Chernobyl (Ghost Town) lots of photos

[RomanS]

I guess not much military in it, but I'm sure a lot of guys will find it interesting.

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/1986-l.jpg
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[Dutch_Treath]

Scary :(

The game Stalker is a 1:1 replica from the Tsjernobyl site

http://stalker-game.com/

There is a ZIP file containing more photo's with the militarty machiien graveyard on the site to!

[RomanS]

Scary :(

The game Stalker is a 1:1 replica from the Tsjernobyl site



actually its not

[Lifeinasmallbox]

so was it a meltdown or an explosion...dont know much about the incident

[DarkCypher]

Nice photos woot

People don't still live there do they?

[Dutch_Treath]

Scary :(

The game Stalker is a 1:1 replica from the Tsjernobyl site



actually its not

hehe i just read the site few moths ago but i have read that they copy'd many buildings and landscape's !!!

[zealot]

Some really nice photos, amazing

[Boneman]

Found this site a while back. Kinda cool and kinda creepy, but an intersting read with great pics.

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

[usafbalad]

Yeah kid of speed is a good site.

Crazy how some of that stuff looks like it has been frozen in time.

[kuttless]

very erie stuff, It looks like a nightmare :|

[Deep6]

O.K. This picture made me look twice!

http://img178.exs.cx/img178/2898/modell6rf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[joshfox0]

thanks for the phots. that place freeks me out though i cant stand the thought of it.

[wildernesswhore]

How ****in' freaky would that place be at night.

[wildernesswhore]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/vblackwaterv/Baby.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/vblackwaterv/Body.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/vblackwaterv/Grave.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/vblackwaterv/Room.jpg

[Russ.Dill]

Any photos of the actual site before it was entombed?

[Onyks]

Looks very haunting there still to this day.. :(

[Seoulstriker]

That is scary. And sad. :(

[Berkut]

breathtaking pics

[Sardaukar]

so was it a meltdown or an explosion...dont know much about the incident

Partial meltdown with an explosion,

There is an exclusion zone around it, but some people snuck back and live there, because it's their home, simple as that... the radiation levels change from place to place...

[jon]

That is scary. And sad. :(

x2

Anyone got pictures of the city before it happened?

[Hiroshima]

Anyone play Half Life 2 yet? The pictures nicely put here scare me about as much as the Ravenhome pictures....it'd be interesting to actually see this put in HL2...

[ASSASSIN]

were all those pictures taken in the same time span, because there shouldnt be any people there... at least they shouldnt be alive.

[RomanS]

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiats_wolf.jpg

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/3.jpg



Some before picture below

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/UK_CH_389.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Shop_Rainbow.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/peoples_in_town_center.jpg[/img[img]http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/kurchatova-dr_narodov_street.jpg


Today
Click on this ponaramic view

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/prypyat-panorama.jpg

[Howie Kaluha]

Dang, that definitely can seem freaky :|

[RomanS]

People dont live there. Its dead quiet and haunted. Only wolves, bores and wild cats run in the city at night. Everything is left like it was in 1986.
I would be interested to know more from Sergei if he knows.

I'm planning on going there soon taking highres cameras with me.

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Aktoviy%20zal.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Actoviy%20zal%20shkoli%201.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_7.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_71.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/1%20etag-1klass.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_110.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_135.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_146.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiat_exaple_156.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Derevya%20visotoy%203%20etaga.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/G.D.%20Stanciya.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Gorodskoy%20les.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/kukla%20Masha.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Music%20teh%20dney.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/New%20life.JPG

[RomanS]

RARE STUFF this is the Pripyat town, before the disaster


http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Pripyat_photostory_1986_45%20copy.jpg
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http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Pripyat_photostory_1986_38%20copy.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/brige.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Lenin.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/76_10%20copy.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/76_16%20copy.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/76_18%20copy.jpg
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/76_27%20copy.jpg

[beNder]

thanks for sharing...

