Haunting pictures of Chernobyl

The ambient radiation level around Chernobyl has gone down enough since 1986 that one can visit the nearby ghost cities. Don't forget your radiation meter and a full tank of gas; you don't want to stay too long. Here's the website of a woman who has travelled through there on her motorcycle.

Pygmalion

I saw that site posted on another messageboard I frequent not all that long ago. Haunting is indeed the right word.

interesting indeed. I heard children are still being born today with deformites caused by chernobyl radiation.

Crazy man... I don't care how long it's been, you'll never catch me there.

unbelievable. That is just... 600-900 years before the really bad stuff is gone, eh? I wonder if any of those buildings will be left?

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Originally posted by GK Version 1 Crazy man... I don't care how long it's been, you'll never catch me there.

DITTO!

hear's a question for the sience nutz, if the half life is so long, then wouldent the soin underneeth become infected, then the soil under that, then the soil under that?

i dont know the answer, help me sience people!

Man, if it was bad enough with those pictures, imagine what it'd be like after nightfall! *shivers*

ive alwasys wanted to check that place out.....

"Roan! turn off the lights!"

"they are off....."

Wasnt that in Ukraine or something when a atomic plant exploded and thousands of people were radiated to death? Man Radiation is odd, most things seem like they were just left there.

Wow...these are very...haunting.

I find them VERY interesting to look at. I don't know the whole story behind the plant, just that it was an accident that made people question nuclear power.

All I can say is wow. (I find weird stuff like this cool.) I'd like to check out the abandoned places, but I would be too worried about the raditation.

Thanks for sharing!

Later,
Pen1300

Not really all that disturbing, interesting in fact , until she got to the kindergarten rooms.

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Originally posted by Prons Wasnt that in Ukraine or something when a atomic plant exploded and thousands of people were radiated to death? Man Radiation is odd, most things seem like they were just left there.

No.

Some idiots at the plant removed every single safety system during a routine repair...and then ran the plant to see what would happen. (exactly who the idiot was is still argued...no one wants to say it was from their department.) They happened to use a self-fueling reaction...so it got hotter and hotter when left on its own. (American plants naturally eat themselves to death, so they cool down when left on their own. It's less efficient, but worth it when you look at the worst case?

It did explode, but thousands weren't killed. An entire town was evacuated really really fast, which is why it looks like a ghost town. Most of the people that did die were Russian soldiers who threw chemicals on the fire to try and stop it. They knew it was probably going to kill them, and did it anyway to try and save the town.

Likewise no deformed babies. The biggest problem afterward is thyroid disorders/cancer. And like a lot of toxins, younger and older people are more easily affected. What does suck is that ash from the explosion swept across Europe afterward, so that people had to dump crop/livestock even though they were miles from the explosion.

Fun fact, though...this plant was one of six on that site. They kept the others running afterward. They had to shuttle people in because no one would live in the town, but they did find people that would work there.

That's a brave, adventurous, Kawasaki ZX-11C-mounted young lady, there.

Everything looks so c-c-cold.

Creeeeepy!

Like something out of a movie.

I remember seeing the whole Chernobyl incident unfold when I was a child. These pieces of photographic evidence should serve as a reminder of why we should develop and maintain strict safety regulations concerning health and operations. Oh well, we'll see what history has to say about this.

Not that, but close.

Yeah, some friends and I were looking at this site in school before. Interesting stuff.

These pictures were very interesting and addicting to look at.

Very haunting pictures. I don't think I would have enough courage to venture close to Chernobyl. Plus, I would be scared to death riding around abandoned places like that.