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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nTHE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL\nby Thomas Johnson\n\nThis is the film 
 that describes the Chernobyl catastrophe most thoroughly.  Chernobyl was 
 the most significant nuclear reactor failure in the history of nuclear 
 power, to date.  Thursday, April 26, 1986, was the momentous day when one 
 of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine 
 exploded.  The nuclear plant, just 20 km away from the town center, was 
 made up of four reactor units each generating an output of 1,000 megawatts. 
  The reactor in question exploded due to operational errors and inadequate 
 safety measures and the meltdown was directly linked to routine testing on 
 the reactor unit’s turbine generators.  The test required reactor 
 activity and the thermal reactor output to be run down to a lower level.  
 During the procedure, however, the reactor plummeted to an unexpectedly low 
 and unstable level of activity.  At this point, it should have been shut 
 down.  But the operators chose to continue with the test, and subsequent 
 events proved to be catastrophic.\n\nMore than 200 people died or were 
 seriously injured by radiation exposure immediately after the explosion.  
 161,000 people had to be evacuated from a 30 kilometer radius of the 
 reactor and 25,000 square km of land were contaminated.  As time went on 
 millions of people suffered radiation related health problems such as 
 leukemia and thyroid cancer and around one million people have died as a 
 result of the long-term effects of the accident.   Forth percent of the 
 European land mass has been devastated by radiation.  Nobody was prepared 
 for such a crisis.  For the next seven months, 500,000 men waged 
 hand-to-hand combat with an invisible enemy – a ruthless battle that has 
 gone unsung, claiming thousands of unnamed and now almost forgotten heroes. 
  Yet, it is thanks to these men that the worst was avoided:  a second 
 explosion, ten times more powerful than Hiroshima, would have wiped out 
 more than half of Europe.  This was kept secret for twenty years by the 
 Soviets and the West alike.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  
 411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/27/18678166.php
SUMMARY:The Battle of Chernobyl
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/27/18678166.php
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