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Pieface: that's not really true, tho : http://m.euractiv.com/details.php?aid=504163
Thread resurrection time, I've just been reading an article on Flipboard about visiting Chernobyl which I thought the OP might be interested in reading:
Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/science/Chernobyl--My-Primeval--Teeming--Irradiated-Eden.html
The upshot of it is that the reactor is still humming away under a sarcopahgus that is not really very safe, and they need millions of pounds to sort it out but no-ones particularly interested in doing anything about it.
Yeah, it's pretty much total borlox actually
Thread resurrection time, I've just been reading an article on Flipboard about visiting Chernobyl which I thought the OP might be interested in reading:Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/science/Chernobyl--My-Primeval--Teeming--Irradiated-Eden.html
Thanks for that CZ, very interesting 🙂
mmm, indeed, a good read.
Found this on YouTube, not watched it all yet but it looks fascinating:
Thanks, I spotted it this evening and read through it, and remembered this thread, so I thought others might like to see it as well. It really made me want to go there, if only to see just how quickly seemingly 'permanent' human habitations can be subsumed back into wilderness in a relatively short space of time. We're more ephemeral than we really like to think we are... 😀
You should have a look at englishrussia then, there's zillions of photorepkrtages of abandoned towns and factories there.
Hasn't some of the coffin recently caved in on the plant?
Wouldn't be going if it's the case.
Little-known fact about Chernobyl: the last remaining wrecks of the German fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow are one of the few sources of quality steels and alloys left in the world, which are not contaminated by radiation from Chernobyl. Wrecks like these are regularly pillaged for metals for very delicate scientific instruments.
Little-known fact about Chernobyl: the last remaining wrecks of the German fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow are one of the few sources of quality steels and alloys left in the world, which are not contaminated by radiation from Chernobyl. Wrecks like these are regularly pillaged for metals for very delicate scientific instruments.
That's not really Chernobyl's fault. They've been used for that pretty much since we started splitting the atom, most notably in Japan in 1945.
Globati, do they not have protected/grave site like status? I'd be a little annoyed if my final resting place was plundered to make stuff
Globati, do they not have protected/grave site like status? I'd be a little annoyed if my final resting place was plundered to make stuff
AFAIK, the only war grave in Scapa Flow is the Royal Oak which was torpedoed early in WWII, with the loss of over 800 souls.
The German fleet was scuttled to prevent it falling into British hands after the German surrender at the end of WWI. Unless some sailors were slow getting off their ships, I don't think anyone lost their lives.
Cheers Zokes, scuttled should have given it away really 😳
No, the ships were empty of crew, they were scuttled by a German CO who was in charge up there!....he had ordered his men to spend the year following the war welding doors open and planting charges under the noses of the British soldiers!....incredible.
Eight Germans were shot trying to scuttle one last ship, this was 1919 and they are officially the last recorded dead of WW1.
The war grave up there is HMS-something? that was sunk by a German U-boat in WW2 i believe.
(edit-zokes got in there first)
No I didn't becoz I'm too far away. But I will visit.