[wildernesswhore]

OH GOD that scared me..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/vblackwaterv/Ahhh.jpg

[SavikLion]

Very interesting pictures, I hadn't seen most of those, thanks for the post.

[TacoDelRio]

Good post

[goldman]

RomanRussianArms thanks mate very intresting place

[Fargin]

Great pictures, but haunting images.

[VaLiancY]

Scary and makes you think about technology and human life.

[weissent]

Best thread in a while; those pictures are downright impressive/scary.
All the more if you keep in mind that our leaders (and most of us/our parents/grandp.) kind of accepted such a scenario to defend our different ideologies/ways of life on the northern hemisphere in case of a nuclear conflict ...

I just hope that all those nice little nuclear powerplants Switzerland and France has lined *exactly* on the border to Germany (to minimize the damage to their own country in case of a meltdown - or was it the proximity to the Rhine, providing the cooling water for the reactors; I don't know)) keep working without too many malfunctions... :slap:

[Azide]

Radioactive fish

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/Fish-l.jpg

Radioactive Dogs

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/pripiats_wolf.jpg

Radioactice grama's

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1995/Large/Grave-l.jpg

and finaly radioactive twin midgit mutants (in the middle of this pic)
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/prypyat-panorama.jpg :P

[)I(EHbKA.]

Great photos, but a scary looking place.
But I've always wanted to visit it. Maybe because I was in the same country a few months after the accident.

I meant to say that I was born a few months after the accident. And lived in Ukraine for the rest of my life. And I turned out fine :lol:

[Howie Kaluha]

I lived in Kiev from 1993-2000. Visited the Chernobyl museum in Kiev and learned about the disaster had a serious affect on me.....

[Malarky]

If anyone has NOT played Half Life 2, those pics look SOOOOO much like the game. It is almost scary how similar it is. I am just waiting for a headcrab to poke his head out of those bldgs. This set of pictures remind me of a photo journal some chick took while riding her motorcycle through the area. It was an interesting description of the area and the effects the radiation has on the environment and people. Thanks for the images!

Malarky

Ps....radiation tends to hang around vegitation/trees/dirt more than in structures and pavement, so watch it when you hike off road.

[Hiroshima]

If anyone has NOT played Half Life 2, those pics look SOOOOO much like the game. It is almost scary how similar it is. I am just waiting for a headcrab to poke his head out of those bldgs. This set of pictures remind me of a photo journal some chick took while riding her motorcycle through the area. It was an interesting description of the area and the effects the radiation has on the environment and people. Thanks for the images!

Malarky

Ps....radiation tends to hang around vegitation/trees/dirt more than in structures and pavement, so watch it when you hike off road.

Already mentioned =)

[weissent]

It's great there's so many guys from the former SU here... how much did you know about this accident (quite an understatement) when it happened?

I can still remember some relatives living in the former GDR assuring us on a visit that all this was a big fake 'blown way out of proportion by the Western media'...

What was the official version of this accident? How long did it take to actually evacuate the ppl in the vicinity? I know that the evacuations were coordinated quite effectively, but how long did it take to get the ppl out of there?

Lol, I'm quite obsessed with this, thanks for your help!

[RomanS]

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/1-pripyat_fly.jpg

[CMEPTb]

Supposedly Chernobyl is the last place in Europe where the number of wild animals (specifically wolves) is growing.

I've seen news reports on Russian tv about old people and bums moving into the area - food grows really well because of the radiation, and I guess they don't care about the adverse affect because of their old age.

Really sad **** how the government didn't tell the people about the danger from the reactor for several days before evacuating the place. :(

[sucker4gurls]

so was it a meltdown or an explosion...dont know much about the incident

both actually, it was an explosion preceded by a meltdown

the explosion is what caused the spreading of the radiation over much of europe and russia...really a horrid thing...

if my memory serves....(discovery channel, history channel, tlc...etc...)

