Chernobyl

[Wiesty]

Alright so the year is 1986 and the USSR is coming to a close.
They know the end is coming up soon.

Do u think the lack of nucleaur intelligence was the Soviets lack of funding/training to the ukrainians or was it just a big mishap

some thoughts please

[Guerrilla22]

Cherbobyl was the result of the typical attempt by the Soviets to be more efficient by not including all the necessary safety feautures, or lack of quality materials to save money, as was the case with the K-19 and the Kursk. Another fine example of beaucracy gone awry.

[che-Rabbi]

Chernobyl was probably as sad and as misserable as my spelling but it made us think, if we dont get informed about whats going on and whos doing what, we get morns in charge and then things explode... sometimes like in this case, alot was lost for no reason, it could have been prevented but people just dont seem to care until its too late.

[Sabocat]

The meltdown occured due to a critical failure during a routine test. It was an accident.

This is kind of an interesting website about a woman who motorcycles through Chernobyl and takes pictures. Some interesting facts too.

Check it out (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm)

[Guerrilla22]

And the gov. of Ukraine is still trying to clean up Chernobyl today and its citizens are still affected by the radiation.

[Saint-Just]

The people who live across the road from me run a charity to bring Chernobly children on trips to England. Thats an interesting story by the person with the motorbike anyway.

[DaCuBaN]

Fantastic article on Chernobyl - I'm now thoroughly depressed. I don't know what else to say, but read it.

[Yazman]

I know that it won't be safe to live in Chernobyl (in urbanised areas) for hundreds of years due to nuclear fallout. It's a fairly interesting topic to read up on.

[Guerrilla22]

The History Channel has a really good documentary on the wholw incident.

[CubanFox]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2004, 04:34 PM
Cherbobyl was the result of the typical attempt by the Soviets to be more efficient by not including all the necessary safety feautures, or lack of quality materials to save money, as was the case with the K-19 and the Kursk. Another fine example of beaucracy gone awry.
The initial attempts by the USSR to hide the accident from the West, to save face, also was a contributing factor to the scope of the disaster.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

In 40-50 years of nuclear power plants running, there have been 3 major accidents to date: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and some incident in the UK which I can't remember the name of.
These occurrances are often cited as the reason not to expand nuclear power.
But tell me, how many gas explosions have there been, how many people have been killed in coal powerplants, that go mostly unreported because the media is not watching them so closely, if at all?
I think you will find the figure killed by the fossil fuel industry is much higher than that of the nuclear power industry.

[Sabocat]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2004, 01:34 AM
Cherbobyl was the result of the typical attempt by the Soviets to be more efficient by not including all the necessary safety feautures, or lack of quality materials to save money, as was the case with the K-19 and the Kursk. Another fine example of beaucracy gone awry.
Don't forget the U.S. losses of the Thresher and Scorpian.

Sunk (http://www.sid-ss.net/history/lostsubs.htm)

Would you say the loss of these two cold war U.S. subs was bureaucracy gone awry?

Maybe they were all just unfortunate accidents.