http://www.ninja-assassin.com/mirror/Chernobyl/

Originally posted by bassmaster
http://www.ninja-assassin.com/mirror/Chernobyl/

:(

I remember that.

After Chernobyl we stopped fishing for trout and hunt reindeer (Caribou) due to radiation level in those species. Because of the location and amount of radiation from eating it the rule was 1lb caribou meat every 12 months and 1 meal of trout every 6 monts was considered safe. I don't know if that's changed since I moved here in 88.

well what do you know.......he lives and i for one have missed yah.
welcome BACK NILSC !!
:happy: :eek: :bgi: :bgi: :bgi:

reading the entire article... heavy duty wake up call....so SAD.
the US government has been working on a type of material that can be sprayed by helicopter to neutralize radioactivity . It would be great if they succeed. but all things considered the whole thing leaves you speechless.

Originally posted by Raven
well what do you know.......he lives and i for one have missed yah.
welcome BACK NILSC !!
:happy: :eek: :bgi: :bgi: :bgi:

I was here all the time, if I go online I don't have time to work..... so when I make time for work I can't go online.

Fishing season are approaching and I'm psyked and ready to go. :smash: :smash:

She is a hottie, Dark Angel Style........

It was sp sad , seeing the childs teddy bear and reading that they were looking for there Kids in the smoke:(
see , where all the same
no matter where Ya live

Wow - don't know where you got that link but very moving and it brought back some memories.

When Chernobyl went up I was living with my Dad and Stepmom in Suttgart Germany, which if I remember right was about 700 miles or so west of Kiev (never went there). My folks had just left the day Chernobyl melted on a trip for a week driving down thru Muenchen, Salzburg, back up thru Switzerland and then back into Frieburg Germany for a grandfather clock. Neither spoke a lick of German.

It was spring of 86, I was a senior at Patch American High School at Patch Barracks, HQ EUCOM in Vaihingen, Germany, and all was right in the world. Second largest beer fest in the world was a 20 minute stassenbahn from my school. I also had the run of the house for a whole week. Life was good.

The first notices came on AFN and some local German stations (I did speak mediocre German back then). If I remember correctly, the Swedish were the first to mention that there was greatly elevated radiation in the air. Over there the winds often blow west, like an eddy twirling clockwise off the terminus of the Gulf Stream north of England. By that night news was coming out of a major radiological event coming from somewhere in the "Communist East". Some people started to say not to eat any fresh produce and only to drink cartoned milk (milk was stored warm in sealed containers by the litre), stop eating fresh meat other than what little was shipped in from the states.

My parents were still on their trip and had no clue as to what was happening in the world. We didn't have cell phones or communications other than a postcard I got several days in to their trip. The "cloud" moved east and west and disipated it's material in rains and thru gravity from well east of Ukraine and into France and England, down to Spain.

The day the news really broke and the full story of Chernobyl was being broadcasted. The Chemistry class before my class started had run tests on the air filters for the school's ventilation system. The readings were something like 49-50 times "normal" levels. The filters were being changed daily after some semi-educted discussion by the faculty. Nobody was really sure what the best course of action was and there was many differing opinions on what to do and what not to do, both from the military and for the Germans. Over the next 6-8 weeks, everything was to get washed down. Public places like the community "pools" were closed weeks later than normal. Soccer matches were called off. Games on open fields were not played. And we were seven something hundred miles away from this event.

Seven days after my folks left on their road trip and seven days after Chernobyl went up, my folks come bouncing and happy into the house. I asked them if they heard the news. "What news?" they replied.