[PhillyMobster]

Those pictures are haunting. Its amazing seeing all the facets of everyday life completely deserted, and unused. I've always thought someone could make a terrifying movie off the subject.

[Kryart]

Great pics, anyone watch the HBO special, Chernobyl Heart? Crazy as hell, all the people effected by the incident. What I don't understand is how can people go there and take pictures. From what I hear the toxic radiation zone radius is over 150 miles. Being there for more than 20 mins would kill you.

[Lifeinasmallbox]

sorry but i have no idea what happened...

but is that a deserted city and what not...ill look into it

[Midav]

sorry but i have no idea what happened...

but is that a deserted city and what not...ill look into it

I am asking this very, very respectfully and not looking for an argument:

Are you being sarcastic?

If you have never heard of Chernobyl, what year were you born?

[Zmey]

Sad, powerful pictures...

Z.S.

[Marmot1]

Supposedly Chernobyl is the last place in Europe where the number of wild animals (specifically wolves) is growing.

I've seen news reports on Russian tv about old people and bums moving into the area - food grows really well because of the radiation, and I guess they don't care about the adverse affect because of their old age.

Really sad **** how the government didn't tell the people about the danger from the reactor for several days before evacuating the place. :(

Since 1989 population of Wild Boars in poland increased by 150% and Deers by 50%... generally all big game except moose increased their number in Poland, however small game and especially hares drasticly decreased due to diseases and increased (again) number of Foxes (Foxes are vecinated against rabbies which killed 50% of them, it's why population is growning) Also all kind of predator birds -eagles,hawks,falcons increased mumber...

[Sergei]

That place is dead. Chernobyl, Pripyat and many other small towns and villages just a wasteland.
The 30 km from the hot zone is officially declared "not to live on territory" but a few elders still live there who have nothing to loose.
The 70 km from the hot zone is still considered to be an unsafe place and not many volunteers wish to live there as well.
If you go further it is clean, thankfully, but still there are so-called "radiation spots" which can encountered even much to the south of Kiev where the radiation levels are much higher than the usual natural level.
I wonder what is the situation up north in Belarus city of Gomel and Russia's Bryansk, the areas most affected by the Chernobyl explosion?

[RomanS]

Sergei thanks for info
Im seriously preparing to go there with a couple of friends. Ghost towns - my fetish hehehe...

here are more photos

Vehicle Graveyard

http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p1.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p2.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p4.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p5.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p6.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p15.jpg
http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p12.jpg


A lot of people who's been there say, the scarriest part is the SILENCE of the city.

Look at those trees

http://www.x-life.info/photo/Pripjat/Pripjat14.jpg

[weissent]

Sergei thanks for info
Im seriously preparing to go there with a couple of friends. Ghost towns - my fetish hehehe...

here are more photos


http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p12.jpg


A lot of people who's been there say, the scarriest part is the SILENCE of the city.

Look at those trees

http://www.x-life.info/photo/Pripjat/Pripjat14.jpg

I just want to ask again: How long did it take to get the population out of the center? How many survived the massive radiation?

[Zlatko]

Frigging ghost town.

Ive also noticed that Half Life 2 conveys a smilar FEEL of envorontment..

[-Max-]

Very interesting pics. Thanks for sharing.


Scary...

[Seoulstriker]

Permskii, you need a governmental permit to get into the city limits. Check out the photo journal of that gal on a motorbike and read the descriptions.

[Jakkech]

Quite freaky... Hope that's never going to happen again. :(

Cool picks though!

[Digital Marine]

it looks so deserted that its freaky

[tHC_Skinless]

Found this site a while back. Kinda cool and kinda creepy, but an intersting read with great pics.

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

definately check out this site, especially if you are unfamilar with what happened. It takes awhile to read it all and go through all the pictures but the time is definately well spent. It gave me a very eerie feeling, thats for sure. There is Wolf Creek nuclear generating plant http://www.wcnoc.com/start.cfm within 50 miles/80 kilometers from my house. Makes me wonder if something like that could happen here as well. :|

[Deicide]

Scary :(

The game Stalker is a 1:1 replica from the Tsjernobyl site



actually its not

hehe i just read the site few moths ago but i have read that they copy'd many buildings and landscape's !!!

