Well, let's compare two incidents, the first was the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in April 1986 and the second related to an explosion of a nuclear character that occurred only a few days ago in Akinsk's Northwestern Armory during a test test of a new Russian missile, but not complicated This comparison about the severity of the event or the degree of its impact on people medically, but compared the two events with the presence of the Internet and social media, the first occurred in a period when you could not receive, at home, one information about him, and the second happened at the height of our communication development, is there a difference Clear?
At first glance it will start with a short answer, yes, don't you see that? The news is everywhere, in the 1980s everything was obscured, but now the news is spread on social media and everyone is talking about the crisis. Do you know that the red twilight that happened a few days ago is directly related to this incident? It has come to the point that some media celebrities say there is a danger to us here in the Arab world from that explosion, and some advise that we start looking for bunkers, have they told you that the Russians have distributed hundreds of thousands of iodine tablets to citizens in Neighboring cities lest they get thyroid cancer?
Artificial risks
No, in fact, (1) Russians did not distribute iodine tablets to the residents of the neighboring city of the explosion, which contains 185 thousand people, but what really happened is that the spread of news of this explosion, and what the people of the city saw and heard his voice, has aroused terror in their hearts so they gathered pills Iodine from pharmacies and use them for fear that the explosion has leaked nuclear radiation, which may harm their health and the health of their children, but to say that the impact of this radiation explosion can cross countries to your home, it takes a pause.
When we talk about the effect of radiation on living matter, your body, tree and pet cat in the next room, we should start by recognizing Sievert, a unit equivalent to the radiation that the body can absorb, also named after Rolf Zevert, A Swedish scientist who was a physicist and a physician at the same time, and that unit is used mainly to clarify the criteria of danger or radiation safety, to understand it can eat one banana, but what is the relationship of bananas to radiation from a nuclear explosion?
In fact, the banana equivalent dose is called the amount of ionizing radiation from a single banana, estimated at 0.1 زS, where iodine naturally contains the radioactive potassium 40. Just educationally, it does not mean that radiation will accumulate in your body to large values if you eat bananas consistently.The purpose is to inform people that the body's exposure to radiation may be harmless, it is present anywhere, but the problem is always in the dose of radiation.
In fact, many do not know that humans are naturally exposed to radiation due to cosmic rays coming from space, at the rate of 2400 زs per year, but if you decide to undergo a CT scan you will get 7000 زs of radiation, in addition to that smokers, because of the levels of plutonium in Cigarettes are exposed to an average dose of 160,000 ز زيفيفيفيفيفيفيفيفوقايةوقاية تضع سنويا سنويا سنويا سنويا سنويا سنويا ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ، ،وقاية الهيئة ، ، ، بينما ، ، بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما ، بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما بينما تضع تضع بينما تضع تضع عند 20 إلى تضع ألفو بينما سنويا تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع بينما تضع بينما تضع تضع بينما تضع تضع تضع تضع بينما تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع تضع سنويا عند تضع تضع تضع تضع سنويا سنويا عند سنويا سنويا سنويا عند عند سنويا سنويا عند سنويا سنويا سنويا عند سنويا). Nuclear is Mick Million Ru Zephyrt annually.
History of Russians with blackout
It is also about the extent to which the effects of severe radiation damage can begin. For example, a person can die when exposed to a short period of 4-5 zephyrates (equal to one million micro-zephyrates), in fact the severe risk, which is the symptoms of nausea, loss of appetite, peeling of the skin and the impact of bone marrow and lymph nodes, starts from exposure For a radiation dose of 1 zephyrate (when the Chernobyl reactor burst reached 300 full SiV per hour in the same reaction !!), of course it is a lot of complex factors, such as the exposure method, the exposure period, the type of radioactive element and whether the person breathed the radioactive material or exposed it through the skin Or eat it, etc., but those - in general and for purposes Rounding - are security limits.
