Chernobyl

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the after effects of chernobyl are amazing. Im a history major and i specialize in european history and russian history and have done a lot of work on the chernobyl leak and its really crazy what happened and is still continueing to happen today.

Epidemic outbreaks of thyroid cancer, right? What else are the effects you've come across in your research?

wow reminds me of my old home. russia. except i dont really remember communism. i do remember that the ice cream was godly. sooo much better than on any ice cream farm here.

btw, eric...the first link (the angelfire one) doesnt work...This was one part of history that wouldve been interesting to see n relived...like someone should make a movie over it for those of us who were barely born by this time...I thought id share this with you guys...these are kids born after Chernobyl...

I was born exactly 3 months after and 124.274238 miles away from Chernobyl, luckily i'm fine, but my folks told me that they were able to eat certian vegatables that came from that region.

Yea I did a paper on Chernobyl and what happend there was crazy.

Some of the people who had it the worst were the emergency workers who had to take care of the scene. Some of them died within an hour or so of being there.

I've seen the site with the woman who rode a bike into the town... It was one of the most interesting things I've ever seen. I could only imagine what things mustive been like 20 years ago.

some amazing images

they did do a TV show about the last hour before it happend, called zero hour, crazy stuff went on there, I wish that teh history channel would replay that series, it was good.

yea huge amounts of thryoid cancer and a large number of birth defects. Like babies with extra limbs, missing limbs, elephantitus type stuff.
You should see pictures of the town just outside of chernobyl its still the same today as it was the day after the explosion. like a modern day ghost town its really creepy looking.

and as far as communism i dont think many of us are cold war babies. The fall of the soviet union seems like so long ago. Almost 15 years now. China has just come out with a new 3 year plan which is proposed to get ride of a lot of their hunger issues.

Kiddofspeed's story is a hoax.
the pictures are real

http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_chernobyl/?GT1=8019

^real deal

great post ellada. That shows exactly what i was talkin about. The first picture of the ghost town and the last picture that shows the children. Its really disturbing.

i was born 50 miles away 24 days b4 the explosian in ukraine, near keiv. I was outside when it happened. Yay!
I was actually outside for the whole day until my parents heard what happened. We didn't go away for a few days until we were told exactly wat happened

there are people living just miles away who have been told time and time again to move but refuse. Most are really old now 70's and 80's and they refuse to believe that anything has happened to them, since the soviets origionally denied the severity of what happened. And at this point it wouldnt make a difference whether they moved or not.

In the schools they do tests each year on the children to test their cesium levels. One child who read really high was asked about his habbits and they eventually stumbled across the fact that he made his own berry jam from a tree that was near his house and they asked him to go get the jam to be examined and upon testing it, it was found the the jam was 60% cesium based. And this was just outside Borispol which is just east of kyiv.