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<Reply # 1 on 8/24/2007 8:39 AM >
|  | | | Those are absolutely stunning! The picture with the doll is really creepy. Thanks for sharing.
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Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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kill your idols
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<Reply # 2 on 8/24/2007 11:03 AM >
| | | | It's mostly Pripyat there, but awesome anyway.
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Location: Australia
Big drain driving
| | | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 3 on 8/24/2007 1:12 PM >
| | | | I seem to recall this web site has been linked to before. But I could be wrong, there are so many of them now.
Perhaps this could be merged with the other Chernobyl thread/s?
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Lord Awesome
Location: Valparaiso IN
Gender: Male
Arbiter
| |  |  | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 4 on 8/28/2007 9:36 PM >
| | | | Stalker....mmmmm
Hey yeah you, fat ass. Not interested. |
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KingKong
Location: Pittsburgh PA / Rochester NY
Gender: Male
Insert artistic / badass sounding phrase here.
| | | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 5 on 8/28/2007 9:42 PM >
| | | | I highly recommend the book: "Ablaze" It is a very good account of the events prior, during and the aftermath of the reactor meltdown/explosion.
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DeadBunny
Location: New Orleans, LA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 6 on 8/29/2007 1:26 AM >
| | | | please forgive my lack of knowledge on the subject but isn't that whole area VARY dangerous to be in, considering the residual radiation. I mean radiation isn't like asbestos. you can't just throw on an AO safety approved mask and hope for the best. Of course I could be wrong.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly "I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal fool". |
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secretdestroyers
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 7 on 8/29/2007 8:27 AM >
| | | | yeah i guess it's not really that safe. you would need a geiger counter to be sure.
F this I"m going exploring! |
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violentrapture
Location: TX
Gender: Male
| |  | | Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 8 on 8/29/2007 2:25 PM >
| | | | Hey everyone - as an introduction to those that don't me,
I'm from the South forum, website is www.uetx.com
My wife is a native of Gomel, Belarus and we're planning on going over there for 3-4 weeks towards the end of the year (late Nov./early Dec.). We're going to fly into Kiev instead of Minsk so that we can take the Chernobyl/Pripyat tour.
Is there anybody near the area that would like to go with us? It'd be great to meet up with some European explorers and the more people that go, the cheaper it gets. For just the two of us, it's $200/ea, but with 5+ people the cost per person gets cut in half.
Cheers,
~vR
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Pura Vida
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Gender: Male
| | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 9 on 8/29/2007 6:01 PM >
| | | | This set seems to be especially gritty, so gritty that I'm not sure if I'm really digging it.
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KingKong
Location: Pittsburgh PA / Rochester NY
Gender: Male
Insert artistic / badass sounding phrase here.
| | | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 10 on 8/29/2007 7:11 PM >
| | | | Although the chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986- more than 20 years ago, people will not be able to inhabit the area for another 2980 years. Those photos were taken within the 30 km exclusion zone that was set up after reactor #4 melted down and exploded during a routine test. There are about 200-500 older farmers who returned to their homes after the initial evacuation who said they would rather live out the rest of their lives at their homes. They seem to be surviving without too many complications, however their homes and fields are more towards the outskirts of the zone.
It is safe to visit most of the areas within the zone, but only for a few hours at a time. There are several companies that actually provide tours. If you are not a scientist, these tours are the only way into the zone, which is guarded by the Ukranian military.
When "In the zone," you can only walk on paved surfaces, because the asphalt doesn't absorb radiation, however plants and earth even a few feet off the pavement have levels 3-5 times higher than that on the road because the plants and trees absorb radiation like a sponge.
The city of Pripyat is 2 km north of the reactor, it is mostly safe to walk there, however several buildings and in particular, the amusement park in the part of the city closest to the reactor are emmiting 3-5 rems per hour. Inside the shabby sarcophagus that covers the remains of the reactor, sections in the basement are throwing 10,000 rems per hour. 600-1000 rems is a lethal dose. Employees working on the sarcophagus can spare no more than a 15 minuet shift per day.
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I am the Bear
Location: Seattle Wa
Gender: Male
| | Re: Chernobil pictures a nice set
<Reply # 11 on 8/29/2007 7:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by DeadBunny
please forgive my lack of knowledge on the subject but isn't that whole area VARY dangerous to be in, considering the residual radiation. I mean radiation isn't like asbestos. you can't just throw on an AO safety approved mask and hope for the best. Of course I could be wrong.
