Cool site my friend showed me...

[2001400ex]

Hey I figured I'd share this site with everyone here because I find things like this really cool and I'm sure alot of other people do as well...from what I can understand a nuclear reactor exploded in this town, and everyone had to evactuate...it's just a ghost town now...the woman doesn't have the greatest English but it's good enough to understand...here's the site

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page2.html

Some of those pictures are very cool to look at...

[Cole Trane]

That is some crazy chit!! They say there will be radiation there for 48000 years. Nuts. Nuts.

[Bobbs07]

Stuff like that interests me quite alot. That was pretty cool to look at, almost like a movie.. but real.:eek2: A bunch of planes and old tanks, that would be so fun to go explore all that stuff.

[2001400ex]

Yeah I'd really like to see that, some really interesting stuff:cool:

[400EX_Kid_03]

I heard this, I don't know if its true, but I heard that the Reactor there at Chernobyle, got so hott, that no matter what anybody does, there is no possible way to cool it off, EVER.. until its gone...

[2001400ex]

Hmm, that's really weird...:eek2:

[wilkin250r]

Man, what a cool place to hold a paintball tournament. Except for the danger of death from radiation exposure, that's not too cool...:(

[kgbg]

They filled the whole reactor with cement, and encased it in , I believe it was 10 feet of concrete. I saw a Discovery Chnnnel show on it. WOW.
Thanks for the link.

[2001400ex]

NP kgbg I figured some people would like to see that site...

wilkin250r: No one thinks that it is cool that people have been exposed to radiation or anything of that sort, we all think that it's really cool to see how things have just been left behind and to see pictures of an actual "ghost town."

[hondafox440]

Thats really eerie. We learned a lot about Chernobyl last year, but not too much about the civillian effects. I wrote so many papers regarding nuclear energy last year. Somewhere around 35 pages worth..

[2001400ex]

That sucks about writing 35 pages...so what really happened to this place...just one day a nuclear reactor exploded?:confused:

[exrider123]

Originally posted by 2001400ex
That sucks about writing 35 pages...so what really happened to this place...just one day a nuclear reactor exploded?:confused:

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.

The resulting steam explosion and fire released about five percent of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind.

30 people were killed, and there have since been up to ten deaths from thyroid cancer due to the accident.

An authoritative UN report in 2000 confirmed that there is no scientific evidence of any significant radiation-related health effects to most people exposed.

More info here: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm

[2001400ex]

Wow...only about 5%

The radiation levels were 80-100 by the plant on that girls map, normal was 8-12

Thanks for the link exrider

[Fitzy]

it's hard to believe that stuff like that can just happen at any moment

[AtvMxRider]

How many of you actually remember when it happened? I know I do.

[Blysster]

Very interesting stuff..

It's disturbing to look at those pictures, it really makes you think how fortunate we are and how things can change in a snap.

[300exOH]

Those pics are absolutely chilling. And to think I'm only about 30 miles from a nuclear reactor:( And we aren't too far from 3 Mile Island either.:eek2:

[2001400ex]

I would definitely move, I would not feel comfortable living anywhere near a nuclear reactor or anything with the word nuclear in it these days...

I'm sure I do live by something nuclear but I guess it's better not knowing about it haha

[Chino]

Originally posted by AtvMxRider
How many of you actually remember when it happened? I know I do.

Most of us are below the age of 90 so we dont remember :blah:

thats how all of mericas cities are going to be soon in the year 2015....russias gona nuke all the cities in america after are civil war ;)

[Urpoisonddream]

that really sucks that happened. Just shows to live life to the fullest.