Andy

Kidd of Speed faked some of her story, check this guys Chernobyl stuff out - http://firesuite.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=58

Posted by Guest on Tue 15 Sep 2009 07:12:08 PDT

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Thanks for the http://www.pripyat.com/en/ website! :-)

Posted by Guest on Wed 25 Feb 2009 02:52:02 PST

Rich

Some good pictures at this site
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/

Posted by Guest on Wed 21 May 2008 08:13:30 PDT

timi

they where fucken coal workers that didnt know waht they where doing

Posted by Guest on Wed 14 May 2008 16:41:51 PDT

bsimic@fesb.hr

To dtebar: yes, there are reactors which cannot melt down. The germans did it first: they deliberately stopped the cooling, the reactor warmed up to 3000 degrees celsius and remained at that for several hours. It only requires to build some reactor...

To dtebar: yes, there are reactors which cannot melt down. The germans did it first: they deliberately stopped the cooling, the reactor warmed up to 3000 degrees celsius and remained at that for several hours. It only requires to build some reactor parts to be able to withstand temperatures of 3000 degrees.

Posted by Guest on Sun 27 Jan 2008 19:37:56 PST

enthropia(at)gmail.com

You can see two cranes at this pictures, and this means, that this picture was NOT made ''right after the explosions'', but about 8-9 weeks later, when the building of Sarcophagus had been starting. The first pictures after the explosion was made by...

You can see two cranes at this pictures, and this means, that this picture was NOT made ''right after the explosions'', but about 8-9 weeks later, when the building of Sarcophagus had been starting. The first pictures after the explosion was made by Igor Kostin, who survived. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostin

Posted by Guest on Mon 21 Jan 2008 07:03:31 PST

dtebar@mad.scientist.com

Is it possible nowadays to design a nuclear reactor that cannot go critical? Even in the absence of any cooling? I read about a technique where the fuel is made into pellets which never reach sufficient density... I wish the US could break its...

Is it possible nowadays to design a nuclear reactor that cannot go critical? Even in the absence of any cooling? I read about a technique where the fuel is made into pellets which never reach sufficient density... I wish the US could break its dependency on petroleum and coal... --DTebar

Posted by Guest on Tue 28 Aug 2007 23:35:49 PDT

nick

I cant belive that happened all those people dead aye. this will help thanks

Posted by Guest on Wed 15 Aug 2007 16:58:08 PDT

Darkbimmer56

The most affected cities are Cernobyl although it is nearly 14 miles from the plant it is still affected,Kopachi, Lelev, Novosheplichi, and the most affected is Pripyat a very large city is has been abondoned for nearly 20 years you can see the reactor ...

The most affected cities are Cernobyl although it is nearly 14 miles from the plant it is still affected,Kopachi, Lelev, Novosheplichi, and the most affected is Pripyat a very large city is has been abondoned for nearly 20 years you can see the reactor from pripyat, no one will ever be able to safley live in any of these cities until approx. 4000 a.d. before you enter here you pass through a gate called the alienation zone this some 30 miles is contaminated the forests are filled with dead trees there is no power in any houses some people still live here however there minds and bodies are twisted and cancerous. The plants are dead and they all have a redish colur becaues of the radiactive air they had absorbed

Posted by Guest on Tue 31 Jul 2007 14:18:09 PDT

Darkbimmer56

The most affected cities are Cernobyl although it is nearly 14 miles from the plant it is still affected,Kopachi, Lelev, Novosheplichi, and the most affected is Pripyat a very large city is has been abondoned for nearly 20 years you can see the reactor ...

The most affected cities are Cernobyl although it is nearly 14 miles from the plant it is still affected,Kopachi, Lelev, Novosheplichi, and the most affected is Pripyat a very large city is has been abondoned for nearly 20 years you can see the reactor from pripyat, no one will ever be able to safley live in any of these cities until approx. 4000 a.d. before you enter here you pass through a gate called the alienation zone this some 30 miles is contaminated the forests are filled with dead trees there is no power in any houses some people still live here however there minds and bodies are twisted and cancerous. The plants are dead and they all have a redish colur becaues of the radiactive air they had absorbed

Posted by Guest on Tue 31 Jul 2007 14:18:09 PDT

Luke

Scott: You won't be allowed to travel near enough to the reactor to see it in this much detail for another 300 years at least.

