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The Only Church Open in Chernobyl Zone Shows The Minimum Radiation Level
Interfax ^ | 4/20/11

Posted on 04/21/2011 5:49:03 AM PDT by marshmallow

Kiev, April 20, Interfax - During 25 years from the date of Chernobyl accident the radiation level in the area of St. Elijah Church, the only church operating in the exclusion zone, was well below the level across the zone, Chernobyl disaster liquidators state.

"Even in the hardest days of nineteen eighty six the area around St. Elijah Church was clean (from radiation - IF), not to mention that the church itself was also clean," president of the Ukrainian Chernobyl Union Yury Andreyev said in a Kiev-Moscow video conference on Wednesday.

Now the territory adjacent to the church has the background level of 6 microroentgen per hour compared with 18 in Kiev.

Andreyev also said many disaster liquidators had been atheists. "We came to believe later after observing such developments which could be explained only by God's will," he says.

In particular, according to him, a few seconds after the explosion in the fourth unit of the Chernobyl PP the cloud containing uranium particles started moving in the direction of Pripyat, a city located about 1,800 meters from the plant. There was a pine-tree on its way (it is featured on a well-known icon Chernobyl's Savior.)

"The cloud stopped short of this pine, divided into two parts by some unknown reason and continued moving to the left and right sides of the city instead of covering its residential areas. The radiation level in contamination areas was four or five roentgen per hour, and the city showed only half a milliroentgen," Andreyev said.


TOPICS: Current Events; Orthodox Christian
KEYWORDS: chernobyl; miracles

1 posted on 04/21/2011 5:49:08 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

I saw a recent documentary showing thriving animal life around AND INSIDE the abandoned place.

Ann Coulter reported on this and they Liberals yucked it up (as usual) about how stoooopid she were being.


2 posted on 04/21/2011 5:58:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (this administration is WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY~!! [Palin/Bachman 2012])
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To: marshmallow

See? Even Chernobyl didn’t live up to the billing.


3 posted on 04/21/2011 5:59:52 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: marshmallow

The part about the atheists converting is particularly beautiful.


4 posted on 04/21/2011 6:14:33 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
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To: surroundedbyblue

So many stories and articles in the news nowadays has me sitting at the computer or watching tv and saying out loud, “THAT’S THE HAND OF GOD AT WORK!” :*) I hope that others can discern the obvious as well, especially in the US when dangerous/deadly storms head straight for Chicago and DC, etc. time and time again!


5 posted on 04/21/2011 6:19:43 AM PDT by pillut48 (Israel doesn't have a friend in President Obama...and neither does the USA! (h/t pgkdan))
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To: marshmallow
I stumbled onto Elena's website a couple of years ago and have gone through it several times because the work and photography is great. It is really an interesting perspective of the exclusion zone by a woman who has ridden her motorcycle through it and documented the trip: KIDDofSPEED - Link Here
6 posted on 04/21/2011 6:57:29 AM PDT by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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