10 interestig facts about Chernobyl

[jackswstd]

That ultimate sacrifice to save lives this shyt is fascinating but equally terrifying.

 

[the artist known az]

I would like to take a tour but I ain't taking that risk

Crazy that animals still live in them parts

 

[Piff Perkins]

Those 3 dudes who went in to open the pipe....damn

Their families better have gotten some compensation (I doubt it). They saved tens of thousands of lives

 

[Type Username Here]

Picture of the elephant's foot underneath the reactor after the incident:

Crazy fukking picture

 

[Type Username Here]

Picture of the area after the incident. The grain and fog-like effect is radiation effects.

 

[Type Username Here]

Picture of the new sarcophagus being constructed:

 

[Blackout]

Id never visit there especially when your paying for it.

 

[Type Username Here]

To determine how plants might have adapted to the meltdown, Hajduch's team compared soya grown in radioactive plots near Chernobyl with plants grown about 100 kilometres away in uncontaminated soil.

Compared to the plants grown in normal soil, the Chernobyl soya produced significantly different amounts of several dozen proteins, the team found. Among those are proteins that contribute to the production of seeds, as well as proteins involved in defending cells from heavy metal and radiation damage. "One protein is known to actually protect human blood from radiation," Hajduch says.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17136#.Uxd3DoV6aUk

 

[Type Username Here]

Great doc if you have the time:

 

[noon]

Some dude took a photo of a chair while on the trip there and it was said if you sat on it for a short amount of time it'd render you infertile.

Course that's all unfounded but I'm sure I read it somewhere some time ago and I felt dumbstruck.

 

[Danie84]

The Chernobyl Diaries was on some other shyt tho

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

Bruh.....that's rediculious.

 

[NZA]

at that fact the device was reading 3.6 cause that's the highest it goes but it was really 15,000

worst product ever

 

[unit321]

Years ago, I had this German news magazine, Stern, and they had photos from Chernobyl. A pig was born without eyes. The eye areas were there, but the eyelids were closed and eyeball less, kind of freaked me out. I have no idea what happened to fetuses but I'm sure it wasn't a pleasant sight, and who knows if they could even survive with birth defects. Sea and animal life around Daiichi Fukushima plant is probably screwed up but the news isn't reporting everything.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

The most fascinating thing to me is that they found a fungus there that feeds on radiation. I'm curious how something like this would hold up against cosmic radiation. You always see comments on how most of the universe is uninhabitable because of radiation, but if the earth can create organisms that feed on radiation, imagine what the universe is making