(31-12-2022, 07:17 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: A amajor earthquake, a 15-metre tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident beginning on 11 March 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days.
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The accident was rated level 7 ☆ 》 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, due to high radioactive releases over days 4 to 6, eventually a total of some 940 PBq.
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All four Fukushima Daiichi reactors were written off due to damage in the accident ☆ 《
Like the one in Ukraine, the Unclear plant contral by Putin...
Yes, yes. same are just for fruits n veggies been DNA changed, what do one can expecting changes from fish been born?.
Some would have been aware of an incident at the nearby Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant, around which the town had sprouted up in the decade prior, but, in the words of one off-duty engineer: Chernobyl plant is still in the process of being decommissioned decades after the disaster.
But the warning signs were there...
Soviet Union and UN officials were driving the streets, hiding their monitors as they
gauged the levels of radiation. As washing over the pedestrians they passed. Traders had been warned not to sell fresh greens and cabbages at the local market, and street sweepers were washing the streets with foam.
But this had happened A gas mask hangs in a building inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Chernobyl. The shell of a television stands inside a building in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. 30 years later, it was only as he strolled to the far edge, a decision he said he would forever regret — and spotted Chernobyl’s fourth reactor “laying in ruins”, that he would realise something was seriously wrong.
Decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident. The likely death toll from the catastrophe is continually being revised to this day, the impacts of the fallout upon populations caught up in the nuclear slipstream — from Andreyev and his family to those living hundreds of miles away — still an active area of academic research.
Furthermore, the profound extent to which the accident, and the Soviet Union’s infamous handling of it, impacted the course of global history will never truly be known.
For the leader of the USSR at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev, the disaster wrought history anew. Rather than the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Chernobyl was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union”, he would later lament.
But, as with the disaster itself, the true starting point of such catastrophe is hard to pinpoint.
The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covering the fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 2018 (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)
In the simplest sense, it began with a disastrous experiment during routine tests of reactor four. Technicians wished to see whether an emergency water-cooling system would work during a power outage and, shutting down the reactor’s emergency safety system, withdrew most of the control rods from its core while keeping the reactor running.