UN Blog: financing with a computer? and 17/52 : Tchernobyl

financing with a computer?

Im considering buying/financing a new computer. Now im more interested in how the financing works more than getting the computer itself heh. The computer would cost 1175.93$ now it says interest does not occur for 18 months. the payments are 10$ or 1%, now i know at that rate i would be paying off forever. over the 18 months paying at a rate of instead 2% would leave me with 744$ to pay off. now interest occurs. I need to know how it works. If you wana work it out and post the answer okay, just show how it worked. or explain it and ill work it out. Either way TY.
the interest was 25% give or take 5. just use the 25 though.

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Answer by answerman288
do the math if you want to pay it before 18 months you have to pay 65.33/month for 18 months. if you wait until interest starts you will be hit with every penny of interest from the date of purchase and end up paying alot more than 1175. good luck

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17/52 : Tchernobyl - Chernobyl
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Image by Eric Constantineau - www.ericconstantineau.com
=== Français ===

Il y a 25 ans, le 26 avril 1986, un accident nucléaire se produisait à la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl, en Russie, maintenant Ukraine.

"Le 26 avril 1986, la population locale n'est pas prévenue de l'accident et poursuit ses activités habituelles sans prendre de précautions particulières. Ainsi à Pripyat, 900 élèves âgés de 10 à 17 ans participent à un « marathon de la paix » qui fait le tour de la centrale.
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L'évacuation débute le 27 avril et les 45 000 habitants de Pripyat sont les premiers concernés. Ils n'ont été informés que quelques heures auparavant par la radio locale, qui leur demandait de n'emporter que le strict minimum et leur promettait qu'ils seraient de retour sous 2 ou 3 jours. Emmenés par l'armée, ils sont hébergés dans des conditions précaires dans la région de Polesskoie, elle-même gravement touchée par les radiations. Les premiers symptômes d'une forte exposition aux radiations (nausées, diarrhées, etc.) commencent à apparaître déjà chez beaucoup d'entre eux.
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Le 28 avril au matin, un niveau de radioactivité anormal est constaté dans la centrale nucléaire de Forsmark en Suède, qui entraîne l'évacuation immédiate de l'ensemble du site par crainte d'une fuite radioactive interne. Mais les premières analyses montrent que l'origine de la contamination est extérieure à la centrale et vient de l'est. L'après-midi du même jour, l'Agence France-Presse rapporte l'incident.

À partir de ce moment, toutes les hypothèses sont formulées par les médias occidentaux. Les informations arrivent au compte-goutte (interview à Kiev de personnes évacuées de la zone, etc.). L'agence de presse TASS parle le 29 avril d'un accident « de gravité moyenne survenu à la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl » tandis que les photos satellites du site de la centrale fournissent les premières images de la catastrophe.
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Le 14 mai, Gorbatchev prononce une allocution télévisée dans laquelle il reconnaît l'ampleur de la catastrophe et admet que des dysfonctionnements profonds ont eu pour conséquence que « ni les politiques, ni même les scientifiques n'étaient préparés à saisir la portée de cet événement. »

Cette volonté de transparence ne va pas sans une très importante propagande autour des travaux réalisés, destinée à mettre en valeur la « bataille contre l'atome ». Une banderole apposée sur le réacteur éventré proclame que « le peuple soviétique est plus fort que l'atome » tandis qu'un drapeau rouge est fixé au sommet de la tour d'aération de la centrale à l'issue des travaux de déblaiement.

Pendant 15 ans, seuls les 56 premiers décès seront reconnus par les autorités."
- Wikipedia

Je dénonce ici l'opacité des gouvernements face à des catastrophes nucléaires. Avec Tchernobyl, nous avons eu la preuve que la Russie a voulu cacher l'ampleur de la catastrophe. Il y a quelques mois, avec Fukushima, nous avons vu que le Japon n'était pas mieux. En effet, le Japon a mis plus d'un mois pour classer l'accident de Fukushima au niveau 7 sur l'échelle INES. Certes, l'accident de Fukushima s'est déroulée de manière moins explosive, il n'en demeure pas moins que le Japon a toujours classé l'accident 2 ou 3 niveaux moins élevé que le reste de la communauté nucléaire mondiale.

