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What about the consequences of the Tchernobyl incident? I mean, sure, 50 guys died directly because the USSR sent them on the roof of the reactor building to clean up radioactive iode (iodin? I'm not sure of the english term), but what about the hundreds of thousands of people that now live with a 10 or 20 times bigger chance of having lung/thyroid cancer by the simple act of living close to the area? Did you hear about the amount of child malformation in the area directly near Tchernobyl?

( source: http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/Chernobyl/pdfs/pr.pdf )

More importantly, do we measure the viability of a power source by the death by TWh? Because you leave away a whole bunch of things if you only consider deaths.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm all for nuclear energy. In my country (France), you can't live further than 200km from a nuclear plant because we have so many reactors.

But I think we should not minimise the impact of a nuclear leak. It's immensely more serious that a coal plant fire, where the only consequences are wiped by 2 month of wind and rain. When you fuck up with Uranium and Plutonium, it's on a scale of centuries.

I got the bone aches too, had to resort to morphine at one point. The chemo was hard, indeed.

Did you get some immunotherapy for the treatment ?

Had pneumothorax when I was 18 after a quite long rock climbing session. I'm no smoker and no drinker, FWIW.

It was drained but reoccurred a few weeks later, and then 3 times more. At the end it was fixed by pleurectomy, which is quite a big operation, but since then no problem (it was 10years ago).

So... Hope it was a glitch for you but if not, it is treatable and heals fine.

What is your gear? I read you use waterproof camera (and I imagine lenses?), which one is it?