Posted on 12/13/2010 2:01:09 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
KIEV, Ukraine -- Want a better understanding of the world's worst nuclear disaster? Come tour the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ago, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday.
Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of northern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people were resettled from areas contaminated with radiation fallout in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Related health problems still persist.
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lol. That was funny. I actually have been to Ukraine twice for three weeks each. If you go down south to Odessa, it is absolutely wonderful.
Well I’m not uptight
Not unattracted
Turn me on tonight
Cause I’m radioactive
Radioactive
There’s not a fight
And I’m not your captive
Turn me loose tonight
Cause I’m radioactive
Radioactive
I want to stay with you
I want to play with you baby
I want to lay with you
And I want you to know
Got to concentrate
don’t be distractive
Turn me on tonight
Cause I’m radioactive
Radioactive
Radioactive
Radioactive
And why is it the AP does this? Saudi money. Keep us energy serfs and they are moving to make us dhiminis.
"Book two to Chernobyl."
Has it been 10,000 years already? It seems like just yesterday.
Can we start up a collection to send liberal environmentalists to go study the site for lengthy periods of time?
First, we have the Russians buying a Uranium mine in Wyoming...now the Ukrainians are opening up Chernobyl for tourism.
Crazy planet we live on.
well, I guess there is no downside to choosing the Body Scanner line if the flight is gonna land in Chernobyl...
“Has it been 10,000 years already? It seems like just yesterday.”
My thoughts exactly. So much for that theory.
This is a very interesting web-site, I looked at it for hours and there are many other places and things she tells stories of. A well spent afternoon reading this site.
Kiddofspeed - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures -
Elena’s Motorcycle Ride through Chernobyl
This is a very interesting web-site, I looked at it for hours and there are many other places and things she tells stories of. A well spent afternoon reading this site.
Kiddofspeed - GHOST TOWN - Chernobyl Pictures -
Elena’s Motorcycle Ride through Chernobyl
You've got it John. The left, which includes our enemies outside the U.S., is capitalizing on the ignorance they have inculcated using their ownership of our media and much of our education system which began fifty years or more years ago.
People died at Chernobyl, between 18 and 40, because of a Communist government. Ancient graphite core reactor technology, similar to the experimental reactor built at Chicago by Fermi's group in the 1940s, was kept operating because it produced weapon's grade plutonium, and in spite of its being virtually without the safeguards of even Soviet plants. The plant would not have been built, but building a containment around the old design was too expensive. Besides, in Communist governments, theres is no authority to answer to.
Still, fewer died from the total meltdown of a non-commercial power plant with no containment vessel and manual emergency controls than die each year from the normal release of pollutents by a coal plant of equivalent size, about 200 each year. By far the most injuries at Chernobyl were caused by the dislocation of families, the disappearance of jobs, the broken families, the heart attacks, than were injured by the radiation release. The desolate fields happened because they were no longer watered. Public opinion killed far more than the plant's meltdown. That is why Russia has announced a plan to build 54 nuclear power plant over the next twenty years and China, 120+, during which period we might actually license one plant for operation. Holdren's crew of government subsidized "environmental" attorneys have lived lavishly while stymieing licensing of plans for reactors for decades, and intend to continue as we become dependents of the state. They are the reason France, over 90% nuclear electric, has the cleanist air in Europe, and is an electricity exporter. The cost of electricity in the U.S. is higher than electricity in France because our industry is lavishly supporting thousands of environmental lawyers and their support groups, subsidizing midwestern corn producers, and throwing away billions on utopian solar parking lots, while impoverishing the public and denying them the competitive advantage of clean, safe, cheap nuclear power.
No one has ever been hurt by the nuclear attribute of commercial nuclear power plants and that certainly cannot be said for solar or wind power. Lots have died falling off of roofs and ladders repairing or installing solar power and flying fractured wind turbines have killed a few, though far fewer than solar. Dead is dead, and the biggest and insoluble problem with these alternative proposals is the diffuse energy flux - you need stupendous facilities and stupendous storage to even dream of competing with nuclear, coal, natural gas, or hydro power. Nuclear is the future and there are many anarchists and communists who want to insure that there is no future for capitalism.
Thanks....bookmarked for review.
My great grand parents, dad’s side, are from Ukraine. They left right before the 1905 failed revolution. Made their way to Iceland. Granddad left for Canada in the teen’s, to Manitoba, the Ukraine settlements in Manitoba.
During the depression, my grandparents went between Canada and Minnesota for work (Winnipeg and Minneapolis). Some kids were born in the US, some in Canada, 5 kids in total. At one time, my grandma worked on a Mississippi riverboat as a waitress.
My dad got his US citizenship while serving in the US Navy. He was a Canadian born sibling. I find it all fascinating. I took Russian history in college. It’s a rich and interesting history.
This is an interesting site on Detroit. If you’d like to spend a couple hours, this is fascinating. I know it’s not Chernobyl, but close.
http://detroityes.com/home.htm
Thanks for posting the link, I’m still engrossed! It’s bookmarked. Amazing stuff.
No kidding about what she’s got.
Thanks so much for the link, it’s a fabulous resource.
I thought this thread was going to be satire. Now I find myself wondering who owns the “news of the weird” ping list or even “just damn”...
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