#‘​the cloud’ is the explosion in Chernobyl

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In a land, closed off to all except those specially trained, there are cats. Descendants of those who were abandoned when The Cloud appeared and descendants of those who fled.

Three groups now call that abandoned village their home:

Rubbleclan, who have made their dens out of the large slabs of concrete that rained from the sky,

Fallenclan, who live atop a cliff that overlooks the city,

And Quarryclan, who have claimed the edge of the forest as their territory.

There are cats who linger outside, closer to The Cloud’s temple. Most of them mind their own business but some…

Well, some of them are greedy, and want the Clans’ territories for themselves…. And they’ll do anything to get what they want

#lore #Rubbleclan #Quarryclan #Fallenclan #not an ask #‘​the cloud’ is the explosion in Chernobyl #the cats live in a small village nearby Pripyat #warriors oc #warrior cats #warrior cat #ask blog

[reactor-four-official]

The Search for the Fuel: The Elephant’s Foot

From the first days of the accident, locating and monitoring the 190 tons of nuclear fuel that had been in the fourth reactor at the time of the explosion was a top priority for the commission overseeing the cleanup. They wanted to ensure that no further disasters would unfold at Chernobyl; with the Soviet Union's international prestige already significantly battered, it was critical that they felt in control of the situation once more. After the initial plume of radionuclides from the burning reactor declined significantly in the early days of May 1986, it was established by the scientists assisting the Commission that the nuclear fuel had three distinct hazards that it could present. These were a radioactive hazard, a nuclear hazard, and a thermal hazard.

Perhaps the most obvious, the radioactive hazard was that of the aforementioned radioactive cloud rising from reactor 4. Although it had decreased significantly, it was still a danger and could potentially flare up again unless measures were taken to prevent it.

The nuclear hazard was the fear of a new uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction like the one that had initially destroyed the reactor. The state of the core was unknown at this time, and scientists had to determine if any of the reactor assembly was still in place and if it or any other mass of fuel had the necessary elements to sustain another catastrophic reaction. Basically, it was a possibility that the fuel could gather in such a way that a new nuclear chain reaction would start.

Finally, the thermal hazard was that of the hot nuclear fuel melting through the concrete of the unit block and into the Earth below. This is known as the “China Syndrome” after a movie of the same name. It was also feared at the time that the fuel could melt down into the bubbler tanks below the reactor, which stored a large reservoir of cooling water, and cause a significant steam explosion. This was the main concern of the government commission and the most effort was put in place to reduce this hazard first.

Having established the potential dangers of the fuel the Commission wanted absolute assurance that the hazard was not an immediate threat to the safety of the workers at Chernobyl and the world at large.

This undertaking was assigned to the team of experts assembled by the Kurchatov Institute, a scientific institute for the study of nuclear physics. It was established early on that most fuel was somewhere within the ruins of the fourth unit, since very little was ejected by the explosion. The building itself was enormous, with winding passages known only to those who worked for years in its labyrinthine walls.

Below: A schematic diagram of the fourth unit block seen from the west. The dimensions of the building are marked in meters. Note the enormous region of rooms located below the reactor core (Closed Reactor Space on this diagram). The area at the bottom of the building with the large vertical pipes are the bubbler tanks that held emergency cooling water for the reactor. This was the area scientists feared a steam explosion if the fuel lava gained access.

Adding to the problem of the scale of the search area was the fact that the building was potentially unstable due to the explosion of the fourth reactor. Rubble filled hallways and walls and ceilings sagged dangerously. Radiation levels fluctuated wildly within the building, with some areas almost entirely safe and others able to cause sickness and death in minutes. Even more pressing was that starting in the spring of 1986, the lower levels of the fourth unit began to slowly fill with fresh concrete. The Ministry of Medium Machine Building unit US-605, who were building the Sarcophagus to cover the radioactive remains of the unit, poured concrete into the structures of the Sarcophagus 24 hours a day. However, huge gaps and sinkholes existed in their work area, and a good portion of the concrete pumped into the Sarcophagus ended up deep in the lower levels of the block. This concrete blocked hallways, doors, and even (as they would later come to learn) covered up some of the melted fuel.

It was not until late spring of 1986 that exploration of the fourth unit block began. In June of 1986, two men were probing a steam distribution corridor in the southeast corner of the block from another corridor just below it using a powerful dosimeter which could detect radiation levels of up to 3,000 roentgens per hour. Since radiation levels in the stairway up to the corridor they were probing were already quite high (~25 roentgens per hour) they decided to send the detection head of the device up the stairs ahead of them via an assembly of metal rods. As soon as the device entered the corridor above, it went off the scale and burnt out. From this result the team was able to pinpoint a source of extreme gamma radiation.

In December of 1986, and expedition was mounted to room 217/2 to make visual contact with the suspected fuel concentration. Moving along the steam corridor this time, the team spotted a large metallic gray mass sitting neatly within the corner of the room. This formation was dubbed the "Elephant's Foot" (though some source translate it as"Elephant's Leg") due to its similarity to the leg of an elephant. The black glassy mass emitted over 8,000 roentgen an hour, deadly after just one and a half minutes (this is the maximum recorded emission, the levels would decrease significantly in the months after the disaster). For the first time, the theory of fuel lava was visually confirmed. The team branded the materiel "lava-like fuel containing masses" (LFCM).

Below: A picture of the Elephant's Foot from the direction which it was first observed. The railings just behind the main formation (Label 1) is the railing around the metal stairs from which the formation was first detected via dosimeter. Note the streaks of fuel above the formation showing where the fuel had dripped down from above. Label 4 denotes the "fresh" concrete that made its way into the building during the construction of the Sarcophagus.

Below: a view of room 217/2 from above. The red is the Elephant’s Foot, the orange is the fresh concrete, and the gray are the walls of the block. The Foot itself is the accumulation closest to the bottom left of the photograph. You can see there is more lava in an unnamed formation next to it.

After locating the fuel and taking some pictures, the team was tasked with analyzing what the lava was composed of. This may seem kind of obvious, but really it was not known what was in the LFCM. Presumably the fuel of course, but what else? It had been debated from the early days of the accident if the efforts to douse the fire and melting fuel with lead, boron, and sand had been effective (I refer here to the April 26th-May 12th aerial bombardment campaign of the reactor via helicopter- I will make a post on this effort at a later time and link it here). The contents of the fuel is an interesting topic which I will not go over more in this post. You can find more info on the quest to get a piece of the LFCM here.

