Odd Facts About Chernobyl
There is some strange stuff going on there.
If you’ve read much of my stuff, you know I write a lot of satire. Some subject matter is particularly hard to satirize. The Chernobyl disaster is one of them. I may inject a little humor into this piece but it’s a little harder than usual, based on the devastation resulting from the incident.
I thought about the Chernobyl disaster after hearing that Russian troops were temporarily entrenched there. I’ve also read about poor morale on the part of Russian troops. I think that being told to go take Chernobyl can’t be good for morale.
Then I read Russian troops were withdrawing. Were they starting to grow a second head? What are things like in Chernobyl? I did a little research. Some of the post-disaster hard events are particularly hard to take.
1: The aftermath of the blast was worse than the original explosion.
In quick summary, three workers were killed initially, while 28 died during the cleanup in the months to follow.
Radioactive follow reached as far as the UK and France. An exact number of victims is hard to ascertain. In 2005 the Chernobyl Forum estimated the deaths to be about 4,000. Greenpeace put the number at 93,000. In a variation of those car ads, your casualties may…
