chernobyl

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writing after a big gap. at the time of starting the blog, i thought to be regular. but its real difficult. anyways something is better then nothing.


Its 20 years now, memories of Chernobyl still haunts.
Chernobyl situated Reactor no 4 exploded, It burned for some 10 days, sending radiation across a large swathe of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. purely due to human negligience. the design of the reactor was faulty.the test which was being conducted at the time of accident, was well known to be unstable on these kind of reactors.

Though the official toll was 56, but thousands died since then. cases of cancer increased manifold in the affected area.116000 people had to evacuate, another 210000 were resettled. a new town Slavutich was built to for the affected people. Birth Rate decreased substantially
About 200,000 people ("liquidators") from all over the Soviet Union were involved in the recovery and clean up during 1986 and 1987.

A World Health Organisation report released in September put the overall death toll from Chernobyl at 4,000, though the figure is disputed as being too low

The decontamination work still continues. around 4000 people work in shifts of not more than 20 mins for safety reasons. still approx 3 million tonnes of nuclear waste is lying in the zone.

According to the Ukraine, 2.4 million of its people, among them 428,000 children, suffer health problems linked to the nuclear disaster

Even after facing this tragedy, we are still running in the nuclear race.

Are we really human?

Chernobyl Information available.
http://library.thinkquest.org/3426/
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Statements/2006/ebsp2006n005.html
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/20-years-on-chernobyl-still-a-killer/8789-2-single.html
photo courtsey AFP : Picture taken from a helicopter in April 1986 shows a general view of the destroyed 4th power block of Chernobyl's nuclear power plant few days after the catastrophe