Exact : http://stalker.myexp.de/ger/community/screenshots/gs6.JPG
http://stalker.myexp.de/ger/community/russian%20calendars/march(rus).jpg

[khukuri]

wow, I love ghost towns. But its really tragic

theres an older thread about vehicle grave yard from chechnya

[Chuckie]

Permskii, you need a governmental permit to get into the city limits. Check out the photo journal of that gal on a motorbike and read the descriptions.

They actually have tours now that you can go on, where the tour groups are given permits. The caviat is that you aren't allowed to bring cameras. I suspect for a small "fee" you can bring one though.

Someday I want to visit as well. Just to see what it is like in person.

Here's the link for one of the tours.
http://www.ukrcam.com/tour/tour_3.html

[Itamajus]

I was born few days before the disaster and my parents told me after i was alowed to go home from the hospital they used to take me outside then the radioactive cloud was hovering over the baltics... whats more cewl here in Lithuania we have the almost exact copy of the chernobyl atomic plant with the same design reactors only one of them if working but it is planed to shut it down some time in 2008... not very disturbing but its near the belarus border and who knows what lukashenka might do then he is near the end of his carrier...

[Sergei]

Permskii, you need a governmental permit to get into the city limits. Check out the photo journal of that gal on a motorbike and read the descriptions.
I second that, otherwise the cops will catch you and you will have to explain to "hohol militsiya" what you are doing there. ;)
Despite being a ghost town that place is thoroughly patrolled from the outside. You might sneak in but don't complain if they catch you disassembling any of those BMPs. Besides, take my advice, stay as far away as possible from that rusting junk, it is oozing unacceptable radiation.

P.S. Just looking at the machinery graveyard made me think how much money were dumped into this disaster.

[Sergei]

Sergei thanks for info
Im seriously preparing to go there with a couple of friends. Ghost towns - my fetish hehehe...

here are more photos


http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p12.jpg


A lot of people who's been there say, the scarriest part is the SILENCE of the city.

Look at those trees

http://www.x-life.info/photo/Pripjat/Pripjat14.jpg

I just want to ask again: How long did it take to get the population out of the center? How many survived the massive radiation?

The population of Pripyat and Chernobyl were evacuated within 2 days, April 26-27, 1986
That's why you see so much disarray in the pictures, things thrown around. People were certainly leaving in a hurry.
There are only about a 50 official deaths (courageous firefighters mostly) as a direct cause of disaster, but many thousand more indirect after 19 years - cancers, leukemia, etc.
Btw, this year, the last firefighter who was extinguishing the fire on atomic plant died, Capt. Telyatnikov, at the age of 53 if I remember correctly.

[oregongrunt]

It looks like time stood still (it did). I can't imagine bums living there with prowling wolves and everything else, they must barricade themselves in at night.

[IronCross1985]

wow...those pics look very post apocalyptic...

[M4ko]

yes, STALKER the game textures have been used from pictures of actual Chernobyl, they all visited the ghost town and took tons of pictures. Here is shot of a model of the insde of sarcophagus and the actual sarcophagus taken from STALKER's site. Btw I always had the idea that Valve, HL2 team, stole STALKER's design of city for HL2.

http://www.stalker-game.com/images/_news/trip1.jpg

http://www.stalker-game.com/images/_news/trip9.jpg

[-Max-]

Btw I always had the idea that Valve, HL2 team, stole STALKER's design of city for HL2.


