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2017-04-26 7:34:01 AM  
GET OUT OF HERE, STALKER!
 
2017-04-26 8:53:24 AM  
It's also Aliens day (4/26, as in LV-426).  So it's not just radioactivity, it's radioactive xenomorphs.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2017-04-26 9:29:42 AM  
Boy, I remember when that happened.  I was in HS.  I had a good friend who was an exchange student from Norway and she was freaking the fark out pretty hard.
 
2017-04-26 9:44:34 AM  
After watching it based on a recommendation of a farker, "the Battle of Chernobyl" is a *really* good documentary
 
Tom_Slick  
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2017-04-26 9:47:09 AM  
It's Chernobyl day in Russia, the rest of the world didn't know about it until a few days later IIRC
 
2017-04-26 10:24:09 AM  
At least we know the wind blows West. Sorry Sweden, England, Germany, . . .

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CJDixon  
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2017-04-26 10:25:19 AM  
Fallout 5: Chernobyl
 
2017-04-26 10:25:36 AM  
You might need to set that looked at
 
2017-04-26 10:27:02 AM  
The accident released 5,300 PetaBecquerels of radiation, according to some estimates. That amount is nearly 10 times that which was released during the meltdown of Fukushima's Daiichi power plant in 2011.

(Adds "Peta Becquerel" to my list of aliases.)
 
Kivutar  
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2017-04-26 10:28:51 AM  
There was some pretty epic heroism from the Chernobyl firefighters, worth a read if you ever want to feel even more useless sometime.
 
2017-04-26 10:28:58 AM  
There was a bunch of guys in rad suits on a kind of ledge over where the core was chucking hot cooling rods into the hole before it was sealed up with concrete.  Within a week, they were all dead from radiation sickness.
 
Cheron  
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2017-04-26 10:29:54 AM  
A group of friends had gotten access to the USSR to visit various aerospace museums. The heard nothing about this until their shoes were confiscated when they were crossing into Finland.
 
2017-04-26 10:30:47 AM  
somedude210


GET OUT OF HERE, STALKER!

Don't have a meltdown
 
OldJames  
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2017-04-26 10:33:52 AM  
The first time I read that, I thought it said glowing feces... pretty funny image
 
2017-04-26 10:39:35 AM  
In college my concentration was power plant design.  We spent quite a lot of time covering the problems with the Russian plant designs.

/am surprised it didn't happen more often
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]  
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2017-04-26 10:43:17 AM  

OldJames: The first time I read that, I thought it said glowing feces... pretty funny image


The jackrabbits that live by the Hanford site in Washington used to have radioactive poop. They liked licking the radioactive salts that were part of the waste products.
 
notapreppie  
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2017-04-26 10:46:18 AM  

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: In college my concentration was power plant design.  We spent quite a lot of time covering the problems with the Russian plant designs.

/am surprised it didn't happen more often


Bad design meets bad operating decisions meets bad emergency response decisions.

Disasters on this scale don't happen because of a failure at just one point in the chain.
 
2017-04-26 10:48:13 AM  

Random Anonymous Blackmail: somedude210


GET OUT OF HERE, STALKER!

Don't have a meltdown


Cheeki Breeki
 
2017-04-26 10:48:15 AM  
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blatz514 [OhFark]  
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2017-04-26 10:49:37 AM  
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zerkalo  
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2017-04-26 10:50:12 AM  

Diogenes: Boy, I remember when that happened.  I was in HS.  I had a good friend who was an exchange student from Norway and she was freaking the fark out pretty hard.


It was my junior year. 31 years damn.
 
2017-04-26 10:52:27 AM  
The ironic part is that Democrats, Obama & Clinton voters...loved the USSR.
 
2017-04-26 10:59:02 AM  
"Shiny, glowy people holding hands..."
The sarcophagus is in place, but they're still closing it up, right?
 
2017-04-26 11:02:17 AM  
I wonder how they're doing with the new sarcophagus?  I also wonder why they can't just drop a 20 KT bomb on it.  That would take care of everything.  Or is that the plan?  Build the new sarcophagus, and detonate a 20 KT bomb inside?
 
2017-04-26 11:06:48 AM  
The design of the sarcophagus started on May 20, 1986, 24 days after the disaster. Subsequent construction lasted for 206 days, from June to late November of the same year. The first task before construction started was to build a cooling slab under the reactor to prevent the hot nuclear fuel from burning a hole in the base. Coal miners were called up to dig the necessary tunnel below the reactor and by June 24, 1986 four hundred coal miners had dug the 168-metre (551 ft) long tunnel. When the building became overly radioactive it became impossible to directly screw down the nuts and bolts or apply any direct welding to the sarcophagus, so this work was done by robots. The seams of the sarcophagus, however, were not properly sealed.

The entire construction process consisted of eight stages: clearing and concreting of territory around reactor unit 4, erection of initial reinforced concrete protective walls around the perimeter, construction of separation walls between units 3 and 4, cascade wall construction, covering of the turbine hall, mounting of a high-rise buttress wall, erection of supports and installation of a reactor compartment covering and finally the installation of a ventilation system.

