Yes, Raze you right. I had a good friend of our family, he was military, who went through all this. All this happened thanks to people foolishness and wish to beat some plan (remember Soviet planning system).
And even more Raze. After the meltdown and after the reactor blown up there were even more fatal mistakes done. Hehe, I doubt anyone will tell you this.
1 after explosion they started to cover it with water from helicopters to stop fires. This caused thousands of gallons of steam to occur. That was nr 1 reason for radioactive clouds that reached almost Finland and Norway. (No water is allowed in this cased, only sand)
2 That was a day of huge demonstration in Kiev. No any info on this accident was given out and demonstration not stopped.
(I remember I have got information on what happened from finnish TV news. Finns were crying out that something terrible happened and radiation level in Finland in many times higher than normal)
So, people were not evacuated from region.
3 First 2-3 waves (maybe more) of people taking measures after explosion havent even weared a raspirators - result - all dead.
Some locals didn't leave the region as they had nowhere to go, many died, survivors live there even now.
Just to share info.
Btw, all that including what Raze have written was classified for many years. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
