dragonfromthedepths@hotmail.com

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

Posted by Guest on Tue 23 Dec 2008 14:59:25 PST

npj.ru/arioch

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 ...

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.

Posted by Guest on Fri 27 Apr 2007 07:33:23 PDT

jeff

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...

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.

Posted by Guest on Tue 03 Apr 2007 23:53:35 PDT

Zappa

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...

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.

Posted by Guest on Mon 05 Mar 2007 17:19:29 PST

r

it isn sad at what has happend to the people in that area

Posted by Guest on Thu 25 Jan 2007 08:19:48 PST

glen

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

Posted by Guest on Fri 10 Nov 2006 15:32:04 PST

klapa

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...

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.

Posted by Guest on Sat 16 Sep 2006 10:13:36 PDT

Alan

" ... 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...

" ... 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?

Posted by Guest on Tue 06 Jun 2006 01:54:56 PDT

CaseLogic

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.

Posted by Guest on Wed 19 Apr 2006 12:37:48 PDT

k

you mean "Russian"

Posted by Guest on Tue 18 Apr 2006 20:54:32 PDT

j

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.

Posted by Guest on Thu 04 Aug 2005 01:32:15 PDT

@

Not every place that got hit with radiation was evacuated, the 1,000% increase in suicide was in those areas

Posted by Guest on Tue 31 May 2005 23:06:12 PDT

person

thancks for that info, i would like to go to that museum some time!

Posted by Guest on Thu 05 May 2005 22:48:05 PDT

neighbour

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 ...

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.

Posted by Guest on Wed 04 May 2005 23:05:00 PDT

person

yeah, i think they were evacuated a few days after. tell me, is that museum in english as well as rushin?

Posted by Guest on Wed 04 May 2005 22:07:32 PDT

neighbour

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.

Posted by Guest on Tue 03 May 2005 01:06:56 PDT

person

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...

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.

Posted by Guest on Mon 02 May 2005 19:36:31 PDT

lkarlov

Pripyat was town for plant's workers.

So my question is: When did they started to evacuate chernobyl?
Pripyat was evacuated a day after.

Posted by Guest on Sun 01 May 2005 11:39:20 PDT

lkarlov

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.

Posted by Guest on Sun 01 May 2005 11:35:37 PDT

xl(l3x)lx

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...

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.

Posted by Guest on Sun 01 May 2005 10:34:37 PDT

jon

I could be wrong, Ikarlov, but I believe the Chernobyl reactor was IN the town of Pripyat.

Posted by Guest on Sat 30 Apr 2005 22:56:07 PDT

lkarlov

So the city of pripyat was evacuated.
What about the chernobyl itself?

I can't find any pictures from chernobyl, only from pripyat.

Posted by Guest on Sat 30 Apr 2005 09:21:51 PDT

dratomic@indiatimes.com

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.

Posted by Guest on Fri 29 Apr 2005 01:52:51 PDT

danielle

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 ...

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.

Posted by Guest on Wed 27 Apr 2005 20:58:04 PDT

neighbour

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,...

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..

Posted by Guest on Tue 26 Apr 2005 06:39:20 PDT

person

true, but they got them evacuated within a week. and they didn't know what was going on until they were evacuated...

Posted by Guest on Sat 16 Apr 2005 17:24:41 PDT

Anonymous

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.

Posted by Guest on Wed 13 Apr 2005 10:47:20 PDT

mickey

i agree wit person

Posted by Guest on Wed 30 Mar 2005 13:13:16 PST

person

i dont see how that is possible, everyone was evacuated, how would people commit suicede?

Posted by Guest on Sun 27 Mar 2005 15:48:29 PST

@

Sucks For them. You know what, there was a 1,000% increase in suicide in the heavily affected areas after the explosion

Posted by Guest on Mon 14 Mar 2005 12:09:46 PST