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Also still a lot of the world these days … 🤢
Radiation alarm at nuclear plant in Sweden trips…
Sweden: “…What the hell? This doesn’t seem to be coming from us. Hey, USSR, did you guys have some sort of atomic incident? We’re getting some off the chart readings over here.”
USSR: “Nyet. Everything is fine here.”
Sweden: “Hmmm… OK. Well, were going to file a report with the IAEA. There’s some crazy shit going on somewhere.”
USSR: “Oh! Did you say ‘incident’? We thought you said something else. Yeah, we had just a very minor one. Nothing to be too concerned about.”
The soviets that day:
Explanation: After the Chornobyl Disaster in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, wherein a nuclear plant was pushed far beyond its limits and had a highly radioactive meltdown that was detectable all across Europe, the central party apparatus of the Soviet Union actually attempted to downplay the severity of the incident, even allowing a May Day celebration in Kyiv to go forward as planned despite Kyiv’s proximity to (and location downstream from) Chornobyl. EVERYTHING IS OKAY, NO ONE NEEDS TO PANIC!
They had initially not announced the disaster at all, and it took Sweden asking the Soviets why the fuck there was a sudden radiation spike to get the Soviet Union to admit there was a little oopsie-daisy to begin with.
The cleanup would take literal years, with many areas near Chornobyl still radioactive to this day, and required Kyiv’s source of drinking water to be changed in order to prevent mass radiation sickness in the population.
But don’t worry! Please! Just let the Party handle it! Which they totally are!
Sweden asking the Soviets why the fuck there was a sudden radiation spike to get the Soviet Union to admit there was a little oopsie-daisy to begin with.
I saw an article yesterday about how there are still areas where you can’t hunt and eat wild boar in Sweden due to them containing way too much radioactive cesium in the meat.
Good news, there was also not a recent Russian drone strike that damaged the new containment shell causing significant damage and un-doing ~10 years worth of work, and costing billions of dollars.
After the Chornobyl Disaster in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, wherein a nuclear plant was pushed far beyond its limits
Nuclear reactor. Not nuclear plant.☝️🤓
Other three reactors were operational for years after the disaster.
Not great, not terrible.