After procuring a sample, one issue remained. They had found some of the fuel, but nowhere near the total amount. The grand majority of the fuel had yet to be located. By the summer of 1987 the fresh concrete that had run into the lower levels of the block began to cause real obstacles to the scientists. Many rooms suspected to contain fuel were inaccessible or could not be reached safely. A new approach was needed.

At the end of 1987 the Kurchatov team was reassigned to be part of the adventurously named Chernobyl Complex Expedition (CCE), an enormous liquidation effort that was tasked with exploring the interior of the Sarcophagus and locating the rest of the fuel in the years after the disaster. The CCE was composed to representatives from all the major Soviet scientific institutions, as well as builders and engineers. At its peak over 3,000 people worked as part of the Expedition. Through it all, the main core of this group was the scientists from the Kurchatov Institute.

Backed by resources of the entire CCE, the scientific team sought new approaches for searching for the fuel. After extensive discussion, the scientists came up with a rather ingenious solution. They would use coring drills like those used in oil drilling exploration set up in specially decontaminated rooms in the fourth unit block to drill so called ‘wells’ into inaccessible rooms. Through these they would send specially built monitoring equipment. These included thermometers, periscopes, and radiation sensors. Not only could they monitor the LFCM with this equipment, they could also obtain information about the building and the LFCM via analysis of the cores made by the drill. This allowed them to remotely locate, monitor, and sample the LFCM with minimal risk to personnel.

Below: A schematic of the wells drilled at the 9 meter mark below the reactor containment vessel. The purple lines are the wells themselves, with the gray being the concrete walls of the block. The large blue cross is the metal support Scheme S. I provided this as an example of how the wells were drilled and laid out. For more info, feel free to contact me.

Below: a member of the CCE operates a drill in the bowels of the fourth unit block. Note the protective clothing he is wearing to prevent the spread of airborne radiological contamination.

Between 1988 and 1992 a total of 134 wells were drilled between the 9 and 16 meter marks (the method by which levels of the plant are identified) and at the 20, 21, and 25 meter marks. It was eventually determined that over 180 of the 190 tons of fuel remained in the reactor block. The missing ten tons had either been blown out of the active zone and into the area around the reactor by the explosion, or had vaporized into the radioactive column that had emerged from the reactor in 1986. The remaining fuel within the block took the form of the LFCM, as well as dust. The dust created by the fuel is the main radiological enemy post 1986 and continues to be an issue to this day. Primarily composed of plutonium, the dust has thankfully remains mostly within the Sarcophagus. The LFCM, initially almost indestructible, has started to crumble and decay. As time goes on this creates even more dust, and the formations slowly erode away. This has contributed to a significant drop in gamma radiation emissions from the fuel masses and allowed for further study of the premises of the fourth unit block.

In 1994, the Complex Expedition used data collected from these wells to compile an official report on the status of the fourth unit block. With their findings published (and the Soviet Union dissolved) the CCE disbanded. Many of the scientists who worked on the expedition (and even some who were on the original Kurchatov Institute team) continued to work at Chernobyl for years. Expeditions are still sometimes mounted into the Sarcophagus, but they have not been carried out with any regularity since the early 2000s. However, visual inspection remains the only way to accurately monitor the condition of the LFCM.

You may be left wondering: how exactly did these men navigate such a radioactive environment without adverse effects? Once again I shall make a post on this in the future, but the main answer is: speed! Defense against radiation (with some exceptions) is as simple as not lingering in high radiation areas. To facilitate safe movement through the block, the scientists located and marked safe areas of reduced radiation levels (such as the room in this post) as well as dangerous areas to avoid. In the end, only a select few “Stalkers” actually set foot within the ruins of Reactor 4.

This post serves as the (admittedly lose) historical context for the exploration of the fourth unit block and the location of the LFCM. I will be making another post about the fuel rest of the fuel soon. I always feel bad for the other fuel formations because the Elephants Foot gets all of the attention. This will be a lot more technical, with locations and diagrams (joy of joys!) of the fuel as well as more context to its identification.

#chernobyl #elephants foot #radiation #history #autism #nuclear #nuclear power #reactor #china syndrome #chernobyl complex expedition #accidents and disasters #kurchatov institute #LFCM #chnpp #soviet union

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Baba Vanga who predicted Brexit and 9/11 makes terrifying 2023 predictions

Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga lost her sight when she was 12 years old and claimed that she could see into the future.  She is said to have predicted many events in the past has given an insight into her terrifying 2023 predictions. Baba Vanga claimed to have visions during her lifetime after she went blind as a child. She lost her sight in deadly storm where she was swept off her homeland in Bulgaria, causing a large amount of sand to get into her eyes. Nicknamed the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans', her visions are said to be 85 percent correct and include the Chernobyl tragedy, the death of Princess Diana and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.  The mystic passed away in 1996 at the age of 84, however, her prophecies live on.

Baba Vanga's next forecast for 2023 is full of doom and gloom. Baba Vanga had a vision which saw her predict that a biological attack will be launched by a developed country. This prediction seems to relate to the current Russia-Ukraine war as Russian president Vladimir Putin has previously threatened Ukraine with a nuclear attack. If this prediction comes true, this could result in mass destruction and have disastrous consequences for those in Ukraine. 

As well as this, the blind mystic predicted a solar tsunami where the Earth's magnetic shield will be fatally destroyed. The solar storms could cause blackouts and communication failures. Baba Vanga also saw a world covered in darkness following an alien invasion as she predicted the Earth's orbit could "change". This could lead to the climate on Earth drastically changing. 

A power plant could see a huge explosion which could lead to toxic clouds forming over Asia. Baba Vanga predicted that other countries could be affected by the explosion due to a spread of serious diseases as the toxic clouds fill the air. 

#baba vanga #aliens #ufos #clairvoyant #2023

[org4n-failur3]

Reactor No.4

INFO POST!!

I found an old Chernobyl essay so I decided to share it!(shortened)

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April 26 1986 ,Ukraine.

Reactor 4 was built with a positive void coefficient to cut costs. The reactor was also made with concrete polls with graphite tips, the reactor had Uranium 235 which would collide with atoms making Xenon 135 which were meant to slow energy.

