Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant | place with historical importance, disaster site, radiation, 1977_construction, closed, radiation control, tourist attraction, fire tragedy

Ukraine / Kyyivska / Prypyat /
 place with historical importance, disaster site, radiation, 1977_construction, closed, radiation control, nuclear power plant, tourist attraction, fire tragedy
The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, 18 km (11 mi) northwest of the city of Chornobyl, 16 km (9.9 mi) from the Ukraine–Belarus border, and about 110 km (68 mi) north of Kyiv.

Reactor 4 was the site of the Chornobyl disaster in 1986 and the power plant is now within a large restricted area known as the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.

Official site: chnpp.gov.ua/en/
Read also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Coordinates:   51°23'5"N   30°6'57"E

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  • it feels like, and people talks around, that this coffin, that it has atm, is about to collapse. and needs new one. investions needed - 20 000 0000 000 usd. even micro size in coffin may cause catastrophic around europe.
  • The sarcophagus has gaps you can drive a truck through. It's like they held it together with duct-tape. Now all it takes is a good windstorm to whip up that dust and we have a second disaster.
  • the biggest of all worries is that the reactor will start sinking in the ground and leaking beneath
  • The most interesting is that Ukraine has enough money to make a full repair of it. But it waits money from EU. I do know, I am Ukrainian. Who wants to spend his own money when there's an alternative ;)
  • really sad
  • I wasn't even born during the time of the accident but I heard about it from adults throughout the years. Now seeing all this rust, all these abandonned places, all these industrial areas and deep deep radioactive ponds, as well as the areas around the original accident is completely disheartening. I have always been proud of country but this accident just makes me ashamed that we let it happen and that we are not doing more about it now, 23 years later. I saw the Pripyat city on the map. Someone has labeled all the buildings with street addresses and before pictures. That was the worst part. I think about all those people whose lives changed forever and how ghostly that town is now. It is eerily quiet there, like the calm before the storm in an post-apocalyptic movie. Scary. I hope nothing like that ever happens again although I doubt that will actually be the case.
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