I was bored, so I started to read a book about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster. Whilst reading it, I learned how the Soviets took care of the matter. I am actually appalled. In the days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were evacuated from Pripyat, a town less than a mile away from the reactor. They were told to bring enough food and money for 3 days, because they would only be gone for that long. Here is a quote from an eyewitness. "Some dogs, finding themselves left behind by thier owners, ran after the buses for a long way, but to no avail." Unbeknownst to the evacuees, they would never return to see the poor animals. In the days following the departure of thier beloved owners, the animals were hunted down by the soviet military, and shot. There was a message that a little kid had left on his family's front door; it read, "Please don't harm our Zhulka, She is a good dog." Ironically, the ones that were shot were the lucky ones, because the ones that avoided the deadly shooters later became blind and deaf, then died a horrible, painful death due to radiation poisoning. On the morning of April 26th, 1986, 8 hours after the accident, school children noticed a sudsy foam matter covering the streets. Doing what any child would, they played in it. The pets ran around in it, even rolled in it. Little did the good people know, the foam was there to soak up any radioactive matter that covered the area. Then, more than a day after the tradjety occured, the residents of Pripyat received knocks on thier door telling them of the manditory evacuation. The residents packed the few essentials they were told to bring. A change of clothes was forbidden; clothing was supposed to stay inside closed dresser drawers. Around 2:00pm that afternoon, there were buses in front of every single apartment building, and up and down evey street; about 1,500 in total. They were told by officials they would be allowed to return in a few days, but were never allowed to return. I have no words to explain the feelings I felt reading this. Do you know how terrible they must have felt, thinking that they would return in a couple days, but were told they could never return? They left their beloved animals, all of their possesions, and they were left literally with only the clothing on their backs, and enough money to get them by for two to three days.

That's a lot of words.

Anyways did you know that only 69 deaths are directly related to the chernobyl accident?

The reactor head was 12 feet of reenforced concrete that blew up like a pressure cap ....

Actually no. The top of the reactor was nothing more than standard building materials which is part of the reason why the accident was so bad. American reactors are completely contained within themselves with more than a couple layers of containment.

i remembered that line from some documentary on NGC ... i may be wrong .... but that Sacophigus is fucking scary to look at !!

Yeah the line is wrong. That's part of why the explosion was so devistating was because it just blew up and out like a fricken demolition charge.

See there was no containment above the reactor.

In Mother Russia, reactors meltdown you!

So, question, that foam that the kids and animals were playing in... where did it come from originally? Was it also irradiated?

And Dakian, 69 deaths may have been confirmed to be linked to the disaster but how many "injured" were there?

Injuries are far more vague because its harder to tell just what was caused by the reactor and what wasn't. The numbers vary between 4000 and a staggering 220,000. Radiation "injury" is a vary vague term though as I said.

The next time you message me talking about this fucking book I'm going to drive down there and crack you in the knee with a crowbar.

sounds like a disaster.

*checks interwebs*

ahh yes it was a disaster.

You kidding? Everyone was wearing party hats and it was wacky tie day at the nuclear power plant.

/me hides from nismo

What the hell are you hiding from him for?

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Me making fun of it, he'll come after me like radioactive dogs chasing a bus.
rofl im such a dick sometimes ;o

I thought it would be a good time to resurrect this thread from the past:

http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?...52&hl=chernobyl

Or how about no we like our new thread very much thank you.

Seriously though, it's worth a look... if you haven't already seen it.

Stop making excuses to bump an old thread!

http://www.rwguide.com/thread_23381_cherno..._is_a_hoax.html
Too bad it was a Hoax. None of what she claimed really happened. They will not let you drive your own personal vehicle into the exclusion zone. She does not have "an all access pass" to pripyat, and nobody does. She claims she goes alone, but then who took the pictures of her? she said you have to stay in the middle of the road, and not to go in the grass, but that is total bullshit. On another forum, a guy went on the exact same tour she did, and they could go through grass or gardens etc.

Oh yeah, I thought this was funny.

Well, she is saying that the parents looked for thier children near the park, BUT WHAT WOULD THEY BE DOING IN A PARK AT 1:23 AM?

Meh.. whatever... it's 3:17 a.m. in my timezone and I'm a little buzzed. It's still interesting.

How's it interesting if its all made up?

You only need an "all acces pass" if you want to go in with official papers . 50 euros to the right guard and you're in .
But the scary stuff is this . A lot of machinery that was used in the cleanup effort (dump trucks , cranes , buses ,etc. ) was left behind because it was deemed "too radioactive" to be used anywhere else . But people are now crossing over there and scavaging parts which they later sell as used car parts .

You guys need to read up on a game called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. which hasn't been released yet. Basically, it's kind of like Deus Ex but you go into the area of chernobyl and so forth.

lol, your about a year and a half late, in telling us =p


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