Hello
everybody!
In our last
English lesson we were watching a movie about the reactor accident in
Chernobyl, “celebrating” the 30th anniversary.
On the 26th
April 1986 there was a blast in block 4. The most serious reactor accident in the European history has just took place. 12 tons were blasted in the air. All
the people were exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. 2 men died in the night and 28
followed in the next few months.
They put
tons of water on the strange fire but nothing seems to be able to put it out. The radioactive fallout was 100 times greater than the
combined power of the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The people
in Pripyat knew nothing about the disaster. There was no official information. The
dangerous thing on radioactivity is that you are not able to notice it. Only one
man said that he had a metallic taste in his mouth. In the evening after the accident
the level of radiation was 600 000 times higher than usual. Windows and doors
should be sealed. The population had still not been informed. It took 30 hours to
evacuate the city. The government gave the people 2 hours to get their
belongings.
The rest of
Europe learned about the accident by the radioactive clouds. Sweden was the
first country to notice that the radioactive level was higher than usual. The
guy from Sweden told the office in Vienna: listen, there is a radioactive
cloud.
It took over 48 hours to get accurate information about the disaster, two days in
which the 43 thousand inhabitants of Pripyat were exposed to contamination. The
crises continued to grow. At the bottom of the destroyed reactor 12 hundred
tons of white hot magma continued to burn.
The contaminated
people came straight from the airport. Almost all of them were young. 27 of them died
quickly.
The
disaster area already stretched well beyond. Since the explosion, radioactive
particles were carried by the clouds and fell with the rain. The radioactive cloud
continued to drift over Europe. It flows over Bavaria and northern Italy.
Radioactive Caesium 137 and Iodine 131 rained down on the south of France and
Corsica. Drops on pastures are seriously contaminated. In Chernobyl the level
of radiation continued to climb.
Here is the
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS3WvKKSpKI
Yours,
Nadja
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