Chi Apri le valvole a Chernobyl?
Chi Apri le valvole a Chernobyl?
Così furono chiamati tre uomini: Valeri Bezpalov, Alexei Ananenko e Boris Baranov. Furono selezionati loro tre perché sapevano dove andare e cosa fare esattamente. Il 6 maggio del 1986 operarono nelle vasche di gorgogliamento sotto il reattore numero 4, aprendo manualmente le valvole e facendo defluire l'acqua.
Where did the Chernobyl disaster happen?
- It occurred on at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, then part of the Soviet Union, now in Ukraine.
Does the Chernobyl death toll include trauma and ARS deaths?
- For their part, some surviving evacuees of regions now included in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the Polesie State Radioecological Reserve argue that the official toll of the accident's direct casualties excludes trauma and ARS deaths that they themselves claim to have witnessed in the weeks and months after the reactor explosion.
What was the international project on the health effects of Chernobyl?
- The International Project on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident was created and received US$20 million, mainly from Japan, in hopes of discovering the main cause of health problems due to 131 I radiation. These funds were divided among Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, the three main affected countries,...
What happened to the bubbler pool water at Chernobyl?
- It is likely that intense alpha radiation hydrolysed the water, generating a low-pH hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution akin to an oxidizing acid. Conversion of bubbler pool water to H2O2 is confirmed by the presence in the Chernobyl lavas of studtite and metastudtite, the only minerals that contain peroxide.