On April 26 1986 the reactor had a safety test. The order was to take out all 200+ poles but 8 to test the reactors wind turbines and its ability to level energy in the small time before generators turned on.during which they turned off water creating steam pressure while xenon fission was still occurring raising pressure and energy sky high. In an act of panic they put all poles back it but the steam pressure had already blown the lid of the reactor causing the graphite fire to interact with the hydrogen from the air inducing an explosion to which they turned the water back on. Which then the steam’s hydrogen interacted with zirconium which made an explosion worse than the one before. The area is still radioactive to this day while few people living in the surrounding area. Any dogs or wildlife were left in the contaminated area causing mutations. Any babies born during the time had mutations and some d!ed young.

The Soviet had not told the public about the explosion and told the locals it was just an explosion not a radioactive explosion. They also tried freezing the ground under the reactor. The public only found out after the debris and clouds started spreading to neighbouring countries. This happened after 30 days.

-Vivi

#info post

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WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION MAGAZINE : AUGUST 1993

Transcript Below!!!

PERSONALITY PROFILE

ADAM BOMB

FROM: THREE MILE ISLAND BIRTHDAY: UNKNOWN WEIGHT: 292 LBS.

HEIGHT: 6’6”

FINISHING MOVE: THE MUSHROOM CLOUD

In the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown in 1980, residents of nearby Pennsylvania communities claimed that organic life grew to abnormal proportions. Laymen,

Scientists and nuclear physicists believed that the large amounts of plutonium released from Three Mile Island likely caused the dramatic growth in vegetation, trees, and even in animals. 

IN fact, some farmers in nearby communities reported to local and national newspapers that tomatoes grew to the size of small pumpkins and strawberries grew to the size of Granny Smith apples.

These same unusual growth patterns also occurred following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in the now-defunct Soviet Union later in the decade. 

One possible product of the Three Mile Island disaster is making his presence known in  the World Wrestling Federation. His name is Adam Bomb. Adam, who tops the scale at a rock-solid 292 pounds, grew up near Three Mile Island and was of normal height and stature as a kid. However, things changed big-time between 1981 and 1987. Adam experienced incredible increases in size and strength during his adolescent years without ever touching a weight or consuming a protein shake. He was brutally strong for his age. 

In addition, Adam also developed a volatile disposition, and as a hobby, he read about the production of firecrackers, dynamite, plastic explosives and thermonuclear weapons.

As an avenue for his increasing aggression, he was encouraged to play football and wrestle in high school. It didn’t pan out. He was given his walking papers in both sports for breaking bones of teammates during scrimmages and intersquad sparring sessions on the mat.

His high school wrestling coach, who requests to remain anonymous because he fears reprisals, says that Adam Bomb was and is a “walking nuclear reactor.”

“He is just like a nuclear reactor on the verge of meltdown, just like the Island,” the coach tells this magazine. “He has always burned with rage and intensity, and as he grew physically stronger and became more aggressive, he fed off of his own intensity until a certain point was reached within. At that stage, he usually went haywire, and everything he touched within a certain radius, he destroyed.”

Adam Bomb is doing just that in the Federation. Since exploding into the ranks in late May, Adam Bomb has Blown away his adversaries. In his wake, Adam is leaving many wrestlers devastated physically and mentally, and some, unfortunately, devastated on a permanent basis. Adam, who has been called the “product of the nuclear age,” says he will cause a “nuclear Armageddon” in the World Wrestling Federation. 

JOHNNY POLO, HIS MANAGER

Johnny Polo, Adam Bomb’s snob of a manager, is the kind of guy you always wished you could punch in the face but never had a chance to do so 

Polo, who was raised in the comfortable countryside near Palm beach, Florida–which is one of America’s most affluent communities–has had it all. Pampered as a child, his parents and their entourage of servants gave the brat anything he wanted. 

When he turned 11, for example, “Mommsy and daddums” bough Johnny a 60-acre piece of land not far from their home where the boy learned to play polo, a sport traditionally reserved for the financially elite. But Johnny gave the sport a bad name. He often cheated in matches and used his mallet to whack other players rather than smash the ball across the playing field. He was subsequently barred from every polo club and organization from Palm Beach to Beverly Hills, California. 

Johnny has now focused his talents on the area of sports management and promises he will take Adam Bomb to the top of the Federation.

“It’s only fitting,” remarks the brazzen brat. “Johnny Polo was at the top of the list in the polo game [probably the most hated among  fellow competitors], and now I’ll take Adam Bomb–my creation of devastation– to the top of this organization. With my mind and Adam's muscle and madness, there’s no telling where we can go or what we can do.”

#adam bomb #johnny polo #wwf #world wrestling federation #magazine transcript #wwf magazine

[bobmccullochny]

History

April 26, 1937 - During the Spanish Civil War, the ancient town of Guernica was attacked by German warplanes. After destroying the town in a three hour bombing raid, the planes machine-gunned fleeing civilians.

April 26, 1944 - Federal troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward and removed its chairman after his refusal to obey President Roosevelt's order to recognize a CIO union. The seizure ended when unions won an election to represent the company's workers.

April 26, 1986 - At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, an explosion caused a meltdown of the nuclear fuel and spread a radioactive cloud into the atmosphere, eventually covering most of Europe. A 300-square-mile area around the plant was evacuated. Thirty one persons were reported to have died while an additional thousand cases of cancer from radiation were expected. The plant was then encased in a solid concrete tomb to prevent the release of further radiation.

April 26, 1994 - Multiracial elections were held for the first time in the history of South Africa. With approximately 18 million blacks voting, Nelson Mandela was elected president and F.W. de Klerk vice president.

Birthday - American artist and naturalist John J. Audubon (1785-1851) was born in Haiti. He drew life-like illustrations of the birds of North America.

Birthday - Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was born in Hertfors, Connecticut. He helped design some of the most famous parks in America including Central Park in New York, the Emerald Necklace series of connecting parks in Boston, and Yosemite National Park.

Birthday - Nazi Rudolf Hess (1894-1987) was born in Alexandria, Egypt. He was Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany and a member of Hitler's inner circle. On May 10, 1941, he made a surprise solo flight and parachuted into Scotland intending to negotiate peace with the British. However, the British promptly arrested him and confined him for the duration. Following the war, he was taken to Nuremberg and put on trial with other top Nazis. He died in captivity in 1987, the last of the major Nuremberg war criminals.

