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30 Years Ago Today: Chernobyl
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:18 am
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:18 am
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The Chernobyl disaster (also referred to as the Chernobyl accident or simply Chernobyl) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
The Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualties.[1] It is one of only two classified as a level 7 event (the maximum classification) on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.[2] The battle to contain the contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles.[3] During the accident itself, 31 people died, and long-term effects such as cancers are still being investigated.
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Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:20 am to Darth_Vader
Still building a concrete cap for that thing too.
Although, IIRC, the long term effects weren't quite what everyone had feared.
Although, IIRC, the long term effects weren't quite what everyone had feared.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:21 am to Darth_Vader
Giving us a great level on Call of Duty.
This post was edited on 4/26/16 at 9:22 am
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:23 am to GetCocky11
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Giving us a great level on Call of Duty.
And the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.
It seems like it was more than 30 years ago this happened.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:23 am to GetCocky11
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Giving us a great level on Call of Duty.
tGOAT sniping mission
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:43 am to Darth_Vader
great day in history. also the day this baw came into the world. i came in with a bang so to speak.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:55 am to tke857
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i came in with a bang so to speak.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:57 am to Darth_Vader
Set back nuclear power by decades. Such a shame.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 9:58 am to upgrayedd
quote:7 footers that play basketball
the long term effects
Posted on 4/26/16 at 10:47 am to Darth_Vader
It's amazing how nature has rebounded there. Mother earth is a bad bitch.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 10:50 am to bamarep
Workers had to deal with the aftermath knowing they would die.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 10:54 am to Darth_Vader
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The smoldering graphite, fuel and other material above, at more than 1200 °C,[67] started to burn through the reactor floor and mixed with molten concrete from the reactor lining, creating corium, a radioactive semi-liquid material comparable to lava.[66][68] If this mixture had melted through the floor into the pool of water, it was feared it could have created a serious steam explosion that would have ejected more radioactive material from the reactor. It became necessary to drain the pool.[69] The bubbler pool could be drained by opening its sluice gates. Volunteers in diving suits entered the radioactive water and managed to open the gates. These were the engineers Alexei Ananenko (who knew where the valves were) and Valeri Bezpalov, accompanied by a third man, Boris Baranov, who provided them with light from a lamp, though his lamp failed, leaving them to find the valves by feeling their way along a pipe.[70] All of them returned to the surface and according to Ananenko, their colleagues jumped for joy when they heard they had managed to open the valves. Upon emerging from the water, the three were already suffering from radiation sickness and later died
I can't imagine a worse way to die.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 10:55 am to tke857
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also the day this baw came into the world. i came in with a bang so to speak.
I think that would of been 9 months previous
Posted on 4/26/16 at 10:58 am to tke857
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i came in with a bang so to speak
pretty sure we all did
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:01 am to Darth_Vader
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:02 am to DoUrden
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It seems like it was more than 30 years ago this happened.
It makes me feel old as frick that 1986 was 30 years ago.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:30 am to Darth_Vader
Fun fact: the cleanup crew got drunk before they entered the site because alcohol lessens the effect of radiation exposure.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Workers had to deal with the aftermath knowing they would die.
For the rooftop fire, I think the doc said they could all go out, unshielded for about a minute. They all knew that was pretty much death by cancer in 20 to 25 years.
Then the fire wasn't out. So they had to go out for another minute. And another... Until the fire was out.
(Most of these cats fought the reactor core fire, too.)
RIP
This post was edited on 4/26/16 at 11:37 am
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:36 am to Darth_Vader
Is responsible for millions of cases of erectile dysfunction all around the world, to the delight of everyone in the Viagra/Levitra/Cialis thread.
Well, not exactly, but why not blame everything on the soviets?
Well, not exactly, but why not blame everything on the soviets?
Posted on 4/26/16 at 11:39 am to slackster
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Set back nuclear power by decades. Such a shame.
Yep. Fukushima hurt also.
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