Chernobyl tour

[bigalpha]

No, I didn't go but I found it stumbling around on the internet.

http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?t=2217

 

[redneckboarder]

i would love to go there, the town pripyat was features in a show called life after people and its a really good example of what is going to happen or may happen when humans vanish.

i know they buried the reactor with lots of concrete, im assuming they put dirt on top of that then that monument?

 

[bigalpha]

The reactor itself isn't buried under dirt, IIRC. They just encased the reactor in lead+concrete to keep further radiation from leaking out.

 

[redneckboarder]

ah i guess they dont want people getting close enough to take pictures of that, maybe the internet will provide me with some.

 

[XJ98Jeep]

Am I the only one that noticed that the COD4 level IS Pripyat? :dunno:
That's really cool though, I've always had a weird fascination with ghost towns.

 

[EazyXJWJ]

yes, the sniper level on the single campaign mode. also on-line. (bloc)

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

the picture of the sarcophagus is what you mean. It was not buried. It was encased in lead and concrete. You can see it in those pictures and you can see it on google earth. Chernobyl is an interesting case. Everyone compares it to American reactors in the fight against nuclear power. Completely wrong, this place was initially housed in a building that was about the same as a steel warehouse. Our's are housed in a concrete dome inside of a concrete dome. It really is an example of how everything was done wrong.

if you read the captions, the radiation is actually increasing. When they buried parts of it, then stuff grew, now radiation is being absorbed into the growing plants.

 

[RichP]

There was a chick a few years ago that did a motorcycle tour through there. Quite a few engineers and disaster people died there containing it and the death toll is still not over. Liquid cooled nuke are dangerous nukes. Not to mention the hundreds of glow in the dark BMP's and BTR's.
We decommissioned the reactor from the USS Seawolf, a 50's era nuke sub. Rumor has it that its no longer where they left it but has melted itself down through the earth, this is near Schenectady NY at the nuke power training unit. True for false, not sure, the nuke machinist mates and nuke ET's used to talk about it.

 

[Coastie]

I read somewhere that the sarcophagus was about to fall in and needed to be rebuilt.

 

[redneckboarder]

yea i just read that too, it was supposed to last for 50 yrs but scientists downgraded it to 20 which means it needed to be fixed in 06, also said that 90-95%of the fuel is still inside the sarcophagus, and if it fails it will be on par with the actual explosion for magnitude of fallout

 

[bjoehandley]

Am I the only one that noticed that the COD4 level IS Pripyat? :dunno:
That's really cool though, I've always had a weird fascination with ghost towns.

From what I've seen on another forum, it actually is Pripyat! The game graphics are based around that area of Russia.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

From what I've seen on another forum, it actually is Pripyat! The game graphics are based around that area ofRussia.

the Ukraine...

 

[Begster]

Wow, those pictures are friggen crazy. It must be an incredible thing to stand in a town that is no longer inhabited by anyone, and see all the ruin, and just try to imagine what used to go on there.

I would love to do this tour.

 

[Mtb Jak]

There was a chick a few years ago that did a motorcycle tour through there. Quite a few engineers and disaster people died there containing it and the death toll is still not over. Liquid cooled nuke are dangerous nukes. Not to mention the hundreds of glow in the dark BMP's and BTR's.
We decommissioned the reactor from the USS Seawolf, a 50's era nuke sub. Rumor has it that its no longer where they left it but has melted itself down through the earth, this is near Schenectady NY at the nuke power training unit. True for false, not sure, the nuke machinist mates and nuke ET's used to talk about it.

oh shit i drive by that place daily...

 

[Mtb Jak]

knolls atomic power lab on river road in niskayuna ny if ya want to google maps it...

near the baseball fields theres a big grass hill with "atomic energy warning" signs all over it...

 

[Jeepm@n]

Makes yah think what earth may be like hundred's of years after nuke wars. I worked on ICBM and alway's wondered why there were so many safety guidelines to follow.

 

[Coastie]

I think you guys would like A World Without us

http://www.worldwithoutus.com/

I listened to it on the drive from Texas to California last year.

 

[igotanxj]

Am I the only one that noticed that the COD4 level IS Pripyat? :dunno:
That's really cool though, I've always had a weird fascination with ghost towns.

Haha i noticed the same thing!

 

[urban yan]

UGH. I was freaking out for my family back in Poland when this thing happened.

 

[Original_MudButt]

There was a chick a few years ago that did a motorcycle tour through there.

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/