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Title: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: MillCreek on May 11, 2021, 09:20:32 AM

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/nuclear-reactions-reawaken-chernobyl-reactor

Things are still simmering down in the reactor basement.

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: lee n. field on May 11, 2021, 11:46:07 AM

Linked from that page: ‘Sink into your grief.’ How one scientist confronts the emotional toll of climate change (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/sink-your-grief-how-one-scientist-confronts-emotional-toll-climate-change).

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: WLJ on May 11, 2021, 01:09:41 PM

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Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: grampster on May 11, 2021, 06:12:34 PM

Quote from: MillCreek on May 11, 2021, 09:20:32 AM

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/nuclear-reactions-reawaken-chernobyl-reactor

Things are still simmering down in the reactor basement.

Commies always do things so correct and efficient.

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: Devonai on May 11, 2021, 06:15:05 PM

It's just another step towards the inevitable noosphere.

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: WLJ on May 27, 2023, 01:28:42 PM

Shows how tourism exploded after the Chernobyl miniseries and is/was* causing problems and endangering people. People are actually taking items that are still highly radioactive as souvenirs.

How Instagram Ruined Chernobyl…Again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=326wzbsmjGk

*Filmed before the invasion of Ukraine

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: HankB on May 28, 2023, 09:34:51 AM

Quote from: WLJ on May 27, 2023, 01:28:42 PM

Shows how tourism exploded after the Chernobyl miniseries and is/was* causing problems and endangering people. People are actually taking items that are still highly radioactive as souvenirs.

How Instagram Ruined Chernobyl…Again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=326wzbsmjGk

*Filmed before the invasion of Ukraine

If I were going to that part of the world (in the absence of the ongoing Russian/Ukraine war), the entire Chernobyl area would be something I'd stay away from.

FAR away from.

Title: Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
Post by: 230RN on May 29, 2023, 03:48:31 AM

Meh.  Nuke it from orbit.