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Ghost town--the comparison to Pompeii is definitely a good one. They're setting up to make for an interesting dig-site for archaeologists of the 30th century...
Makes ya think about what woulda happened to NYC if three-mile island went the Chernobyl path...
The spookiest thing is the part about the irradiated trees glowing red in the forest...definitely surreal.
Wormwood is the main ingredient in Absinthe, a 'radiation green' colored
alcoholic drink.
Keith
Makes ya think about what woulda happened to NYC if three-mile island went the Chernobyl path...
The spookiest thing is the part about the irradiated trees glowing red in the forest...definitely surreal.
Wormwood is the main ingredient in Absinthe, a 'radiation green' colored
alcoholic drink.
Keith
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I got pretty active about the urainium tailings presence all over the world for a while and am still aghast at the way we as a people let our Mother Earth be treated. But like most things corporate or political it all comes down to greed.
The info is posted all over the Internet and is an interesting read all to itself.
I was most active as to how the tailings are used on Rez land. In the Navajo Nation it has been used for landfill for school and community centers, as a gravel to repair and surface roadways etc.
Problem is that the wind doesn't care what or where it carries the substances it picks up and it is gradually being spread everywhere!!!!
I was eleven when it happened and remember the rumors first and then - very late - the reports of an "incident" - of course everything was "under control". The truth came slowly during the next few days.
And then we waited anxiously when the "cloud" would cross our area and if it would rain in these days - it did. Contaminated particles were washed out from the cloud and hit the ground. All the firefighters had endless decontamination drills. It was very threatening - and we would not play outside, the school breaks were in the house. We would not eat mushrooms, beans, peas, and wild game - the dosis has not returned to "normal" . Some do not eat these things until today - and it happened quite some hundreds of kilometers away from Bavaria. There are still some plants of the Chernobyl-type (with little improvements) that produce electricity right in our neighbourhood - just over the Czech-border, less than 20 km from the frontier. Why is it that they place te atomic plants near the frontiers? It is always said that chances of a big accident are "minimal" but if it happens the outcome is terrible. What if Sept 11th would not have hit the twin towers but an atomic power- plant? I am very critical about these things you see - but I see too that atomic energy is a way to get independent from OPEC etc...
Are you in the US sure that no fallout is left from the surface-tests of the atomic bombs in the 50s? Makes me shiver when I think of what they told the soldiers back then (do not look into the light, take cover, wait there until the pressure-wave passes - then "charge".)
Andreas
And then we waited anxiously when the "cloud" would cross our area and if it would rain in these days - it did. Contaminated particles were washed out from the cloud and hit the ground. All the firefighters had endless decontamination drills. It was very threatening - and we would not play outside, the school breaks were in the house. We would not eat mushrooms, beans, peas, and wild game - the dosis has not returned to "normal" . Some do not eat these things until today - and it happened quite some hundreds of kilometers away from Bavaria. There are still some plants of the Chernobyl-type (with little improvements) that produce electricity right in our neighbourhood - just over the Czech-border, less than 20 km from the frontier. Why is it that they place te atomic plants near the frontiers? It is always said that chances of a big accident are "minimal" but if it happens the outcome is terrible. What if Sept 11th would not have hit the twin towers but an atomic power- plant? I am very critical about these things you see - but I see too that atomic energy is a way to get independent from OPEC etc...
Are you in the US sure that no fallout is left from the surface-tests of the atomic bombs in the 50s? Makes me shiver when I think of what they told the soldiers back then (do not look into the light, take cover, wait there until the pressure-wave passes - then "charge".)
Andreas