But we are supposed to HATE all Russians as "enemies" and embrace "Americans" like this as "patriots"...
Posted on 04/26/2018 2:53:10 PM PDT by BBell
19 stunning photos show what the radioactive area inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant looks like 32 years after the explosion
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
As many as 150,000 people in the area were permanently relocated, and an estimated 4,000 clean-up workers got radiation poisoning.
Experts say that more than 70,000 people experienced severe poisoning from the accident on April 26, 1986.
On April 26, 1986, a radioactive release many times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.
Chernobyl would go down in history as one of the worst nuclear disasters.
The explosion at the plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, blasted radioactive gas and dust into the air, and winds carried it across central and southern Europe. More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.
About 150,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in the "nuclear exclusion zone" within an 18-mile radius of the plant. The town hardest hit was Pripyat, which remains empty.
In 2012, construction began on the New Safe Confinement, a structure to cover part of Chernobyl.
Here are 19 photos that go inside the eerie Chernobyl plant and the New Safe Confinement.
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“A number of years ago I watched a bunch of her videos. She’s quite a women.”
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Yup. Has lots of amazing “ghost town” photos.
But we are supposed to HATE all Russians as "enemies" and embrace "Americans" like this as "patriots"...
The resulting contamination would have been so severe that the entire Europe would have been deemed inhabitable for tens and thousands of years due to radiation.
No doubt the men were brave and prevented some deaths.
Europe uninhabitable for thousands of years? A complete fairy tale.
That’s an amazing sort of heroism and sacrifice. Thank you for sharing.
The animals knew better than humans how quickly actually harmful levels of radiation would recede.
Yeah, I thought that was a bit far-fetched, but it certainly would have been very bad, had they not acted.
Kid of Speed, beat me to it. That was my favorite web site for a while behind FR. It has been around a while.
Oh, yeah, indeed. Early 2000s, I believe, when it first went up.
It’s a money maker. Lots of tourist from all over the world go to visit. Got to keep the place nice.
I could say something snarky about life in the Soviet Union wasn’t really living but I won’t.
These men are HEROES of the highest order. Civilians aren’t normally faced with the prospects of death but these men knew that if they didn’t do their heroic acts, millions would die a long and miserable death.
So upon their shoulders they held the lives of millions and of generations in the future.
Too bad any medals they would receive posthumously have been watered down by medal inflation.
Russia should have minted a new category for those who sacrificed their lives for literally millions of others, across national borders.
As an American,I salute these men.
Hillary is a radioactive bore.
I remember reading about what if mutations caused an ant to grow to the size of a house. A few things that make such impossible are an ant of of that size would suffocate as it would need hurricane force winds to breathe. It’s exoskeleton would collapse under it’s own weight, it’s legs being the first things to break.
Maybe around the reactors but the Pacicific is a huuuuuuuuge ocean and any radiation would be very diluted by the currents.
Doesn’t mean I would eat any fish caught in Japanese waters, though...
I remember watching a documentary about the melt down. There was this guy who was a first responder and he was the only one left alive at time of the filming. He had no cancer at all and he was perfectly healthy, other than being older. Some of his fellow firefighter died within days and weeks of their exposure. He must have had some Homer Simpson genes.
Yeah, but when you’re 7 yrs old, you don’t think about that kind of stuff. :-)
“Well, no. The animals aren’t tuned to radiation any more than we are. It is more likely that they just died off in fewer number as levels receded.”
While I admit using “knowing” about radiation only metaphorically, there is no evidence for your suggestion for the flourishing of flora and fauna in the abandoned Chernoble area. I don’t think anyone researchers have foolproof conclusions on why it is; but the fact remains there is an unexpected abundance of flora and fauna where scientists said would be centuries recovering.
I remember those senior citizens in Japan who volunteered to go in the Fukushima plant when it was still highly radioactive. They reasoned that they were old and did not have a lot of time left anyway and that what they did would save the younger folks. I hope the younger generation has such cajones to face almost certain death to save others when their time comes.
Also did a great photo shoot of the WWII defenses of Kiev, interesting stuff.
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