During the Japan Fukushima Nuclear Power plant explosion, one reporter from CNN explained its similarity to Chernobyl. I was inquisitive so I looked for it. It was really shocking to know that these were the biggest nuclear explosion ever noted in human history. But the most dangerous is Chernobyl.
Europe.Chernobyl.1AM.1986
This happened in Ukraine (USSR) on April 26, 1986.
Nuclear Reactor Unit 4, also officially known Russian name as No 4. ukrytiye,exploded sending radioactive fumes in the atmosphere. Its effect is massive destruction of entire Chernobyl City. During that time people has no idea of nuclear effects. There was a report that after the explosion, they even sent a helicopter to drop some clay, lead and sand to stop the fumes to spread on air, however the rotor collided with the crane on top of near construction. The helicopter dropped in midair before even executing the plan, 4 crews were killed in action.
"I remember joking to the others, "There must be an incredible amount of radiation here. We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning."
"Of course we knew! If we'd followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze."
Anatoli Zakharov, a fireman stationed in Chernobyl since 1980
"tasting like metal," and feeling a sensation similar to that of pins and needles all over his face...
Illustrated by firefighter before he died similar to statement given by Louis Slotin, a Manhattan Project physicist who died days after a fatal radiation overdose from a criticality accident.
The radiation effect is still visible until now. Many animals mutated from its original habitat. Some reports said many children with infected parents were born with abnormalities.
Today Chernobyl is deserted and isolated. The entire city looks like ghost town, where most of personal stuff where left behind by families.
A sarcophagus (flesh eating rock) halt the release of tons and tons of radio active corium, highly contaminated dust, uranium and plutonium in the air. What is inside the sarcophagus can no longer be fixed.
As it releases 10,000 röntgen radiation per hour. Where currently the city normally has (and can take only) 20-50 microröntgens level of radiation per hour.
It was said that the sarcophagus can only hold it up to 20-30 years. Some reported there is leakage in roof releasing contaminated substances that goes to the ground which is then sipped by soil. This in effect questions the integrity of sarcophagus. The health organization already provided a plan to disseminate the old sarcophagus that would contain and allow it to naturally collapse and be removed together with the contaminated substances.
Excerpts from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_sarcophagus
Excerpts from Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAJ_u3Q0Hw
Today I watched Chernobyl Diary with my family(Mama, Faye and Mai). I was kind of thinking, were they really mutants who stayed there up to now? What are they like? Zombies? OMG?! Walking dead contained by government! Scary...
Will they be like the ultimate war weapon that can swipe the entire world? NOOO! Enough.
I enjoyed the movie though.
Still my sympathy goes to those affected.
xoxo
Fran
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