Nuclear business: from tourism to nuclear moonshine

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The first entrepreneurial swallow of “atomic” tourism, naturally, flew out of the stronghold of international democracy, peremptorily holy “city on the hill” - the United States. The Nevada test site, on which over 900 nuclear explosions were conducted, soon after the start of active operation attracted the attention of an American layman, hungry for bread and circuses, tickling his delicate mental organization. Of course, now there are a number of museums like Obninsk NPP (Museum “The First in the World of NPPs”) and excursions to existing NPPs are not uncommon. But this activity is in the nature of educational and industrial tourism. And it has nothing to do with the "nuclear" business speculating on human fears and ambitions.

Nuclear business: from tourism to nuclear moonshine

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Despite the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had already plunged into a fiery radiation hell, none of those who wanted to enjoy the specific beauty of nuclear mushrooms rising above the earth did not raise moral issues. Moreover, the military command after the first series of explosions began to actively cover the tests in the press. New explosions were announced on the pages of the media, the press was invited to the training ground, and after the explosions, those invited could visit the craters. But even this seemed restless Yankees little. Thus, so that guests of Nevada did not miss the most important moments of the tests, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry began to issue calendars with a test schedule and a guide to the best viewing platforms of the city.



By this time, local businessmen began to spontaneously erect observation platforms for spectators. Hotel owners lured tourists with the opportunity to witness a nuclear explosion without even leaving the pool and releasing a cocktail tube from their lips. In fact, many nuclear mushrooms of the Nevada polygon soared to monstrous heights and were visible from the capital of Nevada - Las Vegas. In 60's, explosions were observed at 160 km in any direction.



There was a "nuclear" fashion - the beauties in swimsuits posed against the backdrop of the next cloud, in order to scrape up at least momentary fame. Beauty contests Miss Atomic Bomb and Miss Atomic Explosion took place. For local businessmen it was truly a golden time. So, the famous businessman and casino owner Benny Binion in the USA even stated that "the best thing that could happen to Vegas is the atomic bomb." Vegas bars sold atomic cocktails - a mixture of champagne, vodka, sherry and brandy.



Picnics, parties and entire shows were confined to nuclear tests, during which beauty contests were often held. In 1955, the focus was on the strip show at The Sands. The regulars of the institution were the military on dismissal, and one of the local "stars" was a certain songwriter Margherit Piazze. She was “crowned” by the drunken Yankees with the title “Miss Radiation” and a crown in the form of an atomic explosion made of cotton wool in the shape of a nuclear mushroom. The last atomic “miss” was Lee Merlin, a dancer from the same The Sands hotel. Cotton wool was glued to her swimsuit, photographed, carried once or twice in her arms and sent to rest.



Naturally, no one thought about radiation at that time. The authorities recognized only a slight excess of radiation. Only after many years, the United States recognized that the territories adjacent to the area of ​​the landfill were significantly affected, however, while no one sprinkled ashes on his head and did not demand "pay and repent" - this is exclusively the prerogative of our homegrown figures.

Lithuania and Ukraine: fierce competition in the "nuclear" field


Since then a lot of water has flowed. But the "atomic" business only built respectable muscles. Now organized groups of tourists drive to the Nevada training ground. The necessary infrastructure was built for them - roads, viewing platforms, stylized cafes and souvenir shops.


Observation deck at the crater of the Nevada training ground


The collapse of the Union was, among other things, characterized by an explosion of entrepreneurial activity in the post-Soviet space. This also affected the “nuclear” business. The leading positions in this field were immediately taken by Ukrainians. The “heavy scoop legacy” for hundreds of former “brothers” turned out to be a real gold mine. Vying with each other, Ukrainian companies, both legitimate and dubious, offered to plunge into the atmosphere of the USSR and post-apocalypse. And with the advent of the Stalker series of games, specific tour operators have matured and expanded the range of services offered. Now the tourist could feel like a real stalker, only without a small weapons, vodka and game evil spirits.

Chernobyl travel agencies offered canoe excursions, aviation excursions, excursions to Slavutich (a city built for families of power engineers evacuated after the Chernobyl accident), tours to the DUGA radar and to the inside of the NPP itself. In general, business flourished, even the outbreak of civil war did not undermine it and did not reduce the desire of a bored layman to tickle his nerves.



The next impulse to the "nuclear" business received after the premiere of the odious series "Chernobyl". This propaganda cinematic poster turned “atomic” businessmen into figures of near-political, very useful citizens for regimes in post-Soviet limitrophies. Ukrainians vying to begin to offer a tour based on the above series.

