Physicist Martellini: “There would be no ‘Hiroshima effect’ but cases of radioactivity and radiation-related diseases”
Firing on the dom, the dome of the nuclear reactor of the Zaporizhzhia power plant, would mean “repeating Chernobyl. When there was Chernobyl in 86, the dome exploded and all the radioactive material was fired at tens of km reaching as far as Italy. bomb was hit by mistake, the risk of a Chernobyl 2.0 would be real “. So at AdnKronos Maurizio Martellini, nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Insubria at the Department of Science and High Technology (Disat), after Russia’s attack on the Zaporizhzhia power plant in southern Ukraine.
What would be the effect of such an accident? “There would be no ‘Hiroshima effect’ but cases of radioactivity and radiation-related diseases, a growing number of cancers and a repeat of Chernobyl. And this is known by both the Russians and the Ukrainians.” For this, Martellini (who was an active part of the Disarmament Scientists and as general secretary of the Landau Network particularly engaged in the issue of Russian nuclear cities in the early 1990s) says he is not particularly worried about the risk of a voluntary attack on the dome of the largest reactor in Europe, “but that Putin, feeling encircled and defeated in what I fear will be a very long war, may use nuclear weapons”.
Meanwhile, radioactivity is on the rise in Chernobyl. “In the so-called prohibition zone, the soil is still radioactive, patchy. With the movements that took place with the approach line to Kiev, the radioactive dust was raised. As regards the reactor itself, the increase in radiation is because the nuclear reaction isn’t over, ”says Martellini
“The radioactive fall-out of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was extremely lower than that of Chernobyl or Fukushima. A nuclear device is unable to ‘fission’, to make a nuclear reaction, on all material, only for 1 or 2%. It does not form. isotopes that are particularly bad for human health. Obviously, given the temperatures that are reached and the very high atmospheric pressure, anyone within the blast radius perishes, but from the radiological point of view it is much worse than an accident in a nuclear power plant. “So at AdnKronos Maurizio Martellini, nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Insubria at the Department of Science and High Technology (Disat).
“Unfortunately, nuclear weapons today are more present than they say”, underlines Martellini who was an active part of the Disarmament Scientists and, as general secretary of the Landau Network, particularly involved in the issue of Russian nuclear cities at the beginning of the years. ’90. “During the Cold War the Americans and Russians had tested, and even one of our Alpine corps had equipped them, nuclear weapons called ‘tactical’, for use in the battlefield, of a few kilotons. The Russians have these weapons, the Americans don’t, and they are to be used in a conventional conflict to destroy bunkers, terrorize enemies … the temperature that is reached is millions of degrees centigrade, and pressures compared to which tornadoes are sea breezes “.
Radioactivity on the rise in Chernobyl. “In the so-called prohibition zone, the soil is still radioactive, patchy. With the movements that took place with the approach line to Kiev, the radioactive dust was raised. As regards the reactor itself, the increase in radiation is because the nuclear reaction is not over. ” Maurizio Martellini, nuclear physicist, professor at the University of Insubria in the Department of Science and High Technology (Disat) confirms the increase in levels of radioactivity in the area and explains the reasons to AdnKronos.
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