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re: Yesterday i learned that Chernobyl is now a bustling forest and wildlife haven.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 4:11 pm to lsunurse
Posted on 6/27/20 at 4:11 pm to lsunurse
quote:I am not positive but think that Belarus is only 5-10 miles from the Chernobyl border.
One of my coworkers is from Belarus. She was a teenager when it happened and remembers it all very well
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Posted on 6/27/20 at 4:20 pm to Lawyered
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50 thousand people use to live here
.. now it’s a ghost town
Our so called leaders prostituted us to the west
Posted on 6/27/20 at 4:36 pm to Zendog
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Great photo
The Cyrillic writing on the bottom of the sign says, "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself."
Posted on 6/27/20 at 4:46 pm to FightingTigers138
Did anybody see the 60min piece on it years ago?
It showed the glowing red hot graphite core shot from a chopper flying over.
I bought a bargain table book at Waldenbooks on the Chernobyl disaster. It told about a guy that lived near the plant that got a nuclear tan from being outside his house. He didn’t even know it had happened.
It showed the glowing red hot graphite core shot from a chopper flying over.
I bought a bargain table book at Waldenbooks on the Chernobyl disaster. It told about a guy that lived near the plant that got a nuclear tan from being outside his house. He didn’t even know it had happened.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 5:42 pm to jdd48
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There's tours. I couldn't imagine being on one with Geiger counters constantly making noise.
So let me give you your radiation lesson for today.
You likely won’t carry around a Geiger counter. You’ll wear a dosimeter. They are small and look like a pager and will give you a reading of your total dose received and your instantaneous dose rate. Dose in America is measured in Roentgen Equivalent In Man (REM). 1 REM = 1000 miliREM
Most areas surrounding the plant are now down to less than 50 mrem/hr. NRC allows you 2000 mrem/year. Sure there are hotspots, but you would plan your trip based upon readings and you’d factor your stay times accordingly. Certain things you wouldn’t want to get close to or loiter around. Move along. And certain areas you just wouldn’t go. Remember they operated the other reactors at the site for years after the accident.
Contamination is what you should really be worried about. Soils, dirt, dust all can have high levels of radioactive contamination that you can pick up on a boot, glove, clothing, etc. These can be very bad as they can spread radioactivity to places you don’t want it. The hazmat suits you see people wearing in the movies are to protect against contamination, not radiation. You’re getting the dose no matter what you’re wearing.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 5:57 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:You think Ukraine is Russia.
You think Napoleon invaded Russia for pot?
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:10 pm to FightingTigers138
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:39 pm to thermal9221
Lol. Why do you KNOW this? BTW, you are wrong.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:48 pm to SuperSaint
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oh please, go Crimea river!!
You win the internets today.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:50 pm to FightingTigers138
When no people, nature flourishes.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:51 pm to FightingTigers138
It's where Putin got his superpowers. He spent his summers studying geopolitical philosophy in Chernobyl
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:52 pm to LSURussian
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The Cyrillic writing on the bottom of the sign says, "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself."
Make a meme of this with the photo and it will be very popular.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:52 pm to jimlsu1
Saw a report a few years back that Chernobyl isn't really seeing a higher occurrence of animal mutations. That happened in the immediate aftermath, but appeared to return to normal rates within a few years.
What scientists suggested, and I don't know how soon this would happen, was that mutations may begin to be expressed more often as the radiation accumulates through generations of offspring. Don't know if that's happening now since that report came out, however.
What scientists suggested, and I don't know how soon this would happen, was that mutations may begin to be expressed more often as the radiation accumulates through generations of offspring. Don't know if that's happening now since that report came out, however.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 7:45 pm to FightingTigers138
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Humans are more harmful to nature than a nuclear meltdown.
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Is that the message, or is the message that nature is more resilient than we thought?
Why not both? Lack of human activity is a huge part of the reason for the prevalence of wildlife in that area.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 8:09 pm to HollierThanThou
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Humans are more harmful to nature than a nuclear meltdown.
Are humans not responsible for nuclear meltdowns?
Posted on 6/27/20 at 8:17 pm to LSUgusto
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Saw a report a few years back that Chernobyl isn't really seeing a higher occurrence of animal mutations. That happened in the immediate aftermath, but appeared to return to normal rates within a few years.
What scientists suggested, and I don't know how soon this would happen, was that mutations may begin to be expressed more often as the radiation accumulates through generations of offspring. Don't know if that's happening now since that report came out, however.
I can imagine an experiment where animals were exposed to various levels of radiation and then studied over generations. Logically you would think that:
- At extremely high levels of exposure, the animals would die before reproducing.
- At moderate exposure levels, the animals reproduce but can’t sustain a population, either due to sterility or mutations in offspring. The number of generations before extinction varies depending on exposure.
- At low exposure levels, the animals thrive for generations, eventually becoming immune through natural selection.
The interesting thing about Chernobyl is that it’s not a closed system. So you’ve had animals entering and leaving the exclusion zone, being exposed to various amounts of radiation, for many years. I don’t think anyone really knows what the long term impacts of that will look like.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 8:25 pm to jamboybarry
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Mmmmm radioactive moose meat
First you make a roux,,,
Posted on 6/27/20 at 8:38 pm to FightingTigers138
Life finds a way 
Posted on 6/28/20 at 2:34 am to FightingTigers138
Parts of it will still melt your face but animals can just avoid those areas
Posted on 6/28/20 at 7:27 am to FightingTigers138
yeah, but you noticed no night pictures of the animals, the glow they emulate at night would of messed up the shots.
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