Viva Chernobyl
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On April 26, 1986 ( I was one year young) a series of explosions destroyed in the building that housed something called Energy Block # 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station. The catastrophe at Chernobyl became the largest technological disaster of the twentieth century. As a result of the perpetual presence of small doses of radiation, the number of people with cancer, mental retardation, neurological disorders and genetic mutations increase with each year. Among the demographic factors responsible for the depopulation of Belarus (the shortest route between Moscow and the polish border), radiation is number one. In Gomel and Mogilev regions, which suffered the most from Chernobyl, a mortality rate exceeds birth by 20%. ”Chernobyl”- Belaruska entsiklopedia Viva Chernobyl Such power, we brandish Lulling on, only our finger tips We wrap it around our dreams, of giant machines and uranium a breeze blows in knowing , singing, false securities for we have already tried to harness its untamable energy with blades of metal they swing ominously in the fields across the horizon we pretend, not to be pretentious as the other foot drops like the dirty rain a simple mistake, an arrogant assumption. Save us, Save us from this. So this is the time We close our blind eyes Because we cannot hide From the pungent air we breathe Something is trying to burn us inside And we must have felt it The modest soil shudder Under the weight of what has become We learn, So very well We snub, The people whose skin Dissolved like ash The beautiful babies born To suffer To surrender. We drink merlot Like we drink our gasoline Push water around With wheels and walls And live shrouded in light We thrive still one our Brilliant machines Our little bullets Waiting, Rusting, In the cold chamber. Nuclear power plants provide about 17 percent of the world's electricity. Some countries depend more on nuclear power for electricity than others. In France, for instance, about 75 percent of the electricity is generated from nuclear power, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. In the United States, nuclear power supplies about 15 percent of the electricity overall, but some states get more power from nuclear plants than others. There are more than 400 nuclear power plants around the world, with more than 100 in the United States.

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