Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Control Room today (Pic)
 

Wow

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...rnobyl/bp1.jpg

I don't know why but this picture is beyond cool. I would love to go to this place, covered head to toe in a protective radiation suit of course, and walk around this place. It must be scary as hell.

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...rnobyl/bp3.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...rnobyl/bp4.jpg

More pictures and details at Gerd Ludwig's 'Long Shadow of Chernobyl' project: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...dow_of_ch.html

fascination with the morbid is one of mans best traits hehe

Those are some creepy looking pix LOVE THEM. Thanks for the link!:winkwink:

goto Detroit :2 cents:

Very cool/creepy photos ...
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http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li...50yto1_500.jpg

http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM151S...renGraphic.jpg

ADG

that is not true that is from starship enterprise

Captain, we're fucked.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v6QAgvDKNd...s1600/kirk.jpg

Japan will be just fine.

awesome pics :thumbsup :thumbsup

pretty cool photo

I love photos of deserted buildings and the like, and I've always an interest in Chernobyl.

Chernobyl is why the rest of the world has the right to inspect all nuclear sites in all countries - to avoid something like this from happening again.

These pics reminds me of the style of pics that dude (forgot his name) always used to post here. I like it.

Somebody used to know what all of those switches did... Just not the correct order to do them in.

Big fucking wow

jesus radiation fucked up many people, run for energy kills inocent people

Amazing pictures, thanks for sharing those! I wonder if these were taken by human or robot. I still think the site is too radioactive for humans to go inside like that and will probably remain that way for thousands of years

nice pics :thumbsup

That is terrible. Nuclear power should be used as a last resort. Like we all have to live underground and hide from the winter. Then you use nuclear, to power all the lights for vegetables etc. Not now, when we have tons of options to create power.
Money made the nuclear decision. Sad

quantum-x

:thumbsup

Nonsense. Good engineering is the main issue.

Mark...Your prayers have been answered.

http://tour2chernobyl.com/

I disagree. If they can ever figure out a way to use nuclear fusion then the world will have an unlimited energy supply and we could do away with the fossils, which probably cause as much or more harm than nuclear ever has.

thanks for sharing...

Warning 1. Things you will and will NOT see.

You will NOT see zombies, three head horses and other monsters.



damnit :error

http://cryptome.org/2012-info/daiichi-022012/pict24.jpg
This is just 1 out of 4 in Japan still leaking...

http://www.motifake.com/image/demoti...1227293192.jpg

ADG

bah...man has shown to be full of ego and not capable of thinking of all the things that could go wrong.

hydro electric
or tidal
or geo thermal

we will all be living the nitemare soon enough

Wasnt this in the last Transformers movie?

Very eerie and scary at the same time

Amen to that. Pride goes before the fall.

probably not far off from what Iran's nuclear facility looks like.

Hmm... I don't know. The very first page says "Hello! We are Team of Professionals"... kinda wonder if they haven't been drinking too much heavy water.

According to IMDB, No.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399103/locations

Atlanta, New York, Florida, Indiana, Texas, California, Michigan, Wilwaukee, Chicago but no Chernobyl.

The control room was sealed off a couple of years ago. This vid is from just before they bricked it up. As well as the control room they also show a monument/shrine to one of the workers who is entombed in there.

Nice options can be added:

- AK-47 and Dragunov sniper rifle shooting.

- Missile rocket base tour.

- BRDM armored vehicle driving.

I wanna go! :thumbsup

hydro has killed a lot more people than nuclear, and people in Japan were killed by the tsunami, not the nuclear plant.

Chernobyl was a military plant with an unsafe reactor design.

Japan has overreacted and now faces energy shortages, likely thousands of elderly people will die without air conditioning during the summer.

Hell mortality rates for installation of rooftop solar panels are in the thousands per year just in the US, no form of energy is 100% safe

LOL... I saw that and that of LeRoy with an.... ORLY? professional whats? Radiation scraping?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Thats right - as strange as it sounds, Nuclear is the safest energy, and oil is the least safest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam#Casualties

Nobody is afraid of water, because we think we understand water. Atoms on the other hand, are scary.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/dea...gy-source.html

Energy Source Death Rate (deaths per TWh)

Coal – world average 161 (26% of world energy, 50% of electricity)
Coal – China 278
Coal – USA 15
Oil 36 (36% of world energy)
Natural Gas 4 (21% of world energy)
Biofuel/Biomass 12
Peat 12
Solar (rooftop) 0.44 (less than 0.1% of world energy)
Wind 0.15 (less than 1% of world energy)
Hydro 0.10 (europe death rate, 2.2% of world energy)
Hydro - world including Banqiao) 1.4 (about 2500 TWh/yr and 171,000 Banqiao dead)
Nuclear 0.04 (5.9% of world energy)

QuantumX, always had great shots :thumbsup:thumbsup

Quantum x. Thought of him the moment I saw that pic.

Rust never sleeps ...

nation-x or quantam-x or something like that, he worked for ex gf program and lived in paris. his pics were fucking awesome.

Those are some cool shots.

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...rnobyl/bp1.jpg


Question for shooters: How do you get the colours to punch out like the first shot? The floor is RED, the control panel is BLUE GREY GREEN, etc? It doesn't look like he just cranked the saturation. Is this HDR or something? If its a long exposure shot, where is the grain? Would appreciate some advice on how to take awesome pictures like that. I have a Nikon D80.