I just saw the Academy Award-nominated “China Syndrome” film again. It predicted the Three Mile Island meltdown that happened 12 days after its theatrical release in l979. The Chernobyl accident followed in l986, where an estimated 4000 were killed.
I got the film from the Sonoma County library and highly recommend it, especially in light of the ongoing problems in Fukushima from its 2011 accident. The film stars the younger Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, and Michael Douglas. It raises profound questions about where our power comes from.<o></o>
Nuclear energy kills!<o></o>
Karl Frederick
12-13-2014, 12:03 AM
Hi Shepherd,
Thanks for the movie recommendation. The often-cited estimate of 4,000 deaths due to the Chernobyl meltdown seems very low when compared with calculations of several organizations found here: https://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2370256/chernobyl_how_many_died.html The International Atomic Energy's estimates of total radiation exposure for example, when used with the so-called "Linear No Threshhold" methodology for calculating estimated deaths, results in an estimate of 60,000 for Chernobyl. Other estimates go nearly to a million. For ongoing news about Fukushima and other radiation hazards, I go to www.enenews.com (https://www.enenews.com)
I just saw the Academy Award-nominated “China Syndrome” film again. It predicted the Three Mile Island meltdown that happened 12 days after its theatrical release in l979. The Chernobyl accident followed in l986, where an estimated 4000 were killed.
I got the film from the Sonoma County library and highly recommend it, especially in light of the ongoing problems in Fukushima from its 2011 accident. The film stars the younger Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, and Michael Douglas. It raises profound questions about where our power comes from.<o></o>
Nuclear energy kills!<o></o>