Innocent human suffering/casualties

The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths (47 accident workers and nine children with thyroid cancer) and estimated that there may be 4000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600 000 most highly exposed people. Although the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and certain limited areas remain off limits, the majority of affected areas are now considered safe for settlement and economic activity due to radioactive decay.

Many will claim that polluting our own lands is an unacceptable cost. However, 200 years of infertile ground in the exclusion zone is absolutely nothing compared to the fact that our ancestors have ruled this land for the last 10 000 – 12 000 years and will continue to rule it for the next 10 000 years.

Inaccuracies in the estimated casualty report

A majority of individuals were exposed to radiation as a direct result of the Soviet Union’s unwillingness to evacuate (one week delay) and their unwillingness to prevent contaminated agricultural products from being distributed. Furthermore, the dictatorship in Belarus deliberately continued to distribute agricultural products from badly contaminated areas to their people (this is the case even today). I have been in Belarus myself and can personally attest to this as I have spoken to tens of people who has no choice but to consume contaminated food. 60% of the fallout landed in Belarus and the dictatorship is still deliberately feeding their own population with contaminated agricultural products.

The real future casualty numbers (attributed to a future attack cell) must therefore be considerably reduced:

Estimated casualty report for “Operation Regime Ender”

· Less than 50 direct deaths

· Less than 1000 future deaths cause by cancer

· Less than 10 000 exposed people.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plume_%28hydrodynamics%29

Understanding Nuclear reactor technology

A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated, controlled, and sustained at a steady rate.

The most significant use of nuclear reactors is as an energy source for the generation of electrical power (see Nuclear power) and for the power in some ships (see Nuclear marine propulsion). This is usually accomplished by methods that involve using heat from the nuclear reaction to power steam turbines.

Components

The key components common to most types of nuclear power plants are:

· Nuclear fuel

· Nuclear reactor core

· Neutron moderator

· Neutron poison

· Coolant (often the Neutron Moderator and the Coolant are the same, usually both purified water)

· Control rods

· Reactor vessel

· Boiler feedwater pump

· Steam generators (not in BWRs)

· Steam turbine

· Electrical generator

· Condenser

· Cooling tower (not always required)

· Radwaste System (a section of the plant handling radioactive waste)

· Refuelling Floor

· Spent fuel pool

· Reactor Protective System (RPS)

· Emergency Core Cooling Systems (ECCS)

· Standby Liquid Control System (emergency boron injection, in BWRs only)

· Containment building

· Control room

· Emergency Operations Facility

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