I grew up most of my life, having been fortunate enough to skirt by with no major tragedy. My parents were still alive, I barely knew my grandparents. Hell, the worse pain I felt was the death of my family dog, Turk. I loved that dog; I still think of the early morning and late nights, I spent with him, pretending he understood my teenage angst as he laid on my bed. I was a good Christian; raised to believe that God was there to protect me, and for the most part, I believed it. Why else would I live so long with no major heartbreak. All that being said, I think it really puts into perspective the events of the night. My daughter Madeline was out with her friends, eating something I’m sure I will see on my bank statement tomorrow. We try to …show more content…
I quickly thought, who would be calling our home phone at this time? It’s definitely too late for any family or friends, and if it was Maddie, she would’ve reached us on our cellphone. I began to worry, it rang twice before either of us acknowledged it out loud. Ted wanted me to forget it, but I knew this wasn’t an ordinary call. I reach for the phone, ignoring my horny husband in the background and answered. Castle Bravo did more than destroy aquatic life, the island of Rongelap resided 115 miles east from ground zero of the explosion. Tiny particles of debris, carried over hundreds of miles by winds, rained down on this island. Two days after the explosion, the island was fully evacuated. Even so, thousands of inhabitants were suffering from late staged of radiation poisoning. Do you know what death by radiation poisoning is like? Some say it’s the worst way to die, slow and agonizing. Those that did not die, returned 3 years later, only having to leave again because the site was still unsafe. All this to say, even if you survive the initial blast, the fallout will still get you. “Hello?” I sheepishly stated. “Yes, is this the mother of a Madeline Biehn? There’s been an accident; your daughter Madeline was hit by an automobile, she’s currently in
The engineers in Visit Sunny Chernobyl created a new frontier past the safety zone because they want to test the limits of the reactor. What the scientists didn’t account for is that fact that the reactors already had the potential of a dangerous chain reaction. (Blackwell 6) Consequently, their boundary destroying led to catastrophic consequences and the total annihilation of a land area because of massive radiation. Blackwell thought Chernobyl was so horrific he expressed that no one should visit without a “working understanding of radiation and how it’s measured” (Blackwell 7). These are some horrific consequences that followed from surpassing the
Katie tries calling her daughter Polly to see if it was her but polly is perfectly fine at college. “Pol? Honey? Are you alright?”pg.796. She then tries to call her mother to see if it was her, Katie knows that whoever called is apart of her family. Katie hangs up and calls her sister Dawn but she doesn't pick up. Katie's husband Bill drives her out to Dawn’s to see if she is okay, She turns out to be sleeping on the couch with the music blaring. That night Bill dies of a heart attack while watching a movie based on his book. Five years later Katie remarries, she’s down stairs and bill’s movie comes on. She falls and turns off the television, she hears the phone buzzing then realized something. The women she heard over the phone five years ago was herself saying take Bill to the hospital “Take...please take...t-t-” P.807.
It all began with a simple phone call one night after dinner. “Joe,” my father hollered up the stairs, “it’s for you. It’s Jackie and she sounds upset .” As I came down stairs to pick up the phone, I was not happy. I was tired and had looked forward to a nice evening at home, not another stupid adventure with Jackie.
Hopefully, with accurate analysis and innovation, my research will teach the world of its past so this disaster doesn’t occur in the future. B - Summary of Evidence Chernobyl (chrn byl) is an uninhibited city in north Ukraine, near the Belarus boundary, on the Pripyat River. Ten miles to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear powerstation, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history ("Chernobyl", Columbia Encyclopedia). To specify, on April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Ukraine, injuring human immune systems and the genetic structure of cells, contaminating soils and waterways. Nearly 7 tons of irradiated reactor fuel was released into the environment—roughly 340 million curies.
Chernobyl was the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century. On April 26th, 1986, one of four nuclear reactors located in the Soviet Union melted down and contaminated a vast area of Eastern Europe. The meltdown, a result of human error, lapsed safety precautions, and lack of a containment vessel, was barely contained by dropping sand and releasing huge amounts of deadly radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere. The resulting contamination killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people and devastated the environment. The affects of this accident are still being felt today and will be felt for generations to come.
