Chernobyl - Anyone got any interesting pics?
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So I take it there is a safe level of radiation that you can be exposed to?
Admittedly I'm not very well informed on the subject but I always thought exposure to any amount would be deadly.
make sure you get it all organised before going. my mates tried to get on a trip there when they where in ukraine but didnt even get close. took them days to find someone who could speak english and even then no one was been helpful or friendly
theres strange people who moved back there only a few years after it happened and theyre still alive
Did anyone see a program on a while ago by a chef who went to the most dangerous places on the planet to cook? I can remember him basically doing this tour (albeit not with a tour group but with minders etc - he met locals etc)
I can't remember what it was called though.
I can't remember what it was called though.
yes it is, Chernobyl and the surrounding areas are now mostly safe, this is because the more deadly radioactive elements had a short half life (the time it takes the element to decay by half, nothing to do with crowbars and the combine!) therefore most of them are gone. now the less lethal elements are hanging around in the ground. i beleive its perfectally safe to stand on a road or concrete, but it gets abit more dangerous if you venture off into the grass or a forest.
one of the safest places to be is actually outside the power plant itself. this is because everything has been dug up, lined with concrete then replaced, the grass there is all imported and radiation free, very few places in that area are actually dangerous.
i myself have always wanted to go to Chernobyl as ive been facinated with it for ages
I guess you've never had an x-ray then?
Radiation of any kind is only bad beyond certain levels, so as long as you can keep track of the amount you've been exposed to, you're pretty much safe. This is why hospital staff who work around x-rays will wear a badge which tracks exposure.
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It's usually safe to sleep with a radiographer without protection, they nuke everything. 
Documentry in several parts from a youtube users vids. I'm just on part 6 now and it really is a damn good documentry, from the initial first hours of the disaster to the evacuation of surrounding areas and clean up. I'm sure you could pause print screen and paste in photoshop or some other image application for plenty images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRC1_OZPIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSRC1_OZPIg
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am I being thick? I cant find part 2 :S there are other 'part 2's' to do with chernobly, but im not sure if theyre from the same doc'
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Part 2 and the others are on the right hand side pane.
Just look for the name "keiluko" for the other parts, it really is a good and tragic documentry which makes you think what those men went through not just to save their country but basically the whole of europe and the rest of the world.
After the chernobyl disaster, President Gorbechov (sp) accepted the destruction of all or most of the nuclear warheads of their ICBM's that had a range of more than 5000km, their biggest most powerful ICBM was the TSAR bomb, which was capable of the power of 100 chernobyl's and they had 27,000 of them all aimed at america.
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Thats just wrong. The Tsar Bomba is not an ICBM, it was an air dropped bomb type nuclear weapon, its yield was 50,000kt, there was only one (+1 mockup) made as it was so bloody impractical, and it weighed 27 tons, there was not 27,000 of them made.
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If you watched the docu, it's relevant to understand that in later times (as of today) russia's ICBM's would more than likely scale the same yeild as the TSAR bomb or more. That's what I was trying to say and they had 27 (hundred - 27,000) of them as gorby said in the documentry. Unless you know better than gorby?
thats total BS, for one the Satan is still in operation, and it's range is well over 15,000km. hell to even be called an ICBM the missile has to have a range f over 5000km.
You're mistaken, and you are probbably thinking of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty which banned ground launched cruise missiles with a range of 500 -5000km. America signed up for that one too.
It also had nothing to do with chenobyl but the Gryphon, and pershing missiles.
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