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Chernobyl

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AtomicTweaker
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http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay%5Fchernobyl/?GT1=8019

wow look at this photo journal. make sure you see the whole thing. i had no idea that there was so mcuh radiation still there...terrible
Apr 26 2006 7:59AM
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freestyler540
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This is why nuclear weapns should be eliminated. Just look at the human suffering
Apr 26 2006 8:04AM
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Ghst
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That was awful, did you see that persons legs? Years after the actual bomb was dropped and it's still that radioactive and causing all that suffering, nuclear weapons shouldn't be used at all
Apr 26 2006 8:30AM
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Tze.C
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i saw a documentary on it, some kids are born deformed and stuff, really sad
Apr 26 2006 8:33AM
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Ghst
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Oh man I'm tired, disregard all of that.
Apr 26 2006 8:44AM
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Ryno
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Nukes are safe because no one wants to use em.
Apr 26 2006 10:14AM
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Chubby.Chaser
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You know there wasn't a bomb dropped on Chernobyl.
Apr 26 2006 10:25AM
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Chubby.Chaser
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Meltdown
Apr 26 2006 10:25AM
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SkiFakie614
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The reactor was cooled using liquid sodium... the sodium somehow found a leak and reacted with the atmosphere. (Ever seen your chemistry teacher drop a small piece of sodium into water? BOOM!)

It blew the roof off the place including the core etc... The russians built a big fucking concrete enclosure over it to seal it up but of course since they're Russian that thing has been falling apart for the past 20 years.

A very dangerous site to be near.
Apr 26 2006 10:59AM
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Ryno
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http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html


more pics, some are quite disturbing...but its all real.

Su_pilot found that link
Apr 26 2006 11:04AM
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mk2
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yeah the enclosure that they built could fall down any day sending up a radioactive dust clowd that could cover europe
Apr 26 2006 12:07PM
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Capt.Flannel
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They burned that into our minds in 6th grade, it was awful.
Apr 26 2006 12:10PM
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AtomicTweaker
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yeah, and it wasn't only in east europe, people get messed up all the way in norway, and italy
Apr 26 2006 12:11PM
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CooksCorner
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This would never happen again utilzing todays technology
Apr 26 2006 12:36PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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Yeah we should have never nuked the japanese in chernobyl, it was just rude
Apr 26 2006 12:41PM
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JockinJLoads
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ha ha ha ha ha ha...i feel bad for laughing at this....but ha ha ha ah ah ah
Apr 26 2006 12:46PM
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freestyler540
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Actually, I know about the Chernobyl accident. Nuclear weapons have the same effects as a reactor meltdown. For some reason, they both send radioactive elements in the atmosphere...
Apr 26 2006 12:55PM
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japanada
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reactor meltons have a much worse affect locally, since the explosion isnt nearly as intense and powerful, the radiation stays more confined for a longer period of timne. With nuclear weapons, the extreme force created by the explosion sends the particals miles upon miles up into the sky in much more dense number than with a meltdown. With nukes the radiation scatters much faster so the concentration of radiation is less.
Apr 26 2006 1:50PM
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lowtech
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those are really disturbing
Apr 26 2006 1:56PM
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Petey.
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yea, get rid of the nuclear everything man....its a real reality check on what can happen when things go wrong and shows us that we shouldn't risk it, really sad
Apr 26 2006 2:12PM
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japanada
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as long as one country has nukes, or the ability to produce them, all the big player will have nukes.
Apr 26 2006 2:20PM
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Poormansvault
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http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

That is one of the best sites in my opinion about Chernobyl, combines lots of pictures with personal experience and adds some emotions to it. Pretty powerful.
Apr 26 2006 2:23PM
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yeti
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fuck getting rid of nuclear power! It is going to be our saviour when the oil runs out.

Just because a bankrupt countries old hat reactor shit itself, doesnt mean that our new and efficient reactors (CANDU) will do the same thing.

