Chernobyll 18 years on
 

This makes interestin reading...

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

Q) Why should you never buy russian jeans....

A) because Chernobyl fall out.....

ill get my coat....

All seriousness though- interesting site.

good page

Feck:eek::eek:

haunting images on there.

Makes me think more than ever that, whatever the advantages, nuclear power just ain't worth the risks.....

WOW!!

Fascinating account, thanks for posting it.

Les

Strange how these links go round this was up on Sub Brit about 4 weeks ago.

Made me think to see all that kit just abandoned

pmsl :)

Very intresting.......Thanks:eek:

I'm sure those pictures are actually of Bedford.. :D

Thanks for posting
Interesting stuff
Steve

Really fascinating. I go quite often to Kiev and have debated getting a guided tour of the Chernobyl site and surroundings (organised). Kiev itself is a very beautiful city with wonderful women!

........and chickens that have breasts filled with garlic butter :)

Saw her page as it was mentioned on slashdot the other day. Very interesting read.

great site thanks, really scary stuff

:eek: :eek: good post mate!

OMFG :(

Cetainly makes you think..... The pictures of the creche won't leave my mind for a very long time :(

Ironically, I presume the guys who pushed the button is out of prison now......

Agreed though - Nuclear Power is deffo the way forward. It's just a shame that the dangers are just as potent as the advantages.......

Dan

One day in the distant future they will have to start digging coal out of the ground again. They may have to use scrubbers etc to get rid of the greenhouse gases etc though.

Les :rolleyes:

Very interesting reading dome

Thanks for posting

Good site - an amazing journey. It would make a good documentry if anyone fancied going back and filming it.

Chris

Yup cheers for putting that up Dome...compelling stuff

Btt for Mr Bunce

More exactly, turning off the cooling systems, turning off the emergency override, disabling all failsafe systems - to see what would happen, isn't worth the risks!

is that really what happened:eek: christ, bet he was popular.

top site, really compelling reading.

lol

Really makes you think seeing all that. :( Very grim.

Pictures do bring home the human factors of the tragedy.

There's a little bit more to the cause of the original incident than the comments on that site - or here - fully tell. Lack of understanding of Xenon poisoning - especially when trying to restart a reactor much too quickly, positive reactivity coefficients, and poor control rod design were also contributing factors. The disabling of 6 (IIRC the numbers correctly) different safety systems, in a chain of events subsequent to the original tests was the thing that set it off, but putting any one of the other factors right would also have prevented the disaster.

Think it is fair to say that the person who pressed the button was not truly the guilty party, as I don't believe in any way it was an informed decision made with free will. It might be interesting to learn what happened to the people who gave the orders (who may well have been far away from the effects).

There are a very large number of design factors which prevent that kind of event occuring in UK reactors (although these factors vary from Magnox to AGR to PWR, which are the three reactor types in the UK). It would have been almost impossible with the Russian reactors, but if you override all the in built safety systems, and keep doing things they aren't designed to do, you can break anything.

There are one or two technical inaccuracies in the site, but I guess there may have been something lost in the translation. That's not a criticism - the message is not effected, and I know I couldn't get close to explaining nuclear physics in any foreign language.