I just watched the 2019 HBO miniseries "Chernobyl". What an amazing project, with terrific writing, stellar performances & impressive visuals.
However, what struck me most was the parallels to Covid- the politicization of a disaster, government lies & attempts to underplay its gravity, burying facts & silencing scientists who sought the truth.
DVK-3, Soviet desktop computer compatible with PDP-11.
Even today it's common to find remains of such computers around the Chernobyl disaster area, says Alex the video host, "in a very destroyed condition, but this one... is intact."
#Helicopters played a critical role in the emergency response to the 1986 #Chernobyl NPP accident. They fulfilled many different missions. Read the 1998 paper Operation of Helicopters During the Chernobyl Accident by Major General Masharovsky (State Emergency Service of Ukraine). 🚁 #VerticalFlight#VTOL
Does climate change cost you?
We have operated this pool for 18 years. For the last five or so I’ve noticed much more problem with green algae in the spring. My pool expert tells me it’s warming winter temperatures. It never fully freezes off, the algae survives dormant during the winter, and gets an early start in the spring.
The cost? About $150 each year in chemicals for start up that we’re not needed in the past.
Ukrainians are being forcefully expelled from their homes in Enerhodar, near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. This is an act of terrorism by the Russian invaders.
This is not by any stretch of the imagination an “evacuation.”
Interviewed by BBC News early this morning, I said part of the reason Russian terrorists are throwing Enerhodar residents out of their homes is the Ukrainians are the skilled technicians who run the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
It is not over. Chernobyl spread radioactive particles across Europe and beyond. The fire in reactor #4 burned for over a month, releasing massive amounts of radionuclides which then would fallout and embed into the #ecosystem.
37 years later we still find food contaminated with Chernobyl fallout every year. Often with cesium-137 which is very adept at transporting in an ecosystem once the particle has deposited from the fallout cloud.
I was in physics at that time.
Rain fell. Next morning colleagues reported radiation measurements of the rain. Fellow student immediately pulled off his👖he’d worn in that rain. The physicists organized a meeting to inform the public. The ministry forbade the measurements. 1/2
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April 26: Chernobyl explosion day.
I remember, in the days after we took shelter when rain started to drizzle.
@rahmstorf I was 6 years old, and still remember a shot of an endless row of firefighter trucks driving to #Chernobyl, shown on the Swiss TV news. After that, an expert discussion round, saying kids shouldnnot go outdoors, dont drink milk. From this year, my drawings book became full of catastrophies. I had realised that there was something wrong with the world I was growing up.
#OnThisDay, April 26, 1986, one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history occurred when an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction caused the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 4 reactor core to rupture (depicted in HBO’s Chernobyl, 2019)
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
...it'll have human #bias. Humans have always been great at bending or breaking the law when it suited their interests. How could a #Superintelligence created with human values not arrive at the same, self-preserving conclusion?
A gloomy, yet, IMO, quite fitting assessment of the shape of things to come unless there's a #Chernobyl-style "fallout" before #GAI evolves into #AGI + humanity gets its act together and, as Prof. #Tegmark admonishes: "Just look up!"
These CCTV cameras recorded the Chernobyl disaster (www.youtube.com)
For the first time, this is an in-depth review of historical CCTV systems that were used with nearly all Chernobyl robots back in the 80-s.