detail: chernobyl

my ther­a­pist:
“Stop think­ing about Cher­nobyl. It hap­pened 33 years ago and can’t hurt you.”

hbo:

 

“Alessan­drov also saved mon­ey (on re­ac­tor #4) by dis­pens­ing with the con­tain­ment build­ing, the thick con­crete dome built around al­most every re­ac­tor in the West, in­tend­ed to pre­vent ra­dioac­tive con­t­a­m­i­na­tion es­cap­ing from the plant in the event of a se­ri­ous ac­ci­dent – but which, be­cause the RBMK (Reak­tor Bol­shoy Moshch­nos­ti Kanal­nyy, ‘High Pow­er Chan­nel-type Re­ac­tor’) was so enor­mous, would have dou­bled the cost of build­ing each unit.”

*laughs be­cause I’m from the fu­ture* Ha ha ha ha!

Yeah just re­mem­ber this any time you ever read that Cher­nobyl was an ac­ci­dent caused by a ‘rou­tine test.’

“To save time, Sred­mash (Min­istry of Medi­um Ma­chine-Build­ing, the gov­ern­ment min­istry of the So­vi­et Union that su­per­vised their nu­clear in­dus­try) de­cid­ed to skip the pro­to­type stage en­tire­ly: The quick­est way to find out how the new re­ac­tors would work in in­dus­tri­al elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion would be to put them di­rect­ly into mass production.”

SKIP THE PRO­TO­TYPE STAGE ENTIRELY.
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I also read 

Adam Higginbotham’s Mid­night in Cher­nobyl (2019).
FIND IN LI­BRARY    BUY    AU­THOR   

Read­ing this book and know­ing what hap­pens is like watch­ing a hor­ror movie I’ve al­ready seen and not be­ing able to stop the char­ac­ters from mak­ing stu­pid decisions. 

The au­thor also does a very, very good job of ex­plain­ing how nu­clear re­ac­tions work and how the re­ac­tors were built. It’s not dumb­ed down but it’s not con­fus­ing and com­pli­cat­ed ei­ther. And it re­al­ly helps to have as the ba­sis for un­der­stand­ing what hap­pened and why.

I high­ly, high­ly rec­om­mend it. 

And

su­per cool trivia:

Re­mem­ber Mr. Bobin­sky from Cora­line (2009)?

He wears a medal pinned to his shirt. The Bobin­sky in the Oth­er World also wears the medal. It is a red droplet on a blue background.

That’s the medal that was award­ed to the Cher­nobyl liq­uida­tors, the civ­il and mil­i­tary per­son­nel who were called upon by the So­vi­et gov­ern­ment to clean up the disaster.

Annnnnnnd, font.
 
 

—emi­ly duchaine

Flom­mist Emi­ly Duchaine lives in the Pa­cif­ic North­west. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and lis­ten to the Talk­ing Heads. She pre­tends to be a pro­fes­sion­al busi­ness­woman most days. Copy­right © 2019 Emi­ly Duchaine.

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