The pictures are real. There is no valid compariso
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WTF do you imagine happens to the radiation?
Why don't you just post your nonsense to someone with the same level of education as you demonstrate in your posts?
It's obvious that you haven't learned to think things through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
Thee were no hurricane velocity winds in Europe during the Chernobyl disaster.
Spread of radioactive substances
Main article: Effects of the Chernobyl disaster
Although no informing comparisons can be made between the accident and a strictly air burst-fuzed nuclear detonation, it has still been approximated that about four hundred times more radioactive material was released from Chernobyl than by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By contrast the Chernobyl accident released about one hundredth to one thousandth of the total amount of radioactivity released during the era of nuclear weapons testing at the height of the Cold War, 1950–1960s, with the 1/100 to 1/1000 variance due to trying to make comparisons with different spectrums of isotopes released.[112]
Approximately 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi) of land was significantly contaminated with fallout, with the worst hit regions being in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.[113] Slighter levels of contamination were detected over all of Europe except for the Iberian Peninsula.[114][115][116]
The initial evidence that a major release of radioactive material was affecting other countries came not from Soviet sources, but from Sweden. On the morning of 28 April,[117] workers at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant (approximately 1,100 km (680 mi) from the Chernobyl site) were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes.[118]
It was Sweden's search for the source of radioactivity, after they had determined there was no leak at the Swedish plant, that at noon on 28 April, led to the first hint of a serious nuclear problem in the western Soviet Union. Hence the evacuation of Pripyat on 27 April, 36 hours after the initial explosions, was silently completed before the disaster became known outside the Soviet Union. The rise in radiation levels had at that time already been measured in Finland, but a civil service strike delayed the response and publication.[119]
Areas of Europe contaminated with 137Cs[120]
Country
37–185 kBq/m2
185–555 kBq/m2
555–1,480 kBq/m2
> 1,480 kBq/m2
km2 % of country
Belarus 29,900 14.4 10,200 4.9 4,200 2.0 2,200 1.1
Ukraine 37,200 6.2 3,200 0.53 900 0.15 600 0.1
Russia 49,800 0.29 5,700 0.03 2,100 0.01 300 0.002
Sweden 12,000 2.7 — — — — — —
Finland 11,500 3.4 — — — — — —
Austria 8,600 10.3 — — — — — —
Norway 5,200 1.3 — — — — — —
Bulgaria 4,800 4.3 — — — — — —
Switzerland 1,300 3.1 — — — — — —
Greece 1,200 0.91 — — — — — —
Slovenia 300 1.5 — — — — — —
Italy 300 0.1 — — — — — —
Moldova 60 0.2 — — — — — —
Totals
162,160 km2
19,100 km2
7,200 km2
3,100 km2
Contamination from the Chernobyl accident was scattered irregularly depending on weather conditions, much of it deposited on mountainous regions such as the Alps, the Welsh mountains and the Scottish Highlands, where adiabatic cooling caused radioactive rainfall.
The resulting patches of contamination were often highly localized, and water-flows across the ground contributed further to large variations in radioactivity over small areas.
Sweden and Norway also received heavy fallout when the contaminated air collided with a cold front, bringing rain.[121]:43–44, 78 There was also groundwater contamination.
Rain was purposely seeded over 10,000 square kilometres (3,900 sq mi) of the Belorussian SSR by the Soviet air force to remove radioactive particles from clouds heading toward highly populated areas.
Heavy, black-coloured rain fell on the city of Gomel.[122] Reports from Soviet and Western scientists indicate that Belarus received about 60% of the contamination that fell on the former Soviet Union.
However, the 2006 TORCH report stated that half of the volatile particles had landed outside Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. A large area in Russia south of Bryansk was also contaminated, as were parts of northwestern Ukraine. Studies in surrounding countries indicate that more than one million people could have been affected by radiation.[123]
Recently published data from a long-term monitoring program (The Korma Report II)[124] shows a decrease in internal radiation exposure of the inhabitants of a region in Belarus close to Gomel. Resettlement may even be possible in prohibited areas provided that people comply with appropriate dietary rules.
In Western Europe, precautionary measures taken in response to the radiation included seemingly arbitrary regulations banning the importation of certain foods but not others. In France officials stated that the Chernobyl accident had no adverse effects.[125][incomplete short citation]