The horror that can not be forgotten
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They are no longer remember Chernobyl? Tired of their own everyday disasters, why remember some distant that occurred twenty-six years? It is necessary to remember for every innocent human being whose destiny is forever marked by this tragic event. Such a terribly much, and its sad traces of Chernobyl has not ceased to leave. Specifically, during the break released radioactive means is between 28 days and 24 thousand years ago. Chernobyl is not a thing of the past!
Biggest ever
Chernobyl is supposed to be the largest nuclear power plant world. The Soviet Union was then producing electricity within five years would like to increase two and a half times. Instead, it became the largest technical disasters in human history. 26th April 1986. in 1 hour and 24 minutes in section 4 Lenin plant in Pripjat (Ukraine) came to a nuclear fusion core. Condition at the time of accident was very bad, mainly because of two factors: the unpreparedness of the possibility of accidents and the lack of adequate equipment, which led to more negative consequences and wrong assessment of what remains to do. Radiation levels in the worst affected areas were about 20,000 roentgens per hour, and for comparison deadly dose of radiation is about 500 roentgens for five hours.
Radioactive dust from iodine 131, cesium and plutonium are lifted into the atmosphere and contaminate the surrounding area. Thousands of square kilometers are radioactively contaminated. Radiation is spread over the Soviet Union and central Europe, to Scandinavia. Since then, about a plant 30 kilometers wide security zone, which prohibits public access. 300,000 tons of concrete and 7,000 tons of steel creates a barrier around the section 4 mentioned Nuclear power plant. A Pripjat is now just a ghost town. Ghost town, a town whose memory be sad memories. The Chernobyl accident has withdrawn radiation 400 times stronger than what caused it the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Consequences
The number of dead from a number of reasons can only be difficult to ascertain. Confidentiality of the then government and the collapse of the Soviet Union have resulted in falsification, or loss of many documents. Reliable sources from the region at the time of the accident did not exist. Russian Academy of Sciences believes that because of 270.00 people get cancer and accidents, and of them 90 000 were killed. Diseases caused by radiation in some cases can break out only after several decades. Long-term health problems include the increase of patients with cancer, leukemia, will continue to grow congenital disorders, unwanted abortions, etc.
We do not know much about some of the data, and the governments of affected countries, covering up the facts, even closing and bribe scientists. One Ukrainian minister confirmed that more than 2.4 million Ukrainians suffers the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy. However, in addition to these health consequences, all the more prominent those demographic. Moved to - voluntarily or forcibly - about three hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants in the area of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Some regions have lost half of its population, and some, such as a contaminated area of 30 km around the nuclear power plant, the entire population.
Has done enough?
Population is a major offense was not sufficiently protected, protective measures were insufficient. The day after the disaster the roads around the crash site were washed with soap. When going to work is recommended to wear a protective mask, it is also advisable to remove shoes and shake off the clothes. People in the long term could not be evacuated from this area were paid a monthly compensation. Most of them, meanwhile, has probably lost his life.
The mere news of the disaster only after a few days spread internationally. 29th April is the first time reported that there had been a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union. The Soviet media blockade is still functioning, but the Swedish monitoring stations registered an increased amount of radiation to the east. And the truth could no longer hide.
Why write about Chernobyl?
It is essential today, almost twenty-six years later, remember this is a disaster, not only to avoid something like this in the future, but to show that we care about the fate of those who are affected by it. Thousands of innocent children will never experience a normal childhood, never to play with friends in the backyard, they will not grow up, go to college, fall in love and taste the fullness of life. Their field hospital, were sentenced to monotonous white room where the joy is not known for, are exposed to contempt, disgust respects, rejected from society, from life as we know it. Thousands of parents in restlessness, in tears and helplessness, thousands of empty homes, the laundry that was left on the hanger, deserted toys on the floor, lonely books on the shelves. Hundreds of thousands.
Behind every face hides the figures, a living being, the suffering. Nothing is earned. Such persons deserve to pause today to commemorate them, to share even a fraction of their suffering, because really - at least as much as we can. At least so we need! For those who do not want to look away, go through the Chernobyl fotoessay - http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl.
The journey is that you never and must never forget!
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