I was seven at that time, lived about one hundred miles from Chernobyl. On that April morning (around 5 o'clock) we woke up. The air was too thick, hot... The skies were rather strange reddish color... For two weeks following the disaster the communist assholes in the government tried to tell all of us that nothing happened, and everything was just fine. However, our friends, coworkers, classmates, the people we knew started getting sick. Leukemia, lung and skin cancer were the most common by the end of 1987 in Belarus and Ukraine regions.
In 1986 the communist government sent local firemen, engineers, civilian and army construction crews to build the dome. Almost every one of these thousands of people either died of various forms of cancer or sick.
They said that the radioactive material that was expelled on 04/26/86 will become relatively harmless in approximately 300 years. I heard that they still have at least two reactors working in Chernobyl power plant, and people still live in the general area, despite the obvious danger. I seriously cannot imagine anyone willing to work at that site, especially in the hot zone near and inside the dome. It seems to me that the Ukrainian government once again is sending their people to die the horrible deaths in order to cover their mistakes or make up on empty promises.
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I was seven at that time, lived about one hundred miles from Chernobyl. On that April morning (around 5 o'clock) we woke up. The air was too thick, hot... The skies were rather strange reddish color... For two weeks following the disaster the communist assholes in the government tried to tell all of us that nothing happened, and everything was just fine. However, our friends, coworkers, classmates, the people we knew started getting sick. Leukemia, lung and skin cancer were the most common by the end of 1987 in Belarus and Ukraine regions.
In 1986 the communist government sent local firemen, engineers, civilian and army construction crews to build the dome. Almost every one of these thousands of people either died of various forms of cancer or sick.
They said that the radioactive material that was expelled on 04/26/86 will become relatively harmless in approximately 300 years. I heard that they still have at least two reactors working in Chernobyl power plant, and people still live in the general area, despite the obvious danger. I seriously cannot imagine anyone willing to work at that site, especially in the hot zone near and inside the dome. It seems to me that the Ukrainian government once again is sending their people to die the horrible deaths in order to cover their mistakes or make up on empty promises.