SL-1 The Accident: Phases I and II

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Idaho Operations Office

SL-1 The Accident: Phases I and II
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Describes this nuclear accident from the point of view of the Atomic Energy Commission.

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  News & Politics

[Matt R]

Today you can drive right by this site and where this reactor was located and later buried is just a small bump in the ground.

[John Exley]

27 Roentgen. The fire capt of the first two crews that arrived at chernobyl went to check if there was anyone trapped or injured on the floor of the unit 4 reactor room (it is reckoned that there was 7 tons of graphite and 8.5 tons of fuel on the floor). He recovered a man dead, on his own, which took him 10-12 mins the radiation in the area was 35000 roentgen, Thats a dose of 5850 to 7000 rems plus the 1200 rems he'd already got. 600 rems is regarded as fatal and 18 hours later it was.

[J. Wilde]

Ahhh, the nostalgia of having watched this right after my comprehensive final exam at Naval Nuclear Power School. (Class 9107)

[Dave Robinson]

I am a graduate of the US Army chemical school 1982 Ft Mc Clellan, Alabama. This whole incident was never even brought up throughout the course study. Amazing how history gets buried. You can actually see the trenches where they buried the contaminated debris from satellite on google maps,



[HappyPantsTime]

It was the cooling rod that he yanked out too far, it impaled him to the ceiling.

[JBUSHWFCRANE]

3rd man dead was found lodged into the ceiling lulz dam!!!!

[turboslag]

Absolutely ! There have been incidents with almost all Nuclear fission plants, the most recent being in Japan, which brings another element of risk to consider, natural disasters, over which we have no control. And no reminder of Chernobyl is needed, which was human error.

One more stark indicator of the faith governments have in these plants, despite the assurances they spew out, they are always built in isolated area's, away from high density population. They must be really confident then !

[franmicgom]

When you put it that way it sounds pretty stupid as to how people, particularly politicians, are so willing to sell out the security of future generations just so they can save a little more money and have a little more power. Who really pays for it? The people do.

[zaratrusta79]

but all that means money flowing, its all about the cash flow, and they are not "power plants", that's just a politically correct term for "death factories". electricity is just a cute byproduct - they are in fact mines for making bombs and ammunition.

and even if they go wrong, and according to Murphy's law THEY WILL GO WRONG, that just means more cancers and slow deaths, which means more money flow.

wait until China and India really get in the game!

[XxIceCavexX]

So the explosion threw out pieces of material that managed to lodge a man to the sealing ... Damn