The world was rivetted over 5 episodes of the 2019 HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” – about the nuclear plant disaster at Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986.
What you saw was pretty horrific stuff – here are some of the most dramatic grabs from the series.
The nuclear accident at Chernobyl wasn’t the first time that there had been an accident at a nuclear plant. In 1979 America had the Three Mile Island accident. More recently, on 11 March 2011, after Japan was hit by a mighty Tsunami, a 15 metre high wave, Fukushima happened. Electricity was cut to the Fukushima Daiichi’s nuclear plant. It’s back up diesel generator had been drowned and now it failed. The steady flow of cooling water over the hot uranium fuel inside three reactor cores stopped flowing. Within hours, uranium fuel rods overheated and melted. This triggered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
Increasing legislation to make nuclear plants safer, has meant wildly escalating costs. Higher and higher subsidies are needed to make nuclear plants commercially viable. Nuclear has now become the most expensive way to generate electricity in the world. Many advanced Western countries are walking away from nuclear power – Germany being a leading example. Has it’s time come?
Greenpeace announced that 93,000 people would die as a result of the Chernobyl disaster. With other related illnesses, it said, the actual death toll was likely to be 200,000. Greenpeace said that several million people still live in contaminated areas.
If this is true there’s absolutely, definitely, positively, no room for nuclear power in our world today. How many people have died or become seriously ill from these shocking nuclear accidents? You deserve to know the truth.
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