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Picture shortly after the Chornobyl/Chernobyl explosions outside the town of Pripyat. Concrete being pumped in in an attempt to pave-over and contain the radioactive materials.
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From: @ (Mon Mar 14 12:09:46 2005) Sucks For them. You know what, there was a 1,000% increase in suicide in the heavily affected areas after the explosion |
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From: person (Sun Mar 27 15:48:29 2005) i dont see how that is possible, everyone was evacuated, how would people commit suicede? |
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From: mickey (Wed Mar 30 13:13:16 2005) i agree wit person |
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From: Anonymous (Wed Apr 13 10:47:20 2005) Well actually the soviet gov. failed to evacuate anyone for some time do to the international downplay of the situation at some time. i feel so sorry 4 these ppl. i give them my blessings. |
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From: person (Sat Apr 16 17:24:41 2005) true, but they got them evacuated within a week. and they didn't know what was going on until they were evacuated... |
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From: neighbour (Tue Apr 26 06:39:20 2005) The day after the disaster, goverment didn't evacuate anybody. Not even publish the disaster in newspapers while most of the american newspapers publish at front page with big letters. I have seen video records has taken close around chernobyl area, people lives their daily lifes. 3 days after the disaster, some of the newspapers published the disaster with a few sentences at thirth page (of course by the permission of goverment) and goverment start to evacuate the people by train, by bus, whatever they found. But lot's of people who evacuated was already dead even they don't know.. |
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From: danielle (Wed Apr 27 20:58:04 2005) Apparently workers in a Sweden nuclear power plant were found to have radioactive particles on their clothes and when the source was investigated it was not from the plant they were in. the radiation travelled 1100km from chernobyl and it was the first hint of a serious nuclear problem in the soviet union. so they kept it a secret. |
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From: dratomic@indiatimes.com (Fri Apr 29 01:52:51 2005) If you can see the glow, it's too late for you. Pretty last sight though. I've seen the glow in different settings. I'll never have kids. But it's hands down not laike anything you'll ever forget once you do see it. |
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From: lkarlov (Sat Apr 30 09:21:51 2005) So the city of pripyat was evacuated. What about the chernobyl itself? I can't find any pictures from chernobyl, only from pripyat. |
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From: jon (Sat Apr 30 22:56:07 2005) I could be wrong, Ikarlov, but I believe the Chernobyl reactor was IN the town of Pripyat. |
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From: xl(l3x)lx (Sun May 1 10:34:37 2005) Actually most the workers died 3 days later(12 died while exploring the inside of the reactor.they recived 1560 rats and the normal ammount in the envioroment is 5 to 10), more less 370 died in the next week,only 5 workers have survive till today,the saddest thing was that they knew that they were going to die but they had to do it. |
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From: lkarlov (Sun May 1 11:35:37 2005) Have a look at this map: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/map-chornobyl-prypyat.gif I think that power plant is about 2-3 km near pripyat, and the city chernobyl itself is about 20km away from the plant. |
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From: lkarlov (Sun May 1 11:39:20 2005) Pripyat was town for plant's workers. So my question is: When did they started to evacuate chernobyl? Pripyat was evacuated a day after. |
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From: person (Mon May 2 19:36:31 2005) xl(l3x)lx: they recieved 1560 RATS? i can hardly handel one hampster! ;) im sure you ment to say rads! couple of things wrong with what you said: the norm for backround radiatoin is more like .005 rads. and i doubt the persenal recieved 1,560 rads ad 500 rads is lethal, it kills you by overloading your nervus system. also, they didn't know they were going to die, most wern't aware of the dangers until later. |
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From: neighbour (Tue May 3 01:06:56 2005) I'm not sure wheather Pripyat was evacuated a day after the disaster or not. In Chernobyl museum (around Kiev) I was told (in year 2001) that the area evacuated 3-4 days after the disaster. |
