Today marks 32 years since the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in the Ukraine. While there isn’t too much to say today that I haven’t said in many previous articles on the disaster, I do have a few things to share.
EDIT 6/13/2019: Wow, this entry is getting rather popular. Ah, well, that’s what happens when someone makes a Television Program about this subject. Please, do yourself and everyone a favor and if the subject does interest you do actual research on it, and not just let the dramatized show “teach” you thinks. The Chernobyl disaster was an actual event in history and one that still affects the lives of hundreds of thousands to this very day, in one way or another. See my link above to my previous articles, at the very least.
First, we have the link to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant website, for those who want to keep up with the state of things at and around Reactor 4. https://chnpp.gov.ua/en/
Secondly, I have a video that I only found recently, but was uploaded a while ago (back in 2013), titled “The scariest phone call of the 20th century” which contains some well made graphics in conjunction with recordings of the calls made on that morning.
It’s chilling to think what was actually going on early that Saturday morning, April 26th 1986. Things like this remind us of the reality of these events. The fact that in those first moments no one had a clue what was going on and, even worse, that they wouldn’t really know for several days after, until Soviet officials finally realized they couldn’t cover up this event, and they would need to evacuate the 50,000 people living in the city of Pripyat, as well as cordon off much of the surrounding land for miles around.
While Chernobyl may be contained now, finally, its legacy lives on in both the land, and the people.
EDIT 7/7/2019: I was contacted by the person who put up the original video, and now have a proper link to the original upload, graphics and all — graphics which HBO apparently copied for the Chernobyl show.
More on that in an upcoming article.
Be sure to turn on closed-captioning, unless you speak Ukrainian, of course. Otherwise, the details will be a little hard to appreciate 😉