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>the effects of radiation exposure for most residents of Pripyat Chernobyl didn't have much radiation directly radiated, and the residents of Pripyat were rela
by trhway 4y ago
>the effects of radiation exposure for most residents of Pripyat
Chernobyl didn't have much radiation directly radiated, and the residents of Pripyat were relatively promptly evacuated. The Chernobyl impact has been all about fallout. A bunch of Russian soldiers for example who took over Chernobyl 3 month ago and stayed there for a month until retreat, and who did a lot of digging and armor driving without any PPE in one of the most polluted places there - Red Forest - already got acute radiation sickness as a result and the rest will have a lot of problems down the road from all that fallout dust they ingested.
Another example highlighting the fallout - Belarus where the regions most hit by Chernobyl fallout are, ie. Homel and Mogilev, has almost 50% higher cancer rates than Russia and Ukraine (those 2 have pretty close rates between themselves and similar to Belarus patterns of smoking, drinking, nutrition, etc) mostly due to the higher cancer rates in the Homel and Mogilev region. There is also some indications about higher rate of children birth defects and various genetic illnesses there. Those children naturally weren't exposed to Chernobyl's direct radiation, it is its fallout which continues to exist there.
- bamboozled 4y agoNot saying you’re wrong but how do you know about the Russian soldiers ? Seems like something Russia wouldn’t really talk about ?
- jacobsievers 4y agoIt is well documented that they were there, and also true that there is no confirmation that they have suffered any effects as of today. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-45-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-45-iaea...
- trhway 4y agoOf course it would never be confirmed by Russia. The known pieces correlate well though and consistent - the trenches digging and prolonged presence in the Red Forrest by the soldiers is confirmed, and the background radiation there even without disturbing the ground by digging and driving (such disturbance raises level several folds) is 0.1-10mSv/hour, so 30 days continuous presence would result in 0.07-7 Sv. The radiation sickness would start to show at something 0.5 Sv. The reports of Russian soldiers brought into Homel specialized radiation hospital pretty much dove tails it. Personally to me the most important confirmation is that such event is exactly how things happen in Russian army :) And just for desert - the commander of the Russian forces which invaded and were stationed in Chernobyl has as a result of that operation recently received a high military award for "preventing nuclear terrorism". Looks more than ironic given that it is his soldiers who got ill and poisoned and who retreating stole and took with them a lot of various contaminated/activated hardware which were stored in Chernobyl zone for years.
- pyuser583 4y agoHow do you know about Belarus - that’s the real question.
- bamboozled 4y agoI have no idea what you're referring too sorry.
- pvaldes 4y agoIs not a coincidence that Putin acussed Ukraine of "using biological and chemical warfare" against the Russian soldiers in the same days (if I remember correctly). A typical save-face movement. Maybe it was a gaffe, or even a deliberate sacrifice of a few pawns to justify further measures. Russia has a solid tradition to treat their soldiers lives as disposable s*t. Ordering them to dig trenches in the red forest is so stupid that feels like an experiment. When the entire planet refused to take the bait, they just stop talking about it. I assume that any ill soldier returning to Russia would be blamed on Ukranians automatically.