Chernobyl: 25 years later

An April 2011  report by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) finds, “Particularly tragic is the fate of the thousands of children who were born dead or died in infancy, who were born with malformations and hereditary diseases, or who are forced to live with diseases they would not have developed under normal circumstances.”

Nuclear power remains inherently dangerous to all life forever. The failure of its multiple barrier systems to contain timelessly harmful radiation in routine and cumulative contaminating radioactive releases to the land, air and water, by tragic nuclear accidents like Chernobyl and now Fukushima, or ultimately after decades, centuries and milliniuems, the inevitable release of toxic nuclear waste to the environment and upon succeeding generations demonstrate the monumental irresponsibility to continue the operation of nuclear power and the construction of new reactors.