More than 400000 m3 of concrete and 7,300 tonnes of metal framework were used during the erection of the sarcophagus. The building ultimately enclosed 740000 m3 of heavily contaminated debris inside, together with contaminated soil. On October 11, 1986 the Soviet Governmental Commission accepted a report entitled "Conclusion on Reliability and Durability of a Covering Constructions and Radiation Safety of Chernobyl NPP Unit 4 Reactor Compartment".[6][verification needed] The sarcophagus has over 60 bore holes to allow observation of the interior of the core. In many places the structure was designed to have ventilation shafts to allow some convection inside. Filtration systems have been put in place so that no radioactive material will escape through these holes.
 
2017-04-26 11:11:51 AM  
Still affecting the Ukriane?  Maybe that's what makes their chicks so hot

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2017-04-26 11:23:16 AM  

bluorangefyre: I wonder how they're doing with the new sarcophagus?


The arch was rolled over the plant late last year and they're currently building the endwalls.
 
2017-04-26 11:29:27 AM  

zerkalo: Diogenes: Boy, I remember when that happened.  I was in HS.  I had a good friend who was an exchange student from Norway and she was freaking the fark out pretty hard.

It was my junior year. 31 years damn.


I had just recently arrived at my duty station in Hawaii, US Army Field Station Kunia.  Oddly enough, because that wasn't our area of concern, I got almost all of my information about it from CNN.
 
2017-04-26 11:30:49 AM  

bluorangefyre: I wonder how they're doing with the new sarcophagus?


What does Chernobyl and a person choking on a lemon drop have in common?

They both have a sour cough, I guess.
 
Grembo  
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2017-04-26 11:34:50 AM  
As an industrial radiographer, I know how how much 5,300 PetaBecquerels is and am definitely not getting a kick.
/that's a scary amount
 
wjllope  
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2017-04-26 11:35:30 AM  

bluorangefyre: I also wonder why they can't just drop a 20 KT bomb on it.


(You're probably kidding, but) the idea is encapsulation, not dispersal.
 
Rob4127  
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2017-04-26 11:45:51 AM  
Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb: "Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor. Airing April 26, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS"
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]  
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2017-04-26 11:45:55 AM  

WalkingCarpet: Still affecting the Ukriane?  Maybe that's what makes their chicks so hot

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When they grow older and you try to leave them, they do this
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2017-04-26 11:50:38 AM  
John McCormack Keep the Home Fires Burning
Youtube 5P8UokgVqWs
 
camaroash  
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2017-04-26 11:57:10 AM  
I was almost six.  When I was three, my Grandpa started teaching me about how power generation works after I asked about the huge pipe that runs through the nearby canyon (gravity feed from the reservoir to the hydroelectric plant).  When I was four, he summarized nuclear power for me because I saw something about it in the children's encyclopedia he was teaching me from.  I understood it was a matter of making water incredibly hot and using the steam to turn a turbine, which turned a generator.  What blew my mind at that age was how much energy was stored in the nuclear fuel.

When I asked why nuclear power plants were so big if the reactor was so small, Grandpa explained nuclear radiation to me by way of a sunburn that goes through your whole body, not just your skin, and causes cancer just like sunburns can (Grandpa had Melanoma tumors removed a few times and taught me about cancer).  The plant was so big to keep everyone safe and to keep everything inside if the reactor cracked open.

When Chernobyl blew up, it was mere months after Challenger.  I watched Challenger blow up while I was in school because we watched every Space Shuttle launch (the rocket boosters were built 20 miles from where I live).  I didn't see a report about the Chernobyl disaster until some time later.  I remember seeing pictures of the reactor blown open and asking Grandpa about it.  He was honest with me, saying it killed a lot of people and would probably cause cancer in far more people, plus nobody would be able to use the land around the plant for hundreds of years so everyone who was in the area had to move away.

I learned a lot my Grandpa.  He's the only one who would answer what I admit were advanced questions for someone so young.  Granted, that's pretty much as far as I went with anything nuclear.  I stuck with stuff I could do at home.
 
2017-04-26 12:03:58 PM  

Jake Havechek: There was a bunch of guys in rad suits on a kind of ledge over where the core was chucking hot cooling rods into the hole before it was sealed up with concrete.  Within a week, they were all dead from radiation sickness.


The documentary I saw about this is absolutely haunting and shows ridiculous bravery and selflessness.
 
rikkards  
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2017-04-26 12:07:16 PM  

Rob4127: Building Chernobyl's MegaTomb: "Engineers race to build a massive dome to contain the crumbling remains of the reactor. Airing April 26, 2017 at 9 pm on PBS"


Rerun, it was on a while back . They had it done last fall. Good watch though
 
2017-04-26 12:09:19 PM  

Jake Havechek: There was a bunch of guys in rad suits on a kind of ledge over where the core was chucking hot cooling rods into the hole before it was sealed up with concrete.  Within a week, they were all dead from radiation sickness.


