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To: Snowshoe who wrote (98734)	2/5/2005 8:11:41 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 793689

That's an incredible web site re Chernobyl. Here are a few snippets from the photo descriptions... Here is one that caught my eye... "I was a schoolgirl back in 1986 and within a few hours of the accident , dad put all of us on the train to grandma's house. Granny lives 800 kms from here and dad wasn't sure if it was far enough away to keep us out of reach of the big bad wolf of a nuclear meltdown." There is a man who understood the problem and the solution. He was a first mover. He did not wait for the authorities to tell him what to do for his family. Here is the key telling quote from a coupla paragraphs later... "The real panic began 7-10 days after accident. Those who were exposed to the exceedingly high levels of nuclear radiation in the first 10 days when it was still a state secret, incuding unsuspecting visitors to the area, either died or have serious health problems.