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Film of Chernobyl - the immediate aftermath

micro_dot · 2012-10-25 21:28:03

I saw this referenced in an article recently. It's about the hours after the explosion, how the heroic human response was both mundane and deadly. You see a helicopter just disintegrate in the sky in front of you. The filmmaker, Vladimir Shevchenko, died very shortly after making the film, along with so many others who…

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#52 26-10-2012 7:13pm

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the_syco wrote: »

I think you should try posting over in Conspiracy Theories... :pac:

Seriously, though, anyone that spent more than a few minutes near it would be dead soon after; the human body literally falls apart if the exposure is to long!

Not true, there is a 100m containment area around reactor no. 4. If you are a scientist you may enter after various medicals, clearance and paperwork. They stay there for a number of hours all the meantime watching giegometres, back when it first happened they could only stay for a few seconds at a time, but now radiation levels are safe to stay for a few hours. Infact, in prypiat, the Rad levels for staying there for a full day is the same as atmospheric radiation you'd get for being on a plain for 8 hours (with exception of pockets, and ammongst vegitation and metals from the time, as they retain and emmit rads a lot more.

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