Chernobyl Arch is moved into place over reactor 30 years later
This is really good to see. We have all waited a long time and it should have been Soviet countries who paid for it rather than the European victims.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38150529
I was camping in Perthshire (at a canoe slalom event) the weekend this exploded in spring 1986. We used a canvas tent of my dads. The weather turned into terrible heavy rain and we decided on the Saturday to pack up and travel on westward, sort of out running the rain. We ended up camping in Glenorchy on the way to Oban. In fact we had an evening walk in Oban to get fish n chips. The heavy storm clouds framed an amazing sunset over Oban as we drove away with the setting sunlight in the west sort of squeezed out by this thick heavy storm front that eventually enveloped us. We were (safely) camped below the single track road by the river and perhaps drinking from the river. We had heard nothing of the unfolding danger being blown over from the east inside this weather system.
It was only as we drove back into Edinburgh that we were listening to the radio instead of tapes in the car. We heard them saying don't drink water from off a tent. We hadn't. But the canvas tent was very wet with no doubt contaminated radioactivity. The tent was packed away and stored up in the loft at the front end of the house.
Over the years we often wondered about how radioactive it was. During the early 90s we had access to a Geiger Counter at the university and we always meant to borrow it one weekend and go test the tent over at my dads house. We sadly never got around to it. We will never know now and I have no idea where that tent went after the house was cleared. This is the problem with letting innocent unknowing ppl clear things out. They can't know the history of objects and where they should go safely.
I wonder just how many of the cancers my friends and family have died from have come from the Chernobyl explosion.
For ourselves, we were students in Dundee at the time and there was monitoring of milk; which we didn't drink. They also gave us questionnaires to follow our exposure etc and give us information. This continued annually for about 5 years i think. Somewhere someone wrote a report or perhaps scientific papers from all our data. I wonder where that is and if anyone is bothering to follow it up all these years later and relate it to cancer deaths. Will there be a spike in cancers or just a gradual rise with the population? Who knows?
I still have some very vivid images in my head from that weekend of torrential rain, camping in a boggy cow field next to a Perthshire river and rain across central and Highland Scotland.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38150529
I was camping in Perthshire (at a canoe slalom event) the weekend this exploded in spring 1986. We used a canvas tent of my dads. The weather turned into terrible heavy rain and we decided on the Saturday to pack up and travel on westward, sort of out running the rain. We ended up camping in Glenorchy on the way to Oban. In fact we had an evening walk in Oban to get fish n chips. The heavy storm clouds framed an amazing sunset over Oban as we drove away with the setting sunlight in the west sort of squeezed out by this thick heavy storm front that eventually enveloped us. We were (safely) camped below the single track road by the river and perhaps drinking from the river. We had heard nothing of the unfolding danger being blown over from the east inside this weather system.
It was only as we drove back into Edinburgh that we were listening to the radio instead of tapes in the car. We heard them saying don't drink water from off a tent. We hadn't. But the canvas tent was very wet with no doubt contaminated radioactivity. The tent was packed away and stored up in the loft at the front end of the house.
Over the years we often wondered about how radioactive it was. During the early 90s we had access to a Geiger Counter at the university and we always meant to borrow it one weekend and go test the tent over at my dads house. We sadly never got around to it. We will never know now and I have no idea where that tent went after the house was cleared. This is the problem with letting innocent unknowing ppl clear things out. They can't know the history of objects and where they should go safely.
I wonder just how many of the cancers my friends and family have died from have come from the Chernobyl explosion.
For ourselves, we were students in Dundee at the time and there was monitoring of milk; which we didn't drink. They also gave us questionnaires to follow our exposure etc and give us information. This continued annually for about 5 years i think. Somewhere someone wrote a report or perhaps scientific papers from all our data. I wonder where that is and if anyone is bothering to follow it up all these years later and relate it to cancer deaths. Will there be a spike in cancers or just a gradual rise with the population? Who knows?
I still have some very vivid images in my head from that weekend of torrential rain, camping in a boggy cow field next to a Perthshire river and rain across central and Highland Scotland.