What shocks me is that they kept on operating the remaining 3 reactors at the site for years after -- the last...

Scott: You won't be allowed to travel near enough to the reactor to see it in this much detail for another 300 years at least.

What shocks me is that they kept on operating the remaining 3 reactors at the site for years after -- the last one to shut down in 2000, Chernobyl 3, was located in the same building as the meltdown.

Posted by Guest on Thu 14 Jun 2007 09:35:39 PDT

Scott

I can't wait to go to Europe and see this for myself.

Posted by Guest on Thu 10 May 2007 18:38:42 PDT

The'Joker

the operators? they were trying to increase output more to the point what was the pilot thinking

Posted by Guest on Thu 26 Apr 2007 03:29:46 PDT

Project Due Tommorow!!!!!!!*

Wow this picture is so good... I couldn't find any other one like it! And my poster is due tommorow, uggghhhh..... ,middle school!!!!

Posted by Guest on Wed 28 Mar 2007 18:48:37 PDT

Johny

This site really helped me with my project.It was the only site that helped me figure out what caused the meltdown thanks.=)
P.S. Enjoy my monkey. 0(*.*)0

Posted by Guest on Thu 01 Mar 2007 14:21:42 PST

Sen

I believe that the graphite core has a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity right? In that case, the hotter the graphite got, the higher power levels that were obtained, hence the huge spike in power levels. I don't know for sure, but most...

I believe that the graphite core has a positive temperature coefficient of reactivity right? In that case, the hotter the graphite got, the higher power levels that were obtained, hence the huge spike in power levels. I don't know for sure, but most plants if not all now-a-days use water as their moderator, since it has a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity, meaning as temperature goes up, power goes down. Even today the radiation levels are rediculously high in the nearby towns and ground zero... I read, depending on where you were, that the general radiation levels just outside the plant were in upwards of 3 R/hr, thats rediculuous... I can't even imagine that. Anyways, if anyone has any insight to my mentioning of the moderator, please let me know.

Posted by Guest on Sun 07 May 2006 18:47:41 PDT

Jack

Chris,

They did arrest the operators. In fact, I read somewhere that one of them was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but died three weeks later.

Posted by Guest on Thu 04 May 2006 05:16:19 PDT

duralinux@gmail.com

Yeah what a sad story... and all of it was preventable. It all happened because of polotics... because an engineer wanted to impress his superiors. The History Channel had a show on just last night (aniversery date) on the disaster called Zero Hour. My ...

Yeah what a sad story... and all of it was preventable. It all happened because of polotics... because an engineer wanted to impress his superiors. The History Channel had a show on just last night (aniversery date) on the disaster called Zero Hour. My God... I got sick watching how the events played out during the last hour of the reactors operation. I can't imagine... and I don't want too.

Posted by Guest on Thu 27 Apr 2006 08:42:10 PDT

Szein

I once heard a story, a story i didnt bealive was true but i had wrong, terrible wrong. A guy named Pauoul were one of the workers at Chernobyl, he was watching the process from the control panel at reactor 4. He then helped them to put out the fire and...

I once heard a story, a story i didnt bealive was true but i had wrong, terrible wrong. A guy named Pauoul were one of the workers at Chernobyl, he was watching the process from the control panel at reactor 4. He then helped them to put out the fire and just hours later he felt sick, he was dying without knowing it. But somehow he didnt wanna give up. He lied at hospital in Moskov for a week when he then was sent out of the city to a private area somewhere in Russia. His brother came to visit just 2 days before he died. At that visit had pauouls face had lost all the skin wich were a terrible vision. His skin on hands, arms, face, legs had fallen off. His feets had bin amputated because of the high radioactive level that could have killed him. the last day he was in life he nearly couldnt speak because of that allmost every muscle in his body was either dead or paralised of the radioactive level in his body. But he could say the last words in his life: "Remember me, brother and take care of my daughter"
Then at 05:35 his heart stopped. They tried for 25 minets to start it again but they failed. He died just 42 years old with a 7 year old daughter and his wife that was 36 years old. This is a true story about people starting a nuclear test of a reactor that went wrong. What really caused this trouble isnt really discovered even what they have found so far isnt the end of this question. The workes looked like murderers or betrayers but after the heroic help they were seen like heros that helped to save the planet even if their own life should be the price. Now when the sacrophagus is there it stops abit radioactive mass to get out. My country: Sweden sent over 30 milion swedish krowns to russia to help them build the sacrophagus. Chernobyl: A perfect example of the stupid humans power of mass destruction. If we do something like this once or twice again, then we will erase all life on this planet!

