Chernobyl Heart

[Helevitia]

I just watched this documentary on HBO.

It had to be one of the sadest documentaries I have ever seen in my life. It was absolutely depressing. God, I keep thinking how we can't seem to learn lessons from such horrible tragedies. I mean really, those pictures we looked at several months ago do not do this place justice. I thought those pictures we're amazing, but this documentary makes those pictures look pale in comparison.

It was extremely hard to watch(atleast for me), but I forced myself to watch it, so I know what I never want to see happen again. If you get a chance to see it, you will see what I mean.

Maybe someday no one will have to suffer the after effects of Chernobyl.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/chernobylheart/synopsis.html

[KvHagedorn]

In Belarus, only 15-20% of babies are born healthy. Roche comforts children who are born with multiple holes in their heart, a condition known in Belarus as "Chernobyl heart."

I wish we could find some safer way to get energy. This is horrific..

[Helevitia]

The film reveals those hardest hit by radiation, including thyroid cancer patients and children suffering from unfathomable congenital birth and heart defects.

Some of the defects and children they show is beyond what you can imagine(in the worst kind of way). On top of that, most of these children were abandoned by their parents.

So many children in insane asylums with tons of problems.

Children that will die horrible deaths because they couldn't get enough money for a simple procedure. They are alive just to suffer for a few years and then die. Very sad

[Dr Mordrid]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn


I wish we could find some safer way to get energy. This is horrific..

You can get safe nuclear using PBMR reactors. They cannot melt down because of their design.

Even if all a PBMR reactors coolant leaks out their temperature stabilizes at a temperature far below the structural limits of the core and the surrounding structure.

Unfortunately the Soviets used very crude reactor tech known as light-water cooled/graphite-moderated reactors and didn't do much in the way of safety systems, training or maintenance. LWC/GM reactors were hardly used at all outside the Soviet Union.

This made their reactors, many of which are still in operation, accidents looking for a time/place to happen.

Of course Chernobyl wasn't the first Soviet nuclear accident. There were two at a nuclear facility near the city of Kyshtym (near the eastern Urals) between 1953 and 1961, with the latter one resulting in a huge explosion. This region is now considered the most contaminated spot on the planet.

Dr. Mordrid

[Marshmallowman]

Yeah nuclear stuff can be pretty safe...I just don't trust people to do it safely

[Sasq]

The effects last for a long time, there are still people dying here from the 'A-bomb' disease.

and as for reactor saftey, hrm yes well Tepco and reactors...