Andre
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Chernobyl
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located in Ukraine (until 1991 - the collapse of Soviet Union - it was part of the SSSR), just ~110 kilometers away from capital of Ukraine, Kiev. The power plant had 4 reactors, and it started running in 1977.
Although, it managed to operate fully for just 9 years until the 26th April of 1986, when the reactor number four exploded (image: Power plant just less than 15 hours after the accident). Four times more radioactive shizzle was unleashed than the Hiroshima impact. The accident was a result of a cooling test on reactor four after it was running towards its end of first fuel cycle. There was this kind of failure and some stuff called xenon poisoning took place (yeah I have no idea what's that supposed to mean, but the actual cause is not cool to read within hard scientific text). So at 01:23 the experiment began, while it shouldn't really due to the water pump failure or something. It started failing, so at 01:23:40, the team ordered a "SCRAM", which is some shutdown of the plant. At 01:24 the first steam explosion took place. The core failed totally, blowing off the case of the house and throwing core-rocks (ULTIMATE-MEGA-HAXORED-VERYFUCKING hazardous doze of roentgen stuff) around the place.
The people who were around didn't realize the röntgen power was 20160 per hour, while person could take up to 500 in 5 hours, workers took like 20160 * 12 probably, so they got sick afterwards and probably died because of the amount of excessive radiation they had got. The amount of radiation could even been seen on video (white sparks around the screen, I think people probably wondered why the hell it was doing that while sitting in the zone of very high radiation).
The Soviet Union authorities first hided it of course (like Russians always do), but when the whole radiation thing set off alarms in Sweden (which is like thousand kilometers away from Chernobyl reactor), they admitted it and said that it is a controlled damage and nothing serious. Still, they told the habitants of Prypiat that they will have to be sent away from the city for like 2 - 3 days. So believing what the officials said, people got on busses, trains and gtfo'd that area. What they didn't know is that they will be leaving forever, not just a day or two.
Nowadays, the villages look like this, Vitalis and Vanjas often go to Prypiat to get some radiators stolen and then sell those on the market. Believe me you would be in like this STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl if you went in some villages or close areas to Prypiat. To be honest, it would be as frightening as the game even if you would go to the downtown Prypiat in plain daylight. The outlook of the place is horrifying, and I highly doubt that the radiation was the thing that trashed pretty much every single apartment in the Chernobyl area. There are frightening gasmasks on the floor everywhere and such shit!
The Prypiat panorama at 2001
I suppose all of you have played Call of Duty 4, where you and some dude (it says "15 years ago" when the mission begins) go to Chernobyl area, there are lots of Russians and angry dogs. You have to crawl under cars and such horrifying shit. Also a fucking huge colon of Russki soldiers passes you when you're crawling on the field. Those places of the game probably made even the most hardcore gamer's heart beat like a wildfire. You sure remember how the mission continued - you made it to Prypiat, you ran through the swim hall where your partner said: "look at this place, 55000 people used to live here" or something alike. The same swimming hall can be seen on the right edge of the picture. Then you jumped out of the swimhall, and ran to a hotel, climbed it and had to shoot one dude's hand off. Then you had to make your way to safety. It was quite a hard, and also frightening, mission. The picture is taken from the same hotel "Prypiat", I suppose.
Later in that mission, where you had to wait for the helicopter that saves you, you ran across the Prypiat ferris wheel and had to defend you from the mad russian soldiers. That's the same old yellow ferris wheel on the picture!
There are loads of movies to watch, either 20 years ago on the day of catastrophe, later, even 2009 movies!
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located in Ukraine (until 1991 - the collapse of Soviet Union - it was part of the SSSR), just ~110 kilometers away from capital of Ukraine, Kiev. The power plant had 4 reactors, and it started running in 1977.
Although, it managed to operate fully for just 9 years until the 26th April of 1986, when the reactor number four exploded (image: Power plant just less than 15 hours after the accident). Four times more radioactive shizzle was unleashed than the Hiroshima impact. The accident was a result of a cooling test on reactor four after it was running towards its end of first fuel cycle. There was this kind of failure and some stuff called xenon poisoning took place (yeah I have no idea what's that supposed to mean, but the actual cause is not cool to read within hard scientific text). So at 01:23 the experiment began, while it shouldn't really due to the water pump failure or something. It started failing, so at 01:23:40, the team ordered a "SCRAM", which is some shutdown of the plant. At 01:24 the first steam explosion took place. The core failed totally, blowing off the case of the house and throwing core-rocks (ULTIMATE-MEGA-HAXORED-VERYFUCKING hazardous doze of roentgen stuff) around the place.
The people who were around didn't realize the röntgen power was 20160 per hour, while person could take up to 500 in 5 hours, workers took like 20160 * 12 probably, so they got sick afterwards and probably died because of the amount of excessive radiation they had got. The amount of radiation could even been seen on video (white sparks around the screen, I think people probably wondered why the hell it was doing that while sitting in the zone of very high radiation).
The Soviet Union authorities first hided it of course (like Russians always do), but when the whole radiation thing set off alarms in Sweden (which is like thousand kilometers away from Chernobyl reactor), they admitted it and said that it is a controlled damage and nothing serious. Still, they told the habitants of Prypiat that they will have to be sent away from the city for like 2 - 3 days. So believing what the officials said, people got on busses, trains and gtfo'd that area. What they didn't know is that they will be leaving forever, not just a day or two.
Nowadays, the villages look like this, Vitalis and Vanjas often go to Prypiat to get some radiators stolen and then sell those on the market. Believe me you would be in like this STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl if you went in some villages or close areas to Prypiat. To be honest, it would be as frightening as the game even if you would go to the downtown Prypiat in plain daylight. The outlook of the place is horrifying, and I highly doubt that the radiation was the thing that trashed pretty much every single apartment in the Chernobyl area. There are frightening gasmasks on the floor everywhere and such shit!
The Prypiat panorama at 2001
I suppose all of you have played Call of Duty 4, where you and some dude (it says "15 years ago" when the mission begins) go to Chernobyl area, there are lots of Russians and angry dogs. You have to crawl under cars and such horrifying shit. Also a fucking huge colon of Russki soldiers passes you when you're crawling on the field. Those places of the game probably made even the most hardcore gamer's heart beat like a wildfire. You sure remember how the mission continued - you made it to Prypiat, you ran through the swim hall where your partner said: "look at this place, 55000 people used to live here" or something alike. The same swimming hall can be seen on the right edge of the picture. Then you jumped out of the swimhall, and ran to a hotel, climbed it and had to shoot one dude's hand off. Then you had to make your way to safety. It was quite a hard, and also frightening, mission. The picture is taken from the same hotel "Prypiat", I suppose.
Later in that mission, where you had to wait for the helicopter that saves you, you ran across the Prypiat ferris wheel and had to defend you from the mad russian soldiers. That's the same old yellow ferris wheel on the picture!
There are loads of movies to watch, either 20 years ago on the day of catastrophe, later, even 2009 movies!
