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BobbyZero
02-21-10, 11:27 PM
I came across these Chernobyl photos tonight, and they are some very spooky photos indeed. :o http://englishrussia.com/?p=293

Let's hope we never see another meltdown like that :dead:

ReFaN
02-21-10, 11:29 PM
I came across these photos tonight, and they are some very spooky photos indeed. :o http://englishrussia.com/?p=293

Let's hope we never see another meltdown like that :dead:

Thats Photos from Pripyat, Chernobyl is the name of the NPP, Pripyat was built for housing the workers at chernobyl NPP.

Been there once, was quite an experience, quite remarkable that nature can take over so fast when you leave something.

bookworm_020
02-22-10, 12:59 AM
Make me greatful that the only nuclear reactor in Australia is a medical/research reactor. It would have a hard time even getting to 1% as bad as this if everything went wrong!

Schroeder
02-22-10, 06:52 AM
Those pictures are pretty disturbing. They show us time and again how careful we have to be with this technology.

There are some more pictures here: http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-soc-general-discussion/379832-my-trip-chernobyl-pictures-56k-ultra-death.html

:dead:

Snow White Sorrow
02-22-10, 07:38 AM
Pictures are one thing but its the stories that strike dread in my heart - a white-hot reactor melting its way into the earth, the desperate actions of the disaster response units, the sarcophagus, etc.

ReFaN
02-22-10, 08:17 AM
Pictures are one thing but its the stories that strike dread in my heart - a white-hot reactor melting its way into the earth, the desperate actions of the disaster response units, the sarcophagus, etc.

Especially the Firefighters, they rushed to the site to extinquish the fires, not knowing of the radiation they would be exposed too.

We arrived there at 10 or 15 minutes to two in the morning ... We saw graphite scattered about. Misha asked: What is graphite? I kicked it away. But one of the fighters on the other truck picked it up. It's hot, he said. The pieces of graphite were of different sizes, some big, some small enough to pick up ...

We didn't know much about radiation. Even those who worked there had no idea. There was no water left in the trucks. Misha filled the cistern and we aimed the water at the top. Then those boys who died went up to the roof - Vashchik Kolya and others, and Volodya Pravik ... They went up the ladder ... and I never saw them again.

SgtPotato
02-22-10, 11:35 AM
Come in! Don't just stand there, stalker!

Sorry, I feel like I want to say this quote from STALKER game. By the way, I heard there are a lot of ghost stories in Chernobyl, but I can't find the source.

ajrimmer42
02-22-10, 11:38 AM
I'd love to go there, looks stunning.


Good hunting Stalker... :D

Torvald Von Mansee
02-22-10, 01:03 PM
I'm actually all for nuclear power. If done right, it is cheap, safe, and plentiful.

ETR3(SS)
02-22-10, 01:17 PM
Nuclear power is like flying in an airplane. Both are the safest in their respective categories. But all it takes is a Three Mile Island or a Chernobyl to happen to give the opposition exactly what they need.

Torvald Von Mansee
02-22-10, 01:52 PM
Nuclear power is like flying in an airplane. Both are the safest in their respective categories. But all it takes is a Three Mile Island or a Chernobyl to happen to give the opposition exactly what they need.

Sigh. I remember seeing some statistic (after 9/11, I think) where you'd have to fly TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS, non stop, to likely be killed in in an act of terrorism. It just takes one dramatic example to screw up perceptions among the unwashed masses, and lead to an unreasonably large reaction which screws things up even more.

NeonSamurai
02-22-10, 02:17 PM
The problem though, is when something does go wrong, the results are pretty large. When a plane crashes its not a couple of people it can be a couple hundred. We also don't know the full extent of what Chernobyl did, how many really died or suffered from it will never be fully known.

Bubblehead1980
02-22-10, 03:31 PM
While I am no eviromental activist etc I am against nuclear power plants as Obama has proposed.I am against it because of Three Mile Island and especially Chernobyl.

Sure nuclear power is relatively safe, cheap, and plentiful but if something does go wrong like a Chernobyl, not only is the immediate area affected but people thousands of miles away are as well.When a plane crashes usually, it "only" takes out a small number and usually there are not long term health problems with your "standard" plane crash, 9/11 is a whole different story.We have other options than nuclear power,
so need to use them.Want some evidence, watch the documentary that aired on HBO a while back called Chernobyl Heart, people many miles away having children years later born with serious birth defects.