#Todays Smile

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The persistent legacy of the Chernobyl disasterAn explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 spread a radioactive cloud over large parts of the Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Nearly 8.4 million people in the three countries were exposed to the radiation. International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day#NuclearPowerPlant #RadioactiveMaterials #Firefighters #Chernobyl https://www.blaqsbi.com/5Qmn

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[mi5019roishutton]

Info Dump - Black Hat

Black Hat - Caution, wariness of overuse, critical thinking, why something might not work.

Chernobyl, 1986 - Example of Atomic Energy gone wrong

What went wrong at Chernobyl? A steam explosion caused a fire (a plume) in one of the reactors and this plume was highly radioactive and fell to the ground as a cloud of radioactive particles (fallout). This fallout entered the water cycle also as well as being carried on the wind.

What were the effects of this fallout? Forests surrounding the facility dried up and died. Deaths of cattle and horses as well as fish became so radioactive that they could no longer be eaten. Radiation poisoning also, however, the effects of this appear years later.

The Red Forest

Other examples:

Fukushima Daiichi Accident, Japan, 2011

Hisashi Ouchi, 1999, Tokaimura Plant

[rmitsemester2project]

Brutal

Brutal can be defined usually as savagely violent. But it can also be defined in positive ways.

Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey is a brutally violent tone shift of the Pooh character after entering public domain. The film basically turns the bear from lovely and friendly to bloodthirsty, feral and violent.

The cockpit of the average airliner like the Boeing 737 can be brutally complicated for the casual observer who are not pilots themselves. This means that pilots have to train their whole lives to fly these machines. Airliners have made a brutal technological evolution since the dawn of the jet age.

Chinese Lion/Dragon Dancing

The drumming from the Chinese Lion/Dragon Dances are brutally loud, especially if you are sitting closer to the drums or speakers. This is especially overwhelming to people who have hypersensitive to loud noises like this. The brutality of the sound also has the positive effect of captivating the audience into the culture.

Nuclear

The affect of nuclear radiation can be very brutal. The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 proved that with not only the violent explosion. but the horrible aftermath and after effects of the radioactive cloud. It's a brutal hazard all around, no matter what part of the job you might have at a nuclear power station.

Landscape

Landscape can be sometimes brutal because of the rough terrain and steep cliff, mountains, etc. The colour can also be brutally different in many places on photographs. The sunlight can also be brutal depending on where it is in the landscape.

Colour

Colour can also be brutal depending on the context. The changes in the colour palette can be too brutal because it disturbs the texture and makes other colours feel out of place by comparison. It could also be brutally beautiful in some circumstances, depending on how it's done.

Music

Music parties can sometimes be brutally noisy. But they can also be brutal fun because they really help you get into the groove. But there can also be some brutal consequences if some of the party-goers get a bit out of hand.

Strength

The Incredible Hulk on the outside can be the definition of brutal strength. It could also be the symbol of brutal rage, considering he smashes stuff in his way a lot. This could also affect men's masculinity in different ways depending on how they handle.

War

Wars and fights of similar nature can be brutal in many different ways. It can be a brutal cost for those who get caught in the crossfire. But it could also be brutally important to protecting people and country.

Crash

Car crashes can be varying degrees of brutal depending on the circumstances. It can result in brutal damage and possibly fatal injuries to anyone involved. It can also be a brutal mental scare for relatives of the dead in the crash.

Martial Arts

Martial Arts can be a brutal sport, especially with some moves such as boxing. But it can also be brutally good exercise and good for self-defence in our normal lives when we need it. Kung Fu is a prime example of brutal injuries if it goes wrong.

#Youtube

[juristique]

A radioactive cloud from Ukraine is heading towards Europe: news or rumor

New Post has been published on https://www.juristique.org/en/opinion/radioactive-cloud-from-ukraine

A radioactive cloud from Ukraine is heading towards Europe: news or rumor

The older among us remember the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl that stopped just at the German border. What about this radioactive cloud from the explosion of a depleted uranium ammunition depot in Ukraine, which is now heading toward Western Europe?

Sommaire

1 The British delivered depleted uranium munitions to the Ukrainians

2 An explosion of a depleted uranium ammunition depot in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine

3 A burst of a radioactive ammunition depot in Ukraine

4 What about the radioactive clouds and environmental pollution?

5 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the radioactive cloud and the explosion of the ammunition depot in Ukraine

6 Other articles on the conflict in Ukraine

7 We are interested in your opinion on the delivery of enriched uranium ammunition by the British and the radioactive cloud in Ukraine:

The British delivered depleted uranium munitions to the Ukrainians

The British have delivered large quantities of enriched uranium ammunition. These munitions are more effective but have the disadvantage of generating radioactive pollution in the environment when exploding.

Delivery of depleted uranium munitions to the Ukrainians by the British

This was noted during the Yugoslavian war and the war in Iraq, where these munitions were heavily used.

An explosion of a depleted uranium ammunition depot in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine

On Sunday, May 14, 2023, the Russians exploded an ammunition depot in the western region of Ukraine in Khmelnytskyi. The explosion was impressive:

An explosion of a radioactive ammunition depot in Ukraine

A burst of a radioactive ammunition depot in Ukraine

This depot contained large stocks of depleted uranium ammunition that could only be disseminated in the environment.

A Ukrainian radioactive cloud is heading toward Europe.

A radioactive cloud is heading for Europe due to the destruction of depleted uranium munitions supplied by the West to Ukraine, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at a meeting in Syktyvkar.

« The United States also ‘helped’ Ukraine. They pressured their satellites and provided ammunition with depleted uranium. Their destruction led to the radioactive cloud heading toward Western Europe. And, an increase in radiation has already been recorded in Poland, » he added.

According to him, « the United States uses chemical and biological weapons, including on the territory of Ukraine« .

What about the radioactive clouds and environmental pollution?

The explosion occurred, and there were stocks of depleted uranium ammunition.

On May 15, 2023, in Lublin, Poland, measuring instruments recorded a sharp increase in bismuth (6 to 7 times).

Substantial increase in the bismuth level in Lublin, Poland

Bismuth is the breakdown product of depleted uranium used in munitions. People in Poland suggested that the radiation threat came from the Khmelnytskyi region in Ukraine, where on the morning of May 14, 2023, the Russian drone attack destroyed the Ukrainian ammunition warehouse.

Everyone will have noticed that the winds are currently in the east in Europe. There is, therefore, a strong probability that the pollution will spread with the wind and contaminate Western Europe.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the radioactive cloud and the explosion of the ammunition depot in Ukraine

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What is enriched uranium ammunition?