Soon they were competed by the “brothers in mind” from Lithuania. As you know, the Americans shot part of the series at the Ignalina nuclear power plant, which is sawn for metal, not far from the Lithuanian town of Visaginas. Enterprising Lithuanians instantly organized a very extensive tour for the western man in the street. So, first a tourist is brought to the outskirts of Vilnius to the kingdom of gray people who have not seen the repair of panel buildings for a long time, where the authors of the series shot scenes of Pripyat.


Ignalina nuclear Power Plant


After that, a tourist is being taken ... no, not at a nuclear power plant. In order to set as ideally as possible all ideological accents in the skull of a western guest, he is taken to the KGB museum. And after all the horrors of the "bloody Mordor", gently reproduced by the new authorities of a rapidly dying country, a tourist is taken to the Ignalina NPP. The latter also appears before the viewer in far from the best form, because sawn for 9 years.

Ukraine just will not give up the Chernobyl piece


Of course, Ukrainian leaders are by no means ready to give their rightful piece of the “victim of the bloody Mordor” to some Balts there. The aforementioned series did not have time to collect the necessary informational “hype”, as it is customary to say on the Internet, when a comrade in OZK costume appeared on the streets of Kiev offering a photo for memory. And rest assured, such a comrade is far from alone.



But in order to finally bury the competitors of the "nuclear" business, the Ukrainians launched the "heavy artillery". By cooperating with American friends, Ukrainian citizens created the Chernobyl Spirit Company. This counter is not going to sell tours to the exclusion zone, she has already started selling ... moonshine made from rye grown in the infected zone and water from the same places. Distillation, according to the creators of the company, makes the final product completely clean and safe to use.



The recently elected President Zelensky did not stand aside, who could not help but take advantage of the moment of the series so successfully released and such a revival among its citizens. Vladimir Alexandrovich instantly signed a decree on the lifting of a number of prohibitions in the exclusion zone, saying that Chernobyl "will become a symbol of freedom of the new Ukraine." Of course, one can imagine what ideally correct home-cleaning guides will go at the forefront of a new wave of excursions. It remains to wait for the new "Miss Pripyat."
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  1. +1
    15 August 2019 04: 54
    What can I say ... money does not smell, the basic law of business.
    1. 0
      15 August 2019 05: 00
      Radiation also does not smell, but it kills ..
      1. +6
        15 August 2019 05: 54
        sell ... moonshine made from rye grown in the infected area and water from the same places.


        Moonshine is two in one .... 40 degrees + 1000 x-rays per hour ... a killer thing I tell you.
        1. +2
          15 August 2019 06: 34
          you read this, and faith in humanity evaporates like alcohol ...
          1. +2
            15 August 2019 06: 38
            smile Do not waste this nectar and pure ragweed for the soul ... it’s better to damp the faith with diluted alcohol to 40 degrees.
            1. +2
              15 August 2019 06: 43
              Quote: The same Lech
              smile Do not waste this nectar and pure ragweed for the soul ... it’s better to damp the faith with diluted alcohol to 40 degrees.

              in 3 days ... Aviation Day .. follow your advice! Yes
          2. +2
            15 August 2019 11: 27
            Quote: Aerodrome
            you read this, and faith in humanity evaporates like alcohol ..
            But what a decree the president of Ukraine issues
            Vladimir Alexandrovich instantly signed a decree on the lifting of a number of prohibitions in the exclusion zone, saying that Chernobyl "will become a symbol of freedom of the new Ukraine"
            If the president has such thinking, then what can one want from the common people.
        2. +4
          15 August 2019 07: 09
          Quote: The same LYOKHA
          1000 X-ray per hour

          Which is "equivalent" to 10 Sv / h or 10000 mSv / h. And for transportation by all modes of transport, products are allowed that "radiate" no more than 2 mSv / h (in some cases - up to 10 mSv / h, but no more). And the products, mind you, are not "drinking" smile
        3. 0
          15 August 2019 11: 30
          Quote: The same LYOKHA
          Moonshine two in one .... 40 degrees + 1000 X-ray per hour ... a killer thing

          It certainly knocks down one hundred percent and acts flawlessly.
      2. -8
        15 August 2019 07: 16
        It is necessary to tie it up with nuclear energy; there are already normal technologies. Reduce consumption and introduce new energy.
        1. 0
          15 August 2019 11: 35
          Quote: Civil
          Tied up with nuclear power

          It is necessary to tie with drinking, and not drink moonshine (shmurdyak) 40% + 1000 X-ray. Generally drunkenness fight.
        2. Alf
          +2
          15 August 2019 18: 35
          Quote: Civil
          There are already normal technologies.