Torvald Von Mansee,

I have found the perception of nuclear power among the "unwashed masses" which I will assume you meant the uneducated or misinformed, is that nuclear power plants are good things because of the jobs but during their construction and once they are operational.I understand both sides of the argument but my education along with instrict and knowledge of history(Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, whichever nuke distaster is next) tells me that while nuclear power has benefits, they are not worth the risk.I don't want to see parts of my country end up like Chernobyl.Unlikely, perhaps but not worth the risk.

Schroeder
02-22-10, 04:04 PM
Another problem is where do you put the radioactive waste? That stuff stays dangerous for millenniums. If you calculate the "safe" storage of nuclear waste from power plants into your running costs, nuclear power isn't that cheap any more all of a sudden. But that is usually paid by the tax payer so the nuke companies can keep saying that it is cheap.
Over here in Germany we have quiet a problem with finding a final storage place for nuclear waste. A "research" mine that was used for storing barrels with radioactive stuff has started to take water some years ago and now all the waste has to be removed from it again (if that is possible, the barrels are corroded beyond recognition and the company which ran the show didn't take safety too serious at all...they don't even know exactly what they stored down there:damn:).
The mine was supposed to prove how safe such a final storage place is. The stuff stays dangerous for about 30.000 years and that mine remained solid for....30 years:damn:! Yeah, awesome how safe that is (let alone that the company tried to cover the mess up of course)!
With nuclear power you give a heavy burden to the generations to come. Assuming that a final storage place would last for 30.000 years to come is ridiculous at best. Imagine, if Jesus had stored nuclear waste somewhere it would still be dangerous in 28.000 years. Do you believe any one would still know that someone has stored something there thousands of years ago?

August
02-22-10, 04:06 PM
...but not worth the risk.

You and other anti- nuclear power detractors are seriously overestimating the risk I think.

What you're all saying is that you prefer the ongoing, constant environmental damage caused by coal and oil power plants over the potential damage of a nuke power plant meltdown in spite of the fact that your two examples: Chernobyl was a particularly bad design that is now totally obsolete and Three Mile Islands spill was so minor that it didn't even raise local cancer rates.

Think about it.

OneToughHerring
02-22-10, 04:08 PM
Bubblehead1980,

well what form of energy are you in favour of? I think from a moral/environmental point of view the best,or closest to the best, would be stuff like wind, solar, wave and biomass energy, and maybe some others that I don't remember now. These haven't been invested in, the reasons behind might be due to intense lobbying from pro-nuclear/some other more polluting form of energy producers.

Nuclear, coal, hydroelectric (damming rivers etc.) seem all pretty popular and also all have some pretty significant environmental downsides. Now I don't claim to know the politics behind, say, the building of nuclear but I do know that it's a question of big, and I do mean BIG, bucks.

Here's a list of the most expensive things (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_most_expensive_single_objects), make a note of the dams and nuclear plants. No. 6 is a 'thing' from Finland, a pretty sad endeavor, I might add.

"According to Professor Stephen Thomas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Thomas_%28professor%29), "Olkiluoto has become an example of all that can go wrong in economic terms with new reactors"" :D

Platapus
02-22-10, 06:13 PM
How many people died in the Three Mile Island accident?

Zero

My favourite TMI story was when the lawyers were trying to claim that the radiation levels released at TMI were at a dangerous level. To give an example of normal background radiation, a sample was taken inside the courtroom. The people in the courtroom were receiving more scintillating radiation due to the granite used in the construction of the courtroom than was released by TMI.

Oops.

TMI still remains our worst commercial reactor accident (there have been worse non-commercial accidents though). If TMI is the worst commercial accident we have had, we have an excellent safety record.

I do not think that nuclear power is our permanent solution to our energy problems, but it is a great source we can use until we do find a better source.

With today's technology we can build null void reactors that can operate with a negative void coefficient as a back up "fail-safe" design. No longer is the objective to get the absolute most energy out of reactors, but to build them safely as we can always get more power out of two negative void coefficient reactors than one positive one.

Nuclear reactor technology is too varied and complex to be assigned a simple label of "safe" or "unsafe".

CaptainHaplo
02-22-10, 08:40 PM
The reality is that there exists reactor designs that - because of the design itself - actually take DAYS from a major malfunction (say a total cooling failure) to going critical. This gives a window of response that all but insures that the reactor will be either fixed OR deactivated to avoid a meltdown.

To say nuclear power is not safe is to ignore reality, on purpose.

