daymoon
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Originally posted by alan-g-w
Possibly meant it was unsafe until 2000?
possibly not  i am pretty good at russian language
it says that it was stopped in 1986, and normal work was resumed later that year... in '91 there was another fire and in 2000 it was completely shut.
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alan-g-w
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So a nuclear power station blew up and they continued to use it?
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Kurt
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Da
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John
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Yip was definitely in use until recently.
The reactors are seperate from each other but a country like ours or america would have shut it down at the same time regardless.
The concrete structure is in a terrible state, there's a multi billion dollar program for building something more permanent over it, the original mess was never supposed to be for this long.
[Edited on 22-10-2008 by John]
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alan-g-w
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 Thought it was a no-go, absolutely abandoned.
How was it possible for people to be working there?
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alan-g-w
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quote:
Originally posted by daymoon
quote:
Originally posted by alan-g-w
Possibly meant it was unsafe until 2000?
possibly not i am pretty good at russian language
it says that it was stopped in 1986, and normal work was resumed later that year... in '91 there was another fire and in 2000 it was completely shut.
Just realised it seemed like I was correcting you. Just meant I thought that's what the wording meant 
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John
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I think there were always people on site when it was in use but they wouldn't have been there for proloned periods, i'm not 100% sure how they worked it tbh.
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Wrighty
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strange..
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Corsa Sport Gav
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i would love too go there, been reading up on this for the last few years.
dunno if any COD4 fans recognized a few things 
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neil h
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is the concrete surround of the reactor starting to crack? and in the future they will need to reseal it to stop anymore getting out?
Yep and iirc there's been talk that part of the reactor is actually sinking, and could potentially collapse because its all resting on the glass and debris formed during the original accident.
Though on a happier not apparently they have discovered stuff living in the bottom of the reactor.
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DannyB
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There's alot of wildlife there and they havnt got a clue how it is still living, there was an article on it on the BBC a year or so ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4923342.stm
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John
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The radiation hasn't affected the animals in any way except for one species of something I can't remember that was previously A-sexual, now mates to reproduce.
It's something to do with most animals not living long enough for cancers to develop iirc.
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neil h
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I'm sure i read somewhere aswell, that they've found some form of single celled organisms in the base of the reactor, which have evolved to be able to feed off of the radiation emitted alone (with out light).
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gavin18787
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When I was doing some reading on this before I was also confused about when it was shut down. you here of it been used until recently but I always thought that when the disaster happend that was it.
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John
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It was used until recently.
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neil h
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The thing to remember is there were 6 reactors at Pripyat, Chernobyl 4 is the one that exploded, 5 and 6 were being built and there were accidents at one of the other ones aswell (which remained operational after the incident).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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John
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There are a couple of things about it on discovery etc about it, worth a watch.
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neil h
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Yeah tis quite interesting. Though i never realised there was a helicopter in there aswell.
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oceansoul
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I'd like to go there at some point too. Hopefully before it becomes "too commercialised". Ive done quite a bit off reading about the reactor and the accident too proper intresting stuff.
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mwg
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You can see the reactor in distance on the wasteland level of COD MW2
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Ojc
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I was suprised when I read that the other reactors were in use still until recently.
Sod working there for a living.
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willay
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Ben Love Joy of Nurbrugring fame has been there and has done some good write ups:
http://www.benlovejoy.com/journeys/chernobyl/index.html
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Tomnova16
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Its eerie how similiar COD4 got this
i thought that too, pretty much exactly the same
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Graham88
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Originally posted by willay
Ben Love Joy of Nurbrugring fame has been there and has done some good write ups:
http://www.benlovejoy.com/journeys/chernobyl/index.html
The bit explaining about the radiation is pretty interesting.
Working for 1-2 mins inside the Reactor Hall and being paid 10 times the normal salary, suppose they've gotta make people do the work somehow!
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Originally posted by Kurt
Its eerie how similiar COD4 got this
STALKER has a better version of it, very creepy.
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