In the news, something interesting....
Chernobyl: The secrets they tried to bury - how the Soviet machine covered up a catastrophe
Chernobyl: The secrets they tried to bury - how the Soviet machine covered up a catastrophe
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Chernobyl, Politics, & Death
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From the article, "They heard a human-sounding moan as the reactor bolted" *imagines a reactor running away at top speed* what do they mean by the reactor bolted?
I assumed an analogy to a horse bolting....a bucking reactor instead of a bucking bronco.
That would be a very frightening thing, eh.
I heard something about it many years ago. I was a kid. There was also an article in National Geographic. I guess they tried to hide it, because it was the USSR and generally very closed about internal information. The 'Iron Curtain' we called it. In particular anything that could embarrass the people in charge would be covered up. Obviously that is the case with most governments, but they had the news and everything completely locked down.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I wonder if Kate Brown ever went there, interviewed survivors or really researched objectively?
I mean..... well.... Kate Brown writes books and sells both them and her name.
Her
Plutopia : .......the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters PDF
.... and her Manual for Survival would snatch 30 quid out of my piggy bank and I wouldn't want to lose all that to discover that she didn't really know diddly about it all.
But on the up-side she does acknowledge just how fast the emergency services did react (excuse that pun). The nuclear explosion occurred on 26th April and she writes:-
On 27 April, army officers escorted 44,500 residents from the nearby city of Pripyat. In the next two weeks they resettled 75,000 more people from a surrounding 18-mile belt..........
I wonder how well we in the UK would react if, say, Sizewell, Orford Ness or Bradwell had gone up? I notice that US nuclear disaster were listed in that book as well.
Where i lived in NW UK was effected by the radiation cloud. More than 10,000 UK farms stopped producing or had to have their produce monitored for radiation before sale.
This restriction was lifted in 2013.
When I need to describe Chernobyl in a very simplistic way, I liken that reactor ( which had a very bad design) to a pressure cooker without a safety valve.
It is incredible how powerful steam can be....in fact it was the steam that destroyed the reactor lid . It did not dealt with a nuclear explosion like many tend to believe when they think of Chernobyl.
Modern documentaries explain it clearly...how the grafite tip of the control rods produced the fatal heat and the steam that led to the explosion.
It is incredible how powerful steam can be....in fact it was the steam that destroyed the reactor lid . It did not dealt with a nuclear explosion like many tend to believe when they think of Chernobyl.
Modern documentaries explain it clearly...how the grafite tip of the control rods produced the fatal heat and the steam that led to the explosion.
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