Ed_Haynes Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 (edited) A reminder. Edited April 22, 2006 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darrell Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I second that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Darrell Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley1965 Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I'll add my sentiments on the anniversary of this never ending tragedy. Doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I have no Tchernobyl Medal immediately available to post, but I am with you on this one. Ch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck In Oregon Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 I am a great fan of the mystery writer Martin Cruz Smith and his worn-out Moscow investigator Arkady Renko. His Wolves Eat Dogs is a first-rate mystery set largely in Chernobyl and Pripyat. It includes some chilling descriptions of life in and near The Zone today. It is a continuing nightmare with every possibility of getting worse, not better. His description of the sequence leading to the catastrophe, if accurate, is beyond all understanding.I know a Georgian who was sent to the disaster back then. According to him, each man was given a liter of vodka daily to ward off the effects of the radiation. I didn't really believe him until I saw that same thing in print elsewhere and Smith alludes to it in his novel. Teams were sent from every region so as to minimize the losses from any one region and thus hide the total number of deaths from the nation.Как жаль. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted April 21, 2006 Share Posted April 21, 2006 A horrible, tragic event that the people of Russia & the other former republics will suffer with well into the future. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 Here is a picture of the nuclear power plant with the name "Lenin" in Tchernobyl.I thought it was the 26. April 1986 when the accident occured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolf Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 (edited) Here is a picture of the nuclear power plant with the name "Lenin" in Tchernobyl.I thought it was the 26. April 1986 when the accident occured.Right, April 26 1986 is indeed the day the reactor #4 exploded.Here too the media started talking about the 20th anniversary yesterday (April 21) and before yesterday (April 20), not sure why!But the events took indeed place during the night of April 25 to April 26 1986.Anyway, a very sad tragedy! How many have died and keep dying from that incident? Greenpeace says about 100.000, but I guess it's almost impossible to know exactly the dimension of this tragic event!Dolf Edited April 22, 2006 by Dolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted April 22, 2006 Share Posted April 22, 2006 A little bit over a half a year ago I was on vacation in Ukraine and visited Tschernobyl and Pripyat. Within 100m of the reactor. A bit of a weird place.Got smuggled into the area (didn't want to pay several hundred USD for an official tour) by the local maffia boss who - by sheer luck - I got to know while in Ukraine. The guy was in charge of all transportation within the exclusion zone, smuggling gasoline in and smuggling metals out (he had a large group of people working for him on dismantling old reactors in the exclusion zone). Had a blast... making pictures, drinking cognac in the local Tschernobyl bar, etc.Still - there is clearly some fear... and "do not walk on the grass" was a pretty clear message from our guy that things were NOT ok in that area.Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 I thought it was the 26. April 1986 when the accident occured.Oh, yes, of course. Thread heading suitably altered. Still . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted April 22, 2006 Author Share Posted April 22, 2006 How many have died and keep dying from that incident? Greenpeace says about 100.000, but I guess it's almost impossible to know exactly the dimension of this tragic event!Hard to say. Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we'll be counting for number of generations, including some yet to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koj Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Did an award document/case exist to this medal? Any photos of somebody who is wearing this award.Attached mine.RegardsFlorian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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