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"Mr President, today we remember the accursed day of the Chernobyl accident. We still do not know how many people died. We do not know how many people we need to remember today. Some talk of 4 000, Greenpeace talks of 93 000 and we still do not know what the exact figure will ultimately be. People are still dying. Caesium has an active cycle of 35 years. Twenty years have gone by, meaning that cancer will be lodged in the human body for another 15 years. Deaths from thyroid cancer have multiplied a hundredfold. There have been a great many deaths from leukaemia and this evil will not stop and will continue for a great many years.
They are already preparing a new 'frame' to cover Chernobyl. At some point they have poured 200 metres of concrete and there are still leaks. So they are going to make a steel cover that will cost several billion euros, in a country in which pensions have been a mere EUR 20 a month for the last 100 years. The fatal radioactive materials will be there for 100 000 years. So that you understand how long we are talking about, Christ died just 2 000 years ago and Noah's flood was just 5 000 years ago. So just imagine how many thousands of years it will be active. What conclusion do we need to draw? That this is very, very dangerous yet, at the same time, the number of nuclear stations is multiplying.
The Commissioner said that Bulgaria has promised to close Kozludy. Yes, this is a promise, but he did not tell us that Bulgaria is already building another nuclear station a few kilometres away, just 50 kilometres from the second largest city in Greece and less than 1 000 kilometres from Rome as the crow flies. If, therefore, a similar incident occurs, you understand what damage and how many deaths we shall have in Europe.
All of us here – in one of the biggest parliaments in the world – must find the courage and vote and talk and argue against nuclear power. We must call for nuclear disarmament. Turkey is already building three nuclear stations and I do not want to say that Turkish and Bulgarian engineers are more inferior to Soviet engineers who, if nothing else, were the first in this field and still suffered the accident. However, if some terrorist were to launch a missile at such a station, do you understand what the damage would be? The probable damage is huge compared to the economic benefit that nuclear stations can bring to the energy problem. We need to weigh up the evil and take important initiatives.
I must also report the following sad fact: this year Greece does not have enough soldiers. Do you know why? Because there were 3 500 miscarriages immediately after Chernobyl and we lost a lot of children who could have been in the army today. We must therefore pay very careful attention to our future, to the future of our children and to the future of the next generations. Democracy needs courage."@en1
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