Chernobyl sarcophagus, nearing completion, recalls tragic and dangerous aftermath

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On April 26, 1986, an experiment conducted in the middle of the night by an operator with a bad idea went horribly wrong. The result: a catastrophic explosion, nuclear fire, and full-blown meltdown in Chernobyl’s reactor 4 unit that launched radioactive gasses high into the atmosphere.

Then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made one of the toughest decisions a leader could be asked to make, but to this day, most people say he made the right one, while some say the man may have saved the world itself. He made the tragically difficult choice to throw some 600,000 men directly at the melting, spewing, nuclear dragon, in an effort that should go down in the record books next to any great fight amongst men.

Yes, the battle between Chernobyl’s dragon on-the-loose, and Gorbachev’s Red Army, will be one forever burned into the memories of those who know the tale. You see, only about four percent of what could have been released from Chernobyl was released, due to the valiant efforts of the “bio-robots,” the “liquidators,” and the “Miners of Toula.” Virtual suicide missions flown by 600 helicopter pilots where sand, boron, dolomite, clay and lead were dropped directly into the fumes of the melting reactor, must also be given substantial credit.

Many of the bio-robots and liquidators had a specific task — a duty vital to the success of the mission: suit up in full lead suits, run quickly onto the roof of the reactor, and scoop one or two shovels of reactor core debris, off the roof and onto the ground several stories below — and then the man’s duty in the epic battle was fulfilled. In those brief few moments, usually totaling 45-90 seconds, the men would receive heroic doses of radiation, twisting and frying their DNA and bodily tissues, even through the extremely heavy lead suits they were wearing.

After the aptly nicknamed “liquidators” had accomplished their one or two shovels, they would run off the roof and get out of the heavy lead suits, whereafter many of them would begin to bleed from their orifices and vomit profusely. As is typical in cases of radiation poisoning, the symptoms would then often subside for a while, only to return days later...

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[yallerdawg]

1. Everything about Chernobyl is horrifying.

Even that silly horror movie Chernobyl Diaries gave me nightmares.

This was a vision made real of the Apocalypse.

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2. we can only hope this will be completed in time

...and will last longer than the first one. It's just one of the destructive legacies of man which infects the Earth, one of the most threatening, and it will remain a threat to mankind (and other living things) for centuries and centuries.

"It wasn’t even twenty years after the disaster when the Ukrainians discovered the shoddily constructed structure, cobbled together under the most frantic of emergency circumstances, was rusting, degrading, and coming apart at the seems. Archival footage taken by Ukrainian researchers from inside the sarcophagus, shows gaping holes where birds would fly in and out at will, and where radon gas and other dusty isotopes were surely escaping."

[yallerdawg]

3. Many English interpretations of the word chernobyl...

identify the translation as "wormwood."

"The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Rev 8:10–11)

[Javaman]

4. most of the heroic people that helped shut down the reactor didn't know they were being exposed.

it was only later they were told.