"chernobyl-heart" hbo documentary

[GODOFSNUS]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/chernobyl-heart/

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history occurred when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, releasing 90 times the radioactivity of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sixteen years later, award-winning filmmaker Maryann De Leo took her camera to ground zero, following the devastating trail radiation leaves behind in hospitals, orphanages, mental asylums and evacuated villages. The Academy Award®-winning documentary short debuts immediately after the America Undercover special “Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable”.
Following Adi Roche, founder of Ireland’s Chernobyl Children’s Project, CHERNOBYL HEART opens in the exclusion zone, the most radioactive environment on earth. From there, Roche travels to Belarus, home to many of the children she seeks to aid. The film reveals those hardest hit by radiation, including thyroid cancer patients and children suffering from unfathomable congenital birth and heart defects.
Despite the fact that 99% of Belarus is contaminated with radioactive material, many people refuse to leave their homes behind. Asked why he would not move, the father of a radiation victim replies, “To leave the motherland where you were born and raised, where your soul is connected to the earth – I would not want to. To move to a new place is difficult, especially in terms of a job in Belarus and abroad.”
In Belarus, only 15-20% of babies are born healthy. Roche comforts children who are born with multiple holes in their heart, a condition known in Belarus as “Chernobyl heart.” A lucky few will have their heart problems fixed by Dr. William Novick, who heads the International Children’s Heart Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children with congenital or acquired heart disease in developing countries throughout the world. After saving the life of a young girl suffering from Chernobyl heart and being humbled by her parents’ gratitude, Dr. Novick affirms, “I appreciate this is a bit of a miracle for them…but we have a certain responsibility to these kids.”

[precious007]

Thanks for sharing this :^)

[Premium Parrots]

yea thanks. I watched the whole thing. some humans suck, some humans are heros.


just sayin

[precious007]

me too, the video is pretty sad, but that's the plain truth about chernobyl, sadly the kids are the ones that are the most affected, thanks to the Americans that have given a hand there....

Ukraine is a poor country like most in the Eastern Europe.... here's a link for donations maybe you can spare a buck or two for these kids

http://www.chernobylchildren.ie/

[deadohsky]

You're a good guy to have around, GODOFSNUS. Posting some very good documentaries. Thanks.

[sgreger1]

You're a good guy to have around, GODOFSNUS. Posting some very good documentaries. Thanks.

Yah i'm loving these links. Giving me something to watch at night lol. I saw "the battle for chernobyle" on live leak the other day. Man, what a weird time that must have been for everyone there, especially given how little the general public knew about nuclear stuff in those days. And I love how the Russians didn't even say anythign about the meltdown till people in JudgeFaust's home country (Belarus) started getting sick lol.

[precious007]

Yah i'm loving these links. Giving me something to watch at night lol. I saw "the battle for chernobyle" on live leak the other day. Man, what a weird time that must have been for everyone there, especially given how little the general public knew about nuclear stuff in those days. And I love how the Russians didn't even say anythign about the meltdown till people in JudgeFaust's home country (Belarus) started getting sick lol.

there's nothing more relaxing than a good documentary :^)

I watched the Construction and history of the Eiffel Tower yesterday, not sure where to find it online ............

[Frosted]

The biorobots should never have been sent in. The radiation was wayyy too high, in fact the radiation was silly, and they only managed to reduce the radiation by 30% I think? There's a hell of a lot of people with life time problems until an early death. That's a heavy heavy price. Seeing those guys on the roof is eery.

[truthwolf1]

I have not watched this video yet but have become a little more weary like the Germans about nuclear power.

[sgreger1]

I have not watched this video yet but have become a little more weary like the Germans about nuclear power.

Just remember that it's still safer than anything else we have. Even the worst nuclear meltdown is safer than coal and oil. Even chernobyle happening 5 more times would have less of a negative impact.

Every reactor built in modern times seems to be just fine. Look at 3 mile island, no one even died. Look at Japan, a few people may get sick later on in life but all in all there were almost no casualties due to this accident, and anything that did happen was really more because fo the tsunamiand earthquakes than a nuclear power plant.


Riding a bike is dangerous too, you could fall down and possibly hurt yourself, but in theory not too bad. That's nuclear. Coal and oil are like skydiving without a parachute, damage is sure to occur every single time it's tried.

