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Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures

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« on: March 17, 2011, 11:13:23 pm »

Chernobyl Today: A Creepy Story told in Pictures

By Village Mayor • Mar 27th, 2009 • Category: Amazing Places, Dangerous, Latest Post, The Best of Village of Joy, Weird

In the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus.  Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident. Today, the only residents are deer and wolves along with a solitary guard.

Prypiat used to be proud for being home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. But something happened on 26 April 1986…

It took three days before all permanent residents of Chernobyl and the Zone of alienation were evacuated due to unsafe levels of radioactivity. People from around the Soviet Union were forced to come and work here in order to liquidate the danger and evacuate the residents. Many of the workers died or had serious illness from radiation. My father was also recruited for this operation, but he bribed corrupt local officers with some good sausages which were rare and a valuable item at those times, so he’s fine an alive today.

Let the story be told by these magical pictures taken ~20 years later after the accident.

All the texts put in the quotation-marks are mostly the quotations of comments made by the authors of the photos.

http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/
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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2011, 11:14:19 pm »




(Image credits:Pedro Moura Pinheiro via: BoredPanda)

“The sign on the road to Pripyat, the town where the workers of the nuclear plant lived.”
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2011, 11:15:11 pm »

The bridge of death



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“After the explosion at Reactor 4 the people of Pripyat flocked on the railway bridge just outside the city to get a good view of the reactor and see what had happened.

Initially, everyone was told that radiation level was minimal and that they were safe. Little did they know that much of the radiation had been blown onto this bridge in a huge spike.”

They saw a beautiful rainbow coloured flames of the burning graphite nuclear core, whose flames were higher than the smoke stack itself. All of them are dead now – they were exposed to levels of over 500 roentgens, which is a fatal dose.

P.S.: note that the photo above is made from 2 different photos (top photo of the reactor and bottom photo of the bridge in Pripyat joined together)
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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2011, 11:15:38 pm »



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“Deserted secondary school near Chernobyl, Illinsty, Ukraine. Dec 1995 0.96.07.01.19”
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(Image credits:left: Vivo (Ben) and right: Anosmia via: BoredPanda)

Left: “One of the five schools of Pripyat, each teaching about 1000 children. The schools have remained relatively intact considering the problems with looters eight years ago. I guess books don’t hold much value to the poor. “

Right:”At a 20th anniversary Chernobyl exhibit on Capitol Hill.”
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« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2011, 11:16:52 pm »



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“Children will never run here again.”
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On the left: “Stairs on the creche/kindergarten near the center of Pripyat.”; on the right: “Broken doll on top of a corner cupboard in one of the rooms in the creche/kindergarten in the center of Pripyat.”
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« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2011, 11:18:50 pm »




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“Nursery in the creche/kindergarten”.
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”Child’s big toy car in one of the rooms of the creche/kindergarten”. Notice the number plate of the car – 1984. It must be manufactured 2 years before the accident.
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The note says “Rabbit”. I love those old-school soviet style drawings.
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“Hay stuffed toy”.
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