Anyone ever been to Kiev or Chernobyl?

vintage-x said:
Im very confused about somthing. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant
The other reactors were still opirational up until a few years ago how is this possible if chernobyl was uninhabitable??

Im sorry if this is a stupid question
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The Zone of Alienation is uninhabitable, but it is possible for humans to work there - albeit under extremely strict conditions.

Government workers are still employed within the zone (click here for details) and a number of people still live there voluntarily (click here for details).
 
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gumbald said:
Just there's places higher on my list to visit in the world for a holiday, I'd only want to do a day trip to Chernobyl.
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Well I lived in Kiev the year before last and I have to say I much preferred it to living in Moscow. It's actually quite a nice city, the Ukrainian people being much more friendly than Russians (I mean they smile!). It's pretty hilly in a Bristol kind of way and there quite a few things to see in the city. I wanted to go out to Chernobyl when I was out there but none of my Ukrainian colleagues wanted to come along. Given that tourists don't need visas to visit the country any more it makes it much more approachable than Russia and I would think if you were interested quite a different long weekend break.
 
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ah i knew "Chernobyl" from the title sounded soooo familiar! then after reading a few posts i realised the last book i read (tom clancy's splinter cell: checkmate) had strong references to the place! the book made it sound soo ghostly yet so cool.. never thought about visiting the place but yeah, i'd defo wanna :D
 
only images i've ever seen of chernobyl were on call of duty 4 and it was an errie place on that wouldnt mind going there though just to look around the ferris wheel and school would interest me most.
 
mosehn said:
just get stalker pc game to go to Chernobyl
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I wasnt impressed with stalker, i thought i would get to see chernobyl in depth, all i seemeded to get was about 10 mins inside the plant and the game ended.

I am really interested in going though, Nuclear technology has always interested me!
 
PyroboyUK said:
I wasnt impressed with stalker, i thought i would get to see chernobyl in depth, all i seemeded to get was about 10 mins inside the plant and the game ended.

I am really interested in going though, Nuclear technology has always interested me!
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yeah u did the short ending there's a longer ending you just went straight to the wish granter didnt u lol
(the longer ending some much better and about 1hours more game play)
 
Slightly off-topic but don't criticise STALKER too much for not showing that much of Chernobyl's internals. Considering that the majority of the nuclear materials are still trapped inside the sarcophagus, I can't imagine it's a very safe place to take a load of game devs ;)

STALKER actually made me very interested in the whole Chernobyl tragedy and also in Pripyat, a genuine ghost town. If anything, I think the game raised the profile of the incident to a new generation; even though I had been born when reactor 4 blew its top, I was far too young to know anything (or care) about it.
 
kkbigal said:
STALKER actually made me very interested in the whole Chernobyl tragedy and also in Pripyat, a genuine ghost town. If anything, I think the game raised the profile of the incident to a new generation; even though I had been born when reactor 4 blew its top, I was far too young to know anything (or care) about it.
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I think it's pretty amazing how little most people our age know about the whole Chernobyl situation.
 
I was a at school in Paris when it happened, apparently the French government said the nuclear cloud "missed" France - but I'm sure there was some nuclear downpour.

It would be somewhere interesting to go, though I hear there are some areas which are still dangerous to go to - amazing really isn't it!
 
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