"Health risks are ruled out," Topolanek said. The daily Pravo wrote in late February the radar could be dangerous for the people in hot air balloons and gliders who would get into the no-fly zone near the base. The report from a laboratory for electromagnetic fields and radiation was drawn up by Czech experts who examined the radar located in the Marshall Islands. It said if the same radar installations as that stationed in the Pacific island of Kwalein were constructed in the Brdy, the local population would not be exposed to the radiation exceeding the norms set down by a government regulation. A preliminary study unveiled by the military chief sanitary Czech Greens to hold party referendum on radar after NATO summit ...
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German Firms Enjoying Southern Comfort, Weak Dollar ... official last August also said the radar station would not threaten the locals' health. It said the station easily fulfilled sanitation standards within the distance of 800 metres from the radar base, which means within the protection zone. However, local mayors said they did not believe the military report, which was also questioned by opposition Social Democrat (CSSD) leader Jiri Paroubek. He argued that the report was not sufficiently representative and more experts, not only from the military, ought to have been involved. The planned U.S.
radar base in the Czech Republic is rejected by 70 percent of Czechs, while the project is approved of by 23 percent of them, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute CVVM in December. The United States wants to build a radar base in the Czech Republic and a base with ten defence missiles in Poland, both to be elements of the missile shield. The shield is to protect a big part of Europe and the United States against missiles that "rogue" countries like Iran might launch.
(Ceske Noviny)
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