speaking to someone last night who said they might find this interesting.....ive dug up the link
its a very very long story but well worth reading just for the sheer madness of the story and the amazing photographs.
anyone who says history isnt interesting is lying.
ps....dont be put off by the size, save the link and read it when your bored, you wont regret it....its also advert free.
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Sex God
I have read this site before - a very interesting viewpoint on a major but now rarely thought about slice of history.
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wow, i followed rogers posts today and found this site link. Brill stuff! Amazing...
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I was 16 when this happend i didnt realize how high the death toll was, which is still climbing with the after effects. Reading that story made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck scary stuff.
thanx for posting that link Lancy.
Good to know i wasnt alone with the goosebumps and lump in my throat while reading. I love what i'd call living history... brings the reality home so much easier than text in books all from one fixed veiw point.
I was speaking with a friend about this and discussing how the systems we apply in school encourage those who can conform and don't work so well for the free thinkers that challenge and push the boundaries. That person posed the question about teaching history and how we never get taught about the mistakes made like the Falklands and Vietnam, just the glory of World War 1 and 2 etc.....
This site really does bring the reality of why nuclear powers can be damaging and the after effect even so many years since it was all officially over, accident or not. It also makes me wonder who is responsible for those people in Japan etc who were nuked and if they have side effects from Hiroshima and Nagaski bombs, which presumably would have had similar situations with whole areas becoming ghost towns.
The other thing I've seen similar to this concept of ghost towns is when the reservoirs dried so low a few summers ago. People could walk along the valleys and see the foundations of the houses which were flooded to create the reservoir. The doorsteps and some of the walls were very clear to see. All very eary and entriguing.
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foundations of the houses which were flooded to create the reservoir. The doorsteps and some of the walls were very clear to see. All very eary and entriguing.
yep, i cant remember the name of the place, but somewhere in the forest of bowland is a village that pops out of the top of the reserviour every summer.
back on chenobyl.......im glad so many people found the link interesting.....i bet there are more people who havent replied cos they are busily reading.
glad to be of service.
Warming the Bed
Wow!! what an amazing pictorial/description of the aftermath of the disaster, I am sat here shocked with the magnitude. I of course new of the meltdown by what had been reported at the time and since by our media in the west, but they didn't appear to report all-no surprise there then eh?
thanks to the author/researcher of the site miss Elena filatova.
enlightenment is a powerful emotion.
I recommend that anyone using the SH site should read this, I'm glad I did.
shocked and moved,
pip xx
thanks to the author/researcher of the site miss Elena filatova.
enlightenment is a powerful emotion.
I recommend that anyone using the SH site should read this, I'm glad I did.
shocked and moved,
pip xx
this touched a nerve with me...I don't broadcast anything ...but I have been working with children from Belarus for 2 years see the link please look aroud the web site so much still needs to be done
we have children stay with us from family's selected by the charity and we have had the pleasure of 2 children over the past 2 years ...the children have one thing in common malnutrition and poverty ...with all the shit life can throw at them ...I have worked with children in this country for a long time and just thought it was about time I spread my wings to this day I still financially support 2 family's that the children came from to give a little back is whats needed....we also worked with children from Beslan building bridges so they get on with there lives there iv'e said it....
we have children stay with us from family's selected by the charity and we have had the pleasure of 2 children over the past 2 years ...the children have one thing in common malnutrition and poverty ...with all the shit life can throw at them ...I have worked with children in this country for a long time and just thought it was about time I spread my wings to this day I still financially support 2 family's that the children came from to give a little back is whats needed....we also worked with children from Beslan building bridges so they get on with there lives there iv'e said it....
Sex God
Thanks for posting the link Lancy, I spent a good part of this afternoon looking at the whole site and found it fascinating, but very haunting at the same time. As others have said, I had no idea of the enormity of what had happened although I do remember the incident. Reading it also reminded me that I helped my ex-husband write a report for his degree course on what had gone wrong and what steps should have been put in place to prevent it all happening in the first place. The catalogue of errors leading up to the disaster really is shocking :cry:
Great link thanks!!
BTW did anyone know that before Chernobyl (and after) the Russians were obsessed with the many uses of radioactive material. The whole country is littered with remnents of this experimentation. Farmers used to have crop iradiators, which contained a fairly powerful radioactive source that could be towed over their crops. You now have these and other bright ideas rusting away in the countryside all over the place.
But then the nuclear age was all about that, and they are not the only country with a bizzare and dangerous nuclear legacy.
The Americans were expecting to have atomic flashlights that never needed new batteries.
Nuclear power used correctly has the potential to be a really clean source of energy from a carbon emitions and good for the environment point of view. Unfortunately there are substantial side effects. But as the world gets more energy hungry nuclear and renewable energy might be the only viable way of not choking ourselves to death with the so called safer but more poluting alternatives.
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BTW did anyone know that before Chernobyl (and after) the Russians were obsessed with the many uses of radioactive material. The whole country is littered with remnents of this experimentation. Farmers used to have crop iradiators, which contained a fairly powerful radioactive source that could be towed over their crops. You now have these and other bright ideas rusting away in the countryside all over the place.
But then the nuclear age was all about that, and they are not the only country with a bizzare and dangerous nuclear legacy.
The Americans were expecting to have atomic flashlights that never needed new batteries.
Nuclear power used correctly has the potential to be a really clean source of energy from a carbon emitions and good for the environment point of view. Unfortunately there are substantial side effects. But as the world gets more energy hungry nuclear and renewable energy might be the only viable way of not choking ourselves to death with the so called safer but more poluting alternatives.
hmmm this has gone way off topic now!!
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