Chernobyl

[crystal ball]

Just been reading about Chernobyl on the BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47227767, and have seen some TV docs recently, I am fascinated by the whole event and would consider visiting as tourist.

Anyone else think the same?

 

[sodthisforfun]

A friend of mine stopped there on his way to the UK from NZ for his 50th birthday treat! Said it was really interesting, enjoyable and also a bit sad to see. Go for it!

 

[transam]

Don't eat any of the locally produced grub

 

[Notch7]

Wild horses wouldnt get me there.......oh wait a minute

 

[SammyInnit]

I've considered it for a while but not actually bit the bullet and booked something. Friend of mine is going for his 40th next year.

 

[motorbiking]

When I was young we had some girl guides on exchange from that area, they were not very well. It was very sad.

 

[Ian H]

My mate was offered 4 months work there on the ventilation, good money but he turned it down.

I’d like to go, got to be more interesting than Stonehenge and other such ‘attractions’.

 

[EddieM]

Don't book a fortnight.

 

[Ian H]

Don’t go to the local brothel.

Why? Cause Chernobyl fall off.

 

[securespark]

Wild horses wouldnt get me there.......oh wait a minute

The local horses have 6 legs, I'm sure they would!

 

[bernardgreen]

You may came back glowing with ill health.

Joking aside that was a disaster that should not have happened. Political correctness prevented a junior control room operator from questioning the actions of a politically more senior person. Those actions created the disaster.

 

[durhamplumber]

Anyone else think the same?

Interesting how it happened,what they have done, but way down my bucket list,,,lets go poking around an old nuclear disaster site.

 

[Nozzle]

You may came back glowing with ill health.

Joking aside that was a disaster that should not have happened. Political correctness prevented a junior control room operator from questioning the actions of a politically more senior person. Those actions created the disaster.

More than that aside. Poor training, poor sharing of Opex and political pressure from above to achieve an experiment, then cancel it, then achieve it again. The fault that caused the reactor to be destroyed at Unit 4 had already happened, obviously to a lesser extent, at a similar RBMK the the recent past. (Reactivity excursion on shut-down rod insertion).

Nozzle

 

[durhamplumber]

More than that aside. Poor training, poor sharing of Opex and political pressure from above to achieve an experiment, then cancel it, then achieve it again. The fault that caused the reactor to be destroyed at Unit 4 had already happened, obviously to a lesser extent, at a similar RBMK the the recent past. (Reactivity excursion on shut-down rod insertion).

Nozzle

Otherwise known as KABOOOOOOM

 

[Nozzle]

If you like, sure. ACME Kabooom if it makes you feel better