/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4716040
Looking at the photos - that's not Chernobyl.

Is it the window? I bet its the window.

There's a fat slav. Slavs are either scrawny and malnourished or muscled like conan the barbarian

>>4716100
how mistaken you are. alcoholism is rampant in slavia, and alcoholism = xbox sized stomachs.

You can't see the NPP from Pripyat. It's nowhere near that close.

also, cooling towers. Wow, because the audience wouldn't know what it was without cooling towers, which is why everyone thinks coal plants are nuke plants.

I hate everything.

>>4716108

Also, no sarcophagus around the plant.

>>4716108

Of course you CAN see the NPP from Pripyat. An example is the Pripyat's hotel's viewing terace situated on the next to last floor if I remember correctly. I've been there. Let me show you a picture I made myself.

Despite the obvious failure to depict the plant accurately, what is this movie about exactly? I might be interested.

>>4716127

addendum: the plant is about 2,5 km from the hotel. And from that terrace you can see the fucking Eye of Moscow, which is over 20 km away.

>>4716040
>concrete cooling towers
what no why would they do that
they already know what it is, why are you wasting cg on that

everything about this movie pisses me the fuck off.
what is this about radiation poisoning causing paranoia. what the fuck. how the fuck did they get radiation poisoning strong enough to cause their skin to slough off in pripyat it isn't that fucking bad

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THIS IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH AMERICA

>>4716040 Seen anything fishy in this pic
Yeah it's got a pair of big wide cooling towers like the power plant in the Simpsons. I guess it's what people think of when they imagine a nuclear power plant, but Chernobyl never had them.

Reminded me of STALKER SoC. Amazing game try it if you havent

>>4716160
i like stalker
this movie is fucking garbage and has nothing to do with the games, aside from being scary and in a similar geographic setting

>>4716127
wait, so they shooped the cooling towers in? because the rest of the plant looks pretty similar to the one in OP.

and the movie is some shitty horror film if i remember correctly. some people had high hopes for it at first as they thought it was related to STALKER as >>4716160 suggested.

Oh wow, would you look at those coordinates!

>>4716155

Technically, they were building towers for new reactors until the accident happened. Let me provide you with another pic of mine.

You can also see them on google maps, just a bit SE from the reactor number 4. You can also notice how close the plant is to Pripyat', as opposed to a poster I replied to earlier says.

>>4716164
But have you ever seen stalker, the movie?

Roadside picnic, the book the scenario is partly based on, is also good. None of them actually take place in chernobyl though, or any NPP.

>>4716172
i severely doubt the director had any idea those half built towers existed

>>4716172
did you meet any of the elderly people to moved back?

although i imagine most of them are dead by now. dump some more pics if you have time.

>>4716177
that moved back*

>>4716175

you're probably right.

>>4716177

Nope, I didn't meet any locals. I ate a meal at the plant's worker's eating place, though, so technically I exchanged a word or two with people who work in the zone now - but my Russian was no good back then (not that it is great now, but I can speak a little) and I don't speak Ukrainian at all.

Unfortunately I'm going for a bike ride right now, I should be back in 3 to 4 hours. If the thread is still alive I might post some more pics, so if you're interested, keep the tab open and refresh occasionally.

pic: bumper cars, about 30 meters from the famous ferris wheel.

I'll post one more now.

>>4716180

pic: view of the Eye of Moscow (if you're not familiar, read up - tl;dr a huge-ass radar) from the hotel. As I said earlier, over 20 km away.

Getting a trip just so you'll know it's me later on.

>>4716137
>cg'd cooling towers
>radiation poisoning causing paranoia
>radiation poisoning strong enough to cause their skin to slough off in pripyat

I don't think I'd be able to sit through the entire movie.

It would be like watching a WW2 flick where the US is using AR-15s.

>>4716186
Wow these pictures are really interesting, do you have any more?

>>4716258

About a couple hundred, but because of time shortage I wont post more than, say, a dozen. Anyone still interested? I'll be back in a couple minutes to check, I don't wanna waste time posting them in vain ; )

Pic: the palace of culture, with a few heads of my fellow trip-goers in the lower part of it.

>>4716456
just post them don't be a faggot

>>4716478

fine then.

pic: a tree in a hotel room.

radiation level meters from the ferris wheel. a 3-4 times above normal level, but still VERY far from being dangerous.

school corridor, teacher's room

>>4716495
Never see this kind of image without immediately thinking of Silent Hill.

the swimming pool

kindergarten. obviously, someone put the gas mask on the doll after the accident at the power plant, but it still looks pretty damn creepy.

looking up the elevator shaft in one of the 16-floor apartment buildings...

