Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

@Fighterpilot555 - The guys that went in to scrape the bits of reactor core back into the reactor hall and other insanely dangerous things. They essentially know they would die - which is why it is amazing his grandfather is still alive. Some died within hours.
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In Florida there are gigantic lakes of industrial pollution that they have no way of processing. The companies were allowed to create the lakes and "store" the pollution until a "solution" was found. When the lakes were full all the companies declared bankrupt and the lakes are still there. As a BONUS the industrial spoil heaps the lakes are built with are radioactive. and the entire mess is not 30+ years old and starting to crumble. Dont think for one second that the west is any better at dealing with the problems of industrialisation...
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I WAS ONLY 5 when this happened - but I can still remember the news reports and the public enquiry afterwards... I remember the endless discussion about did he do it on purpose / but he had the money for his daughter's car with him.
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As an author and specialist on recovery from narcissistic abuse - the pendulum has swung WAY too far to the other side on this issue. Children need nurturing - they also need to grow up... Its a balance.
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NO ONE THOUGHT of building a train then - you know the simple low cost mass transit solution in use for 100 years at the point they built this monstrosity...??? WHY is America allergic to trains?
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@SeanHenrichs No they are not - the US experiments were far worse. They had nothing like the safety procedures the Russians were using. In one incident a guy was keeping the cores apart with a screwdriver - he died.
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You know America had 3 huge Criticality accidents causing multiple deaths right?
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Do all the officers in the US navy go to the same limited number of very expensive private schools where they learn to look after each other and others from those schools like they do over this side of the pond...???
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ALMOST NO PROCESS that involves a "bucket" is a good process...
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@SonofTheMorningStar666 - THAT is 100% believable... I mean the rest of the world is paying $8 to $12 a gallon for gas and America is subsidised down to $4 is it?? As if its cheaper to make gasoline and sell it than it is to bottle water and sell it... So YAEH the petrol companies deffo got their lobbying together.
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LOL - I was thinking the same...
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THAT was the single most surprising thing of the whole story.
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CAN YOU DO A VIDEO on the "Woodkirk Paraquat Spill" in the north of the UK - 1.5 Million litres of undiluted Paroquate [the worlds most toxic weedkiller] were spilt after a fire... IT FLOWED THROUGH MY GARDEN AS A CHILD in a river 20 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It killed horses in fields 30 miles away as it got into the local river. Absolutely NOTHING was done about it - the politicians told us it was safe and WE were the bad guys for making a fuss and lowering peoples house prices...!!!
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IT WAS MY MP not turning up to the house of commons that caused the vote of no confidence to go through and Thatcher to decimate the UK for the next decade...
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MY GRANDMOTHERS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR was the oil field manager at the time of the disaster... He was not responsible, yet he knew the men who died - it destroyed his life the poor guy.
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Well - that and gravity.
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CAN I JUST POINT OUT For all the horrific failures - they evacuated an entire city in 3 hours...
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I would DEFFO get my finger caught in the gap
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@congruentcrib - Im not saying that is not true - but as the sky itself was literally glowing as the ionising radiation was bombarding it - you would have to be pretty dense to not work out that something was very seriously wrong. The air itself is emitting light - thats deffo not normal. Im pretty sure anyone can work out "nuclear powerplant has exploded" + "the sky its self is emitting light" = BAD
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@congruentcrib - I totally agree - but if the air its self is literally fluorescing it must give you some idea
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@joshuabryk4316 AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA yes of course - whatever you say. OUPS - QUOTE "report published by members of the Russian Academy of Sciences indicates that there could have been as many as 830,000 people in the Chernobyl clean-up teams. They estimated that between 112,000 and 125,000 of these – around 15% – had died by 2005"
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@OliverFlinn I didn't know that - i thought it was just the clean-up guys called liquidators.
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@OliverFlinn I know there were miners digging tunnels to get under the core to flood it with water I believe.
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@OliverFlinn AH right I knew it involved miners and water. Its a subject I should know more about - but dont...
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