Accidents do happen..

How much does people really know about the accident at Chernobyl?
If you asked people they would probably answer...
"..it was an accident in Russia where a powerplant exploded.."

Why doesen´t people really take interest in these matters and educate themselfs about it? It is so easy and it kills all the myths and lores that is sprung from mouth-to-mouth versions.
Same with the media. I guess people only knows what they have read in the daily papers.

To begin with, it was a reactor that exploded during a test, and not the powerplant.
The powerplant was still effective and produced power until 2000 when it´s last reactor was shut down by the Urkranian president after international pressure.
So the plant was operational an additional 14 years AFTER the accident.

The total time from the test start until the explotion, that was caused by the steam pressure from the cooling water that was supposed to cool down the core, took approx. 48 seconds.

48 seconds

What do you think you would have done during those seconds?

I remember when it all was revealed.
I was 8.
I got restriction on what I could eat and not.
My father was pushing for harder restrictions in food than my mother..

Then again..
Everyone, more or less, wonders why I want to go there...
If I wanna die?
If I wanna be sick for the rest of my life...

Is it now when I shall tell you all narrow-minded doubters, that think that you are so secure in your home becasue of an accident that happen "far far away".
All those people who thinks that they are safe in Sweden..
Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?

Sweden was the first country to discover that something had happend..
2 days after the accident, a worker at Forsmark nuclear powerplant got screened as usual on his way to work.
The alarm went off.
He had radioactive particles on him.
It showed that it came from his shoes.
Forsmark was closed down and people evacuated for the reason to find out where the plant was leaking. But it did no sense.
The plant showed no signs of radiation inside of it. But there was reaction outside the plant.
This was the start of the whole thing that finally made, or more or less forced, the Sovietunion´s goverment to admit that an accident had taken place 6 days earlier.

Sweden was also the country outside the former Sovietunion that was worst contaminated by Caesium 137 fallout after the accident.
The Gävle area outside Stockholm was the most contaminated in Sweden.
So... Bascilly I have already in some form, more or less been exposed to this radiation and probably through food.

If you really wanna know how the contamination was distrubuted through Europe in the atmosphere during the 2 first weeks after the accident, here is a animated map that was presented in 2005 by the French "Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute" (IRSN)
BUT I do advise you to think first, if you really want to know, or if you feel safer living in total blindness from it all.
http://www.irsn.fr/index.php?position=lecons_tchernobyl_panache_radioactif_anim_flash