Effects of potential 2nd explosion:
Cause; Heat going up, Core melts downward, hits water tanks- water vaporizes and expands, tanks contain 7000 cubic meters of water turned to steam instantly.
Explosion Factors: 2-4 megatons, everything within a 30km radius is completely destroyed, radioactive fuel from buildings 1-3 and the remains of 4 ejected over the 200km shockwave.
Impact:
no water supply, no livestock, no food farmed and a sharp spike in cancer rates and birth defects within the countries of; Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Byelorussia, Poland, Czechoslovakia (Czechia), Romania, Hungary, East Germany
The entire population of Kiev and Minsk would be killed 52 million in Kiev and 10.04 million in Minsk during the year 1986.
Over 60 million more people would need to be evacuated over the regions of Ukraine & Byelorussia.
Event was spotted 48 hours before it occured.
Forced the divers (Alexi Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov & Boris Boranov) to drain the water wthin the water tanks.
Exploration of “Hidden Hero” Examples
Artur Korneyev- Elephants foot photographer https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-famous-photo-of-chernobyls-most-dangerous-radioactive-material-was-a-selfie
Alexi Ananenko info-
Alexei Ananenko is still working in the nuclear industry. He dislikes the sensationalism attached to himself. Valeri Bezpalov is alive and living in Russia. Boris Baranov died of heart failure in 2005.
None of them had any mutations passed on to children.
Valeri Bezpalov info-
Boris Boranov info-
Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, Boris Baranov – the three divers of Chernobyl – https://www.chernobylwel.com/blog-detail/113/who-saved-europe-the-three-unsung-heroes-of-chernobyl
Miners Effect
The Core would continue to melt down through the earth eventually into the groundwater below, rendering all the water supply into the Prypiat River- Water Supply for over 50 Million people as well as the food and livestock that would feed off the water supply. Poisoned from Kiev- Black Sea.
Solution: mine under the reactor and install a heat exchange pad using liquid nitrogen to cool down the core and stop the meltdown.
400 Miners used in total, over 100 died before they were 40 years old. Worked in conditions of 50+ degrees for 4-6 weeks, exposed to lethal amounts of radiation.
Mining Crew Chief- Andrei Glhukov
Andrei Glhukov Info-
Andrei Glhukov lead a group of around 400 miners to excavate a tunnel under the melting down reactor core, they were given six weeks to do the job, as after the six week period there would be a very real risk of the reactor melting all the way through the earth, into the tunnel and passing into the water table.
There was only a 50/40% chance of the core melting into the water table, however, the workers were not told this. They were told bare minimum, Glhukov did not even wait for additional protective gear to arrive before beginning work on the slow mining of the tunnel. The job was made even more dangerous by the fact that
Firefighters-
Vasily Ignetenko-
Conscripted Soldiers & Liquidators
A total of 750,00 liquidators were used within the total clean up of the Chernobyl Disaster.
600,000 used to Cleanup within the Chernobyl Exclusion zone. Various roles including; Excavators, Plant Cleanup Workers, Animal Control.
Particularly, Roof Cleaners 3828 men used to remove the graphite blocks on the highest level of the Chernobyl reactor 4 roof. Radiation levels were equal to 12,000 roentgen, in full lead-lined protective gear, spending 2 minutes on this roof would half your life expectancy, 3 minutes of exposure would reduce your life expectancy to only a few months.
2,000 roentgen- 1 hour exposure fatal
1,000 roentgen- 2 hour exposure fatal.
Roof cleaners were given 90 seconds to access the roof, shovel off as much graphite as possible, and they were forced to retreat from the roof and the next group did the same until the radiation level was low enough.
Artur Korneyev- Elephants Foot Photographer
Artur Korneyev- Elephants foot photographer https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-famous-photo-of-chernobyls-most-dangerous-radioactive-material-was-a-selfie
Future Effects
Total Chernobyl Exclusion zone- remains at 2,600 square kilometers, over 400 times more radiation was expelled than the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima. in total 300,000 people were evacuated and the residents were not allowed to leave the surrounding area until 32 hours after the explosion occurred.
New Safe Confinement Building (NSC)
Cost: roughly $2 Billion
Built to last 100 years
Large enough to cover the Notre Dame
3x heavier than the Eiffel Tower
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