• Question: Chernobyl was quite a while a go now, how come we haven't seen any superheroes yet? What would be the most likely super power?

    Asked by timrichards to Chris, Kay, Kerstin, Lorna, Liv on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Kerstin Zechner

      Kerstin Zechner answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Unfortunately, the opposite really happened, with a lot of kids being born with birth-defects (here’s a link to a picture, it’s a little disturbing: ).

    • Photo: Kay Penicud

      Kay Penicud answered on 18 Mar 2010:

      I don’t think there will be any superpowers, unfortunately a lot of people in the area when the disaster happened came down with cancer.

      If I could have any superhero power it would definitely be to fly! what about you?

    • Photo: Olivia Hibbitt

      Olivia Hibbitt answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      Hey timrichards,

      the superheros are among us!! Actually Chernoble is quite interesting, it was such a huge disaster everyone was expecting a HUGE number of deaths in the surrounding areas but this hasn’t happened. they now think that the effects of radiation have been overestimated. This is because a lot of the research on this was done in the aftermath of hiroshima and nagasaki. They created a graph that plotted deaths from radiation against amount of exposure and it looked like a straight line. Now we think that it actually looks more like a J…….that a little bit of radiation is a bit protective! If you take a rat for example and keep it in a lead lined box……so protected from all forms of radiation it will actually develop tumours! It’s thought that a little bit of radiation helps keep the DNA repair mechanisms in top shape….kind of like training!!

    • Photo: Chris Needham

      Chris Needham answered on 19 Mar 2010:

      rainman?

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