I have highly enjoyed having the opportunity and time to create this website, which I myself have learn a lot by making it. I have always been interested in this particular disaster and this was the perfect opportunity to expand my knowledge this subject.
The site was carefully hand-coded in Intype.
The following is an acknowledgement of the images and information used in the production of this site.
Header consists of multiple items sourced relating to the Chernobyl disaster. In order of appearance from left to right:
Opening page photos were borrowed from the following flickr.com users: Pedro Moura Pinheiro, stuck in customs and blinkofaneye.
Both doodles were inspired by diagrams published in Physics 2 by David Sang ISBN 978-0-521-79715-3
Image of Igor was sourced from Chernobyl and other Nuclear Accidents by Judith Condon ISBN 0-7502-2170-4
Image of mutated daisy was sourced from Scott, a user on ibrattleboro.com
Doodle of Europe was traced from an image by David Liuzzo, sourced from wikipedia.org
Image of power station was scanned from Chernobyl 1986 by Vic Parker ISBN 1-406-20285-1
Doodle of reactor was based on a diagram found in Chernobyl and other Nuclear Accidents by Judith Condon ISBN 0-7502-2170-4
Both aerial view of aftermath are images from the Soviet Authorities which were found via wikipedia.org
Firefighter monument image was sourced from flickr.com and was taken by user brilliant chang
Fire engine grave image was sourced from flickr.com and was taken by user MarkNelson
Image of helicopter dropping material was sourced from msnbcmedia.msn.com
Evacuation sourced from the Soviet Authorities which was found via wikipedia.org
Convoy of buses was scanned from Chernobyl 1986 by Vic Parker ISBN 1-406-20285-1
Image of liquidators was scanned from Chernobyl 1986 by Vic Parker ISBN 1-406-20285-1
Image of vehicle grave was sourced from carpetblogger, a member on flickr.com
Photos of sarcophagus sourced from chernobyl.info and arkiblog.net via google images
Image of mutated apple was sourced from pripyat.com
Mutated calf image was sourced from strangecorridor.blogspot.com (blog no longer exists)
Image of school building was taken by Mark Resnicoff and was found at nikongear.com/Chernobyl
Image of the cultural centre square was sourced from flickr.com and was taken by user Andy Gilham
Chernobyl 1986 by Vic Parker ISBN 1-406-20285-1
Chernobyl and other Nuclear Accidents by Judith Condon ISBN 0-7502-2170-4
International Atomic Energy Agency website — iaea.org
World Nuclear Association website — world-nuclear.org
Chernobyl disaster still being felt — msnbc.com video
Tour of Chernobyl — carlmontgomery.com
60 minutes reporter Richard Carlton visits Chernobyl 20 years after the disaster — 60 minutes video
The jQuery javascript framework was used on the first page and quiz page of the site and is available at jQuery.com
The frist page photoslide show is built on jQuery and is work of Torsten Baldes — medienfreunde.com
The script on the quiz page highlighting rows is a modified version of a script written by Dave Stewart — keyframesandcode.com
All other scripts were hand-coded by myself.