The development of HL² started long before the STALKER one, so its rather the opposite... ;)

[RomanS]

Permskii, you need a governmental permit to get into the city limits. Check out the photo journal of that gal on a motorbike and read the descriptions.
nope you dont
I gotta a friend who goes there a lot
just need money

[RomanS]

There is no HINT of Chernobyl or Pripyat in HL2

They just have an eastern block design. I know people :)

[Legion]

Thanks for sharing. Those are some really cool pics.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

The last I heard - which was maybe last year? The second reactor at Chernobyl is still active and being used. That means that people are still in the area (and check the pic below - from the original post - with smoke still coming from an active stack).
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/Roof-l.jpg

I remember reading that energy was in such critical supply that they had to keep the plant online despite the danger.

Somebody ought to make a blair-witch type movie there, except that it would be post-apocalypse. Those are some sad pictures. It a real bummer to see people's hopes and aspirations swept away by government ineptitude like that :|

[weissent]

Sergei thanks for info
Im seriously preparing to go there with a couple of friends. Ghost towns - my fetish hehehe...

here are more photos


http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p12.jpg


A lot of people who's been there say, the scarriest part is the SILENCE of the city.

Look at those trees

http://www.x-life.info/photo/Pripjat/Pripjat14.jpg

I just want to ask again: How long did it take to get the population out of the center? How many survived the massive radiation?

The population of Pripyat and Chernobyl were evacuated within 2 days, April 26-27, 1986
That's why you see so much disarray in the pictures, things thrown around. People were certainly leaving in a hurry.
There are only about a 50 official deaths (courageous firefighters mostly) as a direct cause of disaster, but many thousand more indirect after 19 years - cancers, leukemia, etc.
Btw, this year, the last firefighter who was extinguishing the fire on atomic plant died, Capt. Telyatnikov, at the age of 53 if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the informations, Sergei!
I've seen an eye-account of the disaster on German television, I just did not get the time-frame...

[droopy]

There is no HINT of Chernobyl or Pripyat in HL2

They just have an eastern block design. I know people :)
Yup i live in Bucharest,Romania and i can tell you some parts of HL2 look like home ;)

On subject i too have a strange attraction to that part of the world.And i would go there even if it means living a few years shorter :(

I remember my parents telling me about those days that i was in the park with my father and my mother who heard the news came running and telling my father .The autorithis told the population not to drink milk and we all got iodine pills.
I was 2 yo at that time
And BTW my birthdate is april 26.

PS: i can`t wayt untill STALKER comes out i will preorder it soon.

[~~~~]

http://synaps.net.ua/1/2/p12.jpg

http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/3.jpg



http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Gorodskoy%20les.JPG


http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/Derevya%20visotoy%203%20etaga.JPG
http://www.pripyat.com/pictures/kukla%20Masha.JPG




Hey, it's GROM's training playground!!!!!
just take a look:

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_16.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_17.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_07.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_18.jpg

http://www.specwargear.com/images/US%20others-55.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_20.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_30.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_25.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_26.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_27.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_19.jpg

http://grom.wp.fm.interia.pl/grom396.jpg

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/GROM/_GROM_28.jpg

photos: courtesy of Andrzej

[droopy]

Are you joking ???

Why would GROM travel to Ukrain to a very radioactive place just to train.
What there are no abbandoned buildings in Poland :)

[RomanS]

Are you joking ???

Why would GROM travel to Ukrain to a very radioactive place just to train.
What there are no abbandoned buildings in Poland :)
thats not Ukraine

[Fakum12]

Found this site a while back. Kinda cool and kinda creepy, but an intersting read with great pics.

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

definately check out this site, especially if you are unfamilar with what happened. It takes awhile to read it all and go through all the pictures but the time is definately well spent.

But you should know, that a plenty of pictures on the site are photoshoped and the whole story seems to be not true.... :|

[~~~~]

Are you joking ???

Why would GROM travel to Ukrain to a very radioactive place just to train.
What there are no abbandoned buildings in Poland :)


off course i'm joking...

do I really have to put lot of those ridiculous smiley's to make it clear?