Depleted uranium ammunition is a type of ammunition that uses depleted uranium, a very dense material, to penetrate armor.

Where did the explosion of the depleted uranium munitions depot take place?

The explosion of the depleted uranium ammunition depot in Khmelnitsky in the western region of Ukraine.

Other articles on the conflict in Ukraine

In addition, our other publications about the conflict in Ukraine and the economy :

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Tell us in the comments. Thank you.

#War in Ukraine: strategy and thoughts on the conflict with Russia

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A practice derailment on February 3 brought about a chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. The spill has already drawn on-line comparisons to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The Ohio occasion is similar to nuclear disasters—but in addition key variations. loading One thing is loading Thanks for signing up! Entry your favourite matters in a personalised feed when you're on the go Obtain the app After the Feb. 3 practice derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, customers on social media started sharing photographs of an ominous darkish cloud hanging over the town — and fearing the catastrophe might change into the brand new Chernobyl.A Norfolk Southern practice caught fireplace after 50 of its 150 carriages derailed. The practice was carrying 10 automobiles filled with hazardous substances together with vinyl chloride, a colorless gasoline used within the manufacture of the plastic PVC, which was launched on account of the derailment. In daylight, it may possibly break down into chemical substances like formaldehyde.Different flammable chemical substances, comparable to ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, butyl acrylate and isobutylene, have been additionally current within the automobile and launched into the atmosphere, in line with an inventory compiled by the EPA. Many of those chemical substances are thought-about carcinogenic or probably carcinogenic, or respiratory and eye irritants. The toxicity of those chemical substances initially raised issues concerning the well being and security of residents. Then got here comparability One other catastrophe, which occurred virtually 40 years in the past: the nuclear catastrophe within the metropolis of Pripyat on April 26, 1986, which brought about radioactive contamination to unfold throughout Ukraine and Europe.Whereas the extraordinary pictures of Ohio could lead viewers to consider that the state has a mini Chernobyl on its arms, the extent of destruction at Chernobyl was a lot worse. However the environmental influence of occasions in East Palestine shouldn't be ignored, specialists say. The chemical substances launched throughout each disasters have been carcinogenic, however Chernobyl was radioactiveThe Chernobyl incident occurred when a sequence of security measures have been ignored throughout a nuclear reactor check, leading to a large explosion and fireplace that launched massive quantities of radioactive chemical substances comparable to plutonium, iodine, strontium, and cesium. Though carcinogenic chemical substances have been discovered on trains in jap Palestine and a sequence of small explosions occurred after the derailment, many burned in a managed method — inflicting massive black clouds over the town. The chemical substances within the East Palestine incident usually are not as potent because the nuclear waste from Chernobyl.

Nobody died from the chemical spill in East PalestineTwo folks died instantly after the Chernobyl explosion. A month later, about 30 emergency staff died from acute radiation illness and one from cardiac arrest. After the accident, it has been estimated that 1000's of individuals could have died from most cancers and blood illnesses on account of chemical publicity from the Chernobyl energy plant - though these figures are nonetheless being disputed.In East Palestine, no deaths have been reported from the derailment or the next fireplace and explosion, though residents say they're experiencing shortness of breath, sore throats, eye irritation, complications and different illnesses.A number of class motion lawsuits have been filed in opposition to the Norfolk Southern Railroad Firm following the derailment, with residents saying the corporate needs to be held accountable for well being impacts on residents and the atmosphere.A major quantity of animal mortality has been reportedAfter a managed burn of chemical substances to stop a lethal explosion, residents say foxes, chickens and different home animals have died. About 3,500 lifeless fish have been counted in 4 close by waterways, the Ohio Division of Pure Assets stated Tuesday. At Chernobyl, the consequences on fauna haven't been totally decided. In keeping with the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company, the explosion had a direct impact on the well being of animal populations, and lots of vegetation and animals have been altered on account of radiation publicity.An evacuation of East Palestine resulted, however it was short-livedAfter the derailment, about 2,000 residents of jap Palestine have been advised to evacuate.Earlier than the managed burn in Ohio Metropolis, the evacuation zone expanded to a 2-mile-wide radius zone established on February 6.On February 8, officers introduced that residents might return to their houses after the EPA decided that it had not detected contaminants at "ranges of concern" in air and water samples. The Ohio EPA introduced it would monitor soil for potential groundwater leaching of the chemical, WESA reported. However Chernobyl remains to be thought-about uninhabitableThe Chernobyl explosion contaminated 150,000 sq. kilometers of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine and displaced round 350,000 individuals who needed to depart all their belongings behind. A 19-mile-radius nuclear exclusion zone was established across the energy plant that also exists right now.In the course of the conflict in Ukraine, Russian troopers returned to the Chernobyl plant and started digging trenches across the space. Ukraine's state nuclear company claimed in March that Russians had suffered "vital ranges of radiation". Russian troopers later left the manufacturing unit in chaos, Ukrainian staff stated in June.Tons of of principally aged folks additionally returned to the zone to spend the remainder of their lives of their hometowns - or by no means left. "Those that left are in worse form now," one lady stated within the documentary "Babushkas of Chernobyl." "They're all dying of grief."

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Is East Palestine, Ohio Chernobyl 2.0?

