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yaesu

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6. I've been watching Chernobyl on HBO & I remember quite well when that happened
Fri May 24, 2019, 12:50 PM
May 2019

it was releasing the amount of radiation equivalent to almost 2 Hiroshima type bombs every hour for days. They had 48 hrs to pump out water in tanks below the core or it would have completely destroyed the surrounding area with a blast of several megatons, left Eastern Europe uninhabitable for hundreds of years. It is still trying to be controlled decades later. It is a very dangerous form of energy when things go wrong & they do.

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