totally agree, I would watch an episode and then immediately listen to the podcast that followed that ep. It was almost more interesting listening to the podcast tbqh and I loved the show. The tremendous detail and examination of the people that had to go through this abomination is mind blowing. I just read the thread and one thing that I don't quite understand is why and how were the other reactors still operational for over a decade afterwards? They had the entire town which was what 5 miles away that had to be evacuated, but they still had people running the other reactors? Supposed to be the "most dangerous place on earth", but there were people in the other reactors running it like nothing happened? How did those guys not all die? I'm very confused jplaYa billdozer
no I understand why they had to keep it going. Created a huge amount of energy/power for the country/region. I'm asking did all those guys just willingly work there for years knowing they were basically committing long term suicide? Or were they forced to work? It wasn't like the minors or divers who only had to be there for a limited amount of time
I’m sure they were forced to work and were probably swapped out often as they began to accrue total lifetime dose limits. Ukraine levied heavy EU economical support for decommissioning the last unit. Unit 2 shut down in 1990ish due to a fire.
The former deputy director of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant says the HBO series got its villain right, but its hero wrong https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-director-hbo-series-villain-hero-2019-7
Gigantic, mysterious radiation leak traced to facility in Russia 39 Technology 29 July 2019 By Ruby Prosser Scully The source of a gigantic, mysterious leak of radioactive material that swept across Europe in 2017 has been traced to a Russian nuclear facility, which appears to have been preparing materials for experiments in Italy. The leak released up to 100 times the amount of radiation into the atmosphere that the Fukushima disaster did. Italian scientists were the first to raise the alarm on 2 October, when they noticed a burst of the radioactive ruthenium-106 in the atmosphere. This was quickly corroborated by other monitoring laboratories across Europe. Georg Steinhauser at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany says he was “stunned” when he first noticed the event. Routine surveillance detects several radiation leaks each year, mostly of extremely low levels of radionuclides used in medicine. But this event was different. “The ruthenium-106 was one of a kind. We had never measured anything like this before,” says Steinhauser. Even so, the radiation level wasn’t high enough to impact human health in Europe, although exposure closer to the site of release would have been far greater. Read more: HBO’s Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe The Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Security in Paris soon concluded that the most probable source of the leak was between the Volga river and Ural mountains in Russia. This is where Russia’s Mayak facility is located. The site, which includes a plant that processes spent nuclear fuel, suffered the world’s third most serious nuclear accident in 1957. At the time of the 2017 leak, Russian officials denied the possibility of the facility being the source, saying there were no radioactive ruthenium traces in the surrounding soil. Instead, they suggested the source may have been a radionuclide battery from a satellite burning up during re-entry into the atmosphere. Steinhauser and his colleagues decided to investigate more thoroughly by forensically analysing 1300 measurements from hundreds of monitoring stations across Europe. They found that radiation levels in the atmosphere were between 30 and 100 times higher than those measured after Fukushima. “This was indeed quite alarming,” says Steinhauser. Eliminate the impossible The team excluded Romania as the source of the accident, despite the country’s high radiation levels. Each station in the country detected the radioactive plume simultaneously, which indicated the source was far enough away for it to have grown to the width of Romania. They also excluded a satellite as the cause because space organisations didn’t report any missing at the time. The pattern of radiation through the atmosphere didn’t match the spread of radiation from a satellite’s reentry either. Combining these findings with information on air movements and concentration levels from monitoring data, the team found clear evidence that the release happened in the Southern Urals, which is where the Mayak nuclear facility is located. The leak was unusual because the release was limited to radioactive ruthenium. “If there is a reactor accident, one would expect the release of radioactive isotopes of many different elements,” says Steinhauser. Exactly why such a specific element was released remained a mystery until Steinhauser learned that an Italian nuclear research facility had ordered a consignment of cerium-144 from Mayak before the incident. “There are several indications that the release of ruthenium-106 was linked to this order,” he says. Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907571116
These 3 poor bastards going down to pump the water and Jesus fuck at that horror movie cliffhanger ending
Currently playing /attempting to stream Chernobyl based games survival games S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Chernobylite. These games are legit and they do great research on the area
I have nothing but free time on my hands since I’m going to be off work for ACL surgery. Always heard this was a good miniseries.
400 rubles to wade through contaminated water and empty the tanks? Fuck no, my family better be taken care of for life.