... and the characteristic soviet ornament on the tenement itself (note: not the same tenement, but a look-alike - there's several buildings following that same design)

abandoned train engine at the yanov station

quoting Maxim, the guy on the left, from the Chernobylinterform agency: "[thick ukrainian accent] these trucks are used for the utilization of highly contaminated materials"

the famous "PRIPYAT'" sign...

... and the radiation levels in the grass on the other side of the road. it actually went up to 8, about 15 times as much as on the asphalt road. whether it is as high as it would go or it would increase even more if we took a couple steps into the grass, i don't know.

the pripyat' signs is a couple hundred meters from the famous red forest, we did actually see a few trees from that period - all of them dead, new ones seemed to be a few years younger.

150 meters from the sarcophagus. seemingly constant 3 uSv/h radiation level, despite standing on asphalt. pic through a bus window - I don't have any better which doesn't include my face.

a bit closer view on the Eye of Moscow. unfortunately, we didn't go see it up close.

>>4716526
lol who mows the lawn there

this one is in Chernobyl, not in Pripyat'. it's a memorial for all the villages and towns that had to be abandoned.

if I recall correctly, 72 villages and 2 towns (Chernobyl and Pripyat') were evacuated. including places which were too small to have a name, 200. about 200,000 people, though I may be off - it's been almost a year and I haven't been reviewing the info.

that's about it, I guess. the other photos simply aren't as interesting. but you have to actually go there to feel the metaphorical ghosts of the zone.

Retard here: What are 'cooling towers' and why wouldn't Chernobyl have them?

>>4716531

the workers of the zone.

Chernobyl (though not Pripyat') is actually populated now - by people preparing the building of the new sarcophagus. they only stay there a couple months at a time and have shorter work days than workers in normal areas, but the plant itself isn't abandoned per se.

pic: a worker in Chernobyl, standing at a crossroads, as proof.

>>4716531

also, what you see there is a memorial for the builders of the sarcophagus. memorials are usually taken care of.

if anyone has any questions and I happen to know the answer, I'll do, so feel free to ask away.

>>4716543
I thought Chernobyl was just the name of the plant

>>4716543
>so feel free to ask away.

What are 'cooling towers' and why wouldn't Chernobyl have them?

>>4716546

nope. Chernobyl is the name of a small town located near the plant, though farther than Pripyat', which was a small city built for the workers of the plant. iirc there's also something called Chernobyl-2, which is the location of the Eye of Moscow and was not marked on maps in soviet times.

>>4716549

cooling towers are, as the name suggests, towers used to cool the power plant ; ) i'm no nuclear engineer, though, i don't exactly know how it works.

>>4716549
hot water from the plant is pumped around the base of them to cool the water

>>4716558
So water is channeled from the plant into the towers to lose some of its heat?

Why doesn't Chernobyl have these? How were they cooling their water/.

>>4716561
I'm not familiar with the plant design

>>4716040
The guy's shirt is from the West, how the hell did that get to Ukraine?

I don't see why a /sci/duck would see the movie regardless of the mentioned errors. It's a horror movie. They are never scientifically sound and never contain novel concepts aside from mixing and matching location and means of death.

Why the hell didn't they just shoot it in the real Pripyat?
It's not exactly dangerous anymore

>>4716574

either it was cheaper to film it elsewhere or legal problems. you need permission to enter the zone, and I guess it's harder to get a permission lasting months - or however long it takes to make a movie.

>>4716567
Black market for western goods

>>4716568
What about Cabin in the Woods?

>>4716492
>0.74 microsieverts
oh, i knew it was low by now but not that low. that's great news actually.

>>4716839

keep in mind that it's on a square-like thing plastered with asphalt. i'm sure it's at least a couple times worse if you submerge yourself in the moss.

yeah though, the area is already semi-habitable.

>>4716568
the problem is movies like these actively reinforcing COMPLETELY incorrect notions about radiation. it really isn't necessary and frankly does a grave disservice

>>4716854
This.

Take a peek around on /sci/ or the general internet and you find people claiming fukushima is the apocalypse or will atleast quadruple japanese cancer rates.

And other people having arcane belifes about how radiation operates.

>carrying about details
>in a b-horror film

>>4716888
like i said, it's doing a disservice
it's like an action movie about a rocket that comes off the bad and starts flying around trying to blow people up because of "a computer glitch". even if most people don't honestly think shit like that doesn't happen, it reinforces incorrect notions and slides us further back in terms of common knowledge about science and technology