Anyone ever go to Chernobyl?

[BigSix 10+ year member]

Electrical maint. and field engineering. And it's not a big deal, just have to go through rad monitors all day.

instrumention too?....looking for an I and E tech? I graduate next month lol.....

 

[ChevyRidinLow]

Images of Chernobyl's Ghostsalso seen one of the ghost hunter shows or something like that showed that place was haunted. i lived in germany at the time and we couldn't go outside for like a week or so, in case there was nuclear exposure or some sit like that

i love how they always say stay indoors for stuff like that. im pretty sure radiation isnt stopped by concrete or wood lol. false sense of security. but i was told that there were signs of fall out all over the globe after that. small signs but it still reached the ends of the earth

 

[plugitin 5,000+ posts]

i love how they always say stay indoors for stuff like that. im pretty sure radiation isnt stopped by concrete or wood lol. false sense of security. but i was told that there were signs of fall out all over the globe after that. small signs but it still reached the ends of the earth

The fallout was seen throughout the world...

And in actuality, it wasnt as bad as everyone made it out to be. Sure, it IS the worst nuclear disaster since the atomic bombs. In reality, the death toll was/is very low from Chernobyl. Most of the ones that died were plant workers, or firefighters on the scene. Some "liquidators" also passed away from radiation sickness.

Pretty interesting there, many of the first firetrucks on the scene were buried in trenches lined with clay. There is also a graveyard of vehicles that are far to contaminated to use, this includes helicopters used to dump the boron, clay, and sand into the reactor.

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

i love how they always say stay indoors for stuff like that. im pretty sure radiation isnt stopped by concrete or wood lol. false sense of security. but i was told that there were signs of fall out all over the globe after that. small signs but it still reached the ends of the earth

yeah true. i was living by stuttgart at the time and everyone was freaking out. was the 80's also lol

 

[Cabin_Pressure 10+ year member]

instrumention too?....looking for an I and E tech? I graduate next month lol.....

I don't do the hiring. It's a government facility, the job openings are posted publicly when there are openings. Instrumentation comes up occasionally, operations jobs are the most common openings though. Nuclear experience, military background or 4 year specialized degree are usually asked of applicants.

 

[ChevyRidinLow]

The fallout was seen throughout the world...
And in actuality, it wasnt as bad as everyone made it out to be. Sure, it IS the worst nuclear disaster since the atomic bombs. In reality, the death toll was/is very low from Chernobyl. Most of the ones that died were plant workers, or firefighters on the scene. Some "liquidators" also passed away from radiation sickness.

Pretty interesting there, many of the first firetrucks on the scene were buried in trenches lined with clay. There is also a graveyard of vehicles that are far to contaminated to use, this includes helicopters used to dump the boron, clay, and sand into the reactor.

i think it was 32 died in the initial blast and over the years many others died from exposure to radiation but yeah i do believe nagasaki and hiroshima had higher death tolls. i was curious and found this on a web article.

The accident at Chernobyl was approximately 400 times more potent than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. However, the atomic bomb testing conducted by several countries around the world during the 1960s and 1970s contributed 100 to 1,000 times more radioactive material to the environment than Chernobyl.

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

Just found this article.....

"Today, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sits inside a fenced area known as the Exclusion Zone. Radioactive remnants of the failed reactor linger inside the so-called sarcophagus, a 24-story concrete and steel encasement hastily erected after the accident. Leaky and structurally unsound, it now threatens to collapse, shaking loose enough radiation to cause a second disaster of similar magnitude. Work has started on a new encasement, which will slide over the existing sarcophagus to seal in the remaining nuclear fuel - at an estimated cost of 2 billion dollars."

With that, I would WAIT until the build a new structure.

Or you hair may just start to fall out sooner.......

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, im gona stop there tomorrow. Thanks.

Better take like 140 bucks with you too, lol!

 

[ChevyRidinLow]

Just found this article.....


"Today, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sits inside a fenced area known as the Exclusion Zone. Radioactive remnants of the failed reactor linger inside the so-called sarcophagus, a 24-story concrete and steel encasement hastily erected after the accident. Leaky and structurally unsound, it now threatens to collapse, shaking loose enough radiation to cause a second disaster of similar magnitude. Work has started on a new encasement, which will slide over the existing sarcophagus to seal in the remaining nuclear fuel - at an estimated cost of 2 billion dollars."

With that, I would WAIT until the build a new structure.

Or you hair may just start to fall out sooner.......

now that i think about it i watched a vid on this. nobody is allowed within a certain area of it even with suits and stuff.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

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[Violence. 10+ year member]

this is chernobyl as of 2006.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

It'd be pretty freaky to walk around that city...completely deserted...

EDIT: Hell just watching that vid is giving me the chills...

 

[Vossy 10+ year member]

My cuz went there, he says it's eerie as **** and it just smells like death.

 

[Violence. 10+ year member]

here it is in april of 2009

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

now that i think about it i watched a vid on this. nobody is allowed within a certain area of it even with suits and stuff.

400 meters is as close as anyone is aloud now.

Even at that distance, the radiation level is to cause harm if you stay there to long.