19 stunning photos show what the radioactive area inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant

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19 stunning photos show what the radioactive area inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant looks like 32 years after the explosion

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.

As many as 150,000 people in the area were permanently relocated, and an estimated 4,000 clean-up workers got radiation poisoning.

Experts say that more than 70,000 people experienced severe poisoning from the accident on April 26, 1986.

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Chernobyl would go down in history as one of the worst nuclear disasters.

The explosion at the plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, blasted radioactive gas and dust into the air, and winds carried it across central and southern Europe. More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.

About 150,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in the "nuclear exclusion zone" within an 18-mile radius of the plant. The town hardest hit was Pripyat, which remains empty.

In 2012, construction began on the New Safe Confinement, a structure to cover part of Chernobyl.

Here are 19 photos that go inside the eerie Chernobyl plant and the New Safe Confinement.

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One of the many scientists permitted to study in the region made an interesting discovery:

Dead trees do not rot in the exclusion zone (there are no microbes left to break down the wood).

That raises all sorts of interesting questions...

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Diluted? DILUTED????

Do you have a clue what happens when a single particle of Cesium 137 decays into ots daughter product?

Good luck with that. The ocean will eventually cleanse itself, but in the meantime we’re told “it’s diluted” and you fell for it?

What happens when it bioaccumulates and seagulls.sptead it around?

C’mon...

[OldSmaj]

Cool!

That works.

They'll figure it out soon, though.

Thanks.

[BBell]

Glad to help. Try it on all the sites that want you to disable your pop up blocker.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I wonder if anybody might have the answer to a question that has remained unanswered for many years. Sometime after the disaster I saw a documentary on television (possibly a 60 minutes segment) on Chernobyl. While Pripyat had been evacuated for a while, there was a small human presence in the area, principally as guards at roadside checkpoints to prevent people from entering the exclusion zone. I also remember some people working in Pripyat as well.

Loudspeakers had been installed all over the area and one piece of classical music was played in an endless loop because the total silence of the area was driving the workers / guards to madness. I have to tried to find the name of the piece many times since then and have never had any success. It was absolutely the saddest music I’ve ever heard in my life.
About the closest thing I can compare it to would be Tchaikovsky’s “Hymn of the Cherubim” but I doubt that was it.

Can anybody help ?

[RedMonqey]

What happens when it bioaccumulates and seagulls.sptead it around?

Not much.

April 2014, studies confirmed the presence of radioactive tuna off the coasts of the Pacific U.S. Researchers carried out tests on 26 albacore tuna caught prior to the 2011 power plant disaster and those caught after.

However, the amount of radioactivity is less than that found naturally in a single banana. Caesium-137 and caesium-134 have been noted in Japanese whiting in Tokyo Bay as of 2016. “Concentration of radiocesium in the Japanese whiting was one or two orders of magnitude higher than that in the sea water, and an order of magnitude lower than that in the sediment.” They were still within food safety limits.

Wikipedia

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You Wiki boys need to get out more and self-educate. I'll help, but it's up to you to back it up. From my book:

First, I have for you a graphical representation of the difference in energy radioactive energy between like amounts of Potassium-40 (as in a banana) and Cesium-137:

Using a standard American Football field as a unit of measure (100 yards, or about 91 ½ meters), if a human hair’s thickness represents the energy in a unit of Potassium 40, take the graphic below, which represents 18 rows of 60 football fields:

Think of the thickness of that human hair (0.001 mm) representing the energy of Potassium 40, stand in the end zone of a football field and place the hair underneath the goal post. Now imagine all the pictured football fields end-to-end (all 1080 of them, representing 108,000 yards).

THAT’s roughly how much more energy Cesium-137 has than Potassium-40. Again, 100 Billion times more energy.

However, if you can imagine that it could, it does get much worse than that: The graphic above does not take into account the daughter product of Cesium-137’s decay, which is Barium-137; the graphic only accounts for the Beta radiation of Potassium-40 & Cesium-137, not the Gamma resulting from Barium-137.

The specific activity of Barium-137 is 540 million Curies/gram ¬– on top of Cs-137’s 88 Ci/g solely from beta decay – as compared to Potassium-40’s; put that in your banana and smoke it.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/officials-admit-radioactive-fish-us-west-coast-have-disturbing-fingerprint-fukushima

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http://goldengatexpress.org/2014/01/27/fukushima-radiation-atmosphere-seafood-west-coast/

[vetvetdoug]

It was mentioned in the Oak Ridge paper but otherwise wasn’t publicized. I was working at the necropsy room at the college when it came through. There was an entire farm dedicated to the animal survivors of the Bimini blasts at Oak Ridge and the donkey was the last survivor. It was thirty years after the tests.

[T-Bone Texan]

Fun fact: Only the ethnic Russians were initially evacuated.

The Ethnic Ukrainians were not evacuated until later.