To speak evil of nuclear power want to tell a story well known, not in detail, unfortunately, happened exactly 23 years ago on 26 Northern Ukraine in April 1986 and specifically in a location that would become, from the days of the story later known throughout the world, because that place was notorious Chernobyl. A
Chernobyl on April 26 that it was past midnight just over an hour and you can imagine it was a quiet night, no wind, dark and noiseless. Only the machinery of the nuclear
VI Lenin worked with manic pace, producing energy to meet the needs of the Republics of the Soviet Union. In particular, there was a ferment of men and equipment at the reactor 4. It was during a safety test. rest assure, that night, the inhabitants of Cerbnobyl area, about three hundred thousand, with the security and peace of fatalism of those who have nothing to lose. It was not a rich area that was ground miners, factory workers and farmers, people used to working hard for a piece of bread and hard to sleep at night, perhaps with the help of a few drops of vodka to warm the cold shriveled veins persistent .
None of them, at one and twenty-two of 26 April 1986, dreamed or imagined that his life would change radically, who would become notorious, that his body was corrupt and that of his future with his children, that the his land was raped, that her future would have been poisoned. Sleep well, was just past midnight and had just begun, at Chernobyl, which would have been the longest day of the city.
The time at which the plastic cover, weighing over two thousand tons of reactor 4, the one where he was performing a safety test, flying away like a Frisby scored the point of no return, it was an hour and twenty-three. The roar had to be terrifying, those who have heard the certainly can not describe, and the air immediately became hot. The descent of china for gl'abitanti nearby had begun.
died just two workers of the plant involved and overwhelmed by the chemical reactions that followed starting from overheating the core, which turn heat up the water cooling system bringing it to very high temperatures that drove
vapor pressure at the explosive, then triggered reactions between chemical substances (water and metals), including the water-splitting in oxygen and hydrogen to effect the temperature reached, all helped to develop large volumes of gas. Obviously the first budget, saw what had happened, was very good, even with all due respect to the two lives, but unfortunately the matter did not end there. The rescue team, headed by Vladimir Pravik lieutenant, he went immediately to the disaster site, with the command to extinguish a fire caused by a short circuit. Nobody had informed them of the toxic fumes and materials fell after the explosion in the area surrounding the plant. Pravik and his boys worked hard all night and already at 5:00 in the morning, less than four hours after the meltdown, some on the roof and around the fire had been extinguished. Pravik died May 9, 1986, 13 days after the explosion and all the others died as firefighters in action on the morning of April 26, 1986. But no one knew anything in the world for the entire day of 26, while Russian helicopters, in a gallop, discharged inert materials to try to extinguish the fireball that burned in the center core of the disaster. Only in the morning April 27, by a lucky chance, that happened in a nuclear power plant at Forsmark in Sweden, the alarm detectors of radioactivity. Now the Scandinavians, given the high level of data, supposed, worried that there was a hole in the middle but the results were negative. It was then that they began to look elsewhere for the source of radiation and it came up in the Soviet Union. At first the Soviet government belittled the thing but now the Swedes, with their controls, were made aware of the whole of Europe that a serious incident had occurred in Soviet Central Asia. The whole world began to press and finally released the first meager statements about the incident, which became known the world froze.
Since those days, and through years to come sessant'otto people, including the first rescue team, died of a direct cause of radiation, in a slow and relentless, sometimes suffering excruciating pain and gradually losing hair, nails, vision, hearing, fertility. But not only. The entire area comprising a pool of six million people, was in the months to follow specific rules for health monitoring by the World Health Organization and the Ministries of Health of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. This is to monitor and curb the devastating effects of radiation but can be estimated two hundred thousand deaths from cancer and leukemia directly related to what was called the "Chernobyl disaster" inextricably linking the city's name to the concept of ruin. I have vague memories of those days: the TV with the image of the menacing black cloud that was moving to Europe, the handbook newspaper (wash the vegetables much, do not drink milk), the growing and palpable concern in the speeches of people. Italy, of course, reacted in the best way it knows instinctively, and decomposed in a way. Within a year he concocted a referendum, the only ones in Europe, with a speed never seen in Italian bureaucratic boot, even at the time of Mussolini. Too bad that Italians were not asked what it was expected that: the three referendum questions of talking only to abrogate state intervention and subsidies for construction of power plants and to deny the possibility, Enel, to participate in the construction of nuclear plants abroad, however. Nobody asked the closure of the central active nor to deny permits for future construction of power plants. It was not much but enough to prevent the proliferation of nuclear power in Italy, the Italians without money no one would have ventured to create a central, though all said and still say that it is the only way to create the energy we need .
Now the story of what happened in Chernobyl there is no use having regard to that nuclear power is back in fashion in Italy and in the face of the 60 passes per cent of Italians who voted against nuclear power and not in favor of those three questions, rinsed of any preventative power. Of course we know that plants are safer than the old modern Central VI Lenin and we know that nuclear power has a high productivity compared to the energies so-called "clean" but none of this should be enough. The history taught us, just a little human error and the result is disaster. A disaster that can not be justified by any productivity.
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