Chernobyl
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- Bennn2
1. Plutonium (Pu)
All the elements with an atomic number of 84 and above are radioactive. The simplest explanation for this is they are too big and unstable and breakdown giving off lethal radioactive particles as they do.
The biggest and baddest of all the naturally occurring elements is plutonium with an atomic number of 94. Unlike other naturally occurring radionuclides Pu gives off alpha, beta and gamma radiation. As well as being highly radioactive this element is also toxic like other heavy metals are.
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Inhalation is the most harmful route for plutonium exposure and one estimate suggests 500g of plutonium dust released into the air would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people.If this is the case it is slightly alarming that there are several tons of the stuff in the biospheres thanks to weapons testing in the 1950s and 60s!
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#In addition to these toxic qualities plutonium is also the material of choice for nuclear weapons. Consider the one kilogram of pure plutonium – this contains sufficient energy to power a major city for several hours. It is also sufficient to make a 10 kiloton explosion, i.e. the same as 10,000 tons of conventional explosives. This is about half the size of the Hiroshima bomb.
- teh1
We will have to wait 30 years for a story about Japan's?
- Ramanisky22
This exchange O_O
Shcherbina: “What does the Radiation do to them precisely?”
Legasov: “Ionizing radiation tears the cellular structure apart. The skin blisters, turns red, then black. This is followed by a latency period. The immediate effects subside & the patient appears to be recovering...Healthy even. But they aren’t. This usually only lasts a day or 2...”
Shcherbina: “Continue.”
Legasov: “Then the cellular damage begins to manifest. The bone marrow dies, the immune system fails, the organs & soft tissue begin to decompose.
The arteries & veins spill open like sieves, to the point where you can’t even administer morphine for the pain, which is...unimaginable. And then 3 days to 3 weeks, you are dead. That is what will happen to those boys.”
- Milan0
A Hollywood show about a disaster in the USSR, brought to you by the guy who made Hangover 2. Must be very accurate, objective and unbiased...gtfo
- it's entertainment, not a history lesson ffsmonospaced
- but if you're dismissing its accuracy based on nothing more than who and where this is made, then you're not being fairmonospaced
- Milan, tell us how it really happened comradeernexbcn
- shoes0
I generally like it because how the show is not about cheap spectacle, having kind of a hard time with the character setting though.
Their dialogue and attitude and sensibilites feel very western, not at all how 1980s russians would talk, interact and look at the world.
Not as a simple language thing necessarily, more like that the characters feel like are built from outsider, western perspective. This is irritaing at times, makes the thing feel unrealistic, fake.
- There is a podcast about the show that goes into their process and how they tried to be realistic, and even had to change some approaches given feedbackwordssssss
- that they werent being authentic.wordssssss
- well that's great I guess, but still far off from the actual cultureshoes
- shapesalad0
Russian forces are flying above Chernobyl in a holding pattern while firing missiles at Kyiv. The Ukrainians are unable to attack back, in case they hit Chernobyl.
- _niko1
Late to the party was avoiding this because i knew it’d be hard to watch, and I was right, brutal viewing yet I can’t pull away.
One thing that amazes me is that people so close to the plant, either the firemen or the “three” or anyone else in the thick of it immediately afterwards somehow survived.
That it wasn’t an automatic death sentence to all.
- Ramanisky20
- Welcome to the year 2019. It's all about the LIKES. The #1 drug : DopaminBennn
- shapesalad0
Worth noting Fukushima is still ongoing:
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-fu…- Was thinking the same. But I guess ppl will notice Fukushima again when they drop a TV series about itgrafician
- OBBTKN1
David McMillan's gallery:
http://www.dsmcmillan.com/cherno…
- Nairn0
Anyone got a decent source on this assertion that Europe would've been rendered an unihabitable wasteland had Chernobyl really shit the bed?
All I could find was rebuttals, eg. https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true…
- Read the same thing long ago, can't find the source now...OBBTKN
- mg330
Watching it and pretty riveted by it. I've seen some people complain about it being British actors speaking English, but does anyone really want to watch that in Russian with subtitles?
If the show is pretty accurate, holy hell the denial they were in from the outset. It was the first major nuclear accident anywhere in the world though, right?
It's just full of dread and so eerie.
- There was an accident in kyshtym in 1957 which was nearly as serious https://en.wikipedia…JerseyRaindog
- US knew about it but chose not to disclose it as they were trying to get the public used to the idea of nuclear power and didn't want the negative press.JerseyRaindog
- pr20
The show is as historically accurate as Santa Clause visiting baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
- zaq0
As someone who lived in the area affected by Chernobyl I am afraid to watch it.
- I think the area is much bigger. 4 women in our street got Thyroid cancer, including my mother. Its a typical radiactive pollution cancer. We'll see over ->tank02
- 30 years if there was spike of stats. I live in Belgium by the way. My theory is Germany, Belgium and Holland where also affected by the nucleair windstank02
- pr2-6
Since so many of you love to waste away your brains on HBO's fictitious interpretation of reality, let me steer your to a great book about the Chernobyl disaster. Reading it you won't be giving into simplistic Hollywood interpretations; instead of banality of most obvious feelings, you will be exploring thoughtful and great literature and as a side benefit, won't be looked down on by guys like me for willingly letting mass culture steering your understanding of reality. Winner!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc…- Hey, I've not travelled by rail since Rob Lowe's Atomic Train.see_thru
- how about your fictitious interpretations on socialism? do we look down on you?hotroddy
- hot, go ahead try from you "mounting" of 3 pages thick mountain.pr2
- And here I thought I was too full of myself.
Thanks pr2!deadsperm - Looks like a good book thoughsarahfailin
- Read this a few months back. https://www.chemistr… the HBO series doesn't seem that far off to meJerseyRaindog