They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars putting a new (second) cap on that bitch if it weren't still seriously dangerous. There's still 200 tons of U-235 to be dealt with, lying deep in the lower levels where it ran to when the reactor melted. Four hundred thousand pounds of molten fissile material, flowing like lava down into the basement, where it remains to this day. That shit will be deadly radioactive for thousands of years to come.
The trailer for the film looks good. Then again, trailers always look better than the movie they're about. Not surprising that Stellan Skarsgard is in it. Seems like you can't make a major motion picture about the USSR/Russia or Scandinavia without Stellan Skarsgard. He's the Scandinavian Samuel L. Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister black guy? Jackson. Need a glib, hip-looking, sinister, pasty-white northern-European guy? Skarsgard.
Four of his eight kids (and counting) also are actors. One of them is Floki in the TV series "Vikings." One of them was the clown in the film "It." They're like the goddam Swedish Baldwin family. Fifty-seven channels and there's a Skarsgard on every damn one of them!
Some Russian wild hogs were released accidentally on purpose in the deep south specifically intending that they hybridize with the feral hogs already there and produce something larger and more aggressive to hunt.
Mission accomplished.
EDIT:
This is what the "corium," the residue of Chernobyl's melted reactor, looks like today:
It looks like half of a Hershey's Kiss but they call it
the elephant's foot.
Originally Posted by Beetlegeuse
They wouldn't have spent billions of dollars putting a new (second) cap on that bitch if it weren't still seriously dangerous. There's still 200 tons of U-235 to be dealt with, lying deep in the lower levels where it ran to when the reactor melted. Four hundred thousand pounds of molten fissile material, flowing like lava down into the basement, where it remains to this day. That shit will be deadly radioactive for thousands of years to come.
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