The deadly legacy of Chernobyl

It has been 20 years since the name Chernobyl became the infamous nuclear accident that devastated the lives of millions of people in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. 20 years on, and the nightmare for thousands of people is still frightening.

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• Chernobyl-catastrophe
• Belarus
• Ukraine
• Radioactive-pollution
• Nuclear
• Cancer
• Greenpeace

[12valvepower]

pollution kicks ass  JK!!!!!!!!

[12valvepower]

sharon harris power plant

[12valvepower]

3 mile island. i also live near a power plant

[12valvepower]

Red army

[LordArcha]

poor kid

[redpunk]

i'm a serb, and you sir are fucking retarded. people came from the balkans, because as nice a place as it is, it kinda sucks to live there in comparison to the quality of life you can have in the U.S.

[redpunk]

because the area around the explosion isn't really in bad shape. the only long term effects it's had on the environment is dumping a shitload of minerals back into the soil

[redpunk]

there was a reactor that leaked very low levels of radiation through water. and it's not like they tried to cover it up. they had to figure out exactly what happened and how bad it was before they could really say anything. and it's not like you can spill the high level stuff. that's like spilling an iron rod

[ryanmczero]

Pres.Bush is a simpleton Themistocles. "We must build war machines." But the Persians of today only march when their societies have been torn by greed. That greed is emanating from Western multinationals. War machines cannot appease underclass rage. If only the terrorist bastards made their point with words, like: oil revenues, national interests, instead of religion this and religion that, Westerners would get the point. But the terrorists are just as blind to themselves as politicians are.

[ryanmczero]

Wait, so are there people in favor of Nuclear reactors. One just leaked in Japan from the recent earthquake and the company running it tried to cover it up for a day. I'm not advocating staying with coal and oil. I'm advocating governments spending their (our?) war billions on solar and wind science. We should be able to run our world on the sun and the wind. That's it. No nuclear dust, no greenhouse effect, no smog.