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I would have thought the entire town was a ghost town? So are people still working in the plant which blew up?
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Those pictures of the dodgems are amazing - they tell you more about the place than words ever could. Surreal.
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Indeed, look at the desolate funfair for a few moments and you can almost hear the ghostly laughter of children, eerie place.
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Interesting place.
It's amazing how well the call of duty guys captured the place in the game.
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In early 1991, I was passing by Chernobyl on the overnight train from Moscow to Kiev. In my 4-berth sleeper carriage was a man, in evidently extremely poor health from the fact he could barely breath and was somewhat disfigured.
He had been a fireman attending the plant that day, and had not been issued with suitable protective clothing. He told me that he thought he had 3 months or so to live.
Mushrooms were the one thing on the menu which we were told to avoid at all costs whilst in Kiev.
I would love to visit Pripyat', and intend to do so when circumstances allow.
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All the children at my wife's school were made to drink some kind of iodide compound for several weeks after the Chernobyl disaster.
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>>All the children at my wife's school were made to drink some kind of iodide compound for several weeks after the Chernobyl disaster. <<
We never got any after the Sellafield escape in `57, and cancer is rife around here! - well above the national average i should assume. How much that is due to Sellafield I don`t know, but I reckon we`re all dosed with "blowover fallout" from Chernobyl anyway!
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"well above the national average i should assume. "
Why should you so assume? If you don't have any statistics how can you make such a statement?
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"Why should you so assume? If you don't have any statistics how can you make such a statement?"
Not irrefutable proof but blinking good evidence.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_4521000/4521673.stm
Last edited by: Pugugly on Thu 10 Feb 11 at 11:17
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Without actually naming names, I know of at least 20 people that have died of various Cancers in the last five years alone, in fact 2months ago a lad died of spinal tumours, he was 22, at present I know of another young chap (39) that will probably die this year. All this in a town of 6000 folk cant be normal? can it?
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It is Skoda - a feeling of Deja Vu looking at those photos of the Ferris Wheel and the hotel.
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>> It is Skoda - a feeling of Deja Vu looking at those photos of the
>> Ferris Wheel and the hotel.
Spent a bit of time hiding in that bumper car enclosure, and got fried a couple of times backing off into the high radiation zone. A few claymores near the hotel levelled the playing field a bit though.
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I was the one next to you with the hangdog expression - I need to de-stress - where's that disc ?
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It would be interesting to go and see the place.
I looked it up on Wikipedia and if my calculations are correct, I reckon that the radiation in most areas is only about 4 times the average background radiation across the world (24 microsieverts/day compared to 6 microsieverts).
That could have a big impact over a long period of time, for example being there 10 years would be like getting 40 years of normal exposure, but just being there for a couple of days is like another week of normal radiation).
I understand that some rare species are flourishing there now, given the relative absence of man.
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Anyone remember this from a few years ago?
www.kiddofspeed.com/
Phil
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Hi Phil, I was about to post something about seeing this as I'm sure a link exists somewhere in my machine. From memory the bits I read yonks ago were both enlightening and disturbing in equal parts. I think I saved some pics somewhere.
MD
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One of the photos in the above links is labeled as being "dosimeter machines". Not strictly true, they're actually "Personnel Contamination Monitors."
Dosimeters are generally worn by people who work with radiation. "Personnel Contamination Monitors" generally fall into the category - Radiation Protection Instrumentation (RPI)
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sit down,pull up your chair - RattleandSmoke
