Radioactive substances can be inhaled through breathing, absorbed into the body through skin wounds and digestive tract, causing internal radiation, and gamma radiation can penetrate a certain distance and be absorbed by the human body, causing injuries to people from external radiation. Symptoms of radiation sickness caused by internal irradiation and external irradiation include fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, skin redness, ulcer, bleeding, alopecia, leukemia, vomiting and diarrhea. Sometimes it will increase the incidence of cancer, distortion and hereditary diseases, affecting the health of generations. Generally speaking, the more radiation energy the body receives, the more serious the symptoms of radiation sickness, and the greater the risk of cancer and teratogenesis.
What are the hazards of nuclear leakage?
Nuclear leakage affects people's general situation. In nuclear radiation, it is also called radioactive material. Radioactive substances can be inhaled through breathing, absorbed by skin wounds and digestive tract, causing internal radiation, and gamma radiation can penetrate a certain distance and be absorbed by human body, causing people to be hurt by external radiation. The more radiation energy the body receives, the more serious the symptoms of radiation sickness, and the greater the risk of carcinogenesis and teratogenesis.
Radioactive substances can be inhaled through breathing, absorbed into the body through skin wounds and digestive tract, causing internal radiation, and gamma radiation can penetrate a certain distance and be absorbed by the human body, causing injuries to people from external radiation. Symptoms of radiation sickness caused by internal irradiation and external irradiation include fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, skin redness, ulcer, bleeding, alopecia, leukemia, vomiting and diarrhea. Sometimes it will increase the incidence of cancer, distortion and hereditary diseases, affecting the health of generations. Generally speaking, the more radiation energy the body receives, the more serious the symptoms of radiation sickness, and the greater the risk of cancer and teratogenesis.
Deformed children born after a nuclear accident
19 years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union and Ukraine exploded, and the amount of radiation released by the explosion was about 200 times that of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan. As a result of this accident, an area of 30 kilometers around the nuclear power plant was designated as an isolation zone, and nearby residents were evacuated. However, it is always difficult to leave one's native land, even such a morbid place saturated with death. In recent years, more than 300 residents have secretly returned to the quarantine area to live. How are they doing? A few days ago, BBC reporter Nick? Thorpe went deep into the Chernobyl isolation zone and visited these people who still "live together" with death.
The scenery is beautiful, but it looks like a graveyard.
When it comes to walking through the area with the worst nuclear leakage in the world, people may only think of fear. Where's Nick? In Thorpe's eyes, the first impression of Chernobyl is the breathtaking beauty: in the early morning mist in northern Ukraine, a touch of morning light penetrated the dense forest. The birch trees are slim and graceful, and the leaves gradually turn golden yellow; Rows of pine trees are lush, which should be a paradise for mushroom pickers to linger; The pure and transparent blue sky is dotted with white clouds, guarding this paradise-like scenery. However, it can not be ignored that red triangles and yellow radiation signs can be seen everywhere in the jungle, reminding people of the past of this place.
Kupachi is a village that reporters and their party passed through during their journey. But there are no houses in this village. From a distance, there are only some mounds slightly above the ground, just like a huge cemetery. But this is not a human cemetery, but a house cemetery. The tour guide explained that the local houses were buried because of strong radiation.
Catfish is as big as a submarine.
Near the nuclear power plant, in a pond exposed to nuclear radiation, a catfish more than two meters long is swimming in yellow water. Its huge body looks like a submarine. The reporter threw large pieces of bread from the bridge, and they swam over and caught it quickly, which was very scary.
In front of the No.4 nuclear reactor, that is, near the place where the accident happened that year, a large bright orange flower was in full bloom. In Chernobyl, people can be seen sweeping lawns and trimming fences everywhere. This behavior is puzzling because there is no reconstruction here. This gives people a strange feeling, as if they are trying to decorate a corpse so that it looks decent when it is returned to relatives for burial.
Red apples fell all over the trees, and no one picked them up.
Pripyat used to be the home of most nuclear power plant workers, but now it is deserted. The amount of radiation there is very high. To get to Pripyat, you have to go through three checkpoints. In the central square of Pripyat, poplars grow wildly, asphalt pavement cracks, and apartments, hotels and offices are empty. Journalists have been to countless villages destroyed by war, but they have never seen such a city abandoned by life.
Near Chernobyl, red wild apples can be seen everywhere, as well as in the center of Pripyat. The fallen fruit under the tree laid a crimson carpet here. Nuclear radiation, like Snow White's hateful stepmother, poisoned all the apples here. Anyone who bites the apples here will sleep longer than Snow White, and may not wake up for 30,000 years.
There was no wind. Suddenly, a metal door was blown open. Pripyat is a ghost town.
More than 300 people sneaked back to the quarantine area to settle down.
After the accident, more than 300 people sneaked home. This kind of behavior is illegal, but the government turns a blind eye to it and even drives buses to let them go shopping and see a doctor.
Olga? Maikaya Livina is 75 years old. After her husband died, she kept a dog and some cats as company. If her daughters want to visit her, they must get approval from the relevant departments. Isn't she afraid of radiation? Olga? Maikaya Rivina laughed off the reporter's worry: "It doesn't hurt me at all." In sharp contrast to the spiritual leader of Maikaya Rivina, in this village on the edge of the radiation belt, almost all the residents said that they were seriously ill. A woman said that she gave birth to three children after the accident, all of whom were born with disabilities.
Residents 80 kilometers away are also affected.
There are many children with cancer, circulatory diseases, heart diseases and congenital disabilities in Leicester Weining, 80 kilometers away from Chernobyl. Two thirds of the local men were rejected by the army because of their weakness. Earlier this year, nine adult men died in one month.
Local employees of United Nations development projects encourage these residents to see them as survivors, not as victims. With the support of the United Nations, youth activity centers, well-equipped schools and hospitals have been established. Even here, people can feel the concern of disaster survivors all over the world. Recently, people are most concerned about the hurricane disaster in New Orleans, USA.
A nuclear disaster that brings endless harm
The radioactive pollution caused by the Chernobyl nuclear accident spread all over the former Soviet Union with 6.5438+0.5 million square kilometers and 6.945 million people lived there. As a result of this accident, an area of 30 kilometers around the nuclear power plant was designated as an isolation zone, nearby residents were evacuated, all crops were buried, and trees within 7,000 meters around it gradually died. In the next half century, it will be impossible to farm and graze within 10 km; Milk production is prohibited within 10 years 100 kilometers.
Chernobyl's nuclear radiation has polluted some of the most fertile soils in the world, such as Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, through wind and rain. Today, there are still fish roaming in the rivers of Chernobyl, but their bodies are full of nuclear substances such as cesium and plutonium. Strange brown branches grow on pine trees, indicating that the tree ecology has changed greatly due to nuclear radiation.
Up to now, among the 834,000 people involved in the rescue work, 55,000 people have been killed and 70,000 people have been disabled. Today, in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 7 million people still receive some form of compensation. These compensations may be monthly living allowance, preferential admission to universities, or annual leave. In Ukraine, the number of people (and their children) who have been identified as permanently disabled due to the Chernobyl nuclear accident has increased from 200 in 199 1 year to 200 1 997 and 9 12 19 in 2001year. The effects of radiation are as follows. Ukraine and Belarus still allocate 5% of their annual budgets to compensate the victims of the Chernobyl accident.
According to the latest investigation report released by the United Nations, the consequences caused by 1986 Chernobyl nuclear leakage are far lower than previous estimates. Nevertheless, many experts still point out that there is still much work to be done to help survivors.