Twenty years under the shadow of the atom
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/in_pictures_chernobyl_zone_residents/html/1.stm
This is the sort of thing that interests me to no end. I'm curious as to the rate of thyroid cancer in such places, though on the other hand, they seem to be living lifespans at least equal to the United States. Strontium-90 is a nasty thing, much like Iodine-131. Although, in their cases, the Iodine shouldn't be much of a worry anymore.
I'm not certain as to whether or not my desire to travel to these places marks me as insane. Yes, parts of the exclusion zone around Chernobyl read hot enough to give me lethal doses for hundreds of lifetimes. Parts of it are no different from any cities around the world, and are cleaner than some. (I'm looking at you, Kiev.) There's a dark beauty to the region, though. Nature is reclaiming that which was abandoned. They say wild boars roam the streets of Pripyat at night. Once home to 49,000 people, and now claimed by boars and wolves. A nuclear wasteland, under the invisible shadows which will not raise again during our lifetimes.
I'm rambling again. Fuck. This is what happens when atomic disasters and weapons come up, it seems.
This is the sort of thing that interests me to no end. I'm curious as to the rate of thyroid cancer in such places, though on the other hand, they seem to be living lifespans at least equal to the United States. Strontium-90 is a nasty thing, much like Iodine-131. Although, in their cases, the Iodine shouldn't be much of a worry anymore.
I'm not certain as to whether or not my desire to travel to these places marks me as insane. Yes, parts of the exclusion zone around Chernobyl read hot enough to give me lethal doses for hundreds of lifetimes. Parts of it are no different from any cities around the world, and are cleaner than some. (I'm looking at you, Kiev.) There's a dark beauty to the region, though. Nature is reclaiming that which was abandoned. They say wild boars roam the streets of Pripyat at night. Once home to 49,000 people, and now claimed by boars and wolves. A nuclear wasteland, under the invisible shadows which will not raise again during our lifetimes.
I'm rambling again. Fuck. This is what happens when atomic disasters and weapons come up, it seems.