          What and how much do they cost?
      3. +1
        15 August 2019 08: 22
        But money brings good ones.
    2. +2
      15 August 2019 12: 52
      Quote: NEXUS
      What can I say ... money does not smell, the basic law of business.

      Well, in this case, it will be more accurate to say - they do not light ...
  2. 0
    15 August 2019 05: 17
    Interestingly, and in the USA they do not do businessmen?
    1. +2
      15 August 2019 06: 35
      Quote: Shuttle
      Interestingly, and in the USA they do not do businessmen?

      not ... they produce mcfols and bolts.
      1. +1
        15 August 2019 07: 12
        Quote: Aerodrome
        and in the USA they do not do businessmen?

        They are trained there. Why the question then?
        1. +1
          15 August 2019 11: 30
          Quote: DigitalError
          Quote: Aerodrome
          and in the USA they do not do businessmen?

          They are trained there. Why the question then?

          In addition, what can we look for in the citadel of democracy whom to plant with us.
          1. 0
            15 August 2019 11: 38
            Quote: Shuttle
            can we look for in the citadel of democracy whom to intern with us

            The offer is certainly tempting, but I remembered Zhirinovsky with champagne and "Trump is our" ...
      2. -1
        15 August 2019 07: 14
        Quote: Aerodrome
        Quote: Shuttle
        Interestingly, and in the USA they do not do businessmen?

        not ... they produce mcfols and bolts.

        We have enough of them and our own. Is there something Gozman-like or something like our A.A. Obnalny?
        Maybe because there is no US embassy there?
    2. 0
      15 August 2019 11: 22
      But what about. One even shot a movie about Putin - Oliver Stone. Only he was still given access to the movie camera
      1. +1
        15 August 2019 11: 32
        Quote: DoctorOleg
        But what about. One even shot a movie about Putin - Oliver Stone. Only he was still given access to the movie camera

        Well, I would not compare Stone with Oleshenka. Still, Stone is truly a patriot of America.
    3. 0
      15 August 2019 11: 37
      Quote: Shuttle
      Interestingly, and in the USA they do not do businessmen?

      They make and export to us ..
  3. 0
    15 August 2019 06: 23
    Feast during the plague ... only business, nothing personal
    1. 0
      15 August 2019 11: 40
      Quote: parusnik
      Feast in Time of Plague

      This is definitely a plague. Well, would anyone have thought of such a thing in Soviet times?
  4. 0
    15 August 2019 07: 06
    already started selling ... moonshine made from rye grown in the infected area

    Wheat is one of the least susceptible to the absorption of radiation by agricultural crops - seven times less (in terms of accumulation of Cs-137 or Sr-90, I don’t remember exactly) than peas and five times less than buckwheat. Altai Territory, the southern part of which bears the "stamp" of the Semipalatinsk test site, is the "buckwheat" breadbasket of our country. It is clear that Rospotrebnadzor is not asleep, but (it would be interesting to know) in buckwheat from those places there may be an increased (within the permissible) content of radionuclides.
    1. 0
      15 August 2019 07: 17
      Quote: DigitalError
      already started selling ... moonshine made from rye grown in the infected area

      Wheat is one of the least susceptible to the absorption of radiation by agricultural crops - seven times less (in terms of accumulation of Cs-137 or Sr-90, I don’t remember exactly) than peas and five times less than buckwheat. Altai Territory, the southern part of which bears the "stamp" of the Semipalatinsk test site, is the "buckwheat" breadbasket of our country. It is clear that Rospotrebnadzor is not asleep, but (it would be interesting to know) in buckwheat from those places there may be an increased (within the permissible) content of radionuclides.

      just ate buckwheat .... what to do? vodka on top? iodine? pancake....
      1. 0
        15 August 2019 07: 18
        Quote: Aerodrome
        what to do ?

        Well I say - everything is within normal limits, since they sell laughing
        1. 0
          15 August 2019 09: 05
          Quote: DigitalError
          everything is normal

          But for prevention it never hurts
          Quote: Aerodrome
          vodka on top

      2. 0
        15 August 2019 11: 45
        Quote: Aerodrome
        just ate buckwheat .... what to do? vodka on top? iodine? pancake.

