Chernobyl pics (new)

I don't think there is a great deal they can do with it all really. My guess is that it will just be left.
 
Awesome pictures and terrible event, even worst was the people in power, covering it up and refusing help from bigger nations, the whole distater was a comedy of errors, amazing what the firemen and "Liquidators" did, some didn't know the risk and were given a few $1000 for their effort.

Around 250 firemen were called and, despite being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, many of them stayed and risked their lives to bring the situation under control.

Tens of thousands of coal miners were conscripted because of their expertise in tunneling and working underground. Their task was to dig out a tunnel under the reactor, install a cooling coil to cool the reactor’s concrete base and reinforce any cracks appearing in the slab. The miners now called "liquidators" had to work in appalling conditions, not only in extremely high temperatures but also very high levels of radiation. Heroic efforts were made to smother the fire and bring it under control through flying in and dropping 5,000 tons of clay, sand, lead and dolomite onto the burning exposed reactor. Many of them died between the ages of 30 and 40 and the majority of them became handicapped.
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Fantastic photos, but they have a slightly eerie feel to them. It's unusual to see a place so empty - the pictures of the amusement fair had a haunting quality to them.
 
That youtube video...Can I ask waht the point is on building the concrete (is it concrete???) cage over the old sarcophagus, only to unbuild the thing? Or is there more to it?

Why not just put the 'new' sarcophagus over the old one?
 
because the old one is unstable, irradiated to massive levels, and if it collapses will undo any work to cover over it.
 
schnipps said:
What will eventually happen there? Will it ever be clear or will it just be like that forever?
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It'll clear, but it'll be a very long time, like probably tens of thousands of years, possibly millions, depending on how long whatever radioactive crap there is there takes to decay.
 
vonhelmet said:
It'll clear, but it'll be a very long time, like probably tens of thousands of years, possibly millions, depending on how long whatever radioactive crap there is there takes to decay.
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100 years... not thousands... :) well at least that's what i've heard...
 
It still is on my list of things to do before I die, to go visit Chernobyl & Pripryat etc. Think it's such an amazing place, so creapy heh.
 
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