From Chernobyl with love...

[toads]

err, duh! I just read the urban legend thing, hmm, well I guess it's human nature to want to believe everything you read, it's still a damned good read and the pics are great, she went to a good deal of effort to make the story and should be awarded for the journalism at least.!!

[Big Dog]

Hmmmm..... what the hell do ya believe aye? Well there still has to be a bit of truth in it and the ghost town does exsist and thats a amazing place on its own. Eather way it was a massive wast of life etc I wounder whats going to happen to the asoftaguss *sp (concrete roof) as its now starting to fail... thats if theres any truth in that.

Sarcophagus. Yes there is a lot of truth in that. It was in Maxim that it was poured very hurriedly by monsoon buchet type devices. If precast 1/2 the concrete could have been used to create a covering that would have lasted longer than the radiation. But as it was cast by throwing buckets of concrete at it until the radiation levels dropped it was only estimated to have a 20yr life, especially as it has never been inspected regularly or maintained.

Apparrently the plan 13 years ago (when I was at school) was to build a permanent tomb. But with the advent of Peristroika (*sp*) and in the absence of any commercial motive it now seams unlikely. Estimated costs ran into the millions and assumed the labour would be provided by convicts who were not expected to survive their sentence anyway in order to get favourable treatment for their families. Apparently the probability of any of the workers surviving the job by more than a couple of weeks are so low as to preclude people doing it for money.

[Big Dog]

err, duh! I just read the urban legend thing, hmm, well I guess it's human nature to want to believe everything you read, it's still a damned good read and the pics are great, she went to a good deal of effort to make the story and should be awarded for the journalism at least.!!

I personally found the writing style a little ott with the flowery prose that was so obviously intended to tug the heart strings. I enjoyed the first half of the read though... before it got repetitive.

I just think it is a shame that she has taken such a tradgedy and tried to make it hers. If it had been factual about her real guided tour it would have been an excellent way to raise the profile and awareness of the risks we take with our environment and the strength that mere motals can exhibit in the face of such danger.

[toads]

I personally found the writing style a little ott with the flowery prose that was so obviously intended to tug the heart strings. I enjoyed the first half of the read though... before it got repetitive.

I just think it is a shame that she has taken such a tradgedy and tried to make it hers. If it had been factual about her real guided tour it would have been an excellent way to raise the profile and awareness of the risks we take with our environment and the strength that mere motals can exhibit in the face of such danger.

Yeah well I'm a sap for flowery prose and the like big dog! LOL, and it did at least heighten my awareness of the devastation caused by the chernobyl meltdown, to be honest I haven't really thought about it for at least 15 years. Like it or not it's quite probable it will happen again, there's lots of reactors around and heaps of nuclear waste laying about the planet, just a matter of when and where really.

[pete376403]

Like it or not it's quite probable it will happen again, there's lots of reactors around and heaps of nuclear waste laying about the planet, just a matter of when and where really.

You should have a search on the 'net for info about the Northern Fleet (Russian Navy) and all th old nuke boats and subs they've parked up in Murmansk. That's pretty scary.

[erik]

... If it had been factual about her real guided tour it would have been an excellent way to raise the profile and awareness of the risks we take with our environment and the strength that mere motals can exhibit in the face of such danger.

I reckon that if it'd been a factual thing like you describe, chances are very few of us would have heard about it. The link certainly wouldn't have been spread so thoroughly all over the net as it has.

[Big Dog]

I reckon that if it'd been a factual thing like you describe, chances are very few of us would have heard about it. The link certainly wouldn't have been spread so thoroughly all over the net as it has.

Typical propoganda then?

[moko]

You should have a search on the 'net for info about the Northern Fleet (Russian Navy) and all th old nuke boats and subs they've parked up in Murmansk. That's pretty scary.

What dosnt get so much publicity is the same situation just down the road from me at Devonport dockyard(the original,not kiwi copy)which has a nuke "graveyard"of old subs that no-one knows what to do with.while the politicians argue and try to keep them out of the news they aint going nowhere.The crew of one of the supposed new improved ones recently all but mutinied as they reckon the things are an accident waiting to happen.
When the Chernobyl thing happened sheep farmers in Britain were told they had to destroy their sheep,I think there`s a whole lot that we weren`t told and probably never will be.
Every monday at 11.30 the nuke alarm is tested and a local school is the only one in Europe with a "nuclear alert" warning bell,nice.

[FROSTY:Me]

Ya know its pretty scarey that if human beings dissapeared from the world --earth as we know it would be destroyed.
either by the atomic bombs,the chemical bombs or the pollution we havent cleaned up

[Hitcher]

Ya know its pretty scarey that if human beings dissapeared from the world --earth as we know it would be destroyed.
either by the atomic bombs,the chemical bombs or the pollution we havent cleaned up

The Earth wouldn't be "destroyed". Rather it would just take a while to return to a new equilibrium. Bombs and such wouldn't go off if there were no people around, but nuclear power stations, hydro dams and other devices that require constant human intervention would melt down, explode or overflow.