photo essay on a radioactive town..

[warden]

great photo essay, not sure if this is a repost though.. either or, very impressive..

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

[Gonthro]

very intresting site...

[QuasarCav]

read the whole thing!!

18 pages, pretty sad what happened. Most of it could have been avoided or made less severe. If it wasn't for the gov't alot of people could have survived.

Good read though.

[Dj_Stylz]

Wow thats very sad

[roopi]

Nice post!

[benyl]

wow, so sad. Interesting find.

[hyperwhite]

wow, that really makes you think. there is a nuclear plant in pickering ontario, which is kinda far from me but i'd still be in the danger zone. there has been talk about shutting it down but i don't know if they have. i've never worried or even thought about it to much but i have never seen the devistation of a meltdown like that. that really shook me up.

[blinkme_210]

Wow.... what a great read. I think that chapter 12 was the most interesting, especially the last picture showing the lonely road. Hell, I would pay to go on a tour there. But I'd probably piss my pants and want to leave too like those first tourists.

[Ben]

Wow, great read, sure is a polar opposite from life in our city...must be like nothing else. Radiation is scary. So deadly and you cant see it.

[GorG]

Amazing read, i would want to take a bike ride threw there, i would really want to experience it or my self, Such a horrible story though, one could only imagine what it would actually be like to have to live threw that. if i lived 300-600 years from now and it was all clear to move in i would go in a call on of those oilers, that could fork in quite a pretty penny

[knees scrapin']

That was amazingly disturbing. I remember seeing that reactor faliure on the news when I was 7. Even today its a horrific story.
The human race's greatest truimphs are always outdone by the following monumental faliure.


Be happy we live where we do.

[EstoMax]

damn. i read it all too..crazy

max

[Weapon_R]

Question for the older folks: How do you remember "seeing" it, when the Soviets did everything to hide the accident? Was it common knowledge, or was it kept secret for a long time?

[knees scrapin']

When there's was somthing going in the USSR during the cold war the damn yanks were all over it.

It did take a few days for the info to leak to the press though.

You cant hide a reactor faliure of that magnitude.

[xkon]

damn, thats a good read... very sad, but interesting

i dont remember it at all when it happened, i was 8... but i remember Challenger, it was all over the news