        If buckwheat with bacon is eaten (fried bacon and a lot), nothing will happen, and if it is combined with a half-liter of vodka. Well, iodine in vodka or vitriol (as in Lithuania) is optional.
  5. 0
    15 August 2019 07: 46
    What a scary business .... money does not smell, and when it "shines" radioactively, nothing like that, is it scary?
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  7. BAI
    +4
    15 August 2019 08: 54
    Very few people really understand radiation issues. Therefore, 2 points of view prevail:
    1 - everything is deadly, we will all die.
    2 - there is no danger, you can do anything.
  8. +1
    15 August 2019 10: 57
    Cooperating with american friends, Ukrainian citizens created the Chernobyl Spirit Company. This counter is not going to sell tours to the exclusion zone, it is already started selling ... moonshine, created from rye grown in the infected area, and water from the same places. Distillation, according to the creators of the company, makes the final product completely clean and safe to use.

    1. Not with the American, but with the British, such as Professor Jim Smith of the University of Portsmouth, he has been working in the exclusion zone with his team since the 1990s - they are watching how the soil is restored after the accident. First, researchers began to grow grain on a farm in the area of ​​the zone, and then decided to make vodka from it and local water.
    2. There is nothing to sell so far, as of 08.08.2019 one bottle was produced, by the end of the year 500 will be made.
    3.
    It is no more radioactive than any other vodka. Any chemist will say that during distillation, harmful substances remain in the waste. Therefore, we took a little contaminated rye and water from the Chernobyl water purifier. Then we asked friends from the University of Southampton to check the vodka - they have a wonderful radio analytical laboratory. And they did not find anything. (with)
    Jim Smith - Atomik Vodka Creator

    And finally, a small anecdote:
    Three stalkers spent the night campfire, drank vodka and decided to play Russian roulette. The first loads one cartridge, pulls the trigger and falls. The second loads the cartridge, pulls the trigger and falls. The third loads the cartridge and thinks: “Is Makarov playing roulette?”
    1. +2
      15 August 2019 16: 44
      Thanks for two great jokes. And for the first in which distillation eliminates radiation, especially thanks. Neighing like Sidorovich !!!!
      1. 0
        15 August 2019 17: 07
        Quote: garri-lin
        And for the first in which distillation eliminates radiation, especially thanks. Neighing like Sidorovich !!!!

        Check out the experience of Belarusians:
        We are faced with the task: how to reduce the amount of radionuclides entering agricultural products? Many technologies have been developed. Much attention is paid to fertilizers with a high content of potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen and organic substances, which sharply inhibit the pollution process. Sour soils lime to reduce the movement of hazardous substances. A very important point is the proper selection of crops. Let's take two species: ordinary winter rye and lupine, which are used as animal feed in livestock farming. It turns out that if both species are grown under the same conditions, then radionuclides accumulate in rye in 24 times less.

        Read more here:
        http://www.zviazda.by/ru/news/20170425/1493107287-kak-vosstanavlivayutsya-zagryaznennye-radiaciey-territorii
        1. 0
          15 August 2019 17: 35
          I'm specifically about distillation. For a long time I know that different cultures accumulate in different ways, though without details. But that distillation removes radiation amused.
          1. 0
            15 August 2019 18: 16
            Quote: garri-lin
            But that distillation removes radiation amused.

            Found a coy of which:
            MU 2.6.1.1981-05
            "Radiation control and hygienic assessment of drinking water supply and drinking water sources according to radiation safety indicators. Optimization of protective measures for drinking water supply sources with an increased content of radionuclides"
            Appendix 6
            "Methods and methods for reducing the levels of natural radionuclides in drinking water"
            Item 6.9.
            "Distillation, distillation, separation of liquid mixtures into fractions differing in composition. The process is based on the difference in boiling points of the components of the mixture. Distillation is carried out in order to free the liquid from suspended impurities or to isolate more volatile parts.

            Depending on the physical properties of the components of the separated liquid mixtures, various distillation methods are used (simple, fractional, equilibrium, molecular). Simple distillation is carried out by partial evaporation of a boiling liquid mixture, continuous withdrawal and subsequent condensation of the resulting vapor. In this case, mechanical particles contained in the water (including bacteria, viruses, as well as colloids and suspended particles) are too heavy to be picked up by the steam. Simultaneously, almost all chemicals dissolved in water (including salts of iron, other heavy metals, hardness salts, radionuclides, etc.) reach the limit of their solubility (due to increased temperature and increase in concentration) and precipitate. "
            1. 0
              15 August 2019 22: 16
              And what will happen to emissions during heating? And can there still be radioactive distilled water?
              1. 0
                15 August 2019 22: 23
                Quote: garri-lin
                And what will happen to emissions during heating?

                Yes, how do I know, maybe in the head of fractional selection this byaka? bully
              2. 0
                15 August 2019 22: 47
                Quote: garri-lin
                And can there still be radioactive distilled water?

