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Pripyat?  That's Chernobyl Town Isn't it?????????????????eyepopping.gif



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chrisoncbr wrote:

Pripyat?  That's Chernobyl Town Isn't it?????????????????eyepopping.gif

 Won't affect him as he's from Torquay wink



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Harty wrote:
chrisoncbr wrote:

Pripyat?  That's Chernobyl Town Isn't it?????????????????eyepopping.gif

 Won't affect him as he's from Torquay wink

 Yep and Yep.



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Will we all have to wear lead suits when you come to the next meeting?biggrin



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Athletic World Championship Moscow

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Chernobyl city plaque

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Reactor 4 that went pop.

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Looks great! well jel



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That's tttttoo close.  Give it a couple of hundred thousand years and it'll be fine.blehsmile  So do they do tours there these days?



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Arrived home last night, left the bike in Kiev someone else is riding it for the last leg. Total mileage covered in just under 6 weeks 2,696 (a bit pathetic I know but was on a C90) and 1800 on the Trans Siberian Railway.

Last few pictures. Saying bye to the bikes in Kiev.

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Teaching in Chernobyl (day job).

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Start mileage.

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It's all over for another year. Would I go on a C90 again..... not a chance! The total cost of this trip was roughly DOUBLE what it cost me to go on the DRZ last year because of the unsuitability of the bike. Next year Trans Canadian Trail back on the DRZ :)



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That's tttttoo close.  Give it a couple of hundred thousand years and it'll be fine.blehsmile  So do they do tours there these days?



-- Edited by chrisoncbr on Thursday 22nd of August 2013 03:50:22 PM

Where I was stood the radiation rate was 10,000 higher when the accident happened. The survival time was 60 seconds. Two weeks after the accident they where close to a second explosion that would have devastated 2/3rds of Europe resulting in 10's of millions of deaths. The current official death toll is disputed the Soviets put it at 40 other, more reliable, sources put it closer to a million (http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-book-concludes-chernobyl-death-toll-985-000-mostly-from-cancer/20908).

What i found frightening was that the Soviets were transparent about what was going on because they needed European help and all the European countries including ours decided not to release information about Chernobyl to their citizens for 20 years. The French government even now, despite concussive proof, will not acknowledge that France was affected by Chernobyl. Talk about treating their citizens like mushrooms.

This was the program we watched about the battle to stop the second explosion, very very chilling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5GTvaW34O0



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Just watched the YouTube video Nic posted the link for. Very chilling indeed, especially considering the ongoing effects of the accident: the environment, the people continuing to live in the - not necessarily near - vicinity, the bio-robots, the rest of the world!!! etc etc etc...... 



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I recall seeing at work several photgraphic film negatives contaminated by radiation around that time. Baggage X-ray scanners used to inflict a tapeworm like shadow on negatives which was quite different from the tiny concentric cicles of vivid colours which I saw. Very similar to this but only a few mm across

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The technical experts who indentified this as radiation said they had only ever seen it in textbooks before, but not to worry about it........

The customers addresses were in the north of england and the subject matter was not of foreign travel which is a chilling indication of how far and wide the effects were felt.



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Ref Chernobyl, the video was chilling as already said. See also http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/chapter1.html



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TTR wrote:

Ref Chernobyl, the video was chilling as already said. See also http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited/chapter1.html

 Thanks Brian interesting read.



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