A friend of mine told me about the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the real story it was based on.
I was intrigued by it. I've read about the accident that has occured at Chernobyl (1986) and it's stories.
Now there is this one thing, i did no quite understand.

There are rumors that there used to be an antenna (it's still there) that emitted psychoactive waves, in purpose to influence the human mind.
There are statistics that there were indeed some kind of waves, aimed to west-europe.

There are also rumors that the powerplant was just a big battery for gouverment projects, such as large scaled experiments and so the accident was an overload of power in the reactor.

I'm generalising the whole subject, but I still want to know what's true and not.

Does anyone know more about the story behind Chernobyl or any more information about such rumours ?

Thanks
Jan

okay, to understand what happened at Chernobyl, you need to know a little bit about modern Nuclear Generators.

from what i have read, they take a Uranium rod, and with a mechanical arm, touch it against Graphite. this creates a reaction of Heat, which in turn heats water in a close system. the water quickly turns to steam, powers a turbine to create electricity, and the re-condenses in time to be turned back into steam and the whole process repeats itself. Today, if it gets too hot, the arm takes th Uranium away from the Graphite. this is important because in Chernobyl it was the other way around, the graphite in the arm touching uranium.

Now the story is thus: During a routine drill of a core overload(too much heat is being generated and they had to seperate the graphite and uranium) a real overload began. since they were already in a drill, no one noticed this until is was a little too late. calmly, they simply pulled the arm with the graphite away from the uranium, but the graphite was no longer in the arm-it melted on top of the Uranium! they had no way of removing the graphite from the uranium now, and a massive explosion ensued. after a 2 week ordeal of trying to put out the fire, they poured in massive amounts of concrete to stop the fire, and have buried the plant under TONS of concrete. However, their joy is short lived.

Today, Chernobyl is still bubbling with nuclear activity when pockets of different gases(not too sure which gases, read it in national Geographic a long time ago) mix, a new nuclear reaction begins. the only reason why there hasn't been a second massive explosion is because lone scientists in Russian and America alike add chemicals to stop the beginning nuclear reaction. the truth is Chernobyl is still as dangerous today as it was when it had just exploded. The Russian government is trying to build a more permanent solution called "The Sarcophagus". it will be a concrete structure 30 meteres thick placed on top of chernobyl, hopfully sealing it forever.

Yeah what Under said.

They have to put another thing around the plant. To make that stuff inside the plant. I'm interested a LOT about Chernobyl myself. Seeing it was the same year I was born.

It created a LOT of side effects in some people. I've seen some pictures really. Not cool. The whole city of Chernobyl is just abandoned except for the people who have to go inside the building. The area around it is abandoned too. They all it "The Zone" for all the abandonedment & area that was effected.

I live in denmark, in scandinavia, and I was born the year this happened, and I've read up on the accident, and it's just like undersquiggle said. A core overload during a drill...

I don't really think they would have an antenna emitting waves and stuff like that, but you never know... Makes you think though

I think Wikipedia has the the most detailed explanation of the two touted causes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

There is another website which not only discusses what happened, but the results of the accident:

http://www.chernobyl.info/index.php?userha...D=158&lID=2

It wasn't a routine drill, they were doing a test. They had done the test on another unit and it failed so when they tried it with unit 4 they shutdown safety features. Ironically it was a safety test.

Radiation around Chernobyl is still well above normal. Prypiat also still remains a ghost town and wont be safe for people to live in for several more centuries.

yes it was a routine test only it was conducted on the night shift where the night staff (only skeleton crew)were not fully trained as day shift the test was going ok untill a large increase of core temp ocured they paniced and removed to many of the cooling rods. (seconds to disaster, national geographic)

I'm not sure what it was.

Not only that. But the areas around Chernobyl will be non-liveable. :/ I have to look more Chernobyl stuff later.

It's a bit unsettling to see an entire city devoid of any life. Even the fruit that grows there is poisonous because of the radiation in the ground.

The shell used to cover the core needs replaced as well because big holes have appeared due to its rushed construction allowing radiation to leak out.

A video of Prypiat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8TU1xL8EAg

How exactly was it a routine test if it had only been performed once before? I would not call any test demanded to be conducted by the government a routine test. The test was to see if the plant could keep operating if power to the turbines were cut off. This was demanded by the government because Israel had bombed a nuclear reactor in Iraq a few years before and the USSR was still worried about an attack by the US.