Posted on 04/29/2021 6:20:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
Every year, on April 26, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church prayerfully commemorates the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Thus, yesterday morning, a panikhida was served at the Soldiers of Chernobyl monument on the territory of the Church of the Archangel Michael in Kiev.
The memorial service was celebrated with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine by His Grace Bishop Viktor of Baryshevka together with the clergy of the church and the local dean, reports the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
After the service, at 1:23 AM (the time when the No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl exploded), the memorial bell rung was struck 35 times.
Bp. Viktor called on all the keep the memory of the victims and always offer prayers for those who laid down their lives working in the aftermath of the disaster.
At 8:00 AM, bells rung out in all churches and monasteries of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in memory of those who died in the accident or its aftermath.
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A new structure was slid over the crumbling sarcophagus so that it could be dismantled and decontaminated safely.
For a brief period of time my submarine got the blame. The USS Atlanta hit the bottom of Gibraltar trying to sneak into the Mediterranean Sea. Fortunately it was only a glancing blow or I would not be here to tell the tale. The Soviets tried to blame the radiation on our accident. The lie was quickly exposed because all the radiation detectors were picking up the radioisotopes from the winds blowing from Ukraine.
True heroes were at Chernobyl to save the lives of many others.
Very brave indeed were the men who cleaned up afterwards. There was a new mineral created when all the core contents melted together into a blob that flowed out . It was later called the “Elephant’s Foot”. The Radiation was so intense nobody could hope to approach it and live. In order to sample it they shoot a bullet into it and had a probe pick up the scattered pieces.
The True Total Number of casualties from this accident will never, ever be known, but it did help to cause the collapse of communism, throughout The Soviet Union and throughout Europe.
It didn’t explode, the core caught fire. The accident was caused by dumbazz operators and bureaucrats. Three Mile Island could have been the same except for superior technology which shut the reactor down. Same dumbazzes in the control room.
Stupid Russians irradiated half the planet.
They made a choice to use a highly unstable graphite reactor.
“Hey Yuri, don’t use it graphite reactor! What are you kiddingk me?’’.
I had heard a similar plant was in Cuba. Might still be operating.
No kidding? Holy Smokes I didn’t know that.
Drunken Russians in Chernobyl. Drunken Cubans in Havana.
Oh man.
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