Into Chernobyl
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Into Chernobyl
I found this to be some very interesting reading.....http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
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From: Palmyra
That was a great link. You really need to go through all the pages, the last few are really chilling. Chernobyl is a real testament to man's ability to rush headlong into things without thinking (or caring) about possible side effects when things go wrong. I remember reading an article about the building of the sarcophagus that there was no shortage of volunteers, even though it was known that you would probably be dead within a few months (if you made it that long) from radiation poisoning. Could you be brave enough to give your life in that fashion to save your fellow countrymen? Picking up a gun and going against an attacking enemy is one thing, but going to work each day and pouring concrete or shoveling dirt to fix someone else's major mistake, knowing that you are slowly absorbing enough radiation to make you violently ill and soon to die of massive internal organ failure is quite another.
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After reading the entire story and studying on the pictures.....all I can say is "wow". I copied the link and emailed it to everyone I know. I'm by no means an environmentalist nor an anti-nuclear person....but this story sure gives some thought provoking insight into what can happen with one little mistake. Thanks a lot for posting that link.
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Thanks Dave,that was truely informative,chilling,and yet amazing,I had read some stories in Readers Digest about the pilots in the hours after the accident,bravely flying over,knowing it meant certain death,and about one that was brought to America to try and save him,they couldn`t.To see this,and then think about three mile island,and then to think about all the power plants that are all over the world is somewhat chilling.I read a book some years ago called The Hundredth Monkey,if you get a chance,read it.It talks about all the close calls and accidents that have happened,and honestly their view is to eliminate Nuc energy entirely,hence the name,maybe you might be the hundredth person to get this info and then force the world to stop using it.Although I dont necessarily agree that we should stop using it,I did find it very informative about the accidents and close calls that have happened and have been kept from the public.This stuff is scary.I only hope that she does a follow up on the deterioration and what is being done to stop an even more drastic event!
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I hope this doesn't turn into an anti-nuclear energy thread. I don't think that would be fair.
What you have with Chernobyl is an example of what incompetence and ego like that in the former communist USSR can drive humans toward, not an example of nuclear energy generation as it operates today.
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What you have with Chernobyl is an example of what incompetence and ego like that in the former communist USSR can drive humans toward, not an example of nuclear energy generation as it operates today.
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Whoops,I didnt mean to give the wrong impression there,I am for Nuclear energy,it is a clean and somewhat safe alternative to coal energy,I was more relating to the accidents that have happened,some are amazing,for instance there is another area in the soviet union (I forget the name) that due to an accident,will also be uninhabitable for hundreds of years.The thing that amazes me most,is that this happened almost 20 years ago,and with all the advances we have seen in the science field,you would think by now that someone would have a way to absorb the radioactive fallout from this or other accidents like it so that if there ever was another accident,they would have the ability to clean it up,as opposed to having to abandon entire citys for hundreds of years.
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From: Palmyra
Like King Triton, I didn't mean my remarks to be anti-nuclear, but more anti "acting without thinking". I once attended a lecture by a guy named Murray Feshbach. He is an American PhD who has studied the environmental collapses under the Soviet government. He has some really chilling tales to tell about environmental disasters all over Russia. If you google his name you can see several reviews of some of his books and one in particular,"Ecocide in the USSR" is really worth reading. It really shows the terrible price paid, both by the environment and "human environment", by the Russian people in the name of progress.
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Well, since this website caused this..I gotta pass it on here, because I am so disgusted.
Do you realize that AOL will not let that URL be sent to any of its users via email? That is outright censorship! I emailed the URL to everyone on my friends list and the AOL users emails were returned to me with a not so nice note. Thats totally disgusting.
And sorry...don't mean to hijack the thread, but when my freedom of speech is controlled by AOL.......grrrrrrr
Do you realize that AOL will not let that URL be sent to any of its users via email? That is outright censorship! I emailed the URL to everyone on my friends list and the AOL users emails were returned to me with a not so nice note. Thats totally disgusting.
And sorry...don't mean to hijack the thread, but when my freedom of speech is controlled by AOL.......grrrrrrr
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AOL sucks. Anyway, I found that site fascinating! I sat and read through every page for 2 hours! I really admire that girl, I don't think I have the gahunas to go riding a motorcycle, or anything else, thought that area, alone at that! I really respect that, and I hope she is ok, but it looks like she knows how to take care of herself out there. It's downright scary to look at the pictures. The abandoned city was really creepy for me, with the abandoned pool and gym and apartment buildings.
3 mile island isn't too far from me, I'm too young to remember it but just over the weekend I watched a program on the tube about it. That was scary to watch too. I'm not against nuclear power, but I really don't think we are ready for it yet. Or maybe they should be located in more secluded areas.
3 mile island isn't too far from me, I'm too young to remember it but just over the weekend I watched a program on the tube about it. That was scary to watch too. I'm not against nuclear power, but I really don't think we are ready for it yet. Or maybe they should be located in more secluded areas.