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dixiegrrrrl

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5. The scariest thing I have ever seen is the new series "Chernobyl"
Wed May 22, 2019, 07:47 PM
May 2019

Because the Soviet gov. under Gorbachov had no clue what radiation was like, and the people in the area were not told of any danger, nor the hospitals receiving the very toxic patients from the plant area.
People living near the reactor were eventually rounded up and bussed away, but only after days of radiation had fallen on them.
death totals were hidden.

Japan was/is not being forthcoming about Fukishima, and rarely is there any news of it, except reports they are now dumping radioactive water into the ocean because of lack of any storage space.

The US Navy ships that were near Fukishima were contaminated, crewmen have died, others are ill, and again not for prime time news.







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