I had been working here at the old nuke plant for a little over a year. While driving into work on that day, heard about Chernobyl. I figured I had made a colossal mistake and I wondered what I would do after my short stint on nuclear power. Here I am three decades later training peeps to run these pigs for 40+ more years.
Bob R Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 26, 2018, at 8:53 AM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I understand the nuclear fire is still raging there, it is just burning > it's way toward the center of the earth.... should only take another > million years or so... The scale of contamination down wind is > incredible.... epic, in fact... Russia has made it a "no go zone" and yet, > some folks have moved back in and are now living and farming the area, from > reports I've seen. > > Radiation levels are still far above what the human body tolerates. > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:40 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> I remember exactly where I was that day - at Kohler for an interview. I >> remember watching this on TV and wondering if the Russians were going to >> nuclearize all of eastern Europe… >> >> -D >> >> >>> On Apr 26, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> April 26, 1986 >>> Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Occurs >>> The Chernobyl nuclear accident was not immediately reported by the >> Soviet Union. The first Journal coverage of the event did not take place >> until April 29, when information was still relatively scarce. >>> >>> ‘‘The Soviet Union reported a nuclear accident at a plant near Kiev, the >> country’s third-largest city, and initial indications suggest serious >> damage,’’ the Journal wrote. ‘‘U.S. nuclear-power experts said the Soviet >> decision to announce the accident and appoint an investigative >> commission—and the detection of higher-than-normal radiation levels in >> Sweden, Finland and Denmark, more than 700 miles from the accident—raise >> concerns about the seriousness of the accident and the overall safety of >> the Soviet nuclear-power industry.’’ >>> >>> On April 30, the Journal’s tone was more serious: ‘‘The nuclear accident >> in the Ukraine has left the Soviet Union and perhaps some of its European >> neighbors with a human tragedy whose scale is as yet uncertain but is >> feared to be large. And it has dealt a world-wide psychological blow to >> nuclear power. The Soviet government said that two people were killed in >> the accident at the Chernobyl plant some 60 miles north of Kiev. But >> unconfirmed reports filtering out of the Soviet Union told of thousands of >> casualties, either in terms of deaths or of heavy radiation exposure.’’ >>> >>> The Journal continued: ‘‘As of last night [April 29], official Soviet >> sources had announced only that a ‘disaster’ has occurred. Nuclear experts >> in Sweden and West Germany said the Soviet government had asked for help in >> fighting a fire at the plant, a development that Western nuclear experts >> interpret as grave.’’ >>> >>> Today, the death toll from the nuclear disaster is still in dispute >> because of the lingering effects of radiation contamination. Drone footage >> filmed a few years ago shows the former nuclear facility and the nearby >> abandoned city of Pripyat. A massive structure has been erected to cover >> the facility. And the nearby town of Slavutych, carved out of the forest >> when Pripyat was evacuated after the accident, is thriving. >>> >>> >>> >>> --R >>> Sent from iPhone >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
