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  1. @ai6yr

    Didn't realize that the cover was so aligned to north/south.

    Was wondering if you could calculate the latitude based on the reflection, but that depends upon the top being a proper circle arc, which is probably isn't.

    The Google maps sat is quite a bit higher res.

    #radioactive #chernobyl

  2. @ai6yr

    Didn't realize that the cover was so aligned to north/south.

    Was wondering if you could calculate the latitude based on the reflection, but that depends upon the top being a proper circle arc, which is probably isn't.

    The Google maps sat is quite a bit higher res.

    #radioactive #chernobyl

  3. @ai6yr

    Didn't realize that the cover was so aligned to north/south.

    Was wondering if you could calculate the latitude based on the reflection, but that depends upon the top being a proper circle arc, which is probably isn't.

    The Google maps sat is quite a bit higher res.

    #radioactive #chernobyl

  4. @ai6yr

    Didn't realize that the cover was so aligned to north/south.

    Was wondering if you could calculate the latitude based on the reflection, but that depends upon the top being a proper circle arc, which is probably isn't.

    The Google maps sat is quite a bit higher res.

    #radioactive #chernobyl

  5. @ai6yr

    Didn't realize that the cover was so aligned to north/south.

    Was wondering if you could calculate the latitude based on the reflection, but that depends upon the top being a proper circle arc, which is probably isn't.

    The Google maps sat is quite a bit higher res.

    #radioactive #chernobyl

  6. 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.

    #chernobyl #artemis #artemisia #artemisa

  7. Disastro di Chernobyl: Cosa è successo il 26 aprile 1986 e quali sono le conseguenze

    Reattore 4 della centrale di Chernobyl dopo l’esplosione, 1986.Fonte: Wikimedia Commons – IAEA Imagebank – Licenza CC BY-SA 2.0 Il 26 aprile 1986, alle ore 01:23 di una tranquilla notte di primavera, il mondo cambiò per sempre. Nella centrale nucleare V.I. Lenin, situata nell'allora Repubblica Socialista Sovietica Ucraina, il reattore numero 4 fu protagonista del più grave incidente nella storia della produzione di energia nucleare. Per decenni, Chernobyl è stata sinonimo di […]

    psicospace.it/disastro-chernob

  8. First off, #TimothyMousseau is one of the few people who I trust to tell the truth about the consequences of #Chernobyl. This is from 2014 on the Library of Congress website. I'm downloading a copy just in case...

    [Film video] Biological Consequences of Nuclear Disasters: From Chernobyl to Fukushima

    May 15, 2014

    Summary:

    Timothy Mousseau discusses the impact of #radioactive #fallout from the #Chernobyl disaster on natural populations and the impact of high radiation levels on the #Fukushima, Japan, area. One aim of his research is to determine whether or not organisms can adapt to radioactive environments.

    Mousseau: "I think the bacterial community was not affected by the radiation, did not change in response to the radiation.

    "Whereas the fungal community did change depending on the background."

    loc.gov/item/2021689423/

    #RadiotrophicFungus #Mutation

  9. #InTheNews - #Radiation eating fungus. Savior or #NuclearIndustry PR? I've always been fascinated by the #RadiotrophicFungus. But is it truly performing #Radiosynthesis? What is the "chemical byproduct"? Also, I do remember reading about #FukushimaBlackMold and #SpaceFungus on the #ISS. Hmmmm....

    Species in #Chernobyl disaster zone is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation

    By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR, 1 December 2025

    "Nearly 40 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, scientists have discovered a form of life that's thriving on the radiation that's been left behind.

    A strange black fungus called #CladosporiumSphaerospermum, found growing on abandoned reactor walls, hasn't just learned to survive the deadly fallout, but several strains now grow faster when radiation is present and even move towards it."

    dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

    #BlackFungus #Radiotrophic #NuclearRadiation

  10. 2020: #Chevron is refusing to pay for the '#Amazon #Chernobyl' – we can fight back with citizen action

    The lawyer challenging the oil company’s #ToxicWaste dump in #Ecuador is under house arrest. We need a boycott

    by Alec Baldwin and Paul Paz y Miño

    "In 2001, #Chevron acquired #Texaco, including all of its assets and civil liabilities. One of those liabilities was the “Amazon Chernobyl”, a 1,700-square-mile #EnvironmentalDisaster in Ecuador that Texaco created through a disregard – and an attitude that local #Indigenous groups have called racism – for the health of the region’s peoples. Texaco, the sole operator of the fields from 1964 to 1992, eventually admitted that it deliberately discharged 72bn litres of #toxic water into the environment, which ended up in the #water supply, and gouged 1,000 unlined waste pits out of the jungle floor. According to several Indigenous witnesses, including Humberto Piaguaje, a leader of the Ecuadorean #Secoya people, the company actually claimed that the oil wastes were medicinal and 'full of vitamins'.

    "Studies have shown thousands of excess cases of cancer deaths and other health problems in the region.

    "Chevron insists that Texaco is only responsible for a portion of the damage, has 'already cleaned up its share' and attributes any remaining pollution to Ecuador’s state-owned national oil company. The government of Ecuador has been clear, in turn, that Chevron is liable for all of the damage."

    #PeopleNotProfits #Pollution #ToxicWaste #EnvironmentalPollution #EnvironmentalRacism #OilPollution

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/