Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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Chernobyl- A research blog
So I am going to start doing some short research blogs, because I love researching about different things. Because I'm a nerd. So here's my first one, with lots of pictures, that hopefully show up for you all.
Chernobyl
Most of you have heard of Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in the Ukraine that exploded causing radioactive material to contaminate the atmosphere of much of Russia. It happened in 1986 and was considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in the worlds history. From 1986 to current day with the number of cancer victims and direct deaths from the fire itself the death toll has been put at well over 200,000.
Evacuation
The closest town to the Chernobyl was Prypiat. Prypiat was a town that was not evacuated quickly enough. People went about their days normally, not realizing what was going on. Until they started to fall sick that night. With metallic tastes in their mouths and upset stomachs, they were being poisoned by radiation. The next night they were told to evacuate. Currently Prypiat or what used to be Prypiat is beyond that of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. A zone that cuts people off from areas that are still too high in radiation. It is a ghost town.
An abandoned school house in Prypiat
Government Cover Up
The Soviet government covered up Chernobyl from the rest of the world until 2 days later when the radiation cloud reached a Swedish reactor. At first they thought that it must be a leak in one of their reactors, the radiation level was so high they began to search frantically for one. They found nothing. They tested soil in the Netherlands, etc and it all came back 5 times that of normal level. Although Chernobyl had evacuated Prypiat, they had neglected to evacuate any other towns surrounding the area. Finally the USSR admitted their fault.
Today
100,000 km across Europe and Russia are currently testing positive Radiation and 2,600 square kilometers of that is unusable due to radiation poisoning risks. Many people have suffered the consequences of Chernobyl, from thyroid cancer to abnormalities in birth. And lack of safe food supply. The after-effects of Chernobyl were expected to be seen for a further 100 years. Prypiat is a ghost town taken over by three headed frogs and dogs with no bodies. Along with
Chernobyl Children
Although it's an ongoing joke that Chernobyl Children are eight legged creatures or freaks of nature, it's typically false. Occasionally you will find one that looks like this.
The child's lymphatic system shut down. Most Chernobyl children are left paralyzed, hairless from chemotherapy or, with large tumors that encompass important organs in them, like the brain or kidneys. Some children are left no limbs at all.
Baby born with brain outside it's head
Radiation can stay in a persons genes for up to 20,000 years.
Feel free to correct me on anything you see wrong.
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Comments (9)
I joke about this one. Sometimes a curse is a blessing. We learned a lot from it.
My mom got into the acid rain a few years before she was pregnant with me. I have several tumors in my bones ...luckily all begnin. There probabaly isn't, but I always wondered if there is a connection. WHen I was a kid I watched a documentary about it, and was super scared. I didn't quite understand radioactivity, and thought all atoms (that aren't from my body) are dangerous. I remember telling a boy to not blow up a balloon because I thought the plastic atoms would cause a chain reaction in his body and kill him.
Chernobyl is why I am terrified of nuclear energy. I do not care how safe some people try to claim nuclear power plants are.
Nice, concise summary! It conveys all the basics, but isn't so long that we blog readers with short attention spans will skip over it.
You've probably seen this: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ It's one of my all-time favorite websites.
Click on "beginning" to start with. (Naturally)
@Erika_Steele - I have one right near me. Three Mile Island. :( We had an incident as well back in 1980s. It scares me also.
@dingus6 - Thanks and thanks for the link, looking at it now!
This is very disturbing. And scary to think about.
Paraphhrasing Relevations: A very hot (red) star (symbol of russia) fell to the earth. A bitter (radioactive) rain fell on earth and many people died. Did you know the star was also called wormwood and the word Chernobyl is remotely connected to the word wormwood.
The destruction of Urkraine's crops and the nuclear disaster tipped Russia into ceasing as a power. It is a turning point in history just like the Space Ship Challenger was a turning point in America's space race( also foretold in Relevations chapter 8)
I do not know if the Tsunami of Japan is a turning point but the Bible predicts earthquakes and it is in a sense just a prelude of repeating events like droughts and wars.
Be aware maybe we might be in interesting times. The gas rationing was strange in the prelude sense and now we just have wild swings in gas prices. Natural gas by fracking has given us another false sense of energy security.
Radiation is only surpassed by mercury poisoning. But since no one is going too gung ho on nuclear energy, it might go back into being a background danger unless rogue nations decide to use nuclear devices.
Unfortunately progress is built on failures. I think it was Einstein that said, "There is no such thing as a failed experiment" you learned something. Either the experiment worked or it didn't and if it didn't you learned not to do it that way again. Hopefully the "rest of the story" (Mankind) will not have so many tragedies as the one about which you wrote. God help those people who will be cursed with this 'mistake' many generations to come
@MyPublicSite - Isn't it like something out of an apocalyptic science fiction book?