Motorcycle ride through Chernobyl

[Cruciform]

Interesting photo diary

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

[Derrick]

cool read thx for the link

[geckoguy157]

realy cool very interesting

[sketchy4]

interesting.

[mk-ultra]

/. rules ! :P

[Sunrunner]

Thanks for sharing that. Very sad.

[crazykeeper]

That was ........Shocking to see that one moment those people had everything then the next...... gone!

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

It is weird to see an entire city... parks, buildings, rides, all there but abandoned.

Aidan

[casacrow]

That was a great read! My buddy live a couple hundred kilometers from there when everything went down and he said the sky looked like it had millions of lil stars flashing all over the place.

[Yve]

thanks for sharing that site....very sad but informative....taking a look into the heart of the disaster is ugly but important for all to see.

[Dani33]

Thank you for sharing. It's so aweful, what their government did to them. They didn't even know. I remeber seeing an article about women who were pregnant during and after the time of the accident. All of the babies were born without an arm. Can't remeber if it was left or right. I just remember a picture of a line up of all these children, all missing the same limb. The world knew before the people who lived next to it. Very sad. My husband and I were talking about it. Our nuclear plants use a lot of safety measures. If you look at ours, the reactors are encased in cement. Theirs were simply inside of a factory. Almost unbelievable.

[Dozer]

being a child of chernobyl myself, i really enjoyed the article :) good read :D


cemeent casings only provide little help... once a reactor is started, its got mad potential power...

[Jeff_Favelle]

Wow. That was a very interesting sit to go through. I'm sure most of the world has forgotten about Chernobyl, but not the people affected directly. Makes other things seem kind of insignificant sometimes.

[Sunrunner]

Can anyone relay the story of what exactly happend?

[Ryan and Katie]

The pictures are eerie, but oddly peaceful....

[MouseKilla]

I don't know a lot about it but I think it was just an old, cheaply constructed powerplant. It was neglected and grossly underfunded because the government was largely corrupt. Officials filled their own pockets and the pockets of their friends rather than maintain utilities. Predictably, there was a disaster.

But don't worry, that could never happen here in Canada. Well, alright, we had the Walkerton thing but our neglected nuke plants haven't melted down... yet. Yes, everything is fine, nuclear power is perfectly safe, just hang on to these potasium iodine pills just for fun.lol!

[Cruciform]

They were running tests of the cooling systems and a flow control valve failed. There were supposed to be failsafe controls in place to re-fill the cooling rod chambers with water, but they didn't activate.

The rods became so hot they cracked the concrete casing of the reactor and the fire began to spread.

The graphite at the core turned into a big slag piles, and the smoke pored out through the top of the reactor. Anyone who stuck around to fight the fire was doomed, but many did anyway.

The smoke spread and blanketed everything that was already irradiated by rays with even more radioactive material.

By the time the publc knew what was going on thousands were already poisoned. :(

[Dani33]

Does anyone know of any good books about it? This has peaked my interest.

[Katt]

Wow, incredible. Reading and looking at those desolate pictures have brought tears to my eyes. Those poor unsuspecting people.

Let this be a reminder to all. We're not Gods.

[TheRedDragon]

Wow, that was an interesting read, and those photos at the end really spoke volumes.