hegbork

I have a personal interest in part of the Chernobyl story that I haven't seen explored properly. I found out about Chernobyl from my father who at the time was working at a nuclear research facility outside of Warsaw. They thought something had gone wrong in their facility. Anyway. A day later or maybe more, they dragged everyone in school into the gym and gave us something disgusting to drink. I remember that my stomach hurt, but I knew it was still a good thing because my father has explained a bit about iodine and thyroid.

Poland was the only country to quickly distribute iodine to all kids. From what I heard this also meant that the thyroid cancer rate was pretty much normal or just slightly elevated in Poland while everyone else around us fared much worse. Apparently the decision to do this was made by the government (or central committee of the party or whoever) immediately when they found out about the accident. The Soviet Union didn't do it until a month later when it was far too late.

What I wonder. Have you heard anything about this part of the story?

I mostly wonder how the hell Poland pulled it off. The official story is that they had a stockpile of Lugol's Iodine for decontaminating water and used that. This just doesn't add up. I've tried to find sources about water purification with iodine on an industrial scale and the only stuff I can find is for hikers (I prefer filtering) and home stuff. As far as I could figure out Poland didn't do it before nor after. Then comes the small matter of organizing logistics of distributing 10-15 million drinks (at least that's the number cited for number of kids who got the iodine) to all tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of schools, kindergartens and other places. In a matter of a day or two. We had a shortages of daily necessities because they couldn't figure out the logistics of them, it would be hard to convince me that a government that can't figure out how much toilet paper a population will use in a year suddenly overnight improvises a logistics solution at this scale. My guess is that this was something that was prepared in case of war since the government knew we'd be nuked and they were actually pretty serious about protecting civilians. And you don't want the people to know that the government was preparing to be nuked.

There was a question a bit up there, basically, have to talked to someone about this? Have you heard/read anything?

Nuclear fallout all over mainland Europe.

Oh, please. Nevada Test Site is 100km from Las Vegas and there's been almost 1000 nukes blown up there, 100 of them above ground.

regulation is state of the art

cladding tests are failing 100%

Regulation without enforcement is just words on paper. Elaborate wishful thinking. I wouldn't call it "state of the art".

upgrade to solar: we will be able to generate 24/7 clean and cheap electricity

Eeeh. How are you planning to make solar generate electricity 24/7? Especially that bit about 24. One of the main points of your film was that they didn't have sun 24 hours a day.