Chernobyl - 21 years ago

anyone have a link to that website with all the creepy modern pictures of chernobyl as it is today? Some guy walked around the deserted city and took pictures of entirely emptied streets, apartment buildings, rooms with toy dolls missing an eye, grainy photographs on the floor.
 
The accident at Three Mile Island was nowhere near as catastrophic as the Chernobyl accident. I was in 8th grade when it happened. The word didn't get out as fast as it should have (those crazy Soviets!) so by the time it really sank in, much of the 'extreme' damage was done. In California, I wasn't sweating it too much, and it wasn't until recently, concidentally, that I began looking at the aftermath of Chernobyl by way of mutations/high cancer rates in Minsk and Belarus in general.
 
Jerry_111 said:
anyone have a link to that website with all the creepy modern pictures of chernobyl as it is today? Some guy walked around the deserted city and took pictures of entirely emptied streets, apartment buildings, rooms with toy dolls missing an eye, grainy photographs on the floor.
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It was of some chick that road her bike through the zone of exclusion. I recall it being proved fake or sommat.

But i've seen them. I even found these pics of these guys who went into the sarcophagus to measure the radiation levels.

Really doesn't seem that scary. Looks like a post shootout east bloc town.
 
Why dont ukrainians where underpants?
Because Chernobyl fallout.

lol. when the above joke was told to me thats when I decided to read up on the chernobyl disaster.
 
What the hell is this STALKER crap everyone keeps talking about?
 
TollBooth Willie said:
Don't give me that bullshit again son. ಠ_ಠ
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NO U

Samon said:
stfu Steven
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When are we going to start cracking down on the way over cooked putin pun.
 
babyheadcrab said:
WTF Pig-Dog-Bears !!! Somebody do something D: D: D:
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First I thought what's this with the swimming dogs, then I saw the snout and thought OK they're wild bores of some sort, then took a better look at the bigger ones heads and thought hey they look like bears? What the...? D:
 
lePobz said:
Ahh I see what you mean. I don't think anyone will forget. I think Chernobyl is a word known worldwide. Unfortunately nobody learns from the mistakes of the past, so it won't be the last.
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And apparently is was predicted in the bible
 
DEATH eVADER said:
And apparently is was predicted in the bible
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As was 9/11 and princess di.

Chruchies are grasping at straws....I want to see in the bible where it says, "THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN CHERNOBYL WILL MELT DOWN!"
 
CyberPitz said:
As was 9/11 and princess di.

Chruchies are grasping at straws....I want to see in the bible where it says, "THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN CHERNOBYL WILL MELT DOWN!"
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Rev: 12:45

And Gabriel said unto Noah; "Two big towers located in central manhattan in New york, along with an ugly-ass building in Washington will be hit by hijacked twin-engine commercial jet planes. And the people shall invent stupid conspiracy theories, and there shall be a crappy movie starring Nicholas Cage. Thus is His will, for the Lord works in mysterious, inefficient and cruel ways. Blessed be Him."
 
AJ Rimmer said:
Rev: 12:45

And Gabriel said unto Noah; "Two big towers located in central manhattan in New york, along with an ugly-ass building in Washington will be hit by hijacked twin-engine commercial jet planes. And the people shall invent stupid conspiracy theories, and there shall be a crappy movie starring Nicholas Cage. Thus is His will, for the Lord works in mysterious, inefficient and cruel ways. Blessed be Him."
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Is it bad that I almost laughed out of my chair whilst at work?
 
Shippi said:
We were taught about it in primary school, as we were linked with some school near Chernobyl - close enough for all the kids to be suffering all kinds of awful diseases, but I'm not sure exactly where they were from. I think every year or so a small number of them would come and visit my town and go to our school. They looked ill -it was so sad meeting them, but they were so happy to be here. We were told that the longer they were able to visit us, the longer they would survive, because they could get away from the contamination or something. This was 10+ years ago.
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I can only imagine how I would feel having people with that sort of thing happening. I mean, I get really sad and down about thinking of the people over in Japan when we dropped the bombs on them...it's a horrible feeling I have, and the visions I've gotten from people drawing/telling the stories....it's just horrible.
 
I wasnt alive during Chernobyl. I dont really know why Im so familiar with it, because it wasnt taught in my school either. One too many history channel specials I think.

