However, I would like to question a few details, and if possible, away from this forum. However that may not be possible.

Please dont get me wrong, I am not from the anti scene or a ill-informed greenie; after all I supplied goods and services to the construction of the largest copper/uranium mine to be established in this country during the 1980?s. My business supplied from woe to go, and with all the opposition that one could imagine.

In addition, on that fatal night of 1986, I was monitoring Engineering Telemetry from the Amateur & Scientific spacecraft UO11 (University of Surrey Satellite 11) when suddenly things appeared to go horribly wrong. Yes, in its earth synchronous orbit, and probably only 300kM from earth at the time, it went ballistic! It did not tell lies. The spread of radionuclides was catastrophic.

This personal statement surprised me a little;
the truth is there has been no birth defects or other nonsense the anti-nuclear groups would have you believe) but nature has faired far better than anyone thought.

How could this be so? For example they have told you that;

and more than 100 times the radionuclides of Hirsohima and Nagasaki combined were hurled into the air

You see LP, the remnants of those two cities are just starting to ?rear their ugly heads? and that event took place some 60 years ago. Yes both you and I were only thoughts then, but have a look at the facts surrounding that area today. Pretty grim, too sad to even talk about. Cherno was only say 17 years ago as you mentioned.

What I am trying to say is, weigh up very carefully what the *Authorities* would like us to believe , and expect us as idiots to take as fact. All the worldly bodies can say ?but nature has faired far better than anyone thought?, but it is far from the truth. Mmmm ?.?

You see literature and research is so sparse, in this complex and unforgiving science, that we may not even know the facts for another one hundred years. That is quite possible from past experience with material of this nature.

As an analogy, I could from experience, go out and say to the public tomorrow, that mobile phones (in the 1GHz range), are going to induce a brain tumour within a very short space of time, do not use them. I have seen excessive users of mobile phones all fall with brain tumours, many of them.

But is my statement fact? Unknown. Time will tell. RF is being spewed all over this planet in 2003, is it normal? Was the human designed for this sort of stuff? Is any life biogeographically suited to this form of contamination? I tend to want to err on the safe side.

This is a very interesting observation;

the World Health and UNSCER studies show the environmental damage was relativley minor. (Maybe not so in Belarus to the north.)

I think your Belarus comment was spot on, believe me LP, start looking at the data surrounding this region and the resulting tragedy that has followed. I tend to want to believe data more than the Globalised Opinion Makers.

Have a look at the data from Belarus, see some of the Children of Cherno Charities, they are not doing it for fun ! They have been told a LIE in my judgement.

I certainly appreciated your experience, I trust others will, and most of all, I trust truth will prevail.

Thanks for sharing "Biggles" !
J