On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:30:17 -0500, George Cornelius wrote:

+AD4 In article +ADw-ov1dsp+ACQ-p8e+ACQ-3+AEA-dont-email.me+AD4, Frank +ADw-analogdial+AEA-mail.com+AD4
+AD4 writes:
+AD4APg On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:15:13 -0800, allisellis851 wrote:
+AD4 +AD4APg Commie red diaper doper babies. Chernobyl might have been worse than
+AD4APgA+ they thought. www.drudgereport.com
+AD4APg
+AD4APg The disaster at the Chernobyl reactor wasn't all bad. It depowered the
+AD4APg DAMN SOVIET WOODPECKER
+AD4
+AD4 Really+ACE
+AD4
+AD4 I wondered what happened to that thing. All I ever heard was that it
+AD4 was rumored to be an over the horizon radar.

The reactor was intended as a double duty civilian/military reactor. It
was to provide electric power to the people but also to power the damn
woodpecker radar and to provide fuel for the Soviet nuclear program. The
reactor shielding was compromised to allow easier removal of the
plutonium.

http://www.newsweek.com/hunt-russian-woodpecker-246670

A guy was irradiated as a child during the Chernobyl disaster has made a
documentary. It's pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v+AD0-rhVnNFOwy+AF8-k