On: Radiation spikes in Chernobyl

[jaywalk]

All reactors at Chernobyl have been shutdown since 2000. I have been amazed lately at how many people are unaware of this and think Chernobyl is still an operating nuclear power plant.

[blablabla123 → jaywalk]

It's quite crazy though that they left it running for 14 years after making the area around it inhabitable and causing fallout over whole Europe

[jaywalk → blablabla123]

It is pretty crazy. I would assume that they really needed the energy it was producing, although I admit that I don't have much further knowledge on the topic.

[vlovich123 → jaywalk]

I had the opposite perception and thought no reactors were active since the explosion.

[brimble → vlovich123]

It was long one of those "surprising fact" sorts of things.

[netsharc → jaywalk]

A few weeks ago there's a cartoon where a guy sits in front a computer, and a speech bubble above him says "After 2 years of being an epidemiological expert, I am now a geo-political expert."...