Okay, so here's the thing; there is the Exclusion Zone mentioned above. There are workers to patrol this outer area to monitor any possible entries. I have read that these workers take different kind of shifts to eliminate any overexposure to radiation. Makes sense, right? What I do not understand then, is that there are anywhere between 3000 and 3800 people(depending on the source) that go to the Chernobyl plant everyday to work on various projects. See below:
Neither of the above pictures show these workers in the famous looking "space suits" that we see authorities wear when dealing with high doses of radiation. If it isn't safe in the parameter of the Exclusion Zone, how do these workers survive daily exposure without even the use of a respirator? According to the 100 percent accurate Wikipedia, this area will not be safe for human habitation for about 20000 years. Yes, I realize the workers do not live there, but they are there quite enough considering it is a place that won't be safe for a period of time that is longer than our entire recorded human history.
Speaking of habitation, there actually are many people who have gone back into the Exclusion Zone to live in their former homes. A quick google search will show you that hundreds of people live there, and many of them seem to be fine. That does not mean that it's safe for the usual habitation we have in cities, but again, for an area not safe for thousands of years to come, you would think these people, many of whom are very elderly, would have run into several health issues in a relative short period of time. Take a good look at the picture below:
According to the Boston.com, the people who live in that home live mostly off of gardens make in contaminated soil. Fair enough, yet how does a house in an abandoned area that has supposedly been shut off from human life on an official level, have running water and electricity?
The whole thing is just weird to me. I'm not trying to put dots together to support any kind of theory that I want to shove down your throat, but these particular things do not make sense to me. Maybe the answers are simple and just not stated in the pages I read because the details were deemed unnecessary to the writers and publications. Who knows. Does it tweak curiosity in anyone else?? I mean, the plant itself wasn't completely decommissioned until 1999, if memory serves me correctly. How the hell did it keep running at all after the incident?
One last thing before I end this. Below is a picture of the site after the accident at Chernobyl happened, courtesy of Wikipedia:
The apparent number given is that this explosion released several hundred times more radiation than that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Forgive me here, because I have no clue what the physics behind nuclear weapons is, but compare that picture to Hiroshima.
Hiroshima was wiped off the map, more or less. Chernobyl just had part of it's building destroyed. I have to assume that a bombing and its affects are different than a core reactor explosion propelling radiation into the air, but the difference in the outcome is quite shocking.
Thanks for reading, please leave comments on anything that I have overlooked. I could be just missing something. On the other hand, it may be possible that there is something even more sinister than what I've noticed. Chernobyl after all, is the Russian word for Wormwood. For all you bible readers, Book of Revelations ring a bell????
