What's left of Chernobyl -- website

[DianeC]

A chilling website from a woman in Russia who tours "ghosttown", aka Chernobyl. Hard to believe it will have been 18 years at the end of this month....

Nothing graphic, just spooky as others have referred to it as.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

[engine61]

Wow, those pictures were very interesting. Unbelievable that a city of 50,000+ could just "vanish"

[ff7134]

That was very Interesting. Thanks for the link.

[firemanpat29]

WOW

[cfdeng3]

Can you imagine all of the people gathering on the roof of the highrise completely fascinated by the glow coming from the plant and not figuring that glow was about to kill them? The amount of radiation still present is incredible.

[TCFire]

Fascinating.....Thanks for the link.

[EFD840]

Incredible.

[WannabeintheFD]

words cant even express that...

:(

[CaptOldTimer]

It sure was bad. It could happen again one day too.

[NJTF1Bowman]

I'm at a loss for words.....................

[blueeighty88]

I haven't looked at that site yet, however, a similar abandonment happened here in Pennsylvania.

Over the years I remember going to baseball games in Reading, PA. Traveled Rtes 42 & 61. Centralia, PA was always a big town. And I remember a vast change from 1983 to 1989 when I went back through again. The town was bought out by the government after a mine fire made it too dangerous to live there.

Went back w/ a film group to make a film and docu-drama in 2003; and the town was mostly gone. A few homes, the fire house. Grids of streets; side walks and drive ways leading up to grassy lots, wild flowers where parking lots were. Steam vents, hot streets, fatal CO levels, fire hydrants hot to the touch. Streets that held homes, churches, stores, schools, a population of One-Thousand, Four Hundred people has dropped to less than twenty. A temperature probe dropped 100' into a venting shaft read over 12,000 degrees before it was destoryed and the metal-flanked wire broke off.

The towns cemetery was branded with the legend that you could be buried and cremated for free.

This town may someday be, Helltown, USA.

www.centraliapa.com

[WTFD10]

Originally posted by ff7134
That was very Interesting. Thanks for the link.

Brother, We came pretty close a couple of years ago from not having to travel very far to see something like this!

[kentbwj]

Hi,

I have a few questions for anyone who might know the answers. I haven't read much on the topic of Chernobyl and am wondering-

1. Is there any estimate anywhere that indicates how many people were killed immediately?

2. Why are people able to live in Hiroshima and not in Chernobyl?

3. Are there any recommendations of good books to read about this topic?

This site was just very disquieting to me, but thanks for the link. It was also interesting.

Brenda

[ScottCook]

Originally posted by kentbwj
1. Is there any estimate anywhere that indicates how many people were killed immediately?No one was killed immediately. Some died shortly thereafter as a result of their exposure.
2. Why are people able to live in Hiroshima and not in Chernobyl?Short lived isotopes at Hiroshima, long lived isotopes at Chernobyl.

[gordoffemt]

Very interesting, but freaky, all at the same time. Thanks for sharing.

[SagTwpStation3]

For those of you wondering how many were killed instantly:


The Chernobyl accident killed more than 30 people immediately.

Got that from www.chernobyl.co.uk

[ff7134]

Originally posted by WTFD10


Brother, We came pretty close a couple of years ago from not having to travel very far to see something like this!

I know...I was living and working on PIB!:eek:

[pete892]

Let's remember that the plant was built and operated by the former Soviet Union. They had little regard for safety. Current U.S. nuclear power plants are constructed much differently. The containment will protect the population even with a melt down. It can also handle an earth quake and computer studies indicate a direct hit with a 747 would not release substantial rads.

Note that at Three Mile Island there was no off-site radiation. The public was protected.

I have worked in Emergency Management for over 25 years. My county and an adjoining county have nuclear power plants. FEMA evaluates us every two years on how well we can protect the public by evacuation, monitoring and decontaming emergency works and a host of other areas.

The incident in Russia was very sad but it is the result of poor construction and poor planing. No one has ever died or been injured as a result of radiation from a U.S. nuclear power plant.

Footnote: No smoke or polution at a nuclear power plant.

Stay Safe,
Pete

[CJMinick390]

The pictures from the kindergarten are the most haunting.....

[Fire304]

Originally posted by kentbwj

2. Why are people able to live in Hiroshima and not in Chernobyl?

I pondered the same question. In addition to what ScottCook said, I also believe the fact that the A-bombs were air bust and created relatively little fall out, where as the reactor sat for weeks with no containment spewing debris into the sky contributed to it. Also, most of Japan's fall out went to sea on the easterly winds, both Nagasaki and Hiroshima are coastal cities, not located hundreds of mile inland.

The stuffed animal just dropped in the park are freaky.

[len1582]

Don't forget our Brothers in the F.D. who lost their lives.