Chernobyl Revisted

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steam discharge, while it was an awfully
large discharge. 31 firefighter tried helplessely to put out the blast, of
the 31 1 survived. When asked why they fought the fire instead of not, he
replied who else would of put the fire out it was his job. When the
surface fire was put out there was yet another problem. The reactor core
was still a blaze, the soviets tried a sand-boron-lead mixture to put out
the fire it eventually worked. The soviets still did not release the
information to the public on the Chernobyl incident untill 1 1/2 days after
the incident took place. This was after they had the situation some what
under control, for the simple reason that they were afraid of massive panic.
135000 people were then evacuated form nearby towns and cities. The
soviets had more luck, rather then the blast happen in time of rain ar
heavy wind it happened at a time when the weather was somewhat calm. This
meant that instead of having a mushroom cloud affect due to wind or ...

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