NH #671: Chernobyl Lies by World Health Org. – Chernobyl Truth with Alison Katz of Independent WHO – a Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC
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This Week’s Nuclear Hotseat CLASSIC: Independent W.H.O.’s Alison Katz on World Health Organization’s Chernobyl Cover-up
We continue our commemoration of the 38th year since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a reprise of one of Nuclear Hotseat’s most CLASSIC episodes.
- Chernoby Truth, World Health Organization Lies Revealed – Alison Katz is a psychologist and sociologist who heads Independent WHO. The international watchdog group – based in Geneva, Switzerland – draws attention to the World Health Organization’s failure in its duty to protect those populations who are victims of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl and, later, Fukushima. The group held a vigil in front of WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, five days a week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., beginning on April 26, 2007 – the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Originally recorded for Nuclear Hotseat #118, September 17, 2013, the material covered is still relevant and important.
Chernobyl Truth – Other Excellent Information Sources:
- Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown. Superb accounting of the health devastation of Chernobyl, constructed from over three years of investigation into medical archives in eastern Europe.
- Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higgenbotham. NOTE: the author does a superb job reconstructing the horrors of Chernobyl, but then goes full-on pro-nuke during the final chapter, citing statistics from only the pro-nuclear WHO, IAEA, and UNSCEAR. I recommend that you skip that chapter and read the rest of the book for its narrative of nuclear lies, miscalculations, cover-ups, and destruction of people and the environment. In particular, the description of the physical devastation of high level radiation exposure is comparable to the visuals provided in the HBO series.)
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No official Numnutz of the Week this week, but if there were one, this would be it: Vodka brewed by The Chernobyl Spirit Company, “a Social Enterprise producing high quality (and safe!) spirits made from crops harvested near Chernobyl.” <!!!> I don’t care if – as they proudly state – at least 75% of profits go to helping rebuild communities in Ukraine impacted first by Chernobyl and now by the war, I don’t believe their claims of safety “where land can’t officially be used for agriculture.”