Popular Post moryc Posted December 4, 2015 Popular Post Posted December 4, 2015 One of the best documentaries I have seen. Its mind boggling what was going on there and how the situation was approached. I will never forget the day when the news broke after I came back from May Day celebration. I remember having to drink iodine in school after the incident. 5
Ken Gargett Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 ta for this. look forward to having a good look when i have a chance. by coincidence, i was about 100 kilometres from chernobyl a week before it went off. was back in london when it happened but got a curious call from my father wanting to know if i was near the explosion. at that stage, i had not heard a word about it (no internet etc) and thought he'd gone mad. a nuclear explosion or whatever? he thought i was telling him porkies as i did not want to worry him. even more bizarre was that i started to get calls from friends about escaping the blast. turns out there was a photo of some swedish bloke and his girlfriend on the front page of the local brizzy paper having been dragged out of the region where they'd been travelling. he was the spitting image of me. i thought everyone was crazy until i saw it - friends and family all posted me copies (it was a slower word back then). truly i was staggered. had i not known better, i would have sworn it was me. but i have digressed again.
Ken Gargett Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Wow, we probably passed by each other. I was also in Kiev a week before! could have been in the same bar!
msm1771 Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 I've always wanted to go on a tour there but it's kinda far away from me. I've seen some tours on YouTube and it looks fascinating! I really wish I could get clearance to Nevada Test Site and look at some of the old test villages they had out there during the cold war. I have a fascination with anything that relates to nuclear energy. I especially want to go to the Marshal Islands and go to the crater where Castle Bravo was dropped which was a 15 megaton (15,000,000 tons of TNT) about 1000 times the size of little boy. Sent from my 86" White Testarossa
NaFFe Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Wow incredible documentary, it was the year i was born. Crazy what those men did for there country
khomeinist Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Very interesting. Familiar with Pripyat from the Stalker series. Lots of information in this film that was new to me. Thanks.
Troels Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Friend of mine were on a tourist Tour in there few years back. Pretty wicked fotos! Theres a tree shooting though the floor of a indoor ball court, apartments left with everything in them withering, An abandonned Tivoli - all very pictoresque He managed to produce fully functionallly kids after the visit
CaptainQuintero Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 It's crazy how far reaching the damage went, there are still fields in the UK which are too radioactive for crops to be grown in them today.
Blace Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Captain Quintero - that is nonsense, there is no way any field in the UK was irradiated so severely from Chernobyl that it can't grow food. Stop buying into the Greenpeace coolaid
Blace Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 If you want some facts on Chernobyl I recommend reading the reports from the UNSCEAR - http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
CaptainQuintero Posted December 5, 2015 Posted December 5, 2015 Talk about putting your foot in your mouth Chernobyl sheep controls lifted in Wales and Cumbria - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17472698 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sheep-in-wales-still-affected-by-chernobyl-1302743.html http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/may/01/jamesmeikle http://www.food.gov.uk/science/research/radiologicalresearch/radiosurv/chernobyl I'm not sure what greenpeace has to do with anything. I can post hundreds of other articles and government papers written over the last few decades if you want
Nrengle Posted December 7, 2015 Posted December 7, 2015 Very interesting watch. I hope to get to Pripyat this summer after festival season.
foursite12 Posted December 7, 2015 Posted December 7, 2015 No expert but thought I read that certain microclimates in Wales, Scotland and northern England had restrictions on sheep being used for human consumption due to their ingestion of natural forage in those areas--but that all such restrictions in the UK were lifted a few years ago.
wabashcr Posted December 7, 2015 Posted December 7, 2015 I've been obsessed with Chernobyl since it happened. I'm fascinated with Soviet era domestic and energy policy to begin with, and the whole Chernobyl story is incredible to me. There's interesting history of the power station and that region prior to the disaster, and what it's become today is unreal. I'd love to visit Pripyat someday, especially before it decays any further. Thanks for sharing.
CaptainQuintero Posted December 7, 2015 Posted December 7, 2015 No expert but thought I read that certain microclimates in Wales, Scotland and northern England had restrictions on sheep being used for human consumption due to their ingestion of natural forage in those areas--but that all such restrictions in the UK were lifted a few years ago. About 10,000 farms were closed, as far as I know most are now open as of a few years ago but they all have all livestock tested, the ones that have too high levels of cesium are removed. (I'm guessing you look for the ones that glow in the dark) There's about 300/400 farms still with bigger restrictions in place as far as I know, most in Wales. 1
Ferrero Posted December 8, 2015 Posted December 8, 2015 Will have to watch one night this week. Most of you have probably seen this clip but if you haven't...Full screen, HD and volume up. Eerily beautiful. 1
Tobbot Posted December 8, 2015 Posted December 8, 2015 Thanks for sharing, moryc. Mind boggling is a great way to describe this or unfathomable. My heart goes out to everyone from those who were there to all working men and women who tried to clean this up! Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
MIKA27 Posted December 8, 2015 Posted December 8, 2015 could have been in the same bar! I think so only you didn't drink the iodine....?
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