Chernobyl Revisited (interesting Website)

beh · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:00

Aye, fake is too strong a word perhaps, misleading is probably more appropriate.

cheets64 · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:08

I cant believe nobody has been back since and done a proper website with top notch photos.

jcb33 · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:10

I thought that it took 40 years before the radiation would be clear enough for humans to enter? Also would the person taking these pictures not be getting sick from radiation?

Scuzi · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:12

jcb33 said:
I thought that it took 40 years before the radiation would be clear enough for humans to enter? Also would the person taking these pictures not be getting sick from radiation?

The body can absorb a certain amount of radiation for short periods of time without any harm. If they got too close to the reactor there is a danger of radiation sickness.

spike's · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:16

cheets64 said:
I cant believe nobody has been back since and done a proper website with top notch photos.

you volunteering then?

beh · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:20

Slightly off topic but, did anyone see that Horizon doc last year with scientists questioning the deadliness of exposure to fairly low level radiation such as that resulting from Chernobyl? Was quite interesting stuff http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5173310.stm

Scuzi · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:23

spike's said:
you volunteering then?

I'd go! I'm actually going to look into it.

I wonder if the radiation would affect camera equipment.

topgun06 · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:38

Id love to go there to visit. I feel it would be a great and moving experience. Love to look around Pripyat, ive always wanted to know what it would be like to visit an abandoned town or city.

Grumps82 · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:49

It would be interesting to visit. Not sure if i would like to go there.

killer_uk · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:50

I'd like to go....OcUK Chernobyl meet anyone?

Scuzi · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:51

Having just looked into this it appears that photography is forbidden on the official tour.

I might still consider this considering I can get flights to Kiev for buttons.

spike's · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:53

Scuzi said:
I might still consider this considering I can get flights to Kiev for buttons.

white or milk chocolate?

jcb33 · 22 Mar 2007 at 23:57

spike's said:
white or milk chocolate?

Is there anything like this for hiroshima, just wonder as that happend much longer ago, then again im not sure anyone would want to visit it after the horror that happend

killer_uk · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:06

Anyone can visit Hiroshima if they want to.

jcb33 · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:06

killer_uk said:
Anyone can visit hiroshima if they want to.

Is it safe to do so? Do people live there again?

killer_uk · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:06

It's been totally rebuilt. Take a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima

VeNT · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:09

jcb33 said:
Is there anything like this for hiroshima, just wonder as that happend much longer ago, then again im not sure anyone would want to visit it after the horror that happend

hiroshima was different type of explosion

killer_uk · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:10

VeNT said:
hiroshima was different type of explosion

I guess he was thinking of it being like Chernobyl, no one living there.

VeNT · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:16

theres a park with the closest surviving build there (atomic dome) but its a proper city tbh

Pinter75 · 23 Mar 2007 at 00:22

It is a very interesting subject.

Here are some view from Google maps:

Reactor 4

Pripyat Abandoned town

Unfinished cooling towers

Some in the UK:
Sizewell

Dungeness

All in the UK

IIRC there are 42 Neuclear Reactors in the UK, this includes ones at universities/reseach facilities.

I for one don't like them, they are a huge risk (there have been partial meltdowns in the UK before at Windscale ), and they take years (centuries) to reach a relative safe state.

BTW Windscale has been renamed Sellafield. Here it is Windscale/Sellafield site