chernobyl

20 years ago. I was only thirteen and I recall this.
The older I get the more of an attrosity it seems.
Some things I have read.
-There was NO public or community announcement of this accident for three days.
-The firemen who attempted to put out the blaze lived for an average of three to four days.
-The workers to clean up the debris were given led vests when in reality the threat was coming from underneath them, Not giving them adequate or even close to adequate protection.
They worked on the roof. They had four minutes to get a wheel barrow loaded and get the hell of off the roof in order to get their pay and medal...then die three weeks or so later.
-Some of the people who were buried were too bloated from radiation to be suited in a casket.
Later to be exhumed and taken to another burial site because they were too radio active.

The concrete shelter is now in shambles. An estimated one billion dollar structure is to be built to cover the existing one. Built away from the fall out area and then taken over the course of a week, maybe more to the main accident area.
The project I believe is to take until 2009. Sadly enough they admit this will only be a temporary fix. Maybe buying them 100 years at best.
This is all I remember from memory.
* I live less than 35 miles from two nuclear reactors. The Perry Nuclear plants.
I do live a little southeast of the reactors. Most often the fall out follows general weather patterns going west to North west.
In PA. the Three mile Island also had reactors overheat and have been since shut down.
The recent Davis Bessie plant also close to me, in Sandusky, had corrosion of the reactor lid that was VERY close to breaching the seal.

The safety of nuclear power is questionable.
I can actually go to community to receive tablets in order to take so your thyroid gland so it does not absorb radiation.
My family friend, a bus driver was asked to be a volunteer to transport people out of the fall out area.
I guess reading about this Russia disaster has made me realize the concerns over the close to home threats when this entire time I have focused my attention abroad to rogue nations reaching nuclear capabilities..