Ukraine is the country that got trashed...by Russia.

Trips by motorcycle trip through the hot zone in 2004 and later...
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm


1st

I didn't read that reference. Why was it at MY risk?

2nd

Ammonia is poisonous, after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozalid



http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/chemicals/hsees/ammonia.htm

ammonia accidents at blueprint shops ... new york only

the third world, maybe...

http://www.ozalid.com/

not sure what's going on in that last message...

My 31st great-granduncle Canute I has been dead since 1035.
We're coming up on the 11th anniversary of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's death (unrelated).


This egg was installed at the edge of the Chernobyl exclusion zone

alternative power n power r non sequeters

give in were never gonna do the right thing

even if i told yers the answer in black n white

demt http://www.twra5t.co.uk
currently completely ignored

dave try whisperin in canutes ear

I think that most of us share the revulsion and horror remembering those events 25 years ago. We are people that tend to use our minds in creative pursuits, lending ourselves to the general betterment of all mankind. But David is very correct about one thing...
The people who support the massive reintroduction of common nuclear power generators are folks vested in it. And the lowest common denominator argument for them is that nukes are far less likely to fail, or to be tampered with, now, than ever before.
This is the wickedest of fallacies. For the birth of nuclear power generation was rooted in it's destructive uses. Even Fermi's first atomic pile had a very simple motivation; to find a critical mass for a fissionable product. But power generation was not the goal, the theoretical plans and designs for weapons were. And because we live in a world split into hundreds of political units, where research to often inevitably is directed by rhetoric and bigotry, the the most common product of reactors, and other research projects will continue to be weapons grade plutonium. And the phantom of great power that ownership bestows on any nation willing to sell its soul to obtain it. Real, common, safe nuclear power generation can only happen for a common world when men of good will step up and take control of all research and production, worldwide. Instead of the IAEA and their sad, toothless pronouncements.
The common goal is to give every human being a small chance at some measure of prosperity. Nuclear plants, of the most modern designs, can be the greatest single short term solution. But not until the WORLD renounces the production of thermonuclear and nuclear weapons. And, folks, we ain't even close...
We are inviting even more widespread radionuclide poisoning, on a massive scale, if we put the cart before the horse, again. Chernobyl was not an isolated incident in the nuclear industry. It was the culmination of decades of contempt for the power we inherited when Oppenheimer and sons let the genie out the bottle.
At the Trinity test, after seeing the "device" awaken the New Mexico desert like it had never been awakened before, one scientist said succinctly, " Now we're all sonsabitches"...