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Radioactive Oopsies (The Day We Bombed Utah (John G. Fuller) (In may 1953…
Radioactive Oopsies
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Chernobyl Disaster (WNA)
The meltdown erupted with a flash of blue light and a billowing plume of smoke, the reactors kept increasing in temperature until a molten mass of concrete and reactor fuel called "Corium" poured through reactor unit four and melted down into lower levels forming what is now known as the "Elephants Foot"
The reactor plant was eventually encased in a giant concrete and steel tomb but will soon have to be repaired and or replaced before the supports collapse and spread even more radioactive dust throughout the environment
Workers were undertrained and tasked with running a stress test to see if the reactors would continue to function after a loss of power which led to them disabling automatic shutdown procedures and grounding out graphite safety rods which led to the initial meltdown
The Chernobyl Reactors had a fatal design flaw that caused a positive void coefficient which led to an overproduction of nuclear energy and eventually a meltdown due to air pockets in the cooling tanks that fed too many neutrons back into the fuel cells
As the fires were put out within the reactor the sub levels began to flood until water was reaching waist deep levels (and shoulder deep in some points) and if certain safety valves in the basement weren't released in time the reactor would likely cause even more secondary explosions (and more fallout) so 4 firefighters trudged through pitch black irradiated flooded tunnels to find release valves and sacrifice themselves for the safety of their family and country (all 4 died within weeks from acute radiation poisoning)
DEMONCORE (Svedic.org)
Louis Slotin was yet another cocky researcher who worked with the demoncore but instead of using bricks louis used two beryllium hemispheres meant to be separated with safety wedges but slotin chose to use a screwdriver and his thumb and forefinger as his safety wedge, Slotin had done this procedure dubbed "twisting the dragons tail" over a dozen times with spectators in the room but on one faithful day the hemisphere slipped and the room filled with blue, slotin quickly removed the hemisphere and he and his colleagues marked their positions in the room for a proper diagram and slotin died within 9 days but other researchers lived variably longer.
After Slotins death the government decided to only perform criticality tests with a quarter mile of space between researchers and test site and have it all conducted robotically but the fate of the core was a detonation test at the bikini atoll nuclear testing site.
Harry Daghlian was one of the researchers working with the core and while testing with tungsten bricks to reflect neutrons back into the core (and make it go supercritical) Harry dropped a brick on the core which suddenly filled the room with a flash of blue light, Harry died 25 days after the experiment and the security personnel died 33 years after exposure from leukemia.
After the bikini atoll publicity stunt failed (because of an aiming mishap) the government decided to perform more blast "testing" and detonated the Baker bomb and led to oceanic fallout, decontamination attempts and ultimately irradiated flora and fauna around the affected area. The radiation was so strong in some areas that there was a lionfish that was so irradiated that it could burn an X-Ray onto film by its own bodily radiation.
The demoncore was the third core built in the Manhattan project alongside the Gadget core (used as first nuclear explosion testing device) the Little Boy core, and the Fat Man core (used in hiroshima/nagasaki bombings) but after Japan surrendered the Demoncore was used for criticality experiments using 95% critical samples.
Fukushima Incident (WNA)
Cleanup efforts are being headed by the volunteer elderly because cancers caused by radiation typically take a few decades to develop and the elderly are already in late stages of life so what harm would it do to them if they will already be gone by the time cancer would develop (this is their actual mindset and it would be beneficial if more thought that way
Corium had deposited at the bottom of reactor 1 and in an attempt to release pressure from some of the reactors emergency vents were activated by an outside power supply which caused some of the gas to backflow into the service floor and build up until a few hours later a hydrogen explosion destroyed part of said service floor
One of the biggest causes for fallout were seawater being flooded into the reactor units in an effort to cool down the units and although the seawater caused minimal damage, some irradiated corium and water moved back into the ocean to contaminate all the tuna that we hold dear.
Following an earthquake and loss of power, a 15 meter tall tsunami collided with the fukushima nuclear plant which flooded the diesel powered coolant pumps located in the basement of the site which eventually led to the release of roughly 770 PBq
Even though the Fukushima incident was comparable to chernobyl, no lives were lost be it from plant workers and or surrounding inhabitants and proper containment has been withheld well enough for repopulation efforts to begin near and around the fukushima plant.