Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl
by UnlockedSecrets on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:10AM
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Chernobyl has a nice road that happens to be the shortest road between Kyiv the Ukraine capital and Russia. It also still has several active reactors only 1 of them melted down so that gives some strategic merit byt the road is 99% of it.
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All reactors at Chernobyl have been shutdown since 2000. I have been amazed lately at how many people are unaware of this and think Chernobyl is still an operating nuclear power plant.
Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl
by blablabla123 on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:50AM
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It's quite crazy though that they left it running for 14 years after making the area around it inhabitable and causing fallout over whole Europe
It is pretty crazy. I would assume that they really needed the energy it was producing, although I admit that I don't have much further knowledge on the topic.
Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl
by vlovich123 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:23AM
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I had the opposite perception and thought no reactors were active since the explosion.
It was long one of those "surprising fact" sorts of things.
A few weeks ago there's a cartoon where a guy sits in front a computer, and a speech bubble above him says "After 2 years of being an epidemiological expert, I am now a geo-political expert."...