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Apr 26th, 2005 at 2:13am

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Nineteen years ago today number 4 reactor and Chernobyl went critical. Thousands of Soviet soldiers and firemen sacrificed their lives and millions of innocents were contaminated in the biggest cock-up in nuclear history.
Oh and if you ever visit Kiev there is a giant geiger counter in the middle of the main square to tell you that days rads Sad
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 2:33am

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Yup.
The sad thing is - many of those firefighters died for nothing. They were flying over the reactor throwing down cement, thus bringing up radioactive dust right at their helicopters. The scientist in charge of the operation calculated that if there is as much water left in the resevoir as he thinks there is, there could be a blast that would take out a radius of 150km (Kiev being in that blast radius) So the idea was to get rid of the water so there wouldn't be any explosion. After the fire ended, they went in and saw a whole lot of dry sement and sand - there was no water, and they were wasting their time and lives dumping it onto the fire.
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Reply #2 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 9:53pm

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  Has it really been nineteen years?
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 1:46am
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Reply #4 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 4:26am

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A three legged chicken would be more useful, especially at dinner time!
 
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Reply #5 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 10:34am
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I was born April 24th, 1986, two days before the incident. Go figure..
 
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Reply #6 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 3:08pm

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I saw a documentary about this a few years ago. The city of Chernobyl (that is the name of the city too, right?) is deserted, and everything is left exactly as it was that day. Books still open, cups and plates sitting on tables. Its pretty creepy.
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 27th, 2005 at 5:03pm

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  Hopefully no where near Chernobyl.

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Reply #8 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 6:26am
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Thats really eerie, Tacit...really freaky....

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Reply #9 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 6:33am

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Thats really eerie, Tacit...really freaky....

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Reply #10 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 9:05am
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Hopefully no where near Chernobyl.


Eastern Germany.

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I'm at best health and I don't think the radiation has effected anyone to a greater extent in the former GDR.

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Reply #11 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 9:09am

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You might find this interesting. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

very interesting site, that does indeed look very eerie.

from doug's link, a comment about the town "Pripyat":

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This town might be an attractive place for tourists. Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange tours in this town, but the first group of tourists found the silence unnerving and downright SPOOKY. And it is. They charged 1200 hryvnas for a 2 hour excursion and after some 15 minutes, they wanted to flee to the outside world. The silence here is deafening.


i remember the aftermath of the disaster. even in south-germany we weren't allowed to play at certain playgrounds or eat berries from the forest because of the radiation

EDIT: alles gute nachträglich björn! Smiley
 
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Reply #12 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 9:56am
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Reply #13 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 2:56pm

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what did he said??
goodnight?
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Reply #14 - Apr 28th, 2005 at 2:58pm

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A Ukrainian friend sent me this joke ages back, I just remembered it.
The international inspection teams arrive in Chernobyl, and the American team send in their robot to do an inspection. After 5 minutes it breaks down because of the radiation.
Next the Japanese team send in their robot to do an inspection. After 10 minutes it breaks down because of the radiation.
The Russian team sends in theirs, and after 2 hours its still working, the Russian team are smiling at their American and Japanese counterparts and then pick-up the radio and say "Private Ivanov you can come down for a cigarette break now" Grin
 
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That one was really good! Grin
 
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Reply #16 - Apr 29th, 2005 at 2:11am

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Wait a sec.
The Chernobyl AES had more reactors. I am pretty sure that after they made the sarcauphagus over reactor 4, operations continued in the remaining reactors untill almost 2000. So anyone know HOW they continued operations?
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Reply #17 - Apr 29th, 2005 at 6:01am
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Like in every other nuclear power plant?
 
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Reply #18 - May 6th, 2005 at 1:20pm

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Like in every other nuclear power plant?


Sorry for misphrasing. But I have also heard about levels of radiation there being above max recomended for humans. I assume that the other reactors were not run by computers. The other reactors were close to the epicenter...so how do the people working there survive?
 
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Reply #19 - May 8th, 2005 at 12:17pm

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They dont. From that link Hagar posted (wich was awsome!) I found out that they closed the plant completely in 2000. They are going to have to build a new containment thing (cant spell the real name for it!) for the reactor soon though.
 
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Reply #20 - May 8th, 2005 at 1:49pm

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They dont. From that link Hagar posted (wich was awsome!) I found out that they closed the plant completely in 2000. They are going to have to build a new containment thing (cant spell the real name for it!) for the reactor soon though.


But how did it function untill it closed in 2000?  ???
 
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Reply #21 - May 8th, 2005 at 2:04pm

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radiation siuts? maybe? I really dont know.
 
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Reply #22 - May 8th, 2005 at 4:37pm

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Here is a news article that was published in 2000 when the final reactor was shut down.  It briefly mentions the station's director was wearing "white protective clothing."  So, the workers who were there were clearly wearing some kind of raditation suit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1071344.stm
 
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Reply #23 - May 8th, 2005 at 5:34pm

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