As to "storage" - I have to ask, why does everyone want to ignore new generation reactors that can burn 90% of the fuel, instead of the designs from the 50's and 60's that can only burn like 10% - and thus leave highly toxic wastes. I mean, a safe, clean reactor that puts out 10% of the current waste? With the money saved from storage alone, we could repurpose NASA - and let them shoot the stuff into Jupiter or some other gas giant (or maybe the sun???) where it can't do any damage and doesn't impeded future space travel. I mean - heck - if we shot the waste into the sun (and surely we could hit the thing, its not like its a small target and its own gravity would help!) - the waste would be burnt up before it even got close.

Don't get me wrong - but it seems to me solutions like that solve more than one problem without causing more of them. Come to think of it - using the sun for a giant garbage disposal since it would just burn it all up into component atoms and consume it all could actually be a useful idea for LOTS of things.......

Schroeder
02-23-10, 05:37 AM
Do you know what it would cost to send a few tons of toxic waste to the sun every few months? If you do that you can say bye, bye to cheap nuclear power for good IMHO.

krashkart
02-23-10, 05:18 PM
Figure I better get these links in here. These were the first photos of the Zone I was able to see as an adult. There are a few videos there somewhere, too. They were taken by a lovely and adventurous gal named Elena.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/

She tends to keep her chapter links at the bottom of each page.

Her main page is here: http://www.kiddofspeed.com

I highly recommend giving her site a good browse.

As a kid living here in the US, Chernobyl was a scary thing. What Elena and others have contributed in photographs and video and written word has helped me obtain so much perspective on a subject I never had hope of knowing about. We were behind our own kind of Iron Curtain here, namely fear I guess. I never thought there would be a time when we could see inside (what was then) the Soviet Union.

I read a book named Voices From Chernobyl (http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Chernobyl-History-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/0312425848/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266963040&sr=1-1) a few months ago. I read it cover to cover in one night and it broke my heart in many places. I gained a much better understanding of the catastrophe and why so many people were thrown into (or threw themselves into) such a dangerous predicament. Who else could have prevented a greater disaster than the men who heaved broken chunks of graphite shielding from the roof of the shattered power block, or the brave helicopter pilots that airlifted and dumped load after load of sand onto the molten core? Who else could have been there to tend to their pain afterward but their loved ones (and only those beloved that were allowed in to the hospitals)?

The links, the book, the knowledge I sought afterward, it has all given that frightened little American kid from '86 a sense of closure that could not have been attained without the information that has been brought to light in the years since. But I have to wonder now, what of those who were directly affected by the meltdown? Have they found peace and closure?

This may be a better link for the book:

http://www.powells.com/biblio/1564784010

I should also add, aside from all the heroism, that many of the folks in what is now the Zone knew nothing about radiation. They knew absolutely nothing except perhaps that the plant had blown up, that it had emitted a strange flame and odd-colored smoke. And not long after the plant blew they would know that they were to leave their homes, their livelihoods, their pets, many of their belongings, all of it indefinitely. There are those who never left, and there are those who missed home so much that they eventually found a way back.

Anyway, I had to share this with you. It's not an exercise in guided enlightenment. It's been an experience so far that, in a great sense, has taken a burden off my heart. To know what I know now is far more rewarding than the guilt I have carried for having hated the Soviets for so long... imagine that. An American so far removed from Soviet influence having any right whatsoever to hate them. And yet, when that plant blew... I will not share here that thought from so many years gone by. That was what I had learned then.

What I have learned since is that humanity is the core of our being, no matter our nationality or beliefs. I am thankful to have grown as far as I have and to discover what I have discovered within myself, and of our mutual struggles as an intelligent species. Hopefully there will be many more years of discovery to come.

I think I'm out of breath. *scoots the soapbox over for someone else*

Onkel Neal
02-23-10, 05:57 PM
Good find, thanks for posting.