[the_janitor]

I know I'm not being original but these pictures are simply awesome, fascinating and tragic at the same time ... this is a great post, thanks a lot

[Azide]

Found this site a while back. Kinda cool and kinda creepy, but an intersting read with great pics.

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

definately check out this site, especially if you are unfamilar with what happened. It takes awhile to read it all and go through all the pictures but the time is definately well spent.

But you should know, that a plenty of pictures on the site are photoshoped and the whole story seems to be not true.... :|

what the hell are you talking about?

[ChuckThunder]

So what happens when that thing protecting the reactor collapses? I heard it isn't going to last much longer.

[Doom]

These pictures represent many of the video games out there. Silent Hill is one, but...the video games of today are getting even more and more like real life, its very scary. We have so many video games that profit off of wars from World War II and up.

People are seemingly careless of where we get our natural rescources, here in the USA Bush has decided to tap into our "strategic oil reserve" in alaska so we can drive our 5 miles to the gallon hummvees to k mart and back.

I also live off of cape cod, and i am not sure if many know of the wind farm debates going on off the coast of the cape and nantucket. People are getting so mad about having the windfarms up because they are rich-and its in their back yard. here is a link to the windfarm stuff if you care.

http://www.capecodonline.com/special/windfarm/

Oh, and that STALKER game, looks very impressive even though it is a video game, maybe it will make people more aware of the dangers involving a ****ing nuclear reactor to power a light bulb. Anyways, silent hill may have a better feel of abandoned places because its...well, scary.

here is a really weird pic of silent hill, i am not sure if i should put i GRAPHIC warning, but it is scary so it gets a FREAKY warning. you will notice that its much like the "doll" pictures.

http://www.gamerarchive.com/site/multimedia/screenshots/playstation2/silenthill3-08.jpg

[hood]

Nuclear power doesn't have to be dangerous. The Japanese are building the new generation of power plants where the whole thing could "melt down" and no radiation is emitted, obviously unlike the old stuff. The problem is that nuclear reactors take a very long time to build, so oil is obviously going to be the more obvious and immediate solution.

[Fakum12]

what the hell are you talking about?
The story of this girl.
On their site are some pictures which have been photoshoped.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/367img/image14.1.jpg
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/367img/image16.3.jpg
for example. The second picture is more important. A while ago she wasn't on the picture....
And a while ago, the man who helped her create the story revealed the story behind the story. She was there, but never alone...

[Fakum12]

Forgot this link:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951

[Azide]

Forgot this link:
http://www.uer.ca/forum_showthread.asp?fid=1&threadid=8951

Wow, thanks for the link. I was sort of sceptical about the fact that she would be allowed to ride there by herself. This also explains why there are some pictures missing since the last time i looked at the site.

[Lapata999]

Chernobul story is pretty old , but that stalker game looks very intresting

[Sergei]

So what happens when that thing protecting the reactor collapses? I heard it isn't going to last much longer.

New sarcophagus should be built over the old one. That old one will surely won't last long. Besides the processes which take place inside the reactor right now will make any nuclear research scientist envious because this is the most tragic event and at the same time the greatest laborotory for scientific research of nuclear fission and its consequences.

[Slinky]

my mom saw a very little flash when the accident happened. I live in Estonia but luckily the wind changed and we didnt get much radiation

[waize]

now i have read all the threads about this place, and it scares me. Makes me think too...here we sit in our protective environment while that happened back then and i'm sure no one in usa thought so much about them...they were just communists...
If this feels like jibberish by you, maybe it is. I just write what i think

[EsoognomEhT]

Loads of radiation from the incident came and settled on North Yorkshire, where I was brought up (not born I hasten to add!) and even now every so often a baby is born with disfigurements attributed to it.. oh and the sheep glow at night.. (not actually true sadly :( )

[)I(EHbKA.]

I'd love to go to Chernobyl, go to abandoned houses, buildings, see how everything was left, take some souvenirs maybe. The only problem is radiation.

[Kingswat]

There was a show on History Television(in canada) called Zero Hour, it was a 4 part series that talked about a different event each night.

