Belarusian Chernobyl Tragedy
April
26, 2006 marks 20th
anniversary of Chernobyl
Nuclear Disaster - disaster that not only spilled 70% of its radioactive outburst on Belarus,
but also contaminated entire Europe. Recent
International Atomic Energy Agency report stating that effects of
Chernobyl are overblown is still shocking hundreds
of millions of people affected by Chernobyl and hundreds
of thousands of volunteers around the World involved in Chernobyl
charities. The report has projected only 4,000
deaths related to Chernobyl. This is absolutely unbelievable
considering that 700,000 "liguidators" were directly on site
involved in reactor containment and millions of people live in
radioactively contaminated areas. New
Study Challanges IAEA Report on Chernobyl Consequencesl: Finds Death
Toll Likely to be 30-60,000. Greenpeace condemned the findings,
accusing the IAEA of "whitewashing" the impacts of the
accident."Denying the real implications is not only insulting the
thousands of victims -- who are told to be sick because of stress and
irrational fear -- but it also leads to dangerous recommendations, to
relocate people in contaminated areas," said Jan Vande Putte of
Greenpeace International.Greenpeace
new study reveals death toll of Chernobyl enormously underestimated In
a recently issued report Greenpeace estimates that more
than 90,000 people were likely to die of cancers caused by radiation from
the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, countering a
United Nations report that predicted the death toll would be around 4,000.
This page is an attempt to compile information on Chernobyl disaster, its influence on
Belarus and to inform about international charity organizations helping my little country
to fight this horrible inheritance. Ironically Belarus doesn't have a single nuclear power
plant on it's territory. But it is surrounded by a ring of power stations of our
neighbors: Ignaline station in Lithuania, Smolensk station in Russia and Chernobyl station
in Ukraine. The rose of winds on April 26, 1986 was such that 70% of radioactive dust had
fallen on Belarus. Of this 70% most of radioactive contamination had been done in Homel'
and Mahilyou oblast's (administrative units). The story of Chernobyl is not over yet. It
is kept under secret by both Ukrainians, Russians, and international
organizations. Nobody
have been punished for initiating idiotic experiments that lead to disaster on Chernobyl
nuclear power plant. It is unknown even whether next explosion should be expected since
the nuclear reaction on the facility is not stopped and radioactive water vapor still
exhausts time to time into the air. I hope that this site would yield to the world's
community awareness of Chernobyl disaster and people fighting its sequences.
List
of Chernobyl Relief Organizationsd
Facts about
Chernobyl Disasterd's
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