Chernobyl

[PvK]

I expect most modern TV "journalists" proposed with this story would want to do it themselves to get the spotlight points, but then probably be afraid to do it.

PvK

[freduk]

Very nice story indeed!
I also remember the Chernobyl accident, I was only 7 years old when it happened.
We were not allowed to eat vegetables from our garden that year and I also remember my parents we're pretty freaked out about it.
Looking back, the radiactive cloud went for finland and sweden, got bounced of by northern wind thus skipping norway and sweden and spread throughout parts ofgermany and the netherlands instead.

Also: the chernobyl area havent been deserted totally now is it? I heard the russian government just kept the other 3 reactors running because they had no money building new ones. Until a few years ago.
Yes, they are quite crazy.

Ook grappig dat er nog redelijk wat nederlanders op dit forum/ pbw zitten, dat had ik niet verwacht!

[Atrocities]

I would love to have the money and time to do something like this for my hobbies.

[Timstone]

Slick:
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Two thumbs up for you!

[Captain Kwok]

I'm curious to how they can continue to operate the other 3 reactors. Is it because their shielded against radiation - so they're not as affected by their proximity to the accident site as say, the town was? Or is the accident site less radioactive because of the absorbing materials they dumped on it?

[dogscoff]

Interesting development: Apparently the motorcycle story was a fake... or at least an exagerration:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.a...&threadid=8951

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I'm curious to how they can continue to operate the other 3 reactors. Is it because their shielded against radiation - so they're not as affected by their proximity to the accident site as say, the town was? Or is the accident site less radioactive because of the absorbing materials they dumped on it?

Well, there's no particular reason the equipment wouldn't work unless there was physical damage.

Close the connections to the bad reactor and replace any nessesary parts...
Then its just a matter of getting people to go to work in that environment.