20 years from Chernobyl on 26th of April

[r2r]

Saw some of those pics before. You get a really creepy feeling after looking through the pics.

[c0wb0y007]

It is incredible indeed. I wonder how long the concrete will stand, after the disaster they bunkered the whole thing in under a big layer of concrete. Which is on its turn showing wear and tear ... .

Another strange fact that I heard just a couple of days ago is, that lots of people go on a holiday to Chernobyl.
Just to see what's left of the powerplant. I can't imagine myself going to a place like that, booking a hotel and eating vegetables (basicly everything) which get harvested there. :shock: :shock: :shock:


Cheers

[TransAm]

Thanks for the link, mojo, and reminding us all of this terrible tragedy.

[EnzoLover]

Impressive pics.


Only at 2098 the level of radiation will be normal. :(

[ARMAN]

For those who is playing with any kind of thought of going there - DONT YOU EVEN THINK about it! Your body will absorbe so much radiation that it can kill you very fast :!: Those who are going there are probably crazy ukrains or russians who have no fucking idea what is going on :|

They berried it all but the rest of reactor still can blow the fuck up as I seen on TV(dont trust TV but this might be real danger) cause noone is willing to open it up and dig in it again cause those who would do it will die instatntly after that.

[coloradosilver]

Tey should put a 10 story high electric fence around the whole place and use it as a community for prisoners serving life sentences. It wcould be the new world prison. Sadaam would enjoy it there, till he dies a slow and painful death from the radiation. Might work.

[ZfrkS62]

I thought Keiv was the city that the Chernobyl plant was based in. Or is the city that was most affected by the radioactive cloud? I seem to recall hearing that had the wind been blowing the other direction, Moscow would have gotten the full effects of the radiation spilled.

I read an article the other night that the russian govt. is cutting benefits to those in surrounding cities because the radiation levels have dropped so much, and that they are only considering thyroid cancer to be a direct result of radiation poisoning. Really a shit thing to do when you see that people are returning to the area to try and get some use out of the soil for farming :(

The govt needs to be paying out alot more than what they are considering the fact that it was an irresponsible experiment they were doing with the reactor that triggered the meltdown. It was pretty much the equivilant to trying to drive your car up a mountain at 15mph in top gear :roll: Nothing good could have possibly come of it :(

[bmwmpower]

this is terrible, also mine country got borders with Ukraine, and about 25 miles from me is another Atomic plant, :shock:

[ZfrkS62]

this is terrible, also mine country got borders with Ukraine, and about 25 miles from me is another Atomic plant, :shock:

the safety of these plants has come a long way since then. 3 Mile Island was another failure, but total disaster was averted luckily.

While Chernobyl reminds us that there is a dnager, it should also pose as relief that lessons were learned from it, and another disaster like it is highly unlikely.

[Max Power]

thanks for the link...terrible tragedy

100,000 years or radiation for the sarcophagus :shock:

[Max Power]

google eearth has the main plant blocked off (no detail)... :(

[bmwmpower]

i read week ago about slovak bycicle racers, who were racing near Chernobyl few days after disaster, governent said to them, that all is safe and radiaton risk is in country,
sure they lie,

[SFDMALEX]

For those who is playing with any kind of thought of going there - DONT YOU EVEN THINK about it! Your body will absorbe so much radiation that it can kill you very fast :!: Those who are going there are probably crazy ukrains or russians who have no fucking idea what is going on :|

They berried it all but the rest of reactor still can blow the fuck up as I seen on TV(dont trust TV but this might be real danger) cause noone is willing to open it up and dig in it again cause those who would do it will die instatntly after that.

meh they have a little section on Chernobyl on BBC.co.uk

Some places the radiation is lower then London.

It's ok to be exposed to it for short periods of time, but of course there are places were its stricly forbiden.

But most of the region surround the reactor is ok ;)


It's Belarus who got the bad end of it all...On the Ukranian the radiation is minimal.

[SFDMALEX]

Keiv is 100 kilometers from Pripyat, where the plant is located. They prepared to evacuate Kiev also, but it wasn't necessary then after all. I wouldn't want to be 100 km from the blown up reactor though. I remember how we were reminded not to play in pools, near to drains or sewers or in ditchs that summer, because of the radiation that had been collected to those places due rains and water running. And I live maybe about 1000 kms from Chernobyl.

Radiation in Kyiv is that of any other big European city ;)