But what about Russia's recent explosion, how much radiation was it? Consider the Russian version (4), which says that the radiation from this explosion was equivalent to only 2 microns of zephyrt. Consider the figure again and compare it with what we have just presented. Russian for routine preventive action, it can not be a source of danger, especially as the rise in radiation levels has been going on for only about an hour.
At that point you might wonder how accurate these figures are. The Soviet Union has a history of blackout and falsification of facts, helped spread that idea, and all the subsequent dramatization in fact, the latest series "Chernobyl", which has become a global and became the highest An assessment on platforms such as IMDB, the series talks about the political cause of the Chernobyl disaster of the 1980s, a blackout for the benefit of the ruling party.
However, although we are unable to ascertain the amount of radiation from this explosion, we can look at the measurements of radiation in neighboring countries. We know that radiation spreads through the atmosphere with the movement of the wind, knowing that the amount of radiation drastically decreases as we move away from the center. Neighboring countries such as Finland and Norway have not recorded any significant increases in radiation, which means that the amount of radiation from the same explosion was minimal. Nuclear character but not fissionable in the sense, otherwise The effects of radiation detected in different parts of the world.
The faces of the Japanese
For more details on the medical implications of nuclear leaks and how exaggerated, you can ponder a more detailed report by the author, entitled "Chernobyl. Can a nuclear leak kill an entire continent?" But in the end, the problem is always in people's perceptions of the nature of nuclear radiation. Once someone talks about anything that ends with words like "nuclear" and "radiation," the vast majority of us imagine things like "a person with three feet" or "a fish with three eyes." Or fetal abnormalities, etc.
The history of this misunderstanding is rooted in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. One of the most widely accepted rumors while we were children in the pre-Internet era, here in the Arab world, is that the Japanese It has to do with the explosion of a nuclear bomb, especially their narrow eyes, because of radiation.
In common culture, the word "nuclear radiation" is synonymous with the greatest types of risk in people's minds, although humans are making remarkable progress in using nuclear radiation for medical purposes, whether for medical examination, from X-rays to CT scans, or for Treating diseases such as cancer, but the problem facing us is psychological.
In fact, this case already takes a distinctive name: “Radiophobia”, that is, the fear of any source of nuclear radiation. Even the radiation health specialist, Japanese physician Yoshimi Yamashita, once said that the average age of individuals Their evacuation after the Chernobyl accident decreased from 65 years to 58 years, not mainly because of radiation, but because of depression, alcoholism and suicide.
The cost of lying .. Who ?!
On social media, some have taken advantage of the fear we have had since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and have already begun to write events that are very strange to the explosion of the Akinsk weapon stores. There may be degrees of seriousness in the vicinity, and explosions like this are not just about the nuclear problem. But also the nature of the weapon that exploded and what it carried on board, but that it comes to ask one of the people to rush to search for caches - here in the Arab region - in order to prepare for the next catastrophic events, or to ask the other public to prepare for cases of cancer And a big climate change!
The problem we face at that point is that these publications have found a tremendous outreach among people, so great that you can re-question the role of the Internet in our lives, inviting you to make the same comparison that we talked about at the beginning of the report. Or that the spread of false news about almost everything has neutralized people have become distrust of something and information has become lost in both cases, sometimes because it is not available, and sometimes because it was lost in a sea of lying ?!
The Internet, and its impressive features such as superior communication and almost unlimited access to information, are the endowment of modern humans. Now you can learn about physics, biology, psychology, guitar and cinematography at top universities, while sitting at home, you can connect with people from all over The world, you can spin the whole vast universe via your desktop computer.
When we share Legasov's quotes in Chernobyl - commenting on this latest incident - he says that if we hear enough lies we can't discern the truth, or while he says that "every lie we say bears a debt to the truth, sooner or later the debt will be repaid." The paradox is that we are the ones who falsify the facts. This happens when we help spread the falsehoods through "participation" without making sure, even if for a while, the validity of what we publish. Here, repaying the debt is to lose that contemporary gift.