During the first year of my first ever vegetable garden in spring 86; at the back of a terrace house with nice silty soil, Chernobyl happened.
I remember as I was transplanting cauliflowers wondering with the wind coming from the east just how polluted it was going to be. It didn't rain over us, but a couple of days later it did rain over parts of the Lake District. And those fells are still being monitored pretty closely.
It's only a small world so if there is a melt down or a major explosion over in Japan it won't take long to have some of that dust drifting down onto our gardens and allotments.
One of the most haunting things about Chernobyl was a description of people watching the initial fire:
(Image credits:Vivo (Ben) )
“After the explosion at Reactor 4 the people of Pripyat flocked on the railway bridge just outside the city to get a good view of the reactor and see what had happened.
Initially, everyone was told that radiation level was minimal and that they were safe. Little did they know that much of the radiation had been blown onto this bridge in a huge spike.”
They saw a beautiful rainbow coloured flames of the burning graphite nuclear core, whose flames were higher than the smoke stack itself. All of them are dead now – they were exposed to levels of over 500 roentgens, which is a fatal dose.
Read more: http://funny.funnyoldplanet.com/strange/the-chernobyl-story-told-in-pictures/#ixzz1GhrBZpYq
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