Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on

Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by ommunist on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:57PM (#11574115)

Dude, Soviet Army did not sent anyone to death. There were hit and run 2min runs. Once soldier got 5Rh exposure, he was removed, directed to medics and replaced by another soldier. There have been volunteers who dedicated there lives to save the others and we honour them greatly. Only 30-yrs old or elder soldiers were accepted for decontamination works, and only those who had kids already. Their Army contractual payment was tripled. Don't speak of things you do mot know, please. So Japanese managers simply failed to account the exposure and deliver appropriate human ps up to task.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by niccolop on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @02:21PM (#11574327)

I think for many people who cannot remember these times, they automatically assume that Chernobyl was worse, simply because how could an advanced country like Japan repeat the same mistakes. Clearly, both incidents were very bad, but to assume one is worse than the other, is probably a mistake, particularly considering the Fukushima incident was so recent.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by bronson on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @03:20PM (#11574758)

I don't know which one was worse. Does anybody?

I do know which one killed more rescuers though, regardless of whose fault it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Human_impac... vs. Fukushima's "As of September 2012, there were no deaths or serious injuries due to direct radiation exposures."

Which is why I think the OP is demonstrably wrong. Impregnated jackets and shovels can't help with seawater leaks -- the two incidents are just too different.

Apologies for the "send to death" wording, that was clumsy.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by gozur88 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:07PM (#11575161)

I remember those times, and Chernobyl was clearly far worse pretty much any way you want to measure it. But that was in the cards once the graphite caught fire.

Light water reactors are inherently safer - the Japanese never had to deal with a fire you couldn't put out with water and they never had to deal with fly ash.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by ommunist on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @01:00AM (#11577925)

The Pacific Ocean was contaminated down to Hawaii after Fukushima. On the other hand, Chernobyl caused massive atmospheric conmamination in Eurasia. Fortunately tech was in place and dangerous clouds were mostly brought down in Bryansk region. Good for Poland, winds blew to the East. You cannot directly compare the magnitude and severety of consequences, but you can compare organisation and effectiveness of countermeasures. The Soviet Union in this was far more advanced country than modern Japan.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by gozur88 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @03:02AM (#11578360)

>The Pacific Ocean was contaminated down to Hawaii after Fukushima.

Which was meaningless unless you were closer than about twenty miles at the worst. The fact that you can measure it is irrelevant.

Crops were contaminated by Chernobyl, and people ate those crops.

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Re:Chernobyl's legacy 30 years on by ommunist on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @07:57AM (#11579556)

Yup, I am the one. Very good dish.

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