V. M. Chemousenko This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. Book Excerpts: "Chernobyl, Insight from the Inside", 1991 book by Vladimir M. Chernousenko

   www.ratical.org/radiation/Cher - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/1/1991   Last Visited: 8/12/2001

   Samoilenko , General Director of the Task Force , V. V. Golubev , Engineering Director , and the author of this book , V. M. Chemousenko , Scientific Director. It was only by withholding information from the medical authorities about the high radiation doses they had received that they could accomplish their grim task in the Special Zone. For Vladimir Chemousenko the rectification work is anything but completed. This is why the author , in addition to his above-mentioned functions , has devoted himself to paving the way to establish an international scientific research center in Chernobyl , whose task it would be to investigate the effects of the disaster on man and nature. The first legal steps towards this goal were taken in 1991. The author's chief motivation for writing this book is that he considers it vitally important that the world should be told the unvarnished truth about the scale and consequences of the disaster , the legacy of which will remain with us for many generations. He presents realistic estimates and new unpublished hard data from various reliable sources about the radiation pollution caused by the accident. The figures prove to be much higher than anyone dared assume up to now. We are confronted with horrendous numbers regarding the radiation pollution of the soil and aquifers in the Soviet Union. On the basis of these data , it is estimated that a territory of a least 100 , 000 km^2 is so polluted as to be uninhabitable. There are even estimates of an amount three times as high. The author's greatest concern is the well-being of the people still living in this huge territory. Many of those who are still living in the polluted areas want to leave , but the problems posed by local administration and bureaucracy do not allow them to do so.