Welsh lamb used to cook its self from the prevailing winds![]()
Only recently totally cleared for sale for consumption.
Welsh lamb used to cook its self from the prevailing winds![]()
Very often the TV reports are made up by people who do a little browse about radiation and get it wrong.60 Fire fighters were initially sent in under orders that it was a "non" radioactive fire.
Most of them died within days due to significant exposure to high intensity alpha radiation![]()
Very often the TV reports are made up by people who do a little browse about radiation and get it wrong.
You can be exposed externally to unbelievable levels of alpha radiation and come to no harm other than a bit of skin reddening if the source comes into contact or very close indeed, it is the most dangerous form of radiation though if it enters the body through cuts or inhalation, masses of energy over a very short distance.
Gamma radiation was probably the one that saw them off, it has the strength to go right through the human body causing cell damage as it does so and the levels they were working in certainly did that...and fast.
We started to pick up the fall out on our perimeter monitors at Sellafield a few days after the disaster.
SL-1 in Idaho was another potential disaster, 3 guys got killed but it could have been a lot worse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
http://www.salford.ac.uk/news/articles/2016/chernobyl-wildlife-study-named-uks-top-research
Dr. Mike Wood from the above is the source of any information I've provided.
But granted, both gamma and beta radiation emitted would have caused significant harm.
Especially considering the initial fire fighters had no radiation PPE, just standard fire fighting PPE, which would have been about as useful as a chocolate fire guard...
He's also visited Prypiat, which by all accounts is still an eerie ghost town...
There were photos on Facebook of the fun fair that was due to open around the time of the explosion, if it hadn't already...
Just watched a pretty decent documentary about the dome structure that's recently been constructed over the Chernobyl reactor, detailing the construction and history etc.
Some pretty impressive stuff going on there, it's well worth a watch if your bored for an hour
Apparently the biggest/heaviest structure ever moved on land, 3x the weight of the Eiffel Tower![]()
IIRC alpha is stopped by a sheet of paper or even a few inches or air, beta is stopped by aluminium sheet but it takes really thick concrete or lead to stop gamma rays.When we had a class of newbies we used to show them the radiation coming from our test sources and ask them what they would use to shield/protect themselves from the various types of radiation.
The alpha was the most fun, we would have suggestions of lead, steel, metre thick walls and more, they were amazed when we showed them a sheet of paper stopped alpha easily.
IIRC alpha is stopped by a sheet of paper or even a few inches or air, beta is stopped by aluminium sheet but it takes really thick concrete or lead to stop gamma rays.
Have things changed at all? Does anyone have an opinion on Fukushima? Was it as bad? I hear very differing reports depending who is doing the telling.
I have had a few looks at street level in the past, nature soon reclaims the land when man leaves, I bet the driver of the google van had his foot down along those roadsYou can tour around pripyat and close to the power plant on google earth. It is eerie, apartment blocks surrounded by trees, everything over grown.
Found 2 jap snipers in mine still alive been hiding there since WW2it doesn't take long for nature to take back what has been cleared . went up the end of my garden the other month and there's a 5ft tall oak tree growinghaven't been up there in a few years
Found 2 jap snipers in mine still alive been hiding there since WW2