Here's a really interesting link from a Ukrainian woman named "Elena". She likes to ride her sports bike (motorcycle) through the Chernobyl nuclear fallout zone. I kid you not. She carries a radiation meter with her, and she's pretty good at using it! You can read all about her travels, and along the way you'll learn a lot about what a safe level of radiation really is. She still uses the old units for radiation - roentgens. So I guess that makes her an "old fashioned kinda girl". Ha! Ha! :-)

You may also find, as I did, that there's a lot about Chernobyl that you didn't really know. She does a good, good job about talking about it's impact on human life.

OK, rev up that engine and here we go ...

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

cheers,
Pete #2

Just to note; Elena's story about her ride through the Zone of Exclusion takes a bit of artistic license. She was part of a guided government tour rather than just racing through on her bike, and some of the other details are fabricated. A fascinating look into the world of a fallout-enforced wasteland, but I don't know how much of the story is empirically reliable.

Here's another informative, courtesy of our tax dollars. One of the better uses of them:

http://www.remm.nlm.gov/