Re: nice story
We will never know the full toll of the Chernobyl disaster, because no proper death count was kept and the tens of thousands of workers that came and went to clean up after the disaster and engage in construction, etc. were never followed up on. The Soviet government was committed to downplaying the disaster, as are some posters on here.
I'm not trying to make some competition here about what was the worst disaster ever, but I do find trying to minimize the destructive effect of Chernobyl an ineffective argument for nuclear power. Another poster has pointed out that the type of reactor matters in terms of safety, that's a much more effective argument than trying to dismiss what has been a nuclear clusterf**k for the generations, both literally and metaphorically.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
