From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Just under 800 km. Look at this page:
http://www.taiwanwatch.org.tw/english/chernobyl-1.htm

The first picture has the radiation fallout show in yellow, and it reaches
over Helsinki - that's where I lived at the time, in Helsinki. Luckily for
us, the winds turned just when the fallout hit us, so it didn't enter
further inlands and what came here was quite quickly blown away.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:406cbdfb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> How far away are you from where the accident happened?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:406c2d1c{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I was 12 at the time of the accident, and I remember it clearly. My aunt
> had
> > all her hair fall out, every last bit of it, in about two weeks, and we
> had
> > people here wear gas masks on the streets as if it would help - but we
> > didn't know anything about what had happened until about a week later,
it
> > was kept a secret in a desperate attempt to try to sweep it all under a
> rug.
> >
> > Had the winds blown in a bit different way, things might look very
> different
> > here today. Reading that website was really frightening to me.
> >
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
>
>
>

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