The unofficial Chernobyl thread

[BWF89]

http://www.englishrussia.com/images/chernobyl_pripyat/001.jpg

I'm really interested in Chernobyl and looking at the pics of the abondoned and looted dead zone around the accident is fascinating to me. Feel free to share anything.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=293

http://kiddofspeed.com/

[chaosgeisterchen]

Hmh.. chernobyl should have opened eyes of people, making them aware of how important security issues are upon nuclear power plants.. but nowadays, no one cares about it seems :(

We got this 'Temelin' just about 20 kms from here. And its condition is utmost desolate. Well, every day I have to fear for my life. It's great, isn't it ...

[Michael_aust]

There are some pretty interesting documentarios on TV about Chernobyl, particularaly regarding the clean up afterwards by the army and things.

[sup]

We got this 'Temelin' just about 20 kms from here. And its condition is utmost desolate. Well, every day I have to fear for my life. It's great, isn't it ...

Well, 150km is a little more but I have no fears whatsoever and I always like to come back to South Czech region.
Actually as far as I know, there has been a lot of one-sided (both for and against) publicity about it and I fear that the virtual image might not correspond with reality.

[zubrug]

That was quite cool, thank you for a great tour.
Can't help but find that quite fascinating!

[MetalMusicAddict]

Yea. Thanx for the links. Its crazy to see a city of that size just totally abandoned. Trees comming back into the city and all.

Will it ever be safe to live there again?

[BWF89]

Yea. Thanx for the links. Its crazy to see a city of that size just totally abandoned. Trees comming back into the city and all.

Will it ever be safe to live there again?
Actually in the more more rural regions of the former USSR theres entire towns that are abondoned. After the collapse of the USSR the military that ran power and utilities to the towns nolonger had the money so people just left. http://englishrussia.com/?p=276

Theres still a handful of people that live in the Chernobyl dead zone and theres tons of wildlife.

[fuscia]

kiddofspeed is a fun site. i brought this up a long time ago, if you're interested... http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140793&highlight=chernobyl

[prizrak]

Hmh.. chernobyl should have opened eyes of people, making them aware of how important security issues are upon nuclear power plants.. but nowadays, no one cares about it seems :(

We got this 'Temelin' just about 20 kms from here. And its condition is utmost desolate. Well, every day I have to fear for my life. It's great, isn't it ...
Don't be afraid for your life, if one thing is for sure is that you will die at some point in time. Just leave your life and don't think about it.

[slimdog360]

I feel sorry for everyone involved in that accident but I think its a shame how that mistake shapes the way everyone thinks about nuclear power. Particularly in Australia. People go saying so much crap without knowing anything about it.

[Brunellus]

I feel sorry for everyone involved in that accident but I think its a shame how that mistake shapes the way everyone thinks about nuclear power. Particularly in Australia. People go saying so much crap without knowing anything about it.
I totally agree. Chernobyl-style reactors simply won't be built anymore.

In a world of oil-fueled terror and carbon emissions, maybe it's time we all started to take a good, hard look at nuclear power and the nuclear fuel reprocessing cycle again.

[prizrak]

slimdog, brunellus,
Don't even get me started. Nuclear power has been proven time and time again to be the most ecologically friendly way of generating power. There are even new power plant designs that make the risk almost 0. And here I'm talking about the physical design of the plant not even the failsafe systems that would of course be there.

Though I must say, nuclear power is probably the least efficient way of boiling water ;)

[Brunellus]

slimdog, brunellus,
Don't even get me started. Nuclear power has been proven time and time again to be the most ecologically friendly way of generating power. There are even new power plant designs that make the risk almost 0. And here I'm talking about the physical design of the plant not even the failsafe systems that would of course be there.

Though I must say, nuclear power is probably the least efficient way of boiling water ;)
I agree. What I meant to say above was this--maybe it's time we learned the lessons of Chernobyl: rather than cowering in fear from atomic energy, we should learn to manage it.

Energy demand is only going up, and fossil fuels are an increasingly bad choice to supply it. It's high time we ramped up nuclear energy production and nuclear fuel reprocessing.

[chaosgeisterchen]

Don't be afraid for your life, if one thing is for sure is that you will die at some point in time. Just leave your life and don't think about it.

Right.. but I do not think it's fair not to think about it any longer. Harmful technology in desolate condition is a timebomb.

[prizrak]

Right.. but I do not think it's fair not to think about it any longer. Harmful technology in desolate condition is a timebomb.
If you can, do something about it. If you can't being afraid won't do much good