Chernobyl 3828

[spycosis]

Filmed during the days following the reactor explosion and subsequent meltdown. The most compelling behind the scenes documentary I have ever seen about the disaster.

The number refers to the 3,828 men who were drafted in to remove the highly radioactive core components that had been scattered across the site.

[kellyhound]

The Chernobyl tv mini series was also interesting to watch.

[Hunted]

nice find thanks for sharing

[b0g]

The way they smoked their cigarettes.

Perhaps they knew that was the last year of tabacco without radio isotopes.

[spycosis]

I I know this isn't the same danger level as Chernobyl tobacco, but still worrying is that all cigarettes contain polonium 210.

And everybody on earth born after about 1950 contains plutonium 239 that has come from the core of a nuclear weapon. Not a lot, between approx. 100 and 10,000 atoms per person.

But it all adds up, Pu239 from bombs Po210 from cigs and Cs137 from all the nuclear accidents, it's quite a cocktail.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by spycosis

I I know this isn't the same danger level as Chernobyl tobacco, but still worrying is that all cigarettes contain polonium 210.

And everybody on earth born after about 1950 contains plutonium 239 that has come from the core of a nuclear weapon. Not a lot, between approx. 100 and 10,000 atoms per person.

But it all adds up, Pu239 from bombs Po210 from cigs and Cs137 from all the nuclear accidents, it's quite a cocktail.

Not to mention high-phosphate fertilizers containing po-210 and lead-201 used by farmers that spreads through the air and accumulate for decades in the lungs of people who smoke.

Sticky tar in the tobacco builds up in the small air passageways in the lungs bronchioles and radioactive substances get trapped. Over time, these substances can lead to lung cancer.

Currently, 210Po has been found to be widely distributed in a variety of environmental and biological samples, such as groundwater, fish, and shellfish.

210Po in environmental media can enter the body through inhalation, diet, drinking water, open wounds, and the food chain.

In fact, a significant proportion of an individual’s exposure to natural background radiation through ingestion of food and water comes from the radionuclide 210Po, which provides approximately 60% of the annual effective dose of all naturally ingested radionuclides.

More: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488615/

[spycosis]

Thanks for posting the link, kellyhound. It's interesting reading, very detailed.

[rohmell]

Originally Posted by spycosis

The number refers to the 3,828 men who were drafted

It also refers to the year when people can finally move back to Pripyat.

[spycosis]

[Finksburg]

Thanks for sharing.