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Chernobyl: remember me?
« 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.
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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2021, 01:09:41 PM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us".
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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2021, 06:12:34 PM »
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/nuclear-reactions-reawaken-chernobyl-reactor

Things are still simmering down in the reactor basement.

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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2021, 06:15:05 PM »
It's just another step towards the inevitable noosphere.
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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #5 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
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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2023, 09:34:51 AM »
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.

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Re: Chernobyl: remember me?
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2023, 03:48:31 AM »
Meh.  Nuke it from orbit.