"Au lendemain de l'accident, l'accident a d'abord été classé au niveau 4 sur l'échelle INES par l'Agence Japonaise de Sûreté Nucléaire, puis reclassé au niveau 5 le 18 mars 2011. Le 12 avril, elle a relevé à titre provisoire l'accident au niveau 7 (le plus élevé de l'échelle INES), ce qui le place au même degré de gravité que la catastrophe de Tchernobyl de 1986, compte tenu du volume important des rejets."
- Wikipedia

Je n'ai rien de positif à dire face au nucléaire, surtout quand il se trouve dans les mains de gens qui pensent davantage à la réputation de leur pays, plutôt qu'à la santé de millions de gens.

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La présente photo a été inspirée à partir de celle-ci et fait partie de mon projet photo "52 légo". En 2011, je dénoncerai une injustice à chaque semaine. Les photos de ce projet peuvent être utilisées librement pour des fins non-commerciales.

Changeons le monde, une photo à la fois.

=== English ===

25 years ago, on April 26th, 1986, a nuclear disaster happened at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine, formely Russia.

"The nearby city of Pripyat was not immediately evacuated after the incident, for the general population of the Soviet Union was not informed of the disaster until 29 April. During that time, all radio broadcasts run by the state were replaced with classical music, which was a common method of preparing the public for an announcement of a tragedy that had taken place. Scientist teams were armed and placed on alert as instructions were awaited.

Only after radiation levels set off alarms at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, over one thousand kilometers from the Chernobyl Plant, did the Soviet Union admit that an accident had occurred. Nevertheless, authorities attempted to conceal the scale of the disaster. For example, while evacuating the city of Pripyat, the following warning message was read on local radio: "An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the atomic reactors has been damaged. Aid will be given to those affected and a committee of government inquiry has been set up."

The government committee was eventually formed, and tasked to investigating the accident. It was headed by Valeri Legasov, who arrived at Chernobyl in the evening of 26 April. By the time Legasov arrived, two people had already died and 52 were receiving medical attention in a hospital. By the night of 26–27 April – more than 24 hours after the explosion – Legasov's committee had ample evidence showing extremely high levels of radiation had caused a number of cases of radiation exposure. Based on the evidence at hand, Legasov's committee acknowledged the destruction of the reactor and ordered the evacuation of Pripyat.

The evacuation began at 14:00 on 27 April. In order to expedite the evacuation, the residents were told to bring only what was necessary, as the authorities had said it would only last approximately three days. As a result, most of the residents left their personal belongings, which are still there today. An exclusion zone of 30 km (19 mi) remains in place today, although its shape has changed and its size has been expanded."
- Wikipedia

I here denounce the government's opacity when it deals with nuclear disasters. With Chernobyl, we had the proof that Russia has concealed the scale of the disaster. A few months ago with Fukushima, we saw that Japan was not really better. Indeed, Japan took over a month to raise the scale of the incident to level 7 on the INES scale. Of course the Fukushima accident was not as explosive than Chernobyl's, but Japan always classified it 2 or 3 levels lower than the international nuclear community did.

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The severity of the nuclear accident is provisionally rated 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). This scale runs from 0, indicating an abnormal situation with no safety consequences, to 7, indicating an accident causing widespread contamination with serious health and environmental effects. Prior to Fukushima, the Chernobyl disaster was the only level 7 accident on record, while the Three Mile Island accident was a level 5 accident.
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Several parties disputed the Japanese classifications, arguing that the situation was more severe than they were admitting at the time. On 14 March, three Russian experts stated that the nuclear accident should be classified at Level 5, perhaps even Level 6. One day later, the French nuclear safety authority ASN said that the Fukushima plant could be classified as a Level 6. as of 18 March, the French nuclear authority—and as of 15 March, the Finnish nuclear safety authority—estimated the accidents at Fukushima to be at Level 6 on the INES. On 24 March, a scientific consultant for noted anti-nuclear environmental group Greenpeace, working with data from the Austrian ZAMG and French IRSN, prepared an analysis in which he rated the total Fukushima accident at INES level 7.
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On 11 April, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) temporarily raised the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to Level 7 on the INES scale, by considering the whole event and not considering each reactor as an individual event per se (rated between 3 and 5). This would make Fukushima the second Level 7 "major accident" in the history of the nuclear industry; having said that, radiation released as a result of the events at Fukushima is only approximately ten percent of that released as a result of the accident at Chernobyl (1986), also rated as INES Level 7."
- Wikipedia

I have nothing positive to say about nuclear power, especially when it lies in the hands of people who have their countries reputation more at heart that the health of millions.

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The present photo was inspired by this one, and is part of my "52 légo" photo project. In 2011, I will denounce one injustice every week. The photos of this project can be freely used for non-commercial use.

Let's change the world, one photo at a time.