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Russia’s Rosatom may use Belarusian companies to build nuclear power plants

I accidentally happened upon this photo while researching some things about the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and I freaked out! How did this worker get so close to this mass of melted nuclear fuel in the basement of Chernobyl without receiving several lethal doses of radiation?

This mass of corium located in the basement directly beneath the Chernobyl reactor is known as “the elephants foot” and it emits radiation at levels in excess of 10,000 roentgens per hour.

Approaching it would mean certain death. The individual shown in the below image is either completely insane or outright suicidal.

I am quite certain that this worker, as well as the person who took the photograph, are now both deceased. Probably from either cancer or acute radiation sickness.

Qoute and Image source from here :http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=672660

20 January 2014,

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_20/Russias-Rosatom-may-use-Belarusian-companies-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-7042/

Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom is willing to use Belarusian companies that have gained good reputations in the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Belarus for projects in third countries, Rosatom Chairman Sergei Kirienko said in a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday.

During the meeting Lukashenko proposed that Rosatom use Belarusian companies to build nuclear power plants in third countries.

“I am counting on this that we learn something here [in the construction of the first Belarusian nuclear power plant] and can build at other sites with you,” the Belarusian president said. “If we learn to build nuclear power plants, we are willing to use your technology and move with you where you are building throughout the world,” he added.

Lukashenko asked Kirienko if Russia would invite Belarusian companies to other sites.

“That is so. We, honestly, also looked at the [joint] experience with a view to the future,” Kirienko said. “And we really are willing to use the most qualified organizations that have proved themselves in the building of the first Belarusian nuclear power plant,” he said.

He added that this would include building plants in third countries as well as Russia.

“We already have 22 blocks contracted out throughout the world in our portfolio currently,” he said.

A deal was recently signed with Hungary and tenders were won for construction of reactors in Finland and Jordan. “

Voice of Russia, Interfax
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_20/Russias-Rosatom-may-use-Belarusian-companies-to-build-nuclear-power-plants-7042/

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