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"The Battle of Chernobyl" Chernobyl Documentary (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Nov 2013
OP
"The most dangerous elements that came out of the Chernobyl Reactor wasn't Cesium or
jtuck004
Nov 2013
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chervilant
(8,267 posts)1. Timely and essential
information! Thank you for posting this documentary.
Stevepol
(4,234 posts)2. an amazing documentary
I was aware of almost none of this. The extent of the damage done by the disaster is really hard to believe. Also, the extent of the Soviet clean-up and the courage of the many who took part in the clean-up has never been properly appreciated.
This really should be required viewing.
lastlib
(23,226 posts)3. unbelievably sobering!
Our capacity to destroy ourselves for selfish ends is mind-boggling. No words are adequate.
K & R!!!
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)4. "The most dangerous elements that came out of the Chernobyl Reactor wasn't Cesium or
Plutonium, but lies...a lie that was propagated throughout the whole country and the entire world".
Alla Yaroshinskaya
Deputy to USSR Supreme Soviet
It appears to still be the most dangerous element in all nuclear reactors.
Good video, worth watching.
Pripyat was 43,000 people, evacuated not because of the explosion but because of the rain of radiation from the fire after. The bigger disaster they feared was the plutonium leaking into the water supply underneath which would have poisoned Kiev and then the Black Sea. For hundreds of square acres around the area will be uninhabitable for at least 800 years.
Fukushima Reactor #4 sits atop the water table for Tokyo, with 40 million people. They still can't confirm the exact condition of the core because of the wreckage and the radiation. So they not only have the potential of having to evacuate 40 million people from Tokyo from the poisoning of the water supply, but if the removal of the spent fuel rods doesn't go as planned, (and it is off to a bad start already) or another earthquake (in this area known for them) causes enough damage, we could see a similar fire to that of Chernobyl. It has the potential to make much of Japan uninhabitable, and the radiation that would spew upwards would travel to the West Coast of the U.S.
It's no wonder cats have no respect for humans.
pam4water
(2,916 posts)5. Marked for later.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)6. Will he come here and say that all is well?
I bet yes!
pam4water
(2,916 posts)7. Great documentary. Really worth the watched.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)8. Thanks for posting this.
A very interesting and scary documentary.