Qu’est-ce que la zone d’exclusion de Tchernob...

Vous connaissez cette personne qui vous tape sur les doigts si vous avez le malheur de poser le pain à l'envers ? C'est la même qui crie "Dans les yeux !" quand elle trinque. On ne peut pas vraiment lui en vouloir, le pain en France est comme le fromage et le vin : sacré ! Il exi ...  Show more

Au Japon, la propreté est culturelle et synonyme de bien-être. On l’associe à l’influence du shintoïsme, la religion la plus ancienne du pays. Et si aujourd’hui, le nombre de croyants est en baisse constante, la philosophie et la culture shinto sont toujours largement appliquées ...  Show more

NOTE: IN THE PORTION WHERE I EXPLAIN NUCLEAR FISSION, I MIX UP NUCLEI AND NEUTRON! I realised this post editing but I think it generally makes sense, but when I explain how the nuclei is hit, I say it releases a nuclei, it actually releases a neutron, the neutron then hits the ne ...  Show more

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode I discuss the the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster in which the reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant suffered a full meltdown and explosion resulting in the worst nuc ...  Show more

In 1986, the Chernobyl power plant became the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history. Poisonous radiation caused over 100,000 casualties, and cost billions of dollars to clean up. Even now, the exclusion zone is one of the most polluted and heavily-patrolled regions in the ...  Show more

In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR, causing the worst nuclear accident ever. Sergii Mirnyi was in charge of a monitoring unit which measured radiation levels in the 30 km exclusion zone around the plant.(Photo: The Cherno ...  Show more