#disater

[memenewsdotcom]

Trump visits Asheville, says FEMA may 'go away'

Trump visits Asheville, says FEMA may 'go away'

[don-simon]

Hiraeth

Welsh word that means 'longing for a place or state of being to which there is no return'.

First heard by author Lucy Easthope when researching the Aberfan tragedy in Wales in which 144 people after a colliery spoil tip collapsed.

"Disaster is perpetual, chronic, with a pain that ebbs and flows like tides."

[goodenwsmarathi]

raigad : इर्शाळवाडीवर दरड कोसळली !! ५० ते ६० घर दरडीखाली (सविस्तर वाचा)

raigad : इर्शाळवाडीवर दरड कोसळली !! ५० ते ६० घर दरडीखाली (सविस्तर वाचा) raigad

[yodar-smith-1982]

BURNED THE BRISKET!

[scienceneighbour]

Powerful storm in France cuts electricity to 250,000 homes|ScienceNeighbour - Science neighbour

The Aurore storm hit a lot of France’s north. Greater than 250,000 properties in France had been with out electrical energy on Thursday after gale-force winds swept the north of the nation in a single day, energy grid operator Enedis stated. Rail visitors was additionally affected by storm “Aurore”, which has been inflicting devastation […]

[not3toddlersinatrenchcoat]

*with tears streaming down my face* Please God I know I said I wanted to live in historic times but not like this 

[glocalrover]

A stricken ship off the coast of Mauritius and about 1,000 metric tons of oil into a pristine Indian Ocean lagoon could be about to break in two, experts fear -- spelling disaster for the ecologically rich area. 📷@willowrivertonkin #nature #disater #oilspill #eco #ecosystem (at Mauritius) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDv_Hq-D9zo/?igshid=1i3qpi4u43kd3

[arcangelo-scattaglia]

The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. It is one of only two nuclear disasters rated as INES 7, the maximum severity classification.

The accident started during a safety test on a common Soviet reactor, the RBMK type. The test was a simulation of an electrical power outage to aid the development of a safety procedure for keeping reactor cooling water circulating until the emergency generators could provide power. This gap was about one minute and had been identified as a potential safety problem which could cause reactor core overheating. Three such tests had been conducted since 1982 but had failed to provide a solution. On this fourth attempt the test was delayed by ten hours, so the operating shift that had been prepared was not present. The test supervisor then failed to follow the procedure, creating unstable operating conditions which, combined with inherent RBMK reactor design flaws and the intentional disabling of several emergency safety systems, resulted in an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.

A very large amount of energy was suddenly released vapourising superheated cooling water and rupturing the reactor pressure vessel in a highly destructive steam explosion. This was immediately followed by an open-air reactor core fire. The core fire released considerable airborne radioactive contamination for about nine days which precipitated onto parts of the USSR and western Europe, before being finally contained on 4 May 1986. The radioactive contamination dispersed over this period was approximately the same amount as that released during the initial explosion. Thirty-six hours after the accident, a 10-kilometre exclusion zone was created, with the rapid evacuation of 49,000 people, primarily from Pripyat, and this was increased from 10 to 30 km shortly after when a further 68,000 persons were evacuated, including from the town of Chernobyl itself.