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Any boyos watching this? Fantastic programme. It also has a podcast where the writer explains things. They really really did come very close to poisoning the whole of Asia.
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I had no idea at the time how bad things were. In particular I had no how close they were to a catastrophic thermonuclear explosion, how far the devastation would have spread and even when that threat was averted, the potential for poisoning the water supply for 50M people, forever.
It really is truly horrific, and they don't pull any punches, seeing the poor guys in hospital was probably the most gruesome thing I have seen on TV.
I haven't seen it but back in the day we used to have kiddies from that region come to stay with us. They said that for every day they spent here it would add two weeks to their lives. Incredible really.
footers KC - Prosecution Barrister - Friend to all
It's brilliant; the atmosphere of the whole series is so bleak.
We basically have 3 blokes in diver suits who released the water tanks to thank for not killing over a billion people
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
I had no idea at the time how bad things were. In particular I had no how close they were to a catastrophic thermonuclear explosion, how far the devastation would have spread and even when that threat was averted, the potential for poisoning the water supply for 50M people, forever.
It really is truly horrific, and they don't pull any punches, seeing the poor guys in hospital was probably the most gruesome thing I have seen on TV.
It's basically a real life version of Threads.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
We basically have 3 blokes in diver suits who released the water tanks to thank for not killing over a billion people
Them and the firefighters whose efforts to fight the blaze were pretty much suicidal.
I've mentioned it before but make no excuses for doing so again but Serhii Plokhy's recent book is an excellent account of both the disaster and the political context:
Them and the firefighters whose efforts to fight the blaze were pretty much suicidal.
I've mentioned it before but make no excuses for doing so again but Serhii Plokhy's recent book is an excellent account of both the disaster and the political context:
The bit in the show where the fireman picks up the bit of graphite....or maybe the bit where the people are watching the accident as the dust falls on them.....
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Are you exaggerating a bi there is that a real figure?
Wish I had sky now.
Basically if they hadn't released the water in the tanks below the reactor, there would have been an enormous nuclear explosion which would have killed many people in and of itself and would have poisoned one of Asia's main water courses. Then you obvs have the fallout from the explosion which would have wafted across Asia and Europe. They released the water with about a day to spare.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
Basically if they hadn't released the water in the tanks below the reactor, there would have been an enormous nuclear explosion which would have killed many people in and of itself and would have poisoned one of Asia's main water courses. Then you obvs have the fallout from the explosion which would have wafted across Asia and Europe. They released the water with about a day to spare.
wow.
Has anyone ever looked at their own postings for last day or so? Oh my... so sorry. Was Ullaa
Yes loving it, really gripping and bloody terrifying.
Was concerned about the English accents and not Russian ones, but got over that now. And also the fella from Friday Night Dinner, kept thinking he would be wandering around in his undercrackers any time soon.
As a young lad at the time, I had no idea whatsoever that the world was so close to a major, catastrophic incident that would have killed Ukraine, Asia & Beyond for centuries.
It's all rather sobering.
Thanks for the book link, Steve M. That's the holiday read sorted.
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Yes loving it, really gripping and bloody terrifying.
Was concerned about the English accents and not Russian ones, but got over that now. And also the fella from Friday Night Dinner, kept thinking he would be wandering around in his undercrackers any time soon.
I had no idea at the time how bad things were. In particular I had no how close they were to a catastrophic thermonuclear explosion, how far the devastation would have spread and even when that threat was averted, the potential for poisoning the water supply for 50M people, forever.
It really is truly horrific, and they don't pull any punches, seeing the poor guys in hospital was probably the most gruesome thing I have seen on TV.
It's impossible to have a nuclear explosion in a reactor. One of the trickiest things about getting an atom bomb to work is keeping things together while at least a proportion of the uncontrolled chain reaction runs its course (even then less than a third of the fuel is used). That's why they use explosive compression, to give the core sufficient inwards momentum that it stays together at sufficient density for long enough. Without that, it blows itself apart too quickly and the chain reaction dissipates.
Those conditions do not exist within a nuclear reactor, where even if the fuel melts together, there is nothing to hold it there. The immediate area would be exposed to a lot of radiation and things would get very hot, but there would be no nuclear explosion (c.f. the two accidents involving the "demon core": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core ).
In accidents where reactors have blown up (e.g. Chernobyl, SL-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 ), the explosions have been caused by other things (often water/steam).
Point of order - 'thermonuclear' refers specifically to weapons including a fusion element, binding heavy isotopes of hydrogen to make helium (i.e. an H-bomb rather than an A-bomb). The materials/structures for this are not present in a reactor.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
It's impossible to have a nuclear explosion in a reactor. One of the trickiest things about getting an atom bomb to work is keeping things together while at least a proportion of the uncontrolled chain reaction runs its course (even then less than a third of the fuel is used). That's why they use explosive compression, to give the core sufficient inwards momentum that it stays together at sufficient density for long enough. Without that, it blows itself apart too quickly and the chain reaction dissipates.
Those conditions do not exist within a nuclear reactor, where even if the fuel melts together, there is nothing to hold it there. The immediate area would be exposed to a lot of radiation and things would get very hot, but there would be no nuclear explosion (c.f. the two accidents involving the "demon core": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core ).
In accidents where reactors have blown up (e.g. Chernobyl, SL-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 ), the explosions have been caused by other things (often water/steam).
Point of order - 'thermonuclear' refers specifically to weapons including a fusion element, binding heavy isotopes of hydrogen to make helium (i.e. an H-bomb rather than an A-bomb). The materials/structures for this are not present in a reactor.
In the spirit of reconciliation and happiness at the end of the Banter Era (RIP) and as a result of promotion I have cleared out my ignore list. Look forwards to reading your posts!
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
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