Posted by Guest on Thu 27 Apr 2006 01:07:53 PDT

lk

yes, you are right, it is a ventilation stack. all RBMK-s have it.

Posted by Guest on Wed 26 Apr 2006 11:23:03 PDT

guardiangirl

I do believe this is a picture from a video from a news reporter(or at least the other pictures) days after the explosion where he said in Russian "This is the sound of radiation". After that you hear the Geiger monitor clicking insanely fast. ...

I do believe this is a picture from a video from a news reporter(or at least the other pictures) days after the explosion where he said in Russian "This is the sound of radiation". After that you hear the Geiger monitor clicking insanely fast. Subsequently, the reporter would die a few days later due to acute radiation poisioning.

Posted by Guest on Wed 26 Apr 2006 06:55:47 PDT

HB

The tower in the picture isn't a cooling tower. I think it's an air ventilation stack for the reactor hall. The plant was cooled by water from the nearby cooling pond.

Posted by Guest on Wed 26 Apr 2006 06:50:56 PDT

Sharkyjones

Someone mentioned western reactors don't use graphite cores. Some did, winscale in UK used a graphite core that caused a fire. Additionally some reactor types in design I think pebble bed reactors ? use a pyrolitic graphite like windscale, but this is...

Someone mentioned western reactors don't use graphite cores. Some did, winscale in UK used a graphite core that caused a fire. Additionally some reactor types in design I think pebble bed reactors ? use a pyrolitic graphite like windscale, but this is very high temp stuff that shouldn't burn. I believe the problem in windscale was that the radiation causes dislocations and stresses in the graphite which can later release energy unless annealed / heated to release it. WIKIPEDIA has loads on reactor designs.

Posted by Guest on Tue 18 Apr 2006 19:59:50 PDT

hernan (chile)

El desastre de chernobyl es para q reaccionemos en el daño q nos causa tener plantas nucleares.

Posted by Guest on Wed 05 Apr 2006 17:19:24 PDT

[]

Just a answer to the first comments. Why this happened? Look back into history and you'll see some imbecilic slavonic nuckleheads starting WWI. Its the balkanian mentallity.

This message has been written by a balkanian... either I'm under ...

Just a answer to the first comments. Why this happened? Look back into history and you'll see some imbecilic slavonic nuckleheads starting WWI. Its the balkanian mentallity.

This message has been written by a balkanian... either I'm under the Chernobyl radiation or I hate my own kind :)

Posted by Guest on Wed 05 Apr 2006 10:34:57 PDT

airsick cookie

Nice pics, helped me out on a construction of the chernobyl powerplant(after the disaster) awsome

Posted by Guest on Wed 15 Mar 2006 16:24:14 PST

Alan P

knowing me Alan P, knowing you Chenobyl, aha.
aha. so.ummmmm disaster. looks bad from a height and from the ground. not v nice.
bi now
alan p, thanx 4 the site btw, was lovely

Posted by Guest on Tue 24 Jan 2006 03:49:46 PST

Point

Remember this was not a thermonuclear explosion, but a steam explosion that resulted in the core meltdown thus resulting in radiation being allowed to flow into the atmosphere and surrounding area.

In case you didint know the difference...

Remember this was not a thermonuclear explosion, but a steam explosion that resulted in the core meltdown thus resulting in radiation being allowed to flow into the atmosphere and surrounding area.

In case you didint know the difference between a nuclear meltdown and a thermonuclear explosion (ICBM) types.

Posted by Guest on Mon 03 Oct 2005 05:58:36 PDT

Spetsnaz

http://www.pripyat.com/en/

Posted by Guest on Fri 12 Aug 2005 13:05:21 PDT

Spetsnaz

For all of you/ City spelled correctly is Pripyat. And useful website for you in both english and russian languages is http://www.pripyat.com/en/ (for eng).
I see u a interested in so common guys go and get it. (knowledge =)

Posted by Guest on Fri 12 Aug 2005 13:04:59 PDT