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AWSOME I am going to vacation in Chernobyl next summer!
authors website ^ | 3.31.2004 | Elena

Posted on 03/31/2004 7:01:53 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER

Next year I am going to vacation on my bike in Chernobyl. Elena a Russian rides regularly in the dead zone.

This is a awesome picture story about Chernobyl and Kevi aftermath of the atomic plant disaster in 1986.

You will enjoy.

My name is Elena, I run this site and I don't sell anything in here and to tell the true, I don't have anything to sell. What I do have is my bike and this absolute freedom to ride it wherever curiosity and speed demon take me to. This pages maintained by author and with internet traffic site may be down sometimes.

In Ukrainian language Chernobyl is a name for a grass, wormwood (absinth) This word scares holly bejesus out of people here. If I tell someone that I am heading in a "dead zone"... you know, what I hear.. In best case- "are you nuts?" My dad used to say that people afraid of a thing which they can not see, can not feel, can not smell and that kills. Dad is nuclear physicist and he also says that of all dangerous things in my life, he can only think about one, which is riding my bike on fifth or sixth gear. In any way, dad and their team work in "dead zone" for last 18 years. They doing researches from the day when nuclear disaster happened. The rest of guys in a team are microbiologists, doctors, botanists.. etc. I was 7 years old back in 1986 and in a few hours after accident happened dad sent us with sister off with the train to Grandmother. Granny lives 800 kms from here and dad wasn't sure if it was far enough for us to stay away of troubles. Communists kept silence about this accident. In Kiev, they forced people to take part in their stupid labor day parade and then people start learning about accident from foreign radio, from relatives of those who died and real panic began in 7-10 days after accident. Dad says, that in those first 10 days exposure to radiation was the most powerful and can not even be compared with what we have now

*Map of radiation area around Chernobyl*

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

Motorcycling is a great hobby of mine.

Chernobyl "dead zone" It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite? because one can ride there for hours and not meet any single car and not to see any single soul. People left and nature is blooming, there are beautiful places, woods, lakes. Roads haven't been built or repaired since 80th but in places where they haven't been ridden by trucks or army technics, they stay in the same condition as 20 years ago. Time do not ruin roads.

*Take you journey bike ride here. Kiva 20 years after the accident*

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


TOPICS: Agriculture; Education; Local News; Miscellaneous; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: atomic; atomicpower; chernobyl; radiation
Awsome pictures of the land sourounding Chernobyl after the power plant accident in 1986. This woman bike thru the dead zone taking pictures and recording radiation levels. Her father is a nucular scientist so she understands the levels of radiation her body can stand and not glow in the dark.
1 posted on 03/31/2004 7:01:54 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER
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To: CHICAGOFARMER
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=chernobyl
2 posted on 03/31/2004 9:35:45 AM PST by martin_fierro (Holder of an M.A. degree in The Obvious)
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To: martin_fierro
thank you

Guess I need to do a search.

One of the few times I should would have could have.

3 posted on 03/31/2004 11:03:34 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (Citizen Carry)
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