Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus

Daniel Moore

Daniel Moore

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...=37&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
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This is a 1996 BBC Horizons documentary that shows the inside of Chernobyl's sarcophagus. A team of scientists had to go into the power plant very near the reactor years after the meltdown to account for the missing nuclear fuel and to inspect the decay rate and the state of the sarcophagus.

They found that although it isn't likely that another chain reaction could ever happen, the sarcophagus is filled with tons of radioactive dust that will be released if the crumbling sarcophagus ever collapses, which it is expected to do in a small number of years. The goal was to put another cover on top of the sarcophagus to keep in the dust and allow scientists to work in relative safety to get rid of materials, but it still hasn't happened after 11 years and if the dust is released it would be quite a disaster.

It's really strange to see the video inside of the sarcophagus, and I can't imagine having to go into rooms with such radiation. The video shows that those scientists now have mutated chromosomes, although more of them seem to die of stress (heart failure) than cancer.
 
It's a pretty sobering video, radiation levels that could cause instant death (maybe I'm not terribly familiar with radiation exposure). Just around the corner, and no one knows because nothing looks like radioactive material, just radiated everything.
 
Yeah. This is another example of how people have really hard time on doing something about it until they realize that the hell is getting loose. Luckily they are doing something about it now... if they have time.

I really wouldnt like to have radio active cloud getting here with winds that go to west.
 
That documentary was made 10 years ago, AFAIK, nothing has been done. Instead Putin is spending money killing press reporters, blackmailing various countries with energy cutoff, selling nuke shit to Iran,...
 
They are currently making a dome over it as far as I remember. I readed about in science magazine. It needs funding thought, and faster building rate.
 
Grim stuff. Some of the scientists are young judging by the lack of gray in their hair and beards but they don't look healthy. No wonder.
 
Yes, grim.
Fossil fuel runs out, we get more nuclear reactors, they build them safer, better than txhe old ones, but...100 years or so later - or less, they'll also be unsafe, and the world eventually becomes full of domes/sarcophagi covering heaps of radioactive stuff.

A.L., you're close. But in the end, we're all too close to it. Whatever's blowing around with the wind, it's not going anywhere but around the world somewhere; it's not like it's going outside of our atmosphere. Then again, maybe they eventually start dumping it on the moon or something.
 
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