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From: person (Wed May 4 22:07:32 2005) yeah, i think they were evacuated a few days after. tell me, is that museum in english as well as rushin? |
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From: neighbour (Wed May 4 23:05:00 2005) I dont't remember exactly whether the writings in museum is just rushin or both rushin and english. But our guide explained us in english. Museum was full of photographs about victims (taken in their healthy days), scaled reactor model, flags which the countries helped, newspapers from Ukrain and USA etc. Taking photograph was prohibited. |
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From: person (Thu May 5 22:48:05 2005) thancks for that info, i would like to go to that museum some time! |
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From: @ (Tue May 31 23:06:12 2005) Not every place that got hit with radiation was evacuated, the 1,000% increase in suicide was in those areas |
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From: j (Thu Aug 4 01:32:15 2005) i saw a photo display in an art museum in Sophia, Bulgaria in July 1993 that had photos of victims from the fallout. pretty intense the images are still with me. |
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From: k (Tue Apr 18 20:54:32 2006) you mean "Russian" |
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From: CaseLogic (Wed Apr 19 12:37:48 2006) The firefigthers didn't know at first, but it's not a good sign to a reactor-town FD when yous get sick and vomit after a few hours at the scene... Some of them probably knew the signs and realized they were dead men. |
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From: Alan (Tue Jun 6 01:54:56 2006) " ... If you can see the glow, it's too late for you. Pretty last sight though. I've seen the glow in different settings. I'll never have kids. But it's hands down not laike anything you'll ever forget once you do see it ..." What glow? I thought that radiation can not been seen because the wavelengths of the photons exceeds the visible light spectrum? |
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From: klapa (Sat Sep 16 10:13:36 2006) The glow is Cherenkov radiation caused by particles travelling through the humidity in the air. Also agree with the statement that people could not have gotten 1500 Rads - 500 Rads within 5 hours is fatal within 24 hours. Let us all mourne those who died - and the heroic firefighters who did their job in the face of certain death. |
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From: glen (Fri Nov 10 15:32:04 2006) the explosion claimed innocent lives... to think its started by simple careless mistake of a few.. i hope this history wont repeat itself as north korea goes alone |
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From: r (Thu Jan 25 08:19:48 2007) it isn sad at what has happend to the people in that area |
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From: Zappa (Mon Mar 5 17:19:29 2007) Person: The increased incidence of suicide was amongst the hundreds of people who were forced to stay and work to do cleanup and maintain the remainder of the plant. The people that were "evacuated" were intentionally dispersed and intentionally not tracked, so help hide what was expected to be a huge increase in the incidence of cancers and mutations. The ones that were forced to stay assumed they had been sentenced to death camps and lost all hope. |
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From: jeff (Tue Apr 3 23:53:35 2007) Klapa wrote : "Also agree with the statement that people could not have gotten 1500 Rads - 500 Rads within 5 hours is fatal within 24 hours." The explosion hppened at 01:23 and the first death was at 10 am. he had been wading through primary loop coolant and also sustained internal injuries in the blast. One engineer ws ordered to report on the status of the reactor and looked down into the open core. He is estimated to have received a 1500 rad dose to the head. One man received a 780 rad dose and survived., though he has problems. |
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From: npj.ru/arioch (Fri Apr 27 07:33:23 2007) day after it was decides to evacuate all people in 10km circle (Prypyat stabds in 6 km from the plant). However it took 2 days more to organize that evacuation. Worse is than on May, 1 (4 days later) in Kyev (Ukrainian capital) there were the annual vacations with on the streem ceremonies all adult people must participate in. It was also told that since capitals are also the traffic centers, many buses driven people (and dust) from Chernobyl-area via Kyev traffic routes. |
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From: dragonfromthedepths@hotmail.com (Tue Dec 23 14:59:25 2008) the amount of days were actually known but not clear enough to confirm that's what my history teacher told me when i was at school and this was actually the theory based in exams |
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