Chernobyl 30 Years Later
Since this April it will be exactly thirty years since the Chernobyl accident happened... Source: http://englishrussia.com/2016/04/06/chernobyl-30-years-later
Posted on 04/25/2016 7:26:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they're still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the world's worst nuclear accident, the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986:
— More than 2 billion euros ($2.25 billion): The amount of money being spent by an internationally funded project to build a long-term shelter over the building containing Chernobyl's exploded reactor. Once the structure is in place, work will begin to remove the reactor and the lava-like radioactive waste.
— 4,762 square kilometers (1,838 square miles): The amount of land around the plant that had to be abandoned because of heavy radiation and fallout, about half of it in Ukraine, where the plant is located, and the rest in Belarus. The area is approximately equal to the size of Rhode Island.
— About 600,000 people: Chernobyl's so-called "liquidators," those sent in to fight the fire and clean up the worst of the nuclear plant's contamination. They were all exposed to elevated radiation levels.ee days to acknowledge anything had gone wrong, and even then downplayed its severity.
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Alexei Ananenko, Boris Baranov and Valeri Bezpalov.
Heroes!
Elana websites and adventures are awesome. I wonder if she ever got to purchase her beloved “Ninja” bike?
Fukashima will end up far worse than this.
Not to mention the spawning of a trilogy of some of the best video games ever made ... the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. trilogy.
weird that there are more stories about Chernobyl than Fukushima these days
I was surprised not to see the usual doomsday over reaction to this event. This report is mostly fair. Most reports and statistics have been ridiculously overstated.
Maybe not so weird. Fukushima is still a threat.
And we are still not checking Japanese imports for radiation.
The coverage was skewed to portray a better outcome than reality supports. For example, the report notes a huge number of people who had to be resettled without admitting they were forced to live and raise their families in contaminated regions because there was no where else to put them. They were moved from higher contaminated areas to less contaminated areas and had no say in the matter. Watching your family battle illness and birth defects but not being allowed to leave. Yeah that’s gotta be rough....and the region is still sickening the population today just as it was all those years ago...but no one will reveal the actual toll...
The article is most likely intended to make us feel better about the uncontained disaster at Fukushima.
The first STALKER game is pretty good if you restore it to its original glory using the Oblivion Lost mod.
There was a recent episode of Scorpion in which the team is sent to Chernobyl to suppress an ongoing threat of radiation exposure and the potential for a catastrophic breach of the protective barriers now in place. It seemed to be reasonably accurate. There was a scene very much like the picture in the article of abandoned toys.
Argh. Stalker, of course, not spectre.
The city where life stopped in the 80s is slowly getting swallowed by the woods today. Join us and fly over the zone right now.
Morning fogs over the Kiev region.
Gostomel airfield, the main airport of the world biggest aircraft An-225 "Mriya".
Also An-124 "Ruslan" can be seen here. Mriya is standing in the hangar to the right. You can see its tail on the picture above.
This object is called "Chernobyl-2". Twenty seven years ago it was an absolutely secret object. It allowed to follow ground targets over Europe and not only, detect launches of a potential enemy in North America. The complex was called "Duga-1".
The first complex like this was built in 1975 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia. It was first activated in Chernobyl-2 in 1980. According to some data there was invested seven billion rubles (two times more expensive than the construction of the Chernobyl NPP). There was a garrison built not far from Chernobyl where militarymen and their families used to live.
The infrastructure of the city Chernobyl-2 did not happen in a moment - it had been closed until 1987. Then it became clear it could not be used anymore in the exclusion zone. The main units were dismantled and taken to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Five Ukrainian base-jumpers jumped from the station in 2012 for the first time.
Chernobyl NPP and Pripyat - some kilometres between them.
"The Red" forest is over the NPP. Its area is about 4,5 thousand hectares.
When you poison the ocean, you’ve poisoned the food source and water source for billions and billions of people. It’s only a matter of time.
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