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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1128187, member: 22143&quot;]Well thank the 100s of thousands of heroic workers for this who prevented what could have been a much much worse disaster.&nbsp; &nbsp; This was only managed by the Soviet system&#039;s ability to directly conscript involuntarily over 1/2 million cleanup workers which helped to prevent the disaster from being much worse than it was.&nbsp; Thousandss of these people died from radiation poisoning (the initial response team was vomiting within a few hours), and many others had issues with cancers and other ailments over the years.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to imagine that such a response would be possible in the west because 1. people working for a private power company can quit, and 2. I doubt that many would go into a nuclear plant if they knew the danger.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Soviets had no issue with these sort of tactics.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Chernobyl was huge even though many Americans don&#039;t understand what went on there.&nbsp;&nbsp; It will be an issue for 1000s of years and to make matters worse, the concrete covering that was poured over it is falling apart and the issue may very well come back.&nbsp; The big issue is who is responsible to pay to fix it now.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago, someone took a motorbike tour of the area.&nbsp; It&#039;s interesting to see this retrospective.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.kiddofspeed.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kiddofspeed.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kiddofspeed.com/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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