#nuclear disasters

[scary-grace]

would you happen to have a favorite nuclear disaster? i know a lot of them but i'm most partial to chernobyl because of how extensively it's been researched

In fact I do! Picking a favorite criticality incident felt a little macabre (look up the demon core if you want a scary story or two), so my favorite larger-scale disaster has to be the story of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19.

K-19 was the first Soviet sub to be equipped with nuclear missiles, and while it was the pride of the Soviet fleet, it wasn't particularly friendly to Soviet citizens. Multiple people were killed in accidents during the construction of K-19, and at its launching ceremony, the bottle of champagne that was supposed to be smashed on her keel to christen her didn't break. One could say that the omens weren't favorable. One could also say that the construction of K-19 was so rushed that something was bound to go wrong on her maiden voyage. Either way, something did.

A pipe in K-19's nuclear reactor that was meant to funnel coolant to the reactor was damaged during the construction process, and during the submarine's first mission in June 1961, it cracked. This prevented coolant from reaching the reactor, and the reactor overheated, threatening to melt down and take K-19 with it. K-19's captain later said that he was afraid that an explosion on a Soviet nuclear submarine would trigger a nuclear exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States. In order to save the submarine and the people on board (and potentially avert nuclear war) K-19's captain assembled three-man teams of volunteers who would enter the reactor room and make the necessary repair.

If you're familiar with Chernobyl, then you're familiar with acute radiation sickness, and aware that the fatal dose of radiation for an adult human is uncomfortably small. K-19's reactor room would have been dangerous even for a person wearing proper protective clothing, but K-19's crewmembers had only raincoats and gas masks. Each of the men who entered K-19's reactor room received three times the lethal dose of radiation. Within six days of entering the reactor room, all of them were dead.

Of the 139 crewmembers of K-19, 22 ultimately died from radiation poisoning. That being said, the crewmembers who entered the reactor room succeeded in saving the boat. K-19 survived and continued to sail until 1972, at which point a fire onboard killed 28 people. At that point the Soviet navy gave up the ghost and decommissioned the ship -- but not before K-19 had earned the nickname "Hiroshima" from the people who sailed it.

Sources:

Accidents in Nuclear Ships

Nuclear Sub's '61 Tragedy

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔶𝔱𝔬𝔱𝔬𝔵𝔦𝔫 - 𝔗𝔥𝔢 ℜ𝔢𝔡 𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱

[handfulofwheels]

Guess who gets to do a podcast on nuclear disasters for school LETS GOOOOO

[milkdot0423]

every day i wish i was smart enough to do cool info posts about nuclear disasters but im horrible at researching so it takes me ages to learn anything new

[sscarletvenus]

the four horsemen of lookism :

sacrificial little lamb most likely to be slaughtered

the curse of godhood

unrequited psychosexual obsession

patricide

[maspers]

Saw someone refer to Mormonism as a "doomsday cult" and like. Putting aside the unending "cult" debate, where the heck are you getting "doomsday" from??? Do you think we just spend our days sequestering ourselves in caves and chanting about how the end is nigh?? Alright, just finished my classes, time to go home and light a candle over the corpse of my neighbor's cat while begging the heavens to spare me when they rain fireballs down on us next week!

Like yeah we believe in an apocalypse sorta thing but so do most Christians? And we don't know squat about when it's gonna happen so like. Don't even worry about it. Guarantee the vast majority of LDS folk are not really concerned about doomsday. There's more important stuff to worry about. Like how outrageous of a tie can one attempt to wear at the pulpit before the Bishop asks you to take it off.

Genuinely curious as to which Mormons you've met that were particularly doomsday cult-y (emphasis on the doomsday part specifically, if it's just non-doomsday-specific cult allegations then that's a topic for a different time) . Particularly if they're from Utah, because if they are then one of my friends owes me money.

[fuzzyghost]

[teeth--thief]

Google Drive full of book PDFs about Chernobyl

Link to the Google Drive if you don't want to click the title: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kscKFciW6almJA8p-0sUQPO3c0A4AQYe

Note: It will be updated regularly - for as long as I'll be able to find/get new things =) So far I've compiled 41 books in three languages.

Just to repeat what I said in the first post: I'm open to any requests or suggestions or even PDFs themselves, if someone wants to share theirs from their collection. Message me, send me an ask, throw a rock through my window - whatever you prefer, just please, do it yourself because I'm too scared to message anyone, thanks. No fiction - that's the only rule. Any language is welcome - if you want me to look for a certain book in the language of your choice, I'll do that. If you have a book in language other than English, I'd love to add it to the Drive! If you have a better version of whatever PDF I've already got, then I'd be more than happy to do a swap.