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if you read the comments beneath the pictures, people have a lot to say about it.
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 12 on 8/30/2007 12:53 AM >
| | | | http://www.iaea.org/blog/Press/
Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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Tupsumato
Location: Finland
Gender: Male
How close can you go?
| | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 13 on 8/30/2007 2:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by KingKong
If you are not a scientist, these tours are the only way into the zone, which is guarded by the Ukranian military. |
The only legal way. A Finnish explorer visited the exclusion zone recently (last year, if I recall correctly) without taking a tour, by hitchhiking, bribing etc. It's possible, but if you get caught, you'll really hope you had taken the tour.
All information and details given in good faith but not guaranteed! |
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Azubi.UK
Location: UK / KSA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 14 on 8/30/2007 8:29 PM >
| | | | Is it safe? Well my testicles haven't shrivelled up and my hair hasn't fallen out. Just don't step on the moss or go licking the dodgem cars and you should be fine.
The 11th Commandment: Don't get caught! |
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MutantMandias
Perverse and Often Baffling
Location: Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 15 on 8/30/2007 8:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by Azubi.UK
Just don't step on the moss or go licking the dodgem cars and you should be fine.
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Oh.
Shit.
Well, I just think that Ninj should have included those instructions in the book.
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lilli
Location: Surrey UK
Gender: Female
Aunt - Replace A with C
| | | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 16 on 8/31/2007 7:45 AM >
| | | | Posted by MutantMandias
Oh.
Shit.
Well, I just think that Ninj should have included those instructions in the book.
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If he was talking about Pripyat then yes he should have!! lol The moss and dodgems have absorbed more than the average amount of radiation .... along with the Red Forest.
Not treading on the moss was something we were all told when out there as it can easily be taken out of the zone on the bottom of your shoes.
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Uncle Goose
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Gender: Male
The Goose knows best.
| | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 17 on 9/1/2007 5:36 PM >
| | | | Radioactivity is not always that dangerous, it depends on the duration you are exposed and the power of the radiation. Your body can take some higher levels for some time but this has a limit of course, the longer you stay the more risk you have to get a radiation related illness. that's how it works. Very high levels could kill you very fast of course, in a 10.000rem basement you wouldn't survive for 10 minutes.
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Ex3cutor
Location: Nürnberg (Nuremberg). Germany
Gender: Male
-=|Keep the fire burnin'|=-
| |  |  | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 18 on 9/7/2007 10:11 PM >
| | | | More infos about travelling into chernobyl exclusion zone:
Itinerary and Cost
We usually start our Chernobyl tour at 9 a.m.
- Drive to Chernobyl with passing "Dytyatky" (on the border of the 30-km "Zone of Estrangement").
- Arrival to Chernobyl. Meeting with the leadership of "Chernobylinterinform" Agency.
- On the way to Power Plant we pass 10-km border and check point
Sightseeing of reactor # 4(from 100 m. distance).
- Visit to Pripyat. Sightseeing of "Dead town".
- Stop near the "Red forest".
- Return to Chernobyl. Lunch.
- Visit to the Scientific Centre (physical, radiochemical laboratories and others).
- Calling in "Opachychi" village, meeting with "resettlers", people who have moved back to their villages after evacuation(optional).
- Passage to "Rossokha" village, cemetery of military machineries -
- Passage through Control Point "Dytyatky". Measuring of radiation.
Return to Kiev. (Back in Keiv around 6 p.m.) |
The prices:
The cost per person (starting March 2007):
One Visitor -
US$ 380.00
Two Visitors -
US$ 215.00
Three - Four visitors -
US$ 175.00
Five - Nine visitors -
US$ 145.00
Group of 10-15 -
US$ 115.00 |
best part *lol*... :
| On entering and leaving the 30 kilometers zone each participant undergo radioactivity control using Western equipment. |
http://www.tourkiev.com/chernobyl.php
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Azubi.UK
Location: UK / KSA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Chernobyl/Pripyat
<Reply # 19 on 9/14/2007 7:37 PM >
| | | | We had to be checked on a smaller machine before eating in the zone and when we were leaving the 30km checkpoint we had to go through a bigger version.
The 11th Commandment: Don't get caught! |
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