ext_253040 ([identity profile] candlelightfrot.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] chani 2006-04-26 09:11 pm (UTC)

I was planning a trip north into Canada and Alaska..... it made me wonder if I should, I still did.

Have you ever visited the Kidd of Speed Website by 'Elena' (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/) - which concerns itself with how the exclusionary zone is 'evolving.' Some of her pics are from as early as 2004. And she has added some new pages such as 'Elena' Revisits Chernobyl (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-revisited) and Land of the Wolves (http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chernobyl-land-of-the-wolves/). She says in her chapter one about radiation:

......the device we use for measuring radiation levels is called a geiger counter . If you flick it on in Kiev, it will measure about 12-16 microroentgen per hour. In a typical city of Russia and America, it will read 10-12 microroentgen per hour. In the center of many European cities are 20 microR per hour, the radioactivity of the stone.

1,000 microroentgens equal one milliroentgen and 1,000 milliroentgens equal 1 roentgen. So one roentgen is 100,000 times the average radiation of a typical city. A dose of 500 roentgens within 5 hours is fatal to humans. Interestingly, it takes about 2 1/2 times that dosage to kill a chicken and over 100 times that to kill a cockroach.

This sort of radiation level can not be found in Chernobyl now. In the first days after explosion, some places around the reactor were emitting 3,000-30,000 roentgens per hour. The firemen who were sent to put out the reactor fire were fried on the spot by gamma radiation. The remains of the reactor were entombed within an enormous steel and concrete sarcophagus, so it is now relatively safe to travel to the area - as long as we do not step off of the roadway.......


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