[Frosted]

I dunno whether or not it's safer - In Northern Ireland when I was growing up, we got zapped by the seascale reactor and got a hefty although quick zap from the Chernobyl fall out. I don't remember them banning milk either.

[truthwolf1]

Just remember that it's still safer than anything else we have. Even the worst nuclear meltdown is safer than coal and oil. Even chernobyle happening 5 more times would have less of a negative impact.

Every reactor built in modern times seems to be just fine. Look at 3 mile island, no one even died. Look at Japan, a few people may get sick later on in life but all in all there were almost no casualties due to this accident, and anything that did happen was really more because fo the tsunamiand earthquakes than a nuclear power plant.


Riding a bike is dangerous too, you could fall down and possibly hurt yourself, but in theory not too bad. That's nuclear. Coal and oil are like skydiving without a parachute, damage is sure to occur every single time it's tried.

I agree on many of your points like cleaner output but things like waste which never goes away (and many seedier countries who are dumping that stuff in the ocean), longterm fallout (cancer rates skyrocketing in just a half decade) and the unstableness of our earth these days which really makes me worry.

What if the same thing happens in Cali? or when this happens in Cali/Inner west. My confidence in human engineering verses nature goes to nature. This very will could end us one day.

[timholian]

Sgreger I think the plants in Japan are some of the oldest ones still active. I am more than sure that the plants we use here in the US are much more safe than Japan's.
There are new cars with airbags and older cars without..... Almost the same diff here

[precious007]

Riding a bike is dangerous too, you could fall down and possibly hurt yourself, but in theory not too bad.

Everything is dangerous if we look at it negatively, lol

I once jumped a fence (was 11) and had a double fracture

[sgreger1]

I agree on many of your points like cleaner output but things like waste which never goes away (and many seedier countries who are dumping that stuff in the ocean), longterm fallout (cancer rates skyrocketing in just a half decade) and the unstableness of our earth these days which really makes me worry.

What if the same thing happens in Cali? or when this happens in Cali/Inner west. My confidence in human engineering verses nature goes to nature. This very will could end us one day.

All valid point indeed, but in this life we must go with what works best. No we don't have a perfectly clean and risk-free way of making energy, therefore we have to use whatever most closely meets that definition.


*We can contain 100% of the waste byproduct and box it up. This alone puts it way ahead of coal or oil extraction, because those things just go straight out into the air. With nuclear, at least we can assemble it into a nice pile until we can figure out what to do with it. Nature has ways of neutralizing nuclear waste, we just have to figure out how to do that better. Still a much easier goal than figuring out how to make coal clean or oil. Technology will progress and soon we will find a way to deal with nuclear waste. Shooting it into space is where my vote is going.

*Natural disasters affect everything, not just nuclear plants. An earthquake or tsunami can easily affect a deep-sea drilling operation or even one on land, causing millions of gallons of oil to spew into the water. The fallout from a nuclear disaster caused by earthquakes is no different than the fallout from an oil disaster caused by earthquakes. Historically we can see that with nuclear power it at least takes an earthquake, with oil they routinely spil the shit out into the ocean in huge quantities even in the absence of any natural disasters to blame it on.

*Cancer doesn't just come from radiation, there is no way to tie the increase in cancer to nuclear power. It is in fact more likely that all of the coal and oil we burn is what increases cancer risk. It creates smog which people breathe and then get cancer from, and is present in every major city. So I don't believe nuclear power is what is causing cancer, scientifically there is little basis for this belief that 1 nuclear disaster is single handedly repsonsible for everyone's cancer problems.

*Planet Earth being unstable is a constant and is not local to any one geographic region or period of time. The earth is just always moving around. No matter what we build, there is a chance that natural disasters will break it.

I do think nuclear power carries inherent risks and should therefore be a highly regulated affair though. I think that regulation needs to be extremely tight, and we should be forcing anyone who wants to build a nuke facility to spend the absolute maximum amount of time and resources towards safety. Corporations will try to skimp on safety if the government doesn't stop them, and with something like nuclear power they need to be forced to do things safely. Regulation such as this is the reason why we don't really see nuclear accidents anymore except in the occasional freak disaster.