Comments on: Chernobyl: A Story in Pictures

By: justin

justin — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:44:45 +0000

In reply to madison. There was a sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air, causing it to ignite.

By: madison

madison — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:09:24 +0000

i have been studyin the chernobyl nuclear disaster… it is very upsetting to me that the government there would not tell the public of such critical time. they clearly didnt take in cunsideration that the reast of europe would want to no if a cloud of radioactive mist was being blown into there country. clearly since this has happend the compony didnt take the very good care of the building and safty as they should have tsk tsk…. i hope that it never happens agian.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:07:41 +0000

I have been looking at the pictures, wow no one still about looks like a real ghost town even now the radiation is still too high. This is the wost acident in the last 100 years god bless them all.

By: sickend by this

sickend by this — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:39:14 +0000

this is really sick what happened there at chernoybl. people should be more careful of what the do in thier country’s, I mean look at the korean NUCLEAR crisis. that had the whole country shookin up by that.

By: mishka

mishka — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:21:05 +0000

shit hey, i still cant belive this has such a big impact on peoples lives, i have been following this 4 awhile and everytime i come across it a learn more and more, well done to everyone who has made a web page, this history will defiently not be fogotten x

By: sam

sam — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:00:17 +0000

Well, i thnk its odd that the world is in arms about the korean crisis, but when the threat actually comes home, we will not notice until ist too late.

By: Ignas MikalajÅ«nas

Ignas MikalajÅ«nas — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:55:05 +0000

You should visit http://www.chernobyl.info/ if you haven't already, it's one of the more credible sources of information about the disaster and the consequences.

By: FlashG

FlashG — Thu, 04 May 2006 21:29:52 +0000

Nice write and Chernobyl was certainly a gut wrenching accident, not just for the direct victims, local coomunity and neighbouring provinces and countries, but it was also a major environmental disaster up their with Exxon Valdez.

The only thing thoug, is – what was this “highly experimental nuclear test”. That’s pretty emotive (which isn’t necessarily bad), but emotions sometimes cloud the truth. With Chernobyl, the direct causes might not have been so much the nature of the test, but perhaps the way the test was run and how warning signs were ignored along the way.

All the best.

Regards,

Peter

By: t-fro

t-fro — Thu, 04 May 2006 20:57:49 +0000

Here's I ran across a while back, with some interesting pictures of the area around Chernobyl. http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

By: Lelia Katherine Thomas

Lelia Katherine Thomas — Mon, 01 May 2006 05:07:13 +0000

To answer your question, I’d be hoping with everything in me that there’d be no thing such as hell.

Chernobyl bothers me as much it does you, I think. It should have been a wake up call to us. Even in times of war, I don’t think anyone should have nuclear power, and the testing of nuclear materials is just asking for trouble, too. There are so many things we jump on and begin using, thinking that a 10-year study is enough to know about some chemical or nuclear component. It’s frightening.

This is not to say that nuclear methods could not and are not useful in some ways, but mankind is too…greedy…to have such power. In the long run, it is quite obvious that some of our greatest discoveries that initially saved lives or brought about better living will destroy us. It is the way of us.

Of course, it’s the same case with all of Pandora’s pretty little boxes, once they are opened, they are never closed again.