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Some Chernobyl pictures
dheffley
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Couple of links to some pictures of Chernobyl today. The second like has a "next page" link at the bottom of each page. The first one just uses the numbers at the bottom of the page.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/in_pictures_chernobyl0s_lost_city/html/12.stm
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/in_pictures_chernobyl0s_lost_city/html/12.stm
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/
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I was barely two years old when Chernobyl experienced it's catastrophic disaster. To this day I had no idea how bad it actually was or what kind of regional effect it had on the area and surrounding countries.
There are still workers employed at the plant. The remaining 3 reactors remained in service until December 2000. Workers are still employed at the site, although it is completely shut down, because the remaining three reactors still contain nuclear fuel and need to be watched 24/7/365. They still have to pump cooling water to the remaining 3 cores even though they are not running.
The radiation levels in the worst-hit areas of the reactor building just after the meltdown have been estimated to be 5.6 r?ntgen per second (R/s), which is equivalent to 20,000 r?ntgen per hour (R/h). A lethal dose is around 500 r?ntgen over 5 hours, so in some areas, unprotected workers received fatal doses within several minutes. However, at the time of the disaster, the plant's staff didn't know about the true radiation levels.
Wikipedia: This link gives full detail about the events leading up to the disaster. When reading it, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up knowing what was going to happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
C&P:
First, let's learn a little something about radiation. It is really very simple, and the device we use for measuring radiation levels is called a Geiger counter . If you flick it on in Kiev, it will measure about 12-16 microroentgen per hour. In a typical city of Russia and America, it will read 10-12 microroentgen per hour. In the center of many European cities it will read about 20 microR per hour. 1,000 microroentgens equal one milliroentgen and 1,000 milliroentgens equal 1 roentgen. So one roentgen is 100,000 times the average radiation of a typical city. A dose of 500 roentgens within 5 hours is fatal to humans. Interestingly, it takes about 2 1/2 times that dosage to kill a chicken and over 100 times that to kill a cockroach. This sort of radiation level can not be found in Chernobyl now. In the first days after explosion, some places around the reactor(reactor 4) were emitting 3,000-30,000 roentgens per hour. The firemen who were sent to put out the reactor fire were fried on the spot by gamma radiation. The remains of the reactor were entombed within an enormous steel and concrete sarcophagus, so it is now relatively safe to travel to the area - as long as one does not step off of the roadway and do not nose around in the wrong place.
i enjoyed that. the author's semi-bad english was fun to read. he has a nice way of putting things.
It's a she and she does these rides through there about every two years or so. Her English is much better than my Russian, that's for sure.
Goodle "kid of speed Chernobyl" and look at some of her other rides.
We all live in "Whoville..."
I remember something similar not long ago posted here.
04/30/2007 8:36:28 PM
04/14/2006 10:25:42 AM
09/26/2005 2:08:03 PM
05/04/2005 8:19:24 PM
04/20/2004 07:04:37 AM
03/29/2004 09:16:48 AM
03/07/2004 1:38:41 PM
quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo
I remember something similar not long ago posted here.
04/30/2007 8:36:28 PM
04/14/2006 10:25:42 AM
09/26/2005 2:08:03 PM
05/04/2005 8:19:24 PM
04/20/2004 07:04:37 AM
03/29/2004 09:16:48 AM
03/07/2004 1:38:41 PM
Damn! Bored today Henry?
Good job.
http://www.elenafilatova.com/
......I'd hit that.....[;)]
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I learned a lot from touring the WW2 material- well worth the time spent. My heartfelt thanks ( and PayPal donation) to her for making this material accessible from the comfort and conveniemce of the net.