Chernobyl 2008
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robertbergl
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Cool pics. Thanks for putting your trip up.
Celerity
Well-Known Member
I have to interject here.
That's the trip of ZX11R rider Elena Filatova - A woman who's adventures I've been following since the turn of the century. Her trips into Chernobyl started as a way to stretch the legs of her bike. But like all quality bike rides, she also picked up some philosophy.
Read her "About" section. It's a great read.
But as a warning, I got this from my boss (This is NOT joke, this is a direct copy and paste)
As far as the trees, they aren't thriving - not really. The area of Chernobyl has no animals. She maps out a range of Wolves and deer - But as you get closer to the city, there is nothing. No birds, no noise, not even insects. The trees that grow come from a heavy contaminated soil. After the soil absorbs the radioactivity, the trees will still be radioactive and will require their own hundreds-of-years to die off naturally, produce saplings, those saplings die, etc. After 20 years the radioactivity is hanging low on the ground, but the overall fallout effect will take thousands of years to get out.
Check out her pics of the Orchard.
robertbergl
Member
I've seen some old factories that have perished from old age and no upkeep, but to see an entire city, thats a scary site.
Celerity
Well-Known Member
Never been to Jersey. Spaulding Fiber near Buffalo closed up when I was a kid, was a very old, large plant that made asbestos. A guy went through there over twenty years later, it looks alot like those pictures. Roof caving in, ponds inside the plant, trees inside of water pipes etc. Just wierd remembering what it used to be.
It is good that Buffalo itself it doing "better," and businesses are actually starting to build again downtown. Factories like that used to be left and right.
Justin66
The Hondaswap Canadian
Those pics are amazing. So creepy seeing life just stop and disappear. Whole cities gone, everything left and locked in a time forgotten.
I live about 40 mins aways from a nuclear plant, Pickering Nuclear. Rarely have we joked about radiation and a meltdown. These days its super safe and monitored like crazy. Pickering is a nice town i bet most people forget its even there.
Ontario Power Generation: Power Generation: Nuclear Power: Pickering
I live about 40 mins aways from a nuclear plant, Pickering Nuclear. Rarely have we joked about radiation and a meltdown. These days its super safe and monitored like crazy. Pickering is a nice town i bet most people forget its even there.
Ontario Power Generation: Power Generation: Nuclear Power: Pickering
pfft...reactors are everywhere
I've seen 2 in Boston....
also, best documentary ever: The Battle of Chernobyl
-Discovery runs it every once in a while
I've seen 2 in Boston....
also, best documentary ever: The Battle of Chernobyl
-Discovery runs it every once in a while
Capt. Orygun
Win the Day
remember this?
Talks of an official tour soon!
Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011 - Yahoo! News
spencerhatchback
New Member
sooooooooo cool
92stoccord
Big Member
I'd like to know a little more of what happened here. Something that's kinda lost among my generation I think, but it is interesting, and I'd like to learn about it.