It’s not surprising that the Presstitutes have downplayed the “Chemical Explosion Disaster” that took place in East Palestine, Ohio last week. In case you missed it, there was a train accident involving over 50+ cars carrying vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals that were derailed and exploded in a black mushroom like cloud over the tiny village on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border. And one of the main reasons we held back on commenting on this disaster is due to the fact one of our editors is originally from East Palestine, Ohio. And they have family members still living there. So, instead of relying on questionable media sources, we have real “boots on the ground” sources providing information that you won’t find in the MSM. Our editor spoke with her family members in East Palestine and had this to say: My cousins, Brett and Cindy, both paint a very different picture than what you’re seeing on the news. Brett, who lives within 3-4 miles from the “Ground Zero” said he thought of “Bugging Out.”  But was told that everything is under control. He later said that the story to all the residents’ changes from day to day. And after well over a week had gone by, Brett – who has an eternal good sense of humor – said:   “It’s time Pete Bugg-Gig stop taking turns nursing his newborn with his husband/wife and tell the truth that we might just be the next Chernobyl.” “So, I’m hoping not to have a new set of fingers growing out of my head in the near future.”   And my cousin, Cindy (the crazier one) actually drove downtown East Palestine to see the damage and had this to say:   “We saw videos taken showing the trains wheels were on fire from Salem (about 15 mile from East Palestine) and through New Waterford.” But what we don’t know is why the train engineer decided to disconnect the cars with the toxic chemicals in them – leaving them in East Palestine – and continued on into Pennsylvania. And no one has heard a word from him since.” So, it seems like a major lie or cover-up is in the works. What we do know is the negligent actions of the authorities – who SET FIRE to the vinyl chloride spilled in Ohio – created this massive cloud of HYDROCHLORIC ACID. And the health effects of this criminal decision are going to be massive, and long lasting. Some are even calling this a ‘Chemical Chernobyl’. Meanwhile the mainstream media are doing their best to cover it up.     East Palestine, Ohio       And what we also know is that toxins from the E. Palestine train derailment are in the Ohio River. Five million people in six states use it for drinking water. * (* Source: Ohio EPA) We wonder if this is all part of the “Conditioning” taking place – like F-16s shooting down UFOs and possible Alien Invasions – to prepare the Sheeple for WW3. Read about it (HERE). But for now, we pray specifically for the families of East Palestine, Ohio and their surrounding neighbors. Share this with a friend…especially if they know anyone in Ohio. They’ll thank YOU later. Remember:  We’re Not Just About Finance But we use finance to give you hope. ************************************* Petey’s Advice to Folks in Ohio Invest with confidence. Sincerely, James Vincent The Reverend of Finance Copyright © 2023 It's Not Just About Finance, LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Read the full article

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MAG012, First Aid

Case #0121102, Lesere Saraki Release date: April 18, 2016 First listen: 14th October. On the walk home from work. Remember reaching the cul-de-sac as Gerard was standing.

My boy! Our Gerard! My sweet goth son! Who at this point in the proceedings I was convinced was something unholy.

- Trying to explain exactly where and in what capacity you work within the NHS, must be a freaking nightmare. I’ve never worked in healthcare, only really experienced it from the outside trying to get in, but from here, the hospital admin and bureaucracy, I mean, it’s important and necessary, but… yikes. I’ve seen it with our own doctors’ surgery at home; it’s gone rapidly down hill after it got subsumed into a Trust that runs a number of practises in the area. But throwing them all under one umbrella has really killed the efficiency and care aspects, especially since the area I grew up has an aged population and doesn’t do house calls any more.  

- God, I feel for this nurse, I really do. Every single member of ward staff in the NHS is a treasure and deserves better.

- ‘No fights or angry drunks, which was a blessing.’ I don’t think I can think of many things more terrifying than a scenario with a belligerent drunk who themselves is in pain, in an over bright room filled with ill and vulnerable people, many of whom probably can’t get out of the way fast enough. Actually, yes I can, multiple belligerent drunks. The ‘wounded, cornered animal’ behaviour takes over in that moment I’d imagine.

- You want as much prep time as you can get when it comes to treating a burns victim. Not just to get equipment ready but also to mentally prepare yourself I’d imagine. While I am a qualified First Aider at work, oh yeah the moniker of ‘Designated First Aider’ isn’t just for giggles, I have, thankfully, never needed to treat a burns victim. And actually, during the training, those were the slides that I had to strategically look off to the side for.

- Hang on, no, I have treated burns. On myself. Managed to spill hot fat over both hands. Spent a few days in miserable pain but in hindsight, I am flipping lucky I’ve still got my hand dexterity.

- Yeah the quiet in the waiting room is unnerving as all get out. It’s like animals picking up on an oncoming earthquake or tsunami.

- Why the quiet? Why the quietness in the face of The Desolation? Or is it just feeding into the unnerving nature?

- ‘They were second-degree, which is severe, but not usually such as to require hospitalisation, except that they appeared to cover his entire body.’ It’s something of a sliding scale if memory serves, when it comes to hospitalising a burn. For 2nd degree burns, I think it was something like if it covered more than 10% of the body or occurred over a major joint. Or if the victim was in ‘severe pain’, but that’s wonderfully vague.

- So the burning only damaged the mens’ flesh, didn’t touching the clothes. See, I was trying to puzzle that out, because ha! Eldritch horrors are nothing if I think hard enough at them!, yeah, but thinking about the different ways that heat can travel and I thought about radiation, burn no, radiating heat could still cause cloth to catch-… wait… radiation… nuclear radiation… and then I though about Chernobyl and then I felt a bit sick.

- The silence, why is it so quiet? I feel like I might have stumbled onto something if this act was leaning into radiation. We may be treading on The Extinction’s territory, but the boiling of liquids? I’m not well versed on that happened at Chernobyl but the explosion was triggered when a cascade of mistakes led to coolant flash boiling into steam and a positive feedback loop resulting in a steam explosion. And ‘The Ligthless Flame’? While fires at Chernobyl burned, the radiation cloud was something unseen, but burned. And the quiet, the evacuation. The movement of people away from the danger area, although possibly too slow as the burned man was already in the building.

- I’m spiralling, I need tea.

- We get something of a better description of Gerard then we did in MAG004, when Dominic Swain was too rattled to give much beyond commenting he looked a mess. He was described as smaller than the first man, who he’d presumably gone toe to toe with, and younger, mid-thirties or so. She describes him as ‘clean shaven’ and there aren’t any descriptions of a haggard appearance beyond the fact that he’s covered in burns. This is December 2011 and by winter next year, he looks a wreck.

- We get a description of the eye tattoos too, that I think Dominic Swain missed in MAG004. Why would he have them on the joints​? If they have offered him some sort of protection in this instant and could in others, why not get them all over his body? He does have one over his heart though. Odd thought, if he’d gotten one on his scalp, could that have saved him? Probably not. I wonder if he got them by choice, or if this was Mary’s doing?

- Annoyingly, there’s two Saint Mary’s churchyards quite close to St Thomas' Hospital where it sits in Westminster, pretty much across the river from the Houses of Parliament; one to the North East, beyond Waterloo and one to the South East, below Elephant and Castle. Both appear to be park land as opposed to an actual church site as I’d thought.

- The old passport Gerard has with him indicates he’s well-travelled. Has he met Gertrude yet, have they already started their globe hopping adventure of kicking The Entities in the teeth? Also, I’m not sure how many folk walk around with their passports on them, unless they are walking into situations where they may need identifying and may not be all that present themselves to help. Had he literally just stepped foot back in England? Had he picked a fight with The Desolation without even getting over the jet lag yet?

