Heart defects found in 5 Russian hockey players

[Blood On The Ice 15]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-r...p&type=lgns Edited November 12, 2008 by Blood On The Ice

[06TJSport 0]

Jiri

Damn, you beat me with the ninja edit

Edited November 12, 2008 by 06TJSport

[Blood On The Ice 15]

Jiri

Damn, you beat me with the ninja edit

lol, yup, realized my mistake as soon as I hit that button.

[DRAPES RULES 7]

radiation from Chernobyl disaster ??

[BuckeyeWingsfan80 209]

radiation from Chernobyl disaster ??

Nah I'm guessing it stems from their diet(s) growing up....

[Reds4Life 51]

radiation from Chernobyl disaster ??

Yeah sure.

Chernobyl is not in Russia btw.

[seeinred 1,488]

That spokeman isn't Marat Safin the tennis player, is it?

[DRAPES RULES 7]

Yeah sure.

Chernobyl is not in Russia btw.

Yes I am aware it is in Northern Ukraine but which way did the cloud of fallout travel ?

[uk_redwing 495]

Yes I am aware it is in Northern Ukraine but which way did the cloud of fallout travel ?

It went North West towards Scandanavia and the UK

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Chernobyl disaster

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Chernobyl nuclear reactor after the disaster. Reactor 4 (image center). Turbine building (image lower left). Reactor 3 (center right)

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Northern Ukraine). It was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only instance of level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, resulting in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor. Two people died in the initial steam explosion, but most deaths from the accident were attributed to fallout.

On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:44 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR, exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Four hundred times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.[1]

The plume drifted over extensive parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data,[2] about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

[uk_redwing 495]

The plume drifted over extensive parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America. Large areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia were badly contaminated, resulting in the evacuation and resettlement of over 336,000 people. According to official post-Soviet data,[2] about 60% of the radioactive fallout landed in Belarus.

Well, the radiation went WORLDWIDE so that bit or writing is a waste of typing. The main radioactive cloud was blown north west though. Ukraine and Belarus got most of the radiation fallout that was actually strong enough to be harmful to life. Russia was hardly hit at all.

Edit: Heres a map of the main radiation spread:

Edited November 12, 2008 by uk_redwing

[DRAPES RULES 7]

This map begs to differ with you.

[j.hoop 64]

russian potatoes !!

[finalfilppula 2]

meow.

[uk_redwing 495]

This map begs to differ with you.

Well your little map shows radiation levels where I live in England to have been as high as those in Russia...and as we're all fine here its safe to say your map is a bit over the top.