CBS：チェルノブイリ後遺症は、２５年後の今も作業者を傷つける

これはチェルノブイリの話だが、、、

記事の最後に、チェルノブイリの放射線格納施設の技師の話として、日本の原発事故では燃料そのものが原子炉容器の外に放出されなかったのだから、その災害規模はまったくちっぽけだとコメントしている。

怖いのは、旧ソ連の補償・保護給付金のことなど、経済不振の中で守れんはと開きなおったり、汚染されている地域がきちんとした情報開示なく（客観的証拠なく）問題ないとして、作物栽培を解禁してしまっていることだ。ソ連では。

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April 25, 2011
Chernobyl's legacy stings workers 25 years later

チェルノブイリ後遺症は、２５年後の今も作業者を傷つける

legacy：後遺症

On anniversary of world's worst nuclear accident, sickened cleanup workers blame leaders for slashed benefits, subpar hospital

世界最悪の原発事故の記念日に、清掃作業者が激減した給付金、基準以下の病院のことで大統領を責める

(AP) MOSCOW - Ex-Soviet governments are failing to protect their people from the deadly legacy of the Chernobyl disaster, former cleanup workers and environmental groups charged Monday on the eve of ceremonies commemorating the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident.

旧ソ連政府が国民をチェルノブイリ災害のひどい後遺症から人々を保護していない、前掃除作業者と環境団体が月曜日、その世界最悪の原発事故の２５回目の記念日を祈念する式典の前夜に、非難した。

charge：〔+that〕〈…であると〉非難[告発]する.

Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have cut the benefits packages for sickened cleanup workers in recent years, and many workers complained directly to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as he handed them awards for their work at a ceremony in Moscow.

ロシア、ウクライナ、及びベラルーシは罹病した掃除作業者に対する給付金パッケージを近年削減しており、多くの作業者がロシアの大統領ドミートリー・メドヴェージェフがモスクワの式典で彼らに仕事への感謝状を手渡した時に彼に直接訴えた。

sickened：病に罹った、complain：訴える

Officials in Bryansk, the Russian region most contaminated by the disaster, have failed to make necessary repairs at the local cancer hospital, worker Leonid Kletsov told the president.

Bryansk：

"It's the only place of rest for us," he said. "Officials promised to renovate it but these promises are still promises."

The blast on April 26, 1986, spewed a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in the most heavily hit areas in Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia. The disaster did not become public knowledge for several days, because Soviet officials released no information until 72 hours after the accident.

spew：

The explosion released about 400 times more radiation than the U.S. atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima. Hundreds of thousands were sickened and once-pristine forests and farmland remain contaminated. The U.N.'s World Health Organization said at a Kiev conference last week that among the 600,000 people most heavily exposed to radiation, 4,000 more cancer deaths than average are expected to be eventually found.

pristine：

Chernobyl has come into renewed focus since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan last month.

For many, the experiences of the people of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine present vivid examples of long-term government mishandling of nuclear catastrophe.

catastrophe：

The government of Belarus says natural disintegration of radiactive materials such as strontium and cesium has allowed the replanting of nearly 40,000 acres of formerly contaminated fields.

disintegration：(放射性元素の)崩壊

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko toured some of those farms on Monday, declaring that "We've saved these lands."

Environmentalist say the fields remain unsafe and the products grown there pose a direct threat to human health.

"Authorities are covering up the facts. Contaminated products get straight to the dinner tables of Belarusians," said Irina Sukhiy, head of the environmental group Ekodom. "There are no clean territories — radiation have spread across the country."

Vladimir Volodin, a Green Party activist, accused the Belarusian authorities of classifying the statistics of diseases in contaminated areas.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill planned to commemorate the victims of the nuclear accident with prayers and candle-lighting in Kiev Monday night before traveling to the Chernobyl station on Tuesday. Medvedev will also be be visiting Chernobyl on Tuesday.

A 19-mile area around the plant has been uninhabited except for occasional plant workers, and several hundred local people who returned to their homes despite official warnings.

Soviet authorities initially offered a generous package of benefits to Chernobyl cleanup workers. But over time the benefits have been cut back.

generous package：

About 2,000 veterans of the Chernobyl clean up rallied in Kiev earlier this month to protest cuts in their benefits and pensions after Ukraine's Yanukovich said fulfilling the past promises to Chernobyl workers was "beyond the government's strength" amid the financial downturn.

benefits and pensions：

Chernobyl veterans in Belarus are facing similar cuts. Authorities in Minsk prohibited a Chernobyl-dedicated march throughout the city, restricting it to a small rally.

Evgeny Akimov, a nuclear engineer and the former head of the Chernobyl containment facility, said he is convinced that the scale of the disaster at the Fukushima plant is far smaller since "no fuel has been discharged outside the reactor vessels."

containment：格納施設

An international donors conference in Kiev last week raised 550 million euros ($798 million) of the 740 million euros needed to build a new shelter over the Chernobyl plant and a storage facility for spent fuel.

raise：〈金を〉調達する，工面する（爺：手を上げるや、価格を上げるではないだろう）