The roof runners were all mostly fine. Well, as fine as it gets given that kind of situation (I want to say there was at least one non-immediate-disaster death from peering over the edge of the roof; the others that did were all first responders.) The guys that died due to the core chunks didn't even have to get that far; they basically got their lethal doses just running by the damn things during the immediate aftermath and response. Others got it from wading through all the water that had built up in the halls closest to the core. A few anecdotes suggest the skin on their legs sloughed off like overly-large socks while they languished in hospitals waiting to die. A few particularly brave-slash-crazy individuals got their dose trying to peer at the exposed core itself to get an idea of the damage, some going as far as to get up on it and trying to physically shove some of the rods back into the core in a vain attempt to slow or stop the reaction.

Interviews with surviving responders/firefighters/cleanup crew give the suggestion that the only reason any of them were able to function and do their jobs is that they all just assumed they were farking dead already so the rank fear just kind of melted away into grim purpose.
 
2017-04-26 12:16:15 PM  

KingBiefWhistle: Jake Havechek: There was a bunch of guys in rad suits on a kind of ledge over where the core was chucking hot cooling rods into the hole before it was sealed up with concrete.  Within a week, they were all dead from radiation sickness.

The roof runners were all mostly fine. Well, as fine as it gets given that kind of situation (I want to say there was at least one non-immediate-disaster death from peering over the edge of the roof; the others that did were all first responders.) The guys that died due to the core chunks didn't even have to get that far; they basically got their lethal doses just running by the damn things during the immediate aftermath and response. Others got it from wading through all the water that had built up in the halls closest to the core. A few anecdotes suggest the skin on their legs sloughed off like overly-large socks while they languished in hospitals waiting to die. A few particularly brave-slash-crazy individuals got their dose trying to peer at the exposed core itself to get an idea of the damage, some going as far as to get up on it and trying to physically shove some of the rods back into the core in a vain attempt to slow or stop the reaction.

Interviews with surviving responders/firefighters/cleanup crew give the suggestion that the only reason any of them were able to function and do their jobs is that they all just assumed they were farking dead already so the rank fear just kind of melted away into grim purpose.


The guys who did damage control at Chernobyl are some of the most heroic humans who have ever lived.
 
2017-04-26 12:21:13 PM  

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: In college my concentration was power plant design.  We spent quite a lot of time covering the problems with the Russian plant designs.

/am surprised it didn't happen more often


They knew the power plants were unsafe designs but just assumed that operators would know how to keep them out of dangerous configurations.
 
2017-04-26 12:30:09 PM  

ohdontbeshy: Jake Havechek: There was a bunch of guys in rad suits on a kind of ledge over where the core was chucking hot cooling rods into the hole before it was sealed up with concrete.  Within a week, they were all dead from radiation sickness.

The documentary I saw about this is absolutely haunting and shows ridiculous bravery and selflessness.


It was probably "The Battle of Chernobyl". Highly recommended. The Russians may have caused Chernobyl but they did also try pretty hard to fix it at the cost of many lives.
 
icon0fs1n  
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2017-04-26 12:33:28 PM  

OldJames: The first time I read that, I thought it said glowing feces... pretty funny image


I guess Carl spent too much time near Chernobyl..
Going for the Brass Ring | Aqua Teen Hunger | Adult Swim
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2017-04-26 12:48:31 PM  
Congratulations to the survivors!
 
stuffy  
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2017-04-26 12:51:28 PM  
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Town Mayor hopes you have a nice stay.
 
2017-04-26 12:54:48 PM  
An estimated 30 people were killed in the immediate aftermath of the meltdown. A report issued by Greenpeace revealed that the world could see more than 200,000 eventual cancer deaths as a result of Chernobyl.

The World Health Organization estimated it at 4000 eventual deaths.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2017-04-26 1:17:11 PM  

FloridaFarkTag: The ironic part is that Democrats, Obama & Clinton voters...loved the USSR.


Oh FFS...are you always on?

Never mind.  I simply do not care.  And you have a paycheck to earn.
 
MLWS  
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2017-04-26 1:19:28 PM  

somedude210: GET OUT OF HERE, STALKER!


Get the lights.
 
2017-04-26 1:41:49 PM  

dittybopper: zerkalo: Diogenes: Boy, I remember when that happened.  I was in HS.  I had a good friend who was an exchange student from Norway and she was freaking the fark out pretty hard.

It was my junior year. 31 years damn.

I had just recently arrived at my duty station in Hawaii, US Army Field Station Kunia.  Oddly enough, because that wasn't our area of concern, I got almost all of my information about it from CNN.


I turned 5 later that year.  I was stationed in front of the TV watching Knight Rider with my grandpa.
 
2017-04-26 1:48:14 PM  

MLWS: somedude210: GET OUT OF HERE, STALKER!

Get the lights.


I said come in, don't stand there.
 
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2017-04-26 1:51:35 PM  
Sergei Fukov
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