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Chernobyl...18 Years Later
abysmilliard writes "A young Ukrainian woman has posted a photo journal of her motorcycle rides through Chernobyl and the area surrounding it. Included are pictures of the now-emptied city, maps of current radiation levels, and a discussion of how the area has changed. While the english is quite broken, it's often rather surreal, as well, with quotes like, 'I don't know how sound the silence to those tourists that they can not stand it, but to me after hitting a red line on my bike tacho it sound like all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin.'"
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Chernoybal is what happens when no one takes responsiblity and is accountable - i.e. socialism
A lot of very sensitive studies have found little or no impact on wildlife from the radiation. This includes DNA analysis looking for excess mutation rates.
The much-hyped 100,000 excess cancers have not appeared. The only solidly linked human effect (other than to those who fought the fire) has been an excess of thyroid cancer in children downstream, with one reported death as of a few years ago.
The only good weather is bad weather.
Some tell about 400.000 dead, other about half million.
I am sure, I was counted among those "dead" (I lived about 90km from the power plant, and there are only few millions of people within the that radius).
Dad says that those figures rised very high and so far death rate is 80.000-120.000 but it will be more because people will die within next 50-70 years
Most of the people who are reading this sentence will be dead within the next 50-70 years. This is how dangerous it is.
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
I don't know what you build in Germany, but American reactors can take an airliner and not even blink. Well, the control rooms and other outlying buildings will be toast, of course, but the core is inside several feet of steel-reinforced concrete and it won't even notice than you drove several hundred tons of fully-fueled airliner into it.
Are you sure? As far as I remember, there were concerns about aircrafts before 9/11, and german power plants have the concrete shield as well. But maybe they only thought of smaller aircrafts. Steel-inforced concrete maybe sounds good from the point of view of human being, consisting largely out of soft material like water. Jumbo Jets might be less impressed. And what about those new rockets the US developed to penetrate bunkers 12m below rock?
it is possible to design nuclear reactors which have no physical way of exploding or melting down.
interesting point, although surely a power plant contains more energy than a PC, so it seems less obvious to me why the explosion couldn't be big enough to blow up my house. So how is it supposed to work? Is there some kind of feedback loop to decrease the activity the hotter it gets (or whatever, I am no nuclear scientist)? Does that loop work without extra controlers, which might have been destroyed in the case of an accident?
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