Chernobyl 21 years later [+pics]

http://science.readigg.com/description/16193.html

This is scary... An entire city (and another town nearby) totally empty, with nobody around. But I think that weird fruit shows why one wouldn't want to go back to that place...

that's... depressing...

I was born there!!!!

Damn...maybe that explains the cyclopism. o(

National Geographic did an issue on Chernobyl a few months ago.

Here's another story:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/0426_040426_chernobyl.html

I found this fact rather alarming:
Radiation doses in the area are still a dozen times higher than normal. Unable to make ends meet elsewhere, several hundred former residents have returned to Chernobyl, which once had a population of 120,000. Thousands more are shuttled into the so-called exclusion zone to work on the gradual powering down of the plant.

That's fascinating.

Sucks hardcore, but is really interesting. Those were some good pics.

Although it's quite different...it kind of reminds me of Stephen King's book The Stand.

it looks like a setting for a computer game.

that zombie type game...what was it called?

ermmmmmmm.

EDIT: Resident evil ( not my kind of game but still...)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Brian-Harold-May wrote: [/QUOTENAME]it looks like a setting for a computer game.

that zombie type game...what was it called?

ermmmmmmm.

EDIT: Resident evil ( not my kind of game but still...)[/QUOTE]

There's actually a game that takes place in Chernobyl after the disaster. They turned it into a Doom3-esque FPS. It's called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

ps. Resident Evil 4 was ACE!

That game rocked...probably. My brother won't let me play it. So I killed him.

Does anyone know how the accident affected other areas?

According to the link, a city next to Chernobyl had to be evacuated too... But how about other cities around?

Wow... those folks in Chernobyl sure know how to throw a good party.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color="lime">Raf840 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Does anyone know how the accident affected other areas?[/QUOTE]

Let's see....for starters, all of Europe had to deal with a harvest of which the majority had to be destroyed out of safety-concerns, and I believe there were an awful lot of dead birds that year.

Not only areas were affected, but waht happened to the people was absolutely dreadful. The ones who had to suffer the most were the unborn babies, or the ones born within a couple of years after the disaster. Even the countries around Ukraine were affected by it; it is the case of Romania, too. I know my parents had to take iodine tablets, so they wouldn't develop a goitre. I have to confess that I too was a 'victim' of Chernobyl, even two years after: I was born with a hemangioma on almost a quarter of my face. But thanks to laser surgery it is almost gone. It is sad seeing those photos again though :(

Here's more pics:

http://www.pripyat.nu/stalker/pripyat/chernobyl/chernobyl_pripyat_images.html

http://pripyat.com/en/photo_gallery/chernobyl/

and a view on google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ll=51.388629,30.103912&spn=0.020541,0.043559&om=1

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]<font color=lime>KillerQueen840 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Here's more pics:

http://www.pripyat.nu/stalker/pripyat/chernobyl/chernobyl_pripyat_images.html

http://pripyat.com/en/photo_gallery/chernobyl/

and a view on google maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ll=51.388629,30.103912&spn=0.020541,0.043559&om=1

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Those ones with the radiation meter near the grass are kinda creepy... I dunno what I'd do if I knew I was stepping on radioactive grass. :-P