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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (98700)	2/4/2005 8:19:17 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

Anyone interested in what can happen in a Chernobyl-type incident should view the photos on this site. During the first day, the fallout from Chernobyl went straight N into a desolate, lightly populated area of the Ukraine. The wind shifted and it it turned West and continued across the Ukraine and a mostly sparsely populated area of Poland. Then the fallout crossed mostly ocean waters before reaching Iceland and continuing around the world. A few other Northern European countries got more radioactive fallout than they wanted or needed but Chernobyl was not nearly the catastrophe Three-mile Island would have been had they not figured out the two explosions were really Hydrogen explosions. The Three-mile Island reactor came within 20-25 minutes of making most of NYC, Long Island and much of Southern New England uninhabitable.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (98700)	2/4/2005 11:04:07 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

That's an incredible web site re Chernobyl. Here are a few snippets from the photo descriptions... "May 1st never came in this town. On April 27th, the whole population was evacuated and this street has not seen a parade since....and probably never will again." "After a few hours trip in an army vehicle, they stood under a shower, washing away radiation. Then they stepped in a new life, naked with no home, no friends, no money, no past and with a very doubtful future." "The day after the accident, this place on the bridge provided a good view of the gaping crack in the nuclear containment vessel that was ruptured by the explosion. Many curious people came here to have a look and were bathed in a flood of deadly x-rays emanating directly from the glowing nuclear core."

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (98700)	6/15/2005 3:32:44 AM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793689

Looks like it was a hoax. The New York Times June 15, 2005 New Sight in Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists By C. J. CHIVERS nytimes.com PRIPYAT, Ukraine, June 11 ... One group came for a hoax. About two years ago, Mr. Tatarchuk said, a Ukrainian woman booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures. Soon there appeared a Web site in which the woman, using the name Elena, claimed that she had been given an unlimited pass by her father, a nuclear physicist and Chernobyl researcher ("Thank you, Daddy!" she wrote) and now roamed the ruins at will on her Kawasaki Big Ninja. The site, www.kiddofspeed.com, billed as a tale "where one can ride with no stoplights, no police, no danger to hit some cage or some dog," was a sensation, duping uncountable viewers before being discredited. The Finns said they had seen the Web site, and hoped their planned site would be as popular. ...