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The article itself meets the various requirements of a good article. I'd like to seem some more in-article references, but otherwise, its ok. I cna agree in some respects with the comments listed below. However, my assessment is derived from the article as presented, not where it might be merged or what it is duplicative of. SkipperClipper 02:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I do not think this topic should exist both here and on the Chernobyl disaster page.
Either the entire article should be moved from the main page to here, leaving only the link, or this page should be removed leaving the topic on the main page.
Linking out while the topic remains on the main page leaves two pages to be updated by editors and a comparison between the two shows that the main page is being updated far more frequently than this one. BRT01 02:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
This article should be incorporated into the Chernobyl disaster article. There is already information regarding the effects on that page, and a certain amount of redundancy exists between the two. They should be merged and rationalized.
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I'm against the merger, as the disaster effects is a long enough, and important enough, article to stand on its own. It looks like the redundancy in the main article as already been taken out. Topkai22 10:12, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I think there should be a section or Whole page to the Red Forest. Right now 'Red Forest' redirects Chernobyl disaster effects. I would like to help on the new section or page Max 16:12, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I also agree that the Red Forest article should be merge with this one, the red forest is definatly an effect of the Chernobyl disaster and hence should be on this page Would also love to help with the new section
There aren't barely any citations, and death counts are so low you might expect them to come from old sources of soviet propaganda —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.39.207.98 ( talk • contribs).
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This article does not present the controversy in a neutral light. The various reports on health effects must be contrasted against the internationally accepted UNSCEAR and IAEA reports. I'm not trying to downplay the controversy, but to only show reports saying that there are tens of thousands of deaths and to not include the official UN reports saying that there are essentially none, is dishonest. See the UNSCEAR report at: http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html#Health I feel that presenting the various reports in order based on severity will help greatly. Lwnf360 20:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
All reports should be included. It is arguable The UN report was corrupted. It had people from the nuclear industry lobby on it so was just a consensus report. The nuclear lobby try to claim only 56 people died. Even though most series medical studies claim tens of thousands have died from cancer, not including the other illness issues. Plus even the UN report did not say barely anyone died it said between 4000 and 9000 died. Why do you claim it said no one died. The nuclear lobby is corrupt in the extreme to spread these lies.
Utter rubbish ? The IAEA and UNSCEAR are nuclear lobby groups. Why would a undemocratic nuclear lobby group be more reliable for deaths due to the nuclear industry, than charities. Such groups are corrupt. The UN report was just a consensus report. But I suppose big corporations always honest just like the banks and tobacco companies. No, they are not - they are United Nations Scientific Comittees, like the IPCC is for Climate Change, representing scientific consensus. This consensus is sometimes against commercial interests of powerful lobby groups, just watch the "climate change" debate. Of course there are commercial interests in attacking science interfering here as well, after all, some of the anti-nuclear lobby-groups use images of deformed children as means to attract funds, could you imagine anything more disgusting than that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thalb2003 ( talk • contribs) 21:22, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
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Chernobyl contamination effect in Finland http://www.stuk.fi/sateilytietoa/sateily_ymparistossa/tshernobyl/cesiumlaskeuma/fi_FI/laskeuma/
This is from Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority ( http://www.stuk.fi/en_GB/)
If anyone has or knows of a map we can use for this article, it would be much appreciated. Without a map displaying Cesium-137 (or other radioactive isotope) deposition over the entire European continent the article seems to emphasize the local effects. For example, Scandinavia and Switzerland received substantial radiation. A good (but possibly unsuitable for Wikipedia due to copyright) map is here. - kslays ( talk • contribs) 22:22, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
another Map: http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/14898/chernobyl_fallout.jpg Interpolated: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-vY_1ru3dNYg/TYYwFNf7jbI/AAAAAAAABEc/6KBJsOEc-sU/s1600/zz+Chernobyl2.jpg GLOBAL Simulation: http://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=Radioactive_fall-out_from_the_Chernobyl_accident.jpg Is it True that Turky Area was That strongly affected???
It is a Very strange thing, like a WEAPON DESIGN preparing EUROPEAN Ground, that all east of Moskow is NOT affected....
-- Wikistallion ( talk) 12:51, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
There is nothing neutral about this article. For example, "There are reports of mutations in some plants in the area, leading to unsubstantiated tales of a "forest of wonders" containing many strangely mutated plants. Specifically, some trees have weirdly twisted branches that do not reach for the sky." The citation following it does not have "unsubstantiated tales", it is a BBC article quoting a radioecologist. Nor does it say anything about a "forest of wonders". Throughout the article, an anti-nuclear person or group "claims", "accuses", etc. and a pro-nuclear group or study "states" and "describes". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.81.170.239 ( talk) 23:37, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
I suggest we remove the Neutrality tag on the article. This isn't a great article, but it appears to neutrally describe the different opinions about human effects. The article has been tagged since December 2007, so any burst of good editing from the tagging has probably settled down. Right now I think the tag puts inappropriate doubt on the many well cited contents of the article.
