Motorcycle tour of Chernobyl

Elena ^ | Spring 04 | Elena

[HarryCaul]

A young woman's photojournal of her trip through the Chernobyl zone.

[HarryCaul]

Fascinating, powerful stuff

[HarryCaul]

Link for those who dont want to click source :-p

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

[martin_fierro]

Now this is one kooky ride.

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[Hank Rearden]

After just a quick peek at work - that may be one of the coolest sites I've run across. Nice-lookin' babe 'n bike, too.

[Don W]

I am shocked, stunned, amazed and without words for this photo essay.

Wow is all I can say.

[VOA]

Very interesting photo/travelog.
It's interesting to see the patriotic Communist artwork (posters) in a few shots.

Also, the one photo of the tallest building says that people gathered on the roof and
watched a beautiful glow from the wrecked reactor.
I'm not a radiological expert...but I can't help wonder if this beautiful glow was
the effect in which a high exposure causes victims to "see" a colored glow (blue?)
that is actually not visible. IIRC, some of the civilians who got heavy exposures
during that (incredibly stupid) radioactivity accident in Japan maybe 10 years ago
got their first hint that those blaring radioactivity monitors meant something was
because they saw a bluish cast to their vision...from radioativity even pentrating the
thin walls of their building (adjacent to the accident site).

[archy]

Yamaha

"We Don't Have a Motto"

Not so.

[BraveMan]

Wow. This renders a person speechless . . .

Sad bump . . .

[j_tull]

Wow. Thanks for the post/ping.

[Teacher317]

Wow

[The_Media_never_lie]

All Kerry supporters should view this website before the election. This website explains what the al Quaeda would like to see happen to our cities.

[csvset]

That was interesting. Some folks have refused to move.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Fantastic!

There are economic ghost towns in New Mexico that look like that down south...

I've been thinking on taking a ride with a video camera and doing a 'Dead New Mexico' docu-video with a cool soundtrack...

[martin_fierro]

I've been thinking on taking a ride with a video camera and doing a 'Dead New Mexico' docu-video with a cool soundtrack...

Be sure to take Slim with ya and document all that NM weirdness. <|:)~

[irina]

The whole "kiddofspeed" story is an over-dramatised soap opera! I am Ukrainian. I’m a qualified power engineer and I know the details of the Chernobyl accident and the RBMK reactor design. I've been to Chernobyl and around the exclusion zone three times over the last year. This website was set up in order to satisfy Western demand for sensations.
Number of people died from direct impact of radiation during first days is around a couple of dozens, mainly firemen and first "liquidators". There were no people from Pripyat who died, as this woman says, just due to radiation they received while watching NPP’s "glow" from the roof of the tallest building in Pripyat. Population of Pripyat and nearby area was evacuated within first week, everyone received due medical treatment and stayed monitored for years. People were given newly built accommodation with all required facilities all over Ukraine where they could carry on their professional careers (normally in other power plants).
All this nightmare-stories are directed to the attention of the narrow-minded Western public.

Meanwhile public opinion in Ukraine is generally pro-nuclear. Recent poles show that 43% of Ukrainians strongly support the completion of two new reactors which are due to begin their operation by the end of 2004.

Lots of useful facts can be found on http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm
This is the World Nuclear Association.
I would advise you to read about radiation that every one of us receives while flying. Believe me, nowadays I can't find in Chernobyl a place with the radiation level higher then in a plane while flying London-Kiev. As the Aviation Health Institute states: "[high altitude] exposure can rise from 100 to 300 times more than at sea level". This is far too higher radiation level than around "Sarcophagus" itself!
http://www.aviation-health.org/cosmic_radiation.html