Yesterday, on April 26, it was the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl catastrophy. It seems to be the saddest anniversary in mankind's history. Every year this day reminds me of the tragedy which can never be forgotten. About 500 thouthand people died the same year. Ukrainian population reduced from 52 to 47 million. Only in my family 3 people died due to cancer caused by radiation! I have always thought that other nations should have learned from Chernobyl lessons! But this year the catastrophy in Japan has made me change my opinion. Japan that had managed to survive after nuclear bombing and had lost more than we did after Chernobyl, spoiled the Pacific ocean with the
radioactive water. When will it be over?! Look at the effects of radiation influence!
The last one was supposed to be a pig but the first was supposed to be human.
Niclear power is the greatest and the cheapest source of energy but the countries using it should be aware of all irremediable damages it may give to our planet
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Dear Hardi! Your comment is very mature as always. Such tragedies are not expected and loses are uncountable. However, Chernobyl catastrophy was expected by scholars but who listened to us? It was a must to start up the 4th reactor before the congress of the CPSU. Nobody cared that it hadn't been tested well enough. Even I knew there were problems with cooling system control although I didn't take part in that project. As to that project in general. Chernobyl was an experimental plant. Its reactors were not placed undergroud as usual. They were reactors of a new surface type. I have always wanted to ask the question: was it the next experiment at Ukraine, at its freedom-loving people like hunger of 1933? Anyway, the fact that the USSR didn't inform the world community (and its own people) about such danger at once should be considered as what? To send the policemen and sevicemen to that region without any information and any protection was right? I am sorry for being so sharp but any country should think about its people and other nations otherwise people will try to change their country. In 1986 radiation was visible and felt even in Kiev that is 120 km away from Chernobyl. If I had enemies, I wouldn't wish them to live through that. Death is not scary. Scaring is to live being uncertain in the future of your children
Thank you for the reply. It's very good to get first hand of information of this matter.
Although I think I saw a documentary movie of this matter some years ago.. Where they also showed some of mutant children and all.. I had already forgot it. I think it was probably airing for Chernobyl 20 year anniversary when I saw it..
This year they had something about it in tv. program too, but not much about mutants.. actually I suspect there is the will to make it look a bit smaller.. There seems to be some groups of people who want to build a atomic bower plant also here to Estonia. They still believe the future is for the atomic power. The current government also seems supporting it.. Actually I think they are damn lucky, that our parliament election was before the tsunami in Japan.. It is pothering me especially because the party I voted for, didn't win..The results could have been slightly different. :P
But yes, before the Japanese accident. I was even already in mod like, I don't care... drowsy about the matter. When some smart professors say that it's absolutely safe. When they say, that the modern plants can never cause accident like in Chernobyl.. people might start to believe it. And people are ambitious too. If neighbor country have it they don't want to look like being worse.
In reality no one thought that Chernobyl power-plant would explode, or tsunami hit the atomic plant in Japan. It was all believed to be safe, if not by everyone, then at least some believed it's safe.. It's safe only until something happen, and once the demon got out from that box, there's no way to put it back in.
I don't know the answer about mutants. It's very desperate situation. I think everyone would want to save every life, but unfortunately they can't. I don't know also whether it was good decision to be so secretive about it in beginning. I believe, they tried to hide the truth about mutants and show it smaller. But some information still leaked. Causing rumors. Giving sources for fictions.. probably many computer games and fiction stories have got a lot from this. So it might feel even more something fictional and unrealistic.. Well, I don't know. It's just my assumptions.. based of my own thoughts. Maybe most of people are more realistic than I am. I'm an anime otaku, watching animes all the day and might have lost some connections to reality. :P So can't assume well how other, the real people might really think, or feel. *_^
Anyway. I think everyone would agree, that if not the most cruel, it's surely one of the most top cruel thing in history. It hits the not yet born babies. Parent may feel totally healthy, but the baby might born with non curable illnesses.
All this is also very strong psychological stress for everyone.. It's easy to count those dead caused directly by radiation, but indirect influence is probably unmeasurable. There sure are lives shortened because psychological stress also.. The psychological stress and problem is probably tenths of times higher amount than all rest.. How many people might have drown own sorrow to alcohol and such.. Well I'm sure, there's also many specialists helping people to manage it, but it's still too far from normal.
Dear Hardi! I'd like to reply to your comment about mutant children. We all know the influence of radiation on alive creatures. It is not a secret that it destroies molecules including DNA. So, it is not strange that in Cernobyl zone one can still meet mutant creatures although they are terminated all the time. I don't mean human beings for sure. One of my neighbors who served as a disaster fighter there, said he had seen a metre long worm and I trust him for it is quite possible. Sure, such creatures are killed at once. It is out of the question. However, the most painful question is what to do with mutant human babies. In 1992, when I quitted working at the university, I joined the international organization called Chernobyl Union as an independent interpreter. At that time that union needed translators with technical and medical education. So, what I will tell you is so called "first hand information". I don't think it is still secret but I don't care anyway. 5-7 first years after Chernobyl many new born babies were mutants. I saw their pictures and saw some of them personally. I worked with an American representative who celected the babies for free plastic surgeries in the USA. That group chose only those who were mentally healthy and whose deformity could be corrected and only 20 babies a year. Can you imagine how I felt?!
I agree, that any alive creature has right to live but , on the other hand, no one wants to see our future as a society of mutants. So, what is the right decision?
As to privacy. The pictures you can see in the internet mean that those kids are dead. The information about such human beings is still kept in private unless they, themselves, want the world to know about their existance.
My friends, I was at the sorces of that event, so to say. At that time I worked at the department of Kiev Technical University that was engaged in design of control systems for power stations. Two of my friends who were higher officers of Security Service , together with thousands of other servicemen, were ordered to take part in the security line around the station and they had no idea about what was going on. They got more that 100 r-units that night of April 26. One of them died a month later, the other died 10 years later but still being rather young. I will never forget their stories!
Thanks for sharing it. This is really a thing that must never let forgotten.
It's a emotionally and ethically difficult topic... It's necessary to show to world what it really is like, to prevent it to become just some elusive statistic and numbers, but there's also the need to keep the privacy of those children..
Dear friends! Thanks for your replies and your positive attitude . Unfortunately (or fortunately) it is we who change our world and it is not always to the better. But we are the mankind, and if we were all like one, any goverrment or any church wouldn't be able to change our desire to live in the unpolluted space free of any political or religious ambitions. Even the USSR, the "Devil Empire", realized what might happen if a GIN whose name is ATOM is let go free. Just be aware of danger. I am not against modern technologies, by no means! But I am sure, if we use some dangerous technologies, we should be aware of their aftereffects
it is really tragedy. I m sharing the same idea with you about that. Should not to be these things anymore
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