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Asked by anon-306760 on 16 Dec 2021.
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Luke Townsend answered on 14 Dec 2021:
I think it’s extremely challenging. Making the area safe for people, animals, and plants following the disaster has so many different things you need to consider so it’s tough to get right in any short space of time. I haven’t worked much on the Chernobyl disaster but I’m currently working on a project helping to understand and clean up the Fukushima disaster (Japan, 2011) and it’s really opened my eyes to how hugely complex these issues are.
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Helene Brett answered on 14 Dec 2021:
One thing I think is interesting and uplifting is how it brings different countries and industries together to help solve and this problem. Specialized robots have been developed and it has pushed humans to develop safe methods to clean up the site.
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Caroline Roche answered on 14 Dec 2021:
It’s an example of how science and technology can come together to work out the best solution and helps us learn so that we can plan for the future, hopefully prevent similar incidents.
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Kathryn Hutson answered on 14 Dec 2021:
Have a look at this – it’s a video of Spot the robot dog in Chernobyl!
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Rea Kozlowski answered on 16 Dec 2021:
Well.. we are not discussing the politics here – whole other topic – so, the measures taken back then when the event happened were the best according to the time. Nowadays, we think they could have done more back than. So we do the best possible to clean up but still getting to points we are limited with our knowledge.
The point is, we are saying “we are doing the best” but in the future it is likely that other technologies occur which are solving the issues totally differently, much better. It can be that they will say, what we do right now was not the best. So, as long as we are not ignoring new technologies and try to research the cleanup, we are improving.
There are some issues which need to be improved (contact with society about it, more transparency, these kinds of) but technologically it is still something new and let’s see what future brings. -
Chernobyl is a disaster, but we tried out best to reduce the loss. Currently this area is still a high-risk region, but we will learn from it and prevent similar disasters.
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Gavin Thomson answered on 17 Dec 2021:
I’m not sure I know too much about it first hand. Some of my colleagues have visited the exclusion zone. I haven’t but like many I’ve read much about it and saw the HBO series and am aware of some of the claims and counterclaims around health impacts and other matters.
There were clearly a series of tragic mistakes made around the event and the initial reaction.
In the UK we have an active timetable of incident response planning and preparation which includes rehearsing emergency incidents in what we call Exercises. This tests emergency plans and their implementation and keeps skills up to date.
They involve multiple organisations and are quite realistic in the pressure that they can apply on people. I have a role in the Environment Agency’s response and practice it regularly.
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