Another Chernobyl lie is that when radioactive cattle from the affected area were slaughtered, instead of destroying the contaminated meat, the Soviets simply mixed it with clean meat to dilute the radiation before selling it.
Our Socialists who insist that we must embrace socialism to save the planet from “man-made global warming” have no clue about the environmental disasters that socialism/communism causes. Just like they have no clue about just about everything.
“” “” Another Chernobyl lie is that when radioactive cattle from the affected area were slaughtered, instead of destroying the contaminated meat, the Soviets simply mixed it with clean meat to dilute the radiation before selling it.”” “”
It is impossible to do and the entire story is an urban myth.
The problem was that the event produced tens of thousands abandoned households with pricy items by 1980s standards like TVs, stereos and thousands abandoned near brand new vehicles.
There was an electronic alarm system installed and patrols to revent looting but it went into disrepair immediately after Ukrainian independence.
If you look at it now there is not even a single bathtub or pipe and a wire left. Everything was stripped for scrap and sold somewhere.
Another lie is that the “Exclusion Zone” which was to keep the radioactive materials, especially irradiated metals, around the Chernobyl power plant safely enclosed within a border of a guarded perimeter for 100 years minimum. A documentary, “Chernobyl Cafe” reveals that is not the case. Ukrainian mobsters, in concert with the Ukrainian military guards, have been smuggling up to 800 tons of still radioactive proscribed scrap metal a day through the guarded access points, and shipped to steel smelters where it is mixed with un-contaminated iron and steel in Ukrain, and shipped to China, Korea, and Taiwan, where it winds up in cars, appliances, and other steel products. . . still radioactive.
This metal comes from buildings, abandoned in place military vehicles, land moving equipment used to bury the radioactive surface, and metal from road signs, lights, etc. They are stripping the area of anything they can haul away. In addition, people are moving back in.
One can buy a “vacation home” in Chernobyl” for the equivalent of a few hundred dollars, where one can live for up to 15 days per month, then rent it out for 15 days per month. Some farmers have moved back permanently. Employees of Chernobyl Cafe are allowed to work there the 15 days per month. On the other hand, in 2015, they were still working on the moveable catafalque that would be moved into position to entirely entomb the power-lantern for a couple of centuries. Workers building this huge construction were allowed to only have a single eight hour shift once per month, and then return a month later to repeat their eight hours, it is so radioactive in the area.
This documentary is available on Amazon Prime, I believe.