Chernobyl disaster incident PART 1

[FirstLight]

Run time: 09:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRC1_OZPIg   Posted on YouTube: March 03, 2008 By YouTube Member: keiluko Views on YouTube: 854608   Posted on DU: March 27, 2011 By DU Member: FirstLight Views on DU: 625

 
An 8 Part series, very indepth and informative.

I don't pretend to know what's going on in Japan (and I doubt anyone plans on telling the truth there anyway)
But if Chernobyl was a wake up call for the nuclear arms race, perhaps Japan's earthquake can be a wake up call for those who call this SAFE Energy.

Nuclear radiation is NOT something you can protect yourself from or run and hide from. period.

[Wilms]

1. Thank you for posting this. n/t

[FirstLight]

2. you're welcome...some of the information is eye opening

as well as terrifying... :scared:

[Wilms]

3. I watched the whole thing.

It drove home a point of concern for me. Who will maintain these sites centuries from now?

I'm ill.

[FirstLight]

4. yes, who will watch the nukes when we are gone?

will it matter?

the animals at Chernobyl that are thriving are the wild boar and the wolf, and though zoologists insist they are not mutating...
nobody is allowed to go in there and run any tests, either.
radioactive bacon anyone? yikes

I just wonder how long before we really do take out roles as gods too far... the Large Hadron Collider, Nuclear energy and toxic waste, hell, even our farming infrastructure and let's not forget oil extraction methods...
sooner or later humans have to realize they are not smarter than the forces than make the world work. Wind and water and earth will always trump us in the end... and i wonder how much we have really screwed up the balance so that all the earth can do is 'correct itself' as all ecosystems eventually do. we are but a speck in the lifetime of the cosmos, really...who do we think we are?

[FirstLight]

5. kick for the sunday morning crowd

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[Quixote1818]

6. I watched all the episodes. Really well done!

To think those poor guys had to climb up on the roof and push the extremely highly radioactive waste down to the ground and could only be there for 40 seconds was the creepiest thing I have ever seen. Now almost half of those men have died early and they are dropping like flies.

[FirstLight]

7. i was blown away by the 'protective gear'

seriously, pieces of lead tied on with string? :wtf:


but then there's those current pics of the japanese workers with booties taped on with packing tape...look how far we have come!

[Quixote1818]

8. And those men had only part of the morning to make their own lead

protective gear with as you said, string! But lets not forget the big $100 bonuses they all got. What a fucked up Government the USSR was. Like a bunch of Republicans not wanting to help these hero's in any way.

[girl gone mad]

9. Wow.

Just finished watching this whole series and I am amazed. I never knew most of these things.

I didn't realize how close the reactor was to the water table and the reservoir that supplied much of Russia's drinking water.

I didn't know they had to smother the reactor with tons of lead to draw off the heat.

I knew they had used robots, but wondered how they were able to keep them functioning. Turns out they weren't, the robots started going haywire pretty quickly.

The initial plan to fill the room they had dug under the reactor with powerful refrigeration units sounds insane. Glad someone wisely decided to just fill it up with concrete, instead.

How does that general walk around with all of those medals weighing down his jacket?

The information about France denying the fallout reports was sad. When governments must choose between the moneyed interests and the safety of their citizens, money wins - even in stable democracies.