Radiation: Nowhere To Hide

The Soviet Union had been managing hopelessly sick and disfigured radiation orphans for decades before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster shook the Ukraine.  The Russian atomic weapons research mess at Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains makes the Chernobyl nightmare look inconsequential.

But Russia today is the size of North America.  Lots of remote places to lose abandoned waifs.  Japan, on the other hand, has a land mass that is only twice the area of our tiny Lake Ontario.  Japan has nowhere to hide its nuclear sins.

Japan’s mounting human radiation tragedy should long since have been acknowledged so as to encourage emigration.  In future years, nuclear refugees from Japan will be turned away from every country in the world.  Nowhere to hide.

Where do you stand on this issue?  Raise your hand if you believe there will be no future major earthquakes in Japan?

Our book on nuclear issues entitled Repeat Performance, The Nuclear Age, is available from McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Take a look:

http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780981100012/grant-sirola/repeat-performance?blnBKM=1

This book can also be purchased through the Google Books website.