![]() ![]() The three men, who gazed into the blazing ruined reactor for no more than a minute, had in that moment written their own death sentences. Like in the miniseries, as Yuvchenko wedged his body between the massive steel and concrete door to keep it open, Valeri Perevozchenko and two junior technicians went to see if they could lower the control rods into the core by hand (despite Yuvchenko telling them that the rods were gone). ![]() Implying that radiation caused spontaneous bleeding seems to be a way to conflate the victims of the disaster with victims of war or a horror movie, only here the radiation is the enemy. It's possible that the bleeding may be foreshadowing the severe radiation burns that over time gnawed away at the flesh on his hip, calf, left shoulder and left arm, the areas of his body that had come into contact with the door. If he did bleed, it would have had to have been due to thermal burns from the fires, steam burns, or where the hot steel door came into contact with his skin. However, in exploring the truth about Chernobyl, we learned that radiation doesn't do that. For example, Alexander Yuvchenko, the man who props open the door to the reactor hall in the HBO miniseries, begins to bleed excessively in patches on his body. Nothing will run away in the short term.No. It’s important to have early warnings, but I think some of the some of the information may even be remotely accessible. Yes, in the long term, it’s important to observe what’s going on. So I think that if the scientists are not observing this for the next several months, which is in my view a reasonable timescale, I don’t think that there are really big risks. Merk believes that a brief interruption in monitoring is unlikely to cause issues. “If it’s a deliberate act, you could possibly do it.” “I think as long as there is not a deliberate attack the risk is comparably low,” he says. Only after that we may judge about actual trends – if it’s flattened or still growing.”īut Bruno Merk at the University of Liverpool, UK, says the risk of nuclear material being released from the decaying reactor as a result of the conflict is low. “According to my estimation, the rise of neutrons, if any, could be felt only in April. One Chernobyl scientist, who worked on confinement plans at Chernobyl, told New Scientist on 22 February, prior to the invasion, that monitoring work would continue and that all safety systems at the plant are working well, but that scientific data processing has been partially suspended. ![]() Scientists monitoring the plant were already operating as a skeleton crew due to the covid-19 pandemic. Read more: Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted that Russia’s actions could “cause another ecological disaster”, while the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted: “Our defenders are giving their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated.” A researcher who monitors the ongoing emission of neutrons from the reactor to gauge safety spoke to New Scientist on 24 February, and says that staff at Chernobyl were safe. Nika Melkozerova, a journalist with NewVoiceUkraine, reports that Russian forces have reached Chernobyl where they have met “fierce resistance” from Ukrainian soldiers. But physicists say the risk of radioactive emissions as a result of accidental damage is minimal. Russian forces have gained control of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine, and reports of firefights at the site have led to concerns about the release of radioactive material from the plant, which experienced a catastrophic meltdown in 1986. Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform/Future Publishing/Getty Images Ukrainian soldiers in the abandoned city of Pripyat, near Chernobyl ![]()
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