Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

By Patricia Jordan

On April 26, 1986, one reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded in the Ukraine, emitting deadly radiation 100 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Five hundred thousand men worked for seven months to build the sarcophagus that encases the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Hundreds of thousands of those men died from exposure to lethal doses of radiation.

Thousands of babies have been born with terrible deformities because of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster released more than four times the amount of radioactive cesium-137 leaked during the Chernobyl disaster.







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Conference on The Nuclear Danger: Nuclear War and Nuclear Power

Dr Helen Caldicott, Montreal, March 18, 2011

"The International Atomic Agency which promotes nuclear power has an unholy alliance with the World Health Organization which says you must not examine any nuclear accidents unless we say you can. Therefore, WHO says only 56 people died at Chernobyl. 

However, the New York Academy of Science has just, to its credit, translated 5,000 papers from Russian because there were very few papers written in English because no one wanted to find out. Almost a million people have died as a result of Chernobyl. … Forty percent of the European landmass is currently radioactive. There are farms in England whose lambs are so full of caesium 137 they can't be sold on the market.

Do not buy European food ever because you don't know what's radioactive and what is not. It will be radioactive for 100s or 1000s of years. Turkey got a hell of a fallout and the Turkish government was so annoyed with Russia, it picked all of its radioactive tea and sent it back to Russia. But you'll see your health food shops are full of dried Turkish apricots, dried Turkish tomatoes and the like."


"Plutonium has a half life of 24,400 years so it lasts about a half a million years. … Plutonium, you only need 5 kilos to make a bomb and each reactor makes 500, no, 250 KG a year. It's so toxic that a microgram is carcinogenic, that's a millionth of a gram. Hypothetically, if you could take a pound of plutonium and distribute that in every person's lung on earth, that's enough to kill every person on earth. Each of those six reactors (Fukushima, Japan) contain more than 250 KG of plutonium."