It's been 20 years...

[Chuck(G)]

since Chernobyl. Some interesting photos here by a biker going through the desolation:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

[Chuck(G)]

Is that the same thing that Leland linked a long time ago on "old" tubenet?

' very sad...No fire trucks were in their stations. All fire trucks left, and none returned.

bloke "who thought, from the title of your thread, you were going to talk about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Yup, with a 2004 update and and a few additional sections on the Orange revolution, as well as exploring old battlefields around Kiev.

Incidentally, the damaged reactor needs to be encapsulated for approximately 100,000 years. Right now, the original concrete "sarcophagus" is already degrading and needs to be replaced. The goal is to design one that can last at least 100 and then keep renewing it ad infinitum.

[MartyNeilan]

Chuck,
I saw the thread title and wondered if it was musings on your love life

[Chuck(G)]

Chuck,
I saw the thread title and wondered if it was musings on your love life

Are you volunteering for something?

[UDELBR]

Incidentally, the damaged reactor needs to be encapsulated for approximately 100,000 years.

Here's an interesting article from one of the original founders of Greenpeace. In the intervening 30 years, he's gone all PRO-nuclear.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01209.html

[DCottrell]

since Chernobyl. Some interesting photos here by a biker going through the desolation:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/

Martin Cruz Smith wrote a novel which includes so many of the images from this website that it must have been an important inspiration for him. It includes eerie accounts of what happened the night of the Chernobyl accident.