[LMB] OT: Sad link of the day

[Bear Master]

On Jan 1, 2008 9:37 AM, James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Bear Master wrote:
>
> > On Dec 31, 2007 4:29 PM, Marilyn Traber <mtraber251 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGLRrQEBqAs
> >>
>
SNIP

>        Not to encourage the wanton use of nuclear weapons but while I
> think we all learned an important lesson about not getting drunken
> engineers to build reactors from flammable materials [1] before allowing
> bureaucrats to run extremely poorly thought-out safety tests from
> Chernobyl, the death toll so far has been comparatively low: United
> Nations Scientific Committee of the Effects of Atomic Radiation puts the
> total so far at about 57.
>
Ofically.

"Valdimar Shevchenko['s] . . . name is not among the victims of Chernobyl
accident, neither [he nor the] crew of crushed MI-8 helecopter are
considered to be casualties of Chernobyl accident."

Yes, casualties could have easily been a lot higher.