Chernobyl: 20th Anniversary Today

[GTaudiophile]

FoxNews Article

For miles, it's the same foreboding empty streets and boarded up homes of an all but deserted Chernobyl, Ukraine.

And as you get closer and closer to the infamous nuclear Reactor No. 4, radiation detectors, (an essential tool in your journey) begin to beep incessantly.

Is Chernobyl still dangerous today? You bet. Radiation levels around the 25-story high concrete 'sarcophagus' that contain it are 80 to 1,000 times the norm. Imagine what it was like on April 26, 1986.

 

[Platypus]

for my roommate, he was in Minsk during that.

 

[mk52]

I grew up in Vienna and remember having to take Iodine anti-radiation pills in elementary school.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I must, it's one HUGE argument against nuclear power IMO:

Environmental groups use Chernobyl as an argument against nuclear power. But even those in favor of nuclear power generation admit that not one nuclear power station around the world has been decommissioned successfully. It's costly and technically challenging because experts say there is no way to fully decontaminate the site from nuclear waste.

 

[iamwiz82]

National Geographic had a story about this last month. Apparently a large number of elderly are moving back to the area because they want to die when they lived for so long and they don't care about radiation at this point.

 

[Mardeth]

I was within the fallout, had to take some iodine pills. I wasnt even a month old.

 

[dartworth]

Very interesting pics

This has been posted many times. However, it is still very interesting and disturbing...

 

[AnyMal]

I was in Kiev at a time. My cousin left Chernobyl only few hours before the accident. My dad was called to fly to the station the next day, he died six months later of a "heart failure".

 

[AUMM]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Very interesting pics

This has been posted many times. However, it is still very interesting and disturbing...

wow, very interesting

 

[Conky]

If Russia couldn't handle it why should we feel good about Iran having nuclear power plants?