Chernobyl Disaster

It was entombed in cement by a brave bunch of russian military by flying over the highly radiated area in a helicopter and opening the door and throwing it out as they passed over. It was a suicide mission but these brave young soilders were informed of the impending doom and wanted to sacrifice themselves to save the people of their country.It took alot of soliders and alot of trips over the reactor a bag of cement at a time to entomb it. these men were heros.

it spread all around the world, even in US and Canada, that is the reason we have the problem with Autism

The above is not quite true. The main fall-out spread in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. However there were detections of low fall-out at a nuclear plant in Sweden, over 1,000 km away! The City located neat to the Chernobyl site, which I believe was called Pripyat or something similar was evacuated, and abandoned. People left many belongings as at the time they believed they were being evacuated only as a temporary measure.

Radiation levels have dropped considerably at the abandoned City now.

The United States were not affected in any way by the radiation spread.

Chernobyl is in the country of Ukrain.

- Christy Moore: Farewell To Pripyat (Pripyat is a town that lies in the direct vicinity of the Chernobyl/Chornobyl Reactor)

- Huns & Dr. Beeker: Ghost town

- Roman Hurko: Chornobyl Requiem

- Anal Stench: Chernobyl Hydrogenic Bomb

- Aborym: Chernobyl Generation

- Municipal Waste: Wolves Of Chernobyl

- Fluido: Chernobyl

- Ashley Esterwood: Chernobyl

- Nuclear Rabbit: Chernobyl Hamster

- Catch-it Kebabs: Miss Chernobyl

- Neurosis: The Horror of Chernobyl (2011)

- Adriano Celentano: Sognando Chernobyl / Мне снится Чернобыль

- Alexander Tsymbal, Tunguska Electronic Music Society: Chernobyl Zone

- John Stetch: Children of Chornobyl

In German:

- Wolf Maahn: Tschernobyl

- Aufbruch: Tschernobyl ist in der Nähe

- Kastelruther Spatzen: An einem Morgen im April

And more if you google *lyrics chernobyl* ; *lyrics chornobyl* ; *lyrics tchernobyl* ; *songtexte tschernobyl* etc.

And then there is the group called Chernobyl, with songs like Le Cheval

Furthur songs that mention Chernobyl:

- Empty Mirror: My Chernobyl, from the album 'Unsorted'

- We Are: (in your own words) chernobyl

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Farewell To Pripyat

by Tim Dennehy

It was a Friday in April 1986,

The day that the nightmare began,

When the dust it rained down on our buildings and streets,

And entered our bedrooms at noon,

Touched the grass and the streets, bicycles, cars,

Beds books and picture frames too,

We stood around, helpless, confused,

Nobody knew what to do.

At two o'clock on Sunday the buses arrived,

A fleet of a thousand or more,

We were ordered to be on our way,

Not knowing what lay in store,

Some of our citizens fled in dismay,

And looked for a good place to hide,

Four o'clock came and the last bus pulled out,

T'was the day our lovely town died.

And the shirts sheets and handkerchiefs crack in the wind,

On the window ledge the withering plants,

And the Ladas and Volga's are parked by the door,

And the bike's in its usual stance.

Our evergreen trees lie withered and drooped,

They've poisoned our fertile land,

The streets speak a deafening silence,

Nothing stirs but the sand.

A visit back home is so eerie today,

A modern Pompeii on view,

To see all the old shops and the Forest Hotel,

And the Promyet Cinema too.

The mementos we gathered were all left behind,

Our Photos, letters and cards,

The toys of our children untouchable now,

Toy soldiers left standing on guard.

So fare thee well Pripyat, my home and my soul,

Your sorrow can know no relief,

A terrifying glimpse of the future you show,

Your children all scattered like geese,

The clothes line still sways but the owners long gone,

As the nomadic era returns,

The question in black and white blurred into grey,

The answer is too easy to learn.

CHRISTY'S COMMENT

Late one night during The Willie Week we were gathered in the back lounge of Malones hostelry. Porter and songs were flying in all direction with tunes for divarsion. Mrs Malone, God rest her, put down the pan and started to fry up fresh fillets of mackerel whilst fresh white bread was buttered.Never tasted anything so good. Then there followed a lull amongst the late drinkers. Tim Dennehy quietly slipped into this song (which he had just penned). It was a sad song to hear..

There is a commercial on TV that is about Chernobyl but I don't know if it's real or fake.... but they say that still today Chernobyl is still not okay to visit for chemical reasons. They said a while back that it was okay and they let all kinds of tourists in and turns out it wasn't. I think that there are still people who are living there today because they do no want to give up there home.

try to think on your own !!! Jon w!!!!!!!

yes if we build a dome around the nuclear reactor we may be able to contain the radiation but we will not be able to clean up the radiation left over already.

This question refers to the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986 near Pripyat, Ukraine, in the then Soviet Union. Chernobyl quickly became a transnational and international tragedy as it effected millions within and outside the Soviet Union. It was specifically global as radioactive materials were detected virtually throughout the globe traceable to the Chernobyl reactor, As of September 2014, neighboring countries such as Belarus continue to suffer from radiation exposure from the tragedy,

Ukraine and Belarus

Ukraine!

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The crew of the power station was doing a test and one of the cooling pumps shut down too quickly causing the reactor to overheat and (with the building of pressure in the reactor) exploded. This cause massive amounts of radioactive materials to be launched into the atmosphere. Pripyat, a city near the reactor, had a population of 50,000 people, all of whom were evacuated to a town 30 km away.

Makarov

Most are made of plastic of some sort. Much like children's inflatable swimming pools or beach balls, only a thicker material.

Wasn't it punishment enough to die by radiation poisoning? All the operators, technicians, and supervisors there that night got lethal doses. Now the engineers that designed such an unstable unsafe reactor, and the bureaucrats that insisted on meeting schedule and skipping important tests to meet schedule, something could be done to them...

The disaster at Chernobyl led to the evacuation of people from the area due to dangerous radioactivity readings. Chernobyl is now an abandoned City and the wildlife around the area collect high levels of radioactive particles.

You can only say, 23 years later, I-131's radioactivity almost decreases to 1/8 of original radioactivity.

No. Chernobyl is still contaminated with nuclear radiation, making this city unsafe to live in.

In 1986, a failed test led to its reactor being shutdown. This caused a large explosion that sent out harmful levels of radiation throughout the community. Everyone who lived in Chernobyl was forced to immediately evacuate the area with no possible return.

I don't know of one specifically, there was still underground nuclear testing at the time so there might have been several that year. If you are thinking of the reactor explosion at Chernobyl that year, that was not a nuclear explosion, just a large steam explosion when the coolant water flash vaporized blowing the roof off the reactor. Once the graphite moderator in the core was exposed to air it caught fire, this was the worst part of the disaster as burning graphite is nearly impossible to put out and the smoke was carrying all kinds of radioactive material from deep in the core.

Ukraine. At the time of the disaster, it was in the Soviet Union.

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