CNN, DW, France24, Al Jazeera, NHK World, ABC Australia, RT, BBC World News, Channel News Asia and WION. All the above are TV channels. And, then, USAToday.com, Chinadaily.com.cn and Hindustantimes.com for websites. In normal times, I never watch news. But when charts are swinging big, I am trading less and watching news. I stopped overnight bets and just take intra-day these days.
Agreed. The world came a long way since then. You may say Fukushima happened recently. In Fukushima, there was a communication lapse between the plant managers and Japanese government. It was a man made disaster. Without an invite, French nuclear scientists rushed to Tokyo to advise the Japanese Prime Minister and fix the problem. There was a documentary on this, if I remember well, it was on BBC.
Wasn't there a design flaw (Westinghouse) in the placement of the emergency electrical generation plant below the level required to keep it high and dry in event of a tsunami? Failure of that generation plant resulted in no power to the pumps that circulated water to cool the rods. *Bingo* Oh Shit! This region is well known to be prone to earthquake and tsunami events, so there's one very simple way to avoid this kind of idiotic outcome. BP drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was an equivalently bone-headed executive decision to substitute ordinary seawater for concrete in the extremely deep bore-hole. The onsite engineers refused. The honchos on mahogany row at BP insisted to the point of threat to relieve of duty the man in charge of the rig. The onsite man in charge demanded that a honcho be on the rig when the switchout of concrete for seawater occur. And so it was that one single solitary honcho was onsite when *surprise* Oh Shit! He's Right! Get Me OUta Here. No jail time for Criminal Negligence. Like giving razor blades to babies to hand some of this tech to the far removed fools in charge. Weather manipulation should be a real hoot, lol. How many ways could they fok that up? Stand by... Long Popcorn.
Will the "little green men" now be known as "glowing green men?" https://nypost.com/2022/03/31/russi...rom-chernobyl-with-radiation-sickness-report/ I guess they should have left abandoned nuclear power plants to the experts.
Fake news. Read about it across internet. It was differently reported in different places. https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...-states-nato-5863ad1d740cdd04ba42a25de0d31449 Still, my main point is: People in the west may be patriotic to their governments' views and there is nothing wrong with that. Do not under estimate the enemy. Claiming that Russian defence forces do not know about nuclear science is ridiculous. Further, arming civilians to fight regular army puts them in harms way. If they are killed, you cannot claim civilians are killed anymore. They are armed and motivated to fight an army. Using non-regulars in a war may not have desirable consequences. All this is finally resulting in flattening Ukrainian cities and loss of lives. Both sides are fueling the war. NATO and Russia seem to have made Ukraine a new theater for their war games. Western powers are giving false confidence to Ukrainian leadership and thereby letting war continue. Finally this war can end only with dialogue and satisfaction of agreed conditions laid by either side. Just assuming Russia will be defeated because we do not like their leader does not make sense. And again, let me be clear. I am not a Russian supporter. I lived and worked in the USA for several years before I relocated back to my country. I love USA next only to my own country. I never travelled to Russia. But again, with my understanding of things, I would not under estimate that country. I am trying to be realistic without getting sucked into propaganda.
Maybe the low-ranking Russian soldiers (conscripts?) who were digging in contaminated soil at Chernobyl were experts at handling nuclear materials -- or maybe not.