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ruzmaira (63)in Popular STEM • 3 years ago

^{‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl}

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog, today I want to talk to you about something that worries me is something that is happening in Chernobyl and not only I worry a lot of people too, today I am going to explain point by point what is happening in Chernobyl and whether it is worrisome or not.

On April 26, 1986, that one of the four reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant currently located in Ukraine exploded, it was not possible to contain it certainly and all the radioactive content was thrown around, also seeing large radioactive material in the basement of the central, it was the beginning of a disaster that would be understood for decades to be one of the worst accident of a nuclear power plant in history the surrounding population was evacuated due to the contamination that spread through Europe and the vicinity of 142,000 square kilometers were contaminated .

The nearby cities became ghost cities and it had already been 35 years and everything more or less had returned to normal although recently there was a fire but it never reached the nuclear plant and it was not so worrying, currently the animals there have a wild behavior although according to some reports the animals were returning to normal as the years passed.

^{Fusión nuclear}

But recently something strange has just been reported and it is that in the inaccessible basements of the Chernobyl nuclear plant nuclear reactions are apparently taking place, you may be wondering. With these it will be possible after many years? According to scientists, they were checking the place and they detected neutron elements in the chernobyl cellars in particular where the 305/2 isolated sub reactor room is located, it is a clear sign that nuclear fusion is taking place and it is an increase in neutrons that has been increasing since 2016 and it is estimated that it has increased by 40% to date, which is worrying. Neil Hyatt from the University of Sheffield said:

It is like the embers in a barbecue pit it is a reminder to us that these are not a solved problem

So we don't ask again how could these happen? After 35 years, apparently it was due to a chain of events, although there are many doubts what you know is that the uranium fuel, plutonium radioactively decays, emits neutrons that can promote a fiction reaction if these neutrons are captured by another radioactive nucleus. The large containment sarcophagus that had been placed in the past was not perfect at all and water was filtered for the plant, that water sometimes causes the basements to divide and increase the neutrons.

In previous years these were avoided by using special liquids that absolved neutrons, but in 2016 the containment facilities were improved and the silver inside dried up causing the fuel to dry out as well and these have done something strange, instead of decreasing or at least stabilized the neutrons, these increased, so to speak, they became more effective to chain these nuclear reactions.

Scientists fight and are not entirely clear why these happen, that is, neutron levels increase when they should not and all these should not be good for us, at this point we already know how the media is, but in In reality, what happened in 1986 is not going to happen again, that the plant explodes again and imitates a radiation that is potentially dangerous for Europe, in my opinion that I do not think everything will happen because the fission rate is very low When much will affect the facilities, the area is more polluted and reactions could even take place there and tear down some walls or rooms but surely these will not happen on a large scale.

Conclusión

In any case, these is worrying because they were not expected to happen and it is also happening in a place that is isolated, that is, it is inaccessible, the place cannot be entered, it is happening down there in the basement and it has been detected from outside and You cannot pass the case that if these continue to increase, the only solution is to send a robot that resists radiation and that pierces the walls, that tries to enter that place and that installs bars of material that absorb these neutrons, all these would be the case that these go to greater consequences, but for now you have to be attentive to what happens later.