2007-08-14 16:55:24 · 6 answers · asked by ambrosia2600 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The area is a dead zone and is sealed with guards. You can obtain permission and there is a tour company that goes as far as Pripyat and no closer. Radiation went in soil and plants, it is not retained by asphalt, which makes rides through this area possible. You might have problems with the dosimeter guys, who man the checkpoints. They are experts, and if they find radiation on you vehicle, they gave it a chemical shower.
Radiation will stay in the Chernobyl area for the next 48,000 years, but humans may begin repopulating the area in about 600 years, give or take three centuries. The experts predict that, by then, the most dangerous elements will have disappeared or been sufficiently diluted into the rest of the world's air, soil and water.
Sadly the anniversary of twenty years will be on April 26th
2007-08-14 17:03:29 · answer #1 · answered by Kristenite’s Back! 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
50 years
2007-08-14 17:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by Rey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
dont know but maria sharapova is going there soon to bring awareness to the area and to the children being born with thyroid cancer. her parents moved from there when her mom was prego with her. she is doing this through the UN's awareness program
hope she doesnt mutate she is too hot to have an extra arm.
also if you think its bad there try googling chelyabinsk russia. it is considered on of the most contaminated placed on earth.
I have been there
2007-08-14 17:06:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Reactor building... about 7020 AD
Most of the surrounding areas... are starting to be safe already.
2007-08-14 16:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i've heard around 200-300 years from now.
2007-08-14 17:03:03 · answer #5 · answered by oxpr0x 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
long after all of us are gone
2007-08-14 16:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Tbird 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