Nuclear Nightmares
Nuclear Nightmares talks about how “radiophobia”, the fear of radioactivity, is widespread and yet not based on scientific evidence. After the Chernobyl accident, a lot of death toll numbers appeared in the news, some close to 400.000 people dead, but the reality is the only 57 (yes, 57) deaths can be directly or indirectly linked to the accident.
It appears that low doses of radiation are not harmful, since the body already has methods of defense. Only after a certain threshold, radiation begins to harm the body. More than that, low doses of radiation seem to start the genes responsible with the protection against cancer, therefore the number of cases of cancer in regions with higher than normal background radiation is actually lower.
Of course, it was normal for people to fear radiation during the Cold War and now, as our fossil fuel reserves are close to depletion, nuclear energy is something desperately needed to compensate. How much of this documentary was actually about dispelling the exaggerated fear of radiation and how much was about promoting nuclear power is for you to decide.
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Of course cases of cancer around Chernobyl are lower, because most young people moved out to the cities and they contribute to rise of cancer cases there. Nuclear power plants are not ecological or chep either, but they are a nice way of making money pretending you’re “green”. And according to CNN there’s about 50 leaks a year just in EU from nuclear power plants.
if you watched this you will have noticed that they monitor the health of all people linked to Chernobyl. so watch the movie before commenting.
i’d really like to see the end of this doc, if anyone knows where to find it.
Ok only 57 deaths related directly or indirectly to Chernobyl….GOOD GOD!! There were 2000 PEOPLE KILLED IN THE EXPLOSION not to mention the many more THOUSANDS that were called in to fight the fires and then build that hastily constructed “toomb” that is about to colapse. Hell, just the thought of the people that died from those 2 things alone makes alot of the GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS cry! Only 57 deaths…hey, take a look at the documentary on here called Chernobyl Heart….or better yet…GO THERE and take a look at the “abandonded babies homes” and talk with the WESTERN doctors (not just from america) that are fixing the defects…how many of the kids that were born right around that time have Thyroid Cancer and/or holes in their hearts (the affliction that the documentary Chernobyl Heart gets it name from)
there REALLY should be a law against people putting things like this out…it causes problems…causes people to think that things like Chernobyl and the effects of a disaster like that are “nothing”
i mean GOOD GOD! 57 deaths…i cant believe that the people that made this documentary would have the balls to say that!
i guess all the people that died at the reactor and from fixing the reactor and all the kids that have died of cancer got it from what….eating borched?
Reba is right, far more than 57 people were killed by the Chernobyl disaster. All those helicopter pilots, clean up crews and scientists, not to mention the surrounding civilian popluation that was not immediately evacuated.
57 is a small number compared to the hundreds and possibly thousands of people who have died producing energy the conventional way. How many people have died in the west as a result from nuclear energy? I think the number is one from the three mile island incident. If you watched the documentary without gawking and disgusting yourself over it, Mike C, you would have noticed that they also tested the animals there that hadn’t been removed from the excluded zone. Those animals showed no sign of having any higher rates of cancer or defects compared to other animals in other areas. Man, it’s like you just went off into a little rage all to yourself, stuck your fingers in your ears and closed your eyes.
And Reba, where did you get the information that 2,000 people died in the explosion? As far as I’m aware, two people died as a result of the actual explosion. In my eyes, you’re filled with misinformation and that means you’re in no position to argue anything. Ta ta!
I recommend watching another documentary about the subject. Its called the battle of chernobyl.They did a really good job on this one. I think it might be on this website under the military section. Of course the soviet union lies. Thats what they do. 57 was the number of deaths that they fed to everyone to make themselves look good.
I think it is great that people have an opinion. I agree with the previous statements. Is it not interesting that radiation is a problem. We live in a universe of radiation. Starts to sound like global warming upstarts. I love documentaries, especially when I can get real info, but really some of these “docs” are tv global retards. I hope there are people being critical of the nature of information.
the death toll of 57 is pure misinformation on behalf of the Then Russian government, they deliberately underplayed the figures no-one will EVER know how many deaths can be directly attributed to the incident and I mean no-one. the Russian Government did not take steps to document the incident both during and after. Its interesting but the malignancy of the disaster is such that we try to wipe the true nature of it from memory and the impetus to do so is furthered by the rising cost of fuels and so on.
Oh and a further note to those who say that animals in the surrounding area show no signs of cancers etc. that’s mainly because those animals that develop deformities obviously die out due to natural selection as they cannot feed, meaning that only healthy animals are observed by scientists.