Traveled to Chernobly with my Holga.

[Mr_Flibble]

Wonderful photos,

I've recently played Call of Duty 4, and there's a level in that game where you have to sneak through the area as part of a sniper team. You end up fighting a desperate last stand under the Ferris wheel waiting for the helicopter pick-up.

Your pictures made me realise the level of realism the developers put into the location.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Matus]

@doomed, I total agree. Before going there I didn't really question nuclear power and now it does frighten me..... and I used to live opposite Bradwell Power Station and never really gave it a thought if that went up like Chernobyl. The UK would be completely f*cked.

Well, I am nuclear physicist (although I work in the particle physics stuff) and I have to admit that I find the case of the Chernobyl very unfortunate.

The Chernobyl power plant was (a little loosely speaking) built for soviet army in spite of protest of the physicist (who new that this particular design was not safe [used graphite as a moderator] and under certain circumstances COULD blow up). Even to save the money on the project there was no concrete cover on the top of the reactor (that would have strongly suppressed the impact of the accident)

But few people seem to know why this has happened and whether current nuclear power plants could blow up the same way. As what has happened in Chernobyl had indeed a huge impact on the society and did cost many human lives (and destroyed many more) it is so often misused just to scare the people ...

 

[Sparrow]

On the plus side http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/sep/06/energy.ukraine

And it has become a refuge for wildlife in the Ukraine

 

[dmr]

Here's my original posting here on RFF, right after I was informed that the bike ride may have been a hoax:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13620