Anyway, it was very sad for two reasons: one obviously being the lives lost not only directly in the accident but also later because of the radioactivity, and two being the fact that what happened at Chernobyl dissuades countries like america from harnessing nuclear power... which is annyoing.
 
Taboo said:
I wasnt alive during Chernobyl. I dont really know why Im so familiar with it, because it wasnt taught in my school either. One too many history channel specials I think.

Anyway, it was very sad for two reasons: one obviously being the lives lost not only directly in the accident but also later because of the radioactivity, and two being the fact that what happened at Chernobyl dissuades countries like america from harnessing nuclear power... which is annyoing.
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I believe the Nuclear Power collapse in the US began before Chernobyl, starting with Three-mile Island.

Chernobyl without a doubt re-inforced it, though.
 
Those guys who were shoveling the debris back inside the building, and putting out the fires etc are awesome heroes of the epic variety.

Don't let it put you off nuclear power though guys, nuclear power is wonderful.
 
Except for the whole Nuclear waste thing, of which we have no real long-term solution to.

It is still pretty good, I don't deny that, but it's not the end all be all to our energy problems.
 
Baal said:
Except for the whole Nuclear waste thing, of which we have no real long-term solution to.

It is still pretty good, I don't deny that, but it's not the end all be all to our energy problems.
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Blast it into space the next time someone launches a satilite.
*gets onto the phone with Doctor Kleiner*
 
riomhaire said:
Blast it into space the next time someone launches a satilite.
*gets onto the phone with Doctor Kleiner*
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I never cease to be amazed by people who want to put several tonnes of nuclear waste on a flying bomb.

Anyway, nuclear power is great. Cheap, powerful and inexhaustable. And the subject of storage shouldn't stop us from exploiting nuclear power, even if we suddenly to decide to completely give up nuclear power right now, we still have to deal with the waste we already have, that's currently being stored on the sites of nuclear power plants! We *have* to solve that problem anyway, might as well continue and even expand on nuclear power then. And it isn't such a problem, you can store the stuff for thousands of years in geologically calm places, the only problem could be changes in the political climate.

Organizations like Greenpeace make me puke, tree fucking fearmongerers. The only thing they can do is keep refering back to Chernobyl and spread such lies that uranium supplies will run out. Sure, there's always a risk involved, but it's a fact that many more people die yearly from fossil fuels than from nuclear power (be it from exhaust gases or from places like coal mines). It's impossible for our plants to go all Chernobyl on us (and not in a "the Titanic can't sink" kind of impossible, but in the kind that it's not possible by the laws of nature) so refering to Chernobyl is irrelevant.
About the supposed fuel shortage, the few decades of uranium left doesn't take into account breeder reactors which extend the potential fuel left to billions of years. And it that doesn't work out, there's the potential of thorium reactors which is a substance that's three times as common as uranium.

The Greenpeace solutions to the energy problems are laughable, we got an offshore windmill park here, 35 windmills each something like 100 meters tall, in total they provide a continous power of 30 megawatt (100 megawatt peak) which is pathetic (a nuclear power plant is capable of 1 gigawatt) and for an enormous price.
 
PvtRyan said:
I never cease to be amazed by people who want to put several tonnes of nuclear waste on a flying bomb.
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To be honest, in my younger years, I was one of those people. And by younger years, I mean at the age of 10 when I first heard about the problems with nuclear waste.

"But daddy, why don't they just blast the waste into space on a space ship?"

"They don't want to do that because the shuttle could explode on takeoff and cause a huge nuclear disaster"

That was the last time I ever considered the concept of launching nuclear waste into space.
 
Baal said:
Except for the whole Nuclear waste thing, of which we have no real long-term solution to.

It is still pretty good, I don't deny that, but it's not the end all be all to our energy problems.
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Bury it somewhere geologically stable. Anyhoo, I cant remember the exact stats, but with modern reprocessing (over 99% of nuclear waste can be re-used) the amount of nuclear waste a person would produce in a lifetime would be something like the size of a milk bottle.
 
Is that 99% figure cost effective?

It's like anything that's wrong in this world; we generally have the solution for it, but is the solution cost effective?

Cost effective can also include energy effectiveness.
 
Baal said:
Is that 99% figure cost effective?

It's like anything that's wrong in this world; we generally have the solution for it, but is the solution cost effective?

Cost effective can also include energy effectiveness.
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I have no idea. I got that from a very vague memory of something my physics teacher may or may not have said when I may or may not have been listening.
 
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