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Sweden, etc., but not the U.S. After Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, all available potassium iodide supplies disappeared for months, almost overnight. Welcome to...
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98. GSReport:Disaster Anniversaries
During the last week of March, 1999, the US looked back on the Three Mile Islandnuclear disaster of 20 years ago, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster ten
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The amount of electric power produced worldwide by nuclear plants is expected to fall by half during the next 20 years. Factoid: Almost 940 million gallons of oil have spilled worldwide in the decade since the Exxon Valdez spill, including 10 spills of more than 11 million gallons, according to the Oil Spill Intelligence Report. Anniversaries: U.S. Recalls Two Historic Disasters During the last week of March, 1999, the U.S. looked back on the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster of 20 years ago, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster ten years ago. By Michael Lindemann Start Date: 3/25/99 During the last week of March, 1999, the United States looked back upon two of the greatest industrial and environmental disasters in the nation's history. The first, a partial melt-down at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant, marked the beginning of a downturn in public support for nuclear energy which has been felt around the world. The second, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, devastated a large expanse of coastal Alaska and sent shock waves through the global oil industry. Twenty years ago, at about 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, sirens sounded at Three Mile Island's Unit-2 nuclear reactor when a relief valve stuck, releasing radioactive water as steam. Plant operators then mistakenly shut off cooling water for the 150-ton radioactive core, causing a partial meltdown which required the emergency evacuation of about 140,000 people from the area of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The plant spewed radioactive gas into the air for days.

99. ZNet Commentary
. . Sustainers/content/articleleftcolumn.htm. Nov 8, 1999. More NuclearDisasters. By Saul Landau. The Lesson Unlearned. We have contained
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Nov 8, 1999 More Nuclear Disasters By Saul Landau The Lesson Unlearned "We have contained the spread of radiation from last week's nuclear accident," Japanese authorities assured their citizens. They blame the chain reaction on improper handling of materials by low level workers. As if that explanation will sedate the Japanese public! The Japanese know all too well the long term effects of radiation on human health - thanks to their experience with atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. More recently, we have the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion in the Ukraine. Ukranian children still suffer from radiation sickness and people in the path of the fallout for thousands of miles learned the horrible lessons of a nuclear "accident." Then came the Three Mile Island miscue in the United States. Remember how authorities there swore they had contained the damage when they had not? Last month a Hanford Washington reactor developed a scary radioactive bubble. Authorities assured the public no danger existed. Mention Marion, Ohio, Paducah, Kentucky two of many memory triggers that recall nuclear mishaps. In the 1970s Cincinnati General Hospital doctors used a Pentagon grant to "treat" cancer patients with whole body radiation. The Pentagon wanted to find out how people would respond in nuclear battlefield conditions. From 1945-1971, the nuclear gang dumped radioactive waste in barrels into the ocean. The barrels have leaked. Recall the above ground tests at the Marshall Islands and other Pacific Atolls, causing terrible human sufferingin the name of National Security, under the façade of fighting the Cold War. The nuclear gang classified information that would have alerted the public to health dangers.

100. ReliefWeb: Ukraine The Latest
26Apr-2004, , UN SG, UN will ensure needs of those traumatized by Chernobylnuclear disaster will not be forgotten, says Secretary-General,
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