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Chernobyl Photographs

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
in Politics & Debate
Hey everyone, i jsut found this on the internet. It shows the devastating effects of radiation on the people around Chernobyl.
Thought it might be worth a look.

http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html

Warning: Some of these photographs may be disturbing to some people so viewer discresion is advised.

I feel that this shows just how lucky we are not be living in these sort of conditions.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    sad, but also insightful

    best anyone can do, is educate people in matters like this
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    just about to eat, will have to look tommorow might help lose the hangover
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    its very sad.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    Bit grim..
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Makes you think just how lucky you are and how small your problems really are.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ButtonMoon wrote:
    Makes you think just how lucky you are and how small your problems really are.

    :yes: exactly. Really sad
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The ones on bbc news online are of a similarly good standard.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    And they say nuclear power is safe...
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    And they say nuclear power is safe...
    Who said that??
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    And they say nuclear power is safe...
    Depends which country it's in...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    Depends which country it's in...

    You mean depends which country it is until there is an accident and we realise oh shit wasn't that safe was it...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    nihilisticmadman wrote:
    You mean depends which country it is until there is an accident and we realise oh shit wasn't that safe was it...
    There are only accidents when:
    Something happens which wasn't thought about
    Somebody doesn't follow procedures

    The first one can more or less be written off if the reactor is designed well and is somewhere safe where terrorist activity is minimal. The second is harder to achieve if you are in a country where workers are paid less, and are not as well trained.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    There are only accidents when:
    Something happens which wasn't thought about
    Somebody doesn't follow procedures

    The first one can more or less be written off if the reactor is designed well and is somewhere safe where terrorist activity is minimal. The second is harder to achieve if you are in a country where workers are paid less, and are not as well trained.

    Yep but error is human (or at least we say that in french) therefor nothing guarantee you anything will go well forever and the risk are really high when it come to nuclear... there is nothing on this planet that is 100% safe...

    scary-looking-cloud.jpg
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/figureimages/swpic00004full.jpg

    this is a 5-10 minute drive from my house!

    doesn't bother me, only smells of egg occasionally.

    and you know how it is, you never think anything will happen near you.

    it's a steelworks btw!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    And they say nuclear power is safe...
    It is. Chernobyl was human error, some total idiot chumped up.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fiend_85 wrote:
    It is. Chernobyl was human error, some total idiot chumped up.

    they were ordered to turn off all the safety thingys for the purpose of the experiment.
    clearly Soviets = Idiots at Atomic Power
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    That's not what I heard, but I believe it's universal agreement that the catastrophic failure at chernobyl was entirely due to some human moron.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The human moron pushed the control rods in too far and so the reaction was to big for the reactor to handle.

    On of the girls on my environmental science A level course was affected by Chernobyl, she has terrible thyroid problems and other health problems as well.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yeh thats another part, i think there were no control rods ( slow teh reaction down ) or they went up to spec of something.
    I had a book on it somewhere.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i take it noone got super powers ?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    nope.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wooooooooah wrote:
    There are only accidents when:
    thought Somebody

    .
    them pesky humans ...screwing everything up as usual.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i cant remember totally but wernt problems with the design known for a long time by their government before the disaster but they refused to acknowlege it?

    i really should know for my bioremediation module, but i dont
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    them pesky humans ...screwing everything up as usual.

    yep...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    it's fucked up for sure but at least it wasn't deliberate, if you look at the pictures of deformed children/babies in vietnam after agent orange was used, they knew about the side effects before they used the stuff and still went ahead......now that's fucked up.....

    http://www.foxriverwatch.com/dioxins_pcb_pcbs_1.html
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There is another sad but fascinating website set up by a girl biker who rode into the exclusion zone and the town of Chernobyl and took photographs. Very compelling stuff:

    image24.1.jpg

    image18.3.jpg

    Take the full tour here: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html



    On a more positive note, scientists have just revealed that animal life in Chernobyl and the contaminated exclusion zone is at an all time high and absolutely teeming:
    The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station is teeming with life.

    As humans were evacuated from the area 20 years ago, animals moved in. Existing populations multiplied and species not seen for decades, such as the lynx and eagle owl, began to return.

    There are even tantalising footprints of a bear, an animal that has not trodden this part of Ukraine for centuries.

    "Animals don't seem to sense radiation and will occupy an area regardless of the radiation condition," says radioecologist Sergey Gaschak

    _41577128_horse203.jpg

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4923342.stm
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fiend_85 wrote:
    That's not what I heard, but I believe it's universal agreement that the catastrophic failure at chernobyl was entirely due to some human moron.
    If it happened there it could happen here as well. Humans are universally dumb.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    -[MoonRat]- wrote:
    If it happened there it could happen here as well. Humans are universally dumb.

    I couldn't agree with you more...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Are people that say humans are idiots or dumb (aladdin, moonrat) also stupid themselves?
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