Oberon
02-23-10, 06:06 PM
Elenas pictures are beautifully haunting. I remember seeing them a few years ago when they were posted up in the GT here.
Nuclear power is always a iffy subject with me, because I live about four miles from two, well, one shutdown and in the process of being decommed, one operational and one more in the planning stages which'll probably be started on around 2018ish.
I'm rather fatalistic about it to be honest, if it happens it happens, but I've been around the station a few times on tours (well worth it) and the safety systems they have in place are pretty thorough, however I know that nothing is absolutely a hundred percent foolproof and there is a small but still real risk of a problem in which case my best hope is that the winds are blowing from the west or south-west or it's goodnight Irene. The government knows this, once upon a time they practiced evacuation drills in the local community, particularly amongst the elderly in care homes and the like. Now they don't bother as far as I know, a few years ago some Iodine tablets were handed out to people living two miles from the plant, but really, if it all went wrong, that's about as much help as a bottle of vodka and some tin foil.
On the upside, I wouldn't need to fork out for STALKER: Call of Pripyat... :hmmm:

My view of nuclear power as it stands is, from a consumer point I prefer cheaper electricity, who doesn't? We all use electricity, we all pretty much depend on it for our lives (and daily Subsim fix) therefore we want it to have as low a financial impact on our lives as possible. Human nature, we want the most we can get for the cheapest we can get. :yep:
However, nuclear waste is my primary concern, even over meltdowns and occasional radiation leaks (which we've also had up here), because that stuff glows for years. Even now that one of our local plants reactors has been shut down it's going to be a number of decades before the decommissioning process is complete.

Heh, and for an additional spot of fun, I just found this whilst looking through the wiki for the local NPP:

On January 7, 2007 a contractor working on the decommissioning of the station noticed water leaking on to the floor of the laundry where he was washing his clothes. The water was found to be cooling water from the pond that holds the reactor's spent nuclear fuel which had dropped more than a 1 foot (0.30 m) without activating any of the alarms. It is estimated that up to 40,000 gallons (151,500 l) of radioactive water had leaked from a 15 feet (4.6 m) split in a pipe with some spilling into the North Sea. According to the HM Nuclear Installation Inspectorate's report of the incident, without the chance intervention of the contractor, the pond could have drained before the next scheduled plant inspection. If the exposed irradiated fuel caught fire it would have resulted in an airborne off-site release of radiation.

:har: Ok, like I said...not every safety system is a hundred percent foolproof! :har:

Chad
02-23-10, 06:30 PM
Can someone fill me in with what the deal is with the sarcafogus (sp??)


Did they bury part of the plant and everything in it (and including a body (bodies?)) to keep radiation from spreading?

krashkart
02-23-10, 06:35 PM
Can someone fill me in with what the deal is with the sarcafogus (sp??)


Did they bury part of the plant and everything in it (and including a body (bodies?)) to keep radiation from spreading?

Yes, it was primarily to contain the molten core and resultant radiation. Otherwise it might make a nifty BASE leap. :)

All kidding aside, what they built then is now in poor condition and there are plans to build another one to cover the first. I'll have to dig up those old links - that were on the now defunct hard drive. :o

Good find, thanks for posting.

Anytime, and thank you.

...but really, if it all went wrong, that's about as much help as a bottle of vodka...

Did you have your 100ml of vodka today, comrade? :)

What gets me, being a purebred Idahoan, is that one of the US' primary nuclear power test/development sites (at least throughout the fifties) sits directly on top of the aquifer that supplies much of the agricultural and drinking water for the state. My dad some years ago worked for the USGS, drilling into and sampling the aquifer under the site for isotopes. He wasn't allowed to divulge much to us, just that he was drilling. What's even scarier is that the site is now owned and operated by Lockheed... but that may be a topic for future conversation.

ReFaN
02-23-10, 06:41 PM
Can someone fill me in with what the deal is with the sarcafogus (sp??)


Did they bury part of the plant and everything in it (and including a body (bodies?)) to keep radiation from spreading?

Basicly, the sacrophagus is failing, if it falls tonnes of radioactive dust will be send to not so good places.

Chad
02-23-10, 06:56 PM
Alright, thanks guys. Terrible event, just wanted to make sure I have my facts right in case it ever gets brought up, I now have an educated point of views on the subject.

ReFaN
02-23-10, 07:00 PM
Alright, thanks guys. Terrible event, just wanted to make sure I have my facts right in case it ever gets brought up, I now have an educated point of views on the subject.

in case you havent read the article its quite educational.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

krashkart
02-23-10, 09:21 PM
Elenas pictures are beautifully haunting. I remember seeing them a few years ago when they were posted up in the GT here.

