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What were you doing 20 years ago today?

20 years ago today, 26th April198, the world worst nuclear disaster happened at Chernobyl.

1986

2006
The power station, which rendered the town uninhabitable for centuries, looms on the horizon, two-and-half kilometres away.

The fair ground is one of the more contaminated parts of the Pripyat. It had been due to open on 1 May 1986, five days after the disaster, and was never used.

1986

2006

Pripyat, once home to nearly 50,000 inhabitants, has been abandoned for twenty years since the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power station. Today the only human forms are in the shape of shadows drawn by graffiti artists on the walls of the empty buildings.

The disaster released at least 100 times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Much of the fallout was deposited close to Chernobyl, in parts of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. More than 350,000 people resettled away from these areas, but about 5.5 million remain.

After the accident traces of radioactive deposits were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere.

But wind direction and uneven rainfall left some areas more contaminated than their immediate neighbours.

Scandinavia was badly affected and there are still areas of the UK where farms face post-Chernobyl controls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/europe/2006/chernobyl/default.stm#

Useful and very funny.

Chernobyl's Silent Graveyards
Twenty years after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, many of the contaminated vehicles used in the clean-up operation remain in graveyards in the vast exclusion zone around the plant.


































In the harbour at the town of Chernobyl, ships lie rusting in the once busy port, encased in ice. The scene has a post-apocalyptic feel.
On Friday the 26th April 2006 it will be 20 years since the Chernobyl accident.

For starters how about this:

The Trillion Pound Phone Bill

Next time your phone bill causes your eyes to water, spare a thought for a customer in Malaysia.

Yahaya Wahib has just been landed with a bill from Telekom Malaysia for £125 trillion($75.5 trillion).

That's more than the country has in its national vault!

Mr Wahib was so shocked, he was rendered speechless when he got the final demand to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution.

The bill was for the phone line of his father, who died in January.

Mr Wahib had that line disconnected and settled the outstanding bill for 84 ringgit (£13/$7.64).

But Telekom Malaysia then billed him for 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit for more recent telephone calls.

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