baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Thous that never heard of it read this article on wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chornobyl here a few video sources from youtube (WARNING: some bad images, very sad) Here a few game refrences to thous that play[ed] COD4 It's vey intersting, a necular plant blew up and this city got infected by radiation, almost killing them all, but mostly giving all of em cancer. Discuss. Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agunimon979 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 I think most people here know about Chernobyl (disaster). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Range_This11 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl is, unfortunately, the reason why we have almost no nuclear power plants in the United States. Nuclear power is one of the most efficient and SAFE ways to produce energy, but because of Chernobyl, many people are afraid of it because they don't know the real facts about it. "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek_Zoolander Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Pretty horrible how it spread to almost all the lands to it's west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_Servo Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 The Russians were always irresponsible/incompetent with nuclear power. Chernobyl and K-19 are some pretty good examples. That and they seemed to have misplaced some nuclear missiles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLancer Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 It wasn't russian if you want to be factually accurate: Ex. Soviet yes, but Chernobyl is located in Ukraine. Also sort of related: It spawned one of the best horror FPS games: S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl, which is set in Ukraine right after a worst-case scenario has happened and Chernobyl completely destroyed everything around it. But it works as a huge deterrent against nuclear power still to this day like mentioned above. It was an old soviet plant with insufficient security, but people are still scared of what happened. Let's just say... If you get seriously exposed to nuclear radiation... Your offspring wont be pretty. You'll be lucky if they're even born alive, or have 3 heads, etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoi_Tu Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Haven't they found a radiation resistent slime near Chernobyl? I think I remember reading something about it. Beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Haven't they found a radiation resistent slime near Chernobyl? I think I remember reading something about it. Yeah, I heard something, was...feeding on the radiation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minimeedude Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 a town of 55,000 people forced out of their homes because of this, never again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzle229 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 When I asked about Chernobyl in my 7th grade science class, my teacher mentioned a similar place called "Love Canal" that was abandoned because of either pollution or radiation. However, I haven't been able to find any sources to validate this. when he said love canal I thought he meant something different \ Get back here so I can rub your butt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous1234 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 When I asked about Chernobyl in my 7th grade science class, my teacher mentioned a similar place called "Love Canal" that was abandoned because of either pollution or radiation. However, I haven't been able to find any sources to validate this. when he said love canal I thought he meant something different \ lol? Love canal+abandoned=his gf/wife got an STD and he can't have sex with her :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmarty1 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 VERY old news. :thumbdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 VERY old news. :thumbdown: Still intersting to talk about :thumbup: Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randox Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Between chernobyl and 3 mile island, everyone seems to think nuclear power is some huge dangerous evil thing thats always ready to go off like an atomic bomb which is not even possible (unless you set off a bomb many times as powerful as the tzarr (sp?) bomb (largest ever detonated). Faulty design and human error. Reactor technology has come so far, now we have such reactors as the CANDU and advanced CANDU (the former uses unenriched uranium and/or waste from conventional reactors). I don't know about oil fueled reactors but I do know that coal powerplants produce a decent ammount of radioactive waste, small ammounts of which often make it out the stacks (very small ammounts mind). I expect that any fosil fuel plant probably produces some degree of radioactive waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Between chernobyl and 3 mile island, everyone seems to think nuclear power is some huge dangerous evil thing thats always ready to go off like an atomic bomb which is not even possible (unless you set off a bomb many times as powerful as the tzarr (sp?) bomb (largest ever detonated). Faulty design and human error. Reactor technology has come so far, now we have such reactors as the CANDU and advanced CANDU (the former uses unenriched uranium and/or waste from conventional reactors). I don't know about oil fueled reactors but I do know that coal powerplants produce a decent ammount of radioactive waste, small ammounts of which often make it out the stacks (very small ammounts mind). I expect that any fosil fuel plant probably produces some degree of radioactive waste. Can you explian to me how radioactive power plants work? Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Range_This11 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Just look at France, they are almost completely dependent on Nuclear power. They have NEVER ONCE had a nuclear fallout. It's the uneducated rural people of America that continue to petition because they "don't want those smoke stacks ruining their view". "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Just look at France, they are almost completely dependent on Nuclear power. They have NEVER ONCE had a nuclear fallout. It's the uneducated rural people of America that continue to petition because they "don't want those smoke stacks ruining their view". Yet you fail to educate me what it is. Look a post above. Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralus Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Just look at France, they are almost completely dependent on Nuclear power. They have NEVER ONCE had a nuclear fallout. It's the uneducated rural people of America that continue to petition because they "don't want those smoke stacks ruining their view". Yet you fail to educate me what it is. Look a post above. Do some research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power Pleading ignorance is silly when the information is at your fingertips. La lune ne garde aucune rancune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickeley102 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl is, unfortunately, the reason why we have almost no nuclear power plants in the United States. Nuclear power is one of the most efficient and SAFE ways to produce energy, but because of Chernobyl, many people are afraid of it because they don't know the real facts about it. thats not strictly true, solar power, wind power and hydro are all safer. There are also hazards regarding waste. The US uses their all knowing hand to stop countries like iran and north korea from producing nuclear power, but its all :thumbsup: for them to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl is, unfortunately, the reason why we have almost no nuclear power plants in the United States. Nuclear power is one of the most efficient and SAFE ways to produce energy, but because of Chernobyl, many people are afraid of it because they don't know the real facts about it. thats not strictly true, solar power, wind power and hydro are all safer. There are also hazards regarding waste. The US uses their all knowing hand to stop countries like iran and north korea from producing nuclear power, but its all :thumbsup: for them to do it? Our laws, their laws. Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl is, unfortunately, the reason why we have almost no nuclear power plants in the United States. Nuclear power is one of the most efficient and SAFE ways to produce energy, but because of Chernobyl, many people are afraid of it because they don't know the real facts about it. thats not strictly true, solar power, wind power and hydro are all safer. There are also hazards regarding waste. The US uses their all knowing hand to stop countries like iran and north korea from producing nuclear power, but its all :thumbsup: for them to do it? The problem with solar and wind, they don't produce nearly as much power as nuclear and you have to place hydro plants in certain places. North Korea doesn't want nuclear power, it wants nuclear missiles. Two very different things. One is good for people the other is not. With Iran being very religious and anti-American, I wouldn't trust them with the knowledge of creating nuclear power, since it can lead to nuclear weapons. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Range_This11 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl is, unfortunately, the reason why we have almost no nuclear power plants in the United States. Nuclear power is one of the most efficient and SAFE ways to produce energy, but because of Chernobyl, many people are afraid of it because they don't know the real facts about it. thats not strictly true, solar power, wind power and hydro are all safer. There are also hazards regarding waste. The US uses their all knowing hand to stop countries like iran and north korea from producing nuclear power, but its all :thumbsup: for them to do it? Those are not safer by any means. Trust me on this, I watched a 3 hour long video in my last chemistry class this year (our teacher was a huge nuclear power person). And we are not preventing them from nuclear power, just from developing nuclear weapons. Huge difference. Besides, what reason would I have to lie about all this stuff? :| It's all fact if you want to go look for yourself instead of just using what you've "heard" from conversations with other people... "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baalboy5 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 What happens when a nuclear plant gets bombed? it reallly smart to have a plant in iran/iraq at this moment? Don't you know the first rule of MMO's? Anyone higher level than you has no life, and anyone lower than you is a noob. People in OT eat glass when they are bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenticular_J Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 What happens when a nuclear plant gets bombed? it reallly smart to have a plant in iran/iraq at this moment? If an entire nuclear plant explodes (explodes, from a bomb), a massive area will be infected and turned into a wasteland of fallout. I don't remember where I saw this, but a video showed that the area would be intensely infected with radiation approximately 100-150 miles surrounding the plant. Can anyone confirm this or find that video? Winds carrying the radioactivity could make this region much, much larger. catch it now so you can like it before it went so mainstream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warri0r45 Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 Chernobyl to this day seems to spark fear in people about nuclear power when it really shouldn't. It's obsolete technology and human error was woeful. The reactors they build these days are much safer. As for the chernobyl fungus: http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/200704 ... _sys.shtml I'd absolutely love to know how it soaks up ionizing radiation like gamma. I know melanin in humans soaks up UV radiation, converting it to heat, but gamma radiation? That's crazy. If it's legit, this fungus has found a niche no microbe will want to touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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