From heroes to victims
While rivers of ink run on the Chernobyl nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 shortly referring to those adventurous characters who risked his life when machines could do little or nothing and those who only bring the memory of the cemetery monuments such as the Moscow Mitino. Eric N.
Pozdysheva, Valery Alekseevich Legasov, Evgeny Akimov are just some of the approximately 600,000 heroes who risked their lives to save millions of people in that disastrous night.
The liquidators, as they are called, were people of different nationalities aged between 20 and 45, among whom were firefighters, soldiers, engineers, artisans and farmers among others, equipped with safety suits consisting of meshes lead and a pig nose mask, which produced terrible sores on her face and today seem to me ridiculous because he really knows little or nothing served to protect them. They were the ones who had to enter, some by desire to serve others by promises of economic rewards, after he initially tried to clear the damage to the reactor with robots but radiation and extreme temperatures reached 2,500 ° C eventually merge their circuits.
While cities like Pripyat were evacuated 36 hours after the explosion succeeded, largely due to pressure from Sweden who first spotted the accident on 28 and threatened to sue internationally, these brave "or ignorant? (More the latter according to the following statement "In Ukraine, at that time of year and quite hot, so we went to put out the fire in his shirt sleeves," said Victor Birkun, firefighter who was resting in a hut at 150 meters plant when the accident occurred) The mission consisted to prevent another explosion happened and returned into the reactor graphite rods and fuel residues that were left over what remained of the roof. Entering
shifts of 2 minutes should remove two shovels of dirt or throw in at least two bars and go out again, others were swimming in contaminated waste to remove contaminants or other factors, another group was flying overhead in helicopters disaster area to throw on the core material mixture consisting of sand, clay, lead, dolomite, boron neutron absorber, managers were finally filled with concrete tunnel was initially hold function a cooling system and ultimately served to strengthen the ground and prevent the heart from sinking, in turn were responsible for the construction of the sarcophagus that was to cover the ground again (which in 2004 had serious damage and that it represented a new danger. From September 2007, construction began on a new one with the collaboration of several countries).
However, this was short enough so they were directly exposed to radiation equivalent to the explosion of 500 atomic bombs of Hiroshima, where many died almost immediately while many others suffered all kinds of conditions that resulted inevitably in disabilities of various kinds, so great were the radiation emitted by the reactor to complete the work these people were forced to dig trenches to bury the vehicles and helicopters used in the process, creating the Chernobyl cemetery ... the "other victims of reactor 4. "
Today those who are still alive and their number is unclear, because although the government only recognizes the deaths of approximately 25,000, the organizations that talk group significantly higher than equivalent to a survival of about 50% of them , the reward for acts of courage are a life of intense suffering which the majority are still waiting for the promised payment to achieve at least afford the medical expenses for treatment of the consequences of their actions, they do not even have access to a health system following the dissolution of the USSR, leaving them dispersed by several countries.
source: taringa.net
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