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re: OTD in 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred in the Ukraine/USSR
Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:30 am to TigerFanInSouthland
Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:30 am to TigerFanInSouthland
The picture of he abandoned ferris wheel is one of those pictures that is engrained in my brain. Haunting but also pretty dang cool.
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Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:40 am to BugAC
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Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:42 am to S1C EM
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So in that pic of the elephant's foot, we have a guy standing only a few feet away. Based on the information I'm seeing here about how deadly that is, I assume he dead?
Not as of 2016 or so. That's Artur Korneyev and that's a selfie he took in 1996. He's a radiation specialist and has been near the Elephant's foot several times. He was involved with the containment efforts and his job was to basically to play hide and seek with the fuel that escaped from the reactor and track its position and condition over time in an effort to keep other workers at the site safe. I think they finally made him retire because he soaked up enough radiation that even the Russians and Ukrainians said "dude, that's enough".
Even though the Elephant's Foot is still radioactive as all get out and will murder the frick out of you if you stay too close to it for too long, it's not "kill you for looking at it" radioactive like it was immediately following the meltdown. By the time that picture was taken (ten years after the meltdown) you could "safely" approach it for brief periods of time. The graininess of the picture, though, highlights how mind-numbingly radioactive that area still was. It looks like shite because the radiation degraded the film, literally exposing it inside the camera. The ghostly image is because he set his camera up on a timer to take the picture and was moving while the shutter was open.
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 11:50 am
Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:49 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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the Ukraine
It's just Ukraine.
Posted on 4/26/18 at 11:52 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I just caught the scene in Charlie Wilson’s War with Hind gunships mowing down Afghanis and coincidentally thought about Chernobyl before reading this thread.
Those pilots were brave dudes. Many were pulled off duty in Afghanistan to become “Liquidators”, flying right above the burning reactor to dump sand and wet concrete into the burning cauldron.
Here’s an article about the Chernobyl Vehicle Graveyard
Those pilots were brave dudes. Many were pulled off duty in Afghanistan to become “Liquidators”, flying right above the burning reactor to dump sand and wet concrete into the burning cauldron.
Here’s an article about the Chernobyl Vehicle Graveyard
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 11:53 am
Posted on 4/26/18 at 12:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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Thought that was Soap MacTavish that said that?
Nope. It was Cpt. MacMillan in a flashback mission where you play as Cpt. Price (then Lt. Price).
Posted on 4/26/18 at 12:28 pm to elprez00
So you don’t have to wear any sort of special protection near the plant? I see those baws walking around with just hard hats on.
Posted on 4/26/18 at 12:57 pm to JackieTreehorn
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So you don’t have to wear any sort of special protection near the plant? I see those baws walking around with just hard hats on.
Fun fact. The suit is worn for protection against contamination. The radiation dose is getting you regardless of what you’re wearing.
Posted on 4/26/18 at 12:59 pm to LSUBanker
Always thought radiation and nuclear stuff was very fascinating. Did chemical engineering in college but my best friend from school is a nuclear officer on a sub somewhere in the Atlantic and I was seriously considering it as well.
When Fukushima happened it always blew people's minds when I explained to them what radiation did to the body. I always told them, "Imagine billions of tiny bullets shooting through your body all at once, and destroying anything they contact from cells, DNA, etc." Always scared the hell out of 'em. On a side note, I kept seeing on the news after Fukushima that the ROV's they were sending in near the core were all dying. Even the frickin' robots didn't stand a chance haha
@Jackie: yeah you are getting rad exposure regardless. The only way you could prevent it is by walking around in a foot thick of lead armor, which isn't possibly obviously.
When Fukushima happened it always blew people's minds when I explained to them what radiation did to the body. I always told them, "Imagine billions of tiny bullets shooting through your body all at once, and destroying anything they contact from cells, DNA, etc." Always scared the hell out of 'em. On a side note, I kept seeing on the news after Fukushima that the ROV's they were sending in near the core were all dying. Even the frickin' robots didn't stand a chance haha
@Jackie: yeah you are getting rad exposure regardless. The only way you could prevent it is by walking around in a foot thick of lead armor, which isn't possibly obviously.
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:09 pm to BugAC
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It's a multi-billion dollar project and is meant to contain the radiation for at least 100 years.
And he's supposed to be radioactive for another 100,000 years. Pretty mind-blowing.
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:12 pm to eScott
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That's interesting but fake if I remember correctly.
I hadn't heard that, but it seems you are correct. She did go and take the pics, but some of the specifics are "artistic license."
Museum of Hoaxes
Posted on 4/26/18 at 1:34 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
Don't know the truth to this, but someone told me the Chernobyl reactor building, compared to US plants, was basically a tin shed...
Posted on 4/26/18 at 2:03 pm to Hangover Haven
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Don't know the truth to this, but someone told me the Chernobyl reactor building, compared to US plants, was basically a tin shed...
This picture is of an RBMK reactor hall.
The two guys are essentially standing on top of the nuclear reactor. The reactor vessel is hanging a few feet below them. In a Western plant, this reactor vessel would be in a sealed containment building made of feet of hardened reinforced concrete. The Soviets basically just built a warehouse around their RBMK reactors.
That's not to say that the Chernobyl disaster would have been prevented if they had containment buildings. That thing still would have gone sky high, but a containment building at least gives you a fighting chance of mitigating the scale of the disaster. That explosion was so large, though, that I wonder if it wouldn't have taken out a containment building, too.
This post was edited on 4/26/18 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 4/26/18 at 3:58 pm to shspanthers
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Holy shite... so I take it there are no guided tours here.
You would think not, but...
$340? What a deal!
Posted on 4/26/18 at 4:33 pm to elprez00
Posted on 4/26/18 at 5:15 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
And yet, British people still had bad teeth before this.
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