One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show.
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl's reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Here he speaks to Michael Bond about what happened that night
How did you end up working at Chernobyl?
I chose it. It was one of the best stations in the Soviet Union, it was a good town to live in, and I had been there for practical work as part of my studies. And it was a good wage. Being a nuclear engineer was a prestigious career - in those days. Nowadays people in Russia prefer to be businessmen and lawyers.
What were you doing the night the reactor exploded?
I was on the night shift. When I turned up I found out that the safety test that had been planned for the day had been put off until the evening. The reactor had already been powered down and so we would just be overseeing its cooling, which is a very easy job. I was thinking that I wouldn't have much to do that night.
What were you doing when you heard the explosion?
I was in my office, talking to a colleague who had come in to ask for some paint, and reading some documents.
What happened?
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
What did you think it was?
When I heard the thud I thought it was something very heavy that had fallen. After that I didn't know. I thought that maybe war had begun.
Did you imagine that it might be the reactor?
I couldn't imagine it was something to do with the reactor. Before it happened there were no vibrations, no sounds, nothing to indicate there was something wrong. We were trained for various emergency situations. We were engineers, and we were trained in what the reactors could or could not do and what could go wrong. We were prepared for fire and other things, but we were not trained for this. We all thought the safety measures were reliable, that if you pressed the emergency stop button to lower the control rods into the reactor - which is what my friend Leonid Toptunov in the control room did that night - that it would stop the power as it was supposed to. But it didn't. People make mistakes, but we thought the safety measures would compensate for that. We believed what we were told in the work manual.
What did you do after the explosion?
I went back to my office and tried to ring the control room for reactor number 4 to find out what had happened, but there was no line. Suddenly the phone from control room number 3 rang. I got a command to bring stretchers. I grabbed the stretchers and ran. Outside the control room I met a friend who had been close to the centre of the explosion. I didn't recognise him. His clothes were black and his face was disfigured because he had been covered in scalding water. I only recognised him by his voice. He told me to go to the site of the explosion because there were others injured. This friend was being tended by others, so I got a torch and ran to find the other operator who had been near the huge coolant tanks.
What did you find?
I got to where I expected to find this person but I couldn't find anything, there was a huge mess. I found him on the other side, he had managed to crawl away. It was the same picture: he was
Sure the government regulates the gun laws and all, but what it stopping you from going downtown, or even someone you might know and buying a gun from them? Illegally. What government has regulation over that?
"If a student graduates or leaves, access to the software is cut off."
What I dont understand is the author of the article says that once you graduate from college/university you cannot use the software anymore.
Why would I pay for something and later not be able to use it?
In your talk about sending emails and them being deleted, why not print the email, then you still have the letter. Surely its not hand written but you still have a copy of it.
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Dos was the most stable OS that microsoft has ever produced
It's smart of them not doing it a while ago, now that they have established themselves as the BEST search engine out there. They can get anything they want for it.
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One thing I never did understand is why when ever they are talking about distance, they always says kilometers never miles. Is there a reason for this? It is an American show.
Cheating Chernobyl
Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl's reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel. Here he speaks to Michael Bond about what happened that night
How did you end up working at Chernobyl?
I chose it. It was one of the best stations in the Soviet Union, it was a good town to live in, and I had been there for practical work as part of my studies. And it was a good wage. Being a nuclear engineer was a prestigious career - in those days. Nowadays people in Russia prefer to be businessmen and lawyers.
What were you doing the night the reactor exploded?
I was on the night shift. When I turned up I found out that the safety test that had been planned for the day had been put off until the evening. The reactor had already been powered down and so we would just be overseeing its cooling, which is a very easy job. I was thinking that I wouldn't have much to do that night.
What were you doing when you heard the explosion?
I was in my office, talking to a colleague who had come in to ask for some paint, and reading some documents.
What happened?
The first thing I heard wasn't an explosion, it was a thud, a shaking. Then two or three seconds later came the explosion. The doors of my office were blown out. It was like when an old building is demolished, with clouds of dust, but combined with lots of steam. It was a very damp, dusty, powerful movement of air. There was a lot of shaking, a lot of things were falling. The lights went off. Our first thought was to find somewhere we could safely hide. We headed towards the transport corridor, where there was a small passage with a low ceiling. We were standing there and everything was falling around us.
What did you think it was?
When I heard the thud I thought it was something very heavy that had fallen. After that I didn't know. I thought that maybe war had begun.
Did you imagine that it might be the reactor?
I couldn't imagine it was something to do with the reactor. Before it happened there were no vibrations, no sounds, nothing to indicate there was something wrong. We were trained for various emergency situations. We were engineers, and we were trained in what the reactors could or could not do and what could go wrong. We were prepared for fire and other things, but we were not trained for this. We all thought the safety measures were reliable, that if you pressed the emergency stop button to lower the control rods into the reactor - which is what my friend Leonid Toptunov in the control room did that night - that it would stop the power as it was supposed to. But it didn't. People make mistakes, but we thought the safety measures would compensate for that. We believed what we were told in the work manual.
What did you do after the explosion?
I went back to my office and tried to ring the control room for reactor number 4 to find out what had happened, but there was no line. Suddenly the phone from control room number 3 rang. I got a command to bring stretchers. I grabbed the stretchers and ran. Outside the control room I met a friend who had been close to the centre of the explosion. I didn't recognise him. His clothes were black and his face was disfigured because he had been covered in scalding water. I only recognised him by his voice. He told me to go to the site of the explosion because there were others injured. This friend was being tended by others, so I got a torch and ran to find the other operator who had been near the huge coolant tanks.
What did you find?
I got to where I expected to find this person but I couldn't find anything, there was a huge mess. I found him on the other side, he had managed to crawl away. It was the same picture: he was
So if finish work at 11:30pm on my afternoon shift and drive home between 12:00am and 4:00am the discount does not apply?
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You can actually download the songs, really nice.
I wonder if they will get in trouble from the MPAA?
Haven't seen that one before.
Sure the government regulates the gun laws and all, but what it stopping you from going downtown, or even someone you might know and buying a gun from them? Illegally. What government has regulation over that?
I have an old 3.2 gig IBM drive, got it in 1997, dropped it once accidently but it still works good.
There is also catalogue.google.com
You're the best!
At my previous place of employment we had servers named after drugs.
One server was called crack, you would often hear "Is anyone using crack".
What I dont understand is the author of the article says that once you graduate from college/university you cannot use the software anymore.
Why would I pay for something and later not be able to use it?
Search for rip, mix, burn
Cannot come up with comments your self?
That's pretty funny.
With all this piracy going on, and yet they still make money.
How is that possible?
Video game industry should stop bitching about piracy
They went up, I was thinking of buying them too, too late now
I used to work for a company downtown, where everyone was fairly young, we used to go out for drinks all the time.
However now I work with a more Mature/Older crowd they have no interests in these kinds of activities
So why dont you stick with dialup then?
Only an idiot would dump their cable/dsl connection to go back to 56k and lower.
Perhaps playing games is his work, so he decided to play them for entertainment
A friend of mine got civilization 3, and he has been bragging about it for days. He says the game is the best Civ game to date.
If anyone ever watches thescreensavers, they showed the iPod the first day it was announced, including what it looks like inside
In your talk about sending emails and them being deleted, why not print the email, then you still have the letter. Surely its not hand written but you still have a copy of it.
Well yeah
Dos was the most stable OS that microsoft has ever produced
It's smart of them not doing it a while ago, now that they have established themselves as the BEST search engine out there. They can get anything they want for it.