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

[Батька Махно (from livejournal.com)]

...Actually, why did they want to do that experiment anyway?
They didn't realize all the threats as they didn't know all internal processes, and that was explainable - staff quality decreased with nuclear stations number increasing.

[matrixmann]

Hm... So to say it was to them just like making a simple scientific experiment where nothing could happen - and they were surprised with the opposite?

[Батька Махно (from livejournal.com)]

Most of the experiment makers were dead, not surprised. AFAIK, the one survived was their chief Dyatlov. He was later arrested.

[matrixmann]

Well, even death can be the "surprise" that one's hit with...

If they didn't really know about the processes inside the reactor while it produces electric energy... why did humans then start with building such things in general?
Or was that already known by then - just only the downgrading of the quality of power plant workers lead to disregard all this?

[Батька Махно (from livejournal.com)]

Or was that already known by then - just only the downgrading of the quality of power plant workers lead to disregard all this?
That's right. Earlier reactors serviced by more scientific and military specialist, and number of reactor was significantly lower. So when appeared urgent need of staff, they had to close eyes on lowered knowledge level of main employees.