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Chernobyl New Containment

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It was easy to miss this news, while the US election was underway. The new containment was set in place last month, at a cost of over $2 Billion Euros ($3.2 Billion). It should be noted that this is to contain the radiation from the damaged reactor, and it's core, and not radiation that has already contaminated the exclusion zone. It's only rated for 200 years, while many of the wastes have 1/2-lives of over a hundred thousand years. The exclusion zone (or hot zone) is 1000 square miles. I applaud the effort.

However, the US should learn by example! The US has over 200 reactors, many in the most populated areas. Will we have a human error like Chernobyl, or a natural disaster like Fukushima? Imagine a 1000 square mile hot zone anywhere on our East coast or other highly populated areas - Ohio, PA, Michigan, etc, which have a number of nuclear power plants.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster covered by New Safe Confinement structure
 
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chernobyl is in Ukraine and Ukraine is not an Asian country.
 
ronak said:
chernobyl is in Ukraine and Ukraine is not an Asian country.
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I moved it, but at the time of the worst nuclear accident in history, one which will live forever, both physically and emotionally, it was part of the Soviet Union.
 
german hick said:
Tschernobyl is not in Asia
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The disaster and full melt down of 7 reactors in Japan was far worse than what happened in Russia, and the Japanese are kind of lying to us. I'm not saying that either Country did the right thing before or after, but if we are to be fair to all. We should be condemning the Japanese a bit more because that radiation will hurt us & continue to hurt all of us for centuries.
The worst part is they are selling radiated food from farms and fishermen that they know is contaminated that the farmers & fishermen won't even eat or given to their own families.
 
FreeThink said:
The disaster and full melt down of 7 reactors in Japan was far worse than what happened in Russia, and the Japanese are kind of lying to us. I'm not saying that either Country did the right thing before or after, but if we are to be fair to all. We should be condemning the Japanese a bit more because that radiation will hurt us & continue to hurt all of us for centuries.
The worst part is they are selling radiated food from farms and fishermen that they know is contaminated that the farmers & fishermen won't even eat or given to their own families.
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This could very well be true.. I kinda shy away from seafood anymore myself...

On Chernobyl,, I have done a considerable amount of reading on that disaster.. had it not been for the thick concrete flooring under the reactor. and had the meltdown reached the water table below. It could have radiated (badly) most of Europe...

And the new protective cover, while only safe for a certain amount of time,, will allow the removal and containment of the fuel rods while keeping the area around safe.

djl
 
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