21st March 2011, 02:04 PM
After 20 years of spending huge amount of cash researching the Chernobyl incident, the official enquiry struggled to find any detectable effects on the human population (apart from the firemen and power-station staff killed in the original fire) and settled on a statistically insignificant small number of thyroid cancer cases as their token additional long-term fatalities (and they didn't even seem to be very convinced by those) - indeed the wildlife around the plant is all digustingly healthy, if a bit radioactive (as indeed are all those Cumbrian sheep that we the taxpayers are still paying their owners compensation for)...considering their severe exposure to cosmic radiation (typically the equivalent of 10-15000 medical X-rays/year), why aren't all airline air-crew dead? :face-stir: