Why Are Hiroshima And Nagasaki Still Habitable Today but Chernobyl Isn't

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  @jenniferkaplan1956 · 2 months ago

  Simple answer: the bombings each happened once, and then stopped. Chornobyl is STILL happening, right now. New radiation is being introduced every single day.

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• DO

  @DonnyValentine1890 · 2 months ago

  For those who don’t want to see the whole video: The core of reactor number 4 in Chernobyl still contains about 200 tons of radioactive fuel and about 800 kg of plutonium. Due to extremely dangerous elements with very long halving times, such as plutonium-239 (24,000 years), vast areas near the plant will remain contaminated and uninhabitable for thousands of years (unless people in the future find a way to accelerate the decontamination process of course)

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• XE

  @xeloin72 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Some smart guy said: if you fart in a room the smell disappears quickly but if you take a crap on the floor the smell stays for a looong time 😂

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• LA

  @lad4830 · 2 months ago

  Bro made 30 minute video to say "the amount of radiation from a reactor is 400 times bigger than from a bomb"

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• AR

  @Arthur_Morgan_with_tb · 2 months ago

  Damn i aint the only one getting this reccomended 2 years later

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• TH

  @thisissparta789789 · 2 years ago

  I remember watching the Chernobyl HBO mini-series and Legasov mentioning how Reactor 4 was giving off about two Little Boy’s worth of radiation every hour initially after the explosion.

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• PE

  @pencilminded · 1 year ago

  The Chernobyl casualties were in the 500,000 and they refuse to do proper studies to get the right amount. Are we forgetting what happened to the miners,firefighters, liquidators, and the people of Pripyat that were lied to and were exposed to unimaginable doses of radiation. Even people in Belorussia suffered years after. Chernobyl was a disaster of coverups and criminal negligence. What the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went through is also unfathomable. Both catastrophic and heartbreaking.

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• BE

  @bensadikin9513 · 1 year ago

  Imagine youre chilling at room temprature then suddenly it goes up to 7000 degree celcius.

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• DA

  @danielsweeney6742 · 2 years ago

  I read that at Chernobyl there was a stream of radioactive material going up for hours after the melt down. It was said it looked like a flashlight pointing up.

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• ZT

  @ZTOcean · 2 years ago

  The easy breakdown is what hit the cities were designed to exploded and leave little radiation trace vs something designed not to explode with no control of how much radiation is dissipated

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• VA

  @va1ntnes · 2 months ago

  my favorite way i heard someone describe this as: think of what happened to hiroshima as a fart. It smells for a bit, but it goes a way.<br>chernobyl however, poop. its there, and it doesnt go away, so neither does the smell.

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• AC

  @accurian148 · 2 months ago

  Atomic bomb is a short burst of heat and radiation while chernobyl is still active giving radiation, basically a bomb that still exploding

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