In April 1986, The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor melted down and virtually exploded releasing a huge quantity of radiation, covering the western region of the Soviet Union in nuclear fallout. The Soviet Government immediately had to evacuate the civilians in the now contaminated areas around Chernobyl. The entire city of Pripyat numbering about 45000 people were evacuated and relocated the very next day after the explosion. “By 14 May, some 116,000 people that had been living within a 30-kilometre radius had been evacuated and later relocated” (World Nuclear Association). All in all, numbers into the millions were affected by the Chernobyl reactor explosion, whether it was direct contact with high doses of radiation as one of the 1000 firefighters who were first on the scene to the children of men who worked and lived in the city of Pripyat. Thousands to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated never see their homes again and unknowingly leaving the wasteland to return to its natural state.
Flanary, W. (2008). Environment effects of the Chernobyl accident. Retrieved November 1st, 2013 from /http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152617
One of the short-term effects was that they had so many people injured and people who had passed away in the flames of the furious Atomic Bomb. The amount of people killed during the bomb was the amount of 80,000 people; the amou...
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... would not be necessary, sealing the pre-determined fate of generations to come. Winds about the altitude of 17,000 feet blew fallout full of radioactive particles to the inhabited areas. The Rongelap Atoll suffered the most. There were 64 people living on the atoll and received no warning or explanations from the United States (Niendenthal). Here they experienced anorexia, nausea, and diarrhea all in the first 24 to 78 hours after immediate exposure. After weeks of exposure, many islanders developed lesions and loss of hair (Simon ##). Not only did this testing ruin the Bikini culture, the numerous mistakes the U.S made affected another innocent atoll. The decision to go on with this detonation, even if America knew the resulted factor could have occurred; they have successfully destroyed a culture and create a heavy genetic cloud on top of the next generations.
On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb to be dropped on a city destroyed Hiroshima, Japan and its people. Mr. Tanimoto, the pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, was uninjured and with the help of Father Kleinsorge, a Jesuit priest, they managed to get people to safety at Asano Park a private estate on the outskirts of town. They consoled the wounded and also brought water for those who needed it from the river. Among those that were ill from the radiation of the bomb in Asano Park was Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, and her children. Miss Toshinki Sasaki, a young clerk, is suffering from a leg fracture and won’t be treated until weeks after the explosion. Dr. Masakazu Fuji, a physician, is unable to aid anyone else after the bombing due to his minor injuries when he fell into the river and was squeezed between two large timbers. On the other hand, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young surgeon, remains the only uninjured doctor in the Red Cross Hospital and tends to the wounded, unable to leave his spot and or get rest for months after the explosion. Weeks after the bombing Japan begin to rebuild its city, but a new terror strikes: radiation sickness. The victims of the radiation sickness, such as Mrs. Nakamura us...
A long day, as Sunday always seemed, was coming to an end. BA and Liz were preparing for bed, when a call came. A glance at his watch, which read 10:30 brought disgust. "Who could it be at this hour? Couldn’t I pretend we aren't home and let the answering machine pick up?"
“We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for hours; I’m afraid I have some bad news your mother had a car accident and unfortunately died…”
Once upon a time, I saw the world like I thought everyone should see it, the way I thought the world should be. I saw a place where there were endless trials, where you could try again and again, to do the things that you really meant to do. But it was Jeffy that changed all of that for me. If you break a pencil in half, no matter how much tape you try to put on it, it'll never be the same pencil again. Second chances were always second chances. No matter what you did the next time, the first time would always be there, and you could never erase that. There were so many pencils that I never meant to break, so many things I wish I had never said, wish I had never done. Most of them were small, little things, things that you could try to glue back together, and that would be good enough. Some of them were different though, when you broke the pencil, the lead inside it fell out, and broke too, so that no matter which way you tried to arrange it, they would never fit together and become whole again. Jeff would have thought so too. For he was the one that made me see what the world really was. He made the world into a fairy tale, but only where your happy endings were what you had to make, what you had to become to write the words, happily ever after. But ever since I was three, I remember wishing I knew what the real story was.