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The 21st anniversary of Chernobyl.

Thanks for this. I ended up reading through the entire chronicles as it were. very interesting site.

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Such a happening in my lifetime and something that seems so far gone at this time. It's interesting to see what has and hasn't happened since then.

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I remember reading her article and pictures of Chernobyl in 03 or 04, when she had "Ghost Town" site up (not sure if it's still up and running, didn't bother to check) and to come back and see her new site was pretty sobering especially the videos. I've never heard of Elephant Foot until today and didn't know it had 10,000 roentgens/hr, which scares me to death on how quick you will die just by standing besides it.
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Very interesting!

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There was a site by a lady motorcyclist that kicked around the motorcycle forums a few years ago that had some amazing photos, with giger counters in the shot, too...

I'll try and find a link.

»www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

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actually the OP's link and Jan's link are referring to the same photographer.

»www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddo···007.html

»www.hlswilliwaw.com/GhostTown/ht···2007.htm

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molten fuel/debris mixture

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Wow, I spent the last 45 minutes reading »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

Learned a lot!
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»www.spaceman.ca/gallery/chernobyl

Hell on earth.

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As folks have mentioned above, her site is a good read, and I bookmarked The home page for reading every page

Also see »www.hlswilliwaw.com/html/chernobyl.htm for the preamble and another link.

»www.helpmearoundtheworld.com/ele···film.mpg

is a good video too. Thanks for posting this find. I bet the site will be getting lots of hits as the link is forwarded around.
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Check out these links:

»todayspictures.slate.com/inmotio···ernobyl/

»www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/

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almost as old as me.. I was reading this long thing with photos about this guy who went.

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*wonders if I too will have cancer down the line* highly doubt it, as I've been good so far. Same with my family, thank Jesus!

I lived in an pretty affected area as a child. well, sorta. looked like it by the diagram on wikipedia.org
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i am glad i lived some what far away from it when it happened
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»www.stalker-game.com

Here, also, is a game that takes place in the future after Chernobyl.

I'm not posting this to make light of what happened, but to in fact show a piece of art depicting what the future of the area might be like. The developers went very far to recreate the areas, even visiting the towns and the reactor itself. It's worth checking out, if you enjoy that sort of thing.

»www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=pre···rel&ss=6

There's a link to one of the trips the developers made.
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This is very good. The photos and the event haunt me. I have a friend who served in the Navy as a reactor operator and is now teaching classes for student operators. He described the event as "they generated too much power". That was an understatement. All the suffering by the families and workers is such a shame. I was an RSO (radiation safety officer) at a former employer. We used an x-ray diffractometer. I learned that the human body has the ability to absorb a certain amount of radiation over time and heal ok, and that's the thing. If you don't absorb too much at once, usually you'll be ok.

I hope never again. Thank you for such a great presentation.

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21 years? Wow! I remember when it occured. Hard to believe it's been twenty one years.

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A good friend of mine was 11 years old and living in Belarus when Chernobyl melted down. She lived southeast of Minsk, and the winds on those days following determined whether she lived or died. Her village was fine, but only several kilometers west of them was a village completely wiped out.

I've been fascinated by this event for as long as I can remember. The images of the site are unique and intriguing, but having this real lifeline to the event itself is a sobering reminder that real people suffered real tragedies in the wake of this terrible beauty we see.
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