Lecture #2

Yesterday, the 18th of September 2012, we had a lecture on Chernobyl. Two speakers, Siobheal Nic Eochaidh and Darragh McGrath, came to tell us about their trip to Chernobyl and the charity work they did there. On the 26th of April 1986 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had a catastrophic explosion. Though the power plant is in Ukraine the winds on that day blew a lot of the nuclear waste over to Belarus. They speakers didn't actually have a lot of time but they managed to tell us a lot about what they saw and felt while they were at the orphanage. They seemed to have built up a strong relationship with some of the children who had been affected by the explosion even though they had only been there for a week. I enjoyed hearing about their work over in Belarus, it shocked me though to hear about how little was being done by the government in Belarus to help these children. I didn't actually know very much an the Chernobyl explosion before their lecture, now I feel that I learnt a lot about the explosion and how even after 26 years there are still big problems linked to it going on.