Posted on 04/26/2022 2:23:51 AM PDT by sodpoodle
The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the environment, with the deposition of radioactive materials in many parts of Europe. Two Chernobyl plant workers died due to the explosion on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation syndrome. The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has concluded that, apart from some 5000 thyroid cancers (resulting in 15 fatalities), "there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident." Some 350,000 people were evacuated as a result of the accident, but resettlement of areas from which people were relocated is ongoing. On 24 February Ukraine informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that Russian forces had taken control of all facilities at Chernobyl (see below). On 9 March the Chernobyl nuclear plant was disconnected from the electricity grid. The IAEA stated that it did not see a critical impact on safety as a result.
(Excerpt) Read more at world-nuclear.org ...
It’s fictional. Fatalities were hidden. It was illegal for doctors to report deaths due to radiation etc. Many more died, particularly first to go were doctors treating men taken from the control room heavily contaminated. No protection used to contain the radioactive waste all over them, and hospital staff were first contact, and prolonged interaction. Tip of the iceberg. History will never know how many died, just the stories of those who were there indicating extreme suffering and death.
(was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel)
Purposely crippled the backup cooling system, as I understand it, to run a test at low power.
Predictably, they had a runaway in seconds. Foolhardy at best.
It was this event I first heard the term “Liquidaters” used. 😞
Who were scared ****less of the state.
Can't leave that part out.
Chernobyl fallout levels can date wine
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/chernobyl-fallout-levels-can-date-wine-97133/
36 years!!!!!
There is a ‘standard’ that existed for Soviet nuke plants....with mandated take-downs for maintenance on a ridged schedule. To accomplish this....you needed a highly valued/costly diesel-run power station to be there, and gradually bring down the plant....safely.
So this Russian power station PhD guy dreamed up this sequence...that the nuke plant itself would provide alternate power through most of the sequence, and these costly diesel stations would just be taken out of the requirement...thus saving money/time.
The guy went to Moscow and presented the idea to the heads of the nuke power leadership. They eventually agreed to this. I don’t think Gorbachev or his ‘dozen’ around him knew any of this...as the plan was laid out.
The guy arrives at Chernobyl and presents the order. They can’t argue about it, but they will adhere to the schedule. So this guy has a couple of weeks before this one plant is to be down for maintenance.
X-day arrives, and in the process of his experiment...he failed to grasp that back-up sequences were in the system, and prevent his idea from occurring. Once down...the Chernobyl folks refused to participate in his experiment any longer. Things were safe.
So the engineer goes back to Moscow...asking for a second chance. They agree, but hint this is it....no further tests after this.
Couple of months go by, and another plant is up for maintenance. This time, he takes off the back-up processes. Naturally, his idea fails, and the rest is history.
Far as I know...the guy just disappeared after this. Not sure what happened to the Soviet approval committee...would suspect they were all fired.
This site is a good read as well and shows what was left of the surrounding towns, villages and people that survived and remained in the area years after the event.
https://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter2.html
A translation to the epilogue of the HBO Chernobyl series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrVlyU3suk
In a blessed falling asleep, grant, O Lord, eternal rest unto Thy departed servants and make their memory to be eternal.
Vechnaya Pamyat! Memory eternal! Give rest, O Christ, to thy servants with thy saints: where sorrow and pain are no more; neither sighing but life everlasting.
That musical piece gives a sense of resignation to an unstoppable, perpetual destruction similar to how Nearer My God was used in Titanic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mQT1u_45I
Or the Beethoven piece used in the movie Knowing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo5VqebMjRU
Utter bullshit.
NONSENSE!
Ransomnote, I love ya man, but you are WAYYYY off on this one.
“”there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident.” “
Look at photos of today’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki where ACTUAL NUCLEAR BOMBS were dropped.
Chernobyl was a LOCAL event. It was NOT a “DISASTER”. It COULD have been and ALMOST was, but it wasn’t.
I looked into this quite a bit, years back. This was the conclusion I became convinced of.
The article is correct. Totally overblown. (pun intended)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki converted most of their payload to explosive energy and were by comparison, cleaner.
Chernobyl destroyed arable land and entire communities were forced to raise their families in land contaminated with radioactive waste. Many people lived without quality of life - unable to flee the region and forced to watch their generations grow up with radiation damage.
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