- Chanting. Chanting is never a good sign in this setting. Never good.

- ‘It wasn’t the first time I’d had a reaction like this, though, so I took a moment to centre myself and the feeling receded.’ Lesere? Hun? What exactly do you mean by that? Have you had a run in with The Desolation before? Is that why Gerard says what he says later? Are you already marked in some way?

- Finding A&E empty, yup, like animals fleeing before a disaster.

- Perhaps there’s a touch of The Lonely, as the hospital empties and those who can not simply aren’t awake for it.

- ‘I tentatively touched the back of my hand to (the door handle)’, smart lady. We were taught the same thing in fire safety training.

- She could feel the heat of Gerard Keay’s flesh through the bandages. My boy was literally still cooking and yet he was doing what he could. Immediately lets her go and apologises for grabbing her and scaring her, such a polite boy

- Lesere notes that he’s in ‘tremendous pain’ through all of this but he does his best to hide it. I’ve got a few things to unpack here. They did dose him with pain meds, Lesere states later, but he’s up and aware. Is the damage that has already been done to him intensifying with the chanting man going uninterrupted? Is more pain being heaped on? Part of me wonders what sort of hell Gerard’s body’s been through these last 30 or so years, with the life he lives. Also, how much of the hiding of the pain was ‘I’m in front of a ‘normal’, must’ve give them reason to panic’ and how much was left over behaviours from living with his mother? Mary Keay does not strike me as the type of mother to drop a kiss onto a brightly coloured plaster over a scrapped knee with reassurances that kisses make it all better. I would lay money that Mary Keay viewed any form of physical weakness with utter contempt. Look what she did to Eric.

- How far along is his brain tumour at this point also? He dies late 2014, three years after the events of this statement. How would a brain tumour affect his registering of pain? Could it dull it? Would he possibly have a base line of chronic pain?  

- ‘If there was a coherent explanation for everything ... then I would be no better off for knowing it.’ That line says to me, ‘take what the The Eye is offering and toss it across the room like the ‘It’s Always Sunning In Philadelphia’ plate throw meme.’ Reject it.

- ‘...standing and walking despite the burns covering eighty percent of his body, despite the sheer quantity of painkillers we had given him.’ See, my reaction is ‘my boy’s a trooper’, but I am becoming aware of some my own behaviours that could be seen as self neglect, so I’m working on it. Yes, our boy is strong, but he shouldn’t need to be. Or maybe he does because, y’know, need to survive the night.

- ‘...seemed to know the code to the door immediately.’ Is that an Eye thing or a Gerard ‘he most definitely learnt to pick locks, hack security systems, and learnt to read frequently entered codes by looking at the ware on a keypad’ Keay thing? He would have been such a good rogue.

- I have to say kudos to Lesere for considering the ethical question of whether to protect the burned man by risking her own life. She made the correct choice, but she considered her Hippocratic oath in her actions. But the Hippocratic oath isn’t the first of Asimov's laws of robotics.

- ‘Yes. For you, better beholding than the lightless flame.’ - Gerard, baby, what​? You offering asylum to other Entity’s refugees now?

- ‘Over the course of twenty seconds I watched this man’s body cremate itself to ash.’ There’s a good chance the body of the burned man was no longer fully human, and they way Lesere describes how it burnt, I don’t think it was. But the fact that it takes the scalpel with it... Do you know what it takes to cremate a body? What time frame is needed, the temperatures they need to reach, that fact there are still bone fragments left? It’s wild. Let Caitlin Doughty tell you about it my friends.

- He uses the bed pan to clean up after himself. So polite. Such a good boy.

- Lesere heading out into the corridor and back into reality and to work and ‘the rest of my shift was gone’. Bless ever EMT, nurse, doctor, admission staff and orderly for just straight up compartmentalising trauma as part of the job.

- Gerard was ‘discharged into the care of his mother’. So do we think this is Mary or Gertrude? I’m tempted to say Mary, given the sate we find him in in a year’s time. Even if she did die, for the first time at least, in 2008. So this is an undead Mary, after Gerard was tried for her murder.

- ‘I tried to talk to him about what happened, but he was on a lot of painkillers and never seemed to really register I was there.’ Let my boy rest.

- ‘When I’m alone on the wards, I get the feeling I’m being watched.’ Ah, there we go.

- ‘Not threatened or judged’, I’m glad. I was worried for Lesere, that she may retain some guilt over her choice to not stop Gerard from killing the burned man. But she made the correct decision.

-  ‘Asag’, a demon in Sumerian mythology associated with disease and corruption. And the Archivist is right, that doesn’t quiet vibe with The Desolation, would be more likely be found in the ranks of The Corruption. But then I think back to radiation burns...

- Martin knowing Polish is a wonderful little tidbit of trivia, but then the Archivist is so mean. We’ve been over this Jon, Latin is back news.

- ‘It has not escaped my notice that this is the second time Gerard Keay has turned up in this Archive.’ Archivist, you stand in the halls of his kingdom, he walked these halls and has long fought these battles, put some respect on Gerard’s name.

- We have a note of him having passed away in late 2014. So if, in universe we’re in 2015, that’s not too long ago at all. Probably not long before Gertrude died March 2015. That period could be as little as 3 months, but long enough for her to put him in the book. But between MAG004 and MAG012, the archival team find he has passed away.

- The nature of everybody leaving the A&E room is chilling. 28 people, standing up and calmly filing out of the doors without prompting and coming back in without an outward cue to prompt them and let them know it was safe. And they were quiet. Why were they quiet? Then I thought about the quiet of exclusion zones.

- At 03:22:52, the feed cuts and we get The Eye staring back, is that the moment that the burning man died and The Desolation was defeated in that place, or was it when Lesere made a choice and stepped aside?

