I remember Chernobyl: I was 38 when it happened

I'm thinking it is one of the main reasons that the Ukraine is now separate from the Soviet Union because people in the Ukraine and all over Russia were very upset about this. This one incident alone is why the Soviet Union Collapsed according to some people around the world because the Russian people (and everyone on earth) lost any faith they had in the Soviet Union to protect anyone from anything after this accident.

I remember many Russians and Ukrainians dying and sacrificing themselves to die by volunteering to work on covering up reactor number 4 with layers and layers of cement which is the best you could do then or likely now either.

For months it wasn't safe to drink milk anywhere on earth because the radiation circled the world and deposited itself on grass and hay that cows ate and then concentrated into their flesh and milk. So, you couldn't safely drink milk for weeks or months as the radiation circled the whole world. Still to this day it isn't safe to eat wild Boar in many places in Europe or the Ukraine because the radiation is still so concentrated into the flesh of wild boars to this day.

But, mostly I remember the human cost of the all the deaths of people trying to prevent the radiation from spreading around the Ukraine or further around the Soviet Union then. And most of these volunteers applying layer after layer of cement like Soldiers eventually died from radiation poisoning by trying to save the lives of other Ukrainians like their wives and children and relatives from dying and suffering from radiation poisoning.

So, in some ways this was the most awful nuclear incident on earth until Fukushima which is far far worse in the long run because it is contaminating all oceans of the earth because of the three meltdowns there and the ground water at
Fukushima flowing forever into the sea in an unstoppable way carrying for the next 25,000 to 50,000 years the radiation of the meltdowns into the oceans of the world.

Because one of the three reactors at Fukushima was reprocessing Nuclear Weapons Grade Plutonium which has a half life of 25,000 years. So, it won't even reach it's half life until 25,000 years from now at Fukushima.

However, anywhere near Chernobyl that shares the water sources there likely is permanently radiated and affected if the underground rivers flow under Chernobyl to those locations whether known or unknown by man near or far from Chernobyl.