Photos from Chernobyl,nearly 20 years later

[BEATBY6]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41507 Words can't describe these pics

 

[bruce]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41507 Words can't describe these pics

It's amazing how many men, just walked into Hell, to stop the fire, and contain the radiation. There are Heros, and there are Heros, talk about devotion to duty, and country.
Incredible....

 

[tes87gn]

Very Surreal!

I had heard about the story but never realized how devistating it actually was. Those pics looked like something from a movie set. Time actually has stopped there. Very sad.

 

[UNGN]

That looks pretty much like any city would 20 years after everyone moved out. It's not really "devastation".

The Death toll so far from Chernobyl (as of September 2005) is "less than 50" per a 600 page report commissioned by the United Nations. Bet that is a shock.

The report says that as many as 4000 people may have gotten thyroid cancer from the incident, but 20 years after, only 9 have died of it so far and the rest have fully recovered. I can't imagine 4000 people going to a hospital in Russia and 3991 coming out alive, but the UN says it's true.

They say that from 86-87 200,000 rescue, recovery and containment were exposed to "high levels" of radiation. Of those, they say 2,000 could die prematurely from the effect of radiation. MANY more will die "prematurely" from the fact they had to move from their homes and are now "victims" and the general pshycological effects from the accident.

Not quite the china sydrome nuclear boogieman we all have become afraid of. The fear associated with a nuclear meltdown ends up killing more than the meltdown.

 

[bruce]

The Death toll so far from Chernobyl (as of September 2005) is "less than 50" per a 600 page report commissioned by the United Nations.

All one needs to do is believe the UN, without question....

Oh it's not that the IAEA hasn't been played for being fools in the past. Does anyone else remember what a *surprise* it was that during DS so much Nuclear materials were found?.

 

[UNGN]

All one needs to do is believe the UN, without question....

Oh it's not that the IAEA hasn't been played for being fools in the past. Does anyone else remember what a *surprise* it was that during DS so much Nuclear materials were found?.

The report comes from hundreds of scientists that have studied Chernobyl.
The UN just commisioned it.

The media has spread rumors of 100's of thousands of dead. The whole world has watched Chernobyl. It's in the Ukraine and not in russia. There aren't mass graves anywhere. If there were 100,000 or 10,000 or even 1,000 dead we would know about it.

In 10 years anyone north of the gulf coast won't remember the name "katrina", but will remember "chernobyl". One caused 100X the devastation and 25X the loss of life (including the long term effects and deaths) and yet we still build beach houses and don't build nuclear power plants.

 

[gordyzx9r]

There is a site out there somewhere...with a Russian girl who rides her crotch rocket (I think it's a CBR Blackbird) through the area and takes you on an eerie and lengthy visual tour.

 

[Randy Greenoe]

There is a site out there somewhere...with a Russian girl who rides her crotch rocket (I think it's a CBR Blackbird) through the area and takes you on an eerie and lengthy visual tour.

THANK YOU! I was looking at the pictures and was thinking I had seen those pictures before.

 

[tes87gn]

That looks pretty much like any city would 20 years after everyone moved out. It's not really "devastation".

I use the term "devastation" in reguards to the social infastructure of the area NOT actual physical damage. The surrounding area can not be inhabited for hundreds of years due to fallout. After a storm destroys property you can move in, clean up and rebuild. A nuclear facility melts down no repopulating or rebuilding in that region for generations and generations.

 

[UNGN]

That looks pretty much like any city would 20 years after everyone moved out. It's not really "devastation".

I use the term "devastation" in reguards to the social infastructure of the area NOT actual physical damage. The surrounding area can not be inhabited for hundreds of years due to fallout. After a storm destroys property you can move in, clean up and rebuild. A nuclear facility melts down no repopulating or rebuilding in that region for generations and generations.

Actually, they could move back if they cleaned it up. They could have moved back in the 90's and not "generations" later. Cleaning up the area around the Chernobyl would cost a fraction of what it will cost to rebuild New Orleans alone. The Ukraine has no money and since the area affected really isn't all that large, they just abandoned it.

People still live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They received just a tiny bit more nuclear fallout than Chernobyl.

Note the "tiny bit" part of my reply was sarcasm. Nagasaki was a Plutonium bomb. Many orders of magnitude worse than anything that came flying out of Chernobyl.

 

[2quiktocare]

Thanks for lending the proper perspective to that whole event UNGN. Too many believe all the hype issued by Hollywood about atomic energy. The movies all assume that people just sit back and let things reach critical mass and implode. The "devastation" in those pictures is due to abandonment rather than damage from the radiation. It is healthy to see nature reclaiming itself after humans leave it alone.

 

[SloGN]

Wow

that makes for some interesting reading http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/chapter38.html

i was 7 yrs old then and i have just now learned about this disater. History is something else when discovered.