I spent so much time cruising her site. She put a new section up at some point, in which she presents her and friends' efforts at unearthing artifacts from the battles around Kiev during WWII. They must have some ice water in their veins or something.

http://www.theserpentswall.com/

Nuclear power is always a iffy subject with me, because I live about four miles from two, well, one shutdown and in the process of being decommed, one operational and one more in the planning stages which'll probably be started on around 2018ish.
I'm rather fatalistic about it to be honest, if it happens it happens, but I've been around the station a few times on tours (well worth it) and the safety systems they have in place are pretty thorough, however I know that nothing is absolutely a hundred percent foolproof and there is a small but still real risk of a problem in which case my best hope is that the winds are blowing from the west or south-west or it's goodnight Irene. The government knows this, once upon a time they practiced evacuation drills in the local community, particularly amongst the elderly in care homes and the like. Now they don't bother as far as I know, a few years ago some Iodine tablets were handed out to people living two miles from the plant, but really, if it all went wrong, that's about as much help as a bottle of vodka and some tin foil.Far as I can tell there aren't any nuclear power stations near where I live. OTOH, I remember my grandmother making a joke once about the yellow pollen from the pine trees. As I recall it, she once told an out-of-towner that it was just dust picked up from the Hanford Site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site) by the wind. :har:

On the upside, I wouldn't need to fork out for STALKER: Call of Pripyat... :hmmm::hmmm:
A new video game?


My view of nuclear power as it stands is, from a consumer point I prefer cheaper electricity, who doesn't? We all use electricity, we all pretty much depend on it for our lives (and daily Subsim fix) therefore we want it to have as low a financial impact on our lives as possible. Human nature, we want the most we can get for the cheapest we can get. :yep:
However, nuclear waste is my primary concern, even over meltdowns and occasional radiation leaks (which we've also had up here), because that stuff glows for years. Even now that one of our local plants reactors has been shut down it's going to be a number of decades before the decommissioning process is complete.Cheap electricity is definitely a good thing, especially when it comes to making inroads here at Subsim (and keeping my beer chilly).

I remember all the huff in Idaho about the government shipping waste across the state, particularly the storage of some of those materials at The Site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_National_Laboratory). I certainly had my concerns about the storage aspect, in light of the research my Dad had participated in with the USGS. But any way we look at it, whether it be stored in the Idaho desert or buried elsewhere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_repository), the energy source produces it and it has to go somewhere.

On January 7, 2007 a contractor working on the decommissioning of the station noticed water leaking on to the floor of the laundry where he was washing his clothes. The water was found to be cooling water from the pond that holds the reactor's spent nuclear fuel which had dropped more than a 1 foot (0.30 m) without...Yes, reports such as that inspire so much faith in the integrity of the systems, don't they? :rotfl2: Pretty minor to what the systems are designed to circumvent, though. I'll give it that. :)


Alright, thanks guys. Terrible event, just wanted to make sure I have my facts right in case it ever gets brought up, I now have an educated point of views on the subject.

Anytime Chad. :salute: I used to have a folder stuffed with bookmarks on the Chernobyl and related subjects, but that computer was greased and I lost everything. The Nuclear Files (http://www.nuclearfiles.org/) website has an extensive list of links to filter through, if you're interested. Have a looksee under the Library link on the top menu.

Chad
02-23-10, 10:12 PM
Wow, reading the wikipedia article really puts the pictures to shame. I pictured Nuclear Meltdown the same as when the Atomic bombs were dropped, mass destruction. The destruction this caused was more invisible, and, appears more catastrophic in the long run.

I was reading about how forest fires can release toxins that are in the ground, and the amount of land and forest that has been destroyed is crazy!

Grass and forest fires have happened inside the contaminated zone, releasing radioactive fallout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_fallout) into the atmosphere. In 1986 a series of fires destroyed 23.36 km2 (5,772 acres) of forest, and several other fires have since burned within the 30 km (19 mi) zone. In early May 1992 a serious fire occurred which affected 5 km2 (1,240 acres) of land including 2.7 km2 (670 acres) of forest. This resulted in a great increase in the levels of caesium-137 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137) in airborne dust.

We have 10 acres of land at my parents house, I can't even begin to imagine 5,772 or even 1,240 acres of burning land.

