Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Chernobyl

Thirty years ago the world witnessed the worst nuclear accident in history and the results can be felt to this day.
Some of you are probably familiar with “Kid of Speed”, those of you who have never seen her site should take some time to give it a good reading, the photos and the videos are amazing but her writing is the most important part for it gives a perspective most of us couldn’t get from the images alone.




PS
Kris on her post regarding this same issue suggested several other links related with the accident.
And
portuguesa nova added this other link.

11 Comments:

Blogger Shyha said...

Hey! Wasn't that 20 years ago? :)

I was like 8 when this happened. We were forced to drink that Lugola liquid. I don't remember a lot though, not even the crowd in the hospital

26/4/06 07:30  
Blogger Cream said...

So Shyha is 28...
I remember Welsh farmers worried about radioactive sheep!
I think Chernobyl was the start of the USSR's collapse...

26/4/06 09:57  
Blogger portuguesa nova said...

http://www.pixelpress.org/chernobyl/index.html

Have you seen this photos site?

Chilling.

26/4/06 12:09  
Blogger thephoenixnyc said...

It was 1986. Shya you were actually there?

26/4/06 22:09  
Blogger DCveR said...

shyha: Do you have any idea how long did it take before you were given the news in Poland?

cream: People here started worrying about all products coming from northern Europe.

portuguesa nova: Thank you very much for that link. The pics and the captions are a bit hard, but ignoring it would be worst.

26/4/06 22:45  
Blogger Unknown said...

Thanks DC for that link

CR

26/4/06 23:06  
Blogger Shyha said...

thephoenixnyc: nope, but I live in Poland so we were close enough to be at great risk. Hopefully we didn't noticed such cases as the ones shown in the photo report by Robert Knoth. The worst place to be at the time of accident was north of this electric plant.

dcver: I don't remember but I don't suppose that it was earlier than official statement from Moscow.

27/4/06 08:55  
Blogger neena maiya (guyana gyal) said...

I have friends who studied in the USSR then. One neighbour, she had cancer, but she's okay now. The thing affected people MILES away.

27/4/06 11:41  
Blogger bunnyjo georg said...

Thank you for sharing that website, D. I put a link to it on my blog. Wow...the courage of that girl to go into no-mans-land and share it with the world. Great stuff.

27/4/06 11:52  
Blogger Shyha said...

bj: you can have it for only 200$ (or Euros maybe) :)

27/4/06 16:51  
Blogger Shyha said...

at least I hear/read about it, I don't know where to buy it though

27/4/06 16:54  

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