Final Warning by Carl Gallups

Author:Carl Gallups
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WND Books
Published: 2015-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE WATER?

One of the most striking features of the wormwood prophecy is the mention of the poisoning of the water supply and the people who died from that poisoning. What does the scientific and journalistic community have to say about water contamination from Chernobyl?

Two years after the Chernobyl explosion, the UK Independent reported:

SCIENTISTS monitoring the shelter encasing the ruins of the Chernobyl meltdown have detected signs that it is leaking highly radioactive water capable eventually of causing a “catastrophe” by poisoning the water supply of Ukraine, a country the size of France.

Tests on bore holes around the giant sarcophagus that encloses the remains of Reactor 4, which exploded in 1986 causing the worst nuclear disaster in history, have detected signs of thritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, in subsoil water.

This has raised fears that it could eventually find its way into the nearby Dneiper River, or into the water table, and – after many years – into the drinking water of Ukraine’s 50 million population.8

In Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Rhodes’s book Arsenals of Folly, the third volume in his history of nuclear weaponry, Rhodes gives a vivid description of the Chernobyl blast. Rhodes states that radioactive blocks and pieces of graphite crashed to the ground all around the building. Some of the debris fell into the four-mile-long cooling pond that lay between the Chernobyl plant and the Pripyat River. The river eventually drained into a large reservoir that stored the water supply of Kiev, a city of about 2.5 million people and Russia’s third-largest city.9

Here is the scientific assessment by three Russian scientists from a report twenty-three years after the accident:

The Chernobyl radionuclides concentrate in sediments, water, plants, and animals, sometimes 100,000 times more than the local background level. The consequences of such a shock on aquatic ecosystems is largely unclear. Secondary contamination of freshwater ecosystems occurs as a result of Cs-137 and Sr-90 washout by the high waters of spring. The speed of vertical migration of different radionuclides in floodplains, lowland moors, peat bogs, etc., is about 2-4 cm/year. As a result of this vertical migration of radionuclides in soil, plants with deep root systems absorb them and carry the ones that are buried to the surface again. This transfer is one of the important mechanisms, observed in recent years, that leads to increased doses of internal irradiation among people in the contaminated territories.10

One might ask, “Is water contamination limited merely to Chernobyl and the immediately surrounding area?” Again, we will consult the scientific community for our answer. The following information comes from a 2000 issue of the scientific journal Nature:

Radiocaesium (137Cs) from the 1986 Chernobyl accident has persisted in freshwater fish in a Scandinavian lake for much longer than was expected. On the basis of new data generalizing this observation, we propose that the continuing mobility of 137Cs in the environment is due to the so-called “fixation” process of radiocaesium in the soil tending towards a reversible steady state. Our results enable the contamination of foodstuffs by Chernobyl fallout to be predicted over the coming decades.

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