Chrenobyl park 1.5 km from blast site./updated.

[FlyingScooter]

http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/chernobyl/prypiat/001.html

Check these out.

I gotta wonder how 'hot' that site still is...

 

this is a photo/written journal about Chrenobyl.

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

[Scaparri]

Wow, that's crazy! Kind of creepy. I definately agree with you. I'm curious as well how "hot" those sites are. I wonder if that's what the towns surrounding the Chernobyl area like now days?... Just a bunch of deserted ghost towns?

[SharkTums]

Wow, crazy!

 

Those bumper cars still look in better shape than the ones at SFMM!

 

Elissa "creepy!" Alvey

[FlyingScooter]

^lol, You're right, though.

 

the pics of the slightly burned firefighter helmits looked spooky.

the accident occured in the early AM hours. People weren't even notified until over of 12 hrs later, so it's concievable that the park was open when during the heavier fall-out period...

I wonder if the Paratrooper ride cars were bodied in plastic and they just melted away or if they were just metal to begin with.

[Canobie Fan]

LMAO I found photos of that park on google image last week when I was looking for photos of something different....

[Kroger8]

Yea that is really creepy, its strange to look at places that are abandoned, like Heritage U.S.A.

[Space Freak]

I hate this stuff. It scares me the most of anything in the world. As for the plastic issue, it wasnt physically hot, the radiation dose wasnt big enough to melt plastic. The explosion wasnt exactly like a nuclear bomb. It was more like those dirty bombs that people have been talking about with regards to terrorism.

 

In fact, there were workers that built the containment shield (the one thats now falling apart) weeks after the thing blew, sadly, most of those people died due to radiation poisoning. 20,000 workers that worked to seal the reactor received about 250 mili Sieverts in a very short period of time. Keep in mind that the national legal limit to the amount of radiation that you can receive other than from the background radiation is 1 milli sievert per year for the general public and 20 m Sv per year for radiation workers (oddly enough, airline crews are classified as radiation workers, but thats another topic) . The natural background radiation is about 2 mSv per year. Astronauts staying on the International Space Station receive about 56 mSv per year.

 

As for how hot the area is today, you will receive a radiation dose of about 3.5 mili Sieverts per year (that is above the legal limit in the United States for the general Public by .5 mSv per year!). Just a tid bit, 10 chest x-rays is about equal to your yearly legal limit of 1 mSv!

 

I feel like i just wrote a paper for school. here are my sources...

 

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/radiation_evarm_020716.html

http://www.uic.com.au/nip22.htm

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part020/

 

I hope i didnt bore any of you...

 

Rob "that space radiation seminar really paid off!" D

[coaster1]

Wow .. 10 xrays .. I think i've done myself in for a good 10-20years after breaking my arm in high school really really bad .. they had like 50 xrays of the arm before surgery and then another 20-30 after the two surgeries .. I'm gonna die.

[Space Freak]

10 Chest X rays. Thats an approximate number. It could be more or less. Chances are, the amount of radiaition you received is still within the limit. Arms dont have a huge area that can absorb radiation from an xray.

Dont worry, Im sure your fine.

[josephwanek]

^Yeah, you should be fine. But you will probably die in a few years......

[coaster1]

Well I figured I'd be dead before I reached 30 .. of course they always do chest xrays on me cause of my asthma when I get sick .. damn tests.

[viking86]

Ive seen that ferris wheel and some of those buildings in a video of Stalker - The Game. I beleive that 60% of the world in that game is excactly like the real place. Heres a link to the website http://www.stalker-game.com/

[SharkTums]

With the 20th Anniversary now upon us, I've found a lot more people are talking about and interested in this place. In fact did you know that they have tours to go check out Chernobyl and Pripyat!!?

 

Anyway, here's the link to some more photos: http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-02,GGLD:en&q=Pripyat%20amusement%20park&sa=N&tab=wi

[FlyingScooter]

Wow, this is a blast from the past.

I started this one a year ago.

20 years and it's still dead earth.

[trustkill22]

This is a pretty wild video that is from this ladys website. It just shows all the after effects of random spots everywhere in the city. I saw this a little while ago and was just speechless.

 

http://www.helpmearoundtheworld.com/elenafilatova/ghosttownfilm.mpg

[DerekRx]

Maybe TPR can plan a trip to that park along with the one in Egypt. Add in Old Indiana and we can call it "Theme Park Review's Crap Park Tour"

[The Cheat]

You might die!

[pete4winds]

I don't know if anyone has seen this article (although I'm assuming this is part of the reason for this thread) but since I didn't see the article in the thread, I thought I'd post it...I found this article at the same time as I was reading this thread, but interestingly, I found them completely independently of each other. Enjoy if you haven't already!

 

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1862951&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[the sound]

hmmm, Sounds kind of dangerous. There is apparently still radioactive stuff comeing out from that place, i'd be suprised if anyone would come out of the park alive!

[Guest]

Apparently the park was never used; it was scheduled to open on 1 May 1986 which was five days after the accident.

[BrownStreak]

Damn, I saw this on the news last night and I was going to post on it this morning but I overslept!

[the sound]

so, it never actually opened?

[Timmyuk]

I just read that ladys entire site, all 40 odd chapters of it, very interesting, i am amazed how little we know about such a big disaster and the continued problems it could cause, thats the beauty of the internet, cant cover it up on here.

 

All this from being a theme park enthusiast, amazing where it leads.

 

Think i might have to go do something a bit happier now, back to theme parks then.