I intended to make a post about this last week but was away and then forgot. Last week was the 18th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I was just curious what everyones memories are of that date and the disaster.

I'd like to share this very interesting site that I found. The original has been closed but this is a mirror of it.

http://www.ninja-assassin.com/mirror/Chernobyl/

I think this site serves as a very powerful reminder.

i was visiting family in Central Scotland the night it poured with rain, supposedly infected by fallout from Chernobyl. I got absolutely drenched through that night (got caught walking from one house to another) and was out in that fall-out rain for perhaps 40 minutes. still haven't developed any adverse effects yet, although others on here may argue with that :D ;)

Originally posted by Lickszz


http://www.ninja-assassin.com/mirror/Chernobyl/

I think this site serves as a very powerful reminder.

Seen this site before,the pictures on there are pretty haunting to say the least.

This is an incredible website - simple, and to the point. It really tells a story of the impact of Chernobyl.

I can't believe it's 18 years since it happened. Amazing.

I can't believe that the media didn't mention it.

Is anyone else curious to go on the tours that she mentions?

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"The most exciting thing about rides in Ghosttown is to hit a red line on my bike's tacho and break this silence with roar of a wounded dinosaur and then to close throttle and listen how all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin. "

:thumbsup:

Killian,

I got rained on over that weekend as well. I was leafletting or canvassing for the local elections, I seem to remember. As with yoursel, no ill effects so far, and the ability to read without the bedside lamp due to my green glow has been most useful.....:-)

Seriously, though, that site is very interesting. There was a related article in The Times over the weekend.

What is quite interesting is that if we carry on refusing to save energy, and we run out of oil around 2030, the energy gap will have to be filled with nuclear energy unless some nice renewables are developed quickly to fill the gap.

Joe

Read this (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,6903,1598425,00.html) article in the Observer today about the ''Dark Tourism' now happening inside the exclusion zone!!

Have just visited the website mentioned in the article of such a tourist, Elena, her website and pictures can be seen here (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/) !

I was a teenager when this incident happened and therefore never quite understood the immense size of the tragedy which still blights the survivors and their families, many of them born since this happened but still victims of the radiation!

Please take a look!

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Well I blame my thyroid cancer (rare in men) on the fact I was in Sweden at the time. Chernobyl released large amounts of iodine radio-isotopes, and iodine accumulates in the thyroid.

All very scientific of course.

We were walking in north Wales the following year and came across a lake that had died due to contaminated rain from Chernobyl. A dreadful legacy so far from the original site.

Lots of people must be clicking onto your web address here Lickszz as I can't get through to it at the moment!

I remember Chernobyl very well. I used to travel frequently to the Soviet Union and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe at the time. In 1986, I was in Moscow and was due to spend some time in Kiev in Ukraine in July (Kiev is about 70 miles away from Chernobyl). The accident happened in April and therefore I had to think seriously about whether it was safe to go to Kiev.

Anyway, after taking advice from various quarters, I decided to go. Kiev is a beautiful green city, with lots of history (both good and bad) and well worth visiting. Ironically, when I got there people in Kiev were asking me (as a foreigner) about what had happened at Chernobyl. They were complaining that they had not been told very much by the authorities and in any case did not trust what they had been told. You should remember that in 1986, Gorbachev had been in power in the Soviet Union for less than a year and therefore the communist system, with its obsession with secrecy, and its tradition of mendacious propaganda, was still strongly entrenched. I told them what i knew, derived from reports I had read in the Western media.

The Soviet media first tried to cover the story up and then when this proved impossible tried to minimise its impact in various ways, although Gorbachev, who later became associated with the policy of glasnost' (openness) did give it much greater prominence that it would probably have been given under any previous Soviet leader. In particular, the Soviet media focused on the heroism and bravery of the men who struggled to close the site down. This was no hype. The men involved did indeed act with suicidal courage and in so doing averted an even greater disaster.

Originally posted by Floe
Lots of people must be clicking onto your web address here Lickszz as I can't get through to it at the moment!

This is a resurrected thread from the archives going back to 2004!! Lickzz's web link has obviously moved or has been withdrawn since he posted that's all!!

;)