#chernobyl — Public Fediverse posts
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Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up
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Saps que Chernobyl, que significa "tija negra", és un dels noms de l'artemisa en ucranià?
Artemisa, herba remeiera que pren el nom de la deessa grega de la natura verge i salvatge. Senyora de les bèsties. Guardiana dels naixements.I la zona d'exclusió de Chernobyl és ara, 38 anys després del gran desastre (26 d'abril de 1986), un dels més grans refugis de vida salvatge, d'enorme biodiversitat, de tot Europa.
I aquest mes, abril, a moltes zones de la Grècia antiga, era anomenat artemision o artemisios.
Aquí ho deixo, perquè cada una tregui les conclusions que li sembli.
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Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, a science writer explains what went wrong with the nuclear power facility and why. Long answer short, it was Soviet hubris, and fossil fuels are still much more dangerous than nuclear.
https://reason.com/2026/04/26/chernobyl-was-a-communist-disaster-not-a-nuclear-one/
#SovietUnion #USSR #Chernobyl #ChernobylDisaster #cleanEnergy #airPollution #climateChange #energy #fossilFuels #governmentFailures #history #hubris #nuclearEnergy #nuclearPower #nuclearSafety #Pripyat #Russia #Ukraine
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The Last Dance Floor in Chernobyl
Archive on 4The story of a young couple getting married against the backdrop of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Serhiy first laid eyes on Iryna under the swirling lights of the best disco in town. He thought she was beautiful and couldn’t take his eyes off her. He wouldn’t work up the courage to ask Iryna out until a few days later, but once they started dating, Club Edison 2 became a favourite haunt and they looked forward to the weekly discos.
The man behind the decks was DJ Alexander Demidov, a legend on the night life scene, known for his pioneering shows. Club Edison2 quickly became known as the best disco in Ukraine. It was 1986 and DJ Alexander had to have his playlist approved by the Soviet state. Often he would sneakily play banned foreign records that had been illegally smuggled in for a rapturous crowd hungry for anything from the West, from beyond the Iron Curtain, from outside the Soviet Union.
It was risky, but a risk worth taking for this was no ordinary crowd. This was a dance floor full of the brightest and best from across all 15 Republics that made up the Soviet Union. This was a disco for the people of Pripyat, an ‘atom-grad’, or nuclear city, built especially for the scientists and workers at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was one of the best places to live in the Soviet Union: good jobs, full shops, beautiful scenery and great nightlife.
It’s where Serhiy and Iryna planned their future together, in a city that seemed safe. They planned to get married on Saturday 26th April 1986. But the night before the wedding, they felt the ground shake and heard a booming sound. It came from the direction of the nuclear power plant. On the morning of the wedding, as Serhiy went to pick up his best man from the station, he found the streets full of soldiers wearing gas masks and washing the streets down. Rumours swirled that there had been an accident at the Nuclear reactor, but nothing official was said. They called the authorities who told them they must still hold their wedding. As engineers and firefighters battled an unfolding nuclear catastrophe, the city’s residents were told nothing. Iryna and Serhiy married, smiling for photographs, but stumbling during their much practiced waltz, as unease rippled through the room. By the end of the wedding reception, the celebration descended into chaos. Still in her wedding dress, Iryna ended up running barefoot through the streets as evacuation orders spread, leaving behind her home, her possessions, and the city where their love had begun.
The Last Dance Floor in Chernobyl tells the story of Serhiy and Iryna and DJ Alexander and what happens to them after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen.
Presenter: Jordan Dunbar
Producers: Phoebe Keane, Neal Razzell
Sound design and mix : James Beard
Editor: Justine LangVoice over actors; Hanna Komar, Oleksandr Begma, Anatolii Panchenko, Gregory Zhygalov
The guests also feature in What Happened at Chernobyl, Directed by Paul Harris, Assistant Producer Ellie Jacobs, Director of Photography Jack Garland, Executive Producer Vara Szajkowski, Location producer Halyna Yakusko. It’s available to watch on BBC iPlayer
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Chernobyl #BetterCallSaul #IMDbTV 30 Highest-Rated TV Episodes on IMDb, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TRhFtz
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‘#Fukushima: A #Nuclear Nightmare’ Review: An Emotional Choice
This documentary offers a rundown of the 2011 nuclear meltdown with special attention to the shift workers who risked their lives while trying to stabilize the plant.
March 10, 2026
" 'We were told Japan would cease to exist if we failed.' On #March11, 2011, a 8.9-magnitude #earthquake and a #tsunami struck the northeast coast of #Japan, precipitating a series of hydrogen explosions at the #FukushimaDaiichi nuclear plant.
"The new HBO documentary 'Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare,' directed by James Jones ('#Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes'), offers a tense rundown of the aftermath by pairing archival footage with testimonies from the people who witnessed the events firsthand.
"In the days following the earthquake and tsunami, workers at the plant hurried to contain what they knew could become a #NuclearCatastrophe. Using diagrams, the documentary strives to convey the dangers on an elementary-school level: Without electricity, the reactors’ cooling systems failed, causing the fuel rods to melt and spew radioactive material. The schematics are paired with a tense score and sinister-looking footage of fiery explosions.
"In an emotional interview, an engineer named #IkuoIzawa recalls remaining on-site while the majority of the plant’s crew was evacuated. Knowing that he might not survive, he sent an email to his family members, imploring them to look after one another. Izawa became part of the #Fukushima50: the everyday shift workers who risked their lives for the welfare of Japan. Although chiefly a straightforward — and at points repetitive — synopsis of the events, 'Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare' distinguishes itself in its devotion to elevating these men as heroes."
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
Directed by James Jones∙
Documentary∙
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. Streaming on HBO Max.Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/movies/fukushima-a-nuclear-nightmare-review.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/eTbOo#NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #FukushimaDocumentary #Remember311 #FukushimaIsntOver
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #Chernobyl #BetterCallSaul #IMDbTV 25 Highest-Rated TV Episodes on IMDb, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TQ1rNw
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With a half-life of 29 years, "Everyone is exposed to small amounts of Sr-90, since it is widely dispersed in the environment and the food chain. #Strontium-90 was widely dispersed in the 1950s and 1960s in from the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
"Strontium-90 is also found in waste from #nuclear reactors. The accident at the #Chernobyl nuclear power plant introduced a large amount of Sr-90 into the environment. Strontium-90 was also released during the 2011 Japanese nuclear incident at the #Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
"Plants or crops growing in or near contaminated soil may take up small amounts of Sr-90 from the soil. Animals may ingest Sr-90 when eating plants. Strontium-90 can be inhaled, but ingestion in food and water is the greatest health concern. Once in the body, Sr-90 acts like calcium and is readily incorporated into bones and teeth, where it can cause #cancers of the bone, bone marrow, and soft tissues around the bone. Because Sr-90 acts like calcium, milk monitoring will be important after a large release."
#FukushimaWater #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #NoWar #TEPCOLies #OpTEPCO #PacificOcean #FukushimaAnniversary #FoodChain #Bioaccumulation
https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclide-basics-strontium-90