Honestly...you fucking hippies...get your collective heads out of your asses.
Apr 26 2006 2:39PM
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AtomicTweaker
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chernobyl emitted much more radiation than hiroshima and nagasaki combined
Apr 26 2006 3:09PM
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japanada
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actually right b4 the accident chernobly was one of the safest and most efficnet reators in the world. But you are very right about that when oil runs out we are gonna turn to nuclear enery again. 2.2lbs of plutonium is the same a 50 train cars full of coal!
Apr 26 2006 3:11PM
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williamtell414
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uh not really
Apr 26 2006 3:21PM
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Ddrem
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wow... simply that
Apr 26 2006 3:22PM
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AtomicTweaker
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make sure you let like the first 6 pics go through then press play
Apr 26 2006 3:24PM
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cjb1776
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i was a power plant not a nuclear weapon.
Apr 26 2006 3:25PM
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AtomicTweaker
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the tumors and deformed kids are so messed up...its really sad
Apr 26 2006 3:28PM
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LOOK AT THIS SHIT

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why did they conduct this experiment again?
Apr 26 2006 3:47PM
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caro.dillon
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isnt that the thing in russia, when the nuclear reactor blew and gave everyone liver cancer? especially the daycare that was near by?
those things are so sad to hear about
Apr 26 2006 3:50PM
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Poormansvault
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Read the article I posted earlier, it explains how they were testing how long the reactors could continue going if like power was taken away or something, and they shut off the safety measures and shit. They made some really dumb mistakes. I am convinced nuclear power is safe in trained hands.
Apr 26 2006 3:56PM
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AtomicTweaker
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In ukraine, near belaruse
Apr 26 2006 5:36PM
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AtomicTweaker
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yeah, but there really always is room for mistakes
Apr 26 2006 5:37PM
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It's very debatable. Nuclear matter is safe in the right hands, but we are human. even if they were highly trained, one tiny misake could cause suffering and mutations for 24,000 years. thats over 200 generations.

very sad when this shit happens.
Apr 26 2006 6:09PM
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AtomicTweaker
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exactally, so is it really worth it? i dunno...
Apr 26 2006 6:23PM
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Poormansvault
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I guess I am trying to say that at Chernobyl there were a lot of stupid things done. These weren't little mistakes, they were just flat out stupid. It would be like intending to go drag racing in a car and not wearing your seatbelts in addition to disabling the airbags. Even "big" problems like the one at Three Mile Island were not that big (relatively speaking), as the reactors were flooded very quickly and the reactions quickly stopped.
Apr 26 2006 6:43PM
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twintipteles
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Chernobyl is sad, but completely irrelevant to the question of using nuclear power. The reactor was built without one of the most essential safety components, a protective core chamber. Had the russians not skimped on construction, the meltdown would have had no real consequences, other than the financial cost of building a new reactor. There have been other meltdowns, but they were in plants that were built with even a minimal regard for safety. Look at three mile island in pennsylvania. Scary that there was a meltdown? yes. At all dangerous? no, because the proper safety precautions were taken during construction.
Apr 26 2006 7:04PM
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twintipteles
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Definitely, and we should be switching as soon as possible, regardless of how soon the oil runs out. Considering that even the US department of defense issued a report in 2002 stating that global warming was the most serious threat to America, well above nuclear war or terrorism, it seems pretty essential to switch to a power source, that if used correctly is very clean and has no CO2 emissions.

Don't make a blanket statement about liberals though, I am extremely liberal, and an environmentalist, but i realize the necessity and potential of nuclear energy. It seems as if many others are seeing the light as well, I heard an interview today with one of the founders of Greenpeace, who has split with the group over the issue, and founded a new group whose sole purpouse is pushing for nuclear energy.
Apr 26 2006 7:10PM
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Sashac
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that's sad. i did a project on that in physics last year, we had just learned about it, and there were some things that were just so astonishing.. like the things they did to jeporadize people's lives and not tell them. bullshit.
Apr 26 2006 7:15PM
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DynastarriderGP
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that's fuckin' gross
Apr 26 2006 7:22PM
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