242 on 1/4/2008 at 08:57
Russia has nothing to do with this :)
Rogue Keeper on 1/4/2008 at 08:58
So they finally gathered enough money - I think it's co-funded by EU. Visit that place before it changes!
They want to hide the monolith from preying eyes!
242 on 1/4/2008 at 09:05
Hehe, it has been already covered but they want to cover it more and more. Should we let them? :)
Rogue Keeper on 1/4/2008 at 09:08
A smart stalker can always find some way how to sneak in. :sly:
Muzman on 1/4/2008 at 09:41
Ok, I was going to post a link to a cool Horizon doco I saw a while back which discused how the old sarcophagus was falling to bits and needed replacing (and also showed a lot of amazing footage of underfunded Ukrainian scientists creeping around inside wearing what looks like not much more than painting coveralls). But I bookmarked the search instead of the link and now all I get is a lot of videos by some shit band called Greenhouse Effect. Look; (oh you have to switch it to google video search only)
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http://video.google.com.au/videosearch?q=horizon+chernobyl)
How the hell...?
Oh well, I think I found it somewhere else
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http://iabracadabra.com/action/viewvideo/23/BBC_Horizon___Inside_Chernobyl_s_Sarcophagus_1996/)
dammit looks like that one doesn't work either
242 on 1/4/2008 at 10:01
Well, the current radiation contamination around the sarcophagus as well as inside it is often exaggerated, especially by foreigners. Area around NPP isn't dangerous anymore and rad emission already ceased to totally safe level. I guess it's still dangerous inside the sarcophagus but don't know for sure.
Rogue Keeper on 1/4/2008 at 10:42
Well, define not dangerous and exaggerated. You may not get radiation sickness in few days, but would you camp right in front of the sarcophagus for a year and more with no special precautions? That shit acumulates in your body over time, there are Cesium deposits in the soil. And it will take centuries until the leaked fuel falls appart completely - they make new sarcophagus for a good reason.
Muzman on 1/4/2008 at 10:45
Yeah, it shows how people have been working in the complex since about 8 or 9 years after the incident. (disapointingly is seems there aren't any huge arrays of spherical structures in the complex shooting lightning into the sky. Otherwise the game version is pretty accurate)
The main reason for a new sarcophagus, according to that Horizon film, is to keep dust in. There was speculation that the reactor lid might fall one day and send up a cloud of finely irradiated particles. The sort of thing that don't really cause much hard by themselves, but would be very bad to breathe in.
Koki on 2/4/2008 at 07:05
Quote Posted by BR796164
Well, define not dangerous and exaggerated. You may not get radiation sickness in few days, but would you camp right in front of the sarcophagus for a year and more with no special precautions?
In NOVA episode from 1989, "Back to Chernobyl", they run around with the radiation meter around the reactor and it is explicitly stated several times that while higher than normal, the area is to be considered safe. And that was 19 years ago.