#MAG012 #The Desolation #The Eye #the magnus archives

[tonkiour]

Big reactor meltdown

#BIG REACTOR MELTDOWN FULL#

Unlike Chernobyl, those plants are not isolated, and the invasion could create safety issues such as preventing workers from traveling to reactors to allow them to operate safely or causing power outages that affect the ability to cool reactors. Similarly, Acton at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace wrote that the bigger nuclear risk involves potential fighting around Ukraine’s four active plants. The steel containment structure, the length of nearly three football fields, was needed to control leaking radioactivity, she said: “The last thing you want is a missile hitting that.” “It’s called an exclusion zone for a reason,” Brown said. Yet Kate Brown, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who has written about the Chernobyl accident, said she fears that fighting at the reactor site could start fires that could carry smoke-borne radioactivity. “Yes, it’s highly contaminated, and yes, it should be contained,” he continued, “but there’s no active energy there that can cause an explosion or cause a plume of any biological significance.” “From a biological, nuclear safety point of view, this is a fairly benign site at this point,” said Lake Barrett, who served as acting deputy director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management from 1993 to 2002. This unlawful and dangerous hostage-taking, which could upend the routine civil service efforts required to maintain and protect the nuclear waste facilities, is obviously incredibly alarming.” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said yesterday, “We are outraged by credible reports that Russian soldiers are currently holding the staff of the Chernobyl facilities hostage. However, Alyona Shevtsova, adviser to the commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, said on Facebook that staff are being “held hostage,” CNN reported this morning. So there was no one to give instructions or defend,” she said. A spokesperson for the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, Yevgeniya Kuznetsovа, told CNN, “When I came to the office today in the morning, it turned out that the management had left.

#BIG REACTOR MELTDOWN FULL#

Normally, the site would be full of workers and engineers continuing the decommissioning of the devastated reactors. According to the Associated Press, Zelenskyy said on Twitter that “our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.” He added that “this is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.” Chernobyl is enclosed by a massive, $1.9 billion steel structure to contain still-dangerous levels of fuel and radioactive debris.Įarly in yesterday’s Russian assault, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian forces were trying to seize the Chernobyl facility and raised the specter of a dangerous new release. In 1986, an explosion at one of Chernobyl’s reactors spewed radioactive clouds far into Western Europe.Īfter the invasion, Ukraine officials informed the IAEA that there had been no casualties nor destruction at the plant, the IAEA said in a statement from its Vienna headquarters. Grossi’s concerns were expressed after Russian soldiers seized the Chernobyl plant after what officials called a fierce battle with Ukrainian forces in the protected area surrounding the site near the city of Pripyat.

#Big reactor meltdown

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“You have probably never heard of Nikopol. You would not want to be there now. Night and day for the past six weeks, it has been under constant Russian artillery fire. But there is another factor that makes the situation here uniquely alarming.

Nikopol is the closest town on the Ukrainian-held shore of the Dnieper to the giant Zaporizhzhia power station, which was overrun by Russian forces in early March.

Today, the plant, with its six nuclear reactors, is still in Russian ‘control’. That last word is questionable. What is happening — and what might happen — at the facility has become not so much an international cause celebre as a worldwide danger.

(…)

Iodine tablets, that protect against radiation-induced thyroid cancer, were distributed to residents of the town and surrounding villages in March.

The EU has said it will provide a further 5.5 million tablets to be taken by civilians living further afield.

(…)

‘What we fear is not so much a classic nuclear explosion, with blast and a mushroom cloud, but that the plant will become a “dirty bomb” of massive radioactive fallout,’ says Dr Tumanov. ‘The reactors are only 8 to 9 km (about 5 miles) from where we sit here. A disaster will be very dangerous for the whole region, for Europe.

‘But Nikopol would be ground zero, like (the now abandoned city of) Pripyat after Chernobyl. It will be a catastrophe. And yet the Russian shelling that you hear is coming from Enerhodar and the vicinity of the plant.’

(…)

Did he think the UN inspectors’ visit will save Nikopol and beyond from a catastrophe?

He bursts into peals of laughter at my ‘naive’ question. ‘If there is a serious accident at the nuclear power plant, it will affect not only Ukraine but many of those countries which were at one point behind the Iron Curtain,’ he says.

‘They are the only ones, it seems, who truly know what we are dealing with here. Russia is like a rabid dog. You cannot apply logic to such creatures.

‘The countries in the West are still under a delusion that somehow they can deal with Russia amicably when, in fact, it understands only the language of force.

‘What is needed with such a dog is to build a very high fence and only then can we live side by side.’

Alas for battered Nikopol and Europe beyond her, even a high fence will not save it if the worst happens among those ominous shapes on the southern skyline.”

#russia #ukraine #war #chernobyl #nuclear

[myvalzpival]

Right, but doesn’t Russia have control of the Chernobyl Power Plant, and threatened to lower the shielding keeping out that literally endless cloud of radiation? Any forceful or bombing attempts to take it back wouldn’t work because they have it set up so that if they did then you’d light up Cehenobyl again, and the last thing 2022 needs is Chernobyl 2: Electric Boogaloo. But that seems possibly right now, actually possible. What else is there to do?

Hi!

I'm currently not there to asses how ready they really are to kapow that site in the air, and similarly, i'm not an expert on nuclear power.

But you know who is? Dana Drábová, my beloved. She's The Queen of nuclear energy in the Czech Republic and i've been continually reading her articles and visiting her discussions and seminars ever since i was a high schooler.

In some recent interviews, such as this one (run it through Google Translate if you need to):

she states that

a) we should be worried about the people who are imprisoned in the power plant because what the actual fuck

b) the power was cut from the power plant and thus the old fuel cannot be actively cooled down. this, however, is not a big deal. the fuel is old (don't forget the explosion happened 36 years ago. in terms of nuclear waste, it's nothing, but it's still SOMETHING), the power plant is not functioning and for the fuel to become dangerous again, the active cooling would have to be down for a long time. and i mean, l o n g time.

c) while the thought of the sarcophagus being bombed or lifted is terrifying, that's exactly what it is - a scare tactics. according to the authorities, the lifting/destroying of the protective layers would affect the already destroyed 30km radius arround the site. which, yes, is still a shitty thing, but it definitely wouldn't have as catastrophic effect as Putin makes everyone, and especially the already terrified Ukrainians, think. as of the "endless cloud of radiation" (which is totally the name of my next punk mand), yes, there is some radioactive dust there that would be lifted, but the claims that "it would flood Europe" are way too strong. the calamity would most likely be very local.

now. am i saying that it's okay if Putin's soldiers actually blow the site up?

nah, i'd prefer they did not.

is it okay to say "whew, we're fine, it will only affect Ukraine"?

nope. not in the slightest.

but it's also not okay spreading doomsday scenarios. do your research, trust scientists, don't give in to Putin's scare tactics ✌️

💛💙

#milý mývale