Chernobyl rain

[Winner]

get a S.T.A.L.K.E.R licence and watch out for the amnoralies.

I know about the game, but I want to feel the real thing. I've heard about people who went there on their own, that must have been exciting.

 

[MrCynical]

It's true that the area is now teeming with life and that's comforting. But killing people in Belarus to save people in Moscow - that's pretty rough.

Could have been done more competantly and with fewer casualties if they were less intent on covering up the accident, but diverting the radiation before it hit a major city is a no-brainer.

I wonder if Western European Governments were badgering the USSR to do this to protect populations here? I bet they were.

Seems highly implausible given that the USSR didn't even tell the European governments there'd been an accident until the radiation was noticed in Scandinavia (which from basic direction would have been sometime after this).

 

[Xenocrates]

Could have been done more competantly and with fewer casualties if they were less intent on covering up the accident, but diverting the radiation before it hit a major city is a no-brainer.

I don't know, washing the radiated dust out out high concentration isn't necessarily going to save more lives that letting it get washed out after it's 'dilluted'. Was Belarus properly compensated for this? Somehow I doubt it. Is anyone here from Belarus and can tell us whether this news is surprising or upsetting anyone there?

 

[Abaddon]

the USSR didn't even tell the European governments there'd been an accident until the radiation was noticed in Scandinavia.

Id think they did, just everyone continued to cover it up.