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There's a followup tweet with a possible explanation: https://twitter.com/WillyWaugh/status/1497157722663391233 https://twitter.com/WillyWaugh/status/1497157722
by anshumankmr 5y ago
There's a followup tweet with a possible explanation: https://twitter.com/WillyWaugh/status/1497157722663391233 https://twitter.com/WillyWaugh/status/1497157722663391233
Though I am not 100% sure of this since the USSR had removed the topsoil back then but I suppose more of it could have spewed back in to the soil over time.
- ugjka 5y agoI don't think they removed the top soil for the whole exclusion zone, that'd be an insane feat
- sp332 5y agoFrom 1986: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/02/Workers-have-removed-all-the-topsoil-from-Pripyat-an/2145533883600/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/12/02/Workers-have-removed... They removed the topsoil from Pripyat. It wasn't perfect, but they pushed it into 800 trenches. https://xcdsystem.com/wmsym/archives//2013/papers/13526.pdf https://xcdsystem.com/wmsym/archives//2013/papers/13526.pdf
- hadlock 5y agoJapan is about halfway through this process in the Fukashima area
- dtx1 5y agoI was in chernobyl, you could pick up reactor core debris everywhere there by just looking for it with a dosimeter for a few minutes.
- anshumankmr 5y agoEven now?
- dtx1 5y agoI was there 2019, I assume not much has changed since then