After the Chernobyl accident, how did the Soviet government find operators to work the remaining reactors? Didn't they know that they could be killed? I know that there were workers up until the shutdown in 2000. What did all those workers do after they lost their jobs?
I'm curious and would like to know what anybody else may know on the subject.
2006-08-29 15:23:49 · 5 answers · asked by ♥ 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I read oodles about it, especially because I come from former Czechoslovakia and it happened on my 11th birthday, I remember my mom saying "Nice gift you're getting today"...anyway...they did need engineers to keep it running, to maintain the safety...cause the reactors cannot cool down just in weeks...it needed more time, then securing the other ones, so the incident does not repeat, they were slowly shitting it down, and the work that has been done was just necessary to finish the whole embarassement...Unfortunately many of these people either died or suffer same symptoms as the victims...Soviet Government did not make sense all the time...they wanted to cover it up, sweep it under the rug, so much of that info you have might not even be reality...as far as workers...many of them passed away...leukemia, other cancers...sad story...big lesson for people in the world...Beware...
2006-08-29 15:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by curious 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why would they have trouble getting operators? You need to look at this from a logical perspective rather than just being terrified of the nuclear boogeyman that Greenpeace has created.
IIRC Chernobyl killed 20 reactor employees. So in 30 years of nuclear reactor operations the total death oll for the industry was 20 people. So the occupational risk of a Soviet reactor employee was 0.6/annum.
In comparsion somehting like 50 truck drivers die every year in accidents in the US alone. So the occupational risk for a US transport employee is about 20/annum. IOW it is over 30 times more dangerous to be a US truckie than to be a Soviet nuclear technician.
Do you see the US trucking undustry having trouble finding operators? Don't these truckies know they could be killed
So why would you assume the Soviet nuclear industry would have more difficulty when it was safer, paid more and offered better working conditions?
These are the questions you need to ask yourself. Then you will see that your perception of the risk is based entirely on Greenpeace indoctrination rather than any rational assesement.
2006-08-29 22:43:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are lots of jobs in this world more dangerous than working at Chernobyl after the accident (including working at Chernobyl just before the accident).
Many people are willing to take dangerous jobs if the compensation is sufficient, and in places where jobs are scarce, it doesn't take much to be sufficient.
2006-08-29 22:28:27 · answer #3 · answered by enginerd 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I'm sorry but most of them died, as with the heroic volunteers who helped get it under control. Nature is unforgiving when you make a mistake like that.
2006-08-29 22:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
through the standard soviet way, through subterfuge, and lies. obviously innocent people died as a result.
2006-08-29 22:31:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