Video from time I spent around the still radioactive Chernobyl, the reactor and the abandoned town of Pripyat.
http://www.carlmontgomery.com
for answers to the usual "isn't this absurdly dangerous?" types of questions and how you can get there yourself, check out my FAQ http://www.carlmontgomery.com/faq/
More pics and video from Chernobyl is at http://www.carlmontgomery.com/radiation/
Test results from the contamination scan i had afterwards:
http://www.carlmontgomery.com/back-in-one-piece-not-glowing-in-the-dark/
POLISH TRANSLATION:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lc-u1rq2u8w
(Thanks to dexter192 http://www.arek-w.yoyo.pl/ for the translation)
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Channel: Travel & Events Uploaded: November 14, 2006 at 4:05 am Author:CarlMontgomery
funky7chunky(Thursday 4th of December 2008 12:38:34 PM)
Thanks! This stuff is interesting.
mafia1911(Thursday 4th of December 2008 09:15:04 AM)
this city can be saw in call of duty 4
mkarnerfors(Thursday 4th of December 2008 12:49:21 AM)
No... the RBMK reactors were inherently unsafe and lacked a reactor containment. Other reactors do not share the physical qualities that made the accident possible. Only the Sovet RBMK-reactors (17 built, 1 destoyed, 4 shut down, 12 still in operation) had these dangerous charateristics that allowed power excursions of the kind that caused the explosion.
Every other reactor type operates in the opposite: if power jumps up, then the nuclear reaction is inhibited by the laws of phyiscs.
mkarnerfors(Thursday 4th of December 2008 12:45:48 AM)
Short answer: no.
Long answer: No, because the radiation levels, while elevated above normal, are still low enough that the absobed dose is not any more detrimental to the helath than is a long airplane trip or a chest X-ray. Go to Carl's homepage to read more about it. The link is in the video info to the right.
funky7chunky(Wednesday 3rd of December 2008 05:03:36 PM)
why are they walkign around their with no radiation suits on? isn't that dangerous?
zipposwe93(Tuesday 2nd of December 2008 03:05:33 PM)
I would love to go there on a trip for a day or two.. Would be so cool.. Perhaps i will later :)
No it couldnt.All reactors now can be shut down and be sealed off from the outside world.Even if they explode the radiation cant get out.This reactor and facility was dangerous from the start.
valdez4488(Monday 1st of December 2008 07:06:07 AM)
charnobyl could to by anywhere where it is nuclear power station even in usa europe etc good luck
mkarnerfors(Saturday 29th of November 2008 05:45:27 PM)
Gamma radiation is photons. Electromagnetic radiation, just like light and radio waves, but with much higher energy per photon. With this much energy, these photons can pass right through you. If they hit anything, like a DNA strand, that energy can be enough to break apart chemical bonds. This means the DNA breaks. If that happens too many times in a single cell, the DNA repair system in the cell cannot put the DNA strands together correctly any more, and the cell dies, or develops into cancer.
mkarnerfors(Saturday 29th of November 2008 05:37:05 PM)
People *worked* at the plant for many years after the accident. Ok, so you can't go playing inside the sarcophagus but the other three units were decontaminated enough to work inside.
Check out the video "Seconds from disaster: chernobyl". They interviewed the pump operator inside the control room where he was that night.