Now, some of my reasoning, if anyone's interested: first of all, I think it's important for everyone to be able to access stuff like this. Think of it as a library, minus the "give these back" part. Secondly, I get soooo mad when people are like haha, found this super rare, basically impossible to find, very expensive book! ...I shall now keep it exclusively to myself. Ma'am, you're ruining the vibe and stalling everyone's hobby research but I guess you do you...

List of all the books (under the cut):

In English:

Voices from Chernobyl - Alexievich S.

Chernobyl Reactor Accident - Source Term

Chernobyl - Insight from the Inside - Dr. Chernousenko V.M.

How It Was - Dyatlov A.S.

(ENG+RUS) Chernobyl Booklet

Chernobyl: The Devastation, Destruction and Consequences of the World’s Worst Radiation Accident - Fitzgerald I.

Final Warning. The Legacy of Chernobyl - Gale R.P.

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster - Higginbotham A.

INSAG-1

INSAG-7

Interesting Chernobyl - 100 Symbols

From Chernobyl To Fukushima - Karpan N.

Manual for Survival. A Chernobyl Guide to the Future - Kate Brown

Chernobyl. Confessions of a Reporter - Kostin I.

The Politics of Invisibility. Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl - Kuchinskaya O.

Memories - Kupnyi A.

Chernobyl 01:23:40 - The Incredible True Story of the World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster - Leatherbarrow A.

Chernobyl Notebook - Medvedev G.

No Breathing Room - Medvedev G.

Chernobyl Record - The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe - Mould R. F.

Wormwood Forest - A Natural History of Chernobyl - Mycio M.

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl - Petryna A.

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy - Plokhy S.

Ablaze - Story of Chernobyl - Read P.P.

Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry - Schmid S. D.

Chernobyl: A Documentary Story - Shcherbak I.

The Vienna Report

Chernobyl - Crime Without Punishment - Yaroshinskaya A.A.

In Russian:

Chernobyl: Kak eto bylo. Preduprezhdeni - Kopchinsky, Steinberg

Chernobyl. Tak eto bylo. Vzglyad Iznutri - Voznyak Ya. Troitskiy N.

Лучевая болезнь человека (очерки) - Гуськова А.К., Байсоголов Г.Д.

Чернобыль. Как это было - Дятлов А.С.

Чернобыль: 30 лет спустя - Кравчук Н.В.

Живы - Купный А.

Чернобыль - Щербак Ю.

(ONLY Pages 367-383) Чернобыль, 10 лет спустя. Неизбежность или случайность?

KGB files - pre and post accident (includes additional information in Ukrainian)

In Polish: 

Jak to było - Diatłov A.S.

Czarnobyl - Plokhy S.

Czarnobyl - Sekuła P.

Katastrofa w Czarnobylu - Sekuła P.

Czarnobyl. Od katastrofy do procesu - Siwiński W.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1991 stamp of the Soviet Union showing the harmful effects of radiation, in recognition of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine.

[alaa-al-khateeb]

It was as if an atomic bomb hit Gaza. The effects of the devastating war on people & stones on Gaza, Palestine, which lasted 471 days, destroyed my beautiful city & took life out of it.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔶𝔱𝔬𝔱𝔬𝔵𝔦𝔫 - ℭ𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔰

[starr-angelofnarnia]

Just so we're all clear.

Trump isn't here to Make America Great Again.

He's here to Make America Soviet Russia.

Or, if he tries hard enough, perhaps Make America Nazi Occupied.

None of it is about putting Americans first.

[slack-wise]

Michael Collins

[dontforgetukraine]

Illia Ponomarenko highlights the National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv in the historic Podil neighborhood. There are over 22,000 showpieces related to the 1986 disaster. The space is bursting with artifacts and pieces of equipment from the 1980s, including short films, documents, and photos.

[its-leethee]

Reflecting on Claudia's conversation with Terry about the leaflynx kitten, and how even though she acknowledges that it's cute, she still can't see the sum of the animal from all of its parts.

So far, only Ezran has been able to inspire Claudia to actually relate to another creature, and not just see it as a threat or a tool: Hey, that's like me!

2x09 // 6x04

Bonus: what's with this look, Ez?!

[thechurchoftheatom]