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This is new feeling. Villages, roads, woods here might look the same as beyond zone, but they are not the same. It feels like you steped inside of the picture. Everthing is not real, like painted.
And it is poetic:
...here is thing that turned whole region into a desert. It is closed now.
The most exciting thing about rides in Ghosttown is to hit a red line on my bike's tacho and break this silence with roar of a wounded dinosaur and then to close throttle and listen how all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin.
She has a very sympathetic method of writing. Actual and emotional experiences combined - very moving.
I am in Brittany which outside of Finland is the most "nuclear" part of the world ...
I think we have 14 reactors in an area the size of Devon and Cornwall....
I used to live in the Cannes / Nice area ...
You still shouldn't eat the mushrooms there ....
Our government told every one at the time that the fallout cloud stopped at the French border...
Most people in France beleive them ....
You can't buy a "dosimeter" or gieger counter easily in France .....
This girls article is like getting gutshot ...
Like Steve says ...makes your skin crawl and your eyes blurry .....and so sad and angry and scared ..
Maybe some of us that have some space on servers could write her and offer Mirrors and or translations if she agrees ..,
...this is what the net should be used for ...
[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:53 pm (utc) on Mar. 31, 2004]
I don't remember Chernobyl. In my mind, it's kind of like an urban legend. Something you hear about but you don't really know how real it is or understand how big it was. Those pictures made it real. It had never occured to me that such a disaster would leave such a swath of desolution behind it, even so many years later.
from the first look ghosttown seems like a normal town, someone put their washing hungs on a balcony, some windows open, other clothed, here is taxi stop, there is grocery store... then, you read this slogan on building- "party of Lenin lead us to the triumph of a communism"- that helps to realise that clothes hung on balcony for 18 years and that town is empty..
I'm speechless.
It's good these things are documented, so they will be remembered. 3 mile island ( [pbs.org...] ) is also such a thing which should be remembered - it hit close to home, me living just outside of Toronto.
If you do a Google search on "Chernobyl disaster" there are mirrors to this same site.
Here's a couple of mirrors I've found with a few different pictures from the same author.
[xpda.com...]
[vincent.vanscherpenseel.nl...]
This is from another survivor:
[wsu.edu...]
[wsu.edu...]
[wsu.edu...]
Here's a current photo of the control room where it all went wrong:
[theglobalist.com...]
If you do a Google image search on this, well.....be prepared.
...it hit close to home, me living just outside of Toronto.
I lived about 30 minutes east of the plant - the NRC claims there was no real damage from the release of the irradiated steam, yet a statistically improbable portion of the folks on the West Shore across from the plant have since died of various cancers and rare gland disorders...
If you do a Google image search on this, well.....be prepared.
Chernobyl? - I love when the Image searches return naked ladies even w/SafeSearch on!
Incredible stuff. I'd be terrified to take that ride, dosimeter or not. Just the idea of travelling somewhere where I would need one scares me...
Funny though. I remember when it happened, and I'm sure none of the press coverage I saw actually explained how devastating it really was. Apparently, even the people in the area didn't know at the time.
The fire truck photo sticks with me. The idea that firemen who responded to the scene thought it was just a regular fire... nobody told them, nobody gave them radiation gear to wear. *shiver*
And the kindergarten classroom at the end.
I did not know that it was started by pressing a wrong button though!
People press the wrong buttons all of the time. The entire process was sloppy and flawed.
Exactly:
"The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety. "
- [uic.com.au...]
Interesting link...readers may want to take note of what U.I.C. stands for: Uranium Information Centre Ltd.
I notice that, although the sources it cites seem reliable, the claims it makes about death-toll and health effects of the disaster are dramatically different from other claims I've seen on the net.
As for the site that's the subject of the thread...chilling.
-B
[edited by: lawman at 12:00 pm (utc) on April 1, 2004]
claims it makes about death-toll and health effects of the disaster are dramatically different from other claims I've seen on the net.
I think that the number affected will never be truly known. If I remember correctly, the USSR did not tell anyone that the accident occured and Europe only discovered it due to the cloud that was formed and floated their way. There are many conspirocy theories that say the USSR hid the death toll as well, but I doubt there will ever be a real answer to the question.
But one does have to wonder... The A-Bomb in Hiroshima killed something like 140,000 by the end of the year and affected the health of over 350,000. That was nearly the entire population of the city. While some was from the initial blast, quite a bit of that was from the radiation, and I think you can still live in Hiroshima.
The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel and without proper regard for safety.But most of us still use Windows... sheesh!
Herenvardö
And the whole shift was charged. A lot of good that did. The ones who should have been held responsible got nothing.
Anyone seen "the widow maker". Similar story but only Russian army boys affected. Still a tragedy.
a reflective Shane
Thanks, snowman, that link was incredible. Thank you for sharing.