The Battle of Chernobyl

[ms51ves3]

Did anybody else watch this, Wednesday night on Discovery?

I've just watched it and before all I knew about Chernobyl was that it was a large nuclear accident, but never did a realise the sort of scale it was on. The numbers are just mind blowing.

E.g. Currently there is 100kg of plutonium under reactor 3 (enough to kill 100 million people) and it'll take 245,000 years to become safe

And then there is the stuff people were doing. Like running up onto the roof where seriously radioactive graphite had been blasted out in the explosion, having about a minute to shovel some off the side of the building and then get back down. They said if your eyes started hurting you knew you had been up there too long.

What's also unbelievable is that the Soviets had 2,700 SS-18 nuclear missiles, each one equivalent to 100 Chernobyl disasters. So easily could life on Earth have been (and still probably be) completely wiped out.

Is the Chernobyl disaster the worst disaster man has ever created?

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[ThoughtContro...]

Depleted Uranium

Depleted meaning it's no longer useful as fuel rods, it still is radioactive and has a half life of 4.5 billion years (Yes with a B).

Take some nuclear waste. Machine it into rods of required size. Wrap in a shell of various calibres, anything from tank to A10 tankbuster. Fire that fucker out the barrel and watch it burn and blowtorch its way through any tank or soft skinned vehicle you fire it at.

Your former target and the area around it is now a nuclear waste site, littered with debris and nano particulate dust. In Gulf War 1 they just covered them in sand and hoped they'd go away, now they don't even bother.

Use the stuff in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq again. Have Iraq Invasion 2 and the Tora Bora bombings set off a UK alert after the large volume of radioactive dust gets caught in high altitude wind currents and blows over the UK resembling a leak from a nuclear power plant. Have your troops and their gear get covered in radioactive dust and bring the stuff home to their families. Tell your troops nothing, it's safe because we say is.

Have your corporate owned media and state propaganda puppets say absolutely fuck all.

It's OK it's just a conspiracy theory, it doesn't exist.

Go watch Beyond Treason, particularly the testimony of Major Doug Rokke, formerly in charge of US Army decontamination efforts after Gulf War 1.

Now go join the army.

"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy" - Henry Kissinger
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[Charlie]

I remember briefly seeing a video about it when I was in my lower years of high school... There was a clip of tree's growing upside down, properly freaked me out. And still does now!

An old BBC video about Chernobyl and the building to 'house' it. Quite interesting. Not sure if it is the same one as what your saw Chives but I was fascinated by it:

https://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-5968506788418521112#
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[truslack]

Chernobyl has always fascinated me, so much so that I'm hoping to go to Pripyat/Chernobyl some time this year (depending on finances, could be next year).
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[twotakt]

Nuclear power is going to be expanding in use over the next few years as a means to produce "low carbon" output energy. The UK and the USA (and others) have big plans for Nuclear power, with Obama offering loans to those wishing to set up plants. So that means in 40-60yrs time we will have all the nuclear waste to dispose of as plants start to become decommissioned. What the fcuk are we going to do with it all?

Well, I've read into the plans for disposal and then don't look too promising to me. I feel sorry for generations to come who will be the ones who have to deal with all of this shite.
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[mad4it028]

i reading an artical about nuclear waste it gets buried for somthing like 10.000 years with a symble on it
https://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTf2kqn9pLOjkAmDRWBQx./SIG=12hmhod3a/EXP=1272705194/**http%3a//www.ysecrets.com/wp-content/uploads/rad-symbol-big.jpg
now bare in mind most people cant read wall writings from 2000 years ago theres a good chance that our language will have changed so much to make it unreadable suddenly the danger sign of nuclear waste can look like a welcoming angel
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[Itchy]

[Jimbo6_uk]

Ive sky plus'd this program, sounds mental gona have to watch it soon!

[sk8wheeler]

Anyone interested in Chernobyl could do worse than check out this site: https://www.kiddofspeed.com/ (although I suspect you may have already seen it).

[Itchy]

[mad4it028]

[nick.h]

[Itchy]

[Itchy]

[sk8wheeler]

It's a hoax? That's disappointing. I'd like to think she really had ridden around there.

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[Frost]

Were not in the clear with that one yet. The concrete lid that got blown off landed on edge partially covering the reactor, and it's slipping all the time. The french are building the worlds biggest moveable structure to put over the top of it, as when it finally falls it's going to chuck out alot more waste than it ever did before!

Interesting to see that the area around the site is now a wildlife reserve.

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[SlimRick]

[Robby]

[Villers]

There was an incident reported in the loocal rag yesterday where some waste that had been tagged as LLW meant for drigg had went to local landfill by mistake. Apparently they went and dug up the landfill and actually found the bags.

The point being that the waste that had been sent is of the usual stuff that HAS to go via the LLW route as a matter of course due to the hysteria surrounding 'Nuclear Waste'. The truth was that there is more naturally occuring radiation in a crate of bananas than in these bags.

The cost of doing this stuff is horrendous. The scrutiny we, ahem, 'they' are under at sellafield makes mountains out of things that are on a very small scale.
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[Ariel Badger]

I spent some time at the University of Gomel in Belarus in 1999 and 2000. Gomel is 50K north of the reactor and when it blew the wind took the cloud over the city and it snowed ash. The kids I was working with were four or five at the time of the disaster and I got to know many stunningly pretty girls with cataracts.
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[ms51ves3]

If you didn't watch the documentary, here it is:

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