It finally happened, years of logging in on weird services with my personal e-mail finally caught up to me. I got four emails from Microsoft today about people in Vietnam and Peru trying to log in to my account, I checked on here and it seems like my IP, name, e-mail and password got leaked back in February. This sucks, but it will facilitate my move from Google to Proton, I'll also need to change all of my passwords since they are very similar, yes, I know this is dumb, but I can't remember more than one password at a time and I don't trust password managers. Worst part is, the service that leaked my email was some bullshit AI background remover that I can't remember ever using.

Now, about proton, I got their highest tier plan, and so far I'm very happy with it, the storage space is awesome and the hide-my-email aliases are going to be very useful on preventing this type of situation in the future.

If you ever tried to make anything slightly aesthetically pleasing, you realized you need a color palette. The same applies to creating a webpage, I really wanted to find a good gif to put as background here, but Google Images SUCKS and Giphy is WORTHLESS.

Here is your solution; as far as I know, it doesn't work with gifs, but it's much better than whatever other image-by-color search engines out there.

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Okay, so I was scrolling through Instagram the other day when I spotted these memes claiming that during the accident, the Chernobyl power plant somehow pumped out 40 years' worth of power in just seconds. Being interested in the topic as i am, i knew this was bullshit. First of all to even get to such conclusion we need to calculate how much did the chernobyl powerplant produce over a year in MWh. I looked EVERYWHERE and could not find a realiable source on this information, so, we'll need to calculate a theoretical number, we'll then create a realistic estimate.

How Much Power Did Chernobyl Actually Make?

However,

nuclear plants (and chernobyl specially) don't run at full capacity 24/7. They need to deal with:

• Regular maintenance breaks
• Refueling stops
• Technical limitations
• Equipment problems
• General soviet-era fuckery

Nuclear plants typically operate at a capacity factor of 70-85% in modern times. For 1980s Soviet technology, let's assume a more conservative 65-70% capacity factor.

Realistic estimate

So, did reactor 4 produce 946 TWh of energy in 3 seconds? Short awnser is: no, but its complicated.

Imagine trying to travel 100 km in 4 hours. You could maintain a steady speed of 25 km/h and reach your destination, or you could accelerate to 100 km/h for just 3 seconds. In the latter case, you'd only cover 0.083 km – nowhere near your destination. The same principle applies to energy production.

For the actual numbers:

It's obvious that reactor 4 did not produce that much energy at the time, but it did produce a lot, The last reading was 33,000 MW which is 33 times more than nominal power, but this is only the last reading, the sensors likely fried at 33,000 and the power went much higher than that, an MIT professor states that it got close to 1 TW for a brief moment, a lot, but not enough for 40 years.