Chernobyl Disaster. 21 years ago today (4/26)

[PrOLifIC_onE]

I saw some documentary on the area surrounding it. They had many farms around there. They shipped the meat from contaminated animals all over the country, figuring that it was better to give a small dose of exposure to a few people scattered about, rather than send all the contaminated meat to one area or city. I hope they know what they were doing! Most likely, here, the animals would just have been 'put down.'

[Jokerswild]

The animals would have been served where you work Matt.

[PrOLifIC_onE]

oh yeah... BK probly did serve them....

[DeanOlicious]

Haha, at least you know the meat doesn't have E. Coli or anything.

I believe we're running on nukalor power here in AL. Our Grandfather retired out of Alabama Power, I don't think he has any superpowers though. Unless being a granpa is his secret identity.

HBO had a really good documentary on about two years ago showing the orphanages of the surrounding communities and the horrifying defects the children are being born with. Kids' with short limbs, hydrocephalic heads and so on. It's hard to beleive places like that really exist.

[Quakindude]

What's so typical of any government is the way the international nuclear committees have made statements that roughly a hundred folks have died from the Chernobyl incident. They also state how safe it is to be around the reactors with the sarcophagus in place, that scientists were working in the immediate area for some time after the meltdown. If that's true, then why have hundreds of thousands of people not returned to the surrounding towns and cities due to those cities being off limits from habitation? At best, it'll only take 300 years for the environment to dispose of the fallout. Worst case, they say 900 years. That's just so the surrounding areas are inhabitable by humans. Of course, that's barring any further "incidents" at the site.

All it would take is one air hole in the concrete around that thing to set off the graphite again.

And like Capper said, that's assuming we actually know what we're doing. The same sites that proclaim minimal human costs, minimum environmental impact, so on and so forth, also say that the chances of a reactor meltdown ever happening again is almost nil due to the lessons learned from 3-Mile and Chernobyl.

Yeah, the human condition and international terrorists need to read up on the safety factors of these things and how failsafe the safety features for them are.

[Hitman]

France gets 75% of their power from Nuclear Energy. Its also the largest exporter of power in the world. Countries like Germany and Belgium currently have Nuclear Power Plants under construction now. France claims they have the safest Nuclear Reactors in the world. Also the US has 20 Nuclear Power Plans in the planing process right now.

[Capper]

Originally Posted by DeanOlicious

HBO had a really good documentary on about two years ago showing the orphanages of the surrounding communities and the horrifying defects the children are being born with. Kids' with short limbs, hydrocephalic heads and so on. It's hard to believe places like that really exist.

For those wanting to see some incredible stuff....I'd recommend Chernobyl Heart....a documentary about children born in the contamination zone.

Thats the documentary I was talking about....man, to look at those poor kids, and how many there were....you can't say their problems were random.

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by Capper

you can't say their problems were random.

Agreed. However, the nuclear proponents would have you believe that nuclear reactors are only surpassed in world benefits and environmentally safe contributions by the Antec P182.

[Carl Martin]

Like it or not, we rely on nuclear power. The two plants nearby here, in Kewaunee and Two Creeks WI, produce 25% of Wisconsin's electricity and also part of Upper Michigan's. Take those out and what do we have? More coal with acid rain and global warming?

Interesting conversation to be having on electronic devices!

[Capper]

I just don't understand why we don't use more solar, especially here in Vegas......you see nothing except pool heaters.