the true battle of Chernobyl

[jverne]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319&hl=en

a must see.

i've already know much about the accident but it still a unsettling feeling thinking about it.

i'm not an anti-nuclear fission (as an energy source) supporter.




if a modern powerful nuke (ground burst) would go off in the middle of europe, probably life on the whole continent would be miserable for hundreds if not thousands of years. Chernobyl's explosion was a pale comparison to a proper nuke. the world has thousands of them above the megaton range. with this much power i doubt we'd see a reasonably well off world like in Fallout or similar fiction. i'm not thinking just of destruction from the blast, but about the fallout. the birth defect rate and cancer would probably be so high nobody would even care about having children or the ones that survive would be extremely lucky. plant and animal life would without a doubt go on, but humans as we know today are way to fragile to survive in such a world.

it's really a creepy thought.

 

[highlander]

Creepy thought.

 

[Adabiviak]

Get out of here, Stalker.

edit - my wife and I watched the whole thing. Neat!

 

[French Ninja]

So there was an actual explosion? I always imagined it as more of a massive leak and maybe some smoke.

 

[jverne]

So there was an actual explosion? I always imagined it as more of a massive leak and maybe some smoke.

well there was not an actual fission reaction, but the vapor collected blew of the top and sent radioactive dust everywhere.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

1:20 blowout imminent stalker

 

[Kula Meenur]

Been there, seen that. Original is better.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Creepy thought.

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