#Chornobyl

[suratan-zir]

A russian drone with a high-explosive warhead attacked the 'sarcophagus' of the destroyed Chornobyl NPP Unit 4

A fire broke out there after the impact, it has been extinguished. The radiation background has not increased so far. Preliminary reports indicate that the damage to the sarcophagus is significant.

Look at how badly Russia wants peace! According to the new US government, of course. Look at the actions of a completely normal, non-terrorist country that only wants peace and safety.

[bacony-cakes]

[folklorespring]

I hate people that use Chornobyl (actually they can't even spell it right and say Chernobyl) as a punchline. Call me a friend that's too woke, but that was a huge fucking disaster we mourn to this day. Environment and health of people in that area were never the same. I don't care how you react to your national tragedies, joke about them all you want if that's acceptable to you, but why do you think it's okay to turn someone else's pain into a joke is beyond me.

[sicheslavchyk]

Oh, yeah, they hit Chornobyl NPP...

Yes, of course, russia wants peace and totally did not just fucking attack THAT SAME FOURTH POWER UNIT THAT EXPLODED ON 26 OF APRIL 1986))) The drone severely damaged the NSC (new safe confinement) that was built over the power unit in order to prevent the leak or radiation if the old sarcophagus collapses.

Also, just a quick reminder, russia has full control over Zaporizhzhya NPP in occupied Enerhodar and created dangerous situations there a fair bunch of times (and i mean, something like cutting off power lines that keep power units stable). Also Nikopol district is being shelled every fucking day from the territory of that same NPP, because russians know DAMN FUCKING WELL that AFU won't hit them, in fear of damaging ZNPP. They are using a nuclear power plant as their shield just to kill civilians on a free territory.

Russia is a terrorist state. And if you still think, that Ukraine should sign a peace treaty asap and give up occupied territories — sincerely, fuck you. I don't know how fucking dense you must be to think so after 3 years of full-scaled war.

[ohsalome]

Today is a 37st anniversary of the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. It's hard to talk about one unprocessed national tragedy while living through another.

The Chornobyl disaster was totally preventable and it took away countless lives of people living in the region, especially in Ukraine and Belarus - both the liquidators and the civillians. Despite the very air and dust being literal poison, the soviets had not only hid this information from the people, but forced everybody to partake in the May the 1st parade - because god forbid we lose our face before the international community as a working class paradise! If not for the nuclear scientists in Sweden who raised the alarm about the dangerous levels of nuclear particles coming from northern Ukraine, who knows what would have happened. It definitely would have been swepped under the rug and forgotten by the international community, together with its victims - just like Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan is barely known abroad.

With russia constantly threatening to turn Zaporhizhzha nuclear plant into second Chornobyl, the wound caused by this tragedy is cut open again.

We all love the HBO Chornobyl series, and I genuinely am grateful to Craig Mazin for the amount of empathy and respect he brought to the series; but for today I indulge you to watch something made by ukrainians, to try to understand what this tragedy means to us and how it influences our lives even today.

For the documentaries, my favourite series by this day remains the "Dragons live here" by Your Underground Humanitarian School Youtube channel, which, unfortunately, can only offer automated english subtitles - they should, however, be sufficient.

As for the feature films, I recommend "Gateway" (you can stream it online with english subtitles here). And here is the official english trailer:

[vyvilha]

a folk song from chapayevka village, chornobyl region

this type of song is called голосіння (holosinnya — "keening"), and they are usually sang by women over the dead body during the period between death and funeral. in this song, the woman is mourning both her dead son, and the land that they were forced to leave due to the chornobyl disaster.

translation under the cut

We went there

The houses are overgrown

Can't see anything over the weeds

Oh my God

Thirty years had passed

Now I can't even recognize

Neither my house, nor my village

Oh my God, oh my God

Oh my son, my nightingale

My son, my little dove

How far they brought us

And I will never come to you again

And will never see you again

Oh, my land, my golden one

My land, my dear one

Oh, how far they brought us

That I can't come to you

Our roads, our paths are overgrown

And our houses, and everything

I can't even recognize

Not the village, nor any of our backyards

We got lost, can't even find our houses

Oh my God, oh my God

[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.

[thingstrumperssay]

Russia's fucking attacking Chornobyl again for some reason. Thankfully the sarcophagus is doing it's job very well, but assuming that was a deliberate attack... Y'know, I don't really know in detail.

I can't find any details on what will happen if the sarcophagus were destroyed. The only thing I can kind of say with some confidence is that there will be another disaster that rivals the one that happened in the 80's. Except this time there's a war going on and if Russia is doing this deliberately they probably won't let anybody fix it until it's too late. (If at all.)

If anything, Putin would probably be like "I'll let you fix it if you give Ukraine to me." Not understanding that it'd probably already be too late for him, too.

[snovyda]

I mean, why wouldn't russia bomb Chornobyl NPP, after the literal ABSENCE of any reaction from the rest of the world to it destroying the Kakhovka Dam? They know there will be no reaction now, as well. They know the rest of the world is totally fine with it doing literally ANYTHING.

Why wouldn't russia escalate its violence?

This world is literally not worth the effort that it takes to live in it.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

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

[acidumvalericc]

i realised that I've never thrown in my S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fanart, so I'll throw it in this small collection !! ☢

several fan characters, as well as commissions for friends

[realshinytiger]

Сталкери! Дуже раджу почитати цю книгу, якщо вас цікавить, чим все-таки є радіація, як вимірюється, які насправді загрози вона несе і щоб розвінчати для себе міфи довкола неї. В книзі є розділи і про загальні знання з вивчення радіації, і про Чорнобиль (навіть про період окупації), є невеличкий список що почитати, подивитись, пограти (так-так, мова саме про сталкер), список корисних застосунків і сайтів. Може також бути корисною у зв'язку із окупацією ЗАЕС, для розуміння загроз.

І фанфакт про одну з науковиць, які писали книгу: людина настільки захоплена цією темою, що навіть її син народився 26 квітня)

[iirych]

Stalker Miku ☢️

[folklorespring]

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant sarcophagus after russia hit it with a drone. Yes, you've read it correctly. russia targeted sarcophagus that covers the nuclear reactor №4 in the building of the Chornobyl NPP.

[victusinveritas]

Porn Preferences in Sweden vs. Radiation Received from Chernobyl

[vintage-ukraine]

Two young women from Chornobyl, 1915