Actually, some people coming back to their homes and settle down, those mostly old people who do not care if they die today or tomorrow. important is to die at home.
marauders in radiation poluted area are not just a regular marauders, they don't steal stuff for themselves. There were cases of radiactive tv sets and other stuff being sold on city second hand markets and then police shot 7 or 8 of them and it helped
Usually a police officer who call himself a town guard was telling me that I was in town alone. then I could hit roads with no worry that I will run accross some car. This town might be an attractive place for tourists. Some tourists companies have been trying to arrange extrim tours in this town, but people- their customers scared and have been complaining about silence which is hard to stand in empty town. They charged 210 us dollars for 2 hours excursion and town guard say, they all were leaving in some 15 mins, complaining that silense is tremendous as if one got deaf.
(The first thing I thought: where can one sign up for one of those tours? It sounds like an amazing place to walk through.)
oncological hospital has been working for 40 days after disaster, then head doctor died of cancer and people abandoned this hospital
Posted by: mitch | http:// | Sat Mar 6 23:29:07 2004
From page 9: "My kawasaki will probably have as many horsepowers as those bunch of bikes [from 1985] all added together." Moore's Law for motorcycles?
Posted by: mitch | http:// | Sat Mar 6 23:39:49 2004
Page 15: Chernobyl as Pompeii. A great analogy.
I'm also reminded of the American Media building in Florida, where the first anthrax letters were opened. Last I heard, it had been decontaminated and sold to new owners, but for a year or two it was just sealed off, and only the FBI and the CIA had access. If there's ever a major anthrax attack on a public space, it will have to become like a ghost town for a while, because the spores will just sit there, retaining their lethality, for years. And I suppose the same goes for a "dirty bomb", to say nothing of an actual nuke. (Although consider Hiroshima and Nagasaki - they seem to have recovered.)
Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Sun Mar 7 02:26:45 2004
Are Hiroshima/Nagasaki considered completely safe these days? Do the locals have normal life expectancies?
Posted by: mitch | http:// | Sun Mar 7 03:33:10 2004
Apparently so. Fallout and induced radioactivity seem to have faded by orders of magnitude, just by the end of 1945. For some reason, what was released at Chernobyl was much worse.
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Posted by: Alex | http:// | Fri Mar 5 09:18:47 2004
The Moonlight Sonata disc at the end made me cry little tears ... I heard elsewhere that USSR soldiers were used as 'human robots' and were instructed to run out, grab a piece of reactor core (or maybe the graphite lid?) and chuck it back in the hole, and then jump back in the chopper. And one chopper crashed in the hole. And it's all Stalin's fault , or something.