                What did you find:
                Water is not gaining radiation. All radiation in impurities. So after distillation, the water will be clean, and the residue / precipitate will be radioactive. This is exactly how liquid wastes are cleaned - water is evaporated and solid residues are buried.
                1. 0
                  16 August 2019 00: 55
                  This is honestly a good reason in the library. It’s one thing to clean, but to the point of being fit for eating is another.
  9. +1
    15 August 2019 11: 51
    Of course, one can imagine what ideally correct home-cleaning guides will go at the forefront of a new wave of excursions. It remains to wait for the new "Miss Pripyat."

    what's wrong with using such a resource?
    There, by the way, the USSR is in its original form.
    That nowhere in the Russian Federation or in Belarus is there ..
    There even Vyatrovich refused to carry out his decommunization. And all the symbols of the USSR, Ukrainian SSR will remain and even be painted. This is important for business. So thanks to tourism, Soviet symbols are being updated. And Lenin is standing there. Pretty clean.
    And what about the transfer of their "Chernobyls" in monetary form then
    RB
    The Belarusian exclusion zone, established after the Chernobyl accident, is now open for tourists. Currently, tourist routes are being laid, Deputy Director of Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve Maxim Kudin said in an interview with ONT TV channel. It is clarified that the price of the tour for a group of three to five people will be about 340 Belarusian rubles (10 thousand Russian rubles).
    In 2017, the first hostel was opened in the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The hotel, located on Kirova Street, was called "Polesie" and accommodates up to 100 people.
    In the Russian Federation, the Chernobyl zone is the smallest (Ukraine suffers the most from the accident) and therefore there is no one to develop it.
    But still, tourism is carried out at operating nuclear power plants
    In 2017, 2700 people visited Beloyarsk NPP. On the eve of the last excursion to the Beloyarsk NPP this year. Before the New Year, the power plant was visited by schoolchildren of the 110th lyceum in Yekaterinburg. A unique nuclear power plant with fast neutron reactors is under close public scrutiny. In total, in 2017, 2700 people visited the Beloyarsk NPP. Among them, 240 journalists, including 75 journalists from foreign media.
  10. BAI
    0
    15 August 2019 14: 50
    moonshine made from rye grown in the infected area and water from the same places. Distillation, according to the creators of the company, makes the final product completely clean and safe to use.

    The bottle is made in a single copy. They plan to bring to 500.
    And tourists will have a chance to take Chernobyl home, not only in their heart, but also in the liver.
  11. wow
    0
    15 August 2019 16: 20
    Herd !!! Your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, etc. will be freaks themselves. ...
  12. Alf
    +1
    15 August 2019 18: 34
    Well, Miss on the ladder. Terrible, like an atomic explosion. No matter how much atomic vodka you drink, it still won’t work.
  13. 0
    15 August 2019 19: 40
    The author tried so hard to create his own agitprop and show the "inhuman" essence of the Americans, Ukrainians and Balts that he did not bother to look at the Internet. And there the brothers - Belarusians have a lot of advertisements like "Excursions in the zone of adchuzhennya!" or articles like Asvaenne adchuzhennya. What are the paglyadzeets during the excursions in the radiant zone? on the Zvyazda website.
    It is interesting to see the author’s point of view on these facts.
    By the way, I am sure that excursions to the place where the Tsar Bomb was dropped would have enjoyed no less success in Russia.
  14. 0
    15 August 2019 19: 44
    And to eat this moonshine you need local mushrooms. They are big there - they grow up to the knee and higher. Especially fly agaric (she saw herself when she went to the city of Slavutich. It's almost near -40 km from the station) And if these mushrooms are pickled? From one fly agaric, not one half-liter jar will be! And then kit and sell. Well, to dear friends and partner and the USA - for free, as a gift, and more!
    1. Alf
      +1
      16 August 2019 09: 11
      Quote: Egoza
      Well, to dear friends and partner and the USA - for free, as a gift, and more!

      Well, you are a sadist, dear Elena! What if you like it? This is some kind of business you can stir up. Take a share? We’ll hire the Chinese (they don’t mind), they pick mushrooms there, send them directly to the buckland, and we get profit.
  15. +1
    17 August 2019 18: 12
    So what? I would like to go to Pripyat (it’s like a museum of the late Soviet life) and to go on an excursion to nuclear power plants. And about radiation, fear is exaggerated. In the same Pripyat, nature blossomed as soon as a person left. And in Moscow, and not only people almost live in cemeteries, and nothing.
  16. +1
    19 August 2019 09: 37
    Bar "100 RENGEN"

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