Chernobyl
Sept 11
Columbine High School
Sarin Gas attack on japanese subway

Really great show, especially the Chernobyl one.

The cement barrier is around %60 gone and they need to replace it, The power plant is still in use today and has been for around 9 or 10 years now(just not the reactor that melted down).

l

[Sergei]

There was a show on History Television(in canada) called Zero Hour, it was a 4 part series that talked about a different event each night.

Chernobyl
Sept 11
Columbine High School
Sarin Gas attack on japanese subway

Really great show, especially the Chernobyl one.

The cement barrier is around %60 gone and they need to replace it, The power plant is still in use today and has been for around 9 or 10 years now(just not the reactor that melted down).

l

What are you talking about? :roll: The whole power plant was completely closed two years ago and we immediately felt it, as the current dropped significantly from 50 Hz to 49,1 Hz. However the whole Chernobyl power plant is being replaced by new atomic energy blocks on Rivne and Khmelnytskiy atomic power plants.

[sergey31]

Man this photo is very freaky.... reminds me of that "Stalker" game.
Just look at his eyes.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/Fox-l.jpg

[Bluezoo]

Very sad. Very tragic. What a waste. RIP to the fire fighters.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

There was a show on History Television(in canada) called Zero Hour, it was a 4 part series that talked about a different event each night.

Chernobyl
Sept 11
Columbine High School
Sarin Gas attack on japanese subway

Really great show, especially the Chernobyl one.

The cement barrier is around %60 gone and they need to replace it, The power plant is still in use today and has been for around 9 or 10 years now(just not the reactor that melted down).

l

What are you talking about? :roll: The whole power plant was completely closed two years ago and we immediately felt it, as the current dropped significantly from 50 Hz to 49,1 Hz. However the whole Chernobyl power plant is being replaced by new atomic energy blocks on Rivne and Khmelnytskiy atomic power plants.

According to what news I could find, Chernobyl unit #3 remained in operation until sometime in 2000. Cleanup (what there is of it) is expected to last through 2008. New facilities were also built there to store the radioactive fuel assemblies & a liquid radioactive waste plant - both completed in 2003. So evidently while the nuclear units are shut down, there are still quite a few people living & working in the area. Yikes.

[soma]

Damn that's a lot of peeled wallpaper.

[Azide]

Damn that's a lot of peeled wallpaper.

got a "peeling" fetish or something rofl

[SHELLSHOCK]

So Sad. So Creepy. Yet...So intriguing.

[v-twin]

...
Servus omule, Phantom de pe LEVEL. Imi pare bine ca te-am regasit pe-aici. woot

Very powerful pictures. It's really interesting how everything's fine if you're on the tarmac, but once you stepped on the mud, you get radiated. Must've been terrible :(

[USMC-Congbuster]

reminds me of Half Life 2, sans the zombies, humans and combine troops

[soma]

Damn that's a lot of peeled wallpaper.

got a "peeling" fetish or something rofl

No. It shows the massive amounts of radiating.

[oregongrunt]

There was a show on History Television(in canada) called Zero Hour, it was a 4 part series that talked about a different event each night.

Chernobyl
Sept 11
Columbine High School
Sarin Gas attack on japanese subway

Really great show, especially the Chernobyl one.

The cement barrier is around %60 gone and they need to replace it, The power plant is still in use today and has been for around 9 or 10 years now(just not the reactor that melted down).

l

What are you talking about? :roll: The whole power plant was completely closed two years ago and we immediately felt it, as the current dropped significantly from 50 Hz to 49,1 Hz. However the whole Chernobyl power plant is being replaced by new atomic energy blocks on Rivne and Khmelnytskiy atomic power plants.

It's always great to get the truth from someone who lives in the country. Is it really that popular with tour groups? I can't imagine why anyone would want to expose themselves to that radiation unnecessarily.

[szr]

Fascinating post, Roman. Thanks!