I did remove a bunch of uncited material that clearly contradicted information in Wormword forest by Mary Mycio.
If no-one responds in the next two days, I'll remove the neutrality tag myself. - Enuja ( talk) 18:32, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I have just removed a perfectly valid citation from a WP:RS because it contradicts the text. This, of course, is the wrong way around, so expect an adjustment to the text shortly. -- Old Moonraker ( talk) 17:34, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
“ | Estimates of the amount of this material that escaped range from 5 to 30 percent, but some liquidators, who have actually been inside the sarcophagus and the reactor shell itself — e.g. Mr. Usatenko and Dr. Karpan — state that not more than 5–10% of the fuel remains inside; indeed, photographs of the reactor shell show that it is completely empty. Because of the intense heat of the fire, much of the ejected fuel was lofted high into the atmosphere (with no containment building to stop it), where it spread. | ” |
Er, yes, the pressure vessel is empty; the fuel melted and slumped to the bottom of the building. That's why it needs a lot of cooling water. This does not mean that it has left the building entirely. Unfortunately, there are a lot of completely uncited assertions in this article, of varying degrees of plausibility. If someone would like to take it on... 71.41.210.146 ( talk) 01:15, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
I was unable to find the publication that has the conflicting statements on the site of the French institute for Radioprotection itself. The link in the text only leads to the site of the radiostation RFI, not to the report. Does someone know which report it is, exactly?
GilHamiltonTheArm ( talk) 20:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
The article references a documentary of very questionable scientific validity. Either the reference to the documentary should be removed, or alternatively, the reliability of the documentary should be stated to be low. I made an alteration to the article, but this was reverted by a user called John - I would invite John (and indeed others) to give an adequate reason as to why the reference to the documentary should be included in the article without pointing to the inaccuracies, and lack of reliability of the documentary which to anyone with any scientific background are glaringly apparent, failing which I will revert to the previous page Leor klier ( talk) 02:14, 14 March 2011 (UTC) Leor Klier
I was an official UK delegate at this first meeting on the skin lesions seen at Chernobyl (www.armadale.org.uk/chernobyl.htm). Has anyone ever seen an official report of this meeting? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr John Wells ( talk • contribs) 07:00, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
The article as it stands contains many statements that are not organised into relevant sections and occur somewhat as non-sequiturs. Also, discussions of human health effects are spread through many sections, and mostly relegated to late in the article, in two sections that seem to have roughly the same purpose: "Chernobyl Forum report and criticisms" (which actually has a lot of material relating to health effects more broadly, rather than just in the context of the Chernobyl Forum's report) and "Controversy over human health effects".
If I have time, I shall try to restructure things a bit more sensibly. Thanks for your patience, and feel free to help! Fuzzypeg ★ 01:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I came to this article looking for the answer to one important question: When will Chernobyl be safe again; that is, when will all the radiation have subsided to safe levels (hundreds of years?, thousands?) and life can get back to normal. I scanned through the article and couldn't find the answer. I think it deserves its own subsection if anyone knows. 5Q5 ( talk) 11:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
What would you consider "safe level" 0? never. "2 x natural background": ready to go. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thalb2003 ( talk • contribs) 21:27, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
I've flagged the article for undue weight because it gives quite extensive coverage to fringe views on the effects of the Chernobyl incident. The WHO report is analogous to the IPCC's analysis of climate change. It represents the most rigorous research by the top scientists in the relevant fields, and thus represents the scientific consensus on the matter. There will always be dissenting views with radically different conclusions, and we should report the most notable of these, but (just as with climate change) they should be given equal weight to the mainstream scientific consensus analysis. - Helvetica ( talk) 19:07, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
I've edited out a claim that the Ukrainian Health Minister attributed 428000 injuries to Chernobyl. There is a reference attached to an article in French where the claim appears to have originated. It is a claim in the article that the quote comes from the Ukrainian Health Ministry ministère which has been mistranslated. But there is simply no evidence that either the Minister or the Ministry ever said it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graemem56 ( talk • contribs) 08:40, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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This sentence is in one of the first paragraphs. Don't know how it was supposed to end but I just wanted to point out that there is a missing part here.
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