Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

1986: Pripyat, Ukraine. During an excercise of a complete blackout in the nuclear power plant "Chernobyl" an explosion in one of the reactors happened. First kept under the rug for days what truly has happened, later the whole town and surrounding area was evacuated.
During the following months, a sarcophagus as a means to stop the worst was built above the reactor to prevent the meltdown to soak into the ground and the radioactive dust to escape into the air.
Still until today it remains not absolutely sure what were the true origins of the fallout, if either purely human error or the addition of an earthquake directly under the reactor which it didn't suit for.

2002: Erfurt, Germany. A former student of an academic high school comes up to his school in the midmorning during the yearly period of the exams and kills 16 people as well as himself in a killing spree.

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

Oh, time flies. You keep a good track of all the events. I guess because of the last event. As far as the nuclear accident it is surely remembered as a fault of socialism but everyone forgot Fukushima all right. Ha, even the name is underlined when you type it as if it is an unknown name of the province so it never happened, I guess.

[matrixmann]

Actually, I forgot to put in one even this year. But, happened to realize it too late, I didn't put it in post hoc. (Writing doesn't go that well this year, I know...)

Yes, at least here it is so that the nuclear accident always gets tightly linked to socialism, although they better shouldn't point fingers that eagerly because of that Japanese case, first, and then because West German and Belgian nuclear power plants are also already quite old. And, round the uplands like the Eifel mountains, as well as the channel of the Rhine river, there's the chance for a decent small earth quake all year long, of which you can be sure no power plant is adapted to.
So, actually, better shut your trap, don't throw bricks when you live in a glass house. This should better be the motto.
Not even to speak about all their rotting final disposal sites for the nuclear waste, of which they also have quite a few around in West Germany. Earthquake should be no good for these too.