Having been reading up on Chernobyl etc today, I found myself reading this thread for the first time, so apologies to anyone now thinking 'Oh not that thing dragged back up... again'.
<waves to the denizens of GRCade>
'Respec' to the chap who went on this trip and then posted up a combination of such good quality photos / dialogue etc.
Ever considered a career in investigative journalism?
In direct contrast to the person criticising you for not donating the 700 euros it cost you to do the trip, I'll congratulate you on raising the profile of what has to be one of the worst peace time man-made disasters we've seen to date, and which more importantly, is almost certainly one with some of the most far-reaching consequences we'll (hopefully) see in our lifetimes, and I reckon as a result of you bothering to do this, far more than 700 euros will have been donated to causes related to the disaster which otherwise wouldn't have been.
It's a sign of the times when something as catastrophic as this is forgotten by so many just because it's no longer front page news.
StayingDead wrote:Very nice video, it's still amazing me how that many people got out alive, just think of the children sitting in school that day like any other when suddenly being told to get out as quickly as they can. It's like looking into a massive time capsule in some of those pictures, where nothing has changed since that faithful day with stuff left exactly how it was on the day.
I'm not entirely sure the children were evacuated straightaway?
If you believe what is written on wikipedia, the authorities decided not to evacuate the town until 36 hours after the disaster first broke; life effectively carried on as normal.
And they only did this when a Swedish nuclear power station detected radioactive particles on their workers clothing during routine scans, and then determined that said particles were fallout from elsewhere.
And the firefighters first sent to the plant weren't informed of any more than 'a fire has broken out at the power station' by all accounts, with some wondering just why so much hot graphite was strewn all around the ground when they first arrived at the plant.