26 April 2022 - 36th anniversary of Chernobyl
Abandoned Ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine
Image: The Planet
Today is another sad anniversary. Yes, we are talking the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
So I think it is time to share some thoughts.
It was a massive disaster. There is still a 30 km zone of abandonment. In it, during the ongoing war, some Russian soldiers decided to dig trenches in the so-called Orange Forrest (Рыжий лес in Russian, radioactive forest where nothing has grown since that time in 1986). Rumor has it a number of those soldiers have come down with radiation sickness and some have already died.
Chernobyl was in a way an epitome of the Soviet dysfunction. Built with most if not all safety standards violated, only to report on its opening as soon as possible, it was a disaster waiting to happen. And on 26 April 1986 the disaster did strike. The heroes who died responding to this disaster will forever be remembered for their sacrifice as will hundreds of thousands who had sacrificed their health. But, most likely, if it weren't for the system that built the power plant none of that would likely have happened.
500,000 people responded to the disaster. Most of them were young people. Best I can tell, within about 20-25 years about 200,000 of them were dead. This shows the scale of the disaster.
However, even with the casualties of this and other nuclear power plant disasters, nuclear power is still one of the safest power technologies. It is dictatorship and command economy that almost without fail brings deception, misery and death.
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It has also been going on to affect the people in Blacksea region, Northern of Turkiye through tea plants.
A minister in that period, was on TV drinking tea and saying it was safe in a live broadcast. How ridiculus!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahit_Aral
We also lost a good singer aged at 33 in 2005 due to cancer caused by Chernobly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A2z%C4%B1m_Koyuncu
Wow, Kazim Koyuncu story is really tragic. Though, I must say, it is very hard to tie any individual case of this nature to any specific cause.
Do you know if these were persistent his isotope counts in tea or in any other environmental reservoirs in Turkey? I think in most of Ukraine it was gone in a few years after Chernobyl - though in Vinnitsa,for example, they had abnormal infant mortality and still births in 1986 and for a few years afterwards.
Well, there has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of death caused by cancer in Black Sea region after Chernobly.
For a few years after the disaster - yes, absolutely.
But I think now even in Kiev there are no longer any observable effects attributable to the Chernobyl radiation fallout.
My friend died in 2004, she was born in 1986. The doctor then said that people born in the year of Chernobyl die very often.
So young... so sorry to hear about your friend.
Where did she live?