August
02-24-10, 10:38 AM
How do you get rid of nuclear waste? Simple... bury it in a park where kids play.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/statenisland/2007/03/16/2007-03-16_2nd_radiation_site_discovered_in_staten_-1.html


If you read the article you posted you'd note that:

A. This stuff was buried when it was a landfill so implying that they would deliberately bury it in a park is dishonest.

B. "The level of radiation was very low; a U.S. Department of Energy official characterized the radiation as equivalent to 1/70th of a dental X-ray"

C. The area was part of a wetland area in the park and not normally used by visitors. Apparently the kids were in fact not playing on it.

krashkart
02-24-10, 11:55 AM
That site must be from the days when spent rods were still stored in open trenches. Got radium? Dump it in the landfill! :DL

Bubblehead1980
02-24-10, 02:58 PM
Yep, while Nagaskai and Hiroshima had very visible damage and many suffered after effects for years, The damage caused by Chernobyl meltdown is largely invisible unless you see some of the victims.I highly suggest anyone watch the documentary Chernobyl Heart.Children born ten years after were born and to this day are born with serious birth defects, missing feet, hands, eyes, all kinds of mutations.Many are born with "Chernobyl Heart" a heart defect directly attributed to exposure at Chernobyl.This is happening hundreds of miles away to women who were in the area and exposed after it happened.This was not some crazy enviro group making the documentary, just showing what goes on.Sad thing is because of the poor shape in the post Soviet era many children could not be helped.Actually, the director of the film herself contracted caesium poisioning during filming but was treated successfully.Then there is the storage problem etc Just need to not give into short term need for gratification and think of the long term effects of things like say property values, I bet most people will not want to live near a nuke power plant.I sure would not.

I know US designed plants esp now are much safer etc but still NOT worth it when they are better alternatives.Plus, global warming is a hoax anyway so we can stay on fossil fuels a bit while we get things in line, but no nuke power esp near my home but hell it be hundreds of miles away and still affect me, my family and friends.Simply not worth it.

Dowly
02-24-10, 03:25 PM
The Red Forest is my favorite (if you can put it that way) when it comes to Chernobyl. Something creepy about it. :hmmm:

OneToughHerring
02-24-10, 03:31 PM
1986, I remember it very well. I recently saw a documentary where the guys who were digging a tunnel underneath the reactor to put some kind of reinforcement there so the thing wouldn't melt through the earths core and/or get into the water supply. The guys who were digging the tunnel were watching the 1986 football championships from Mexico on television, just like I was back then as a kid. Those guys didn't understand the kind of danger they were in.

XabbaRus
02-24-10, 05:05 PM
Kid of speeds pictures are interesting, just a pity she had to overdo it with her cockamany story about being a biker through the zone.

Dowly
02-24-10, 05:16 PM
Kid of speeds pictures are interesting, just a pity she had to overdo it with her cockamany story about being a biker through the zone.

Yeh, was remembering something about that? Care to remind me what the case was? :hmmm:

August
02-24-10, 05:26 PM
Yeh, was remembering something about that? Care to remind me what the case was? :hmmm:

From her wiki article:

The photos are arranged in the form of a story presented as an account of a trip by a biker who travelled alone in the radiation zone. However, Chernobyl tour guide Yuri Tatarchuk claimed that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures.

Dowly
02-24-10, 05:27 PM
Thanks August. :salute:

August
02-24-10, 05:29 PM
Thanks August. :salute:

You're quite welcome Dowly.

The way I see it though. She may have faked the solo motorcycle part but the pictures are both real and poignant.

Sledgehammer427
02-24-10, 06:00 PM
Voices From Chernobyl is an excellent read, it's a collection of monologues from various people who worked at the plant, fought the fires there, residents, etc.

very good book if you ever get the chance to pick it up, I suggest you do

ReFaN
02-24-10, 07:53 PM
You're quite welcome Dowly.

The way I see it though. She may have faked the solo motorcycle part but the pictures are both real and poignant.

Shes a phony, a big fat phony!

Hakahura
02-25-10, 08:11 PM
Possibly tasteless, but I've got to know...
All that radioactivity...
Its been nearly 24 years...

Where are all the Superheroes?

nikimcbee
02-28-10, 01:00 PM
Are you sure that's Chernobyl? Looks like Detroit to me.:haha:

Dowly
02-28-10, 01:12 PM
Possibly tasteless, but I've got to know...
All that radioactivity...
Its been nearly 24 years...

Where are all the Superheroes?

Ow, there are superheroes, it's just that they dont have such usefull powers like Superman has. Where as Superman can lift ships and stuff, the Chernobyl superheroes have abilities such as being able to count to 15 with their fingers. :hmmm:

krashkart
02-28-10, 02:14 PM
Ow, there are superheroes, it's just that they dont have such usefull powers like Superman has. Where as Superman can lift ships and stuff, the Chernobyl superheroes have abilities such as being able to count to 15 with their fingers. :hmmm:

:har:

Took a split second, but I got it. :yeah:

EDIT: I give it Four Thumbs Up! :D