In 2011, 25 years later, the area surrounding Chernobyl still looks like a ghost town. Photos by David Schindler. I recommend seeing these and other photos in full size here.
Caroline
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Chernobyl 25 years later
On April 26th 1986 at 1:23 A.M. reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, near the town of Pripyat, ruptured a vessel during several extreme power spikes. Several explosions followed and these caused the graphite moderator components of the reactor to be exposed to air, setting them on fire. The fire sent a plume of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. It drifted over large parts of the Sovjet Union and Western Europe. 50 People died as a direct result of the disaster and it is thought up to 4,000 people have died as a result of being exposed to the radioactive materials which entered the atmosphere.
In 2011, 25 years later, the area surrounding Chernobyl still looks like a ghost town. Photos by David Schindler. I recommend seeing these and other photos in full size here.
Caroline
In 2011, 25 years later, the area surrounding Chernobyl still looks like a ghost town. Photos by David Schindler. I recommend seeing these and other photos in full size here.
Caroline
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Does this seem like ancient history to you since it occurred before you were born? I remember it well. Thank god it was in Russia and not here.
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