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2005-03-20 International-UN-NGOs
Chernobyl calling - UN promotes tourism
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Posted by phil_b 2005-03-20 12:45:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 There's an excellent tour of Chernobyl online here. She also has some other excellent pages online.
Posted by AzCat 2005-03-20 2:07:44 AM||   2005-03-20 2:07:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I already have had the photographic tour fronm kiddofspeed thanks. :D I'll be staying home :D
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-20 2:25:49 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-03-20 2:25:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 
..and families moved back into the area 3 days after the accident..

Those people are likely living on borrowed time.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-20 4:14:49 AM||   2005-03-20 4:14:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Those people are likely living on borrowed time. We all live on borrowed time. The evidence is that long term low level radiation exposure reduces your life expectancy by between a couple of months and a couple of years, probably less detrimental to your health than driving a car.
Posted by phil_b 2005-03-20 4:30:19 AM||   2005-03-20 4:30:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It depends on where you live and what you live in. A log cabin might make a very bad choice.

I wouldn't live in the area. I wouldn't get off a hard paved road either.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-20 4:37:41 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-03-20 4:37:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 phil_b - if the "couple of months and couple of years" are between the ages of 95 and 97, OK.

But what if they're between the ages of 40 and 42? I'd already be dead.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-03-20 8:16:38 AM||   2005-03-20 8:16:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Have you all seen the magnificant "Ghost Town - Motorcycling Through Chernobyl" website? (For those who have, she has really improved the site with new sections for gulags and the Orange Revolution.) http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ (main site) http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html (ghost town - Chernobyl).
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-03-20 10:11:44 AM||   2005-03-20 10:11:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 ..I have to confess, I'd like to see the place close up, but only as close as a helo flyby could get me. And the idea of Morrison's "The End" popping up at that moment is priceless.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-20 11:57:49 AM||   2005-03-20 11:57:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The evidence is that long term low level radiation exposure reduces your life expectancy by between a couple of months and a couple of years, probably less detrimental to your health than driving a car.

Would YOU live there? I wouldn't.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-20 3:10:51 PM||   2005-03-20 3:10:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Lol! One is a matter of chance - over which you exercise some control. The other is a certainty. I'm with B-a-R, heh.
Posted by .com 2005-03-20 3:18:23 PM||   2005-03-20 3:18:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Would YOU live there? Everywhere has background radiation, some places more than others. If the radiation wasn't too high, the answer is yes I would.
Posted by phil_b 2005-03-20 3:52:12 PM||   2005-03-20 3:52:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL. You need to wear a Dosimeter when you are in the area. A Geiger counter is recommended. You still want to live there?
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-20 7:52:41 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-03-20 7:52:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 It's probably an interesting area for ecotourism. Nature has been left alone for 20 years and radiation might not really hurt you if you just go for a few days.
On the other hand I guess I'd still prefer Yellowstone...
Posted by True German Ally 2005-03-20 8:14:54 PM||   2005-03-20 8:14:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I saw a report that lots and lots of animals and plants are flourishing there after the people moved away, and that they seem to be reproducing without any obvious deformities. The Greens might object to human resettlement...
Posted by Seafarious  2005-03-20 8:20:12 PM||   2005-03-20 8:20:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 The "Motorcycling through Chernobyl" website was widely debunked as a fake.

I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.

I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
Posted by gromky  2005-03-20 8:29:00 PM||   2005-03-20 8:29:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 And the car was probably later encased in cement and buried, heh. As are all of their "tour cars" eventually, I'm sure.
Posted by .com 2005-03-20 8:30:51 PM||   2005-03-20 8:30:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Yes the story was fake but the photos are real. Her "story" just made the photos more intriguing.
Posted by True German Ally 2005-03-20 8:31:47 PM||   2005-03-20 8:31:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 I am not buying one guy who is wrting a books "word" for it being a fake. Her father apperently was a high mucky muck in the department that controls the power plant and the area. This site has been up for a long time.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-03-20 8:35:35 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-03-20 8:35:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 TGA - For you.
Posted by .com 2005-03-20 8:39:52 PM||   2005-03-20 8:39:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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