Chernobyl 23 years later, Past and Present

[ZammerZee]

Originally Posted by BlueBpy

Ive been interested in this for a long time. The crazyiest thing i saw was some guy with a video camera right after the explosion filming inside the blown up reactor building.

Its on youtube somewhere but its messed because the radiation was so bad that you can see white dots and streaks on the film because of the heavy radiation. Aparatly the guy died two hours after

wow reps for the video if you can find it

[-rhino-]

Originally Posted by Polky

Thousands used to live here, but now.....Its a ghost town.

Originally Posted by Jyeatbvg

In b4 COD4..

LOL too late..


Very interesting post OP, ill rep you on recharge. Chernobyl really interests me.

[Navillus13]

[uhyeah]

50.000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town...

[replicat0r]

[The Gootz]

Very interesting, sub'd for later.

[uhyeah]

Originally Posted by Dan6615

How long will it take before (if ever) Chernobyl is back to normal levels?

Farming or any other type of agricultural industry would be dangerous and completely inappropriate for at least 200 years. It will be at least two centuries before there is any chance the situation can change within the 1.5-mile Exclusion Zone. As for the #4 reactor where the meltdown occurred, we estimate it will be 20,000 years before the real estate will be fully safe.

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[_Ishy]

Is Fallout 3 really that great of a game?

[howies]

Watch this vid

http://www.mediastorm.org/0007.htm

its a photo essay, i found it very moving.

[monsterBEN]

this **** is the real life version of History Channel's Life After People.

[gtg]

Originally Posted by BlueBpy

Toxic cloud from explosion. Aerial view of the damaged core. Roof of the turbine hall is damaged.
Roof of the adjacent reactor 3 (image lower left) shows minor fire damage.


The Prypiat Ferris wheel as seen from inside the town's Palace of Culture.




The Red Forest


The name 'Red Forest' comes from the ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on April 26, 1986.

In the post-disaster cleanup operations, the Red Forest was bulldozed and buried in 'waste graveyards. The site of the Red Forest remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today



Red forest was named so because in a few days after the disaster this area of pine forest turned into ?red? color, than into dead-wood?and now it doesn?t exist at all - young pine growth at this place. ?Red? forest was buried underground.






Burial of radioactive trees occurred in deep trenches ? 0,5?2 meters deep. This is at the level of local groundwater.

This has led to the contamination of groundwater by the accidental release of radioactive substances. According to scientists, already 2?3 years after burial, the existence of radionuclides was noted in the groundwater near the trenches where dead trees were buried.
Currently, the burial place of the dead forest is a source of radioactive substances in the groundwater, which qualifies as long-term contamination.

Because of the negative environmental impact of such an event, as well as the complexity of its removal (minimize), one can conclude that the burial of the dead trees was not a good plan, but only deepened the environmental problems.

Inside the reactor


Whats left of the control center of reactor 4


Lava flows formed by fuel-containing mass in the basement of the plant. Lava flow (1). Concrete (2). Steam pipe (3). Electrical equipment (4)






Thats it, Next one on monday enjoy

more pics here

http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-...tra-death.html

[ViceStan]

I was born in 1986, in ukraine : / .

[BlueBpy]

Originally Posted by tmertz

But seriously i don't see why they don't level everything, wouldn't that make sense instead of it still standing collecting radiations?

The reason is because below the reactor all the nuclear fuel is still there. The structure and the cement over it is containing the material. If that **** broke off again it would be 1986 all over again.

material would go into the air

[uhyeah]

Originally Posted by ViceStan

I was born in 1986, in ukraine : / .

[A_Hard_Rain]

Originally Posted by Jyeatbvg

In b4 COD4..

was the first thing that popped into my head, lulz

[sikorloa]

One of my professors was a nuclear engineer... he said Chernobyl was built to generate power, but also to make nuclear grade plutonium, it was a pretty unstable system.

He also said that if you look at all the facts, the people controlling the disaster KNEW it was going to happen... there's records of what the controllers did, and even a low-level grunt would know that the steps they were taking would lead to meltdown. He said he didn't know if it was a experiment or what, but it just shows how the Soviets didn't give a **** about peoples lives.

[BlueBpy]

I dunno about that....................


Best thing i say is to watch the documentaries. Good ****

Thanks everyone for the reps, i'll post another on mon

[ViceStan]

Originally Posted by uhyeah

Touche.

[L1FTHVY]

Originally Posted by Jyeatbvg

In b4 COD4..

lol i was totally going to type this

[Project_BelAir]

I was told by one of my science teachers that when **** started getting real, the two workers that died were putting sand bags on the reactor untill they died.

[Dan6615]

Simply unreal what happened there. Has anyone found the video shot right after the reactor went?

Edit: video posted in post #63

[ViceStan]

Originally Posted by Dan6615

Simply unreal what happened there. Has anyone found the video shot right after the reactor went?

Even if there was such video made, it would have been destroyed by the radiation.

[ViceStan]

Originally Posted by sikorloa

One of my professors was a nuclear engineer... he said Chernobyl was built to generate power, but also to make nuclear grade plutonium, it was a pretty unstable system.

He also said that if you look at all the facts, the people controlling the disaster KNEW it was going to happen... there's records of what the controllers did, and even a low-level grunt would know that the steps they were taking would lead to meltdown. He said he didn't know if it was a experiment or what, but it just shows how the Soviets didn't give a **** about peoples lives.

Damn son, you had a former intelligence officer specializing on analyzing data slash nuclear engineer with access to top secret data as a professor?. Russo phobia at its finest.

[sikorloa]

Originally Posted by ViceStan

Damn son, you had a former intelligence officer specializing on analyzing data slash nuclear engineer with access to top secret data as a professor?. Russo phobia at its finest.

None of its secret anymore

[fenixzona]

Originally Posted by ViceStan

I was born in 1986, in ukraine : / .

Well, that explains much.

[MrGuitar]

Originally Posted by Navillus13

wow. great footage. Those people had no idea of the danger they were in.

[BlueBpy]

lol

ill post that video of the guy filming hours later. will have to do it tonight when im at home

[Legacy97]

cliffs?

[Dan6615]

Originally Posted by MrGuitar

wow. great footage. Those people had no idea of the danger they were in.

I find it hard to believe they had no idea of the dangers. They can split the atom, harness it's power but they dont know the dangers of fallout? Seems like they just where kept in the dark by the morally deficient USSR brass.

[Dan6615]

Originally Posted by Legacy97

cliffs?

Power plant goes nuclear, keep the world in the dark, bunch of people die, city is still nuclear.